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the revival year and 123 in the next year. Two or three similar instances were found in other states.

2. The depression following a revival seems to continue from four to six years. The common length of it may be put at five years, that is, to the lowest point, the full recuperation coming later still. This varies with circumstances. An intense revival with large additions is often followed by a prolonged period with very small gains. But that this is not necessarily due to a lack of material appears from the facts just stated re- garding the recurrence of revivals in small communities.

3!. As to the measure of this loss as compared with the gains of the revival years. Table III gives striking results. In the first period with seven groups of Baptists and Congregationalists the 105 churches in the five years following their revival year added all told by baptism and on confession 57 per cent, as many as they did in the one revival year, the groups rang- ing from 39 to 73 per cent. The footnotes explain the two high percentages, as due to continued or renewed revivals. In the revival of 1843 the total additions in the y^i churches in five groups in the five years after the revival were only 20.5 per cent, of those in the single revival year. The highest per- centage is 28 for the 24 Congregational churches of Massa- chusetts and the lowest is 3.9 per cent, for 13 Baptist churches in Maine. In the third period, the revival of 1858, the total additions of the 117 churches in it for the five years after the revival were 64 per cent, of those of the revival year. But here the Methodists are exceptional. In the case of one group of 19 of their churches in the cities of eastern Massachusetts the gain in five years was nearly double that of the revival year, while in another of 19 churches in Connecticut it was nearly equal. Taking out these 38 Methodist churches the remaining 79 Baptist and Congregational churches had 34.5 per cent, as many in the five years as they had in the year of revival. The four groups in the revival of 1877 show together 51 per cent, as many additions in the five years after the revival as they had in the revival year alone. And the average for all the 337 churches in the four periods taken together, with no allow-