Idolators
400,000,000
Of these, China alone, according to the most probable accounts, contains 300,000,000.
An elaborate, valuable, and now, I believe, a scarce work, entitled The Consumption of Public Wealth by the Clergy of every Christian Nation, &c. (published by Effingham Wilson in 1822), among details, founded on authorities of repute, and which are named, gives for each nation, "France," "Scotland" (its Kirk), "Spain," "Portuguese Church," "Hungarian Churches," "Clergy in Italy," "Clergy in Austria," "Clergy in Prussia," "Clergy in Russia," "England and Wales," "Established Church Property Ireland," &c. &c., the particulars required by Q. E. D. For instance, under the heading "Hungarian Churches," we are preliminarily told that—
"Hungary contains about 8,000,000 people of various religious persuasions, who live happily together ever since the days of that excellent Emperor Joseph II. He laboured resolutely and successfully, in spite of the bigots of his own religion by whom he was surrounded, to root out the evils of religious discord from his dominions; and he left, as a glorious legacy to his people, for which his memory will be ever dear, the blessings of concord and harmony between his subjects of all denominations."
It is then narrated that there are (in Hungary):
"Catholics, Latin and Greek
4,750,000
Greek Church
1,150,000