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gationalists for many recent years adopting that as their eccle- siastical year. The chief statistical effect of this variety is that the twelve months reported are not exactly the same in all cases.
That the chief conclusion from the first table may be a little more clearly seen another table follows in which the figures for the revival years are preceded and followed by the average annual additions before and after the revival.
TABLE II Additions to Chitrches in the Revival Year and the Average Annual Addi- tions FOR Five Years Before and After that Year The small figures show the number of years where it is less than 5. A minus sign (— ) before a number denotes an annual average loss. The figures are for states but for New England Conference in case of Methodists.
State
New England . . . New Hampshire Vermont ,
New England . .
Connecticut. ...
Massachusetts. . ((
Maine •
New Hampshire Rhode Island. ..
New England. .
Maine
Connecticut. ...
Massachusetts. . it
New Hampshire Vermont
Connecticut. ...
Maine
Massachusetts. .
Denomination
Annual Aver- age before
Revival Year
Annual Average After
Revival Period
1832
Methodist
2,3263
5,297
1,336
Congregational
856
3,913
1,255*
Baptist
711'
1,597
612
Congregational
5,180
1,150
Methodist
1842
3. 1 59
( 10,100 ) \ 10,109 >
-918
Congregational
1,7743
3,188
612
Congregational
1,390
5,3236
1,310
Baptist
1,610
5,100
1,067
Baptist
1,682c
2,464
334
Baptist
660
2,525
66o4
Baptist
488 1858
1,244
308
Methodist
1,040
5,10s
-778
Baptist
2,445
484
Congregational
5,944
744
Baptist
1,194
4,207
1,075
Congregational
2,136
8,811
1,359
Baptist
260
686
154
Baptist
515'
1,483
413
Congregational
1877 1,565
3,331
i,646d
Baptist
1,273
609
Baptist
1,791
3,365
1,571
Congregational
3,271
5,698
2,067c
Episcopal
1,146
1,446
1,078
after.
a Two years' revival.
6 10,673 in s years before; 10,656 in s years including revival after.
e Three of these years had over a, 000 each.
d Revival continued giving 1,989 and 3,949 in ist and ad years after. 1070 in Maine (Bap.) ist year
e a,7S7 less in 1877-81 than in former 5 years.
