Excerpt from Bulletin of the North Carolina State Board of Health, Vol. 27: Published Monthly at the Office of the Secretary of the Board, Raleigh, N. C., April, 1912-March, 1913The Bureau Of the Census Of the United States Government shows that during the last fifty years there has been a steady and healthy growth Of the Christian Church, both in number of churches and value of church property. The figures show that the church has, without a single intermission, grown more rapidly than the population, and the seating capacity with one single decennial decline which followed the Civil War, has been more rapid than the growth Of the population. The figures compiled from the Census Report are as follows.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.