The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-02-11
WORK Of THE CHURCHES.

OF the ,429, 6s2,199 persons constituting
the worlds population 10 1892, according
10 the estimate of NJ Fourier dc Flax,
Az .0s0ibs were Christians. The roman
Catholics aggregated 2So,s66, 53S. the Prot
estants 1925 25, and the orthodox Greek
church 9S,Oi600O. In the United States OF
America, at the census OF 1890, the mum
Der Of communicates Qncluding 1Ss,oVo
Jews and some small denominations Of
partly Christian character) was 23i2o5,aol,
with III 1863 churches and church properly
valued at S61S, 245,S ii. Catholic bouies
numbered 1901, 49, Methodists 5.l2iib5b;
paptisis 1885, 740; Presbytcrians l,ilb,2pl,
L,ltherans 32T, 1884, Disciples Of Chris
81 OH; Protestant Episcopalians 6ooael;
Congregationalists 5SO.O 600, retormeu
bodies 1876 953; United Brethren 2i5.flS;
Mornons 22s,5s7. For January. 1897, the
independent published the latest accessi-
Bile statistics OF the same religious bodies.
as follows. Roman Catholics S,2ll,3op;
Methodists 5,553, 2s9: Baptlsts 4,153,Sot;
Presbyterian 1,i60.345; Luthcrans ,i2V'e"o.
Disciples OF Christ 1,0O3672; Protestant
Episcopaians 636,fI3; Congregationaiists
622557; reformed bodies 3iS,iI United
Brethren 2715035; Mormons 23i00o. Ac-
ccpting these data, the net gain OF the en-
per cent on its whole number in 1870.
The aforementioned eleven churches show
an aggregate increase of 2,O67,021 mem-
beers. OF whom the Roman Catholics re-
ceived 769.S70, the Methodls,s 531 ,65S. and
the Baptist 36S,117. or the English
Speaking religious communities of the
world about 07,0do, 900 are professedly
Christian, and about 17,00o,000 are of no
particular religious profession.
; !
The modern Sunday school. to whose
culture the brightest genius Is assidiously
devoted, is that department of the church
in which the principal part of preparatory
work is done. Many of it's students be-
come devoted members of the church aud
effective workers in its ranks. The latest
statistics of it's numbers are those COM
piled by the statistical secretaries of the
seventh international Sunday school con-
ventipn, held at St Louis, Mo, In Sep
TENDER, 1888 In them the number Of
Sunday schools in the different countries
OF the world is given al 22i,562. of teacn-
ers at 2.239,12S and OF pupils at 20,26S,933
Forty-seven thousand and sixty of these
Sunday schools. 6l6,19l teachers and $685.
913 pupils are in the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland 1874 653 Sunday
schools. 13Ss,70S teachers and 10,442, 705
pupils are in the United States, Canada,
Newfoundland and Labrador, the West
Indies, Central America and New Mexico.
Roman Catholic schools, with a member
ship estimated by clerics at 100000, aud
non evangelical Protestant schools, with
a probable membership of 100000, are not
embraced in the returns.
Several of the larger denominations
have organizations of young people, each
of which is connected with its particular
section of the church: and each of the
denominations contributes more or less
of its youth to organizations of non secta-
rian or interdenominational character. OF
the former is the Baptist Young Peoples
Union OF America, with large aggregate
of members; the Young Peoples Christian
Union of the United Brethren. with
membership of 74,7o5 and the Epworth
league of the Methodist Episcowl church,
with 1,650,0G0 members. or the latter is
the Young Peoples Society of Christian
Ebdeayor, formed in February, 1881, in the
Williston church. Portland Me-, by the
pastor. Rev. f. E. Clark, n. d. Its af-
fairs are managed by a board of trustees
presenting the great evangelical denom-
nations Its societies number $1,000. ana
its members oyer 100000, chiefly in the
United States and Canada, in Australia.
Great Britain. China, India, Japan and in
al, missionary lands. Wherever It Is hest
known il Is said, IN he tho most bipI,Iv
reparded as n means ~ hro,a aanarn,,,
ard fruitful ethical and morsJ cui,iyation
-
Not loss nromotivo of catbo,ic shirt md
c"'' de'eiis''es are Tue unoehoniiila.ionai
cultural societies. comprising adults and
young people of all sorts of church belong
inps and of none The Young uon.s
r,,'S,.,,- ,s..-t .,
Shristish hssociatpSns f'tnronSnout the
world number $40. of which 1870 are Ia
the United States and Canada, with a total
of oas 7s4 yo,,ng yyon,o,,.
Chr,stiar associ,t;ons mr.. lie mo me-,
world w;de n,any's,da1 ain,;na ~" ,,,n
doyo,onment of narfoct wo,,,en ,di,,,,',d w Nv
the ren,,irauerts ns weru ;n,n 1870" "
ola, stato Tho memhersb,n 81 An,e.;.,n
,ssooiations 4; ahn,t % nnn mn I,ta,s'
,ionai Order ~ tbe rSing,s nsnvh ta,.s ia
Sons. like many rbilantbronic Societies of
yiae comnosed ~ thoussnds ~ sn,a,i o,r-
oles of men. women and children. united
In one grand organization of over 100000
~ "a., =, n'e IN, ,,a',ona,, 'oslsofo,i-
needy and suffering. Its small silver