REFORMED CHURCHES. 



673 



: til.- amemlmeiit \sas :!71.* At 

 ,; S\ no.l. which 



Jbanj i-:i November 'Juth, final ac- 



nt' Mam.- was taken, 1 1'J 



...ting in favor of tin- cham.'. . 



I'lii- number of tho-c in favor was 



l.y .". who <!.->iivd their 



iO recorded in tin- allirmativc. The 



thisChurch, in 1S(>7, were as fo]Io\\ s: 



Number of ministers, 461 ; congregations, 441 ; 

 members received on confession, 4,284 ; by cer- 

 tificate, 2,347; by baptism, 4,166. 



* As this vote is one of considerable importance in the 

 history of the Reformed Chnrches in the United States, we 

 here append the ofliclal vote by classes: 

 Appnovrxo. 



The rc<vi|*ts of the I'.'.ard of Domestic Mi- 

 fur thi- l;i-f vear were $25,208.2H. The 

 Hnanl have i-xtrinh-.l tln-ir 081*6 to hii churcliM 

 iiinl stations, with -l.'Jl:; famil'ii-^ ami 5,889 

 (piiiinuiiicaiits, '.Ml Suinhiy-srhoiil-, and 5,052 

 scholar. The numln-r of !oini'-tic ini-.-ioii- 

 arir^ ami missionary ]:i^to:^ is T'i. The re- 

 ci-i|its nt the lioanl of Fiin-iL'-n Mi--ions were 

 $119,530.89, an amount considcrnhly exceeding 

 tin- r.-ri-ijits of any former year. Tlie sta 1 

 of the foivi^'n missions of the Church were as 

 follows: 1. Amoy, China: mi ionarics and 

 ants <i; members liiJi;. 2. Arcot, India: 

 missionaries :m-l ai-tants, J}; jiu-mli- 



.Cations, 1,525; communicants, 341; 

 scholars in vernacular schools, IJ12 hoys and 

 55 girls. 8. A mission has been e-t:Mi>ln(! in 

 Japan, in which six missionaries and assistant 

 missionaries are engaged. They teach two 

 schools, containing about 200 pupils, ami have 

 also private classes. Altogether, the foreign 

 in'iv-ions contain 20 missionaries and assistant 

 missionaries, 3 native pastors, 54 native helpers, 

 15 churches, 17 out-stations, 698 communicants, 

 81 schools and seminaries, and $805 contributed 

 from the natives. The following table shows the 

 growth of this denomination since 1820 : 



II. GERMAN REFORMED CHURCH OF THE UNI- 

 TED STATES. The Reformed Church Messenger 

 gives the following as the official statistics of 

 the Church in 1867: General Synod, 1; Dis- 

 trict Synods, 3 (Eastern Synod, Ohio Synod, 

 German Northwestern Synod) ; classes, 29 ; 

 ministers, 491 ; congregations, 1,152; members. 

 110,408; unconfirmed members, 68,448; bap- 

 tisms, 11,585 ; confirmations, 6,781 ; received 

 on certificate, 2,992; communed, 93,760; ex- 

 communicated or erased, 230 ; dismissed, 1,471 ; 

 deaths, 3,793; Sunday-schools, 939 ; Sunday- 

 school scholars (only partially reported), 36,268 ; 

 contributions for benevolent purposes, $65,- 

 089.70. 



The Church has six colleges, at Lancaster, 

 Mount Pleasant, Meyerstown, and Mercersburg, 

 Pennsylvania, Tiffin, Ohio, and Newton, North 

 Carolina ; one college institute, at Reimersburg, 

 Pennsylvania; two theological seminaries, at 

 Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, and Tiffin, Ohio, 

 and a mission-house, at Howard Grove, near 

 Sheboygan, Wisconsin. 



The Board of Home Missions in 1867 had 70 

 stations under their care. Over $14,000 were 

 contributed to this object, and upward of 

 $12,000 for Church extension. 



The Church has 5 English papers (1 quarter- 

 ly, 2 monthlies, 2 weeklies), and 6 German (1 

 quarterly, 2 monthlies, 1 semi-monthly, 2 week- 

 lies). 



