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Show Church of Christ Scientist. S2.. rr cent, Tho report shows :i crowth of nil communicants, loth In tbo cltl.-B ' aittl country ulnro isoo. in the live lad-Ing lad-Ing cities, the proportion of communicants communi-cants to population follows; New York, 11.7 per cent. Chicago, 40.7, Philadelphia, 3s. S per cent. Ho.(on, f.2.0. , 8t. Louis, 4C.I?. RELIGIOUS CENSUS 1S32, 936,445 Washington, May 31 The aggregate aggre-gate number of communicants or members mem-bers of all religious denominations In continental United Slates for lOOfi, was ;'2.Wi,-HS. according to the United Unit-ed 3iatH census of religious bodies, u part of the census bureau's special report now In press. Of this grand total tho various ProteHtant bodies re. ported 2.I.2R7.742, and the Roman Catholic Cath-olic church l2.fi79.H2. . Of the Protestant communicants, according ac-cording io the report, sn.r, por cent were outside the principal citios of tho tountry. Pf ("ft holies. 27 f per cent were in the cities or the f1rl-class, f1rl-class, I hose having a population of more than "00,000, while 17.5 per cent were outside the cltes of the, Hrst, second, third or fourth clashes, 'the last class being cities of 2.1,000 (o 50.000. Protestants In tho first-"class first-"class cities aggregated 7 per cent. Of the Protestants, the Protestant Episcopal church reported a majority I of the communicants In the prlncl- ' Ial cities, 51,2 per ceut, as did (ho |