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| | United States. Bureau of the Census. Religious Bodies, 1906: [Excerpts Relating to African American Religious Bodies]. |
 | | The increase in the value of church property shown by the Baptist bodies is $16,283,246, or 158.4 per cent, and by the Methodist bodies, $10,945,710, or 73.8 per cent, these 2 families showing an increase in the value of church property of $27,228,956, or 90.7 per cent of the total increase. |
 | | In 2 bodies reporting both white and colored organizations, the Congregationalists and Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, the reverse is true, the percentage of males for the Congregationalists being 34.1, for the colored organizations, 38.6; of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, 36.5; of the colored organizations, 37.4. |
 | | The National Baptist Union at Nashville is the accredited organ of the denomination, but the Christian Banner of Philadelphia has the largest circulation, and the American Baptist of Louisville is the oldest among the colored Baptist journals. |
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