The daily sentinel., 1910-06-14

SO.6 per cent were outside the prin-
cipal cities.
OF the Roman Catholic church's
total membership there were 1915, 4
453 or 279 per cent in first class
cities; 1,361.l32 or 11.3 per cent in
the second; 1.570,944 or 13 per cent
in the third and fourth classes COM
bined with 5,771.61S or AIS per
cent outside the principal cities.
II is seen. therefore, that the num-
Der of members of the Roman Cath
olic church reported in cities of the
first class was considerably more
than double the number reported by
all the Protestant bodies, while out
side of the principal cities the number
reported by the Catholics was only
little over one-third of the number
credited to the Protestants. 1t is
pointed out in the report that the
strength of the Protestant bodies, as
, compared with the Roman Catholic
church, is greatly understated
Only two of the Protestant bodies
reported a majority of their member
ship in the principal cities. T. e, the
| Church of Christ. Scientist. S26 per
cent, and the Protestant Episcopal
church 51.2 per cent; while of the
membership of the Jewish congrega-
tions, Ss.7 per cent are in the princi-
pal cities, and of the Eastern Ortho-
dox churches 7O.7 per cent.
OF the total number of commune
cants or members reported for the
principal cities by all denominations.
| 6,307 ,529 or 60 per cent belonged to
the Roman Catholic church. and g.
935, ,341, or 37.4. to Protestant bod
les.
Comparison with the report for
$50 shows that in general there has
been an increase in the proportion of
communicates or members in the
principal cities as compared with
those outside of these cities. In 1906
the percentage of the total number
of communicates in these cities for
all denominations was 319 as COM
pared with 25.7 in 1890.
OF the total number. 10,511.17S. of
communicates or members in the
principal cities in 1906, there were
734S.403 or 69.9 per cent reported
by the SO cities of over 100000 pop
ulation, and, of these, 2,432, $40 or
33.1 per cent. belonged to Protestant
bodies and 4,736.53 or CAS- per cent
to the Roman Catholic church. The
latter denomination had in these cit
les about ISL per cent of its entire
membership in cities of over 5000
inhabitants.
In thirteen of the cities more than
one-half of the communicates or
members reported belonged to Prot
estant bodies, while in % the major
: ity belonged to the Roman Catholic
Z church.
The cities showing the largest pro-
portions of Protestant communicates
are Memphis, S4.4 per cent; Toledo,
: 20 per cent; Washington, 669 per
cent; Kansas City. Mo-, 66.2 per cent (;
and indianapolis, 62,1 per cent.
The cities showing the largest per-
centages of Roman Catholic COM
municants are Fall River, S6.5 per
cent; San Francisco, S1.1 per cent;
New Orleans, 1871 per cent; New
| York, 76.0 per cent; Providecne, 10. 5
per cent: st. Louis, 60 per cent; Bos-
ton. 6S7 per cent; Chicago, $50 per
cent: and Philadelphia. 51.S per cent.
In the five leading cities the pro
portion of communicates to popula-
ton was: New York, 44.7 per cent;
Chicago. 4O.7; Philadelphia. 3S.S;
Boston. G2.6; and st. Louis, 46.6 per
!, cent 1t is stated that. in general,
/, cities which have relatively large
, Roman Catholic population snow a
! higher percentage of church mem
bers than cities in which this body
, has comparatively small representa-
ton In Fall River S6.5 per cent of
the total number of members report
ed were Roman Catholics and the
church membership represented ca 8
per cent of the population, while in
Memphis, where S4.4 per cent of the
communicates reported belonged to
Protestant bodies, the church menu
bership was only 80 per cent of the
, population.