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weaker vibrations of the starlight, exactly as a stronger sound, say a cannon-shot, prevents us from hearing a smaller noise, say a mouse piping; or, as is well known, a larger disturbance in water extinguishes a smaller one. The smaller noise, the smaller sound waves, and the smaller light vibrations are not perceived by our senses when the greater impressions or disturbances occupy them. (Text.)

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SUNDAY-SCHOOL STATISTICS

From the United States "Bureau of Census" Bulletin 103 are taken the following statistics of Sunday-schools in the continental United States:

Of the 178,214 Sunday-schools conducted by church organizations, 165,128, or 92.7 per cent., are returned by the Protestant bodies; 11,172 or 6.3 per cent. by the Roman Catholic Church and 1,914, or 1.1 per cent., by the remaining bodies.

Among the Protestant bodies, the Methodist bodies rank first, with 57,464 Sunday-schools, or 32.2 per cent. of the total, and the Baptist bodies come next with 43,178 or 24.2 per cent of the total the two families together reporting considerably more than one-half the entire number of denominational Sunday-schools. If to these be added the Presbyterian bodies, with 14,452 Sunday-schools, the Lutheran bodies with 9,450, and the Disciples or Christians with 8,078, the 5 bodies combined report 132,622 Sunday-schools or nearly three-fourths (74.4 per cent.) of the entire number and more than four-fifths (80.3 per cent.) of all those reported by Protestant bodies.

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SUNDAY-SCHOOLS IN THE UNITED STATES

Denomination Key:

A: All denominations B: Protestant bodies C: Adventist bodies D: Baptist bodies E: Christians (Christian Connection) F: Church of Christ, Scientist G: Congregationalist H: Disciples or Christians I: Dunkers or German Bapt. Brethren. J: Evangelical bodies K: Friends L: German Evangelical Synod of N. A. M:  Independent churches N: Lutheran bodies O: Mennonite bodies P: Methodist bodies Q: Presbyterian bodies R: Protestant Episcopal Church S: Reformed bodies T: Unitarians U: United Brethren bodies V: Universalists W: Other Protestant bodies X: Roman Catholic Church Y: Jewish congregations Z: Latter-day Saints AA: Eastern Orthodox Churches BB: All other bodies

+-++-++-++  | ORGANIZATIONS || SUNDAY-SCHOOLS||  SUNDAY-SCHOOL  ||  SUNDAY-SCHOOL | REPORTING    ||    REPORTED   ||  OFFICERS AND   ||    SCHOLARS | SUNDAY-SCHOOLS||              ||    TEACHERS     || +-+-++-+-++-+-+++-  |       |Per ct.||       |Per ct.||         |Per ct.||          |Per ct.   | Number|  of   || Number|distri-||  Number |distri-||  Number  |distri- |      | total ||       | bution||         | bution||          | bution —-+-+-++-+-++-+-+++-  |       |       ||       |       ||         |       ||          | A  |167,574|  79.0 ||178,214| 100.0 ||1,648,664| 100.0 ||14,685,997| 100.0

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=+=======++=======+=======++=========+=======++==========+=======  |       |       ||       |       ||         |       ||          | B  |156,437|  80.0 ||165,128|  92.7 ||1,564,821|  94.9 ||13,018,434|  88.6 —-+-+-++-+-++-+-+++- C |  2,078|  81.5 ||  2,242|   1.3 ||   14,286|   0.9 ||    69,110|   0.5 D | 41,165|  75.0 || 43,178|  24.2 ||  323,473|  19.6 || 2,898,914|  19.7 E |  1,136|  82.4 ||  1,149|   0.6 ||   10,510|   0.6 ||    72,963|   0.5 F |    550|  86.2 ||    551|   0.3 ||    3,155|   0.2 ||    16,116|   0.1 G |  5,327|  93.2 ||  5,741|   3.2 ||   75,801|   4.6 ||   638,089|   4.3 |      |       ||       |       ||         |       ||          | H  |  7,901|  72.2 ||  8,078|   4.5 ||   70,476|   4.3 ||   634,504|   4.3 I |    866|  78.9 ||  1,223|   0.7 ||   10,789|   0.7 ||    78,575|   0.5 J |  2,454|  89.6 ||  2,549|   1.4 ||   32,113|   1.9 ||   214,998|   1.5 K |    846|  73.8 ||    887|   0.5 ||    7,735|   0.5 ||    53,761|   0.4 |      |       ||       |       ||         |       ||          | L  |  1,086|  90.1 ||  1,111|   0.6 ||   12,079|   0.7 ||   116,106|   0.8 M |    826|  76.6 ||    922|   0.5 ||    6,732|   0.4 ||    57,680|   0.4 N |  8,682|  68.3 ||  9,450|   5.3 ||   83,891|   5.1 ||   782,786|   5.3 O |    411|  68.0 ||    439|   0.2 ||    5,041|   0.3 ||    44,922|   0.3 |      |       ||       |       ||         |       ||          | P  | 55,227|  85.4 || 57,464|  32.2 ||  569,296|  34.5 || 4,472,930|  30.5 Q | 13,048|  84.1 || 14,452|   8.1 ||  176,647|  10.7 || 1,511,175|  10.3 R |  5,211|  76.1 ||  5,601|   3.1 ||   51,048|   3.1 ||   464,351|   3.2 S |  2,345|  90.7 ||  2,588|   1.5 ||   38,710|   2.3 ||   361,548|   2.5 |      |       ||       |       ||         |       ||          | T  |    358|  77.7 ||    364|   0.2 ||    3,592|   0.2 ||    24,005|   0.2 U |  3,777|  87.8 ||  3,870|   2.2 ||   42,169|   2.6 ||   301,320|   2.1 V |    596|  70.4 ||    600|   0.3 ||    6,585|   0.4 ||    42,201|   0.3 W |  2,547|  68.9 ||  2,669|   1.5 ||   20,693|   1.3 ||   162,380|   1.1 |      |       ||       |       ||         |       ||          | X  |  9,406|  75.4 || 11,172|   6.3 ||   62,470|   3.8 || 1,481,535|  10.1 Y |    561|  31.7 ||    600|   0.3 ||    2,239|   0.1 ||    49,514|   0.3 Z |  1,036|  87.5 ||  1,169|   0.7 ||   18,507|   1.1 ||   130,085|   0.9 AA |     7|   1.7 ||      7|   ||       10|   [1] ||       509|   [1] BB |   127|  16.6 ||    138|   0.1 ||      617|   [1] ||     5,920|   [1] —-+-+-++-+-++-+-+++- SUNS, THE SIZE OF

How large are some of our neighbor suns? Alpha Centauri, our nearest neighbor, with its double sun, gives twice as much light as