Deseret Evening News | 1902-10-18 | Page 4 | Church Attendance

INCI Tho Ilie o corn time ago Undertook to count the tho nt at nt at church on nn an average Hun itin c kilt The ho was 1 ma c on Oil tho lie ot of AUGust the result that Gm People store foUnt found or of This 1118 to bo be n it ver ery small In a 1 cIty cly of tha ur Of Chicago and It was thaI thu was I B made modo nt at a ile time when si 80 silana lana churchgoers sero HC still In tho country The Herald last mado flad another count and found people 3 Tile he fIgures given eh that lint the lang larg est lt church e Is tonal Catholics There hero stere no less than IC titis denomination In While the largest on to footed I Id UI tip to 10 lihla number was I by the Methodists h I I Congregation allsta rind others eli rell lelow below even thi tills rho only conclusion ron rom tho lie given Is hint a Is becoming till tha or Chicago except n as astar tar na as the tho Influence of tile the church Thil Tills l Is passing strange Protestant lel suet to criticIze the Catholic services Ri as containing too demo cero litanies giving too HU little limo tu ii the intellectual furnished 11 by tho Iii pulpit undertook to 10 this defect by br making time tho the lie center of attraction of thu el Irell ni all else Incidental to I it little of oC music and ritual and more df the tho reading nIl and cx I pounding of time s Is It hII hit lInt after so Ion V 1 teat lest tl churchgoers tur turn away weary rom tilt tho of the pulpit to tilt tho ot of II Catholic sanctuaries What other conclusion must be drawn traIn th the act that of a total of churchgoers counted on one In Catholic churches tG LG In all snub ni nil he other or of In ni all furnished only Thu figures s may not bo quite quie infallIble Thu census may 11 have e been taken talen upon I a aday day when the th Was below tn the average but bul even en It IC tho they are only approximately approximate correct they a condition which ought to consIder seriously Where Shero Is the In raIsing ral or of dollars for tor forthe the conversion of pagans hlo the churches at homo standing empty