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ference, 491 ; missions, 491 ; relations with 

 Methodist Protestant Church, 491 ; colored 

 conferences, 491 ; statistics, 492 ; Colored 

 Methodist Episcopal Church organization, 

 492 ; constitution, 492 ; Methodist Protestant 

 Church meeting of conference, 492 ; action 

 on reunion with Methodist Episcopal and 

 Methodist Churches, 492 ; delegates from 

 Methodist Episcopal Church South, 493 ; sta- 

 tistics, 493 ; African Methodist Episcopal 

 Church, 493; Free Methodist Church, 493; 

 Welsh Calvinistic Methodists, 493 ; Methodist 

 Episcopal Church in Canada, 493 ; Wesleyan 

 Methodist Church, 493 ; Primitive Methodists, 

 493; United Methodist Free Churches, 493; 

 Methodist New Connection, 493; Methodist 

 Reform Union, 494. 



XI. I. Methodist Episcopal Church sta- 

 tistics, 504 ; finances, 504 ; Book Concern, 

 504; trial of Dr. Lanahan, 504, 505. II. 

 Methodist Episcopal Church South statistics, 

 505 ; action of General Conference, 505. III. 

 Methodist Church, 505 ; ordination of women, 

 506. IV. Wesleyan Methodist Connection, 

 506. V. Methodist Episcopal Church in Cana- 

 da, 506. VI. Wesleyan Methodist Church- 

 statistics, 506; missionary work, 507. VII. 

 Primitive Methodist Church, 507. VIII. United 

 Methodist Free Churches, 507. IX. Methodist 

 New Connection, 507. X. Wesleyan Reform 

 Union, 507. XI. Bible Christians, 507. XII. 

 Methodist Union in Canada, 507, 508. 



XII. I. Summary of statistics of Methodist 

 Episcopal Church, 519 ; benevolent institutions, 

 519 ; statistics of the German Department, 519 ; 

 receipts of the Missionary Society, 520 ; appro- 

 priations for foreign and domestic missions, 

 520 ; missionaries employed, 520 ; receipts of 

 the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, 520 ; 

 meeting of the Sixteenth General Conference, 

 520 ; reorganization of mission and other so- 

 cieties, 520 ; settlement of the Book Concern 

 troubles, 521 ; report of the Investigating Com- 

 mittee, 521 ; rules for the organization of 

 district conferences, 522; election of colored 

 bishops, 522. II. Methodist Episcopal Church 

 South, 522 ; statistics of, 522 ; annual meet- 

 ing of the Board of Missions, 523. III. Afri- 

 can Methodist Episcopal Church, 523. IV. 

 African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, 523 ; 

 negotiations for a union with the African Meth- 

 odist Episcopal Church, 523 ; report of Bish- 

 op Jones, 524 ; charges against Bishop Jones, 



524. V. The Methodist Church, 524 ; statis- 

 tics of, 524. VI. Primitive Methodists in the 

 United States, 524. VII. Methodist Episco- 

 pal Church in Canada, 524. VIII. Wesleyan 

 Connection in Canada, 525. IX. Primitive 

 Methodists in Canada, 525. X. Methodist New 

 Connection in Canada, 526. XI. The Wesleyan 

 Connection, 526 ; statistics of, 526 ; discussion 

 of the education question, 526, 527 ; school sta- 

 tistics, 527 ; report of the Wesleyan Mission- 

 ary Society, 528 ; meeting of the Irish Wes- 

 leyan Conference, 528; Conference of tho 

 French Methodist Church, 528; Australasian 

 Wesleyan Conference, 528. XII. Primitive 

 Methodist Connection, 528. XIII. United 

 Methodist Free Churches, 528. XIV. Bible 

 Christians, 529. XV. Welsh Calvinistic Meth- 

 odists, 529. 



XIII. I. Methodist Episcopal Church sta- 

 tistics of, 484 ; foreign missions, 484 ; domes- 

 tic missions, 484 ; statistics of missions, 484. 

 II. Methodist Episcopal Church South 

 statistics of, 485 ; missions, 485 ; a central 

 university, 486. III. Colored Methodist Epis- 

 copal Church statistics of, 486 ; conference, 

 486. IV. Congregational Methodist Church, 

 486 ; statistics of, 486 ; articles on constitution, 

 486. V. Free Methodists, 487. VI. African 

 Methodist Episcopal Church, statistics of, 487. 

 VII. Methodist Episcopal Church in Canada 

 statistics of, 487. VIII. Wesleyan Connection, 

 487 ; conferences, 487 ; resolutions, 487 ; other 

 proceedings, 488; letter from Lords Shaftes- 

 bury and Ebury, 488 ; missionary operations, 

 488 ; conference in Canada, 489 ; plans of 

 union, 489 ; approval, 489 ; Australian Confer- 

 ence, 490. IX. Methodist New Connection, 

 490; statistics of, 490; conference, 490. X. 

 Primitive Methodists, 490; conference, 491; 

 statistics of, 491. XI. United Methodist Free 

 Church statistics of, 491. XII. Bible Chris- 

 tiansstatistics of, 491. XIII. Wesleyan Re- 

 form Union, 491. XIV. Primitive Wesleyan 

 Methodist Connection origin of, 492. 



XIV. Statistics of Methodists in the world, 

 536 ; Episcopal Church statistics, 536 ; German 

 churches, 537 ; missions, 537 ; Freedmen's 

 Aid Society, 538 ; Episcopal Church South, 

 539 ; statistics, 539 ; institutions, 539 ; mis- 

 sions, 540 ; General Conference, 540 ; report of 

 the Colored Church, 540 ; fraternal relations 

 with other bodies, 540 ; responses, 541 ; the 

 Northern Church, 541 ; reply to its communi- 



