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26, the total objective being nearly $400,000,000. In most cases, for various reasons, the completion of the financial campaigns was delayed, but large sums were secured by all the denominations and the work was correspondingly strengthened.

In continuing the attention of the churches to evangelism (in the larger sense of enlisting individuals in the programme of Chris- tianity) a variety of methods has been employed. The earlier years of the decade saw the development of spectacular mass meet- ings led by a professional evangelist, this method reaching its culmination just before the war. In the latter part of the decade, however, more attention has been given to the work of the pastors themselves. City-wide campaigns, in which all or most of the churches cooperate, with services conducted by them separately but accord-

ing to a uniform plan, became common. Many denominations have departments and secretaries of evangelism, who cooperate with the Commission on Evangelism of the Federal Council in developing interest and organizing the work.

Education. Religious education advanced conspicuously during the decade. In 1910 the Sunday-School Council of Evangelical De- nominations was formed, representing the official Sunday-school agencies of the Protestant churches; in 1912 the World's Sunday- School Association added to its executive committee the official representatives of the church boards; in 1914 the International Sunday-School Lessons-Committee took similar action; and in 1920 plans were made to amalgamate the International Sunday-School Association and the Sunday- School Council. The significance of

<!-- STATISTICS OF CHRISTIAN CHURCHES IN THE UNITED STATES 1920 As given by Year Book of the Churches for 1920.

Name.

Church Congrega- tions Ministers. Members. Sunday Schools Sunday- school Members Total Expenditiures


 * Adventists||2,772||1,526||123,143||3,177||113,629||$ 2,505,786
 * Apostolic Christian Church||52||73||5,000||40||3,315||29,893
 * Apostolic Faith Movement||24||26||2,196||16||769||38,380
 * Assemblies of God||1,000||937||6,703||81||4,839||61,941
 * Baptists||61,992||46,086||7,598,280||48,750||4,305,170||44,460,716
 * Brethren||1,262||3,767||122,932||1,304||119,706||917,461
 * Catholic Apostolic Chs.||13||13||2,768||4||192||29,740
 * Christadelphians||13||2,922||79||3,101||16,340
 * Christ, and Miss. Alliance||166||114||9,625||161||11,077||232,029
 * Chris. Ch., Amer. Chris. Convention
 * 1,204||1,037||105,310||963||76,055||644,044
 * Chris. Congregation.
 * 15||28||3,000||15||1,650||20,000
 * Chris. Union
 * 220||211||13,692||173||13,061||47,079
 * Ch. of Christ, Scientist
 * 1,589||..||..||..||..||...
 * Church of God||429||490||12,012||232||7,796||5,931
 * Ch. of God and Saints of Christ
 * 94||101||3,311||57||1,783||18,674
 * Ch. of Nazarene||999||844||35,041||990||50,397||239,986
 * Churches of Christ
 * 5,570||2,507||37,937||3,441||183,022||679,091
 * Churches of God in N.A., General Eldership||458||419||25,847||413||37,952||37,828
 * Church of the Living God||184||450||14,050||88||1,925||20,012
 * Church of the New Jerusalem
 * 116||134||7,252||81||4,488||189,129
 * Congregationalists||6,019||5,722||808,122||5,804||709,859||11,608,650
 * Disciples of Christ||8,912||6,031||1,193423||8,643||961,723||10,413,823
 * Eastern Orthodox Churches
 * 393||368||303,844||169||10,019||886,857
 * Evangelical Association
 * 1,729||1,327||159,310||1,700||222,793||7,506,769
 * Evang. Prot. Ch. of N.A.
 * 37||34||17,962||38||8,792||197,194
 * Evang. Synod of N.A.
 * 1,385||1,131||352,644||1,301||141,015||1,443,272
 * Free Chris. Zion Ch. of Christ
 * 35||29||6,225||35||3,699||19,154
 * Friends
 * 861||699||107,422||754||56,615||825,337
 * Internat'l Holiness Ch.
 * 325||640||11,000||152||8,975||73,639
 * Lithuanian Nat. Cath. Ch.
 * 7||3||7,343||1||142||17,374
 * Lutherans
 * 15,638||9,731||2,451,997||7,429||955,336||24,587,529
 * Mennonites
 * 887||1,488||82,722||706||42,236||456,193
 * Methodists . . . . _.
 * Disciples of Christ||8,912||6,031||1,193423||8,643||961,723||10,413,823
 * Eastern Orthodox Churches
 * 393||368||303,844||169||10,019||886,857
 * Evangelical Association
 * 1,729||1,327||159,310||1,700||222,793||7,506,769
 * Evang. Prot. Ch. of N.A.
 * 37||34||17,962||38||8,792||197,194
 * Evang. Synod of N.A.
 * 1,385||1,131||352,644||1,301||141,015||1,443,272
 * Free Chris. Zion Ch. of Christ
 * 35||29||6,225||35||3,699||19,154
 * Friends
 * 861||699||107,422||754||56,615||825,337
 * Internat'l Holiness Ch.
 * 325||640||11,000||152||8,975||73,639
 * Lithuanian Nat. Cath. Ch.
 * 7||3||7,343||1||142||17,374
 * Lutherans
 * 15,638||9,731||2,451,997||7,429||955,336||24,587,529
 * Mennonites
 * 887||1,488||82,722||706||42,236||456,193
 * Methodists . . . . _.
 * Lithuanian Nat. Cath. Ch.
 * 7||3||7,343||1||142||17,374
 * Lutherans
 * 15,638||9,731||2,451,997||7,429||955,336||24,587,529
 * Mennonites
 * 887||1,488||82,722||706||42,236||456,193
 * Methodists . . . . _.
 * Mennonites
 * 887||1,488||82,722||706||42,236||456,193
 * Methodists . . . . _.
 * Methodists . . . . _.

