488 



METHODISTS. 



The following totals show the condition of 

 the Church in respect to other statistical facts : 

 Number of bishops, 12 ; of annual conferences, 

 81; of local preachers, 12,881; total number 

 of preachers (traveling and local), 26,737; 

 number of baptisms of children, 58,218 ; num- 

 ber of baptisms of adults, 66,712; number of 

 church-buildings, 15,633; value of the same, 

 $71,353,234; number of parsonages, 5,017; 

 value of the same, $9,731,628; total value of 

 churches and parsonages, $81,084,862; num- 

 ber of Sunday-schools, 19,287; of officers and 

 teachers in the same, 207,182; of Sunday- 

 school scholars, 1,406,168. 



The General Missionary Committee of the 

 Methodist Episcopal Church met in the city 

 of New York, November 10th, in its annual 

 meeting, to consider the interests of the mis- 

 sion-work of the Church, and fix the appropri- 

 ations to the different mission-fields, and ap- 

 portion among the conferences and mission 

 districts the amount of money to be asked 

 from them for the ensuing year. The Treas- 

 urer reported that the receipts for the year 

 just ended had been $662,485.89, and the dis- 

 bursements $721,805.34. Appropriations were 

 made for the ensuing year as follows. The 

 appropriations for foreign missions include also 

 the cost of exchange : 



I. FOREIGN MISSIONS : 



1. Africa (Liberia) $3,500 00 



2. South America 9,000 00 



3. China 41,709 00 



4. Germany and Switzerland 27,600 00 



5. Scandinavia 54,47040 



6. India 76,219 20 



7. Bulgaria 9,600 00 



8. Italy 20,970 00 



9. Mexico 28,800 00 



10. Japan 20,880 00 



Total for foreign missions 



II. MISSIONS IN TERRITORIES OF THE UNITED 



STATBS TO BE ADMINISTERED AS FOREIGN 

 MISSIONS : 

 Arizona and New Mexico 



III. DOMESTIC MISSIONS : 



"Welsh missions 



Scandinavian missions 



German missions 



Chinese missions 



American Indian 



English-speaking '. 



IV. MISCELLANEOUS APPROPRIATIONS 



V. FOR THE LIQUIDATION OF THE DEBT. . . 



$297,749 20 



$11,000 00 



$150 00 



16,000 00 



40,050 00 



10,284 00 



3,500 00 



225,400 00 



75,000 00 



185,000 00 



Grand total.. $864,133 20 



The General Committee of Church Extension 

 met in Philadelphia, November 16th. The 

 corresponding secretary reported that during 

 about ten years in which the Society had been 

 in operation it had collected and disbursed 

 $916,617.67, of which $691,148.58 had been re- 

 ceived by collections, etc., and disbursed (less 

 the expenses of administration) in gifts to 

 churches, and $225,469.09 in special offerings 



SlLftS^St*??' Of the amOTmt thus lent > 



$49,48o.03 had been returned to the treasury 

 and lent to other churches. In this way the 

 Society had assisted 1,647 churches in various 

 parts of the United States and the Territories. 

 Most of these churches had been built by the 



aid afforded, and many others previously built 

 but hopelessly involved had been rescued. 

 The books of the Society at the end of the 

 year showed that its receipts and disburse- 

 ments from January 1 to -December 81, 1875, 

 had been : 



Balance from 1874 $8,021 64 



Keceipts on general account 82,377 85 



Keceipts on loan-fund account 66,872 23 



Total receipts $152,271 62 



Disbursements on general account $78,737 98 



Disbursements on loan-fund account 69,517 00 



Balance carried to January 1, 1876 4,016 64 



Total $152,271 62 



Of the disbursements, $54,720.08 had been 

 given and $54,720.08 had been lent to churches. 

 Applications for aid had been granted, to be 

 paid when certain conditions should be com- 

 plied with, of $3,650 in donations and $5,050 

 in loans to churches. 



The anniversary of the Freedmetfs Aid So- 

 ciety of the Methodist Episcopal Church was 

 held at Washington, D. C., December 20th. 

 The report stated that the total receipts of the 

 Society, for the year ending June 1, 1875, 

 had been $86,562.88. The disbursements fof 

 the same time were : To the endowment funds 

 of Central Tennessee College, Shaw Universi- 

 ty, and Clark University, $17,370; invested in 

 real estate, $16,096.68; for salaries and board 

 of teachers, and expenses of schools, $41,258.12 ; 

 leaving a balance of $2.55 in the treasury. The 

 Society was indebted to the amount of $18,- 

 028.46. The total disbursements of the Society, 

 during the eight years of its operation, are 

 stated in the report to have been $523,802.15. 

 The Society has aided in the establishment and 

 support of fourteen institutions of a higher 

 grade in the Southern States. It has also aid- 

 ed in the support of many common schools. 

 It is claimed that fifty thousand children have 

 been taught in its day-schools, and a larger 

 number in its Sunday-schools; that more than 

 a hundred preachers, and more than a thou- 

 sand teachers, have been instructed in the in- 

 stitutions it has established and sustained, and 

 that more than forty thousand children have 

 been taught by persons whom it has trained. 



The General Conference of 1872 selected St. 

 Louis as the place for the meeting of the Gen- 

 eral Conference of 1876. For satisfactory 

 reasons it was judged best to change the place 

 of meeting to Baltimore. The consent of the 

 Church to the change was informally taken by 

 consulting the annual conferences and the 

 boards in charge of the benevolent interests 

 of the connection. No objection was offered, 

 and accordingly the bishops in November de- 

 clared the change decided upon, and appointed 

 the General Conference to meet in Baltimore 

 May 1, 1876. 



II. METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHUEOH SOUTH. 

 The following is a summary of the statistics of 

 this Church, as they were officially published 

 in August, 1875 : 



