Evening journal., 1902-01-18

sion, three of these viz. the General
Council. the United Synod South and the
Synodical Conference, lost in member
Ship last year. The total Lutheran
growth for the ytar is given at SO ,1O1.
but much Of this. growth is confined to
the independent 'synods. the Iowa alone
increasing 21,000 members. Many of
the synods lost. heavily, however. OF
the other principal bodies, the increase
in membership last year DR.. Carroll
shows to have been insignificant, when
compared with the vast expenditures Of
time and en- nergy. His own religious
body, the M ethodist North. makes a
showing Of but 16,500. although it has
total membership of 2. ZOO, 900. It will
be remembered that last year was one
in which many evangelistic movements
we're undertaken, the leaders in the
undertaking being the Methodists who
have a special Evangelistic Commits
sion of their General Conference
which claimed to have brought in 6OO.-
GOO new members. Clearly the claims
must have been unfounded If DR.. Car
rolls figures are correct The head
quarters Of the commission are in Chi
cago. Presbyterians North last year
made a growth OF 1882, and have
now membership just under 1000. 900.
Congregationalists show only 3,475 ad-
vance, and Baptists North only S,O39.
MORMONS.
DR.. Carroll says he finds it exceeding
iy difficult to get statistics of Mormons
He believes there are 100000 of them
in Utah and adjacent States and thinks
Mormon missionaries in the East. of
Ntrfl fhnTn
say as many as 1,40O made 65 900 con-
verts last year He also finds the
smaller religious bodies to be making
little or no headway Conditions seem
to be that the great bodies grow great
ter. with some exceptions, and the
smaller ones smaller. For example. !
Quakers lost last year, according to
DR.. Carroll. 923 members. It has been
long known THAT Quakers in the East,
where they cling to old styles in dress,
language and forms of public worship.
have been losing in number and infiu-
ence, but for many years have been
growing in Indiana, Illinois and Iowa. |
Now it is shown by Dr. Carroll that
Quakers in the West where they have
adopted the progressive methods of |
other religious bodies, are losing also, |
and that at a steady rate
An amusing fact brought out by Dr. |
Carroll is the tenacity OF religious
bodies. no matter what the discourage
ment. There are twelve different kinds |
of Presbyterians. Year before last the |
twelfth kind had only one minister and
a handful of members. Last year the
minister died. but the handful OF mem
bers are still faithful, and probably |
will remain so. They call themselves
the Reformed Presbyterians in the
United States and Canada.
DR.. Carroll furnishes a table showing |
the order ofdenominationalr OF in1S90
and in 1901, with number OF commune
cant members in the respective years. |
The Rev. Il. Burgette Short, $. L. |
D.. pastor of Epworth Church. says the
figures credited heMethodist Church by
Mr.. Carroll, are misleading, in that they
do not represent the entire membership
of the Methodist denomination. Mr..
Short says there are seventeen branches |
of MethOdism whose membership aggre-
gates over 100000 men, women and chill !
dren. This is an increase Of 50,151 com
municants over last years figures, a rec
ord of which he as one member of the |
great denomination. is proud. The total
church membership is about twenty-eight
millions, Of which twenty millions are
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