, 1877-01-07
DISSENTING FROM DISSENT.

DISSENTING FROM DISSENT.
| GREAT BnITA1S's MULTIPLIED sEcrs.
The London Saturday Resie,c, in the course Of
| clever review Of one Of Matthew AruoId,s
latest essays, gives the following interesting
facts concerning the ramiacaticns of dissent in
English religious belief:
BIZ. Matthew Arnold has expended some ~ his
hnest satire on 1.-THE Dissfdence Of Dissent
and the Protesrantsm Of tho Psostestant Religion.
ana IT. Is on record thata Free Kirk minister, not
many years ago, introduced into his pulpit devo-
lions petition that I'VE may be baptized into the
spirit Of disruption" To judge from tho Register
Generais report Of religious denominations in En-
gland, the prayer appeaEs to have been az regards
The Aorntnq Post Of Wednesday last published
what puFpotts to be statistics taken from the Inst
fewer than ninety- mine distinct persuasiuns- az.
elusive of twelve different kinds Of Baptizts and
e branches az s. of the Wesleyan
inst Is, IN at1 LIZ different sccts, and s.upward
Of 20, 900 places OF worship in which these de-.
nominations meet. We subjoin the list as given
oy s 9as contemporary, which certainly looks for
Taking the denominations alphabetically, we find
they are styled as follows: .Advents, Apos1olics,
fists, General Baptsts, General i,aplist New cop
nection, Old Baptists, Particular Eaptists, Prcsby
teran Baptlats, scotch Baptsts, Seventh Day Dap-
Baptists, Baptized Believers believers in Christ
Bible Christians, Bible Defense Association, Brrth-
rem, Calvinfsts Catholcand ApostolicCh Chris
designated, Christian Believers, Christian Brothers.
Christian Israeites, Christian Mission. Christian
Tcetotalera, Christian Mission, Christian Temper
Church Of Christ, Church OF the People, Church OF
Progress, Countess Of unntinston-s Connection
Disciples in Christ Disciples Of Jesus Christ, East
ern Orthodox Greek Church. EcleCtics Episcopa-
ltan Dissenters, Evangelical Uuionists, Followers
Of the Lord Jesus Christ Free Catholic Christian
Church, Free Christians, Free Christian Assoeia-
eospe eans! eha9ch aaa css1san eeSman
tuthesan Fsee union Church German Roman
1{alleujah Band, Hope Mission, Humanitarians'
Independents independent Religious RefoEmers,
Independent 8nio9ists 19shantes I4raetes,
New Church, New Jerusalem Church, Orthodox |
Eastern Church Peculiar People. Plymouth D1eth- !
Christians, Pfogressonists, Protestant members Of
the Church Of England, Protestant Union, Protest
ants adherins to Articles of the Church Of England
to Is inclusive, but rejecting order and fituai,
Providence, Quakers, Rantcra, Recreatiye Religion
lists, Reformed Church of England, Reformed Pres
byterians OF Covcnanters, KcfoEners, Reyisal,sts,
demanians, Second Advent Brethren, Separarists
(Protestants), Society Of the New Church, Spirit
ual Church, swcdenborgians, Testimony Congre-
ans, Unitarian Christians United Brethren OF Nor
ayians, United Christian Chnsch, United Presby-
h aeadnr riSs meSsyd Wsssn
Wesleyans, Original Connection OF
Primitive Methodists Reform Free
Church Of Wesleyan alethoaists, Refuge 5LetAo-
list Church, Welsh Calyinfstic Methodists, Wes-
eyans, Wesleyan Methodist Association, Wesley |
ary Maln aNa
Mission ChApels. |
Long, however, as this catalogue is, 1t is still
,!ases Il dissenting ; worship lin December, ta
s74, - we are led to infer that It must have been
aen from IN old report Of tke Reslster General
'cfore us, and We ind that, sccoruing to the re-
'ort of Nov. j, 1875, the number Of sects was 140
while the last report Of Sept. 80, 1885, gives ia.
nd three huve been added during the present
eur al. Of which are omitted IL the .Horu-
9s s Pash 4nsss soec.s and Il Ps s
iission, and, il 1875, the Danish Lutherans.
'rimitiye Free Church, Rational Christians, and
Tnion Free Church. Among some thirteen or fonr-
others of earlier date, also omitted in the list
here occur, Christians Owning 10 Name but the
ord Jesus, Christian E'iasites, Church OF Christ,
son Eaes Gass chrs
nd Un5ectarians: 1t would further appear that
he growing muItiplicatlons Of sects arises rather
I dissent thun from gross increase Of the num-
worship In November 1879, are registered a.
IS. e52,. '.the registry Of a large nun ;
m sen eanceled" Il Is clear, ] t6erefpre, 'd thats
,e decrease, the tendency to break up into minute
1bdivisions. ''small by degrees aud beautifully
.ss" is on the increase among Dissenters. And !
e may observe that the Shakers, aud perhaps | /
her sects also, are omitted FROM all these lists,
osr likely because they have no registered build
g for Worship. but conduct their devotions in
etonians, who are also conspicuous by their abb
nee, have ceased to exist. we are unable to say.
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