RELIGIOUS STATISTICS.
The religious statistics issued by the United States Bureau do not indicate that religion is losing ground in America. Church membership has increased more rapidly than the population. Of the total estimated population of Continental' United States m 1906 (the year of the census), over 39 per cent, were reported as Church members. The corresponding percentage for the previous census, in 3890, was 32.7. According to the statistics eight new churches wero erected in the United States every day of these sixteen years from 1890 to 1906. The local religious organisations number 212,230, and the Churcli members nearly 33,000,000. Even the 'idea that in the modern Church men .'aye "in a small minority is not supported by the ■ figures. The members of -the male sex comprise 43 1 per cent, of the total Church membership.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 972, 12 November 1910, Page 9
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