Conversions from Roman Catholicism

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 18, 1900

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 26, No. 16.

Conversions from Roman Catholicism

DURING the last three months we learn from the Evangelische Kirchenzeitung für Oesterreich, the official Protestant organ of Austria, through the Literary Digest, that in German Bohemia alone the number of converts from Roman Catholicism to Protestantism was 836,374 men, 246 women, and 216 children. Since the movement from Rome in this province there has been a total of 2,794 persons who have left the Roman Church, consisting of 1,404 men, 759 women, and 631 children. Most of these are in the cities, and enter the Lutheran Church. But it is safe to say that many of these, if not most of them, are not mere political changes from one form to another.