436 



METHODISTS. 



The investigation will be continued. 



II. OTHER METHODIST BODIES IN THE UNI- 

 TED STATES. The statistics of other Methodist 

 bodies in the United States are given in the 

 Methodist Almanac for 1870 as follows : 



535,040 

 200,000 



M. E. Church South, about 2,540 3,952 



African M. E. Church 560 1500 



African M. E. Zion Church 694 



Methodist Protestant 423 



The Methodist Church 624 



Wesleyan Methodist 220 



Free Methodist 85 



164,000 

 72,000 



444 49,030 

 20,000 



Bible Union 



Primitive Methodist 20 



2,000 



III. EVANGELICAL ASSOCIATION. The sta- 

 tistics of the Evangelical Association, in 1869, 

 were as follows: annual conferences, 15 ; Itin- 

 erant preachers, 531; local preachers, 390; 

 church members, 65,155; probationers, 2,445; 

 adults baptized, 1,062 ; children baptized, 

 6,251 ; sunday-schools, 962 ; Sunday-school 

 scholars, 48,838. 



IV. METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN CAN- 

 ADA. The Methodist Episcopal Church in 

 Canada comprises three conferences : Niagara, 

 Ontario, and Bay Quinte. The statistics of 

 the three conferences are as follows : Niagara, 

 members, T,550 ministers, 76 ; Ontario, mem- 

 bers, 5,382 ministers, 59 ; Bay Quinte, mem- 

 bers, 6,627 ministers 73; making a total of 

 19,559 members and 208 ministers. There are 

 228 Sunday-schools, 1,787 officers and teach- 

 ers, and 11,207 scholars, among whom there 

 have been, during the year, 292 conver- 

 sions. 



V. WESLEY AN METHODISTS IN CANADA. 

 The Canadian Wesleyan Methodist Conference 

 closed its session in Toronto, Canada, June 

 llth. The membership was reported to be 

 62,000 an increase over last year of 2,156. 

 There are 53,024 Sunday-school scholars an 

 increase of 1,703. Of these scholars, 4,467 are 

 members of the church. Of the Sunday-school 

 officers and teachers (7,691 in number), 5,684 

 are church-members. 



The report of the Missionary Society of the 

 conference shows that the amount of the re- 

 ceipts, including 1,000 from the parent So- 

 ciety, was $82,474. The missions under the 

 care of the Society are : Indian missions, 23 ; 

 missions in British Columbia and Eed Kiver, 

 6 ; German, 5 ; French, 4 ; domestic missions, 

 136. The membership of the various missions 

 embraces 4,113 Indians, 237 Germans, 53 

 French, 14,497 on the domestic missions, 35 

 in Red River and the Saskatchewan, and 156 

 in British Columbia making a total of 17,091 

 in church-fellowship. These are supplied by 

 186 missionaries, besides which there are on 

 the Indian mission 15 interpreters, 16 day- 

 schools, and 16 teachers making a total paid 

 agency of 223. 



This body is a branch of the British Wes- 

 leyan Methodist connection, and the conference 

 is subordinate to the British Conference. 



VI. WESLEYAN METHODIST CONNECTION OF 

 GREAT BRITAIN. The following are the gen- 

 eral statistics of Wesleyan Methodism : 



The amounts raised from all sources for the 

 funds of the Wesleyan connection of England, 

 according to the last published reports, were 

 as follows : 



s. d. 



Foreign Missions 146,249 7 8 



Theological Institution 10,830 15 9 



Contingent Fund : 



Yearly collection 7,46712 2 



Congregational collection 6,456 7 6 



Meetings and subscriptions 6,185 16 2 



Circuits toward the support of their 



Home missionaries, legacies, etc 5,67711 2 



General chapel fund 7.576 19 11 



Education fund 10,97414 8 



Worn-out ministers 15,328 8 



Knipwood & Woodhouse Grove Schools 15,748 14 7 



The anniversary of the Wesleyan Missionary 

 Society was held in Exeter Hall, May 3d, Wil- 

 liam Me Arthur, Esq., M. P., in the chair, who 

 made a brief but comprehensive address. He 

 stated that the Society had 704 stations, 5,701 

 preaching-places and chapels, 987 missionaries, 

 and in their schools upward of 174,000 scholars. 

 " What a wonderful machinery is this 1 " he 

 said. "In looking at our various stations 

 throughout the world, we cannot form a suffi- 

 cient estimate of the amount of work that is 

 going on in this respect. Take, for instance, 

 Sierra Leone ; we have 9 missionaries there, 

 but we have 125 local preachers, and we have 

 222 Sabbath-school teachers. In the Friendly 

 Islands we have only 19 regular missionaries, 

 but we have 841 local preachers and 747 Sun- 

 day-schoolteachers. InFeejee we have 58 mis- 

 sionaries and assistants, but we have 477 local 

 preachers and 1,730 Sunday-school teachers. 

 It has been the peculiar glory of Methodism 

 that it has enlisted an amount of lay agency that 

 no other church in the world has ever done." 

 The Rev. G. T. Perks read the report, showing 

 that the receipts of the Society for the year 

 have been 146,249 7s. 8d. The expenditures 

 have been 146,071 13s. 2d. 



The missions of the Wesleyan Methodist 

 Missionary Society occupy extensive districts 

 in Europe, Asia, Africa, America, Australasia, 

 and the islands of the sea. The missions under 

 the direct charge of the Society are classified 

 in twenty-seven districts, and include 195 

 churches, 1,978 chapels and other preaching 

 places. 283 missionaries and assistants, 5,591 

 subordinates, paid and unpaid agents, 65,802 

 members, 5,903 "on trial," and 51,930 scholars 

 in the Sunday-schools. 



A large portion of the missions, however, 

 have relation to the local conferences. These 

 have 504 churches, 4,342 chapels and other 



