Religion: Christianity in England

England brought her religious complexion out into the sunlight last week when the preliminary results of two questionnaires were announced. The ponderous "lower middle class," which historians delight in calling the backbone of the nation, voted 75% solidly for Christianity in the London Daily News poll. But the suave sophisticates, the dreamy litterateurs who read the Nation and Athenaeum (London weekly) leaned toward atheism, agnosticism.

Late returns on the Nation and Athenaeum's poll:

1) Do you believe in a personal God? Yes, 537; No, 736.

2) Do you believe in the divinity of Christ? Yes, 474; No, 819.

3) Do you believe in any form...

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