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Show the Greek or Prussian church. The Jewish Jew-ish congregations comprised 359,993 persons. CHURCH MEMBERSHIP IN UNITED STATES WASHINGTON. May 2. Church membership mem-bership in the United States increased from 35,OGS,or8 to 42, 0-14, .174 during the ten-year period which ended December 31, 1916, according to figures given out today to-day by the census bureau. The number of churches increased from 212.230 to 228,-007, 228,-007, ministers from 164. S30 to 191.722, Sunday Sun-day school scholars from 15,337,811 to 20,-669.831, 20,-669.831, Sunday schools from' 192,722 to 207.789, and Sunday school officers and teachers from 1,746,074 to 2,049,293. The total number of denominations covered by the statistics was 201, thirteen more than reported in 1906. Of the total membership. 25,691,774, or 61. 1 per cent, j comprised members of the Protestant denominations. de-nominations. Latter-day Saints, S"pir-ituaUstq S"pir-ituaUstq and various other small groups; L6, 742,262, or 37.4 per cent, were Roman Catholics, and 200,340 were members ol |