496 



METHODISTS. 



Total for Foreign Missions $685,628 



II. MISSIONS IN THE UNITED STATES, NOT IN 

 ANNUAL CONFERENCES, TO BE ADMINISTERED AS 

 FOREIGN MISSIONS (in Arizona, the Black Hills, 

 Indian Territory, Montana, Nevada, New Mex- 

 ico, and Utah) 71,272 



III. DOMESTIC MISSIONS (Welsh, Scandinavian, 

 German, French, Chinese, Japanese, American 



Indian, Bohemian, and English-speaking) 409,921 



IV. Miscellaneous appropriations 86,000 



Total $1,201,819 



The Woman's Home Missionary Society met 

 in Syracuse, N. Y., October 27. Mrs. Ruther- 

 ford B. Hayes presided. The receipts had been 

 $43,124 in money and $35,000 in supplies. 

 Missions had been opened during the year in 

 several new places in the South, among the In- 

 dians, among the Mormons, and in New Mexico. 

 Of the missions already in operation, special 

 mention was made of improvements in the in- 

 dustrial departments at Little Rock, Ark., Holly 

 Springs, Miss., and Atlanta, Ga. ; of a gift of 

 property for an industrial school at Asheville, 

 N. 0. ; of buildings for mission schools in Utah ; 

 of a purchase ot'lots in New Orleans for a school 

 of domestic economy ; of the evening-school for 

 missionaries and a Deaconnesses' Home at Chi- 

 cago. A plan for a Home Missionary Reading 

 Circle and LectureBureau was approved ; appro- 

 priations were made for an Immigrants' Home 

 in connection with the Castle Garden Mission, 

 New York ; plans were recommended for enlist- 

 ing young people in behalf of home missions, 

 and arrangements were matured for starting a 

 mission in Alaska. The Woman's Foreign 

 Missionary Society returned 4,383 auxiliary 

 societies, with 103,259 members. Its receipts 

 for the year ending Oct. 1, 1887, had been 

 $191,158. It sustained in Japan, Corea, India, 

 Bulgaria, Italy, South America, and Mexico, 

 at the close of 1886, 70 missionaries, 64 assist- 

 ants, and 227 Bible women and medical work- 

 ers; and returned 352 girls in orphanages, 209 

 day-schools, with 4,808 pupils, 7,000 women 

 under instruction, and 1,286 pupils in boarding- 

 schools. It appropriated for 1888 $228,000. 



General Hospital, A Methodist Episcopal 

 General Hospital was opened in the city of 

 Brooklyn, N. Y., December 15. The plan of 

 the institution was originated by Mr. George 

 R. Seney, who in 1881 appropriated a gift of 

 $250,000 to the founding of a hospital, which, 

 while being under the control of trustees rep- 

 resenting the Methodist Episcopal Church, 

 should be open to all sufferers irrespective of 

 their creed or nationality. The corner-stone 

 of the building was laid on Sept. 20, 1882. The 

 sum of $410,000 had been expended by Mr. 

 Seney in the purchase of lots and upon the 

 building, when, in June, 1884, circumstances 

 made a temporary suspension of operations 

 necessary. The work was then resumed with 

 money obtained by subscriptions, of which an 

 additional sum of $70,000 was expended upon 

 the buildings, and $60,000 were secured toward 

 the beginning of a permanent endowment fund. 

 No distinction will be made among patients ; 



but each one will be permitted the services of 

 ministers of his own creed. The institution 

 was opened free of debt, but with the an- 

 nouncement that subscriptionswould be needed. 



II. Methodist Episcopal Church South The fol- 

 lowing is a summary of the statistics of this 

 church as they were returned in May, 1887 : 

 Number of annual conferences and missions, 

 42 ; of bishops, 9 ; of traveling preachers, 

 4,434 ; of local preachers, 5,989 ; of lay mem- 

 bers, 1,055,954, of whom 1,049,816 are white, 

 653 colored, and 5,485 Indian ; of Sunday- 

 schools, 11,177, with which are connected 77,- 

 515 teachers and 612,519 pupils; of churches, 

 10,951, having a total valuation of $13,835,- 

 149 ; of parsonages, 2.030, having a total val- 

 uation of $2,247,288; number of baptisms 

 during the year, 33,871 of infants, and 74,582 

 of adults. Amount of contributions: for 

 church extension, $34,632; for conference 

 claimants, $94,089; for foreign missions, $176,- 

 363; for domestic missions, $80,865; total for 

 missions and church extensions, $291,861. The 

 increase of members during the year was 

 75,309. Appropriations for missions were made 

 in May for the current financial year, as fol- 

 low : for missions in the Western and border 

 conferences in the United States, $37,455 ; 

 for missions in Mexico and on the Mexican 

 border, $67,276; for missions and schools in 

 Brazil, $25,101 ; for the Indian mission confer- 

 ence, $10,975 ; for the China mission, $21,117; 

 for the Japan mission, $9,930. Including spe- 

 cial appropriations applicable to Brazil, Mexi- 

 co, and China, the whole amount appropriated 

 was $193,416. 



III. Methodist Protestant Clmrch. The statistics 

 of this church, as compiled for 1887, give the 

 following footings : Number of conferences, 

 44; of itinerant preachers, 1,570; of local 

 preachers, 929; of lay members, 124,638; of 

 probationers, 4,071. Two colleges are sus- 

 tained under the care of the General Confer- 

 ence, viz., at Westminster, Md., and Adrian, 

 Mich., and theological seminaries at the same 

 places. A foreign mission is supported in Ja- 

 pan, with chief stations at Yokohama and Na- 

 goya, which are served by seven missionaries 

 and several native teachers ; while the Wom- 

 an's Foreign Missionary Society has in addition 

 a school with two teachers at Yokohama. 



IV. American Wcsleyan Connection. The Gen- 

 eral Conference of the Wesleyan Methodist 

 Connection in America met in its twelfth 

 quadrennial session at La Otto, Indiana, Octo- 

 ber 19. The Rev. N. Wardner presided. Meas- 

 ures were taken for securing the incorpora- 

 tion of the General Conference under the name 

 just given. A committee was appointed to 

 prepare a practical and efficient plan for the 

 organization of missionary societies, the same 

 to be incorporated in the new book of " Dis- 

 cipline." Preparations were making for found- 

 ing a mission in Africa, for which a mission- 

 ary was ordained ; and the missionary agent 

 was instructed to go, with his family, with 



