840 



This statement furnishes only the great divi- 

 sions of the Christian communities. I believe 

 that the materials I possess* on the relative state 

 of the Roman Catholics and Protestants are suf- 

 ficiently exact, but I shall not enter into the 

 detail of the divisions of the protestant or evan- 

 gelical [Calvinistic] church. A few partial 

 estimates, for instance, of the number of catho- 

 lics in Louisiana, Maryland, and Lower Cana- 

 da, are perhaps somewhat uncertain ; but that 

 uncertainty affects quantities which have but a 

 feeble influence on the definitive result. I be- 

 lieve that the number of protestants in the 

 whole of continental and insulary America, 

 from the southern extremity of Chili to Green- 

 land, is, to the Roman Catholics, as 1 : 2. 

 There exist, on the western coast of North 

 America, some thousands of individuals who 

 follow the Greek worship. I am ignorant of 

 the number of Jews spread over the surface of 

 the United States, and in several of the West 

 India islands ; but their number is inconsider- 

 able. The independent Indians, who belong io 

 no Christian community, are to the Christian 

 population as 1 : 42. In the present state of 



* These materials first appeared in the Revue Protestante, 

 No. 3, p. 97. (See my Letter to Mr. Charles Coquerel.) 

 More precise notions on the population of Cuba, Haiti, and 

 Portorico, have led to some corrections in the partial states 

 ments. 



