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METHODISTS. 



The number of local preachers was 12,261. 

 Number of Sunday-schools, 18,031; ot'u' 

 and teachers, 197,180; of scholars, 1,318,608. 

 The number of adult baptisms during the year 

 was 56,163; of baptisms of children. ">:'.. _>-7. 

 Number of churches, 14,499} ; probable value 

 of the same, $66,332,580; riumbi-r of par>un- 

 ages,4,677i; probable value, $is..v-J. ~>~> I. Thi> 

 contributions of the churches and Sunday- 

 schools during the year, for benevolent ob- 

 jects, were as follows : For " conference 

 claimants," $156,272.16; for the Missionary 

 Society, $672,950.64; for the Woman's For- 

 eign Missionary Society, $54,588.19 ; for 

 Church extension, $83,704.45 ; for the Trait 

 Society, $21,259.95; for the Sunday-sell.. i.l 

 Union, $22.052.39; for the Freedmen's Aid 

 Society, $29,217.18; for education, $45,294.91. 



The receipts of the Missionary Society for 

 the year ending November 1, 1873, were 

 $680,836.64, showing an increase over the 

 receipts of the previous year of $19,780.04. 

 The General Missionary Committee met on 

 the llth of November, and made the follow- 

 ing appropriations : 



I. FOREIGN MISSIONS : 



1. Africa (Liberia) 110.50000 



9. South America 12.924 00 



8. China 48.084 00 



4. Germany and Switzerland 31.80000 



6. Somdinaria 4H.H70 70 



6. India 88,061 SO 



7. Bulgaria. 7,800 00 



8. Italy 15.60000 



9. Mi-xlco 88.000 00 



10. Japan 21,780 00 



Total for foreign missions $337,199 90 



II. DOMESTIC MISSIONS : 



1. To foreign populations in the United 



States 7fi.8flO 00 



8. Indian 4,15000 



3. American 881,500 00 



Total for domestic missions 1411,95000 



III. MISSIONS IN TERRITORIES or TT. 8., to 



be administered foreign missions, 11.000 00 



IV. MISCELLANEOUS APPROPRIATIONS 83,000 00 



Total *R43,149 SO 



The following is nn exhibit of the condition 

 of the foreign missions of the Methodist Epis- 

 copal Church, as given in the annual report 

 for 1873 : 



The number of assistant missionaries was 

 435; of teachers, 317; of churches, 115; of 

 parsonajres, 61; of day-schools, 182; of pupils 

 in the same, 7,406; of Sunday-schools, 348; 

 of pupils in the same, 21,242; amount of mia- 



