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 —Proportion of the population reported as Protestant, Roman Catholic, and "all other" church-members, and proportion not reported as church-members, for continental United States: 1890 and 1906.

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+-+-                                 |               |   Rank in       DENOMINATION               |   Number of   |  number of                                  | organizations | organizations +-+- Methodist bodies                 |    64,701     |       1 Baptist bodies                   |    54,880     |       2 Presbyterian bodies              |    15,506     |       3 Lutheran bodies                  |    12,703     |       4 Roman Catholic Church            |    12,482     |       5 Disciples or Christians          |    10,942     |       6 Protestant Episcopal Church      |     6,845     |       7 Congregationalists               |     5,713     |       8 United Brethren bodies           |     4,304     |       9 Evangelical bodies               |     2,738     |      10 Reformed bodies                  |     2,585     |      11 Adventist bodies                 |     2,551     |      12 Jewish congregations             |     1,769     |      13 Christians (Christian Connection) |    1,379     |      14 German Evangelical Synod of      |               | North America                  |     1,205     |      15 Latter-day Saints                |     1,184     |      16 Friends                          |     1,147     |      17 Dunkers or German Baptist        |               | Brethren                       |     1,097     |      18 +-+-

CHURCH, THE

Harriet McEwen Kimball puts into verse a hopeful view of the triumph of the Church:

Be patient! bide His time who will not tarry; A thousand years He measures as a day. All human plans, since human, may mis-carry; His, never; keep His counsel, watch and pray. Put up thy sword, He saith; Be faithful unto death.

Since the first saints embraced His cross, and dying No earthly triumph saw, yet were content, On His dear Presence, tho unseen, relying, His holy Church has walked the way He went; Afflicted, destitute, And sore from head to foot.

Thou yet shalt see her, all her trials ended, Robed as in garments woven white of flame, When He "by thousand thousand saints attended," Their lifted foreheads burning with His name, Shall come to claim the rest Who wait His advent blest.

She will be glorious; neither spot nor wrinkle To mar the beauty of her holiness, And all the nations which His blood shall sprinkle The bride and bridegroom shall alike confess; Forever one the twain; Forevermore their reign! (Text.)

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