QUAKERS INCREASING.
While so many of the churches axo deploring a falling-olf in membership, the. Society of Friends in England has been increasing for many years pas!', and now, for the first time in many generations, the increase is at a greater rate- than that cf the general population. During the last decade the population advanced by 10.U per cent., while the increase in the membership of the Society of Friends was 13 per cent. There is n considerable- excess of women over men in the membership, and the proportion of women shows a tendency to increase. The figures relating K"v marriages indicate that friends marry outside more often than otherwise, ami that cou-id-.-ralily lt-s than half (lie mixed marriages are solemnised in accordance with the usages of the society.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1509, 3 August 1912, Page 9
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130QUAKERS INCREASING. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1509, 3 August 1912, Page 9
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