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METHODISTS. 



The receipts of the Missionary Society of that the lay delegates could tie admitted. The 

 the Methodist Episcopal Church, for the year expression of concurrence was given in the 

 ending November 1, 1872, were $661,056.60, following resolution, adopted by a vote (in- 

 to which, should be added a balance from the eluding absentees who afterward recorded 

 previous year of $23,987.88, making a total of their votes) of 283 in favor, and 6 against it : 

 $685,044.48. The disbursements for the same Itesolved, That tins General Conference does here- 

 period were $598,647.63, leaving a balance in by concur with the Annual Conferences in changing 

 the treasury of $83,396.85. The annual meet- the second restrictive ru l, 6 60 a \\ read as . f <^ 



* IT! Tkr n -4-4. They shall not allow ot more than one ministerial 



ing of the Missionary Committee was held on repre / enfcativc for every fourteen members of an An- 



the 14th of November. Ihe committee _de- nua i Conference, nor allow of less than one for every 



termined to establish new missions in Mexico, forty-five, nor more than two lay delegates for any 



in Japan, at Bombay, India, and in that part Annual Conference." 



of the interior of Africa which adjoins Liberia, The plan of lay delegation proposed by the 



to reenforce the mission in Italy, and to rein- General Conference of 1868, and approved by 



vigorate that in Bulgaria. The following ap- the votes of more than three-fourths of the 



propriations were made : ministers voting in the Annual Conferences, 



I -FOR FOREIGN MISSIONS : was tnen ratified and adopted by a vote (in- 



l. Liberia $io,ooaoo eluding absentees) of 242 to 36. Afterward, 



2 . LJS:::::::::::::::::::::: iS 2 by a vote (including absentees afterward ,- 



3. china 63,136 23 cording their votes) oi 288 to 1, the lay dele- 

 s' ScXSnavia 4 Switzerland US 00 & ates Were invite(i to take taeir seats as ' mem - 



6.' IndiaConference.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'X.'.'.".'.'.'.'.'! lll',310 00 bers. 



other Missions in India 12,500 o The missionary and other societies, to which 



8 itaiff.".^:::.'.".'.'.'.'.'.'.'.' .'.'.'.'.'.'.".'.'.'."'.'.'.' iS oo the charge of the educational and benevolent 



Q. Mexico." ... "..!!..!!..!.."!!!"!"'. 12)500 00 enterprises of the Church is committed, were 



10. Japan 3i,2oO | reorganized and brought more directly under 



Total for foreign missions $373,82575 the control of the General Conference. For 



II. DOMESTIC MISSIONS FOREIGN POPULA- the formation of the Missionary Committee, 



TION IN THE UNITED STATES : ^ n on the Annual Conferences are divided into 



Si sSndiSanMisdois:::::*.:::::::: M 00 twelve districts, from which a corresponding 



3. German Missions 46,23000 number of members of the committee are 



4. Chinese Missions 7,000 elected by the General Conference, for terms 



Total foreign populations $70,55000 of four years. The contributors of mission 



III. DOMESTIC MISSIONS, INDIAN $6,650 00 funds, who constitute the members of the Mis- 



IV. DOMESTIC MISSIONS, AMERICAN $331,000 00 sionary Society, are represented by the Board 



V ^ MM ^i^Sr^ li of Managers. "'This Board appoints annually 



EIGN MISSIONS (Arizona and New twelve other members of the committee, who 



Mexico) $13,000 ) are chosen from among the members of the 



The total sum of the appropriations, includ- Society. The secretaries and treasurers of the 



ing those for contingent, incidental, and office Society and the Board of Bishops are members 



expenses, was $885,025.75. ex officio of the committee. This committee 



The Society employed, in 1872 : In Africa, has entire control of the appropriation of the 



21 missionaries, 37 local preachers, 15 Sunday- funds of the Society, and of the selection of 



schoolteachers; in China, 12 missionaries, 71 mission-fields. Three secretaries are elected 



native helpers; in Denmark, 4 missionaries; by the General Conference, for terms of four 



in Norway, 9 missionaries ; in Germany and years, who are to have charge of the execu- 



Switzerland, 51 missionaries, 14 helpers; in tive duties pertaining to the work of the Soci- 



India, 31 missionaries, 142 school-teachers; ety, devoting their whole time to its interests, 



in Bulgaria, 1 missionary, 2 helpers ; in Italy, by travelling, correspondence, and otherwise. 



1 missionary: total number of foreign mission- They are declared to be equal in authority, 



aries, 448 ; 2,307 missionaries were employed The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society AV;IS 



in the domestic work. fully recognized, and recommended to the 



The receipts of the Woman's Foreign Mis- Church. The Board of Education (organized 



sionary Society for 1872 were $48,500. It in 1868) was directed to organize its work at 



sustains six missionaries in India and six in once throughout the Church, and to give ppe- 



China ; supports Bible-women, girls' schools, cial attention to the needs of the people of the 



and zenana work, in 25 stations, and maintains South, and of the destitute parts of the West, 



two orphanages in India. The office of corresponding secretary of this 



The Sixteenth General Conference of the Board was established, for the performance of 



Methodist Episcopal Church met in Brooklyn, the executive duties pertaining to its work 



N. Y., on the first day of May. Its first busi- which are necessary to promote its interests, 



ness was to concur in the alteration of the sec- A Bureau of Educational Statistics, which shall 



ond restrictive rule of the Discipline of the also act as a medium between teachers seeking 



Church (which alteration had already been employment and institutions seeking teachers, 



approved by the requisite majority of the min- was provided for. A collection was directed 



isters voting in the Annual Conferences), so to be taken annually, in each society, for the 



