Protestants Lutherans
Norway .......... 33,344 - 10% = 30,010
Sweden .......... 56,766 - 10% = 51,090
Denmark ......... 11,996 - 10% = 10,797
Finland ......... 10,304 - 10% = 9,274
Germany .........486,252 - 20% = 389,002
Austria-Hungary . 27,680 - 80% = 5,535
Russia* ......... 15,000 - 20% = 12,000
507,708

*Many of the Lutherans who have come to us of late years from
Russia, Austro-Hungary and other countries of South Eastern Europe, are
the descendants of German Lutherans who in the eighteenth century
accepted the invitation of Katharine the Second and Marie Theresia to
settle in their dominions. Others are members of various races from the
Baltic Provlnces.

That is, the estimated number of Lutherans of foreign origin, counting
only the chief countries from which they emigrate to America, is
507,708.

But we also have Lutherans here who are not of foreign origin. Lutherans
have lived in New York from the beginning of its history. Its first
houses were built by Heinrich Christiansen, who certainly had a Lutheran
name. The Lutherans of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, it is
true, left no descendants to be enrolled in our church books. These are
to be found in goodly numbers in the Protestant Episcopal and other
churches where they occupy the seats of the mighty. It is too late to
get them back.