RELIGIONS OF SOLDIERS.
AN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE RETURN. A return laid on the table of the House of Representatives on Wednesday shows the religious denominations of the men who have left New Zealand with the Expeditionary up to and in- [ eluding the "25th Reinforcement. The : total accounted for is 70 : 440, their wliIgious denominations being as follows: Church of England ...... 32,760 Presbyterian 10,431 Roman Catholic 8,711 Methodist 3,66'J Weslcyan .............1 1,311 Baptist 822 Protestant .-.i.640 Congregational >-. i. .1. , 39? Salvation Army 272 Church of Christ .......... 190 Plymouth Brethren ....-n 140 Lutheran 1 : 15 Jewish ...........■ 93 Mormon . *1 53 Noncomformist -.-.io. .i.t.j ■ 50 Agnostic .1 ;• 47 Unitarian ... ,>•,... ... ,:,-n 1 39 Freethinkers • * 30 Atheist ......19 There were also 12 Spiritualists, 12 Theosophists, 10 Rationalists, Seventh Day Adventists. 9 Episcopalians, 7 Quakers, 6 Christad'elphians, 3 Greek, 2 Independent. 1 Deist, 1 Hindoo, and 4515 not stated.
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Taranaki Daily News, 15 September 1917, Page 6
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142RELIGIONS OF SOLDIERS. Taranaki Daily News, 15 September 1917, Page 6
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