 | Theology - 1851 - 620 pages
...Baptist Churches in the whole of what is now the United States ; and in the year 1768, there were but 137. It appears, that in sixty years the Baptist Churches...nine-fold, and their members more than thirteenfold ! Presbyterian Church. The next of the large Christian bodies which arose in the United States was... | |
 | John Howard Hinton - Christianity - 1851 - 136 pages
...century, the episcopal church has more than quintupled its clergy, and nearly quintupled its members. ... In sixty years, the baptist churches have increased...ninefold, and their members more than thirteenfold. . . . The presbyterian body has increased twelvefold, so far as the ministry is concerned ; eight-anda-half-fold... | |
 | 1851 - 808 pages
...Church has more than quintupled its clergy, and nearly quintupled its members. ... In sixty jvars, the Baptist churches have increased tenfold, their ministers ninefold, and their members more than thirteenlbld. . . The Presbyterian body has increased twelvefold, so far as the ministry is concerned... | |
 | Primitive Baptists - 1852 - 840 pages
...Baptist churches in the whole of what is now the United States; and in the year 1768, there were but 137. It appears, that in sixty years the Baptist churches...ninefold, and their members more than thirteenfold. BAPTIST MISSIONARY SOCIETY. THE present aspect of the mission field in India is peculiarly interesting... | |
 | Alexander Campbell, Charles Louis Loos - Bethany (W. Va.) - 1852 - 734 pages
...now the United States; and in the year 1768, there were but 137. It appears that in sixty years, tlie Baptist churches have increased ten-fold, their ministers...nine-fold, and their members more than thirteen-fold ! MENTAL ENCITEMENT. — Bad news weakens the action of the heart, oppresses the lungs, destroys the... | |
 | Industries - 1855 - 778 pages
...Baptist churches in the whole of what is now the United States ; and in the year 1768, there werev but 137. It appears that in sixty years the Baptist churches...the North of Ireland, and were joined by ministers rVom New England, who came into the middle and southern States, where Presbyteriauism first gained... | |
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... 8,018 ministers, and 948,867 members. This is an immense increase since the year 1791— sixty years ago. In the year 1750, one hundred years ago, there were only 58 Baptist churches in the whole of what is now the United States; and in the year 1768,... 