Presbyterian Count

The Presbyterian Church of the U. S. suspends its members when they disappear, when no trace of them is found for many years. Rev. Dr. Lewis Seymour Mudge of Philadelphia, stated clerk of the General Assembly, announced last week that the church had put the names of 67,060 of its members on the suspended list last year. In spite of this, the number of communicants enrolled was the largest the church has known, the donations per person the most generous yet recorded.

More men became candidates for the ministry, more deacons enrolled, more elders were appointed. Yet there was a decrease in the number of candidates for the clergy who were licensed to preach, who were ordained; fewer adults, infants were baptized.

Pennsylvania leads other states in the number of Presbyterian members, Dr. Mudge, Philadelphian, noted. Pittsburgh has the largest Presbyterian congregation, Pennsylvania the largest Synod.