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at Watervliet, N. Y. In the spring of 1780, they live in daily communion with the spirits when they had been three years and a half of the departed believers. The Shaker settleat Niskenna, a religious revival took place ments are composed of from two to eight at Albany, and spread through the surround-" families," or households. A large house, ing districts; and from Hancock and New divided through the middle by wide walls, and Lebanon a deputation was sent to Niskenna, capable of accommodating from 30 to 150 into see what light its inhabitants enjoyed mates, is erected by each family, the male as to the way of salvation. The deputation members occupying one end and the female consisted of Joseph Meacham and Lucy Wright, the other. Their meals are taken in a comsubsequently the heads of the Shaker Society. mon room, and in silence. They possess an These persons became believers in Ann Lee, average of seven acres of land to the member, and through their agency other converts and are very industrious. The settlements are were won, and a Shaker Society established at New Lebanon and Watervliet, N. Y.; Hanat New Lebanon. Toward the close of 1780, cock, Tyringham, Harvard, and Shirley, Mass.; the Revolutionary War being then in progress, Enfield, Conn.; Canterbury and Enfield, N. notoriety was given to Ann Lee through an H.; Alfred and Gloucester, Me.; Union Vilincident seemingly unfavorable. On suspi- lage, White Water, and North Union, Ohio; cion of being a British spy she was imprisoned and at Pleasant Hill and South Union, Ky., for some time at Poughkeepsie, and before she and number, in all, 2,400 members. obtained her liberty, in December, 1780, all Roman Baths, The, were among the the colonies had heard of the "female Christ," most magnificent and extensive architectural and in the following year she started on a mis-ornaments of the city in the time of the sionary tour through New England and the adjacent colonies, and made not a few converts. She died in 1784, and was succeeded in the headship of the society by Joseph Meacham and Lucy Wright. Her death was a surprise to many of her followers, who believed that she was to live with them forever. Their doctrine has been, to some extent, developed as well as systematized since the death of "Mother Ann." They believe that the Kingdom of Heaven has come; that Christ has come upon earth a second time in the form of "Mother Ann," and that the personal rule of God has been restored. Then they hold that the old law has been abolished and a new dispensation begun; that Adam's sin has been atoned; that man has been made free of all errors except his own; that the curse has been taken away from labor; that the earth and all that is on it will be redeemed. Believers, on going into union," die to the world and enter upon a new life, which is not a mere change of life but a new order of being. For them there is neither death nor marriage; what seems death is only a change of form, a transfiguration, which does not hide them from the purified eyes of the saints; and in union, as in Heaven, there is no marrying nor giving in marriage. They believe that the earth, now freed from the curse of Adam, is Heaven; they look for no resurrection besides that involved in living with them in "resurrection order." The believer, upon entering into union, leaves behind all his earthly relationships and interests, just as if he had been severed from them by death. And since to be in union is heaven, the Shakers hold that no attempt should be made by them to draw men into union. They believe that

Empire. They were erected by different em-
perors for the use of the populace, and the
vast ruins still existing testify to their great
size and the unparalleled luxury of their ar-
rangements. In these great therma, as they
were called, the primitive object of bathing
was largely lost sight of, and they became
favorite places of general resort for pleasure.
The most famous were those erected by the
Emperors Titus, Caracalla, and Diocletian.
Caracalla's baths were 1,500 feet long by 1,250
feet broad, and the swimming bath or natato-
rium in those of Diocletian was 200 feet long
by 100 feet wide; and it is calculated that in
this entire establishment 18,000 people could
bathe at one time. There were separate struc-
tures for the exclusive use of women, and in
some cases separate apartments in the same
building, but these were generally inferior to
those for the men. They were built entirely
of stone and polished marble, and all the
apartments were beautifully ornamented with
mosaic, and profusely adorned with painting,
stuccowork, and statuary. The public baths
of Pompeii were uncovered in 1824 and the
complete internal arrangement disclosed, v
,which
is probably similar to, though on a smaller
scale than, those in Rome. The process of
bathing was this: After undressing in the
apodyterium, or "room for undressing," the
bather was rubbed and anointed with some
of the fragrant oils and ointments used by the
ancients, and then proceeded to a spacious
apartment devoted to exercises of various
kinds, among which games at ball held a
prominent place. After exercise, he went into
the caldarium, either merely to sweat or to
take the hot bath; and during this part of the

process the body was scraped with strigiles (small curved instruments usually made of bronze). Being now dried with cloths, and slightly anointed all over with perfumed oils, he resumed his dress, and then passed a short time, successively, in the tepidarium and the frigidarium, or temperate and cold rooms, which softened the transition from the great heat of the caldarium into the open air. The artificial bath has been used from the most ancient times of which we have any record. It is mentioned in Homer, the vessel for bathing being described as of polished marble and the warm baths referred to as effeminate. Public baths were common in Greece during the historic period, and they were in use at Rome from early times; but during the Republic they continued small, dark, and inconvenient, and it was not until the time of the Empire that they reached their great size and splendor.

during the reign of the Czar Nicholas. Under the laws of Alexander II., all Catholics and Protestants enjoy civil rights with members of the Established Church, and are equally admissible to the highest offices of the empire. Christianity was introduced into Russia in the ninth century.

