In his address here before the Pacific slope Congregational congress, as reported in the Oregonian, a doctor gave some interesting figures bearing upon the possibility of a shifting of Christian leadership west of the Rockies from five of the older representative Protestant denominations to three of the "newer sects," reporting that the Christian Scientists, the Mormons, and Seventh Day Adventists show a gain of seven hundred and seventeen churches in this territory over a ten-year period, as against a loss of five hundred and six on the part of the Baptists, Episcopalians, Congregationalists, Methodists, and Presbyterians.