PROTESTANTS. Arabia, Asiatic Archipelago, China, Persia, and Turkey.. Asiatic Russia.... Austria-Hungary Belgium.... Canada... Denmark. East India and Ceylon..... English Possessions, Africa France... Germany Great Britain.. Greece. 89,000 40,000 3,509,013 15,000 1,800,000 1,865,000 300,000 650,000 580,757 28,331,152 26,000,000 15,000 WHAT THE WORLD BELIEVES TO-DAY. BY COUNTRIES. A EUROPE. USTRIA-HUNGARY.-The State religion of the monarchy is the Roman Catholic, but there is a toleration of all dissenters from it. The population is divided, according to religious belief, as follows: Roman Catholics, 28,000,000; Greek Church members, 3,052,684; Protestants, of all denominations, 3,509,013; Jews, 750,000. At the head of the Catholic hierarchy are the Patriarch of Venice, and twelve archbishops. The Armenians, united with the national church, have also an archbishop at Lemberg. Next to these are sixty suffragan bishops and twelve titular. The United or Catholic Greek Church has one archbishop and five bishops. The primitive Greek Church is under the superintendence of an archbishop at Carlovitz, who has ten bishops under him. The rights and liberties of the Protestant Churches are founded on an edict of toleration promulgated by the Emperor Joseph in 1784, confirmed by his successor, Leopold II., and solemnly recognized by succeeding sovereigns. This edict entitles the Protestant to the full and free enjoyment of his tenets and private religious practices throughout the Austrian dominions; but no place of worship can be opened unless the congregation be composed of 100 families at least. The members of the Lutheran and Reformed Lutheran persuasions in the empire are under the jurisdiction of the joint consistory in Vienna, to which the five Lutheran superintendencies and the four superintendencies of the Reformed Lutheran Church are subordinate. There are, likewise, four independent superintendencies for each persuasion in Hun gary, and one for the Lutherans in Transylvania. The Jews are mostly of the Talmud sect; the minority, of the Kariatish. BELGIUM.-The Belgians are almost entirely Roman Catholic (5,518,146) in faith, there being about 15,000 Prottestants and 1,500 Jews. The people of all religious persuasions, however, enjoy the most perfect freedom in everything connected with the expression of their opinions and in the modes of worship which they may adopt. The Catholics are under the spiritual charge of the archbishop of Malines, and of five bishops. A number of Protestant clergymen have government allowances. Convents and religious establishments are numerous, and the educational system is mainly under the charge of members of the Society of Jesus. Religious teaching in the schools has been suppressed. In June, 1883, a law was passed making theological students liable to conscription. The Catholics have established schools of their own, in which the pupils increased from 580,380 in 1880 to 622,437 in 1882. DENMARK.-The established religion in this kingdom is the Lutheran, but complete toleration is extended to the followers of every sect. The affairs of the national church are under the superintendence of eight bishops, and the bishoprics are the gift of the crown. There are many religious communities in Denmark proper and the duchies that have been left to her by the "arbitration" of the sword, a missionary college at Copenhagen, founded in 1714, and a famous seminary for approved candidates in divinity in the same city. Public worship and instruction are both managed by a department of the ministry. Roman Catholics, 1,857; Protestants, 1,865,000; Jews, 4,300. FRANCE.-According to the latest official census there were in the Republic 35,387,703 Roman Catholics; 467,531 Calvinists; 80,117 Lutherans; 33,109 of other Protestant sects; 49,439 Jews; 3,071 of other non-Christian faiths; and 81,951 of no religion, or whose religion was not ascertained. The Catholics constituted ninety-eight per cent. of the entire population, while the Protestants formed more than ten per |