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UNITED BRETHREN IN CHRIST. 



roads are not included in the returns of imports, 

 being free of duty. There have been sales of 

 American reapers in the Turkish Empire in the 

 past two years. 



The merchant marine in 1883 consisted of 

 10 steamers of 8,866 tons, and 391 sailing-ves- 

 sels, of 63,896 tons, besides coasting- vessels. 



Railroads. There were in operation at the 

 end of 1885 a line of railway from Constan- 

 tinople to Adrianople, 210 miles; one from 

 Adrianople to Saremby, 152 miles ; one from 

 Salonica to Uskub, 150 miles ; one from Uskub 

 to Mitrovitza, 75 miles; others between Kul- 

 leli and Dageaghatch, Tirnova, and Jamboli, 

 and Banjalouki and Novi, 199 miles altogether; 

 and one from Zenica and Brod, 118 miles; 

 making in all 904 miles in European Turkey 



and Roumelia. The length of the railroads in 

 Asia Minor was 347 miles. 



Telegraphs. The length of telegraph lines in 

 1884 was 14,617 miles, with 26,060 miles of 

 wire. The number of dispatches in 1882-'83 

 was 1,259,133. 



Treaties with the United States. Minister Cox 

 induced the Turkish Government to agree to 

 an extradition and a naturalization treaty. 

 The two treaties were negotiated between the 

 two Governments twelve or fifteen years ago, 

 but amendments made by the United States 

 Senate were then declared unacceptable by the 

 Porte. The naturalization treaty is of the 

 same character as the one existing between the 

 United States and Great Britain and that con- 

 cluded with Austria- Hungary. 



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UNITED BRETHREN IN CHRIST. The follow- 

 ing is a summary of the statistics of this Church 

 as they are given in the "United Brethren 

 Year-Book" for 1887: Number of churches, 

 4,332; of members, 185,103 ; of itinerant min- 

 isters, 1,378; of local preachers, 890; of Sun- 

 day-schools, 3,169, returning 28,547 officers 

 and teachers and 179,729 pupils; increase of 

 members during the year, 11,838; value of 

 church property, $3,345,064; of parsonages, 

 $362,545 ; total amount of salaries paid minis- 

 ters, $416,729. 



Contributions. For ministerial aid, $3,690; 

 for missions, $61,975; for church erection, 

 $4,262; for bishops' support, $5,999; for 

 church building and expenses, $251,475; for 

 colleges and seminary, $38,630; for ministe- 

 rial education, $1,329; for Union Biblical 

 Seminary (special), $2,492 ; for Sunday-school 

 fund, $1,795; local Sunday-school collections, 

 $54,337; the whole footing up, in round num- 

 bers, to $842,700. Of the 49 annual confer- 

 ences, 46 are in the United States, one is in 

 Canada, one in Germany, and one in West 

 Africa ; by nationality, 45 are English, three 

 German, and one Sherbro ; 31 are self-sustain- 

 ing, 14 are mission conferences, and four are 

 mission districts. For the purpose of super- 

 vision, the annual conferences are grouped in 

 six districts, each of which is superintended 

 by a bishop, who is elected every four years by 

 the General Conference. Of the seven bish- 

 ops, one is emeritus, four are engaged in regu- 

 lar episcopal work in the United States, and 

 two are missionary bishops. The publishing- 

 house at Dayton, Ohio, has a property and 

 assets valued at $229,260, the profits of which 

 for the last year were $17,417, and which pub- 

 lishes ten periodicals relating to various depart- 

 ments of church work and books. Sixteen new 

 volumes were published in 1886. Besides the 

 publications of this establishment, seven " un- 

 official " periodicals are published in the inter- 



est of United Brethren enterprises in the Uni- 

 ted States, one journal in connection with the 

 German mission, and one in connection with 

 the African mission. The Church Erection 

 Society received for the year ending April 

 30, 1886, $5,572, making the whole amount re- 

 ceived by it since its organization, $28,517; 

 and it assisted during the same year 19 church- 

 es, making the whole number of churches as- 

 sisted since its organization, 110. The re- 

 ceipts of the Board of Education for the same 

 year were $1,974. It gave aid to 20 bene- 

 ficiaries. Its report gives the returns of nine 

 academies and seminaries, ten colleges, and one 

 theological institution of the Church. With 

 these were connected 62 professors, 64 other 

 teachers, and 2,486 students, with 39 students 

 in the theological seminary, of whom 137 were 

 studying for the ministry. Ten professorships 

 were endowed. The 29 buildings, with their 

 grounds, of these institutions were valued at 

 $391,000. Endowments of $401,389 were re- 

 turned, with contingent assets amounting to 

 $146,550, against all of which was n total in- 

 debtedness of $294,740. The receipts of the 

 Home, Frontier, and Foreign Missionary So- 

 ciety, exclusive of returned loans, were $41,- 

 089. The receipts in loans wore $38,629. The 

 permanent fund amounted on the 30th of 

 April, 1886, to $64,114. Three hundred and 

 ninety-four missionaries were employed in the 

 home and frontier work. Two missions had 

 been established in the Sherbro country, in 

 West Africa, having 7 stations, from which 

 257 towns were reached, with 9 organized 

 churches and 2,631 members, 568 pupils in 

 Sunday-schools, and 537 in day-schools. Six 

 American and 29 native missionaries were em- 

 ployed, with 78 preachers, lay workers, and 

 teachers. The increase in the number of mem- 

 bers during the year had been 956. The Ger- 

 man mission returned 8 towns reached, 49 ap- 

 pointments, with 20 organized churches, 10 



