The Monmouth inquirer., 1893-05-18

made.
Facts and figures show conclu-
sively that the Society of Friends in
New Jersey are rapidly decreasing.
The new bulletins give the statistics
under the different divisions into
which this body of people have be
come divided into four separate or
CARNATIONS. They are the Orthodox
Friends, Hicksite Friend and Will
burItes and Primitives The two
former branches are represented in
this State.
There are no Orthodox Quakers
above Trenton, but a few of the
Hicksites kind in Hunterdon, Mon
mouth and Union. The Hicksites
branch have outgeneraled the Or
thodox folks about three to one.
There are 9S2 Orthodox and 2,279
Hicksites. Burlington county, was
and is still the banner county, and
the Hicksites have ten meeting
houses. The former only have 531
members, while the followers of Elias
Hicks numbers 935. The Orthodox
membership in the several counties
! is as follows: Camden, 216; Cumber-
land, 3S; Gloucester, 4S, Mercer, A.;
Ocean, 12; Salem, 43, and Union, A.
The Hicksites are distributed as fol-
lows: Camden, 149; Cumberland, Al;
Gloucester, $50; Hunterdon, IS; Mer-
Ger, 104; Monmouth, 40; Salem, 422,
and Union, 100.
1t will be noticed that the Friends
organizations in the State are forty
three. a decrease is noticed when
these figures are compared with the
returns made by previous census
takers There was no division made
then because of differences of belief
In 1870 New Jersey was accredited
with sixty three places of worship for
these plain people. Burlington then
had twenty four, now only twenty
one. The same ratio of decrease ex-
tends through all the counties.
The Salvation Army makes so
many changes that it is hard to pre-
sent separate State statistics. The
returns that the census department
have gathered show four barracks,
with permanent membership of 1856
these headquarters are fixtures in
Trenton, New Brunswick, Freehold
and Paterson The largest com
pany is in Freehold.
The Catholic church is growing
fast in this State. 1t is now accred
tied with 222, ,274 members and prop
erty worth Sc, $50, ,6s2. There are 219
church organizations and 191 church
edifices. Essex and Hudson counties
have the largest membership; Essex,
52.S79 and Hudson, 67,929 Bishop
Wigger's diocese of Newark, which
takes in Union, Sussex, Passaic,
Morris, Hudson, Essex and Bergen,
has 1852, S02 Catholic church members.
The seating capacity of the churches
in his diocese is less than half the
total number of worshipers. All the
rest of the State is in the Trenton
diocese. over which Bishop O'Farrell
presides. He has 103 church organi-
cations and SO churches, with SO, 47s
members. The property is valued al
1,753, 200 and the churches will hold
35,828 people.
The Greek Catholic, which il
spreading over New Jersey, has or
CARNATIONS in Jersey City, Paterson
and Trenton. The census only re
turns the two former, with tota
! membership of two hundred, but the
new church at Trenton has 300 mem
; bers. These churches have within
the last six months been placed un
der the American Bishops. Thei
clergy are allowed to marry and mas
is said in the Slavonic language.
The Hebrews of New Jersey hav
"a organizations scattered Throughout
the State, and while the membership
is put down as 4,276, this does no
represent all who gather in tn
synagogues, because the practice il
Hebrew religious circles is to coun
only the heads of the family and
is safe to say that there are upward
of 5000 Hebrews who attend thes
"a edifices. There are two division
of Hebrew congregations. One i
the Orthodox Hebrew congregation
and the other the Reformed Hebre,
! congregation. The former is tn
! largest body and they have 10 place
!, Of worship and 2,521 members, Will
: the Reformed branch has only
with the large membership of ,755
The Orthodox Hebrews adhere t.