EUROPE. 



EVANGELICAL ASSOCIATION. 291 



According to the GotJia Almanac for 1872, 

 the number of Koman Catholics, Protestants, 

 and Jews, in the several countries of Europe, 

 was as follows : 



EVANGELICAL ASSOCIATION. This 

 Church reports, for the year 1871, the follow- 

 ing statistics :' 



The following table, which shows the total 



Sopulation of every European state and its 

 ivision, according to nationalities, will be 

 a valuable aid in understanding the still-pend- 

 ing international complications : 



The foreign colonies of European states are 

 exhibited in the following table : 



Of the itinerant preachers, 49 are presiding 

 elders, and 85 are probationary preachers. 

 The number of local preachers is 479. The 

 estimated total value of churches is $2,144,444. 

 The number of parsonages is 281, and their 

 estimated value $328,210. There are 1,165 

 Sunday-schools, with 13,080 officers and teach- 

 ers, and 68,648 scholars. The one institution 

 of learning is valued at $117,000; the Orphan 

 Asylum at $72,765 ; and the Publishing-house 

 at $141,423.89. 



The General Conference of the Evangelical 

 Association met at Napierville, 111., on the 12th 

 of October. The delegation elected by the 

 General Conference of 1867 to visit the General 

 Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 

 with fraternal greetings and expressions of 

 regard and reciprocity of feeling, reported that 

 they had performed their duty, and had invited 

 the Methodist Episcopal General Conference 

 to send a delegation to this body. In accord- 

 ance with this invitation, the Eev. Messrs. 

 William Nast, Philip Kuhl, and E. Hanny, 

 were present as fraternal delegates from the 

 General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal 

 Church. These representatives presented an 

 address, in which the subject of the union of 

 the two Churches was named, and which an- 

 nounced the purpose of the delegation to be 

 not only to convey fraternal greetings, but to 

 say to the General Conference : 



Should you think the time has come when the 

 Evangelical Association and the Methodist Episcopal 

 Church should come closer to each other ; we are here 

 to say : The door is open, and our Land is held out to 

 welcome you. 



The following action was taken on the sub- 

 ject: 



Whereas, The subject of a union of the Evangelical 

 Association and the Methodist Episcopal Church, 

 which has been agitated a number of years,has been 

 presented anew by Bev. E. Hanny, Kev. Dr. Nast, 

 and Kev. P. Kuhl, a delegation from the Methodist 

 Episcopal General Conference ; and 



Whereas, This Conference, through a committee 

 consisting of a delegate from the different annual 

 conferences, has consulted with said three delegates 



