The Methodist Protestant Churches are not placed in either of these groups because their polity resembles, in some respects, that of the Congregational and in others that of the Episcopal churches. Authority with them rests largely in the local church, which owns its property and has authority to receive and dismiss its own members, but in other respects resembles closely the churches of the Episcopal order. In the fourth group are 82 other churches or religious organizations which we have failed to classify. The Catholic bodies, including Greek and Russian, number 253. Differences as to church polity are not sufficiently great to constitute a dangerous obstacle to the progress of church unity among the Protestant rural churches of Ohio. Our system of universities and public schools, together with the custom of reading religious articles, books, and other literature without regard to the denomination of the author, is tending to remove theological differences as between denominations. It may be said it has already removed them in the eleven denominations represented in the Committee of Interchurch Cooperation. This is true whatever differences may still exist between individuals. TABLE E CHURCHES GROUPED ACCORDING TO THEIR POLITY CONGREGATIONAL BODIES Total 1,601 Baptist, including Free, Free Will and Missionary 379 Disciples 367 Christian 228 Congregational 135 Christian Union 92 Friends 84 Mennonite 56 Church of God 54 Union 40 Universalist 39 Colored Baptist 38 Disciples, Non-Progressive 32 Primitive Baptist 21 Seventh Day Advent 13 Advent Christian 12 United Baptist 5 Nazarene 5 Seventh Day Baptist 1 PRESBYTERIAN BODIES