The New Home Missions, An Account of Their Social Redirection
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The immigration of this period was overwhelmingly Catholic, in spite of which the Protestant gain was nearly 2 per cent. America's total church-membership in 1906 was 32 million. To count children and adherents would be to multiply this multitude more than twice. Over a billion dollars is invested in church property. There are sittings in houses of worship for 58 million people. Over twelve million dollars are spent annually for home missions, and thirty-eight millions are applied to human bett...er- ment under definite Christian direction. Whether be- REACTION OF HOME MISSIONS 199 cause of or in spite of sectarian methods, these are the facts. Overchurching Is Limited. Third, there are thou- sands of communities in America which have never known the actual rivalries of sectarian churches. Of missionary aid extended to churches in Vermont by Baptists, Congregationalists, and Methodists, 45 per cent, goes to fields where there is but one church. In ' thousands of communities more, sectarianism has not worked distinct moral or social harm.
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