Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1901 — COST OF CHRISTIANITY. [ARTICLE]

COST OF CHRISTIANITY.

Over $1,000,000,003 Spent AtitiOMly to Sprea l the Gospel. It costs over $1,009,369,494 annually to uuiiatain and advance the gospel in-nil the world. There are now said to (>»■ 26,000,000 UfiVistians in the UniteX State>H, and in (he world 500.000.000, liWd 1 ' the cause which could not furnish wlrento on to lay a Saviour's head has come, to an annual expenditure of SI,9OO,OIWtJMtO and more. Some people ask if the elttirch is failing. Tht> tmswer is that ('hristiau ity made greater increase in both mom Is-rsltip and expenditure during the cen ttiry just ended than wtis made bet ween the beginning of that century and the day of Pentecost. To maintain Christian interests of the United States last year cost as follows. The figures are from the reports of the various Christian bodies; Advehtht ? so-’, vi B.qut-i IJ.3lS..<>> it'oiiin Catholic 3i.i55.;i00 .Swcdeuliorgiaa . .. Sltt.lm Cong: eii it Iona! 7,023. 100 Disctpl.'s < f Christ 7.SSU.SUU Protest Hit Eplsci'pal n.GOIi.MN Friends l.lHllt.ti P Gcrnian Evanao’.leal IHtl.'Ji 0 Couimuieil bodies 512.700 Luther in ...... 1 l.i 03.70 > Mollie Presl.y i orl.ui 20,375,1 i 0 Iteforine l 2.131.2'*t S.c \a 11 >u Ami v .... 75u,200 United llr.'lireu LU.ltwi Une ii in 7t13.1r0 Ii rn vei. ilSt 571.200 V M < A 3.12‘i.500 Y 1' 'irg.iulzatl.'n- 4.133.000 F'>reign (alssluiis . 5,5>>0.(0>l S'ln l.iy x.-lieols 7,2.'0,:HH1 New oil.'lings, vie 27.5.1 o.iai i A'ld for non i'p ining Iti.MO.ilOO ciirlsti.m literature 11.22-.ih.O I In ati in 21.50 <o i llospiiaS. etc 25.3u0.0i0 Mis el ineulis • 1u.5i0.1U0 1 "f l .$2'47.047.300 Figtin s for different cities follow, but they do not itielude money given for Christi.in literature, for hospital, orphanage, ('duration, or other effort: New' York |8,l«tl,l»l3 P1111.1.1e1p111.l 4.771,71X1 Clllesgo 2JiOo,2tx> Boston 2.219.C00 nttxburg 1.251,700 Baltimore i.OSS.tilXi Ht Louis giltt.4<Mf Cincinnati 7:tH,soo Hi Paul iitiil Minneapolis 7|sp>io Wfishliigtoii 712,10 » Cleveland t!73.iix> Dvlrolt ; 5*3.000 Buffalo 530,100 Koelivster 51<1,100 Providence 3N7.200 Louisville 3BS».;«xt Indianapolis ' , 332 3'o San Francisco ~, 31*4, pxi Milwaukee 277,100 A Georgia judge who tried to hnitnlo King Solomon in deciding the ownership of a tVmotiths old baby, was uonpluaseil when, as he put the infant on the table and amrouueed his intention of catting il in halves with u big botcher knife, the women cried: "Don’t do that; keep it yourself," ami left the court hiiri-icdly. Tteree hundred Tetutessoe negroes will go to Hawaii to work on sugar plnntu tiona. , Ijphauon, Tenn., was scorebed *75,000 BMrtk.