The Catholic World, Vol. 13, April to September, 1871Various
Religion
The Catholic World, Vol. 13, April to September, 1871
Various
Catholic Church -- Periodicals
Unitarians 30,000 300
31. Universalists 80,000 1,000
32. Protestant Episcopal 194,692 6,536
33. Methodist Episcopal 1,146,081 30,377
34. Methodist Protestant 50,000 --
35. Methodist Church 50,000 2,000
36. True Wesleyan 25,000 200
37. African Methodist 200,000 7,500
38. Zion African Methodist 60,000 2,008
39. Methodist Epis. (South) 535,040 4,087
40. Free Methodist 4,880 617
41. Western Primitive Methodist 2,000 40
42. Independent Methodists 800 --
43. Friends, or Quakers 100,000 1,000
44. Hicksites 40,000 400
45. Shakers 4,713 60
46. Adventists 30,000 1,500
47. Swedenborgians 5,000 186
48. Spiritualism 165,000 8,000
49. Mormon Church 60,000 2,000
50. Christian Perfectionists 255 10
51. Catholic Apost. Church 250 10
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Total 6,396,110 134,802
Thus the whole number of members of Protestant churches in the United
States in 1867 was 6,396,110. The average annual increase of this
membership during the preceding twenty-five years has been 134,802.
The population of the United States according to the usual census and
that of the Bureau of Statistics for 1867, has been as follows:
1840 17,069,453
1850 23,191,876
1860 31,443,322
1867 36,743,198
1870 incomplete officially.
The average annual increase in twenty-seven years has been 728,509.
If we deduct from the population of the United States in 1867 the
number of persons who were members of Protestant churches, there
will remain 30,347,088 persons in the United States in 1867 who were
not members of Protestant churches, who made no public profession of
faith in their doctrines, and who did not partake of their sacraments.
If we suppose the church-membership of Protestant denominations to
increase at the same average annual rate during the next thirty-three
years, until the year 1900, that increase will amount to 4,448,466.
If this increase is added to the number of church-members in 1867,
the membership of all the Protestant churches in the year 1900 will
be 10,844,576.
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