CHURCH STATISTICS
The statistics and charts belonging with this illustration are taken from Bulletin 103 of the United States “Bureau of the Census” “representing conditions as near as may be, at the close of the year 1906.”
The general order or rank of the principal religious bodies in 1906 with respect to organization is presented in Table No. 1. (See page [104].)
The distribution of religious organizations by principal families and separate denominations in 1906, in comparison with similar figures for 1890, is given in Table No. 2. (See page [105]).
The seating capacity of the churches is given in Tables No. 3 and No. 4. (See page [106].)
Diagram 1—Distribution of communicants or members, by principal families or denominations, for continental United States: 1890 and 1906.
The value of church property, with gains by decades is shown in Tables No. 5 and No. 6. (See pages [107–108].)
The charts here shown exhibit at a glance (1) the comparative strength of denominations or families for 1890 and 1906 and (2) the relative size of the church and the unchurched population.
[Note.—The designation “not church-members” in diagram 2, p. [104], represents the difference between the number reported as communicants or members and the total population; it embraces, therefore, children too young to become church-members, as well as that portion of the population which is eligible to church-membership, altho not affiliated with any religious denomination.]