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Show FIGURES THAT TELL. At the beginning of the century, before be-fore the founding of the Society of the Propagation of the Faith, the Propaganda Propa-ganda numbered scarcely 5,000,000 Catholic Cath-olic under its jurisdiction. For the present century the number has risen to about 26,000,000. Generations of mis- sionaries have spent their lives in j bringing about this happy result. The "Propagation of the Faith" has col- ! lected and distributed towards that end ho less than' $53,669,367.29, during the course of seventy years (1822-1891). The receipts of. the Society, last year, were $1,338,311.49. Of this sum the Catholics in the United States contributed $53,-642.00. $53,-642.00. '.- |