THE POPULATION OF LONDON. – It has been ascertained that if we were to analyse the people of London, and compare the number of its individuals of each class, with an ordinary-sized town, say a town with a population of 10,000, we should find in the vast Metropolis as many persons as would fill about two towns with Jews, ten towns with persons who work on the Sabbath, fourteen towns with habitual gin-drinkers, more than ten towns with persons who are every year found intoxicated in the streets of London, two towns with fallen women, to say nothing of those who are partakers of their sins; one town with gamblers, one with children trained in crime, one with thieves and receivers of stolen goods, half a town with Italians, four towns with Germans, two towns with French, while there are as many Irish as would fill the city of Dublin, and more Roman Catholics than would fill the city of Rome. Nor is this all. There are as many publicans and beer and tobacco shops as would fill two towns of 10,000 each, open every Sunday; and if we allow only twenty-five customers to each place, as representing the amount of attendance for the day, we have 500,000 people – say half a million of men and women – thus occupied while 374,015 only are attending the house of God! In London, there are 20,000 public-houses and beet and tobacco shops open on the Sunday, and only 750 Protestant churches and chapels for divine worship. In Scotland, with the same population, there are no public-houses open on the Sunday, and 2,500 churches and chapels where the people attend on the means and ordinances of grace. In London, we have the concentrated essence of evil within a radius from the centre point of seven miles. In Scotland, the iniquity that even there abounds is spread over a surface of 1,500 square miles. – Our Moral Wastes.

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