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both tn currency and In gold, the price as made from New York City, both In currency and gold; the report of the Journal of Political Economy; the report of the British Wheat Report and the Chicago Board of Trade report. The prices from those various sources in 1864 for example per bushel were *1.32; 1:83, $1.94, the latter in gold 96 cents; $2 the latter in gold 95 cents and $1.25 per bushel on the Board of Trade in Chicago. In 1890 the statistical abstract showed the price of wheat to be 83 cents, while the price in Chicago was 85 cents. The same au-. thority in 1894 gave the price at 67 cents, while it sold on the Board of Trade in Chicago at 50.This ended the debate for Saturday and after the questions and answers submitted to both debaters, adjournment was taken for the final contest Monday, which began at one o’clock and closed at six. [continued next week.]RELICIOUS_MATTERS(Compiled for the Globe- Democrat.)The Temple Society has 340 members.The Old (Wlsler) Mennonites number 610.The Primitive Methodists have 4,764 members.The Mennonite Brethren in Christ number 1,113.The Zion Union Apostolic Methodists number 2,346.The Amish Mennonites have a following of 10,101.The Original Freewill Baptists are 11,-864 in number.The Brethren of Dunkards (Progressive) number 8,089.The Old Catholics have 665 members in foul1' societies.The Apostolic Mennonites claim a following of 209.The Independent Methodists claim a membership of 2,569.The General Baptists claim a membership of 21,362.The Armenian church has six societies, with 335 members.The Plymouth Brethren have a membership of about 26,471.The United Baptists have 163 societies and a membership of 9,361.The Evangelist Missionary Methodists have 951 communicants.’The Orthodox Friends, or Quakers, have a membership of 80,655.The Congregational Methodists have 214 societies and 8,765 members.The Hicksite Quakers claim a membership of 21,992 in 201 societies.The Congregational Methodists (colored) number 319 coqjunicants.The Seventh Day Adventists have a following of 28,991 members.The Christian Connection has 1,281 organizations and 90,718 members.The Wilburite Quakers, or Friends, number 4,329 and have 52 societies.The Russian Orthodox Church has in the United States 13,504 members.The United Zion's Children have twenty-five societies and 525 members.The Weslyan Methodists have 565 societies and a membership of 16,492.The Free Methodist bodies have 1,102 societies and 22,113 communicants.The United Presbyterian Church has 866 organizations and 94,402 members.The Old Amish Mennonites have twenty-two societies and 2,038 members.The African Union Methodist Protestant church has a membership of 3,415.The General Six-Principle Baptists claim eighteen societies and 937 members.The Associate Reformed Presbyterian Chufcli South claims 8,501 members.The Defenseless Mennonites have nine societies and a membership of 856.The United Brethren in Christ of the Old Constitution have 22,807 members.The Reformed Mennonites number l,655,with twenty-nine church buildings.The Menonites have 17,078 members and 197 churches, valued at |317,045.The Separate Baptists have 1,599 members and church property valued at $9,-200.The Methodist Protestant Church has 141,989 members and meets in 1,924 churches.The Bruderhoef Mennonite Church claims five societies, with 352 members.The Society of Shakers has a membership of 1,728 and owns property valued at $36,800.The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Mormon, claims 425 societies.The New Congregational Methodists have twenty-four societies and a membership of 1.059.The Evangelical Association claims 133,-313 members associated together in 2,310 societies.The General Conference Mennonites claim an adherence of 5,670 and forty-five societies.The Union American Methoidst Episcopal Church claims forty-two societies and 2,279 members.The Regular Colored Baptists number 1,362,140 and have church property valued at $9,175,587.The Primitive Quakers number 232 in nine societies, worshiping in five meeting houses and four halls.The Synodical Conference of Lutherans in the United States has a membership numbering 357,153.The Bundes Conference (for Mennonitsn Erueder-Geminde have 1.388 members and 11 churches.The Schwenkfeldians have four societies and 300 members. They own six churches, valued at $12,200.The African Methodist Episcopal