Alabama, Associations. Churches. Or. Minist's. Baptized. Total 429 5.481 61.219 4,000 12,555 1.231 81,588 10,264 41,610 808 Arkansas," 321 149 1,272 11,341 1,985 110 Delaware, 3 Dis. of Columbia, Florida," 5 134 73 553 6,483 390 2.473 35,384 Indiana, 31 472 254 1.308 26,779 Indian Territory, Iowa, The General Conference held its nineteenth session at Lewiston, Me., October 4-12, 1865. It meets (since 1841) every third year, being made up of delegates from "Yearly Meetings." Their foreign mission is in Orissa, India, — four male missionaries, six female, six native preachers, two native colporteurs, and a printing-press. Expenditures, year ending Sept. 30, 1865, $11,766.32. Home Missions, $2,589.73. 4,315 Mission to Freedmen (21 stations), $4,397.66, 35,358 13,949 besides for Beaufort meeting-house, $2,067.60. 2,955 Education, — $1,011.66. Profits of printing establishment for three years, $18,555.41. There are permanent funds for Education Society, Indigent Students, Biblical Professorships, Library, and Four Years' course of study. The Freewill Baptist Register, for 1866, published at Dover, N. H., gives other information: The "Freewill Baptist Printing Establishment," Dover, N. H., is a flourishing in7.969 stitution, publishing works useful to the de108.888 nomination, and also the Morning Star, a 49 widely-circulating weekly religious newspaper, and the Myrtle, a Sabbath school semimonthly. The "Freewill Baptist Quarterly." Societies,- Foreign Mission, Home Mission, Education, Female Systematic Beneficent, 60.532 32.839 1,372 42,030 8,515 62,984 46,564 19.089 8.556 3,244 1.400 15.828 37,000 10 260 188 747 14.756 West India Islands, 4 210 160 1,000 611 13,440 8.379 71,241 1,116,708 592 12,702 7,867 68,615 1,040,303 Anti-Slavery, Sabbath School Union, and the New York State Mission, and Western Home Mission Committee. Educational, — Hillsdale College, Mich.; Bates College, Lewiston, Me.; Biblical School, New Hampton, N. H.; New Hampton Institution, N. H.; Strafford Seminary, N. H.; Whitestown Seminary, N. Y.; North Western College, Wasioja, Min.; Pike Seminary, N. Y.; Prairie City Academy, 6,796 Ill.; Lapham Institute, North Scituate, R. I.; Cheshire Academy, Ohio. The Methodist Almanac gives the following Sunday school statistics, as taken from the an nual report of the Sunday School Union of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1865: The receipts for missionary purposes, both home and foreign, during the year 1864, were $558,993.26, an increase of $129,224.51 over the previous year; averaging 60-2 per member. The Educational list gives twenty-three Colleges, two Biblical Institutes, and seventyseven Seminaries, Female Colleges, and Academies. We have not the original report of 1859 at hand, but our pages gave it in that year, excluding the churches in Liberia and Germany. Doing the same this year, we find a gain of 378 travelling preachers; 1,110 local preachers; 49,272 members, and a loss of 84,215 probationers, net loss of members, 34,943. From the Methodist Almanac, of 1866, we take the following table of the statistics of the METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, collected in 1865: CONFERENCES. Baltimore, 93 12.037 1,693 TR. PREACHERS. Local NUMBERS IN SOCIETY. BENEVOLENT CONTRIBUTIONS. $31.00 $500 Black River, 164 33 197 162 19,953 1,941 21.894 8.869 30 461 56 441 38 California, t Central German,t Central Illinois, Central Ohio, 2,115 3 31 Des Moines, Detroit. East Baltimore, East Genesee,. 160 26 186 151 East Maine, 19,921 30 461 30 370 15 217 21,936 9 192 14,591 109 78 112 4,005 27 2.489 81 108 73.50 Missouri & Arkansas, Nebraska, Nevada, [The last figure of total "members" we make "1" instead of "4," and "decrease," therefore, to be 9,288. Against Holston, "48" total preachers should be "45," to balance line and column.] "The month of October, 1866, is the centenary of American Methodism. What a sum, for our 'ready reckoners,' will be the multiplication of our numbers from the first gathering of six persons for preaching, in Barrack Street, whom the good Barbara Hick had gathered to the preacher's house, to the numbers that now swell our ranks!" 