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Show LACK OF RELIGION II NEWJBRK CI!? English Clergyman Js Shocked at Lack of Attendance in Metropolis. MORE PEOPLE IN CHOIR THAN IN AUDITORIUM Declares That America Is Badly in-Need of a "Spiritual Arousing. BY. PAUL LAMBETH. Special Cable to The Tribune. LONDON, Jan. 15. Tho Archbishop of Canterbury, in speaking recently of the layman's missionar' movement in the United States, expressed his full sympathy with the inovemont, and incidentally in-cidentally remarked that the inspira-tion inspira-tion for this as well as other gTcat religious movements. camoifrom- England Eng-land which, whatever might be said as to her naval and commercial supremacy su-premacy being threatened, is srill the world's leader in religious thought. This view of His Grace of Canterbury is generally shared by Englishmen, and it must be confessed that there is good ground for it. The British people peo-ple are essentially a religious people. The Presbyterians. Methodists and Baptists, Bap-tists, the three present, dissenting denominations, de-nominations, all had their birth in Great Britain, while Ihis country is, of course, the fountainhead of the Protestant Episcopal church. Perhaps tho greatest great-est and most practical religious movement move-ment sine.o the days of "Wesley, tho Salvation Army, was tho direct result of the British religionist idea to carry Christianity to the masses. While the United States, as a whole, outside the great, renters of population, popula-tion, is thoroughly imbued with tho Anglo-Saxon idea of religion, it is notice-able notice-able that New York, in particular, is looking to England for religions gnid-a gnid-a nee. It was not many years ago that .1. Pierpoul Morgan came to London and look Be v. Dr. ttainsford to New York. Pr. BainsfonI practically introduced intro-duced tho institutional church" to the western metropolis. Still later, John D. BockeMler's church camo to England Eng-land for Bev. Dr. Aked. who. I understand, under-stand, is one of the few New York pastors who preach to full pews. Now the Fifth Avenue Presbvlerian church, one of llif riehest congregations of that denomination in America, has, after vainly trying to secure Key. J. Camp- bell Morgan, has called to its pastorate Bev. John Hono' .Jowctf. of Birmingham. Birming-ham. J understand Dr. Jcwctt will accept ac-cept tho call. In spoaking of the religious situation in America, an English clergyman, who recently returned from a trip to the states, said to mo the other day: "I was really shocked at tho lack of religious re-ligious feeling .in Now York. Church attendance has in many places of worship wor-ship fallen off to practically nothing. T attended pne service. at; St. Paul's church, one of tho historic churches of America, whore George Washington worshiped, aud there were actually not as many worshipers in the pews as there were members of the choir. This church stands on a plot of land wortli 2,000.000. Other churches wero almost al-most as poorly attended. Outsido the great cities, the situation is not so bad, but America certainly is badly in need of a spiritual arousing.-' ' Coniiaught Goes to Canada. ft- seems to be settled that the Duke of Couuaught is to succeed Lord Grey as governor-geucral of Canada. His royal highness has signified his willingness willing-ness to accept tho post, and T. feel safe in prophesying that he will bo a most popular pop-ular oflicial with the Canadians. He has in markod dogrec the tact which has made his royal brother, King Ed-vard, Ed-vard, remarkable among modern' mon-archs, mon-archs, and is a man away above the ordinary or-dinary in ability, who would have made his mark had ho been born to a much humbler station, ft may not be generally gener-ally known that the Duke of Coniiaught is a member by adoption of tho Six Nation Na-tion Indians of Canada. He is, in fact, the only white man to receive such a mark of affection from these famous redskins, and he is known amongst them lis "Cousin Arthur." At the present timo there is a certain old Indian out thoro who is known as Bill Prince, because be-cause whenovcr royalty aro traveling auwhcrc within the vicinitv of his province, ho runs beside the" carnage and shakes hands with them. Wrhen King Edward visited Canada last, he had the honOr of shakfng hands with hiin, and also with the Prince and Prin .cess ,oiL.WaIo8. He. is.a.stnunehrfricnd of ''Cousin Arthur." |