Show attendance at london churches tho the difference in the habits of english and american church goers receives f resh fresh illustration from a table recently published which incidentally pres presents crits statistics of the attendance at morning and evening service in about a doz dozen en im poi tant london parish churches in r nany many parts of this country among which we ave should say the city of new yo boik ak may be included the question of tho the second service has become a gravo grave one tile the people seeming to bo be satisfied with attendance at tile principal service at half V past ast ton ten or eleven in the mori morning ung what to do about the evening s service errico is is a matter of constant study among clergymen of many different denominations as appears from frequent inquiries and hints and suggestions on the subject in the ro religious newspapers many devices are proposed for attracting evening congregations sermons on topics of the time short sermons or the opposite plan of saving the longer and more clab elaborate sermons until the evening 7 services of song making the seats free in the evening all sorts of plans are proposed st profusely that the difficulty must be per and widespread we have computed from the eng english glisa table the total attendance on morning and evening evening service at the churches named and wo we find the average whole number P present resent in these london churches at th main morning bervice to be persons but at the evening service the average total attendance is or an excess of 0 quile quie 23 22 per cent nor is this exem excess owing to one or two instances depending perhaps on special circumstances it prevails regularly throughout the lia the single exception of a church which returns the same tel of morning an anc evening attendance Thet The table ablo is no nol constructed to show this comparison its hi purpose would be unaffected it if tho the proportions were reversed so that the result which chic it yields touch touching ii 29 morning ani an evening church going ire are not to bo be suspected P acted as arising froni from arbitrary select selection iol of f cases made to to iro prove iroe e a point but may I 1 ba taken as fairly of lon don custom new york evening post |