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Show Unless? there is a tremendous amount of backsliding:, in the few remaining months of the nineteenth century, its close will see the Christian religion professed by at least three times as I many people as its beginning. The figures In. the World Almanac are based upon estimates' made in 1892 based Upon the world's censuses of the two previous years. Another decade will bring the figures up to 500,-000.000, 500,-000.000, thus divided: Catholic churches 240.000.000 Protestant churches ..150.000,000 Orthodox Greek church 100,000,000 All others 10,000.000 Here are some marvels of the century's cen-tury's growth: The Roman Catholic Church in 'all Africa had Iosm than 20.000 converts in 1801. Now there are 2.000.000. In Eastern Asia there are 6,000,000 I Catholics. In the United States from about 100,000 to 10,000,000 a growth of one hunditd to one! |