. The problem of religious progress. 17,000,12,0004,000 Total 90,000,000 000 000000 9,000,0001,800,000 7,500,0001,300,0002,400,0008,500,0001,500,000 33,000,000 32,000,000 In the year 1500 about 80,000,000 of people wereunder Roman Catholic governments, and not farfrom 20,000,000 under the Greek Church govern-ments. The following estimates by Adrian Balbi,for 1830, and by Prof. Schem, for 1876, will serveour purpose: Year. * Popn under Roman Catholic Governments. 80,000,000 90,000,000 134,164,000 180,787,905 Popn underGreek ChurchGovernments. 20,000,000 33,000,000 60,000,
. The problem of religious progress. 17,000,12,0004,000 Total 90,000,000 000 000000 9,000,0001,800,000 7,500,0001,300,0002,400,0008,500,0001,500,000 33,000,000 32,000,000 In the year 1500 about 80,000,000 of people wereunder Roman Catholic governments, and not farfrom 20,000,000 under the Greek Church govern-ments. The following estimates by Adrian Balbi,for 1830, and by Prof. Schem, for 1876, will serveour purpose: Year. * Popn under Roman Catholic Governments. 80,000,000 90,000,000 134,164,000 180,787,905 Popn underGreek ChurchGovernments. 20,000,000 33,000,000 60,000,000 96,101,894 Popn under ProtestantGovernments. 32,000,000193,624,000408,569,612 Total. 100,000,000155,000,,000685,459,411 * See Table XXXIX, in Appendix, for a fuller exhibit of the sta-tistics for 1876. 150C. 1600. I 1800. 1830, 1876. 100 millions. Illustrating growth of populations iiiulerRinnan CatJioUc, Greek Church, aud Prut- c-stiiiit Governments. I!oiii:in Catholic. y--v^ Greek pp. . 685 millions. Statistical Exhibits. 523 One hundred and eighty years ago only 155,000,000of the earths population were under Christian gov-ernments. Then the Grand Seignior, the Sophi,and the Great Mogul were the most potent arbitersof the destinies of the race. Nearly all Asia andAfrica were under pagan and Mohammedan mighty worlds of Australasia, Polynesia, andthe Indian Archipelago lay in the undisturbedslumbers of savagery and superstition. Scarcelyfour hundred thousand Protestant colonists occu-pied both American continents ; all the remainderwas pagan or Catholic. All the religious missionsof the world, excepting a few among the aboriginesin the American colonies, were papal, and the onlyreligion not disseminating itself and gaining groundwas the Protestant. Great Britain and her coloniesdid not number ten million of people. Now shecomprises a population of more than three hundredmillion * under her civil sway. The population under Ro
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