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Gifts to Missions in 1906 From Some of the Principal Religious Bodies in the United States

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 17, 1908

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 85, No. 38.

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Gifts to Missions in 1906 From Some of the Principal Religious Bodies in the United States

“These figures are compiled from the latest statistics at hand, such as ‘Blue Book of Missions,’ and reports from missionary boards.”
Name Membership No. Missionaries Am’t Donated to Missions Am’t per Member Proportion of Missionaries
Baptists (North) 1,075,833 549 $ 883,166 $.83 1 to 1,960
Baptists (South) 1,862,720 181 324,009 .17 1 to 10,291
Christians (Disciples) 1,235,294 239 484,167 .39 1 to 5,168
Congregationalists 687,042 580 913,159 1.33 1 to 1,185
Free-will Baptists 86,322 25 1 to 3,453
Presbyterians (North) 1,087,973 889 1,171,867 1.08 1 to 1,224
Presbyterians (South) 246,769 206 266,317 1.08 1 to 1,198
Cumberland Presbyterians 185,786 38 173,488 .93 1 to 4,889
Lutherans (Gen. Synod) 228,436 35 137,208 .60 1 to 6,527
Lutherans (Gen. Council) 378,379 16 68,718 .18 1 to 23,649
Lutherans (South) 45,703 6 11,945 .26 1 to 7,617
Methodist Episcopal (North) 2,910,779 810 1,822,468 .63 1 to 3,594
Methodist Episcopal (South) 1,595,014 251 623,755 .39 1 to 6,355
Protestant Methodist 183,894 15 24,484 .13 1 to 12,260
Protestant Episcopal 817,845 163 729,374 .89 1 to 5,018
United Brethren 255,695 46 79,071 .31 1 to 5,559
Seventh-day Baptists 8,773 6 12,802 1.46 1 to 1,462
Seventh-day Adventists 57,784 746 310,401 5.37 1 to 77
Seventh-day Adventists (1907) 58,557 832 329,850 5.63 1 to 70
The foregoing table, with the exception of the last two lines concerning the Seventh-day Adventist denomination, is taken from the Signs of the Times, published in Mountain View, Cal., under date of Nov. 6, 1907. The following explanation regarding Seventh-day Adventists may be given: The membership shown in the first line is for the same time as that given for other denominations, and is for the United States only. The amount donated to foreign missions is the total gifts from the membership in the territory named, during 1906. The figures for 1907, with reference to the Seventh-day Adventists, being now available, are also inserted, to bring the items up to date. The number of missionaries includes all ministers and missionary laborers and secretaries outside the United States, but no other classes of any kind.