View of Religions - The following
table, compiled from the official publications of the
several sects, is supposed
to afford a fair view of the comparative strength of the
different religious
denominations in the United States.
The figures do not of course indicate members in full communion, but the whole
number of people who manifest a preference for this or that persuasion. New
Yorker
Baptists - 4,300,000
Methodists - 3,000,000
Presbyterians - 2,175,000
Congregationalists - 1,400,000
Roman Catholics - 800,000
Episcopalians - 600,000
Universalists - 600,000
Lutherans - 540,000
Dutch Reformed - 450,000
Christians - 300,000
Friends - 220,000
Unitarians - 180,000
Mormonites - 12,000
Tunkers - 30,000
Shakers - 6,000
Moravians - 5,575
Swedenbergians - 4,000
