For the Germans, 5,000 pastors, 8,000 churches, and 1,200,000 communicant members.
For the Scandinavians, 1,800 pastors, 14,300 churches, and 500,000 communicant members.
For the Finns, three synods, 58 pastors, 187 churches, and 22,149 communicant members.
For the Slovaks, about 200 organizations with a growing number of pastors and a very loyal constituency.
For the Letts and Esthonians, 21 organized congregations and preaching stations, divided into the eastern and western districts.
For the Icelanders, one synod, 10 pastors, 37 organized congregations, 3,785 communicant members.
For the Poles, Bohemians, and Magyars, work is done by the various German synods, the late statistics of which are not at hand. Besides congregations in these languages, many understand German and are served by German pastors.
The whole Lutheran Church of America, including the Swedish Mission Friends with 33,000 members and the German Evangelical Synod with 222,000 members, the constituents of which are nearly all Lutherans, making in all 8,956 pastors, 15,135 churches, and 2,123,639 communicant members are the results of immigrant mission work or mission work in foreign languages or languages other than English.
ANALYSIS OF THE IMMIGRATION FOR 1905, WITH REGARD TO RELIGIOUS AFFILIATIONS AND EASE OF ASSIMILATION[102]
| First class and the easiest to assimilate are | ||
| English | 50,865 | Reformed |
| Scotch | 16,144 | Reformed |
| Germans | 82,360 | Luth. and Cath. |
| Scandinavians | 62,284 | Lutheran |
| Irish | 54,266 | Catholic. |
| Finns | 17,012 | Lutheran |
| Letts, et al. | 18,604 | Lutheran |
| Slovaks | 52,368 | Lutheran |
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| Total | 353,903 | |