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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · September 3, 1867

FromAdvent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. XXX, No. 12

CHURCH STATISTICS OF NEW YORK CITY.

The American Quarterly Church Review for July, opens with a very long and interesting article called “New York City a Field for Church Work,” which gives the following statistics:

“The number of churches and chapels of the Protestant Episcopal church in this city is sixty-three. Supposing thirty-one of these churches and chapels to accommodate one thousand worshipers each, and thirty-two to accommodate six hundred each, and we have, provided by the church, accommodations for the worship of God for fifty thousand and eight hundred souls; leaving nine hundred and forty-two thousand and two hundred persons for whom she has made no provisions.

“According to a late report the Romanists have thirty-one churches, (of which six are for Germans,) and sixty-four ministers in the city; the Presbyterians have fifty-five, the Dutch Reformed, twenty-two; the Methodists, forty-one; the Baptists, thirty-three; the Congregationalists, four; the Unitarians and Universalists, six; the Jews, twenty-four Synagogues; and there are for miscellaneous sects, sixteen buildings or halls. Now, of these two hundred and thirty-five churches and chapels, &c., allowing one hundred of them to accommodate one thousand persons each, and the remainder half that number each, and the estimate is a large one, we have church accommodations of some sort for one hundred and seventy-seven thousand and five hundred persons; and still there are seven hundred and seventy-one thousand and seven hundred persons in this Christian city of New York for whom no provision to worship Almighty God after any form has been made. After allowing all the necessary deduction for the young, the aged, the sick and the infirm, who cannot attend upon public worship if they would, still the fact stares us in the face that there are hundreds of thousands of persons in this city to-day who could not, even if disposed, worship at Christ’s altars in any form or manner whatever.”