A Methodist or a Baptist can have none of the former feeling of martyrdom now, when in numbers and wealth his denomination is so powerful.[1] [Footnote 1: Except these five, other church organizations have few members.

There are a few Congregationalists, almost entirely the result of post-bellum missions to the negroes.

White and negro Lutheran churches are scattered through the Southern States, and in Kentucky and Tennessee the Disciples are important.

Here and there other denominations have gained a foothold, but their numbers are insignificant in the South as a whole.] Though the evangelical religious teaching of former days has been modified and softened, it has been softened only and not superseded.

The result of this emphasis upon the other world has been to make men look somewhat askance at worldly amusement.