A rural survey in Maryland, made by the Department of church and country life of the Board of home missions of the Presbyterian church in the . Whits. Colored- DIAGRAM NO. IX itself is not so evenly distributed. The churches of course follow the distri-bution of the population and most of them are in or near colored are 40 churches in all, one to every 231of the colored population. (b) Denominational Classification, Membership and Growth There are three denominations at work in the county, Baptist,M. E. and A. M. E. Zion (Table No. 25, Appendix, page VII). The M.
A rural survey in Maryland, made by the Department of church and country life of the Board of home missions of the Presbyterian church in the . Whits. Colored- DIAGRAM NO. IX itself is not so evenly distributed. The churches of course follow the distri-bution of the population and most of them are in or near colored are 40 churches in all, one to every 231of the colored population. (b) Denominational Classification, Membership and Growth There are three denominations at work in the county, Baptist,M. E. and A. M. E. Zion (Table No. 25, Appendix, page VII). The M. has more than half of the chiurches. The total member-ship of all churches is 1,981, only of the population. The averagemembership is That is to say each church is reaching hardly morethan a fourth of its possible following. At almost every point the colored churches are much more inefficientthan the white churches. Not only have they a smaller proportion oftheir population enrolled in the churches but their efforts at progressare in comparison feeble. In 1906 the approximate membership of allcolored churches was 1,786. In six ye
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