The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-15
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM or UNITED STATES
RESULTS IN INCREASE IN TOTAL SECTS

worshiped in ,wenIy-four places through
fourteen states; They teach toier-
l!Slons as divine. Hence, they profess
not TO interfere with the ordinary doc
triTal beliefs OF their members.
The American Church.
Another church OF Aslatic origin, but
stu Christian, Is the Armenian. which
| countr" most OF them i'm the eastern
nlone. Their communicates are gen
orally Arnenians. many of whom He'd to
The eastern Orthodox churches. or
Greek church, has sos commandments
This is the state church OF RUSSIA x,,,.
nine represent the former natlonainS,
There also are Servian and Syrian
branches. The Greeks have 3Si orGanza-
York. Illinois and Massachusetts, leading
The Greek membership is 90.75l. Twenty
two OF the nifty mine Russian churches are
III Pennsylvania.
The volume also will tell OF the vari-
Gus Christian sccts which are consid- :
cred more purely American. and Will
show the various branches thereof, II
will show that while there are only nifty
seven main bodies. there are 216 chuch
organizations, many of gham protesting
faith only a shade different from othtrs
For instance. there are seventeen Sip-
list bodies. twenty four Lutheran, fifteen
Methodist and twelve Presbyterian J he
same Is true Of less known organizations.
There are. fifteen Mennonite. seven Ad,
ventists. four bunker or Dunkard, ana
four Quaker or Friend bodies,
There appears no division In either the
Roman Catholic or Protestant Episcopal
church: although 1t is shown that efforts
the establishment Of independent
bodies. They are designated as the Re-
formed Catholic and the Reformed Epis-
copal churches. respectively. The Re-
Cnft tnIi ,l,ar o,1U
,nunicants. while OF the Reformed Epis-
copalians there are about 1852.
The cause of origin of some OF the
branches is indicated by the name. For
instance, there are General Baptists,
Separate Baptists. United Baptists, Free
Baptists. Freewill Baptists. United Amer
lean Freewill Baptists. Primitive Baptists.
General Six-Priuciples Baptists Seventh
Day Baptists. Duck River Baptists, and
Two Seed In the Spirit Predestination
BaptistS.
Civil War Splits.
The Civil war caused splits. giving rise
TO Southern Methodist and Southern Bop-
tst bodies. In these churches there is
also color division. Two or three
churches came into existence Just after
the close Of the war as a protest against
political preaching Many OF the branches
OF the Lutheran church are due 10 diff
ference in nationality.
or other branches. besides the Duck
River Baptists. owing their names to
localities are the River Brethren and the
Workers.. both branches OF the Brethren
denomination. The former began exist
ence on the Susquehanna river; the latter
In York county. Pennsylvania. The
BrinserS, also Brethren, are called after
their first bishop. as also the Schwecken-
felders .
Three OF the newest churches men
toned are composed largely of colored
communicates One OF these, the Church
OF God and Saints OF Christ. accepts the
ten commandments as a positive guide
to salvation and uses only scrptural
names for It's members. The Church OF
the Living Cod began business In 1899
and already has three branches, The
Free Christian Zion Church of Christ.
founded in 1905. protests against all at
tempts to tax members for the support
OF churches.
There were about 700 organizations in
the main branch of the Salvation Army,
with membership Of about $4,000. There
were 455 organizations Of Splritualsts.
with over rs. 900 members.
The report records the rapid disap-
pearance of communistic societies, show
ing that OF eight organizations mentioned
In the census OF 1890 only two are left.
the survivors being remnants OF the
Shakers and OF tho Amana society.