Church has 452,725 members and $6,468,-280 worth of church property.The Ethical Culturists have 1,064 members and four societies. They worship in five halls, seating 6,260 people.The Reformed Presbyterian (Synod) has 10,574 members and owns church property valued at $1,071,400.TTie Plymouth Brethren in the United States number 2.279. They have 108 halls, seating 7,432 persons.The Adoni Shomo has one organization and twenty members. Their place of worship is valued at $6,000.The Seventh-Day Baptists have 106 societies and 9.123 members, with church property valued at $264,010.The Zion African Methodist Church has 1.704 societies,.349.788 members and $2,-714,128 worth of church property.The German Seventh-Day Baptists have six societies and 194 members. They claim three churches and one hall.The Church of God has 479 organizations and 22,511 members. It claims 338 church buildings, valued at $643,185.The Cumberland Presbyterian Church claims a membership of 164,940. and has church property valued at $3,515,511.The Colored Methodist Episcopal Church has a working force of 129,383. They own church property valued at $1,-713,366.The Universalists claim 956 societies, 832 churches and a membership of 49.194. Their church property is valued at $8,054,-333.The Reformed Presbyterian (General Synod) has thirty-three societies, 4,602 members and $469,000 worth of church property.The Independent Churches of Christ in Christian Union number 294 organizations with 183 churches and 18,214 members.The United Brethren in Christ number 202,474, and own property valued at $4,-292,643. They have 2,836 churches and 780 halls.The Disciples of Christ claim 7,246 organizations, with a membership of 641,-051. Their churches number 5,324, valued at $12,206,038.The Christian Church, South, has a I membership of 13,004, divided into 143 societies and owning 135 churches, valueil at $137,000.The Evangelical Adventists have a membership of 1,147. They claim 22 churches, and have church property val- ■ ued at $61,400.The Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ ! of Latter-Day Saints claims 21,773 mem- 1 bers and owns 122 churches, valued at 1 $226,285. iThe Reformed Presbyterian Church in the United States and Canada has one ■ society, one church, valued at $75,000, and ] COO members.The Brethren or Drunkards (Conservative) number'61,101. They claim 720 societies, worshiping in 854 churches and 180 halls, having a joint seating capacity i of about 368,000, and their church property is valued at $1,121,541.The Reformed Catholics claim eight societies, with 1.000 members. They *vor- i ship ih eight halls, with a seating capacity of 3,600.The Christian Scientists claim a mem-beship of 8,724. They own seven churches and 213 halls, and claim church i property valued at $40,666.The Life and Advent Union, a religious denomination, has 28 societies and a ' membership of 1,018. They worship in i seven churches valued at $16,790. iThe Orthodox Jewish congregations in this country number 316. They have 122 synagogues and also use 193 halls. They claim a membership of 57,597. !The Reformed Jewish congregations in the United States number 217. They owst 179 churches and use 38 halls. Their membership is set down at 72,899.The German Evangelical Synod of North America has 870 societies, with a 1 membership of 187,432. This denomina- ] tion owns 785 churches, valued at $4,-614,690.The Spiritualistic societies of this country number 334 . They own 30 churches and in addition use 307 halls for their services. They claim a membership of 45,030.The Congregationalists of this country number 512,771. They have 4,736 1 churches and 456 halls. The value of '■ their church property is estimated at $4,-335,437. ,The Greek Orthodox church is one of i the smallest organizations in this country, i claiming but one organization, with 100 members. They have a church valued at i $5,000. jThe German Evangelical Protestant church of North America has a member- , ship of 36,156, divided into fifty-two so- ( cieties, and owning fifty-two churches, valued at $1,187,450.The Moravians in this country number 11,781. They'have 114 churches and four halls, occupied by ninety-four societies. The value of their church property is estimated at $681,250.The Greek Catholic (Uniates) Church : in the United States is larger than might; , be supposed, having fourteen organizations and 10,850 members. They own thirteen