Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-08-27
CHURCH MEMBERS . IN STATES NUMBER
 MILLIONS
CENSUS OF RELIGIOUS BODIES REVEALS MUCH INTEREST
 ING INFORMATION
FEWER MALES THAN FEMALES
ROMAN CATHOLICS SHOW LARGER INCREASE THAN PROTESTANT
 DENOMINATIONS

That the church members in the United States numbered nearly thirty. three millions in 1906; that there were billion and quarter dollars invested in church edifces; that every day eight new churches sent their spires sky ward; that males formed considerably less than half the total church member ship; that larger percentage of Cath ollie males than Protestant males were members; that i'll sixteen states the majority of the total church member ship were Roman Catholic; but that of the grand total of church members re- ported for the United States 6l.6 per cent were Protestants and 36.7 per cent Roman Catholics; these are the salient and conspicuous facts appearing in the proof sheets of United States census bureau bulletin, prepared by Chief Statistciau William C. Hunt of the di- vision of population, of the United States census bureau.
 The bulletin will be issued this month. Ii is in the nature of an ab- stract of the comprehensive report, now in press, giving the results of the fifth census of religious bodies in the United States.
 It is stated that United States census statistics of church membership by sex were collected for the first time in 1906. Of the total number of members report ed by the various religious bodies and classified by sex, 43.1 per cent were males and 56.9 per cent females. Among the Protestants the difference was greater, only 39.3 per cent being males. In the Roman Catholic churches there were relatively more males, the mum Der forming 49.3 per cent of the total membership.
 Fewer males than females were found among the Latter Day Saints, the Lutherans, Disciples, Methodists, Bap lists, Presbyterians, and Protestant Episcopalians, the percentages of male members decreasing in the order shown, and there being but 35.5 per cent male among the Episcopalians. Among the Christian Scientists, only 27.6 per cent were males; and of the Shakers but 21.3 per cent; but, in the Greek Orthodox church, 93.9 per cent were male, as practically all Greek i'm migrants have been males.
 Proportion of Church Members
 Of the total estimated population of continental United States in 1906, the church members formed 39.l per cent, as against 32.7 per cent for 1890, amounting to GA per cent more in 1906 than in 1890. Of this GA increase, the Roman Catholic church is credited with Al per cent, and the Protestants with IS per cent; the remainder being di- vided among all other denominations.
 It is stated in the bulletin that the total number of members reported by the various religious bodies for 1906 was 32,936,445, of which number the Protestants were credited with 20,287,- TAP, and the Roman Catholics with l2,O79,142. Of the Protestant bodies the Methodists numbered 5,I49,S3S; the Baptists, 5,662,234; the Lutherans, 2 ll2,49i; the Presbyterians, l,S30,555; and the Dieiples or Christians, l,l42,- 350.
 Of the total of 32,946,445 church members, GIG per cent were Protest ants; 36.7 per cent Roman Catholic; md IT. per cent members of other re-