Rev. Reuben Gaylord, ord. 1838, Agent A. H. M. S., Omaha.

The population of Nebraska," Br. Gaylord writes us, October 28, "has increased very much within the last year. The Homestead Law is bringing us settlers. The building of the Pacific R. R., from Omaha west, is attracting the attention of business men. . Our settlements are considerably scattered, and this makes

a demand for itinerant labor. A half dozen devoted, self-denying men could be set at work in this way with great profit to our population, and advantage to our institutions and polity. I have just organized two new churches on one field occupied by one of our missionaries; and if we had the men, of the right stamp, the same results could be reached in other portions of the Territory."

1856 Z. Baker,
1858 None.

1862 Jared W. Fox,

1860 Peter McVicar,

1861 Jared W. Fox,
1856 Peter McVicar,
1863

None.

1860 Harvey P. Robinson,
1857 Charles L. Guild,
1860 Richard Cordley,

1868 Harvey P. Robinson,
1850 R. Davenport Parker,

OTHER MINISTERS.

S. L. Adair, Agent Am. Chr. Com.,
Leavenworth.

Nelson Alvord, chap. Mo. Vols.
George L. Becker, Powhattan.

1862 11 14 25
4 12 16
1861 6 5 11 1

1861 1860 2 4 6

1860 18 21 39 9
1861 1860 28 33 61 15 3
1 2 3

1861 1862 1 5 6 0
1865 29 31 60 24
1858 4 6 10

25

20

3 1

12

125

32

2118

2

312 3

2 1 3

60

100

1861 1862 6 4 10
1850 11 18 29 5
339 467 794 164 35 36 71 30 1 8 39 12 13 1040

Lewis Bodwell, Ag't A. H. M. Soc., | Joseph Peart, Albany.
Wyandotte.

John H. Byrd, Leavenworth.
Josiah G. Fuller, 1st Kansas Batt.
Samuel Y. Lane.

Gilbert S. Northrup, Geneva.

Ira H. Smith, ord. 1846, Topeka.
William Todd, Junction City.
Moses C. Welch, late chaplain 5th
Conn. Vols.

SUMMARY. CHURCHES: 23 with ministers (not subdivided); 9 vacant. TOTAL, 32.
MINISTERS: 17 in pastoral service; 12 others. TOTAL, 29.
CHURCH MEMBERS, etc., as above.

TOTAL, 12.

MONEYS CONTRIBUTED-LOCAL: Ministers' salaries (17 churches). $6,248.85; church erection (6 churches), $4,133.00; incidental expenses (9 churches), $852.65; Sunday school libraries (9 churches), $583.00 BENEVOLENT Home Missions (16 churches), $392.10; Foreign Missions (10 churches), $171.85; Bible Society (7 churches), $91.13; Congregational Union (6 churches), $84.10; Tract Society (5 churches), $98.50; Christian Commission (4 churches), 415.00; Freedmen (3 churches), 65.75; miscellaneous (8 churches), $548.55. TOTAL local, $11,817.50. TOTAL benevolent, $1,866.98. AGGREGATE, $13,684.48.

No. of members liable to military duty, 172. No. in service, 74; of which 11 are dead.
During the year, house of worship completed and dedicated at Atchison. A $1200 organ purchased at
Leavenworth. Church at Topeka has become self-sustaining, and church at Lawrence again so.
Special religious interest at Geneva, Grasshopper Falls, Lawrence 2d church, Leavenworth, and
Topeka.

MONEYS CONTRIBUTED (2 churches): Parish expenses, $2,700.00; charities, $509.50.

OTHER MINISTERS. Sydney H. Marsh, Pres., Forrest Grove; Elkanah Walker, Forrest Grove. — TOTAL, 2. LICENTIATE.-E. A. Tanner.

CONTRIBUTIONS: Home Missions, $135.26; Foreign Missions, $76.06; pastoral support, $3,700.50; other objects, $1,365.00. TOTAL, $5,276.26.

