Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 139, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1915 — Who Go to Church? [ARTICLE]

Who Go to Church?

The facts about church membership are contained in United States census bulletin No. 103, and the percentage of church membership in the total population is given for the year 1906, 26 years after Kansas has become a prohibition state. According to this tabulation, which is the latest obtainable, the lowest percentage of church membership was in Oklahoma, including Indian Territory, the rate being 18.2. The rate in New York was 43.7; in Pennsylvania, 43; in Illinois. 38.3; in Nebraska, 32.4; in Maine,29.B; and in Kansas. 28.4. Forty-three states had a larger percentage of membership than had Kansas. Since ttyis tabulation was made up, two of the four states that had a lower rate of church membership than had Kansas, namely Oklahoma and West Virginia, have joined the ranks of the prohibition states. Of the six states, therefore, having the lowest rate of church membership in the United States, four are prohibition states. —Royal E. Cabell in Leslie’a