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New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge • VOLUME 11

THE NEW SCHAFF-HERZOG

['Herzog, J. J. (Johann Jakob), 1805-1882', 'Schaff, Philip, 1819-1893', 'Hauck, Albert, 1845-1918', 'Jackson, Samuel Macauley, 1851-1912', 'Sherman, Charles Colebrook, 1860-1927', 'Gilmore, George W. (George William), 1858-1933'] • Public-domain historical edition in the United States (published 1908); OCR from Internet Archive scan

THE NEW SCHAFF-HERZOG

Congregationalists and Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, but which are not connected with local organizations." (These are estimated at about 3,000 schools, with 108,000 membership.)

State or Territory.

Maine . . • ■

New Hampshire

Vermont ......

Massachusetts

Rhode Island

Connecticut . . . . . .

New York . . . New Jersey ... Pennsylvania . .

North Atlantic Division,

Delaware

Maryland

District of Columbia . . .

Virginia ...

West Virginia

North Carolina

South Carolina . . .

Georgia .

Florida ■ • •

South Atlantic Division

Ohio

Indiana . .

Illinois

Michigan

Wisconsin . .

Minnesota ...

Iowa .

Missouri

North Dakota .... South Dakota .....

Nebraska ...

Kansas ...... ....

North Central Division

Kentucky

Tennessee

Alabama . ........

Mississippi

Louisiana

Arkansas

Oklahoma

Texas

South Central Division

Montana

Idaho .

Wyoming. . . . Colorado .... . New Mexico Arizona

Utah

Nevada . Washington. . . .

Oregon .

California.

Western Division

Continental U. S.

Alaska

Hawaii .

Philippines ..... Porto Rico

Totals for the U. S.

Sundayschools.

1,657

3,111

1,396

9,189

3,004

13,482

34,082

2,672

6,521 3,699 7,511 5,099 8,456 2,706

37,414

Officers

and Teachers.

9,683 6,222 8,713 5,537 4,381 4,498 6,105 7,599 1,616 1,765 3,376 5,410

64,905

5,275 6,494 6,917 6,053 3,493 4,842 3,684 9,384

46,142

1,407

1,810

1,277

2,888

10,179

192,722

193,495

14,811

8,097

8,429

52,834

8,330

19,803

126,839

44,502

185,665

469,310

Scholars.

5,655 32,038

5,392 53,207 29,037 54,245 35,669 52,478 15,883

283,604

114,752 65,741 97,318 55,319 30,406 32,301 57,279 64,158 7,977 10,128 27,712 48,900

611,991

37,241 42,767 40,904 33,177 18,681 30,337 24,499 62,066

289,672

113,596

66,741

62,624

497,782

81,791

182,502

1,273,300

416,021

1,723,749

4,418,106

50,313 266,471

57,550 451,667 223,777 495,403 334,072 474,780 127,897

2,481,930

967,534 532,074 856,526 452,244 289,187 291,399 434,551 537,622 64,864 80,763 210,927 363,214

5,080,905

343,991 369,217 365,868 290,525 184,410 248,531 201,947 558,483

2,562,972

3,454

35,226

6,390

47,828

1,969

15,920

12,351

108,736

1,924

21,257

1,841

15,682

10,783

90,608

5,085

15,064

121,778

10,653

81,466

26,479

250,312

91,497

793,898

1,746,074

1,752

1,092

1,749,894

15,337,811

2,222

11,321

15,409

13,931

15,380,694

2. Great Britain and Ireland :

Officers

Countries.

Schools.

and Teachers.

Scholars.

England and Wales:

Church of England. .

j- 44,035

1 212,712 I 432,574

3,153,476

Other denominations. .

3,616,016

Scotland:

Church of Scotland . . .

"I

f 20,722

J 25,221 (.11,048

234,252

Scottish United Free

{ 3,954

Church . .

239,049

Other denominations. .

J

117,222

1,221

18,037

184,156

Great Britain and Ire-

land, Total .. .

49,210

720,314

7,544,171

3. Other Countries of the World: t

Officers

Countries.

Schools.

and Teachers.

Scholars.

North America (exclu-

sive of Cont. U. S.

and Alaska)

11,191

90,186

788,803

South America

4,826

58,698

Central America ....

5,419

Europe (exclusive of Gt.

Britain and Ireland) .

33,823

110,670

2,155,912

Asia ...

15,986

37,014

735,604

Africa

8,996

29,835

490,298

West Indies (exclusive of

Porto Rico) . ...

1,891

10,972

149,485

Oceania (exclusive of

Hawaii)

12,624

68,399

748,889

Malaysia (exclusive of

Philippines) . ...

24,236

Totals

85,561

352,486

5,157,344

Total for world . .

328,266

2,822,694

28,082,209

Edwin Wilbur Rice.

Bibliography: (1) On the history much matter will be found in the following periodicals: Gentlemen's Magazine, London, vols, for 1784-87; Evangelical Magazine, ib. 1793-1840; Christian Observer, ib. 1802-50; Cottage Magazine, ib. 1809-32; Sunday School Repository and Teacher's Magazine, ib. 1813-47; Sunday School Chronicle, ib. 1874 sqq.; Church Sunday School Quarterly and Magazine, ib. 1847 sqq.; Imperial Magazine, Liverpool and London, vols, for 1819, 1821, 1822, 1826, 1828; Christian Spectator, New Haven, 1819-38; American Sunday School Magazine, Philadelphia, 1824-31; Sunday School Journal and Advocate of Christian Education, ib. 1831-58; Sunday School Times, ib. 1859 sqq.; Sunday School World, ib. 1861 sqq.

Books on the subject are: L. G. Pray, Hist, of Sunday Schools, Boston, 1847; S. H. Tyng, 40 Years' Experience in the Sunday School, New York, 1860; J. C. Power, Rise and Progress of Sunday Schools, ib. 1863; A. Bullard, SO Years with the Sabbath Schools, Boston, 1876; R. S. Duncan, Hist, of Sunday Schools, Memphis, 1876; M. P. Hale, Leaves from Sunday School and Mission Fields, Boston, 1876; S. Gilbert, The Lesson System; the Story of its Origin and Inauguration, New York, 1879; W. A. Candler, Hist, of Sunday Schools, ib. 1880; D. Evans, The Sunday Schools of Wales, London, 1883; E. W. Rice, Origin of Sunday Schools, Philadelphia, 1886; idem, Short History of the International Lesson System, with Classified List of Lessons for S3 Years, Philadelphia, 1902; idem, Origin and

* Compiled from " Special Commissioner " in London Sunday-School Chronicle, 1910. (Roman Catholic Sundayschools are not included.)

t Compiled from the World's Sixth Sunday-School Convention Report, 1910. Parish schools and catechetical classes are maintained for religious instruction in most of the Protestant, and in many Roman Catholic, churches of continental Europe. These are not included in this table.

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