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METHODJSTS. 



statistics of preachers, colleges, missions, etc., 

 551 ; statistics of the " Sunday-School Union," 

 551; receipts, etc., of the "Tract Society," 

 551 ; " Church Extension Society," 551 ; num- 

 ber of members in each State and Territory, 

 551 ; action of the bishops in relation to the 

 Southern States, 551 ; the Church in East Ten- 

 nessee, 551 ; " Mississippi Mission Conference," 

 552 ; missions in other Southern States, 552 ; 

 action of the Baltimore Conference, 552 ; or- 

 der of the President with regard to church 

 property, 552; Southern Church adverse to 

 reunion, 552 ; position of the Southern church 

 defined in a pastoral letter, 552 ; reasons of 

 the Southern Church for opposing a reunion 

 of the churches, 553 ; reestablishment of papers 

 South, 553; action of the Kentucky Confer- 

 ence in relation to reunion, 553 ; proposed 

 union of four non-episcopal bodies of Meth- 

 odists, 554 ; tabular summary of all Methodist 

 bodies, American and foreign, 554. 



VI. Episcopal, 488 ; members, 488 ; prog- 

 ress of the Church, 489; foreign missions, 

 489 ; colleges, 489 ; Episcopal South, 490 ; 

 losses, 490 ; chapter of discipline, 490 ; report 

 on correspondence, 490 ; do. Protestant Amer- 

 ican, 491 ; convention, 491 ; proceedings, 491 ; 

 American Wesleyans, 491 ; the question of 

 union, 491 ; Primitive Methodists, 491 ; Free 

 Methodists, 492 ; Evangelical Association, 492 ; 

 African Methodists, Episcopal, 492; African 

 Methodists, Episcopal, Zion, 492; in Great 

 Britain and her colonies, 492. 



-VII. Episcopal Church societies, 493; re- 

 ceipts, 493; literary institutions, 493; statis- 

 tics of membership, 493 ; annual conferences, 

 494; value of church property, 494; Book 

 Concern, 494; centenary contributions, 494; 

 statistics of Church South, 494; conferences, 

 494; change of name, 495 ; organization of the 

 *' Methodist " Church, 495 ; statistics, 495 ; 

 contributions, 495 ; General Conference, 495 ; 

 organic changes, 495 ; Methodist Protestant 

 Church, 495 ; Wesleyan Connection, 495 ; 

 Evangelical Association, 495 ; statistics, 495 ; 

 meeting of General Conference, 495; resolu- 

 tion in reply to overtures of union from Meth- 

 odist Episcopal Church, 495 ; importance of se- 

 curing lots along the Pacific Railroad for erect- 

 ing churches, 495; African churches, 496; 

 Methodist Episcopal Church in Canada, 496 ; 

 statistics, 496 ; statistics of the Wesleyan Con- 

 nection in Great Britain, 496 ; proceedings of 



the Wesleyan Conference at Bristol, England, 

 496; Primitive Methodists in Great Britain, 

 496; United Methodist Free Churches, 496; 

 Methodist New Connection, 496 ; Wesleyan 

 Pweform Union, 497. 



VIII. Annual conferences and statistics of 

 the Methodist Episcopal Church, 478 ; statis- 

 tics of principal societies, 478, 479 ; appropria- 

 tions, 479 ; General Conference, 479 ; report 

 on lay delegation, 480; Church South, 480; 

 Methodist Protestant, 480 ; Wesleyan Connec- 

 tion, 480 ; Free Methodists, 480 ; Evangelical 

 Association, 480 ; statistics, 481 ; African Epis- 

 copal, 481 ; Zion Church, 481 ; Methodists in 

 Canada, 481 ; Wesleyan Connection in Great 

 Britain, 481 ; British Primitive Methodists, 

 482 ; United Free Churches, 482 ; New Con- 

 nection, 482; Bible Christians, 482; Church 

 Methodists, 482. 



IX. Statistics of tho Methodist Episcopal 

 Church, 432 ; correspondence between the bish- 

 ops of the Church, North and South, in refer- 

 ence to a reunion, 432; proposition of the 

 Northern bishops, 432 ; position of tho North- 

 ern Church, 432 ; reply of the Southern bish- 

 ops, 433 ; proposed reunion of the Methodist 

 Episcopal Church and the African Methodist 

 Episcopal Zion Church, 433 ; vote of the laity 

 and clergy on lay representation, 434 ; fiftieth 

 anniversary of the parent Missionary Society, 

 434 ; history of the same, 434 ; purchase of a 

 building for the use of the Book Concern, 434 ; 

 the Church Extension Society, 434; theologi- 

 cal institutes, 435 ; organization of the Board 

 of Education, 435 ; annual meeting of the Tract 

 Society, 435 ; anniversary of the Sunday-school 

 Union, 485 ; investigation into the management 

 of the Book Concern, 435 ; report of the com- 

 mittee, 435 ; other Methodist bodies in the 

 United States, 436; Evangelical Association, 

 436 ; Methodist Episcopal Church in Canada, 

 436; Wesleyan Methodists in Canada, 436; 

 Wesleyan Methodist Connection of Great Brit- 

 ain, 436 ; Methodist New Connection, 437 ; 

 United Methodist Free Churches, 437; Primi- 

 tive Methodists, 437 ; Bible Christians, 437. 



X. Methodist Episcopal Church, 488 ; sta- 

 tistics, 488 ; vote on lay delegation, 489 ; 

 Book Concern irregularities, 489 ; finances, 

 489; missions, 489; general summary, 489, 



' 490 ; Methodist Episcopal Church South con- 

 ference, 491 ; memorial from Methodist Epis- 

 copal Church on reunion, 491 ; action of con- 