PREACHING STATIONS, 9. CONVERSIONS REPORTED, 3. Average attendance on public worship, 641. The churches are united in a General Association.

Antioch, Cache Creek, Clayton, Coloma, Copperopolis, Downieville, Dutch Flat, El Dorado, Eureka,

1865 B. S. Crosby, 8. s.
1865 Tyler Thatcher, s. 8.
1863 B. S. Crosby, 8. 8.
1865 William A. Tenney, 8.8.
1864 Milton B. Starr, s. 8.
1856 William C. Pond, p.
1864 J. A. Johnson, s. 8.

1861 William A. Tenney, s. 8.
1861 William L. Jones, 8. 8.
1859 John E. Benton, 8. s.
1853 C. H. Pope, s. s. No report.
1865 B. N. Seymour, 8. s.

Folsom,

Grass Valley,

Hayward's,

Lockford,

1862 None.

Mokelumne Hill,

1854 None.

Nevada,

Oakland,

Oroville,

Petaluma,

Redwood City,

Sacramento,

46

66

1851 R. Bayard Snowden, p. 1861 1865 24 36
1860 George Mooar, p.

1856 None. No report.
1854 Hiram Cummings, 8. 9.
1863 William C. Bartlett, s.s. 1858
1849 Israel E. Dwinelle, D. D., p.
San Francisco, 1st ch., 1849 F. B. Wheeler, s. 8.
2d ch., 1862 Joseph A. Benton, p.
3d ch., 1863 E. G. Beckwith, p.
4th ch., 1865' Edwin C. Bissell, s. s.
1864 M. J. Savage, s. 8.
1857 Walter Frear, p.
1864 B. S. Crosby, 8. 8.
1865 P. G. Buchanan, s. 8.
1862 None. No report

491 740 1231 135 77 180 257 10 96 3 109 27 80 3681 OTHER MINISTERS. - Samuel V. Blakeslee, Ed. Pacific, San Francisco; Henry Durant, Prof. Coll. Cal., Oakland; Martin Kellogg, Prof. Coll. Cal., Oakland; Edward Lacy, absent from the State; J. P. Moore, to labor at Benicia; W. C. Mosher, Mokelumne Hill; J. J. Powell; J. Rowell, Seaman's Chaplain, San Francisco; James H. Warren, Ag't A. H. M. Soc. TOTAL, 9.

supplies; 4 vacant. TOTAL, 29.

LICENTIATE.-C. Morgan, supplying at Clayton and Somerville. SUMMARY.-CHURCHES: 7 with pastors; 18 with stated MINISTERS: 7 pastors; 16 stated supplies; 9 others. TOTAL, 32. CHURCH MEMBERS, etc., as above. AMOUNT RAISED FOR CURRENT EXPENSES (23 churches): $36,965.73. Amount raised for church erection: $22,076.00. Charities (14 churches): $4,503.75. Value of church property: $170,600.00. Amount of church debts (7 churches): $22,110.00.

During the year, eight churches organized; eight ministers added, six left the State, and one died. The churches are united in a General Association.

SUMMARY. CHURCHES: 60 with ministers (not subdivided); 33 vacant.
MINISTERS: 50 in pastoral work; 18 others. TOTAL, 68.

Adam Lillie, D. D., Montreal, C. E.
Alex. McDonald, Montreal, C. E.
John McKillican, Danville, C. E.
Robert Norton, St. Catharine, C. W.
Charles P.Watson, Montreal, C. E.
Arthur Wickson, LL. D., Toronto
C. W.

TOTAL, 18.
TOTAL, 93.

CHURCH MEMBERS: 1,756 males; 2,701 females. TOTAL, 4.657, of which 294 are reported absent.
ADDITIONS IN 1864-5: 273 by profession; 112 by letter. TOTAL, 385.

REMOVALS IN 1864-5. 34 by death; 128 by dismissal; 22 by excommunication. TOTAL, 184.

BAPTISMS IN 1864-5: 35 adults; 256 infants.

IN SABBATH SCHOOLS (78 schools): 565 teachers; 4,590 scholars. TOTAL, 5,155.