31.121 22.362 31,556 ? 46.305 41,672 4,256 ? PRESBYTERIAN. more Presbyterian Of the twenty or Churches in America, we can give but few reports in this number. The Minutes of each General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America," for the session of 1865, give full reports. Those of the "Old School" still reckon, in its number of Synods, Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Memphis, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, and Virginia, which seceded some years ago; and their forty Presbyteries in the number of Presbyteries; but with no membership or other reports. Those Presbyteries form part of the "General Assembly of the Confederate States of America;" and while diminishing the numbers of the Old School Assembly, fortunately relieved that body of a heavy mass of pro-slavery and treason. From present appearances of Southern loyalty and Christianity, the seceding churches do not seem likely to return. In the summary of the Old School are included the for. eign Presbyteries of Siam, Shanghai, Ningpo, and Western Africa; and the Synod of Northern India (including the Presbyteries of Allahabad, Ferrukhabad, and Lodiana). These number 38 churches, 2,793 communicants, and 1,387 in Sabbath schools. The following are the summaries, compared with 1859: Min. Relief, Congregational, Miscellaneous, TOTAL, Publication,. 1.939,566 2,070.479 1,264.667 338.327 198,843 501.141 2,797,639 2,924,448 2,067,183 PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL. - the Two almanacs give the statistics, "Protestant Episcopal Almanac" and the "Church Almanac;" the former published by the "Protestant Episcopal Society for the Promotion of Evangelical Knowledge," the latter by the "Protestant Episcopal Tract Society." Whether there is any special significance in the distinction of Societies and Almanacs, we are too far outside to know; but, statistically speaking, we are decidedly in favor of the latter. From the "Church Almanac" we take our tables. The same authority gives, under "General Institutions," the General Theological Seminary, New York, and the University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn.; and we gather from the particulars under the several "Dioceses and Missions," twelve Colleges or Universities, nine Theological Schools, and twenty. three Academies, Schools, &c., of which latter, two are preparatory schools for theological study. The following table gives the reports as collected in 1865: Ordina- DIOCESES AND MISSIONS. Maine, 20 18 3 Vermont,. New Hampshire,. 22 21 Massachusetts, 116 78 3 30 37 New York, 395 311 23 27 47 5 Western N. York, 149 167 6 New Jersey, ..113 102 6 Pennsylvania,. .233 220 Delaware, 16 25 0 48887417 Priests. 3 9 13 25 7 12 Virginia, . North Carolina, 214 114 328 129 156 1,589 61 256 187 1,361 $11,639 21 99 51 150 110 77 1.085 36 98 100 787 5,722 60 6 0 132 56 188 117 2 2,110 63 196 173 1,335 6.732 35 4 11 Rhode Island, 2 1,133 2031,335 689 717 9,619 450 891 655 7,794 150,928 36 38 32 3 0 1 352 144 496 323 368 3,928 212 409 518 4.217 45,612 55 Connecticut,. 150 129 5 7 22 2 1,421 4431,864 1,073 939 12,596 5421,152 1,693 9,592 216,909 02 6,053 1,0977,150 3.250 2,330 33,318 1,898 3,445 3,763 34.727 843.546 96 1,653 5712.224 1,582 1,866 14,061 1.543 12.688 288,094 27 265 1,557 835 622 7,930 357 8911,138 9.355 162,844 31 536 3.737 1,553 1,551 22,041 1,157 2,174 2,765 29,053 235,729 83 49 369 120 186 1,172 62 169 241 2,334 14,366 16 265 2,748 1,750 1,215 10.059 675 1,674 974 7,488 130,6 2783 185 1,019 207 6,500 3441,103 South Carolina, titu Ohio,. 28 34 2 Tennessee,. Mississippi, Louisiana, Michigan, Alabama, Illinois, Florida, 250 556 459 82 541 24 Kansas, 28 29 37 25 10 11 Arkansas Miss'n, 5 sion,... Dioceses,. 17 12 2 4 4 Priests and Deacons, 169 SE Ordinations-Deacons, Priests, Candidates for Orders, Churches Consecrated, Baptisms-Infants, 94 Marriages, 91 Burials, 220 Sunday School Teachers, 40 24,689 Contributions, Scholars, A comparison of official reports for 1859 and 1866, gives the following: 5,297 91 15.360 12,943 154,118 7,487 15.650 17,538 150,400 $2,700,004 08 |