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Show CHAP. IX. THE MORMON ELEMENT.-STATISTICS. 363 dans lequel git le Chr&iente" de nos jours"-the splitting of the Church into three grand divisions, Eoman, Greek, and Eastern, the convulsion of the Northern mind, which created Protestantism, and the minute subdivision of the latter into Episcopalians and Presbyterians, Lutherans and Calvinists, Quakers and Shakers, the multiform Methodists and various Baptists, and, to quote no farther varieties des eglises, the Congregationalists, Unitarians, and Universalists - a rationalistic race finds reason to inquire, " What is Christianity?" and holds itself prepared for a new faith, a regeneration of human thought - in fact, a religious and social change, such as the Beformation of the sixteenth century represented and fondly believed itself to be.* 3. Mormonism boasts of few Eoman Catholic or Greek converts ; the French and Italians are rare, and there is a remarkable deficiency of Germans and Irish - those wretched races without nationality or loyalty-which have overrun the Eastern American States. It is, then, to Protestantism that we must look for the origin of the New Faith. 4. In 1800-1804, and in 1820, a mighty Wesleyan "revival," which in Methodism represents the missions and retreats of Catholicism, had disturbed and excited the public mind in America, especially in Kentucky and Tennessee. The founder of Mormonism, Mr. Joseph Smith, his present successor, and his principal disciples and followers, were Campbellites, Millerites, Eanters, or other Methodists. Wesleyan sectarianism, like the old Arab pagan- Religious Denominations in the United States, according to the Census of 1861. (From the "American Almanac" of 1861.) Denominations. Baptist Christian Congregational.... Dutch Reformed.. Episcopal Free Friends German Reformed Jewish Lutheran Mennonite Methodist Moravian Presbyterian Roman Catholic... Swedenborgian.... Tunker Union Unitarian Universalist Minor sects Total 8,791 812 1,674 324 1,422 361 714 327 31 1,203 110 12,487 331 4,584 1,112 IS 52 619 243 494 325 36,011 -Aggregate Accommodation. 3,130,878 296,050 795,177 181,986 625,213 108,605 282,823 156,932 16,575 531,100 29,900 4,209,333 112,185 2,040,316 620,950 5,070 35,075 213,552 137,367 205,462 115,3.47 13,849,896 tfSri 2 S 2 5j-a 356 365 475 561 440 300 396 479 534 441 272 337 338 445 558 338 674 345 565 415 354 384 Total Value of Church. Property. |10,931,382 845,810 7,973,962 4,096,730 11,261,970 251,255 1,709,867 965,880 371,600 2,867,886 94,245 14,636,671 443,347 14,369,889 8,973,838 108,100 46,025 690,065 3,268,122 1,766,015 741,980 $86,416,639 $1,244 1,041 4,763 12,644 7,919 698 2,395 2,953 11,987 2,383 856 1,174 1,339 3,135 8,069 7,206 885 1,114 13,449 3,576 2,283 $2,400 |