540 THE CENTURY BOOK OF FACTS. 



Religious Denominations in the United States Continued. 



H73.43.3 

 180,192 



39,000 



12.000 



115,901 



225,890 



1.0.-,:; 



11,344 



9,790 



5,000 



40 



608 



107,591 

 243,549 



ls.0% 



40,000 

 306 

 Ml 



1,064 

 45,030 



695 



71,000 



4- -J., 



14,131 



* Swedenborgians. t Mormons. J Seceding Mormons. 



The aggregate of about 28,000,000 represents actual church membership, and includes all Catholics, but not all 

 persons affiliated by family ties to Protestant bodies. The larger of the Protestant bodies may claim twice the 

 number of their communicants as nominal adherents. 



A census of religious bodies was taken by the United States Census Office in 1900, but has not yet been pul>- 

 lished. It is expected to appear in 1902. 



Scriptural Measures of Capacity. 



The measures of capacity refeyed to in the 

 Scriptures, with their English equivalents, are 

 as follows : The Chomer or Homer in Kfng 

 James's translation was 75,625 gals, liquid, 

 and 32,125 pecks dry. The Ephah or Bath 

 was 7 gals. 4 pts., 15 ins. sol. The Seah=l-3 



of Ephah, 2 gals. 4 pts., 3 ins. sol. The Hin 

 = 1-6 of Ephah, 1 gal., 2 pts., 1 in. sol. The 

 Omer=l-10 of Ephah, 5 pts., 0.5 in. sol. 

 The Cab=l-18 of Ephah, 3 pts., 10 ins. sol. 

 The Log==7 1-72 of Ephah, pt., 10 ins. 

 sol. The Metretes of Syria (John ii, 6)= 

 Cong. Rom. 7 pts. The Cotyla Eastern=l- 



