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Show 52,378,026 Church Members There were 52,378,026 adherents to "rganized religion" in the .United States last year according to the yearbook of American churches. Referringonly to persons thirteen years of age and older, the yearbook gives the following figures: Roman Catholics and 2,930,232 Jews. Uiare were 223,220') Protestant churces, 18,379' Roman Catholic churches and 4,150 synogjogues. In addition there were 714 Eastern Orthodox churches, 144 Polish National Catholic churches and 51 Armenian churches. Dr. Herman C. Weber, editor of the yearbook, estimates that contributions con-tributions from Protestant Catholic and Jewish bodies amounted to $729,000,000. Estimating the membership of the Protestant denominations, the year Liock, which was completed before the three brancnes of Methodists united gave the following figures: Southern Baptist 4,315,270; Northern North-ern Baptists, 1,408,501; the Methodist church for mery known as theMeth-odist theMeth-odist church North, 3,980,280 Southern South-ern Methodists, 2,495,100; thePresby-terian thePresby-terian church of the United State of America, 1,826.044; the Disciples of Christ, 1,484,337; Protestant Episcopal Epis-copal church 1,361,167; the National Nation-al Baptist Convention (Negro) 3,437,-930; 3,437,-930; the National Council of the Congregational and Christian churches, chur-ches, 1,033.079; the Christian Science church 202,098; United Lutheran church 1.140.962; Synodical Lutheran Luther-an conference, 1.024,774 and American Amer-ican Lutheran, 1,024.774. The Pyramid gives these religious statistics for wh:.t are worth. It might not be a bad idea, ho a ever, to. point o.'Jt that religion is not a matter of numbers. It is not nec-essariy nec-essariy the largest churoi in a nation, or a community, that is doing the most good. Regardless of thesize of the church to which an individual belongs, there is e bound-ant bound-ant opportunity for the man cr woxan involved to make effective the religion professed. The success wiohh. which this is done by the members of a given church is t.:e test oi 11.3 vUi.Ucis of the church toti,w ii.n. t:.e nii-uccr of adherents. |