CONGREGATIONS: 147 regular stations; 148 Sabbath services; 74 weekly services; 12,407 " adherents;" average [attendance ?] of principal congregations, 8,064: average at all stations, 11,503. CONTRIBUTIONS: local objects, $41,134; denominational, $4,631; foreign and Indian missions, $1,818; general religious societies, $1,489. TOTAL. 48,572.

The churches are associated in the Congregational Union of Canada.

Beachmeadows, J. Melvin; Brooklyn, J. Melvin; Cape Canso, None; Cheboque, John Gray; Cornwallis, J. R. Kean; Halifax, None; Liverpool, J. Melvin; Manchester, J. Darin; Mi...., Robert K. Black; Pich...., Enoch Barker, Pleasant River, S. Sykes; Yarmouth, Archibald Burpee.

CHURCHES, 12; MINISTERS, 8. Totals, by last report, 130 males; 207 females. TOTAL, 337. 315 in Sab. Sch.

Cardigan,

Keswick Ridge,

Sheffield,

St. John, Union st.,
Trin. ch.,

St. Stephen,

NEW

George Stirling,

George Stirling,

Robert Wilson,

1844 Oliver Brown,

J. G. Baylis,

1846 Charles G. McCully, 1860 1860 60 114 174 0 4 1 5 2 3 0 5 10180 TOTAL. CHURCHES, 6; MINISTERS, 5. Including former reports, 124 238 362 0 13 316 3 5 0 8 1 0 364 The churches of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick are united (excepting Manchester, St. John, Trin., and St. Stephen, which belongs to Maine Conference) in the "Congregational Union of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick." The lists of churches are sent by Rev. Robert Wilson. Statistics of our churches," writes the Secretary, Nov. 14, "I cannot give. Few as they are in number, it has been hard work, during the past few years, to get pastors to settle over them. That difficulty, thank God, is now in a great measure surmounted, and we begin to enjoy something like Christian fellowship. The brethren are very much united."

JAMAICA, WEST INDIES.

We were promised reports, but failed to receive them. There are, or were, six churches there, under the care of the American Missionary Association.

We are requested to insert last year's reports. It is hardly worth while to do more than to insert the totals in the summary. Any one wishing to see its list is referred to last year's issue.

SUMMARIES.

I. THE CHURCHES, MINISTERS, AND REPORTED CONTRIBUTIONS IN 1865.

1. The figures in the third column - "not specified"— - do not imply that the number of churches so situated have no "pastors," but that the statistical reports do not distinguish between "pastors" and "stated supplies." Yet the great majority of such churches have "stated supplies" only.

2. The churches "not supplied"- most of them have regular preaching, but no minister engaged for regular service. Further, some of them, apparently nearly a hundred, are supplied by licentiates, Presbyterians, or men of other denominations.

3. The sixth column of figures - "condition not reported"-states that the churches reckoned in it make no report whether they have a minister or not. Quite a number do have one; but most of them are doubtless unsupplied.:"

4. The tenth column of figures includes some pastors, but most reckoned therein are stated supplies; but the failure to report exactly prevents us from distributing them. Stated supplies are often practically equivalent to pastors, the only difference being the absence of a legal settlement.

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5. The number of ministers "not in pastoral work" is smaller in the table than in truth. Changing from one State to another, many appear in the lists of neither until a succeeding year. Of the 253 names erased this year, two-thirds will re-appear - according to our experience and as many more fall out another year. Moreover, in most States only those are included who are members of some Association or Conference. Many of those enumerated are missionaries, preachers to churches of other denominations, chaplains, laborers with the Freedmen, presidents and professors in colleges, teachers, secretaries and agents of benevolent societies, editors, &c. Postmasters, farmers, state-officials, physicians, and the like, ought to be dropped.

6. The 2,888" total ministers" include such additional as have been found in preparing "List of Ministers." 7. "Benevolent Contributions" do not include current expenses, building, or repairs of churches, paying church debts, or any other local expenses.