Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-08-20

teen churches have been weedod out,
and several efforts made TO reduce the
number of those remaining have been
defeated because of the difficulties in
CURED I'm procuring the designations
of incumbents, and the consents Of
vestrles and patrons-prvate persons
and semi-publlc corporations having the
bestowal of many of the livings
A typical example Is furnished by 81,
Mary Woolnoth, standing at the apex
of Lombard Uondons Wall street, and
King William street. The church has
been compelled TO submit TO the inya-
sion Of its cellars by an nround
electric railway which has ira asformed
them into station. II was proposed
TO unite this church with one Of six
churches within stones throw Of II,
the incumbents OF which receive for
preaching for the most part to empty
pews--or hiring curates TO do it-ln-
comes aggregatlng A5,120 annually an
average of over $1,000 for each parson.
The parish of st. Mary Woolnoth has
n sleeping population OF under 200, the
church has accommodation for $50, the
average attendance at the Sunday
morning service Is thirty-six and at
the evening service thirty seven
which includes choir and all. The sal
AIRY of the rector is $3.50, but he is a
nonresident, like most Of the inCum-
bents of the city churches, and by
leasing his rectory for business purpos-
es adds $4,000 year to his income,
The church possesses none OF the
sanctity which Is supposed to attach
to all of Sir Christopher Wren's ecclesi-
astical buildings. After the great fire
It was rebuilt by Nicholas Hawksmoor,
one Of Wren's pupils, but possessed Of
none OF his genius. The site has been
officially appraised Mt S2915,0OO. with
this money and that obtained from the
sale OF the rectory, and other revenues
attached TO the parish, several churches
might be built in the suburbs and lib
orally endowed But the proposed union
was defeated the necessary consents
could not be obtained; there We're too
many good things at stake,
THE INVISIBLE CHURCH.
Allhallows. Lombard street, and the
Church OF st, Edmund-th king fur
nish still more striking examples Of
financial waste and meagre spiritual
harvests The two churches stand
back TO back. Both were designed by
Wren. but that hardly can be now
urged as q reason for the preservation
Of Allhallows since 1t is so hemmed In
by business buildings that II has been
dubbed the invisible church" But
the site Is an extremely valuable one,
having been appraised at $i00O0O0,
The income OF the incumbent Is S9S25
"A large share OF which liz derived from
rentals, the rectory being leased as a
restaurant The congregations Of both
churches combined would not suffice
to MI ONE quarter OF either one Of
them. It was proposed to unite the
parishes and sell one Of the churches
Allhallows was quite willing to alb
sorb ST. Edmunds. and ST. Edmunds
was equally willing to annex Allhal-
lows, but neither would consent to It's
own extinction,
For many years the rector Of Az
halows was the Rev. George Rawlin-
son, residential canon Of Canterbury
Cathedral The living * controlled
by the Dean and Chapter OF Canter-
bury and they conferred Il on one Of
their own number Mr. Rawlinson
employed curate who IN part pay
ment OF his stipend received $3.50 a
year from the Haberdashers' COM
pany, under an ancient benefaction, for