Creeds and Crime

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 24, 1866

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 27, No. 21.

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Creeds and Crime

Creeds and Crime.—The report of the Inspector General of prisons in Ireland for the last year has the following suggestive facts: Of the 32,870 prisoners, 1,094, or a little over three per cent., were Presbyterians; 3,312, or ten per cent., were of the Established church; 28,266, or eighty per cent., were Roman Catholics, and 198 not ascertained. Of the juvenile prisoners, 35 were Presbyterians, 116 of the Established church, and 1,179 Roman Catholics.