With respect to population, reckoning the Catholic population at 7,510,000—which figures include children under ten years of age—and adding to the communicant strength of the four other bodies mentioned the 2.5 adherents allowed for each communicant, we have the following: Methodist population, 18,918,466; Baptist, 12,990,805; Presbyterian, 5,525,162; Lutheran, 4,358,752; total Protestant population, 50,000,000; Catholic, 7,510,000. With respect to value of church property, the Methodists are first with $132,000,000; the Catholics second, $118,000,000; the Presbyterians third, with $95,000,000; the Episcopalians fourth, with $82,835,000; the Baptists fifth, with $82,390,000. The total value of church property, reckoning all denominations, reaches the enormous sum of $670,000,000. To further particularize with respect to the lesser groups into which the religious forces are divided is impossible within the limits allowed for this chapter. To do it would require a volume instead of a chapter. The following summary, however, may suffice to show the gain of a century of religious effort:— +-------+------------+----------------+--------------+ | Year. | Ministers. | Organizations. | Communicants | | | | | or Members. | +-------+------------+----------------+--------------+ | 1800 | 2,651 | 3,030 | 364,872 | | 1850 | 25,555 | 43,072 | 3,529,988 | | 1870 | 47,609 | 70,148 | 6,673,396 | | 1880 | 69,870 | 97,090 | 10,065,963 | | 1890 | 98,185 | 151,172 | 13,823,518 | | 1894 | 114,823 | 158,695 | 15,217,948 | +-------+------------+----------------+--------------+ When one remembers that one hundred years ago it was a common boast of infidels that “Christianity would not survive two generations in this country,” the above exhibit shows a religious progress unequaled in the history of the kingdom of God in any land or any age. Turning to the field of missionary effort, we find that the spread of the Christian religion by missionary efforts, particularly during the last one hundred years, forms one of the brightest chapters in the records of human progress. Within this period, the triumphs of the first three centuries have been far more than repeated.