stealing, murder, and immorality, since science must require a standard of purity for original man which would sustain, and not destroy, either the individual or the race. If this standard were as well sustained by man as it is by wild animals and combined with good common sense in hygiene at least twenty-five years would be added to the common expectancy of life.

If we do not accept the evolution of man we must accept the standard of the independent creationists, which requires all the attributes that evolution requires, and also holiness and perfection. This simply raises the original standard of man and makes the fall still greater. It is not probable that all of those who read this article will accept all our data or our deductions. The plan of argument, however, must be accepted as the only true method of a scientific presentation of this subject. Whatever is rejected, sufficient facts must still remain to demonstrate our point, as the purity of wild animals and the depravity of man are matters of common observation and cannot be disputed. If man was not evolved from the animal kingdom he must have had an origin equally pure with that of the animals. Whichever view we take of his origin, the result is the same that he had a pure origin which he has not kept. His physical record, as taught by observed facts, is simply a counterpart of his spiritual record, as taught by the revealed word. Hence, there is but one conclusion, from which there is no escape that the fall of man is a scientific fact.

This subject is presented purely from the view of man's physical nature; and we have endeavored to follow only the lead of truth as taught by scientific investigation. It has not been our purpose to defend any theological view or to present even an outline of the proper methods of teaching morality. It has simply been our purpose to correctly settle one scientific point, with the hope of laying a true and proper foundation for the efficient teaching of morality by giving a better understanding of the truth. If we injure none and aid any, to that extent our object has been accomplished.

ART. III.-THE RELIGIOUS SITUATION IN NEW ENG

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CERTAIN questions have been mooted in regard to the religious tendencies and prospects of New England, to which answers have been given, provoking other inquiries, sometimes with unsatisfactory results. The census of the United States for 1890, furnishing fuller and more reliable data of the Churches than any former census, makes it now possible to prosecute this investigation and reach more satisfactory conclusions.

I. Our inquiries begin with the actual exhibits of the Churches. The last census gives the number of the church organizations, a classification never attempted before except in the census of 1870, and also the number of communicants or members, a wholly new item. Even the denominations which have not hitherto registered or enrolled communicants, some of which are new bodies, were induced by Dr. Carroll to furnish the number of their members. Every religious body existing in New England will be given in the following tables; but the church edifices and their valuations and seating capacity will be omitted, lest this article should be unduly extended.