67,493

46,364

7,867,863

69,078

7,287,381

69,114,296

Missionary Ch. Association

25

59

1,554

29

3,343

37,930

Moravians

136

183

28,402

135

17-435

317-879

Non-Sectarian Chs. of Bible

Faith

58

26

2,273

12

571

1,263

Old Catholic Churches

9

19

34,025

6

840

21,700

Pentecostal Holiness Ch. .

192

282

5,353

143

8,143

50,600

Plymouth Brethren

470

13-717

261

12,813

185,954

Polish National Cath. Ch. .

34

45

28,245

27

2,967

149,839

Presbyterians ....

16,066

14,623

2,243,678

14-627

1,847,945

36,536,465

Protestant Episcopal Ch. .

8,103

5,677

1,065,825

5-790

435,76i

22,509,942

Reformed Episcopal Ch.

65

65

1 1 ,806

60

7,750

132,079

Reformed

2,779

2,236

535,040

2,758

484,548

7,042,538

River Brethren ....

112

248

5-389 '

71

6, 1 80

34,752

Roman Catholic Ch. .

16,580 '

2I.643 1

17,885,646

12,800

1,932,206

72,358,136

Salvation Army ....

957

2,918

28,586

720

46,823

I,722,I2O

Scandinavian Free Ch.

458

506

37,8i6

453

47-347

722,535

Schwenkfelders ....

4

6

1,150

6

1,961

7,889

Unitarians

477

55

82,515

346

23,160

1,485-550

United Brethren ....

3,907

2,810

367,087

3,599

478,119

4,716,157

United Evangelical Chs.

949

535

88,847

955

121,391

729,945

Universalist Chs.

650

56i

58,566

467

58,442

1,069,075

Volunteers of America

97

307

10,204

26

1,611

232,010

Fourteen churches having less

than 1 ,000 members

177

434

5,593

1 08

4,459

222,258

Totals for 68 denominations.

234,330

186,018

44,322,215

199,274

20,892,327

$327,615,3^5

1 As given by Official Catholic Directory.

1 The Roman Catholic Church includes in its membership, as already stated, all who have been baptized that is, practically all the members of Roman Catholic families. Protestant churches, on the other hand, reckon as members communicants only, with the exception of a few denominations, e.g. Lutherans, who publish figures for both communicant members and baptized members. The statistics given for Protestants in this table, as elsewhere in this article, are for communicant members only. -->