The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-12-14
CONNECTICUT BIBLE SOCIETY.
An Interesting Glance at the Work Which is Being Done by This Organization.

At a recent union church service Tn Bethel, Conn.,, MT. Butterhcl1, who, with his wife mas worked in this town seven weeks under the direction of the Connecticut Bible society, gave a re- port of the work done'and brought out many facts of interest and profit.
 Every family has been visited and many have been revisited, they having made 250 extra calls making 115O visits in all. They have not only taken a re- ligious census, but have carried Chris tian greetings into every home, and as far as possible have done personal work with individuals, besides conducting several public services. The work has been quiet one, yet many impressions for good have been left in un-Christian homes, and many Christians have been stirred to more jealous effort to reach the unsaved. They have supplied the Bible at a low price to those desiring to purchase and have given many cop ies in other homes. They found 7l5 l families in the borough and 1S2 fami- | lies in the out districts, making S9i ln all The borough has 27SS people, and the out districts 770 people, making 355S in the town. This census shows gain of 157 people in the town since lS9O. There were then 3401.
 Dividing the people into denomina- tions they find: One Adventist family of seven persons; 23 Baptist families ot 7S; POI Congregational families of I6i; 1S5 Episcopal families of 676; 2S Luther an families of 137; 235 Methodist fami- lies of 902; one Presbyterian family of six; 173 Roman Catholic families of $50;
 26 Disciple families of 96; two Univer-
 salist families of nine; one Salvation
 Army family of one; 21 families of 52 persons of no religious preference.
 The different denominations are rep
 resented in church as follows:
 Adventist: One family of seven, Ad-
 ventist, Danbury.
 Baptist: Two families of five, Col
 ored Baptist, Danbury; IS families of AZ
 Baptist, Danbury; five families of 26
 Methodist, Bethel.
 Congrega gational; One family of four
 Swedish Congregational, Danbury; two
 families of 10, Congregational, Bedding;
 one family of ?, Disciples, Danbury; 19: families of 736. Congregational, Bethel Episcopal: Two families of eight
 Episcopal, Danbury; 1S3 families of 66S Episcopal, Bethel, Lutheran: Eighteen families of SS German Lutherans, Danbury; eigh
 families of 13 Swedish Lutheran Dan
 bury; two families IS, Congregational
 Bethel.
 Methodist: Two families of Il, Red
 ding, Methodist; three families of l6
 Long Ridge, Methodost; five families
 30, Danbury, Methodist; 225 families o
 S45, Bethel, Methodist.
 2 Presbyterian: One family of six, at
 tend nowhere.
 l. Disciples: One family of 4, Bethel
 Methodist; one family of 4, Bethel Con }, gregational; A families of SS Danbury
 Disciples.
 Universalist: One family of 3, Dan - bury, Universalist; one family of d Danbury, Disciples.
 Salvation Army: One family of
 person, Danbury.
 s No preferences: 21 families of 52, n Il place.
 Il Roman Catholic:. 173 families of S3 # Bethel.
 r. Divided into nationalities there art n 66S American families of 2497 people;
 colored families of 55; 12 English fam is lies of 63; two French families of 8; fiv II French Canadian families of 19; fl Gel ,r, man families of 193; 126 Irish families { 6O2; two Italian families of 4; one Dar ish family of 4: one Swiss family of 3; '. Swede families of 66; 12 Scotch familit ", of 50; one Chinese family of 2. ", There are 126 Protestant families S's S the town not represented in church ; Sunday school, and S65 people who ne ' CT attend church, making Ii per cent. I the families and 25 per cent. of the Pr . testant people non-church goers. The oi oi are four Roman Catholic families ar 14S people not attending church. The y are S13 children between 4 and 16 yea old: 5S1 are Protestants, 232 are Romf III Catholics, 456 Protestant children are ls Sunday school and 125 are not; 107 n pc man Catholic children are in Sundt eo school and 62 are not. There are 155 Pr e. testant families with no church mei y, bers There are 149 families in Whi It every person is a church member; s. families have one or more church mer is bers and 324 families have over tS 'le church members. There were 1T Prote d. tant families found without a Bib nd All were supplied; 93 Roman Catho ge families were without a Bible and fl ho were supplied. There were 334 copies
 the Bible sold, value S10S.66; 115 copi ,ss were given value $20.2S, making ze, copies distributed; 400 carefully select l1; Protestant tracts and 100 Roman Cath ze, lie tracts have been left in the hom ng The workers leave with each pastor re- the town a book containing a record nd every family who are members or z
 tendants of his church as well as of ms who express a preference for tn art church. They also report to the out-c w. town pastors. These records will be ec- much value in following up the work of the visitors. They say they have be
 very courteously received throughc 'It TWICE TOLD "A LES. in No Meat Extracted from Them by So1