OF THE  UNITED  STATES.                        67
(and these are too many ;) namely : Methodist,
Baptist, Congregational, Episcopal, and Presbyte-
rian. The remainder is composed of small eccentric
congregations which Bpring up and die, and of
which no one takes heed, except a few tourists, who
are always willing to note down extraordinary facts.
We will add that the sectarian spirit is now
attacked in America, and that the essential unity
which binds the members of the five denominations
together, in spite of some external differences, is
manifesting itself forcibly. Not only does the evan-
gelical alliance prove to the most sceptical that this
unity is real, but a fact peculiar to the United
States, the great awakening produced by the crisis
of 1857, has given evidence of the perfect harmony
of convictions. In the innumerable meetings
caused to spring up by this awakening from one
end of the country to the other, it has been impos-
sible to distinguish Baptists, Presbyterians, or Con-
gregationalists from each other. All have been
there, and no one has betrayed by the least shade
of dogmatism those self-styled profound divisions
about which so much noise is made. I invite those
still in doubt to look at the manner in which public
worship is established in the West : as soon as a few
men have formed a settlement, a missionary comes