Their libraries will average about 200 volumes and are chiefly theo- 

 logical and homiletical books. 



Sectarianism 



Table XX shows the names and the membership of the different 

 religious bodies. 



TABLE XX. — NUMBER AND MEMBERSHIP OF THE DIFFERENT 

 RELIGIOUS BODIES— WHITE 



Denomination 



Baptist 



Methodist 



Cumberland Presbyterian. 



Disciples 



Southern Presbyterian. . . . 



Presbyterian, U. S. A 



Catholic 



Episcopalian 



Christian Science 



Primitive Ba])tist 



F. W. Baptist 



Methodist Protestant 



Holiness 



Adventist 



No. 



10 

 11 

 9 

 9 

 3 

 3 

 1 

 1 

 1 



Town 



Total 

 Mem'ship 



1,950 



1,952 



676 



483 



265 



202 



50 



10 



15 



No. 



22 



23 



12 



10 



4 



















Country 



Total 

 Mem'ship 



2,709 



1,956 



1,023 



542 



185 



















321 



100 



50 



20 



30 



Attention should be called to the strength of the Baptist and the 

 Methodist bodies and the "Anti-Unionist" Cumberland Presbyterians. 



There is often a good deal of interchurch attendance and the 

 churches have stood together splendidly in the great prohibition cam- 

 paign — a splendid augury for the future — but for the most part the 

 different denominations are rivals. Instead of cooperating they are 

 competing with each other; and the founding of 33 new churches 

 within the last 10 years in this already badly overchurched region 

 shows how little they understand the common cause for which all 

 churches exist. The investigator could see little hope for any scheme 

 of church federation in the near future. The attitude of a very large 

 proj)ortion of the church members is well summed uj) in the reply of a 

 member of one of the four Trezevant churches to the suggestion that 

 perhaps some time these churches could get together and support a 

 resident pastor on full time. This man appeared startled and replied 

 with some heat, "Not so long as I have any breath in my body." 



The most unfortunate situation exists here as a result of the Cumber- 

 land Union. This union undertaken to solve the difficult overchurching 

 problem, has failed of its purpose in this county. Instead of fewer and 

 stronger churches the result has been more and weaker churches. Be- 



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