The latest religious census of the U. S. was taken in 1926. At that time 55,000,000 people listed themselves as members of a church. Of these church members, 97% belonged to the 24 principal denominations. There are, however, more than 200 U. S. religious groups, half of them with less than 7,000 members. Some of them date from the theological squabbles which attended the religious revivals of the early 19th Century. Some comfort their members with assurances that all the rest of the world is wrong, and will be painfully proved so by...
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