Sad Statistics

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · May 30, 1895

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 21, No. 21.

Sad Statistics.—From carefully prepared statistics it is found that there are in this country 22,447,000 children of a school age. Of these 12,728,960 do not attend any Sunday school. In a comparative estimate of the growth of the churches in the United States with the growth of cities, taking as a basis about fifty of the largest centers of population, it has been shown that since 1850 the churches have fallen behind thirty-seven and one-half per cent. This certainly is not a favorable showing towards the bettered condition of the world, nor towards its conversion.