PUBLIC WORSHIP ATTENDANCE

Evening Star, Issue 19893, 15 June 1928, Page 6

PUBLIC WORSHIP ATTENDANCE

QUEUES AT THE CHURCHES. Not long ago considerable publicity was given in the Press of the decline in church attendance, and there was a-general-lament-that places of worship which once were thronged with worshippers were now empty. The following paragraph, taken from the overseas ‘ Daily Mail,’ of April 14, reveals that the people in England are not so remiss in their church-going as newspaper readers have been led to believe: — “ With all this zest for enjoyment you would expect to hear that church and chapel attendances were thin. But seldom have greater congregations attended • the Easter services, either in London or the country. In London people at St. Paul’s Cathedral- and the Abbev were advised to try other churches, but these also were filled. At St. Martin’s-in-the-Eields there were twelve services ou Easter Day, and before one service had finished long queues of people lined up for the next. Village churches also had not room for the people. At the little church in Rottingdean there were queues of villagers and visitors for the communion services at 7 a.m. and 8 a.m.”