METHODISTS. 



489 



"Whole number of colored members, 2,663; 

 of Indian members, 4,497 ; whole number of 

 preachers and members, 712,765 ; number of 

 Sunday-schools, 7,204 ; of teachers in the same, 

 48,825 ; of Sunday-school scholars, 328,634. 



Amount of collections: For missions, $101,- 

 953.46 ; for conference claimants, $64,294.20. 



The Board of Missions of the Methodist 

 Episcopal Church South held its annual meet- 

 ing at Nashville, Tenn., May 7th to 10th. The 

 collections made during the year for domestic 

 and foreign missions amounted to $107,570.80, 

 and exceeded those of any previous year. The 

 board determined to assess for the ensuing 

 year $100,000 for foreign missions, including 

 in that category the weaker conferences that 

 needed help from the board. Appropriations 

 were made for the ensuing year as follows : 

 For China, $7,500; for Mexico, $11,300; for 

 the Indian Mission Conference, $9,000 ; for the 

 German Mission Conference in Texas and 

 Louisiana, $4,500; for the Western Confer- 

 ence, $2,000; for the Denver Conference, $3,- 

 000 ; for the Los Angeles Conference, $3,000 ; 

 for the Pacific Conference, $5,000; for the 

 Columbia Conference, $4,000 ; for Florida, in- 

 cluding the Cuban mission at Key West, $2,- 

 000; for Brazil, $1,000 ; for the Incidental and 

 Contingent Fund, $5,000. 



The Board of Trust of the Vanderlilt Uni- 

 versity met at Nashville, Tenn., May 3d and 



4th, and completed the organization of the 

 faculties by the election of professors to the 

 vacant chairs in the Literary and Scientific De- 

 partment. The Medical Department was 

 opened in 1874. The other departments (Phi- 

 losophy, Science, Literature, Biblical, and Law) 

 were put in operation during 1875. The 

 building of the university was dedicated, with 

 appropriate ceremonies, October 4th. In con- 

 nection with this event Mr. Cornelius Yander- 

 bilt, of New York, gave the institution an ad- 

 ditional $100,000, making the total amount of 

 his gifts $700,000. 



The General Conference of 1874 authorized 

 the Board of Bishops to appoint a delegation, 

 consisting of two ministers and one layman, to 

 bear its Christian salutations to the General 

 Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 

 which was to meet at Baltimore in May, 1876. 

 It also authorized the Bishops to appoint a 

 commission, consisting of three ministers and 

 two laymen, to meet a similar commission 

 authorized by the General Conference of the 

 Methodist Episcopal Church, and to adjust all 

 existing difficulties. In accordance with these 

 instructions of the General Conference, the 

 Board of Bishops, at their annual meeting, 

 held at Nashville, Teun., in May, made the fol- 

 lowing appointments: Fraternal Delegates to 

 the General Conference of the Methodist Epis- 

 copal Church, the Kev. Lovick Pierce, D.D., 

 the Rev. James A. Duncan, D. D., and Landon 



C. Garland, LL. D. ; commissioners for the ad- 

 justment of difficulties, the Rev. E. H. Myers, 



D. D., the Rev. R. K. Hargrave, D. D., the Rev. 

 Thomas M. Finney, D. D., the Hon. Trusten 

 Polk, of Missouri, and the Hon. David Clap- 

 ton, of Alabama. 



III. THE METHODIST CHURCH. The follow- 

 ing are the statistics of this Church, as they 

 were reported to the General Conference of 

 1875: 



