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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. Excerpt from book: Section 3CHAPTER V. CHURCHES. These walls we to thy honor raise; Long may they echo to thy praiseDoddridge. In touching upon places of public resort, it was due, perhaps, to the churches to name them before the theatres: for, though public attention is divided between them, it is nearly all on the side of the churches, of which there are at least thirty to one theatre. There are, in al), about 150 churches, or religious societies, in New York. If we suppose their congregations, on an average, to amount to 1000 eachand this we think is not rating them too highthere are assembled weekly in this city 150,000 worshippersor one half the entire population. The balance, then, in favot of church-going, and against .the theatres, is just equal to .2:9 in every 30persons. So much does the taste in this great metropolis, run on the side of religion, and so much more popular are sermons than plays. It would not, however, be quite fair to estimate the comparative popularity of plays and sermons by the number of persons on a given time attending each. Some of those, who are regular theatre-goers, are also regular church goers: arid if they fill their box at the theatre every week-day evening, so in like manner do they fill their pew at church every Sunday. But there is another reason why sermons are better attended than playsthey are less expensive. It will cost a man some hundreds of dollars per annum for a nightly ticket at the theatre; while it will scarcely cost him so many cents for admission at a church twice every Sunday. Nay, for that matter, it need not cost him any thing if he chooses to go free. The doors of all the churches are open to all who wish to enter, provided they demean themselves in a sober and orderly manner. But if a man take a pew, or otherwise contribute his full share to the...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781443282901
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1443282901
  • Publisher Date: 07 Jul 2009
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 109


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