37 152 Episcopal, Protestant.......... 124 186 Evangelical Alliance............ 135 65 Evangelical Association....... 136 329 Friends, Orthodox Fratres Albati........... 38 French Prophets... Bereans............................................................... 136 Free-Will Baptists........ Brahmins Brownists........ Buddhists...... 254 58 254 255 114 36 Free Communion Baptists.... 112 213 249 Reformed, German...... 284 St. Simonians......... 302 79 ..116, 265 Six Principle Baptists......... 142 Mormons.... Mystics........ 241 Theophilanthropists............ 94 New Jerusalem Church........ 45 Tractarians...................................................................... 35 Servetians..... 206 35 Shakers... 216 35 Socinians... 204 67 Seventh-Day Baptists.. 150 45 HISTORY OF ALL RELIGIONS. THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. THE career of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States commenced in the winter of 1633, when Lord Baltimore landed with a number of immigrants near the mouth of the river Potomac in Maryland. He had obtained the charter of the colony of Maryland from Charles I., with the avowed intention of colonizing a new province, of which his brother, Lord Calvert, was to be the Governor. The great majority of the immigrants who accompanied these noblemen were Roman Catholics. The first act of the Governor after landing was to erect a cross upon the shore. He himself was a Catholic; the whole administration of the colony was in the hands of the Catholics; the laws which subsequently controlled the community were enacted and administered by Catholics and, therefore, it is with great truth asserted that the State of Maryland was first established by members of the Catholic Church. Contemporary with the founding of the colony were also the introduction and establishment of the Catholic Church and religion. The colony of Maryland was governed by laws of the most liberal description. Lord Calvert enacted that, in the civil government of the colony, there should be an absolute equality of rights extended to all religious per |