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New Zealand Tablet, Volume VI, Issue 306, 28 February 1879, Page 15

The statistics which were lately published concerning Protestant church attendance in some of our Western cities, are more than matched by some which arc furnished to the Churchman by its German correspondent. The official Protestant paper of the Grand Duchy of Baden is quoted by this writer as stating that only 10.7 of the population attend church at all, and that in the large towns the proportion is worse still. In Darmstadt the percentage of church attendance is only G. 3 ; and in Offenbach, I.G ; in Giessen, 4.5 ; in Mainz, G. 4 ; and in historic Worms, only 7.4. It is not merely the church-going which is so bad, either, the '■ neglect of the ordinances," for instance, marriage and baptism, is most deplorable." In Berlin " among the children born of Protestant parents, one-fourth of the legitimate and nearly two-thirds of the illegitimate were unbaptiscd, and only one third of the marriages were solemnised by any religious service. This correspondent gives none but Protestant statistics.