Taj Mahal was built by the Shah Jihan of India as a mausoleum for the remains of his wife Nourmahal, and is situated at Agra. It is of white marble, 100 feet in diameter and 200 feet in height, built in the form of an irregular octagon, and rising from a marble terrace, under which is a second terrace of red sandstone. At the corners of the marble terrace are lofty minarets, and in the center of the main building rises a dome, flanked by cupolas of similar form. Every part, even the basement, the dome, and the upper galleries of the minarets, is inlaid with ornamental designs in marble of Russia, Religion of.- The Established different colors, principally of pale brown and Church of Russia, to which the great majority bluish violet. Here and there, also, the exteof the inhabitants belong, is identical in doc- rior and interior are decorated with mosaics of trine with, and is a branch of, the Greek precious stones. The whole Koran is said to Church. The liturgy used is the same as that be written in mosaics of precious stones on the originally used by the Church at Constantino-interior walls. In the construction of this ple, but it is read, not in Greek, but in the Sclavonic tongue. Previous to the time of Alexander II., dissent in all its forms was not only discouraged but often rigorously repressed and it has only been during very late years that general toleration has been permitted. The Roman Catholic Church has been the object of especial severity in the past, particularly

magnificent building, which, as Bayard Taylor
says, alone repays a visit to India, 20,000 men
were employed twenty years. Although the
labor cost nothing, over $20,000,000 were ex-
pended in its construction.
The doors are of
solid silver, and an enormous diamond was
placed upon the tomb itself.

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The total number of teachers and scholars in the world, according to this report, was 22,508,661. The table does not include the schools of the Roman Catholic and Non-Evangelical Protestant churches. The number of scholars in Roman Catholic Sunday schools in the United States is estimated by clerics at 800,000.

RELIGIOUS STATISTICS.

NUMBERS IN THE WORLD ACCORDING TO CREED.

The following estimates, by M. Fournier de Flaix, are the latest that have been made by a competent authority.

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The distinction between followers and actual communicants should be observed.
ENGLISH-SPEAKING RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES OF THE WORLD.

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A very large number-more than 18,000,000-of Hindoos, Mohammedans, Buddhists, and others in the East also speak and read English.

The estimates in the last table are from Whitaker's (London) Almanack, 1895.

The Encyclopedia Britannica, last edition, makes a rough estimate of numbers of Protestants in the world speaking all civilized languages, and places the Lutherans at the head, with over 42,000,000 members (mostly in Germany and Scandinavia), and the Anglican Church second, with about 20,000,000 members.

*United States census of 1890.

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RELIGION, EDUCATION, FINE ARTS.

RELIGIOUS DENOMINATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES. Statistics of Churches and Communicants or Members, compiled originally from the census returns of 1890, by Dr. Henry K. Carroll, special agent, with subsequent revisions.

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Churches.*

Value of
Church
Property,

1890.

Communi

cants or

Members.

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Church Triumphant

Church of God.

Life and Advent Union

Churches of God in Christ

Jesus

All Advent Bodies.

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1,147 (Schweinfurth)..

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26,250

645,075

33,169 Church of the New Jerusa

1,400

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16,790

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46,075

2,872 Shakers.

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Amana...

15,000

1,600

1,797

$1,236,345

65,103 Harmony.

10,000

250

Separatists.

3,000

200

Baptists:

New Icaria

21

Regular, North..

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817,534 Altruists...

25

Regular, South.

17,824

18,152,599 1,387,060 Adonai Shomo..

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Regular, Colored.

12,462

9,082,587

Six Principles..

18

19,500

937

1,292,394 Church Triumphant (Kore-
shan Ecclesia)...

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Seventh-Day.

90

265,260

8,531

Free will

1,536

3,115,642

84,381

All Communistic Societies"

32

Original Freewill.

167

57,005

11,864

General.

420

201,140

United.

204

80,150

22,000 Congregationalists....
13,209

5,400

Separate..

24

Baptist Church of Christ.

152

9,200 56,755

Primitive...