churches, the value of which is $63,300.There are seventeen different branches of Methodism in this country, each having a distinctive name, its pwn church prop-i erty, its own organization, its own places of worship, and its own body of membership.One of the smallest denominations in this country reported to the enumerators of the eleventh census is the Reformed Presbyterian (Covenanter). It has four societies, one church, three halls and thirty-seven members.. The Methodist Episcopal Church south claims 15,017 societies, with a membership ( of 1,209,976. This denomination owns 12,688 churches, seating 3,359,466 persons. The value of the church property is stated to be $18,775,362.The Catholic Apostolic Church, a dissenting body, has ten organizations in this cpuntry, with three churches and seven halls, all having a joint capacity of 1,100 and a value of $66,050. The membership numbers 1,394.The Regular Baptists, North, have 7,-902 organizations and a membership of 800,025. They worship in 7,066 churches, seating 2,180,658 people, and in 1,165 halls, seating 49.524,504. Their church property is valued at $49,524,504.The Regular Baptists, South, claim a membership of 1,176,491, and own church property valued at $18,152,599; their societies occupy 13.472 churches, seating 4,840,657 people. They occupy 2,639 halls, with seating capacity of 325,865.The Protestant Episcopal church in this country has 5,019 societies, with 532,054 members. They own 5,019 churches,, seating 1,336,952 people, and rent 312 halls, with a seating capacity of 28,007. The value of their church property is $81,066,317.The Advent Christian Church has 580 societies, which own 294 churches, seating 80,286 persons. In addition to this number they worship in 281 halls, with a seating capacity of 34,705. They have 25.816 members, and own property valued at $465,605.The Unitarians in this countrv have 421 societies; they meet in 424 churches and 55 halls, the former having a seating capacity of 165,090 and the latter of 10.-370. The Unitarian membership is given at 67,749, and the value of their church property is $10,335,100.The Saltation Army in this country had, at the last census, 329 organizations. They own 27 churches, having a seating capacity of 12,055, and worship in 300 halls, seating 86,801 persons. Their membership is 8,662, and the value of their church property is $37,350.The Roman Catholic Church in the United States claims a membership of 6.250,045, and owns property valued at $118,381,516. This denomination holds 8,765 church buildings, seating 3,366,633, and, in addition, worships in 1,469 halls and other places, having a seating capacity of 69.159.The Church of the New Jerusalem has 154 organizations, which worship in 87 churches and 70 halls. The seating capacity of their places of worship is collectively 27,000, the value of their church property is $1,386,455, and the number of their comunicant3 is 7,005.The Presbyterian Church in the United, States of America has a membership of ,788,224. This denomination claims 6.- :717 organizations, and worships in 6,663 churches, seating 2,225,044 people. It also utilizes 556 halls, seating 57.805 people. The value of ithe church property is $74,455,200.The “Presbyterian Church in the Uni- 1 ted States” claims a membership of 179.- 1721. and holds church property valued at i $8,812,152. The number of societies in this denomination is 2,391, which hold services in 2,288 churches, seating 690,- 1843 people, and occupies also 143 halls, I with a seating capacity of 18,895. (The Methodist Episcopal Church, some 1 times denominated the Church North, ,has 25.861 organizations in the United ,States, and owns 22,844 churches, having a seating capacity of 6,302,708. The value of the church property is estimated at ] $96,732,408, and the membership, accord- . ing to the eleventh census, was 2,240,- 1354.There are 15 branches of the Baptists (in the United States, each distinct in ,name an ih some important particulars, lt;from the others. They are designated as' folows: Regular, North; Regular, South; , Primitive. Old Two-Seed; Regular Bap- , tists (Colored), General Baptists, Orig- ] inal Freewill Baptists. United Baptists, Baptist Church of Christ, Separate Baptists, United Brethren in Christ, United Brethren in Christ (Old Constitution) 1and four varities of Plymouth Bretb- ’ren. i
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