The Washington herald., 1911-04-23
THE RELIGIOUS WORLD,

Men Attend Protestant Churches.
On Sunday, April 9. normal in not being
an anniversary or other special day, con-
sregations attending public religious wor-
ship In fourteen famous churches of
America were counted. including the at
tendance of men. Tests applied to the
counts were the numbers present in pro-
portion to memberships claimed and num-
bers Of men in proportion to ratios Of
men In memberships as fixed by govern
ment reports. The fourteeR churches
claim actual memberships of 1850 and
had 1900 persons at their services. II
the same ratio Of attendance to member
ship holds good throughout all. and there
Is no reason to suppose 1t does not, there
were present at all Protestant churches
in America on Sunday, April g. $780, 900
persons.
OF the 1900 persons attending these
fourteen famous churches on the Sunday
named. $500 were men, a proportion
slightly above the governments ratio
and one that Is 10 to II per cent higher
than obtained O decade ago. The four
teen churches. selected at random. and
covering Presbyterian. Reformed. Congre-
gational, Baptist. and Episcopal bodies.
prove in actual counts % that these
churches ore much alive to the cause for
which they exist; (2j eight OF the four
teen had more persons at service than
they claim members, a showing 20 per
cent above anything known twenty years
ago; and CD a proportion of men that re-
flutes the assertion that Protestant men
do not attend Sunday worship as they
once did. Following are the churches.
and in order-a, membership; b, total at
tendance on Sunday. April 8: c. men:
ST. Paurs, Richmond, where are me-
MORALS of President Davis and Gen. Rob
ert z. Lee, and where the former was at
service when news of the surrender of
the latter at Appomattox reached him.
SIG, 545, 202. The Old South. Boston, dat
ing from Colonial times, 915, 1885. $50. IT
is explained that the second service on
the date counted happened to be a musi-
cal one, which affected the total and also
the proportion of men. Pilgrim. ST. Louis,
one of the many famous religious centers,
planted by New England in the Missis-
sippi Valley, S65. 632,\ 219. St Nicholas,
New York. the oldest congregation In the
metropolis, founded by the Dutch before
the present New York existed, 400. 1,12O.
$50; not favorable showing, considering
It has new minister. Calvary Baptist.
New York. the Rev. DR.. Robert s. Mac
Arthur, 1850, 1885, SIS. Broadway Taber-
nacle the Rev. DIR. Charles E. Jefferson.
a congregation having a wonderful civic
and missionary history. loo. 1.40O, go.
st. Bartholomew's, New York, attended
by more wealthy men and women than
almost any other church in the world,
900, LOO. 6S5 Plymouth. Brooklyn, made
famous by Henry Ward Beecher, 2,232.
ESQ. 500. The Brick, New York. of which
the Rev. DR.. Henry Van Dyke was long
pastor, 1o31, $50, go 1t must be explained
that the Brick Church is without a pas
tor at the moment and that on April 8
an assistant minister preached at both
services. First Congregational, Detroit,
Los, sol, 30 First Congregational, Hart
ford, 9O6. LIS, 3s9. These two well show
New England in and out of New Eng
land. Grace, Chicago, LOS. s23. 277. Holy
Philadelphia, the Rev. DR.. Floyd |
W. Tomkins, 1900, 2,7O0, 100. remark
able showing for a Rittenhouse Square
section of a city. st. Johns. Detroit, |
$50, LIN, $50.