CHURCH STATISTICS

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 10, 1879

CHURCH STATISTICS.

The following table showing the relative numerical strength and the wealth of the principal religious denominations in the United States, has been carefully compiled by the Inter-Ocean of Chicago, and was published in the daily edition of that sheet, dated April 5, 1879. Our brethren will do well to preserve it for future reference.

Denomination	Church organizations	Church edifices	Church sittings	Church property
Methodist	25,278	21,337	6,528,209	$69,854,121
Baptist (regular)	14,478	12,857	3,997,116	39,229,221
Baptist (other)	1,355	1,105	863,019	2,378,977
Presbyterian (reg’r)	6,262	5,683	2,198,900	47,828,782
Presbyterian (oth’r)	1,562	1,388	499,844	5,436,524
Roman Catholic	4,127	3,806	1,090,514	60,985,066
Congregational	2,887	2,715	1,117,212	25,069,698
Episcopal	2,830	2,601	991,051	36,514,549
Lutheran	3,092	2,776	977,832	14,917,747
Christian	3,518	2,892	885,602	6,426,187
Universalist	719	602	210,884	5,692,325

“It will be seen from the above that the Methodist Church is the strongest in point of numbers and in wealth; next in point of numbers, but not in wealth, come the Baptists, and third in point of numbers are the Presbyterians. The Catholic Church ranks second to the Methodist in point of wealth, and next to the Presbyterian in point of numbers.”

The statistics mentioned in our news column embrace all Christendom; the above is confined to the United States.