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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