YEAR BOOK AN ECCLESIASTICAL AND STATISTICAL COVERING THE YEAR 1916 PREPARED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE FEDERAL COUNCIL MISSIONARY EDUCATION MOVEMENT CONTENTS PAGE HISTORY AND ORGANIZATION OF THE FEDERAL COUNCIL....... Origin, 1905 to 1908-Functions-State and Local Federa- tions-Financial Support-Officers-Denominational Repre- sentatives-Administrative Committee. Evangelism―The Church and Social Service-Interna- tional Justice and Good-will-Christian Education-Tem- perance The Church and Country Life-Interchurch Fed- erations-Relations with the Orient. Family Life and Religious Rest Day-Ministerial Relief -Foreign Missions-Home Missions-etc. Chief Denominational Officers-Missionary and Other DIRECTORY OF OTHER RELIGIOUS BODIES..... Chief Denominational Officers-Missionary and Other Boards-Educational and Benevolent Institutions-Period- icals. U. S. CHAPLAINS IN THE ARMY AND NAVY..... DIRECTORY OF INTERCHURCH ORGANIZATIONS...... Missionary Federated Agencies—Brotherhoods-Chris- tian Associations-Young People's Movements-Sunday- Local and General Societies in the United States and ..... Home Missions, covering 1916-Foreign Missions, cover- STATISTICS OF THE CHURCHES OF THE UNITED STATES FOR 1916 204 Table I. Denominations in detail-Table II. Summary -Table III. Net gains in Communicants of Religious Bodies in Twenty-five Years, 1890-1915-Table IV. Net Gains in Communicants of Groups of Religious Bodies in Twenty-five Years-Table V. Distribution of Church Number of Schools, Membership, Teachers by Denomina- tions-Summary of Sunday School Statistics. A PREFATORY WORD Benefiting by suggestions received, this second issue of the YEAR BOOK has been improved for purposes of reference by an index, by changes in type, by a better classification, and by the addition of new tables of statistics of Sunday-schools, of the distribution of communicants of many denominations by states, and of the chief Protestant bodies of the world. Other denominations would have been included in the distribution by states, but they were unable to make the compilation. It is hoped that they may provide for this hereafter. The general tables of statistics include, as heretofore, those organizations recognized as religious bodies by the United States Census Bureau. No attempt has been made to classify the denominations as evangelical, orthodox, non-evangelical, etc. With the statistical information given for all, any one can make for himself such lists as his judgment may determine. Those who want to ascertain the strength of the evangelical churches may begin with the constituent bodies of the Federal Council, for which a separate table is given at the end of the Directory of the Constituent Bodies, and add such other denominations thereto as, in his opinion, belong properly to the evangelical group. Hundreds of denominational statisticians and other correspondents have freely furnished information, and the editor hereby makes grateful acknowledgment of their favors. H. K. CARROLL, Editor. > |