474 



METHODISTS. 



i. FOREIGN MISSIONS : $311,926, an increase of $34,622 over the receipts 



Africa (Liberia^.. 57^00 * ^ ne P rev ^ ous }' ear - Two hundred and fitly 



china 127JOO missionaries had been sent out by the society 



Germany' .....^ ................... ....... 27,000 since its organization 15 during the past year. 



Switzerland if'nnft ^ * s represented by a general magazine, and a 



5JJJJJ 19,000 children's monthly paper in English, a German 



Denmark"! '.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.''.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.' ''' ^500 monthly periodical, and three papers published 



Finland and St. Petersburg o-'l'ol) in as many different dialects in India. 



if d / a v ia 12 Sl II. Methodist Episcopal Church, South.- 



Bulgaria. .............. .......\. ...... ....... iti',650 The following is a summary of the statistics of 



Italy Ka'-trs ^is Church, as they are given in the general 



Mexico j>* *J minutes of the conferences : Number of traveling 



Corea '.'.'. . " " ' ! .... ' .'.....- '.' '' 1<V 267 preachers, 5,487, of whom 4,882 are registered as 



Lower California..!..'.! !!.!.! ^o "effective," 136 as "supernumerary," and 409 



*vi2Q40 as "superannuated"; of local preachers, 6,513; 



Total for fore.gn m, 8S1 ons , 592,940 ^ ^.FJ mQmbe ^ ^399,073 ; 6f colored mem- 



II. DOMESTIC MISSIONS: b ers> gjg . o f Indian members, 3,225; total 



We i sn $1,595 preachers and members, 1,345.210, showing an 



Swedish'.'.'... ...."'.'......... 81,975 increase for the year of 39,487; number of 



Norwegian and Danish 23.500 baptisms during the year, 34,732 of infants and 



g e r n ;;;;; i'^& 67,737 of adults ; of Sunday schools, 13,363, with 



Spanish! '"."!!!!!!!.!!!!!!!!'!!!!!!! .".'.!. . ! ! i^'Se 95,676 teachers and 765,286 pupils ; of churches, 



Chinese iO,7oo 13^35^ valued at $20,567,757; of parsonages, 



Semian' and Hungarian "f: ! ." " ." I ! .' " i .' .' ! 9$2 3,163, having a probable value of $3,675 739 ; 



Italian 8,535 amount of benevolent collections: For church 



Portuguese 712 extension, $57,292; for conference claimants, 



::::!!!!!::!!!!!:!!!!!! 'X $145,490; for foreign missions, $250,645; for 



- domestic missions, $134,953. An increase dur- 



Total for class No. l $161.691 m g tj ie quadrennium was shown of 615 traveling 



Class No. 2. preachers, 147 local preachers, 168,007 white 



American Indians $9,526 members, 70,751 pupils in Sunday schools, 1,418 



English-speaking populations 3u6,9s8 cn urches, and 612 parsonages. 



Total for domestic missions $47S,205 The twelfth General Conference of the Metho- 



Misceilaneous appropriations H9,ono dist Episcopal Church, South, met in Memphis, 



For the debt 175,764 fenn., May 3. The quadrennial address ot the 



; bishops began with congratulating the Church 



Grand total ; ' ' ' ' & 1 ' 360 ' 909 on the brotherly love and harmony which pre- 



Besides this amount. $122,600 were appro- vailed throughout the connection and on the large 

 priated conditionally to various foreign fields. gains of the last quadrennium. The present 

 The thirteenth annual meeting of the Woman's strength of the Church was 5,487 traveling preach- 

 Home Missionary Society was held in Williams- ers, of whom 4,982 were on the effective list, an 

 port, Pa., beginning Oct. 24. By reason of a increase of 625 ; 6,513 local preachers, an increase 

 change in the date of beginning of the fiscal of 244 ; 1,333,210 members, an increase of 167,- 

 year the reports covered only nine months. The 191; total number of preachers and members, 

 receipts for that period had been $82,757, and 1,345,210, an increase of 168,197; or, taking ac- 

 the expenditures $75,552. Several important count of the recently published statistics of the 

 bequests were expected to come to the society at Baltimore Conference, the total membership was 

 an early day. A valuable property at Tivoli, 1,347,347, and the quadrennial increase 170.197. 

 N. Y.. had been given to the society by Gen. The collections for missions for the past four 

 Watts De Peyster, and would be used'as a home years had exceeded those of the previous quad- 

 for Italian girls, to be known as the Watts De rennium by $284,164. The missionary force had 

 Peyster Institute. Gifts had also been received been enlarged and the number of members had 

 of $10,000 from Mr. William Sibley, of Washing- been increased by more than 50 per cent. The 

 ton, D. 0., for a hospital, and of $1,000 from Japan mission had been constituted a confer 

 Mrs. Allen, of London. Reports were made of ence, and the membership, having more th 

 missionary work in Alaska with the Jesse Lee doubled, now numbered 593. The last China Con 

 Home at Analaska; among the Spanish in Ari- ference had reported 736 members and proba- 

 zona, with a school at Albuquerque; among the tioners, a gain of 311 in one year. From the 

 Indians of Arizona and New Mexico; among the Brazil Conference 944 members were returned, 

 Mormons ; among the colored people, and among showing a net gain in four years of 585. Hope- 

 American and foreign populations in various ful progress had been made in Mexico, where 

 states. Supplies had been sent out (during nine there were 3 conferences, with 4,863 members, 

 months) through the bureau for that purpose, showing an increase of one third in the quadren- 

 to needy ministers and institutions, valued at nium. The Woman's Missionary Society, during 

 more than $55,000. Appropriations were made the sixteen years of its existence, had proved it- 

 for the ensuing year, unconditional, of $70,512; self a most valuable agency in disseminating in- 

 and conditional, of $64,575. formation, arousing interest, and sending forth 

 The annual meeting of the Executive Com- competent workers in foreign missions. Its 

 mittee of the Woman's Foreign Missionary So- property in mission fields was valued at $220,- 

 ciety was held in Washington, D. C., Oct. 24. 000. It had 37 missionaries. 103 teachers and 

 The receipts of the society for the year had been helpers, 52 schools, 2,793 pupils and women un- 



