. History of all the religious denominations in the United States : containing authentic accounts of the rise and progress, faith and practice, localities and statistics, of the different persuasions .. . mber of members ofthe Bible-Christian Church in Philadcl-phia, compared with many others, is verysmall. At their annual meeting in May,1847, they had between 70 and 80 mem-bers. There are individuals abstainingfrom animal food and intoxicating drinksin several of the States in the Union, andagreeing with us in doctrine, but, out ofPhiladelphia, there is, at present, no regu-larly organized so
. History of all the religious denominations in the United States : containing authentic accounts of the rise and progress, faith and practice, localities and statistics, of the different persuasions .. . mber of members ofthe Bible-Christian Church in Philadcl-phia, compared with many others, is verysmall. At their annual meeting in May,1847, they had between 70 and 80 mem-bers. There are individuals abstainingfrom animal food and intoxicating drinksin several of the States in the Union, andagreeing with us in doctrine, but, out ofPhiladelphia, there is, at present, no regu-larly organized society of Bible-Chris-I tians in this country. HISTORY OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH BY PROFESSOR W. JOS. WALTERS, PHILADELPHIA. The Roman Catholic Church, as itexists on this side of the Atlantic, maydate its origin from the discovery of thewestern world. From the memorable day,October the eleventh, 1492, on which Co-lumbus landed upon the island of Guana- hani, or San Salvador, and at the foot ofthe cross poured forth his fervent thanks |to God for the success of his glorious en-terprise : this church has, amid many re-verses, continued gradually to in some quarters she has met with re-. Lith of * F@PI 3PH HISTORY ok THE ROMAN CATHOLIC < in RCH. 181 verses, I«< r lessen have been compensatedl.\ what the !». gained in other direc-■q that the number of bei adbe-n nts, aooording to recent and respectableauthorities, may, at the present time, beestimated at about twenty-five and b halfmillions, spread over the whole Americancontinent* This ancient church, therefore,outnumbers by nearly ten millions, evenin the new world, all the various Protestantdenominations put together. Of this largebody, however, only about 1,900,000 atthe highest calculation, an> found in theUnited States.* A Catholic navigator, whose name willhe forgotten only in the wreck of theworld, having thus discovered this vastcontinent, and another son of the churchhaving given it
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