15Y 45Y 6,000Y Y
+------------------+---------+----------+--------+---------+
YTunkers Y 40Y 40Y 3,000Y 30,000Y
+------------------+---------+----------+--------+---------+
YUnitarians Y 200Y 174Y Y 180,000Y
+------------------+---------+----------+--------+---------+
YUniversalists Y 653Y 317Y Y 600,000Y
+==================+=========+==========+========+=========+

In this list many varieties of sects are blended into one. For
instance, the Baptists, who are divided; also the Friends, who have been
separated into Orthodox and Hicksite, the Camelites, etcetera, etcetera.
But it is not worth while to enter into a detail of the numerous minor
sects, or we might add Deists, Atheists, etcetera.--for even _no_
religion is a species of _creed_. It must be observed, that, according
to this table, out of the whole population of the United States, there
are only 1,983,905, (with the exception of the Catholics, who are
Communicants,) that is, who have openly professed any creed; the numbers
put down as the population of the different creeds are wholly
suppositions. How can it be otherwise, when people have not professed?
It is computed, that in the census of 1840 the population of the States
will have increased to 18,000,000, so that it may be said that only one
ninth portion have professed and openly avowed themselves Christians.

Religion may, as to its consequences, be considered under two heads: as
it affects the future welfare of the individual when he is summoned to
the presence of the Deity, and as it affects society in general, by
acting upon the moral character of the community. Now, admitting the
right of every individual to decide whether he will follow the usual
beaten track, or select for himself a by-path for his journey upward, it
must be acknowledged that the results of this free-will are, in a moral
point of view, as far as society is concerned, any thing but
satisfactory.

It would appear as if the majority were much too frail and weak to go
alone upon their heavenly journey; as if they required the support, the
assistance, the encouragement, the leaning upon others who are
journeying with them, to enable them successfully to gain the goal. The
effects of an established church are to cement the mass, cement society
and communities, and increase the force of those natural ties by which
families and relations are b