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FOLLOWING THE EQUATOR.
pretty nearly every part of the globe you can think of. Tabulated, these varieties of religion make a remarkable show. One would have to go far to find its match. I copy here this cosmopolitan curiosity, and it comes from the published census:
| Church of England, | 89,271 | Society of Friends, | 100 |
| Roman Catholic, | 47,179 | Salvation Army, | 4,356 |
| Wesleyan, | 49,159 | New Jerusalem Church, | 168 |
| Lutheran, | 23,328 | Jews, | 840 |
| Presbyterian, | 18,206 | Protestants (undefined), | 5,532 |
| Congregationalist, | 11,882 | Mohammedans, | 299 |
| Bible Christian, | 15,762 | Confucians, etc.,, | 3,884 |
| Primitive Methodist, | 11,654 | Other religions, | 1,719 |
| Baptist, | 17,547 | Object, | 6,940 |
| Christian Brethren, | 465 | Not stated, | 8,046 |
| Methodist New Connexion, | 39 | ||
| Unitarian, | 688 | Total, | 320,431 |
| Church of Christ, | 3,367 |
The item in the above list "Other religions" includes the following as returned:
| Agnostics, | 50 | Memnonists, | 1 |
| Atheists, | 22 | Moravians, | 139 |
| Believers in Christ, | 4 | Mormons, | 4 |
| Buddhists, | 52 | Naturalists, | 2 |
| Calvinists, | 46 | Orthodox, | 4 |
| Christadelphians, | 134 | Others (indefinite), | 17 |
| Christians, | 308 | Pagans, | 20 |
| Christ's Chapel, | 9 | Pantheists, | 3 |
| Christian Israelites, | 2 | Plymouth Brethren, | 111 |
| Christian Socialists, | 6 | Rationalists, | 4 |
| Church of God, | 6 | Reformers, | 7 |
| Cosmopolitans, | 3 | Secularists, | 12 |
| Deists, | 14 | Seventh-day Adventists, | 203 |
| Evangelists, | 60 | Shaker, | 1 |
| Exclusive Brethren, | 8 | Shintoists, | 24 |
| Free Church, | 21 | Spiritualists, | 37 |
| Free Methodists, | 5 | Theosophists, | 9 |
| Freethinkers, | 258 | Town (City) Mission, | 16 |
| Followers of Christ, | 8 | Welsh Church, | 27 |
| Gospel Meetings, | 11 | Huguenot, | 2 |
| Greek Church, | 44 | Hussite, | 1 |
| Infidels, | 9 | Zoroastrians, | 2 |
| Maronites, | 2 | Zwinglian, | 1 |
