Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . rotestantism, while free-ly cooperating with other churches invarious works of philanthropy and re-form. In the next place, that we are a religious, a Christian people may be arguedfrom the steady and enormous increase during the century of the materialand spiritual forces of the church of Christ
Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . rotestantism, while free-ly cooperating with other churches invarious works of philanthropy and re-form. In the next place, that we are a religious, a Christian people may be arguedfrom the steady and enormous increase during the century of the materialand spiritual forces of the church of Christ, an increase phenomenal evenamid the wonders of a phenomenal century. Whether we look at theincrease of edifices or the multiplication of communicants, the results ineither case are sufficient for both congratulation and amazement. Were itpossible to obtain from the earlier records exact statistics of the actual num-ber of edifices and communicants existing at the opening of the century,comparison would be comparatively easy. Such, however, is not the case, therecords having been imperfectly kept and indifferently preserved. The cen-sus of 1890, indeed, was the first to furnish exhaustive and really reliableresults. Taking that census as a basis, and adding to its figures those to be obtained. FATHER DAMIEN, MISSIONARY TOHAWAIIAN LEPER COLONY. 152 TRIUMPHS AND WONDERS OF THE XIXth CENTURY from the year books of the various bodies up to and including 1894, thereligious strength of the United States may be summarized as follows:Churches, 189,488; religious organizations, 158,695; ordained ministers,114,823; members or communicants, 15,; value of church property,$670,000,000; seating capacity of churches, 43,000,000, while in the 23,000places where organizations which own no edifices hold their services,accommodations could be found for more. In the majority of theProtestant churches, at least two services are held on each Sabbath; in the(Jatholic, six or seven.
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