^ ^' 1918 Year Book of the Churches COVERING THE YEAR 1917 Edited by CLYDE F. ARMITAGE Assistant Secretary of the Federal Covincil, Washington, D. C. Published for The Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America BY The Missionary Education Movement New York 1918 » Copyright, 191 8, by The Federal Council of the Churches of Christ IN America FOREWORD The Year Book of the Churches succeeds the Federal Council Year Book and will be issued annually. The Directory of Religious Bodies includes all denominations recognized by the Federal Census. The Directory of Inter- church Bodies contains three times the number of organizations formerly treated. Most of these bodies publish Year Books with other data of value. Part II, General Information, is largely given to information connected with the war. The directories and statistics are official. The statistics con- cerning Churches and Sunday Schools are reprinted from the United States Census Bureau findings and are offered in com- parison with the Census of religious bodies made by the Federal Bureau of the Census ten years ago. The treatment of the cooperation of the Churches and Inter- Church Bodies officially in the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, is especially significant because the war has increased the necessity of federating religious activities. Books of value in nearly every phase of Christian work, published by the Federal Council, are listed as a bibliography. The general arrangement will be the same in future volumes as in this one, but it is expected that additional material will be offered in successive issues. Each division of the book is preceded by a table of the material treated, which, with the table of contents of the book and the complete cross index, will enable the reader to find every topic readily. Further information will be sent as requested. Suggestions for improvements that can be made in the 1919 issue are desired. The Editor. CONTENTS PAGE Foreword . iii Part I. Directory of Religious Bodies With the governing body of each, the date of its next session, the general officers, general boards, schools, and periodical publications. Part II. Directory of Interchurch and Kindred Bodies 117 With the headquarters, officers, and purpose of each. Part III. General Information 149 Including Navy chaplains. Army chaplains, the war- work commissions of the religious bodies and inter- church organizations, war relief societies, peace so- cieties, a list of negro denominations, and a list of non-sectarian religious periodicals. Part IV. Statistical Information 171 Including the number of churches, pastors, and com- municants; the number of Sunday Schools, teachers and officers, and members (to be mailed as a supple- ment); also statistics concerning foreign missions, home missions, and the Young Men's Christian Associations. Part V. The Federal Council of the Churches of Christ IN America 207 A review and directory of the official organization through which most of the evangeUcal Protestant denominations coordinate much of their work. Index 243 PART I DIRECTORY OF RELIGIOUS BODIES ABBREVIATIONS USED IN DIRECTORY Pres. : : : Order in which Religious Bodies are Treated* Adventist bodies Advent Christian Church Seventh Day Adventists Life and Advent Union Church of God, Adventist Churches of God in Christ Jesus, Adventist Amana Society American Rescue Workers Armenian Church Assemblies of God, General Council Assyrian Jacobite ApostoHc Church Bahai Movement Baptist bodies (Baptist World Alliance) Northern Baptist Convention Southern Baptist Convention National Baptist Convention (Colored) National Baptist Convention (Unincorporated) Seventh Day Baptists Six Principle Baptists Duck River and Kindred Associations Free Baptists Free Will Baptists Free Will Baptists (Colored) Free Will Baptists (Bullockites) General Baptists Primitive Baptists Colored Primitive Baptists Regular Baptists United Baptists Separate Baptists Two-Seed-in-the-Spirit Predestinarian Baptists Brethren (German Baptist Dunkers) : Church of the Brethren (Conservative Dunkers) Brethren Church (Progressive Dunkers) Old Order German Baptist Brethren German Seventh Day Baptists (Dunkers) Church of God (New Dunkers) Brethren, Plymouth Plymouth Brethren I Plymouth Brethren II Plymouth Brethren III Plymouth Brethren IV Plymouth Brethren V Plymouth Brethren VI • The order is alphabetic and follows that of the Federal Bureau of the Census. : :: : 4 Year Book of the Chui'ches Brethren, River: Brethren m Christ of the U. S. A. and Canada United Zion's Children Old Order, or Yorker, Brethren Catholic Apostolic Churches Catholic Apostolic Church New Apostolic Church Christadelphians Christian and Missionary Alliance Christian Catholic Church in Zion Christian Church (American Christian Convention) Christian Union Church of Christ, Scientist Church of God and Saints of Christ (Colored) Church of God as Organized by Christ Church of the Universal Messianic Message Churches of Christ Churches of God Churches of God in North America, General Eldership Churches of the Living God (Colored) : Church of the Living God (Christian Workers for Fellow- ship) Church of the Living God, General Assembly (Apostolic) Churches of the New Jerusalem General Convention of the New Jerusalem General Church of the New Jerusalem Congregational Churches Disciples of Christ Eastern Orthodox Churches Albanian Orthodox Church Bulgarian Orthodox Church Greek Orthodox Church (Hellenic) Roumanian Orthodox Church Russian Orthodox Church Serbian Orthodox Church Syrian Orthodox Church Evangelical Association Evangelical Protestant Church of North America Evangelistic Associations Apostolic Christian Church Apostolic Faith Movement Christian Congregation Church of Daniel's Band Church Transcendent Hephzibah Faith Missionary Association Lumber River Mission Metropolitan Church Association Missionary Church Association Peniel Missions Pentecost Bands of the World : : :: Directory of Religious Bodies Pillar of Fire (The Pentecostal Union) Voluntary Missionary Society in America (Colored) Free Christian Zion Church of Christ (Colored) Friends Society of Friends (Orthodox) Society of Friends (Hicksite) Orthodox Conservative Friends (Wilburite) Friends (Primitive) General Assembly of the Church of the Living God German Evangelical Synod of North America Holiness Church International Apostolic Holiness Church Jewish Latter Day Saints Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Lithuanian National Catholic Church Lutheran bodies General Bodies Lutheran General Synod Lutheran United Synod, South Lutheran General Council Lutheran Synodical Conference Norwegian Lutheran Church of America Independent Synods Lutheran Joint Synod of Ohio Lutheran Synod of Buffalo Lutheran Eielsen's Synod (Norwegian) Lutheran Synod of Iowa Danish Lutheran Church Lutheran Icelandic Synod Lutheran Suomi Synod (Finnish) United Danish Lutheran Church Lutheran Free Church (Norwegian) Finnish National Lutheran Church Apostolic Lutheran Church (Finnish) Church of the Lutheran Brethren (Norwegian) Lutheran Jehovah Conference Lutheran Immanuel Synod Mennonite bodies Mennonite Church General Conference of Mennonites of North America Amish Mennonite Church Conservative Amish Mennonite Church Old Order Amish Mennonite Church Church of God in Christ (Holdeman Mennonites) Central Conference of Mennonites Defenseless Mennonites : : : : 6 Year Book of the Churches Conference of Defenseless Mennonites of North America Hutterian Brethren Kleine Gemeinde Mennonite Brethren in Christ ' Mennonite Brethren Church of North America Krimmer Bruedergemeinde Old Order Mennonite (Wisler) Reformed Mennonite Church Stauffer Mennonites Methodist bodies (Ecumenial Methodist Conference) Methodist Episcopal Church Methodist Episcopal Church, South Methodist Protestant Church Wesleyan Methodist Connection of America Primitive Methodist Church Congregational Methodist Church New Congregational Methodist Church Free Methodist Church of North America African Methodist Episcopal Church African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church African Union Methodist Protestant Church African American Methodist Episcopal Church Colored Methodist Episcopal Church Colored Methodist Protestant Church Union American Methodist Episcopal Church Reformed Methodist Union Episcopal Church (Colored) Reformed Zion Union Apostolic Church (Colored) Moravian bodies Moravian Church (Unitas Fratrum) Bohemian and Moravian Brethren (Evangelical Union) Independent Moravian Churches Non-Sectarian Churches of Bible Faith Old Catholic Churches Old Roman Catholic Church of America American Catholic Church Catholic Church of North America Pentecostal Church of the Nazarene Pentecostal Holiness Church Polish National Catholic Church Presbyterian bodies (Alliance of Reformed and Presbyterian Churches) Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. Presbyterian Church in the U. S. (South) Associate Presb3rterian Synod of the South Associate Synod of North America (Associate Presbyterian Church) Cumberland Presbyterian Church Colored Cumberland Presbyterian Church Reformed Presbyterian Church Synod : : : : : Directory of Religious Bodies 7 Reformed Presbyterian Church, General Synod United Presbyterian Church Welsh Presbyterian Church (Calvinistic Methodist) Protestant Episcopal Church Reformed Episcopal Church Reformed bodies (Alliance of Reformed and Presbyterian Churches) Reformed Church in America Reformed Church in the United States Christian Reformed Church Hungarian Reformed Church