Almanac and year-book for the Reformed Church in the United States . That is, the total membership is 763,078greater than it was in 1913. This is an average in-crease of two per cent, for all bodies great andsmall, Christian and non-Christian. Elaborate sta-tistical tables prepared by Dr. H. K. Carroll, and is-sued by the Federal Council of the Churches ofChrist in America, show in detail the gains and loss-es of the year. The grand total of members is now 38,708,14l.». Allthe larger denominations share in the gained 122,125; Eastern Orthodox Churches,36,500; the Roman Cathol
Almanac and year-book for the Reformed Church in the United States . That is, the total membership is 763,078greater than it was in 1913. This is an average in-crease of two per cent, for all bodies great andsmall, Christian and non-Christian. Elaborate sta-tistical tables prepared by Dr. H. K. Carroll, and is-sued by the Federal Council of the Churches ofChrist in America, show in detail the gains and loss-es of the year. The grand total of members is now 38,708,14l.». Allthe larger denominations share in the gained 122,125; Eastern Orthodox Churches,36,500; the Roman Catholic Church, 136,850; theLutherans, 56,248; the German Evangelical Synod,representing the State Church of Prussia, 29,315;the Methodist, 231,460; the Presbyterians, 56,019;the Protestant Episcopal Church, 28,641. There is a total of 175,685 Sunday Schools in theUnited States and Canada, with 16,750,297 scholarsand 1,690,739 officers and teachers, or nearly 18,500,-000 in the Sunday School army. Of these schools,nearly three-fourths are in the rural districts, and. WILDHAUS, SWITZERLAND, WHERE ZWINGLI WAS BORNJANUARY 1, 1484 doubtless the larger number of the teachers evenin the city schools come from the rural churches, asdo the preachers and missionaries. It might be per-tinent to raise the question as to whether the mag-nificent international and the various State and otherorganizations, now numbering scores, give a pro-portionate amount of time to the peculiar problemsof the rural school as compared with the town andcity school.
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