METHODISTS. 



the money lent from the loan-fund, $88,886.85 



liiul lioen returned to the treasury and relent 



t<> otln-r i-hurrhes. The board had helped, in 



nil, 1,385 churches. Appropriations for 1870 



were authorized to the amount of $144.050, 



id the saiiui amount was asked from tho Con- 



irences in tho shape of contributions. 



At tho annual mooting of tho /;/ Com- 



lield in tlio city of New York, Fobru- 



ary 10th and llth, tho aggregate amount of 

 the sales of the two publUhing-hOMM in New 

 York and Cincinnati, for 1874, wa reported 

 to have been $1,552,048.50. 



II. METHODIST EPISCOPAL Ciiuncu SOUTH. 

 The following are the statihtic.s of the Meth- 

 odist Episcopal Church South, UH they are 

 given in the general minutes of the Confer- 

 ences, published in March, 1874; 



The total number of infants baptized during 

 the year was given at 22,755 ; number of adults 

 baptized, 37,454. Number of Sunday-schools, 

 7,019 ; teachers in the same, 48,530 ; scholars, 

 321,572. Total amount of collections in the 

 churches for conference claimants, $64,013.70; 

 collections for missions, $96,644.31. 



The agent of the Publishing-House at Nash- 

 ville, Tenn., reported to the General Confer- 

 ence that the concern possessed assets to the 

 amount of $533,577.92, of which $220,597.55 

 consisted of real estate ; and that its liabilities 

 amounted to $219,540.81, leaving an unincum- 

 bercd balance in its favor of $314,037.11. The 

 clear value of the assets of the house had in- 

 creased $37,920.78 since the 1st of July, 1873. 

 The following comparative statement was made 

 of the value of the property, after deducting all 

 liabilities, year by year, since 1870: 



Julyl, 1P70 $188.35245 



July 1,1871 210,51755 



July 1, 1872 229,786 78 



Julyl, 1873 $276,11741 



April 1, 1874... 814,03718 



This shows an increase in value, in less than 

 four years, of $125,684.66. 



The General Conference authorized the book 

 agent, with the Book Committee, to negotiate 

 for the transfer of the property of the South- 

 western Book and Publishing Company, at St. 

 Louis, to the Southern Methodist Publishing- 

 House, provided it can be made without dam- 

 age to the publishing interests of the Church, 

 and without increasing the debts and liabilities 

 of the Publishing-House. 



Reports were made to the General Confer- 

 ence, of the condition of sixty-one educa- 

 tional institutions. Mantof the reports were 

 incomplete in regard to tne value of property 

 and funds, and the number of their students, 

 so that the aggregate of values could not fairly 

 be given. Of the institutions, one (the South- 

 ern University, Greensboro', Ala.,) was desig- 

 nated as a university; 48 were classed as col- 

 legos, eight as high-schools, two as academic 

 schools, one as a collegiate school, and one as 



