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Show Where Women Excel. - The census bureau would seem to have suddenly developed into a press bureau, so frequent, and so regular, and, let us add, so interesting and instructive in-structive are the reports' it has been sending out lately. Its latest bulletin deals with the statistics of the 'religious bodies of the United States. We have about 33,000,000 who are professed church members, besides, of course, many who have not forsworn religion although they belong to no church. Of church members 61.6 per cent are Protestants, Prot-estants, and 36.7 Roman Catholics which would make a total of 11,111,000. This does not include children who have not yet made their communion, so that to this figure should be added about ivmj aim one-nan or tnree million more. Women excel in church membership being 56. per cent of the church members, mem-bers, whereas men are only 43.1 per cent. In the Catholic church they are only slightly over 1 per cent more numerous nu-merous than men. Even there also they are in the lead. Woman, therefore, excels in the very best of things,' religion. Her nature is more refined than that of men; she is regarded as having an intuitive appreciation appre-ciation of moral values; she has a keen Fcnse of responsibility and an earnewt solicitude for whatever concerns the welfare of the' race. She is the mnthor fashioned to impress on her offspring the finer qualities of her own soul and body; she is ordained bv the Creator to keep and transmit the image and likeness of God in the human creature She is the bond with the Maker and Lord of all things, and in this bond or bondage religion consists. Her beauty tenderness. -sympathy, all reflect the Divine attributes which most attract us to the Father Almighty. io motner. no true woman, can be an atheist. Life has .meanings and purposes pur-poses for her which men scarcely divine. di-vine. It is easy' to call her. the weaker sex and to attribute her religious propensities pro-pensities to her .emotional nature and liking for ceremony and whatever appeals, ap-peals, to the eye or to the'imagination. Men are emotional by nature; but their emotions are not usually as pure and elevated as woman's. Men like ceremonial-witness the. Masons, the Odd Flows. the Elks, and hundreds of other societies for men. which use ceremonial cere-monial without fail as a bait for members mem-bers The only difference between emT,- tZ r mVu Hnd pniotil woman is that for the most part man's emotions maenSe,VflSll woman's unselfish; the man thinks too much of the man worship aught else: the wnmTl so ttle of self that her worship neces sarily goes out to the. only obieet worthy of It. Women excel n.en JJ! hglon because they were made bv the m ,Shae in his reat woVk of making and of saving, and of elevating men, "America." aung o . |