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 14th reveals that the people in England are not so remiss iu their churchgoing 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 Abbey were advised to try other churches, hut these also were filled. At St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields there -were 12 services on Easter Day, and before one service had fininsed log queues of people lined up for the next. Village churches also had not room for the people. At the little church in Rottingdean village there were queues of villagers and visitors for the Communion services at 7 a.m. and 8 a.m.”
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 141, 29 May 1928, Page 7
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