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METHODISTS. 



The whole number of Methodist periodicals 

 is 161. They are classified as follows: Pe- 

 riodicals of the Methodist Episcopal Church 

 (official 20, non-official 43), 63 ; periodicals of 

 the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 24 ; 

 periodicals of the British "Wesleyan Methodist 



Church, 18 ; periodicals of other Methodist 

 churches, 56. 



I. METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. The fol- 

 lowing is a comparative summary of the sta- 

 tistics of the Methodist Episcopal Church for 

 the years ending July 1, 1880, and July 1, 1881 : 



The "Minutes" of the conferences for 1881, 

 the publication of which was completed in 

 February, 1882, give the following totals for 



the calendar year: 11,807 traveling preachers, 

 with 1,218 preachers on trial ; 159,764 proba- 

 tioners and 1,553,340 members, giving a total 



