Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1885 — Church Statistics. [ARTICLE]

Church Statistics.

The following table gives the membership of the different churches according to the most reliable authorities. The Boman Catholic Church claims to have 6,370,858 adherants in this country, but their actual church membership is not reported: Adventists, including three sects 89,333 Baptists, including five 5ect5..2,269,431 Congregationalists 383,685 Disciples of Christ 567,448 Dunkards 90,000 Episcopal, including Ref. Episcopal.... 363,049 Evangelicals 144,000 Friends, or Quakers 67,643 Jews 13,653 Lutherans 684,570 Methodists, including the M. E. Church, South, the Colored Church, Free MethOdlßtß, etC. . . .vr;vrr-. .. 2,736,594 Moravians 16,112 Mormons 110,377 Pres byterians, including several branches of the Church.. . 891.458 Reformed Chnrch 233,659 Shakers and other communities 5,238 Swedenborgians'. 4,734 Unitarians 17,960 United Brethren 155.437 Universalists .... 26,238 Winebrennerians 20,224 —lnter Ocean.