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UNITED STATES

Relig^ion.

Organiza- tions re-

Members or Communi-

Denominations

porting. Number

1910

cants. Number

1906

1910

Protestant bodies :

Adventist bodies

2,479

92,735

91,951

Baptist bodies

55,304

5,662,234

5,510,590

Christian (Christian Connection)

1,379

110,117

85,717

Church of Christ Scientist ....

668

85,717

85,096

Congrepationalists

6,035

700,480

732,500

Disciples or Cliristians

13,631

1,142,359

1,430,015

Duulcers or German Baptist Brethren

1,11S

97,144

122,847

Evangelical bodies

2,678

174,780

180,315

Friends

1,097

113,772

119,601

German Evangelical Synod of North America.

1,290

293,137

249,137

Independent Churches

879

73,673

48,973

Lutheran bodies

13,533

2,112,494

2,173,047

Mennonite bodies

606

54,798

55,007

Methodist bodies

60,737

5,749,838

6,477,224

Presbyterian bodies

16,224

1,830,655

1,848,046

Protestant Episcopal Church ....

7,647

886,942

921,713

Reformed bodies

2,614

449,514

442.569

Unitarians

482

70,542

70,542

United Brethren bodies

4,311

296,050

304,656

Universalists

890

64,158

54,836

Roman Catholic Churcli

13,288

12,079,142

12,217,373

Jewish Congregations

1,769

101,4572

143,000

Latter-day Saints

1,350

256,647

400,650

Eastern Orthodox Churches

195

129,606

335,000

Total of all denominations! .

215.160

32,936,445

34,517,377

1 Inclusive of all bodies.

2 In 1906 only heads of families, in 1910 members as well as heads of families were included. The two censnses are not comparable.

Instruction.

Each State of the Union has a system of free public schools established by law. The work of these is largely supplemented by private and parochial schools. Ill 1880 the percentage of illiterates in the population above ten years of age was 17 per cent., in 1890 13*3 per cent., in 1900 10*7 per cent., in 1910 7 '7 per cent. The following statistics are for 1910 : —

Total Population

Per cent, of total population

Population 10 years of age and over

—

Total

Unable to Read and Write

Number

Per cent .

Native Whites Foreign Whites Coloured

68,386,422 1 74*4 13,345,206 14-5 10,240,638 11-1

50,989,343

12,944,215

7,646,712

1,535,530 1,650,519 2,331,559

3-0 12-8 30-5

Total .

91,972,266 —

71,580,270

5,517,608

7-7

The United States Government has set aside for elementary scL'^olsin each of the newer States, from two to four ' sections ' (or squaie miles) ir each town- ship six miles square, the proceeds from the sale of which form the chief part of the permanent school funds of those States, the income alone being used

for the sui>port of the schools. This income is supplemented by State and