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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 18, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 51.

GROWTH OF MORMONISM.

ACCORDING to “Apostle” Clawson, as given in the Salt Lake Tribune of October 5, the present standing of the Mormon church is as follows:— “There are fifty-one stakes in the Mormon Church, fourteen foreign missions, 260,000 souls in the stakes of Zion, and 50,000 in the missions, a total of 310,000; 85,000 children under 8 years of age; the First Presidency and twelve apostles, 200 patriarchs, 6,800 high priests, 9,737 seventies, 20,000 elders, making a total of 36,744; 4,800 priests, 4,900 teachers 16,000 deacons, a total of 25,700, constituting the lesser priesthood, or a grand total of 62,444 bearing the priesthood of God. Connected with the auxiliary associations of the church are 30,150 members of the Relief Society, 10,000 officers and teachers in Sunday-schools and 15,000 children; 28,000 in the Y. M. M. I. A. and 25,000 in the Y. L. M. I. A.; 4,060 officers and 31,988 children in the primary association, about 20,000 belonging to the religious classes of the church, the total of those belonging to the auxiliary associations reaching 264,204. Of the 20,000 farms owned by Latter-day Saints, Apostle Clawson said that 18,000 are absolutely free from debt. He closed by telling of the increase in the Methodist, Congregational, and Presbyterian churches of the United States in 1897, which, out of a total membership of 4,000,000 amounted to 50,000. The Latter-day Saints, he said, in that year numbered a little over 250,000, and their increase was 20,000 souls.”