. The upward path : the evolution of a race . Eeligious Development 241 and social life, his political, criminal, andphysical status. We have also seen himas a student in all the different phases ofhis educational world. We must now turnour attention to the still more importantside of his nature, the spiritual, and con-sider him as a Christian, and see how farhe has advanced in Church organizationand attainment in righteousness. Eelig-ious statistics are always difficult to obtainbecause of the inaccuracy of Churchrecords. This is markedly the case amongthe Negroes, and the difficulty is incre
. The upward path : the evolution of a race . Eeligious Development 241 and social life, his political, criminal, andphysical status. We have also seen himas a student in all the different phases ofhis educational world. We must now turnour attention to the still more importantside of his nature, the spiritual, and con-sider him as a Christian, and see how farhe has advanced in Church organizationand attainment in righteousness. Eelig-ious statistics are always difficult to obtainbecause of the inaccuracy of Churchrecords. This is markedly the case amongthe Negroes, and the difficulty is increasedby the fact that some white Churches haveNegro members whom they do not reportseparately. The majority of the Negroes are Bap- llStisScs^***tists or Methodists. In Dr. Strong ^s So-cial Progress, for 1906 the combined re-ports of eight Negro Methodist organiza-tions place their membership at 1,863,258,with 14,844 regular preachers and 30,725local preachers. Their Church property isvalued at $22,267,298. The colored Bap-tist Churches repo
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