The religious denominations in the United States: their history, doctrine, government and statisticsWith a preliminary sketch of Judaism, paganism and Mohammedanism . ss and manners they havenothing peculiar, except that, probably, they are more favorable todancing and similar recreations than are some other classes of religion-ists. They have, for the number of their members a rather extensiveliterature, several periodicals, published monthly or otherwise, beingunder their control. They have also a society expressly for the pub-lication of the works of their Founder. They have recently establ
The religious denominations in the United States: their history, doctrine, government and statisticsWith a preliminary sketch of Judaism, paganism and Mohammedanism . ss and manners they havenothing peculiar, except that, probably, they are more favorable todancing and similar recreations than are some other classes of religion-ists. They have, for the number of their members a rather extensiveliterature, several periodicals, published monthly or otherwise, beingunder their control. They have also a society expressly for the pub-lication of the works of their Founder. They have recently establisheda college at Urbanna, in the State of Ohio, which has already about ahundred students in attendance. The census of 1850 states that they have 15 church edifices, ca-pable of accommodating 5,070 persons, and of the aggregate value of$108,100. We suppose that besides these, they must occupy publichalls or school-rooms, as we believe they have about 65 societies, in-cluding, as we have already said, nearly 9,000 members, who have thelabors of 48 ministers, nine of whom have the authority to ordain pas-tors and other ministers. 58 OMISH, OR HOOKER fiff T is a remarkable fact,»8) that even the smallestdenominations of profess-ing Christians in our land,who might be expected tocherish unity of feeling andaction, that they might se-cure their visibility, arenevertheless greatly proneto divisions. Even so isit with the Mennonites,who have among them not less than four sects differing from eachother, though generally but in very small matters. Thus with theOrnish, Amish, or Hooker Mennonites. This small sect may be described as a branch of the parent Men-nonite Society in Holland and Germany. In the latter part of theseventeenth century, a distinguished Swiss divine of the name of JacobAmen, began preaching the doctrines of the Mennonites in differentparts of Switzerland and German}. Although not properly theoriginator of the sect of which we are now writing, he took
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