Volume 1

Life and labour of the people in London. 3d series, Religious influences / by Charles Booth ; assisted by Jesse Argyle, Ernest Aves, Geo. E. Arkell, Arthur L. Baxter, George H. Duckworth.

  • Charles Booth
Date:
1902-1903
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Credit: Life and labour of the people in London. 3d series, Religious influences / by Charles Booth ; assisted by Jesse Argyle, Ernest Aves, Geo. E. Arkell, Arthur L. Baxter, George H. Duckworth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    evening service (extending even to the last resource of a side entrance under the guidance of an habitue), were not experiences peculiar to the farewell services described above, but chronic during Mr. Morgan's ministry, great boards bearing the words ‘ no more room ’ being kept at hand ready to be set up outside the church.] § 3 OTHER CHURCHES AND MISSIONS (1) The little Roman Catholic church is a long narrow barn of a building with a very humble entrance. The place was quite full for the 10.30 service of the Mass; the people all kneeling and perfectly still and quiet while the Host was raised. There were more women than men, and a good many children. All looked poor. The service ended with the Litany spoken by priest and people alternately : everyone knew and repeated the words. Of the strong religious feeling shown there can be no doubt. All who come pay a penny, and change was offered me when I deposited a shilling on the plate. In the evening the place was not so full, nor the people so poor, nor so quiet, but they were listening to a young priest whose discourse never really held their attention. It was a simple address on sin and death and judgment; the evils of life and what could be done to amend them. I was struck that his appeal was entirely that those present should try to do something for others, something to make the lives of others happier and better. For instance, as to drink he did not suggest that those he spoke to ever got drunk themselves. (2) On Sunday morning Mr. Peter Thompson was preaching at the Wesleyan East-End Mission. His subject was the calling of Matthew, and the feast he made to attract those for whose conversion he hoped, the preacher describing very forcibly the presence of Christ among these people. It was all said in support of