METHODISTS. 



561 



of 1,713,104 members and probationers; 12,- 

 262 local preachers; 53,937 baptisms of chil- 

 dren, 50,972 of adults ; 21,007 Sunday-schools, 

 with 221,240 officers and teachers and 1,597,- 

 007 scholars; 17,896 churches, valued at $66,- 

 212,701 ; 6,103 parsonages, valued at $8,901,- 

 425. Amount of benevolent collections: for 

 missions, $565,725 ; for the Woman's Foreign 

 Missionary Society, $89,931 ; for church ex- 

 tension, $91,825; for the Tract Society, $13,- 

 832; tor the Sunday-School Union, $17,228; 

 for the Freedmen's Aid Society, $48,014 ; for 

 education, $34,692; for the American Bible 

 Society, $27,314; for "conference claimants" 

 (disabled ministers, widows and orphans of 

 ministers), $153,555. 



The receipts of the Freedmen's Aid Society 

 for the year ending July 1, 1881, were $96,- 

 141. The society maintained twenty-one 

 schools and institutions in the Southern States, 

 six of which were chartered colleges, three 

 theological schools, and one a medical school ; 

 with all of these institutions 89 teachers 

 were connected, and they were attended by 

 3,158 students. Of the students, 479 were in 

 the primary, 275 in the intermediate, 1,292 in 

 the normal, 412 in the academic, and 195 in 

 the collegiate departments; while 57 were 

 medical, 18 law, and 410 biblical students. 

 The report mentioned additions and improve- 

 ments that had been made to the buildings of 

 several schools, and represented the financial 

 condition of the schools as improving. A col- 

 lege of carpentry had been established in con- 

 nection with Clark University, Atlanta, Geor- 

 gia. Several thousand dollars had been spent 

 in aid of schools for poor whites in the South ; 

 and colleges for white people were contem- 

 plated at Little Rock, Arkansas, and near Chat- 

 tanooga, Tennessee. 



The Church Extension Society received for 

 the ten months ending October 31, 1881, $200,- 

 001, and disbursed during the same period 

 $160,322. Three hundred and fifteen churches 

 had been aided by gifts, or loans, or both, and 

 grants to 161 churches, and applications from 

 50 churches, remained on file. In all, 51 

 churches (thirty during the year) liad been 

 built on the frontier, under a plan contemplat- 

 ing a special gift of $250 to each church, to be 

 supplemented by an appropriation from the 

 society. 



The receipts of the Board of Education for 

 the year ending October 31, 1881, were $9,286, 

 or more than 300 per cent more than were re- 

 ceived during the previous year. Eight thou- 

 sand dollars were disbursed in aid of 100 stu- 

 dents in 45 institutions. 



The sales of the Book Concern, for the year 

 1880-'81, amounted to $1,576,783. The whole 

 number of books and tracts issued (books, 

 630,000 volumes ; tracts, 1,444,250 copies) was 

 2,074,250. The catalogue of publications em- 

 braces: books of the general catalogue, 1,375; 

 books of the Sunday-school libraries, 1,300; 

 Sunday-school requisites, 291 ; tracts not in- 

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eluded under the previous headings, 1,019; 

 total, 3,985. 



The receipts of the Missionary Society of 

 the Methodist Episcopal Church for the year 

 ending October 31, 1881, were $625,663, and 

 its expenditures were $648,084. The treasury 

 was in debt on the 1st day of November, 1881, 

 $130,922. The General Missionary Committee 

 met in the city of New York, November 2d, 

 and made the following appropriations to main- 

 tain the operations in the various mission-fields 

 during 1882: 



I. FOREIGN MISSIONS: 



Africa (Liberia and the interior) $6,000 



Central America 200 



South America ( Northeast South America, 



Southeast and Western South America) 18,080 



China (Foochow, Kiukiang, Peking, and West- 

 ern China missions) 70,857 



Germany and Switzerland 24,OtH) 



Scandinavia (Denmark, Norway, and Sweden). 46.926 



India (North India and South India) 62,759 



Bulgaria and Turkey 11,754 



Italy 25,000 



Mexico 80,000 



Japan 88,281 



Total for foreign missions $327,827 



II. MISSIONS IN THE UNITED STATES NOT IN AN- 



NUAL CONFEKKNCES TO BE ADMINISTERED AS 



FOREIGN MISSIONS ( including missions in 

 Arizona, the Black Hills, Dakota, the Indian 

 Territory, Montana, New Mexico, Utah, and 

 West Nebraska) 44,365 



III. DOMESTIC MISSIONS : 



1. Welsh (Northern New York Conference) 200 



2. Scandinavian 17,600 



3. German missions 40,000 



4. French missions (in New England) 200 



5. Chinese missions (in California, New York, 



and Oregon) 18,470 



6. American Indian missions 8,550 



7. English-speaking missions 167,550 



IV. MISCELLANEOUS APPKOPBIATIONS 75,000 



V. FOE THE LIQUIDATION OF TUB DEBT 60,000 



Total of appropriations $752,263 



The foreign missions included 99 mission- 

 aries; 70 assistant missionaries (or wives of 

 missionaries) ; 39 missionaries of the Women's 

 Foreign Missionary Society ; 199 native work- 

 ers of the Women's Foreign Missionary Soci- 

 ety ; 218 native ordained preachers ; 1,152 

 native unordained and local preachers and 

 teachers and other helpers; 28,127 members; 

 8,782 probationers; an average attendance on 

 worship of 55,931 ; 331 day-schools, with 11,- 

 161 scholars; 1,002 Sunday-schools, with 48,- 

 516 scholars; 12 high-schools and colleges, 

 with 39 teachers and 653 students ; 8 theolog- 

 ical schools, with 18 teachers and 79 students; 

 632 orphans under care; 271 churches, and 

 852 other places of worship. Of the members, 

 2,044 were in Liberia, 224 in South America 

 (the Argentine Republic and Uruguay), 1,724 

 in China, 9.697 in Germany and Switzerland, 

 2,782 in Norway, 6,300 in Sweden, 607 in 

 Denmark, 3,169 in India, 27 in Bulgaria, 708 

 in Italy, 507 in Japan, and 338 in Mexico. 



In the Domestic Missions, 21 missionaries, 

 33 local preachers, 1,731 members and 421 pro- 

 bationers, with 21 Sunday-schools having 1,120 

 scholars, are registered as among the Ameri- 

 can Indians; and 5 missionaries, 26 teachers 

 and 5 other helpers, 114 members and 46 pro- 



