CHURCH MEMBERSHIP IN AMERICA.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1716, 5 April 1913, Page 9

CHURCH MEMBERSHIP IN AMERICA.

SUBSTANTIA I, ADVANCES. Tlu- lapiil ami continuous, progress oE l!om;in Ciithr.litisni in the United States is the most. striking featurcTof 'a'sUitisttoal summaiy of Church niptnbirslii'p in tlml connlrv. piiNi-lu"l -liy'-■•■Hi?""-"-Now Vork ChrUtiau A Jvoe.\tc. v - liauiai;

Catholic communicants in 1912 numbered ' 12,888,466,' an estimated increase of 125,233': on lb® year; Roman Catholicism also . gained' 119" xrtinisters 'and 163 churches. Practically all tho leading l'rotestan^'' bodies, however, :havo, also made substan- ,' tinl advance. • .The Methodists (including coloured ' churches and various minor 6ects), who eomo next in point of numbers, totaL 6,905,095,; an increase of 85,622. Baptists, ; among. whom aro reckoned several small ' bodies;, such as the Old Tivo-Seed-ih-the-Spiint Predestinarians,. number 5,891,232, an increase of 120,811, almost all of which is, > accoun t ted'.'f6r.,by tlio three sections of Regular: Baptists, North, South, ' and coloured. Congregationalism 5h0w5.742,359V communicants, an estimated increasa of ' 3589; Disciples of Christ, 1,310,887. (increaso 32,771); Lutherans, 2,353,762 (increase 63,895) r Presbyterians, 1,981,919 (increase 37,768); Protestant Episcopal, 980,851,.(increase 23,921); United Brethren, 320,960-(increase 9126).. In the caso of-tho Latter-Day . Saints, . or_ Mormons, tjie, figures ara'notable in view of their recent activity..in.:Fur6po. Their -total number, .exclusive, of .children under ci(jht years of a'gie, is given as 352,500, an increase of 31,976. .'Since 1890 Roman Catholics have «dde<l over 6,000,000 to ; their numbers, Methodists-. 2,300,000, Baptists 2,100,000, and Congi'egationalisis 200,000. The grand '; 4 total of all denominations shows 36,675,537 ,i 'communicants, an increase of 579,852 on,-', the-ycar. ■•••. '■ 1 "