The religious denominations in the United States: their history, doctrine, government and statisticsWith a preliminary sketch of Judaism, paganism and Mohammedanism . He perished a victim of unbelief. And so, alas, perish multitudes, God has marked a number of sunk-en rocks upon the map of his word. But men will not believe thatthere is any danger. On they go determined to brave the worst; andthen too late they have to find out that they disbelieved the truth, andhave been ruined by error. We close our present article with, to the Christian, a gratifyingfact. It is a very prevalent opinion, th
The religious denominations in the United States: their history, doctrine, government and statisticsWith a preliminary sketch of Judaism, paganism and Mohammedanism . He perished a victim of unbelief. And so, alas, perish multitudes, God has marked a number of sunk-en rocks upon the map of his word. But men will not believe thatthere is any danger. On they go determined to brave the worst; andthen too late they have to find out that they disbelieved the truth, andhave been ruined by error. We close our present article with, to the Christian, a gratifyingfact. It is a very prevalent opinion, that the increase of evangelicalChristians during the last half century has not kept pace with the ratioof growth in our rapidly-multiplying population. Statistics, however,prove the incorrectness of this opinion; for, During the past fiftyyears, says a writer on religious statistics, in the Morning Star ofMay 3, 1854, the number of members of the evangelical churches inthe United States has increased from four hundred thousand, to threemillions and a half being eight-fold, while our population has increas-ed only four-fold / RELIGIOUS CONDITION OP THE * J^H E history contained in this volume hasgj shown that Christian emigrants, of morethan one denomination, have first come tothis country, having in view as one grandobject of their lives the conversion of its abo-^§8|lllB51l riginal inhabitants. Nor have there been-~— wanting some most delightful instances ofsuccess. Still, on the whole, the poor Indians have, with the marchof civilization been dwindling away, and while a few have becomeChristians, the mass have remained in superstition, and have diedwithout any well founded hope of a blissful immortality. We propose in this place to put on record two letters descriptiveof the religious practices and feelings of Indians, in this year first was written by the Rev. S. Gorman, a highly respectableBaptist clergyman of New Mexico, to the •ftnnual R
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