Jane Addams says that on a Sunday night in Chicago one-sixth of the entire population is packed into 466 places of entertainment. Churches? No—moving-picture shows! The churches on Sunday night in Chicago, and, we fear, in many other places, are not conspicuously crowded. The problem is this: If the Chicago churches had presented an up-to-date moving-picture show, instead of a sermon, would the crowd have followed the films? Inasmuch as the church admission is free and the theater admission is from five to twenty-five cents, it is a fair assumption that the churches would have been filled. Now, if the object of the Sunday-night service is primarily to reach the crowd on the street, and if, as has been shown, the moving-picture is a much more vivid and attractive way of reaching that crowd than is a sermon, why, in all seriousness, don't churches give us the thrilling stories of the Old Testament, its beautiful tales of the New Testament, and its modern illustrations of Christian heroism in this and other lands, in the up-to-date form—in moving pictures? They may answer that they can not get hold of the films and the machine, but this answer is not a good answer. Excellent sacred pictures are shown in the present professional entertainments, and many illustrations of modern heroism, self-sacrifice, and virtue are in every program. Moreover, a demand for films for church use would enlarge the supply. Moving-picture machines are not expensive and can be easily operated. You can do it in your church. Why don't you?—Woman's Home Companion.
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Table No. 5—Church Property. (See Church Statistics.)
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D|ORGANIZATIONS|
E| REPORTING |
N| VALUE |
O| OF CHURCH | VALUE OF CHURCH PROPERTY REPORTED
M| PROPERTY |
I| IN 1906 |
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A| | | | Per cent | Increase from
T| | Per | Dollar Amount |distribution| 1890 to 1906
I| |cent +-+-++-+-+
O| Number| of | 1906 | 1890 | 1906 | 1890| Dollar | Per
N| |total| | | | | Amount | cent
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A|186,132| 87.7|1,257,575,867|679,426,489| 100.0|100.0|578,149,378| 85.1
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B|173,902| 89.9| 935,942,578|549,695,707| 74.4| 80.9|386,246,871| 70.3
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C| 1,492| 58.5| 2,425,209| 1,236,345| 0.2| 0.2| 1,188,864| 96.2
D| 49,339| 89.9| 139,842,656| 82,328,123| 11.1| 12.1| 57,514,533| 69.9
E| 1,239| 89.8| 2,740,322| 1,775,202| 0.2| 0.3| 965,120| 54.4
F| 401| 62.9| 8,806,441| 40,666| 0.7|([1])| 8,765,775|21,555.5
G| 5,366| 93.9| 63,240,305| 43,335,437| 5.0| 6.4| 19,904,868| 45.9
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H| 8,906| 81.4| 29,995,316| 12,206,038| 2.4| 1.8| 17,789,278| 145.7
I| 974| 88.8| 2,802,532| 1,362,631| 0.2| 0.2| 1,439,901| 105.7
J| 2,515| 91.9| 8,999,979| 4,785,680| 0.7| 0.7| 4,214,299| 48.1
K| 1,097| 95.6| 3,857,451| 4,541,334| 0.3| 0.7| [2]683,883| [2]15.1
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L| 1,137| 94.4| 9,376,402| 4,614,490| 0.7| 0.7| 4,761,912| 103.2
M| 806| 74.7| 3,934,267| 1,486,000| 0.3| 0.2| 2,448,267| 164.8
N| 10,779| 84.9| 74,826,389| 35,060,354| 6.0| 5.2| 39,766,035| 113.4
O| 497| 82.3| 1,237,134| 643,800| 0.1| 0.1| 593,334| 92.2
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P| 59,083| 91.3| 229,450,996|132,140,179| 18.2| 19.4| 97,310,817| 73.6
Q| 14,161| 91.3| 150,189,446| 94,861,347| 11.9| 14.0| 55,328,099| 58.3
R| 6,057| 88.5| 125,040,498| 81,219,117| 9.9| 12.0| 43,821,381| 54.0
S| 2,477| 95.8| 30,648,247| 18,744,242| 2.4| 2.8| 11,904,005| 63.5
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T| 406| 88.1| 14,263,277| 10,335,100| 1.1| 1.5| 3,928,177| 38.0
U| 3,839| 89.2| 9,073,791| 4,937,583| 0.7| 0.7| 4,136,208| 83.8
V| 779| 92.1| 10,575,656| 8,054,333| 0.8| 1.2| 2,521,323| 31.3
W| 2,552| 69.1| 14,616,264| 5,987,706| 1.2| 0.9| 8,628,558| 144.1
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X| 10,293| 82.5| 292,638,787|118,123,346| 23.3| 17.4|174,515,441| 147.7
Y| 747| 42.2| 23,198,925| 9,754,275| 1.8| 1.4| 13,444,650| 137.8
Z| 909| 76.8| 3,168,548| 1,051,791| 0.3| 0.2| 2,116,757| 201.3
a| 89| 21.7| 964,791| 45,000| 0.1|([1])| 919,791| 2,044.0
b| 192| 25.1| 1,662,238| 756,370| 0.1| 0.1| 905,868| 119.8
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DENOMINATIONS:
A: All denominations
B: Protestant bodies
C: Adventist bodies
D: Baptist bodies
E: Christian (Christian Connection)
F: Church of Christ, Scientist
G: Congregationalists
H: Disciples or Christians
I: Dunkers or German Bapt. Brethren
J: Evangelical bodies
K: Friends
L: German Evangelical Synod of N. A.
M: Independent churches
N: Lutheran bodies
O: Mennonite bodies
P: Methodist bodies
Q: Presbyterian bodies
R: Protestant Episcopal Church
S: Reformed bodies
T: Unitarians
U: United Brethren bodies
V: Universalists
W: Other Protestant bodies
X: Roman Catholic Church
Y: Jewish congregations
Z: Latter-day Saints
a: Eastern Orthodox Churches
b: All other bodies
