Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1882 — Religion in the South. [ARTICLE]

Religion in the South.

The growth of religion in the Southern States during the last census decade refutes the common plaint that Christianity is losing its hold upon the people. Statistics furnished by forty-two cities of the South show an increase of 58.2 per cent, in population, and 62

per cent, in ohureh membership. In some cities the church was far in excess of the gain in population. Mobile, for instanoe, returned a population gain of 2$ per cent., and of church membership 80.8 per oent.; Savannah, 8.6 and 35.1, respectively; Dallas, 107.1 and 240; Charleston, 2.1 and 50.7. Covington presents striking figures in opposition, viz.: 23.2 per cent, gain in population, and 1.2 in churoh membership. Figures for Northern cities have not been compiled in this matter.