The church is organized by congregations, which are represented at a general synod that sets policy. Services are simple, with emphasis on the sermon. They practice infant baptism, and communion. For its 9.5 million members, faith is based on the Book of Mormon, The Doctrine and Covenants, and The Pearl of Great Price, all of which are considered scripture as well as the Holy Bible. Stress is placed on revelation through the connection of spiritual and physical worlds and through proselytizing.
Members abstain from alcohol and tobacco and believe in community and self reliance.
Public services are conservative. Mormons have baptism, the laying on of hands, and communion. They have a temple for certain secret ceremonies, including baptism for the dead. Jehovah's Witnesses F ounded by Charles T. Russell in the United States in the late nineteenth century. Some 893,000 members believe in the imminent second coming of Christ and the potential salvation of mortal souls during the millennium.