| School Buildings | Number of Teachers | Children of School Age in District | Entire Enrollment | Attendance | Average Expenditures for All School Purposes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Newburgh City | 7 | 110 | 5,773 | 4,257 | 3,291 | $101,577.97 | |
| Middletown City | 8 | 64 | 2,648 | 2,440 | 1,962 | 65,457.29 | |
| Blooming Grove Town | 10 | 16 | 463 | 503 | 299 | 8,188.70 | |
| Cornwall | 7 | 26 | 1,014 | 971 | 704 | 23,541.76 | |
| Crawford | 11 | 13 | 276 | 305 | 230 | 4,983.17 | |
| Hamptonburgh | 6 | 7 | 249 | 230 | 145 | 3,368.36 | |
| Highland | 3 | 19 | 843 | 730 | 593 | 17,666.24 | |
| Monroe | 5 | 14 | 491 | 515 | 360 | 10,653.14 | |
| Montgomery | 13 | 34 | 1,337 | 1,394 | 852 | 24,593.10 | |
| Newburgh | 13 | 19 | 753 | 724 | 447 | 12,228.41 | |
| New Windsor | 8 | 11 | 421 | 352 | 189 | 4,911.79 | |
| Chester | 5 | 14 | 461 | 461 | 365 | 19,549.67 | |
| Deerpark | 14 | 60 | 2,358 | 2,369 | 1,754 | 45,553.98 | |
| Goshen | 11 | 20 | 701 | 691 | 463 | 14,847.64 | |
| Greenville | 7 | 7 | 148 | 173 | 79 | 2,717.39 | |
| Minisink | 8 | 10 | 262 | 335 | 185 | 5,181.39 | |
| Mount Hope | 5 | 6 | 250 | 250 | 120 | 2,952.37 | |
| Tuxedo | 6 | 16 | 618 | 615 | 416 | 17,140.34 | |
| Wallkill | 18 | 18 | 498 | 511 | 300 | 7,175.70 | |
| Wawayanda | 10 | 10 | 276 | 299 | 171 | 4,204.28 | |
| Norwich | 18 | 36 | 1,336 | 1,374 | 950 | 28,387.84 | |
| Woodbury | 5 | 9 | 314 | 300 | 221 | 6,618.42 | |
| ___ | ___ | ______ | ______ | ______ | ___________ | ||
| 198 | 530 | 21,490 | 19,707 | 14,086 | $431,499.39 |
[CHAPTER XXXV.]
THE CHURCHES OF ORANGE COUNTY.
By Rev. Francis Washburn.
The prevailing religion of Orange County is still nominally Christian, differentiated in forms of worship and principles of faith. As yet few representatives of other religions have formed any settlement within its boundaries.
The organized religious bodies are numerous and strong, exercising still against many adverse agencies a controlling influence over the lives of the people. Those first established in the county in the Colonial epoch still maintain the predominance they then secured. Although the confessions of faith of some of them have been modified somewhat, yet they all with a few minor exceptions hold to the creeds Apostolic and Nicene. With more general diffusion of education amongst the people has come to prevail a more genial and less dogmatic form of enunciating the great truths of the Gospel of Christ. The churches or associations of religious people are becoming more conservative of all that is good and wholesome for human beings both here and hereafter.
Faith in the parental love of God the Father, and brotherly love of Christ are being taught by the Church of Christ as the mother of the world's children and the bride of Christ, whose spirit is more and more the atmosphere of a heavenly home for us all. The ministry of the church is coming to be a ministry over us everywhere in all places and at all times. She is extending her work of sponsorship into every sphere of human activity. And the time seems to be rapidly approaching when she will guard us all from the cradle to the grave from every agency of ill that would deprive us of the love and approbation of God.
The different religious bodies bearing the name of Christian are all seeking the good of humankind, animated by the same spirit which actuated the Christ when He went to Golgotha and when He ascended at Olivet. They are agreed in their aim and are united in their sympathy. They work in agreement and will not contend with each other. Christian charity to-day is prevailing to the elimination of denominational pride.
The Christians of Orange County are becoming assimilated to the spirit of those on whom the Holy Ghost fell in the day of Pentecost. For years since the earliest settlement of this country they have been known as Presbyterians, Lutherans, Reformed Dutch, Episcopalians, Roman Catholics, Baptists, Methodists, Quakers, etc., and are still connected with organizations bearing these names, but they are coming to bear in their membership the same characteristic devotion to humanity and God.