The church in America and its baptisms of fire; being an account of the progress of religion in America, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as seen in the great revivals in the Christian church, and in the growth and work of various religious bodies . 79 6,195 6,281 6,216 8,914 10,812 10,182 10,490 9,79510,683 8,80810,02813,36812,763 4,9374,298 3,,9623,5664,9804,6935,3044,7155,2905,3056,5666,904 6, 7,0956,,408 6,3896,838 ,757 Total. $13,805,782 34,088 3,414 200,509 139,720 702 THE KINGDOM OF GOD IN AMERICA. A comprehensive view of
The church in America and its baptisms of fire; being an account of the progress of religion in America, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as seen in the great revivals in the Christian church, and in the growth and work of various religious bodies . 79 6,195 6,281 6,216 8,914 10,812 10,182 10,490 9,79510,683 8,80810,02813,36812,763 4,9374,298 3,,9623,5664,9804,6935,3044,7155,2905,3056,5666,904 6, 7,0956,,408 6,3896,838 ,757 Total. $13,805,782 34,088 3,414 200,509 139,720 702 THE KINGDOM OF GOD IN AMERICA. A comprehensive view of the work accomplished is givenby the Board in the following General Summary for 1895. Number of missionaries missionary teachers 3gi Additions on profession of faith 12,763 certificate 5,757 Total membership 118,588 in congregations 154,084 Adult baptisms Infant baptisms 5,049 Sunday-schools organized 34S Number of Sunday-schools 2,295 Membership of Sunday-schools 154,084 Church edifices (value of same, $3,928,534) i,709 built during the year (cost of same, $192,999).. 82 repaired and enlarged ( ).. 297 Church debts canceled $86,814 Churches self-sustaining this year 31 organized this year 97 Number of parsonages (value $537,959) 448. CHAPTER ELEVENTH. THE PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL Rev. C. H. Tiffany, The Protestant Episcopal Church represents essentiallyAmerican Christianity as; embodied in the doctrine and disci-pline of the Church of Engleind. I. Origin and Early History. As a national church it grew out of the separate Colonialchurches which the Church of- England established or counte-nanced in the American Provinces before the Revolution. Previously to the independence of the United States, thecolonial churches had existed as separate congregations or par-ishes, whose ecclesiastical bond of union was found in theirrelation to the Bishop of London, who had come to be consideredtheir diocesan. There was no bishop resident or visitant inAmerica
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