Report of Committee on Deficiencies of Spiritual Ministration: March 28, 1872 (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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Excerpt from Report of Committee on Deficiencies of Spiritual Ministration: March 28, 1872

At the time of the Revolution we have information concerning the location of the people of England upon which we can depend, and we find the tendency of the population to accumulate in towns steadily on the increase. The Metropolis then numbered about half a million inhabitants the other cities and market towns about and the villages and hamlets had a population of more than four millions; in all there were in England and Wales about five and a half millions of people.t In 1871 the population was found to number whilst in the Metropolis there were inhabitants. At this last Census there is no summary giving us the number of towns above a certain population; but at the Census of 1861 we were told that there were then 468 towns, each with a population of or upwards, and that of these 35 had more than inhabitants.

For the provision of the spiritual wants of the Metropolis after the Revolution, we find what might have been anticipated. In the City, where there were ancient endowments, the people were well cared for; the people living within the walls were divided into 97 parishes; whilst those living beyond these limits shewed how little new provision had been made to train them as Christians. In the 16 parishes without the walls there were people, or nearly in each; in the 15 out-parishes in Middlesex and Surrey there were or more than in each; whilst in Westminster and its Liberty there were only 7 parishes and parishioners, or more than in each.1' Scarcely any new churches were founded at this time and nearly the only Church endowments by which the period from the Reformation until after the Restoration appears to have been marked were the foundation of lectureships to be filled by godly men in City Churches. During the reign of Queen Anne efforts were made to increase the number of Churches in the Metro polis. In 1710 an Act was passed directing fifty new Churches to be built, and the sums required for their erection to be supplied by a coal tax. Of these fifty Churches only eleven were ever built.

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