The religious denominations in the United States: their history, doctrine, government and statisticsWith a preliminary sketch of Judaism, paganism and Mohammedanism . umes com-pose its library. The Theological Institution originated in 1825; ithas two professors and eighteen students ; it has educated one hundredand twenty-one persons, and has a library of six thousand sustaining Foreign Missions, the German Reformed Church acts withthe American Board of Commissioners; nor are they negligent of Do-mestic Missions. Two papers, one in the English language, and an-other in the German,
The religious denominations in the United States: their history, doctrine, government and statisticsWith a preliminary sketch of Judaism, paganism and Mohammedanism . umes com-pose its library. The Theological Institution originated in 1825; ithas two professors and eighteen students ; it has educated one hundredand twenty-one persons, and has a library of six thousand sustaining Foreign Missions, the German Reformed Church acts withthe American Board of Commissioners; nor are they negligent of Do-mestic Missions. Two papers, one in the English language, and an-other in the German, together with a Quarterly Review, of a high lit-erary character, show that they are acquainted with the power of thepress. The census of 1850 states, that this body owns 327 churches, ca-pable of accommodating 156,932 persons, and the buildings are valuedat $965,880. This statement gives an average of 479 persons to eachhouse of worship, and an average value of each of $2,953 ; showingmore than the usual value of houses of worship throughout the coun-try. The body is said to have 260 organized churches, 273 ministers,and 75,000 members. THE REFORMED MENNONITES. PON Menno Simon, and the doings ofhis followers, we shall have somewhatto say in another part of our origin of the Reformed Men-nonites may be soon told. Every in-stitution, as Archbishop Tillotson hassaid, is liable in the course of time tobecome corrupted ; and it is import-ant, therefore, that a frequent compa-rison should be made with the originalinstitution, that so whatever has become wrong may be set right. Somehalf a century ago, many of the Mennonites in the State of Pennsylva-nia began to feel very strongly that the Body at large was decliningin vigorous piety, and very frequent conferences were held by them onthe subject. They at length came to the conclusion, that all attemptson their part to effect a reformation would be useless; and therefore,in 1811, they held a meeting at Strasburgh, Lancaster
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