LUTHERANS. 



Total for the Church, 58 Synods, 8,015 min- 

 isters, 5,224 congregations, 824,825 members. 



The German " Almanac " of Messrs. Brobst 

 and Diehl ( Allentown, Pa.) gives the following : 



General Council 761 ministers, 1,455 con- 

 gregations, 210,170 communicants; Synodical 

 Conference 1,169 ministers, 1,875 congrega- 

 tions, 291,444 communicants; General Synod, 



North 888 ministers, 1,200 congregation*, 

 122,573 communicants ; General Synod, South 

 98 ministers, 175 congregations, 13,486 com- 

 municants; Synods standing alone 221 min- 

 isters, 581 congregations, 51,572 communi- 

 cants ; total, 58 Synods, 8,087 ministers, 5,876 

 congregations, 689,195 communicants. The 

 compiler of the statistics for this work says 

 that the number of ministers may be regarded 

 as correct, but that the number of congrega- 

 tions and communicants assigned to some of 

 the Synods is taken from the reports of the 

 previous year. 



The "Church Almanac " giveb a list of 17 

 theological seminaries, four of which are con- 

 nected with the General Council, four with 

 the General Synod, North, five with the Synod- 

 ical Conference, one with the General Synod, 

 South, one with the North Carolina Synod; 

 the remaining two Scandinavian. The liter- 

 ary institutions include 18 universities and 

 colleges, 12 classical schools, and 7 seminaries 

 for young women. There are 30 institutions 

 of mercy, including orphans' homes and schools, 

 hospitals, infirmaries, and immigrant and negro 

 missions. The list of periodicals includes 12 

 weekly publications, of which 6 are English, 3 

 German, and 3 Norwegian; 13 semi-monthly, 

 of which 10 are German and 3 Norwegian and 

 Danish ; 39 monthly, of which 14 are English, 

 13 German, 5 Swedish, and 7 Norwegian and 

 Danish ; one German bi-monthly, one English 

 and one Norwegian quarterly publications, and 

 six annual calendars in the English and Ger- 

 man languages. Most of the monthly publica- 

 tions are intended for the use of Sunday-school 

 teachers and scholars. 



The General Synod met in its twenty-ninth 

 Convention at Wooster, Ohio, June llth. The 

 Rev. W. D. Strobel, D. D., of Rhinebeck, N. 

 Y., was chosen President. Reports were made 

 of the operations of the boards and benevolent 

 societies of the Synod during the past two 

 years. The receipts of the Pastor's Fund So- 

 ciety had been $1,250, and its disbursements 

 $1,050. The assets of the Publication Society 

 above all its liabilities were $33,239. The 

 circulation of the periodicals issued by the 

 Board was as follows : " Lutheran Sunday- 

 School Herald," 36,000 ; u Augsburg Teacher," 

 5,500; "Augsburg Lesson Leaf," 26,500; 

 "Primary Lesson Leaf," 12,000; and 22,000 

 " Lesson Books," containing the lessons from 

 January to Tuly, 1879. The receipts of the 

 Board of Home Missions for two years, some 

 of which were from bequests, had been $25,- 

 686, and its expenditures $28,973. The Board 

 had sustained 51 missions, of which 11 were 

 new ones, while 5 had become self-sustaining ; 

 and it had now 47 missions under its care, with 

 68 congregations, 4,183 members, and 50 Sun- 

 day-schools with 5,438 scholars. The amount 

 of $20,000 a year was appropriated for the 

 work of this Board. The receipts of the 

 Board of Foreign Missions for two years had 

 been $38,938, and its expenditures $37,056. 



