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

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 53, No. 15.

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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.