Neglected Protestant Worship in Chicago
The Sanctuary Deserted.—Rev. W. W. Patton now of Chicago, says that on a pleasant Sabbath107last October, a simultaneous count was made in all the Protestant congregations in that city, and the number found to be a little short of ten thousand. Making suitable allowance for the very young, the infirm and the aged, there remain at least 50,000 who did not attend any Protestant evangelic worship. Of these, from ten to twenty thousand may sometimes attend service with Catholics, Universalists, and other sects not Evangelic—leaving a fearfully large balance to go nowhere. This is a deplorable state of things. Can it be that half enough is done to evangelize and save our cities?—Oberlin Evan.