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ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY The following is a summary of the numbers : — 101 1902-3 Presbyterian Independent Baptist Unitarian Quaker Moravian Wesleyan Other Methodists Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion Welsh Calvinistlc Methodist . Sandemanian Swedenborgian Catholic Apostolic Church Brethren Salvation Army Peculiar People Christadelphians Mormons Various Undenominational or Undefined. . City, Westminster, and Southwark Places Attendants 3 26* 26* 2 2 I 15* 12 o 3 o o I 9 8 2 o o 2 46* 158 555 8,966 7.358 161 234 43 8,805 3,441 969 52 616 1,919 52 506 5,642 39,319 Marylebone, FInsbury, Tower Hamlets, and Lambeth Places Attendants 34' 126* 161* 14 12 o 75* 53 I 3 2 6 7 65 56 2 7 2 23 146' 795 8,249 38,603 37,275 •,497 1,690 23,224 9,334 181 6ig 82 429 1,559 5,156 10,054 57 502 127 1,780 25,272 165,690 Total Places Attendantt 37- 152* 187* 16 14 I go* 65 I 6 2 6 8 74 64 4 7 2 25 192* 953 8,804 47,569 44,633 1,658 1,924 43 32,029 •2,775 181 1,588 82 429 1,611 5,772 ••,973 109 502 127 2,286 30,9^4 205,009 No review of London Nonconformi indeed other than misleading, which did for worship in the remaining boroughs trative county of London. Without congregations may be grouped as follows Presbyterian 32 Congregational 73 Baptist 103 Unitarian 7 Quaker 4 Moravian I Wesleyan 69 Other Methodists 43 ty would however be complete, or not take account of the provision which go to make up the adminis- entering into detail the various Welsh Calvinistic Methodist . 3 Swedenborgian 2 Catholic Apostolic Church . . i Brethren . 61 Salvation Army 28 Peculiar People 2 Various 14 Undenominational and Undefined 91 Total . . 534'"° "" The Dally Nezcs Census was tabulated on the basis of the present parliamentary divisions. For the purpose of comparison all those places which are outside the 1832 boundaries are excluded from the summary. In computing the attendance, each meeting place has been separately credited with the largest number present at once, whether morning or evening. The numbers marked * include mission-rooms. All that remain of the Countess of Huntingdon's congregations, with one exception, are now Congregational. The ' Various ' congregations are as follows : — Six Ethical Societies, attended by 942 persons ; ten meetings of Spiritualists, with 783 attendants; one each of Hebrew Christians (123), Theistic Church (132), Zion Church, i.e. followers of 'prophet' Dowie(i36), Seventh-Day Adventists, Church of Humanity, Church of Martin Luther, Theoiophists, ' Bethshan ' and Jezreelites, otherwise ' New and Later House of Israel ' ; the last six average 3 1 persons each. '""This includes missions, in many of which the attendance is verv small. The fourteen grouped as ' Various ' are one Free Episcopal, one Reformed Episcopal, one Pentecostal League, three Ethical Societies, six Spiritualists, one Christian Scientist, and one ' Prohibition Church.' 397