The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-09-07
HEATHENS SPREADING THEIR DOCTRINES HERE

| from him the real name of the body
| is derived. In 1906 he had 1880
| followers in the United States, who
| wOTshipped in twenty-four places
through fourteen states. They teach
tolerance, love, charity and regard
all religion as divine. Hence they
profess not to interfere with the or
binary doctrinal beliefs of their mem
bers.
Another church of Asiatic origin,
but still christian, is the Armenian,
which has seventy-three organiza-
tons in this country, most of them
in the eastern states, twenty-nine in
Massachusetts alone. Their commu-
nicants are generally Armenians,
many of whom fed to this country
to escape persecution.
The eastern orthodox churches or
Greek church has 129,600 communi-
cants. This is the state church of
Russia and Greece. OF the Ali
churches here fifty-nine represent
the former nationality. There also
are Servian and Syrian branches.
The Greeks have 334 organizations
throughout the country, with New
York, Illinois and Massachusetts
leading. The Greek membership is
9O,751, twenty-five of the fifty
nine Russian churches are in Penn |
sylvania,
The volume also will tell of the |
various christian sects which are con-
sidered more purely American, and |
will show the various branches /
thereof 1t will show that while |
there are only fifty-seven main bodies |
there are 215 church organizations. !
many of them protesting a faith only (
q shade different from others. For |
instance, there are seventeen Bap-
fist bodies, twenty-four Lutheran, |
fifteen Methodist and twelve Presby- |
terrain The same is true of less
known organizations. There are ff-
teen Mennonite, seven Adventists,
four bunker or Dunkard and four /
Quaker or riend bodies.
There appears no division in either |
the Roman Catholic or Protestant |
church, although it is |
shown that efforts to modify their |
creeds have resulted in the establish |
ment of Independent bodies. They |
are designated as the Reformed Cath !
Ollie and the Reformed Episcopal |
churches, respectively. The Reform
ed Catholics number only 1 ,250 COM |
while of the Reformed |
there are about 1852, |
The cause of origin of some of the |
branches is indicated by the name |
For instance, there are General Bap-
lists, Separate Baptists, United Bap- |
fists, Free Baptists, Freewill Bap- /
fists, United American Freewill Bap- |
lists, Primitive Baptists, General |
Baptists, Seventh Day
Baptists, Duck River Baptists and
Observation-Disclosures Predestination |
Baptists.
The civil war caused splits, giving
rise to Southern Methodist and
Southern Baptist bodies. In these
churches there is also color division. |
Two or three churches came into ex-
istence just after the close of the
war as a protection against political
preaching. Many of the branches
of the Lutheran church are due tc
difference in nationality.
Of other branches besides the Duck
River Baptists, owing their names to
localities, are theaRivern Brethren and
the Workers, both branches of the
Brethren denomination The former
began existence on the Susquehanna
river, the latter in York county. |
Pennsylvania. The Brinsers, also
Brethren, are called after their first
bishop, as also the Schweckenfeld- |
ers.
Three of the newest churches men
toned are composed largely of col |
ored communicates. One of these,
the Church of God and Saints of
Christ, accepts the Ten Command |
ments as positive guide to saliva
ton and uses only scriptural names
for its members. The Church of
the Living God" began business in
1899, and already has three branch
es. The Free Christian Zion Church
of Christ. founded in 1905, protests
against all attempts to tax members
for the support of churches.
There are about 700 organizations
in the main branch of the Salvation
Army, with a membership of about
$4,000. There were 455 organiza-
lions of Spiritualists, with over 35,-
600 members
The report records the rapid dis
of communistic societies. |
showing that of eight organizations
mentioned in the census of 1890 only |
two are left, the survivors being
remnants of the Shakers and of the
Amana society.
GIVES MAYOR QUITE A SHOCK. |
Woman Aviator's Dress Causes Her