The Cairo bulletin., 1910-08-16
RELIGION IN j. 5.
cENcuS BUREAU REPORTS MORE
THAN 200 sEcTs OF CHRIST.
lANlTY REPRESENTED.
Followers of Buddhism Have "a Tenn
plies, Mostly in California--Rus-
sian State Church Has An
Churches.

1 Washington, August Religious
freedom in the United States shelters
tunder its tolerant and ample folds
thousands of representatives of a
number of the so-called heather be-
iliefs. in addition TO more than 200
various sects of Christianity, accord.
ling to census bureau statistics deal
ing with the religious life of the
country. Among the former are
Buddhists, Confucianists and BAHIA
lists who are engaged in an organized
way in the spread of their doctrines
in this country.
Up to the time of the investigation
there had been no effort to effect any
organization for the promotion of
Confucianism, but the text tells of
society OF the Chinese sage's follow
ers which was organized in New
York City in 1907 among the Mongo-
lian students in Columbia University
| Contending that Buddhism is only a
|
demonstrate that Confucianism was
real religion and so a regular system
| OF services was established by a well
defined organization.
The original followers of Buddhism
Iare Chinese and Japanese. Their
churches known officially as TEN.
pies" by the irreverent, are referred
to as joss houses There are &C
Chinese and IL Japanese temples in
this country. the former being dis.
tributed over twelve, the latter over
three states California shelters all
but three of the Japanese and more
than half of the Chinese houses.
About 40 which went down under the
San Francisco cataclysm had re.
manned in ruins to the time of the
enumeration.
The Acknowledgements Buddhists
are of the progressive Shin Shiu sect,
which is missionary in character.
They discard the ascetic practices
OF the more austere Buddhists of Asia
allow the priests to marry and have
no ban on meat or other food. The
societies ale veil = organized. each
having priest. General headquar-
tiers are in San Frncisco, and they
have both journals and schools de-
voted 10 the propagation of the faith.
In 1906 their membership in this
country was 1887, of which IT'S were
| females.
There is no Shintoism, an explana-
ton Of which Is found in the fact
that this religion attaches itself too
closely to the person of the japanese
Emperor
In way the Hindu religion is rep
resented by the Vedanta society, with
organizations in New York, Pitts
burg, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
1t was organized by some Hindu teach
ers who came here in 1893 to the
Worlds Fair. It's name from an an.
cient Hindu philosophy meaning "the
end OF all wisdom" 1t is nen-sectar-
Ian seeking to harmonic all relig.
ious systems. Oriental PHILOSOPHERS
as taught by the Theosophists, have
four bodies with 1886 members in
, the United States.
Another church of Asiatic origin.
but still Christian is the Armenian
which has 73 organizations in this
country. most OF them in the Eastern
| states, 20 in Massachusetts alone
Their communicates are generally
Armenians, many OF whom fed to
this country to escape persecution.
| The Eastern Orthodox churches, or
Greek church. hasl29606 communi-
cants This is the state church Of
Russia and Greece, OF the All
churches here SO represent the for.
mer nationality The Greeks have
1884 organizations throughout the
country, with New York, Illinois and
Massachusetts leading. The Greek
membership is 90,751. Twenty-Five
of the So Russian churches are In
Pennsylvania.
| The volume also will tell of the
various Christian sects which are
considered more purely American,and
VIII show the various branches there
| of. II will show that while there are
only 81 main branches, there are 215
church organizations, many Of them
protesting a faith only shade diff
ferent from others. For instance,
there are II Baptist bodies. "a Luth-
teran, - Methodist and 12Presbyter-
ian. The sameis true of less known
organizations. There are Is Men
monte, Adventists, bunker or