Deseret Evening News | 1905-01-14 | Page 4 | New York Churchman

Now York Churchman In a IL church Increasing In numbers as rapidly ns Oil ours by accessions front from without the ratio In any ono one year of thu the Infant baptisms to the marriages of at that same sallIe year wilt low tow to represent represent sent ho time real stale mala of tile tae church In this regard It will be there lnore Just If It we wo take hake as time the basl of Our comparison with t the tho bai I a lent s of 0 1904 1901 t the tho he average number humbar r of ot marriages for tor tho the preceding 10 years which witch we find to be This gives a 1 ratio of oC Infant baptisms to marriages of 0 26 lG to lj 1 that Is III 10 families will viii have together twenty five live children and n I l this we believe bellow to represent sent fairly the condition of church families today to lIY d r spiritual in is not lOt then what It ought to be but there Is ts a still graver cause caule of ot anxiety It Is not what It has hi been lIeen In 1891 lilt there thoro were for tor every ten lell marriages Infant baptisms oo recorded In III 1895 1896 and 1897 un there were werl twenty twentynine twentynine nine and the decline thus begun Was Willi continued in 1883 1899 when the number of or children for tor every celY ten marriages fell toll to loen cn