3,500

1,591,551

1,599 Disciples of Christ..
8,254
125,000 Dunkards:

$106,800 43,335,437 580,000 871,017 12,206,038 8,768

4,049

Old Two Seed in the Spirit
Predestinarians

473

All Baptist Bodies

Brethren (River):
Brethren in Christ

Old Order, or Yorker..

172,230
44,707 $82,328,123 3,785,740

12,851

Dunkards or German Bap-
tists (Congregational)...
Dunkards or German Bap-
tists (Old Order)..

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Dunkards or German Bap-
tists (Progressive).

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2,688 Seventh-Day Baptists, Ger.

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14,550

194

United Zion's Children

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214

8,300

$81,350

525
3,427 Episcopalians:

All Dunkard Bodies..

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Brethren (Plymouth):

Protestant Episcopal..
Reformed Episcopal..

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Brethren (I.).

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Brethren (II.).

88

1,265

Brethren (III.).

86

200

Brethren (IV.).

31

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$1,465

2,419
1,235
718 Evangelical Bodies (b)..
6,661 Friends:

Total Episcopalians..

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Catholics:

Friends (Orthodox)..
Friends (Hicksite)..

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Roman Catholic...

Greek Catholic (Uniates)..

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Friends (Wilburite).

10,850 Friends (Primitive)

53

6,700

4,329

9

16,700

232

Russian Orthodox...

12

220,000

13,504

Greek Orthodox.

3

5,000

Armenian...

6

200 Total Friends..
335

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Old Catholic.

20

500,000

Reformed Catholic.

8

250,000 Friends of the Temple....
1,000

4

German Evang. Protestant

55

All Catholic Bodies

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978

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Christadelphians..

63

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$9,754,275

138,500

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3,900 40,666 234,450

754

Total Latter-Day Saints..

983

226,285 22,000 $1,051,791

223,587

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Church of God (Winnebren

arian)...

560

United Synod in South. 643,185 36,000 General Council...

382

1,720

1,114.065 11,119,286

35,110

302,355

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United Norwegian.

1,028

(Independent Synods.)

Joint Synod of Ohio, etc...

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German of Iowa..

661

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500

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Suomai Synod..
Slavonian Synod..

Independent Congregations

All Lutheran Bodies.

Mennonites:

Presb. Ch. in the U. S. of A. 71,768 Cumberland Presbyterian.: 52,903 Cumberland Pres. (Colored) 3,823 Welsh Calvinistic Meth.... 14,310 United Presbyterian........ 56,221 Pres. Ch. in the U.S.(South) 10,500 Asso. Ch. of No. America.. 7,010 Asso. Ref. Syn. of the South 5,500 Ref. Pres. in the U. S. (Syn.) 5,300 Ref. Pres.in N.A.(Gen. Syn.) 6,500 Ref. Presb. (Covenanted). 2,750 Ref. Presb. in U. S. & Can.

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$681,250 12,535

7,103

74,455,200

876,520

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9,283 $33,810,609 1,327,134 Reformed:

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5

4,500

97

76,450

352 10,101

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22

1,500

2,038

Apostolic.

1,200

209

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Or organizations. †Swedenborgians. Mormons. § Seceding Mormons. (a) The Bruederhoef Mennonites also observe a communal life. They are reported in connection with other Mennonite branches. (b) Evangelical Association and United Evangelical Churches. (c) Church edifices.

For January, 1897, The Independent published statistics of churches in the United States from the latest obtainable returns. The aggregate number of communicants of the principal denominations were then as follows: Roman Catholics, 8.271,309; Methodist bodies, 5,653,289; Baptist bodies, 4,153,857; Presbyterian bodies, 1,460,345, Lutheran bodies, 1,420,905; Disciples of Christ, 1,003,672; Protestant Episcopalians, 636,773; Congregationalists, 622,557; Reformed bodies, 348,471; United Brethren, 271,035; Mormons, 234,000.

Scriptural Measures of Capacity. The measures of capacity referred to in the Scriptures, with their English equivalents, are as follows: The Chomer or Homer in King James's translation was 75,625 gals. liquid, and 32,125 pecks dry. The Ephah or Bath was 7 gals. 4 pts., 15 ins. sol. The Seah=1-3

of Ephah, 2 gals. 4 pts., 3 ins. sol. The Hin

1-6 of Ephah, 1 gal., 2 pts., 1 in. sol. The Omer-1-10 of Ephah, 5 pts., 0.5 in. sol. The Cab-1-18 of Ephah, 3 pts., 10 ins. sol. The Log-7 1-72 of Ephah, pt., 10 ins. sol. The Metretes of Syria (John ii, 6)= Cong. Rom. 7 pts. The Cotyla Eastern=1

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