Show GROWTH or OF THE comparing the ratio of increase of comm communicants un ic ants with that of the I 1 population of the country says a writer in the forum we find that the advantage is with the churches the percentage of increase in population for the decade ending in 1890 was 24 SO 80 supposing it to be half of this for the past five 3 bearg ears we have a population of which is manifestly an exah exaggeration aeration ge ration it is hardly possible that with the decreased tion lion of the first three or four years of the present decade the percentage of increase iner easo of the previous decade d 0 has been maintained bu but t conceding that it has and that the rate is 12 43 40 3 we find this is far below that of the churches their growth since 1890 has been at the rate of between 19 and 20 per cent this corresponds to the rate of increase which the leading denominations report reported for the decade ending in 1890 the rate for that period was 42 per cent against the 9 2486 per cent representing the net increase of the population it is clear from this that all the churches are gaining on tha population rapidly and steadily |