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METHODISTS. 



tion at Philadelphia on Sundays, and depre- 

 cating any change in their decision ; also reso- 

 lutions protesting against the concession by 

 the commissioners of the right to sell intoxi- 

 cating drinks on the Centennial grounds. A 

 resolution was adopted in favor of legal prohi- 

 bition of the sale of intoxicating drinks, and 

 advising abstention from the use of tobacco. 



II. METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHUEOH, SOUTH. 

 This Church has had a vigorous growth since 

 the end of the civil war. It has exhibited en- 

 ergy in the establishment and maintenance of 



foreign missions, and in building up institutions 

 of learning. Vanderbilt University, at Nash- 

 ville, Tenn., to which the late Cornelius Van- 

 derbilt, of New York, gave $1,000,000, is 

 among the most liberally endowed colleges 

 in the South. The colored members of the 

 Church, who in 1869 numbered 19,686, have 

 been transferred, by agreement, to the Colored 

 Methodist Episcopal Church. The following 

 are the statistics of the Methodist Episcopal 

 Church, South, as published officially in August, 

 1876: 



The number of superannuated preachers was 

 given at 259 ; number of infants baptized, 

 22,603; number of adults baptized, 38,908; 

 number of Sunday-schools, 7,578 ; number of 

 teachers in the same, 49,797; number of Sun- 

 day-school scholars, 346,759; total amount of 

 collections for conference claimants, $64,326.- 

 18 ; total amount of collections for missions, 

 $120,128.31. 



The annual meeting of the Board of Mis- 

 sions of the Methodist Episcopal Church South 

 was held at Nashville, Tenn., May 4th and 5th. 

 The reports of the secretaries showed consid- 

 erable advance in the collections for missions, 

 and in the general condition of the cause. 



The amount of assessments on conferences 



for contributions for the support of the mis- 

 sions during the ensuing year were fixed at 

 $100,000. Appropriations to the different 

 missionary fields were made as follows: To 

 the Chinese mission, $8,650 ; to the border 

 Mexican mission, $6,040 ; to the mission in 

 the city of Mexico, $10,578.48; to the Indian 

 Mission Conference, $10,000 ; to the German 

 Mission Conference, $4,500 ; to work within 

 the bounds of the conferences, $26,200; for 

 contingent and miscellaneous expenses, $8,000 : 

 total, $73,968.48. 



It was understood that one of the bishops 

 would visit China during the next spring. 



The condition of the mission-fields is shown 

 in the following table : 



