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UNITED STATES

Religion.

Denominations

Organiza- tions re- porting. Number

Protestant bodies :

Adventist bodies

Baptist bodies

Christian (Christian Connection)

Church of Christ Scientists

Congrej;ati'inalists

Disciples or Christians

Evangelical bodies

Friends

German Evangelical Synod of North America.

Lutheran bodies

Mennonite bodies

Methodist bodies

Presbyterian bodies

Protestant Episcopal Church ....

Reformed bodies

United Brethren bodies

United Evangelicals

Roman Catholic Church. .

Jewish Congregations

Latter-day Saints

Eastern Orthodox Churches

1917

2,694

58,790

1,274

5,698

5,844

8,255

1,637

1,068

1,349

13,916

840

65,537

15,812

7,425

2,711

3, SSI

954

7,621

1,S97

1,531

202

Members or Communi- cants. Number

91,951

5,510,590

85,717

85,096

732,500

1,430,015

180,315

119,6(11

249,137

2,173,047

55,107

6,477,224

1,848,046

921,713

445,569

304,656

12,217,373 143,000 400,650 335.000

118,225

7,236.650

117, S53

319,211

790,163

1,231,404

120,756

114,714

342.7SS

2,463,265

79,591

7,105,986

2,257,439

1,098,173

533.356

367,620

90,007

15,742,262

359,998

462,332

24.034

Instruction.

Each State of the Union has a system of free public schools established by law. The work of these is largely supplemented by private and parochial schools. In 1880 the percentage ot illiterates in the population above ton years of age was 17 per cent, in 1890 13 "3 per cent, in 1900 107 per cent, in 1910 77 per cent. The following statistics are for 1910 :—


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ation

Population 10 years of age and over

—"

Total Population

Per cen total popu

Unable to Read and

Write Total

Number

Percent.

Native Whites Foreign Whites Coloured

68,386,422 13,345,206 10,240,638

74-4 14 5 11-1

50,989,343 1,535,530

12,944,215 1 1,650,519

7,646,712 { 2,331,559

3-0 12-8 30-5

Total.

91,972.260

—

71,580,270 J 5,517, 60s

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The United States Government has set aside for elementary schools in each of the newer States, from two to four ' sections ' (or square miles) it each town- ship six miles square, the proceeds from the sale of which form the chief part of the permanent school funds of those States, the income alone being used for the support of the schools. This iucome is supplemented by State and local taxation, so that it constitutes about 3'3 per cent, of the total school revenue of all the States. In 1918 the amount expended on public schools of elementary and secondary grades was 644,595,145 dollars. In 1918 the 554 universities and colleges, including the 330 co-educational colleges, the 125 colleges for men only, and the 100 colleges for women