Show SLOW SIO OK OP Of H Tho The growth groth of at religious denominations lions Ions In this country IB Is n a much ills subject The Is l whether er Cr sr the tOne InCrease e In III membership has kept pace JC with the increase of or population Tine The statistics statistic tle of or Dr one of tho the managers of It the tOne conference con i show that very tow fuw rUI church thins have during tine llio past t toni tell years grown as fast as nH the population and those lines increased In proportion to the population ns liS n a rule have donG done donam m so o through accessions lon by Immigration That Is largely largel the ease case cas with Roman Catholics and Lutherans The three tIc Protestant bodies the tho MethodIsts hap tl t and have not riot quIts lulls kept up iii with the tho growth In population except In III the colored branches ot of tune denomination South Time The St aloba from which theao data are arc gathered makes make n a note nola of the tine Increase In membership of or the Church of tit Jesus Christ of Saints during the yours year covered by tho the statistics The rue Hays nays After Atler nil all the assault upon I by the tho pre and the tho pulpit I of or America during recent years yearns not tu to mention hostile legislation the tho Mor Mormons mons according tu to the of or the Independent have hit ve Increased from HI In HOO mo to III In 1000 or over lOt IO per cant cont This Is III morn mom titan four tour time times tint tho ratio of or Increase shown by the thiis thea vernie a denomination Tine The paper quoted further makes those remarks rum rk by the tha slight Increase In inn church membership At t this thin rate of ot f growth the prospect pro of at tho tine church conquering the world does dOos not appear bright Tine The grand to total lal tal of or all till denominations In lii the tho ho census ot or 1600 1100 l 90 was O or about Imo fine third bird of tho the population ot it the 1890 1800 cen ecu census Ills sus With HU slight a n growth In church membership during tho the decade just llo closed ed tine the problem of or tine the church con coin the tine world appears as ns remote of or I solution as ns ever Until some gome 9 Is U I mado b by the tine church In securing the tho no co cooperation operation of ot the labor labo population ot of the tile country auntry the conquest of ot humanity by bythe bytho the tho church will continue problematical AH Ao H the New Nr York Times there therea Is 19 a room for tor a 1 grand religious hustle |