A Glance at New York: Embracing the City Government, Theatres, Hotels, Churches, Mobs, Monopolies, Learned Professions, Newspapers, Rogues, Dandies, Fires and Firemen, Water and Other Liquids, & C., & C.
A Glance at New York: Embracing the City Government, Theatres, Hotels, Churches, Mobs, Monopolies, Learned Professions, Newspapers, Rogues, Dandies, Fires and Firemen, Water and Other Liquids, & C., & C. ..
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1837 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER V. CHURCHES. These walls we to thy honor raise; Long may they echo to thy praise--Doddridge. 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 ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1837 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER V. CHURCHES. These walls we to thy honor raise; Long may they echo to thy praise--Doddridge. 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 all, about 150 churches, or religious societies., in New York. If we suppose their congregations, on an average, to amount to 1000 each--and this we think is not rating them too high--there are assembled weekly in this city 150,000 worshippers--or one half the entire population. The balance, then, in favor of church-going, and against Jhe theatres, is just equal to .2.9 in every 30 persons. 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: and 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 plays--they 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...
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