g2 ~RELIGIOUS DENOMINATIONS. 
and stations, 60; priests, 206 ; priests ordained since January, 
1872, 15; clerical students, 68; literary institutions, including 
universities, colleges, academies and parish schools, 134; female 
academies and convents, g ; religious orders of men, 6; hospitals, 
3; Orphan asylums, 4; number of orphans, goo; benevolent and 
charitable institutions, 4; religious orders of women, 12; Cath- 
olic population, about 220,000. 
The value of the church and school property of the Catholics in 
this State cannot fall short of some four millions of dollars. It 
must be admitted that this Church has done much for Christian 
education, and to bestow charity upon the distressed. There are 
two excellent Catholic book stores in St. Louis, one for English 
publications in charge of P. Fox, and the other for the sale of 
German publications, in charge of F. SaLer; also, two Catholic 
newspapers, the Western Watchman, (weekly,) English, and the 
Herald Des Glaubens, (weekly) German. There are two very 
valuable libraries in the Archdiocese, one attached to St. 
John’s Church, St. Louis, and called the Diocesan Library, and the 
other attached to the St. Louis University. There is a very 
excellent library at the Christian Brothers’ College, and a circula- 
ting library attached to most of the Catholic churches of the city 
of St. Louis. 
The literary institutions of the denomination are as follows: 
Theological Seminary, St. Vincent's, Cape Girardeau. Very Rev. 
A. Verinna, C. M., President. 170 students. 
St. Louis University, St. Louis. Rev. J. G. ZEALAND, S. J., Pres- 
ident. 400 students. 
Christian Brothers’ College, St. Louis. Bro. JAMEs, Director. 
370 students. 
Saint Patrick’s Academy, St. Louis. 
2¢0 students. 
Bro. NicHouas, Director. 
Convent and Academy of the Visitation, St. Louis, for young 
ladies, in charge of the Sisters of the Visitation. Mother VINCEN- 
viA MarotTre, Superior, and Sister Emia, Directress. 100 lady 
pupils. 
Convent and Academy of the Sisters of Saint Joseph, Hannibal. 
Mother GapriEL, Superior. 70 lady pupils. 
Convent and Academy of the Sacred Heart, Maryville, St. Louis, 
for young ladies. Madame Tucker, Superior; to which is attach- 
ed a day-school in the old convent, St. Louis. 140 lady pupils. 
Saint Joseph’s Convent and Academy, South St. Louis — lately 
Carondelet — under the Sisters of Saint Joseph. Mother AGATHA, 
Superior, and Sister Mary Josepn, Directress. too lady pupils. 
Convent and Academy of Loretto, Florissant, in charge of the 
Sisters of Loretto. Mother HaypEN, Superior. 85 lady pupils. 
Convent and Academy = Cape Girardeau, under the 
Sisters of Loretto. 
Ursuline Convent and Academy, St. Louis. Mother ALoysia 
Mother Monarcu, Superior. 65 lady pupils. 
WINKLER, Superior. 80 lady pupils. 
Academy and Convent of the Sacred Heart, St. Charles, in 
charge of the Sisters of the Sacred Heart. Mother MILLER, Supe- 
rior. 65 lady pupils. 
Convent and Academy of the Sisters of Saint Joseph, Ste. Gene- 
vieve. Mother Mary Teresa, Superior. 250 lady pupils. 
Convent and Academy of the Sisters of Saint Joseph, Kansas 
City. Mother Di Pazzi, Superior. 50 lady pupils. 
UNITARIAN. 
By Rev. W. G. E tot, LL. D. 
Chancellor of Washington University, St. Louis. 
In St. Louis, the First Unitarian Church (the Church of the 
Messiah) was organized in 1834 by Rev. W. G. E tot, who 
remained its pastor for thirty-seven years. The Second Church 
(Church of the Unity) was established in 1868, under Rev. J. C. 
LEARNED, its present pastor. A ‘‘ Free School and Mission House,”’ 
for reception and education of destitute children, has been sup- 
ported by the above churches for thirty years. The first free day 
school in Missouri was established by the Church of the Messiah. 
There are twelve or fifteen other Unitarian churches in Missouri, 
but the statistics have not been received. 
GERMAN INDEPENDENT EVANGELICAL Prot. 
Union, or Unirep CuHurcu. 
By Rev. Dr. J. G. EBERHARD, 
Pastor of Church of ‘‘ Holy Ghost,’’ St. Louis. 
The first society of this Union was founded in 1834 in St. Louis. 
Revs. Watt and Picker were the pioneers of this work. With 
the increase of German population of St. Louis and Missouri, many 
new societies with similar views were formed, but remained all 
isolated from each other until 1869. That year, a number of min- 
isters and laymen from several of these societies formed a Union 
(Verein) in St. Louis. The constitution adopted guarantees to 
each society, and even each member of the ‘‘ Union,”’ entire inde- 
pendence in regard to dogmas, demanding as common basis nothing 
but faith in the Gospel of Christ as explained by modern theology 
and science, free of all mere human authority—and reciprocity in 
words and work of Christian love and friendship. Since then three 
annual conventions of delegates have been held, but as many of 
the religious societies of similar tendency stand yet aloof from the 
Union, no full statistical information can yet be given regarding 
them. The Protestantischen Zeitblitter, in Circinnati, is at 
present the outward organ of the Evangelical Protestant Union of 
the West, but a separate periodical will probably be established by 
them ere long. 
Unitep BRETHREN IN CHRIST. 
STATISTICS OF 1871, 
Compiled from the New York Observer's Day Book of 1872. 
The ‘‘ Missouri Conference ’’ contains : Organized churches, 17 ; 
members, 2,913; itinerant preachers, 28; local preachers, 21 ; 
meeting houses, 6 ; Sabbath Schools, 45 ; Sabbath School scholars, 
2,047. 
Note.—As there are several denominations‘ in the State of which no mention 
is made in the above article, the publisher, in justice to himself, would state that 
he made application to several persons connected with those societies, and the 
information desired either failed entirely to come to hand, or was too late for issue 
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