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gationalists for many recent years adopting that as their eccle- siastical year. The chief statistical effect of this variety is that the twelve months reported are not exactly the same in all cases.

That the chief conclusion from the first table may be a little more clearly seen another table follows in which the figures for the revival years are preceded and followed by the average annual additions before and after the revival.

TABLE II Additions to Chitrches in the Revival Year and the Average Annual Addi- tions FOR Five Years Before and After that Year The small figures show the number of years where it is less than 5. A minus sign (— ) before a number denotes an annual average loss. The figures are for states but for New England Conference in case of Methodists.

State

New England. . . New Hampshire Vermont ,

New England. .

Connecticut. ...

Massachusetts. . ((

Maine •

New Hampshire Rhode Island. ..

New England. .

Maine

Connecticut. ...

Massachusetts. . it

New Hampshire Vermont

Connecticut. ...

Maine

Massachusetts. .

Denomination

Annual Aver- age before

Revival Year

Annual Average After

Revival Period

1832

Methodist

2,3263

5,297

1,336

Congregational

856

3,913

1,255*

Baptist

711'

1,597

612

Congregational

5,180

1,150

Methodist

1842

3. 1 59

( 10,100 ) \ 10,109 >

-918

Congregational

1,7743

3,188

612

Congregational

1,390

5,3236

1,310

Baptist

1,610

5,100

1,067

Baptist

1,682c

2,464

334

Baptist

660

2,525

66o4

Baptist

488 1858

1,244

308

Methodist

1,040

5,10s

-778

Baptist

2,445

484

Congregational

5,944

744

Baptist

1,194

4,207

1,075

Congregational

2,136

8,811

1,359

Baptist

260

686

154

Baptist

515'

1,483

413

Congregational

1877 1,565

3,331

i,646d

Baptist

1,273

609

Baptist

1,791

3,365

1,571

Congregational

3,271

5,698

2,067c

Episcopal

1,146

1,446

1,078

after.

a Two years' revival.

6 10,673 in s years before; 10,656 in s years including revival after.

e Three of these years had over a, 000 each.

d Revival continued giving 1,989 and 3,949 in ist and ad years after. 1070 in Maine (Bap.) ist year

e a,7S7 less in 1877-81 than in former 5 years.