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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 24, 1910

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 87, No. 12.

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Note and Comment

Some Church Statistics

In connection with his statistical report of the churches of the United States, in the New York Christian Advocate, Dr. Carroll says, of the percentage of men and women in the churches:—
The proportion is not two women to one man, but for all religious bodies about 57 per cent to 43 per cent. . . . The Christian Science Church has the highest percentage of women, 72.4; other denominations having a high percentage of women are the Congregationalists, 65.9; the Seventh-day Adventists, 65.2; the Universalists, 64.6; the Protestant Episcopal Church, 64.5; and the Colored Primitive Baptists, 64.3.
In another set of statistics, Dr. Carroll gives the membership for 1909 of the larger bodies. In this list Adventists are thirteenth in rank. In the figures for 1890 we were fourteenth. The Roman Catholics increased from six million in 1890 to twelve million in 1909.