The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1920-01-30

The Bishop is alive and in his usual
state of health.
Churches Gain 100000 Souls.
Americas churches have gained
nearly 100000 members since the last
church census was taken in 1916. but
there has been a marked decrease in
the number of Sunday Schools and
| Sunday School pupils, according to
| "the yearbook of the churches" just
issued by the Federal Council of the
Churches in Christ in America
Total church membership has in
creased 3,779,667, the announcement
says, with an increase of 3,519 minis
ters, and $3.50 church organizations.
The total number of churches is now
233,S34. There are 1883 minister's,
priests and rabbis. with 44,7O9,521
members of their various organiza
tions. The decrease in Sunday School
membership is estimated at more than
3, 3,500,0O0.
Total Protestant church membership
is given at 25,9S0.456 and the Roman
Catholic figures as 17,549,324. 1t is
explained that Protestant figures in
clude only adult communicate members
"a
statistics represent the entire family.
Estimating four persons to a family,
the Protestant constituency would be
more than 50,OO0.000. the book says.
An estimate of members of Jewish
synagogues is 100000 and the two
Mormon bodies report membership of
I494, ,3SS.
The largest Protestant body report
| TN.xsz .N.l
Church with 4,175,502 members, and
the smallest the Primitive Friends
with fifty members and two ministers.
The Matter With" America.
What's the matter with America
these days?
Too many diamonds. not enough
alarm clocks.
Too many silk shirts. not enough
blue flannel ones.
Too many pointed-toed shoes. and
not enough square toed ones.
Too many serge suits and not enough
overalls.
Too many decollete and not enough
aprons
Too many satin upholstered limou
sines and not enough cows.
Too many consumers and not enough
producers.
Too much oil stock and not enough
savings accounts.
Too much envy of the results of
hard work and too little desire to
emulate it.
Too many desiring short cuts to
wealth and too few willing to pay the
price.
Too much of the spirit of get while
the getting is good" and not enough of
the old-fashloned Christianity.
Too much discomfort that vents it
self in mere complaining and too little
real effort to remedy conditions.
Too much class consciousness and
too little common democracy and love
Of humanity. Fargo Is. ID Forum.
The tongue is the most industrious
member of the human body, and it is
altruistic only to the extent that II
often finds its sweetest exercise in
talking about the "other man, You
have become the victim of some ones
tongue. AS YOU muse, the fire burns
You will have nothing further to do
with him. You will not speak to him
or, If you speak. you will do so with
I
frigid restraint, 0 brother, do not
carry out those bad resolutions. Go to
the one who has wounded you. He may
be able to prove that the wagging ton
que has misrepresented him. If this
be not the case, he may have an op-
portunity of telling you he Is sorry and
desires your forgiveness. Can you not
see that after this you will be stronger
friend than ever and life for both will
be sweeter
Biggest Sunday School in the World.
The First Baptist Church. of Fort
Worth, Texas, is said to have the
largest Sabbath school in the world
1t has an enrolment of forty-four hun
dred There are two hundred and fifty
officers and teachers, all of whom have
graduated from teachers training
classes; and mot one of them dances,
plays cards. or breaks the Sabbath"
There are eleven paid workers. A Sab
bath school building one hundred feet
land four stories high accommodates
the school. Almost the entire school
remains for public Service United
Presbyterian.