484 



MF.THOIHSTS. 



auxiliaries, 780 young women's societies, ami 771 

 children's bands, with, in ail. 151. 1<U in. 

 The Wesleyan Home for children ami mission- 

 aries ia susUinexl at \ .lass. 



II. M.ll i-t I p.seo,,.,! < lM.nl.. smith. 



inrch Kxlni-ii.il Botfd retried at its 

 _: in May that tin- collections for the 

 t.l nuifiiuitfNl to $53.5U3. ami that $2,795 

 had been retvi\ -<l from legacies and special <1< >na- 

 Tw.i hundred and eighty-four chuivhes 

 haii itecn aided, or, including toon which hail 

 beenassisUHl by the Conference Board, 848 in all 

 The whole number a 39 was 2,986. 



he organization of the Church Intension 

 v. $889,566 had been raised for its pur- 

 poses, nearly 8,000 churches aided, and more 

 than $3.500.000 in church property added. 

 I'.. >ar- 1 <>f Missions met in Louisvill. 

 May 3 ami 4, and made appropriations of $214.- 

 548 for sustaining the work during tin- ensuing 

 year. Of t nt $81.400 were appropri- 



the iM:-i..ii- in Brazil, $31, 947 to those in 

 s::rj:,i t.. the Japanese missions, $26,- 

 660 to tin- Central .Mexican. $15,807 to those on 

 the Mexican bor :* to those of Xort h- 



west Mexico, $17,500 to the Indian missions, 

 ami the rest to tin- conference missions. The 

 conferences were asked to contribute $850,000 

 to the support of the next year's work. Salaries 

 were fixed at $1,000 a year for married and 

 r single missionaries in China, Japan, 

 ami Mexico, and $l,l<x) and $650 in Brazil; 

 and it was provided that after ten years of serv- 

 ice, $100 should be added to the salary of mar- 

 ried and $50 to that of single missionaries, and 

 that the allowance of $100 for each child should 

 be increased to $150 when the child is five years 

 old. An effort was determined upon to estab- 

 lish a new mi inn sanitary station in North 

 China, whore missionaries in the South may re- 

 sort for rest and recuperation. 



seventeenth annual meeting of the Wom- 

 an's Board of Missions was held in Meridian. 

 Mia*, May 10. The receipts of the society for 

 the year had been $143,677, and the expendi- 

 tures $96,928, leaving a credit balance of $46,- 

 754, against which there were drafts, etc 

 able, reducing the actual balance to $22,360. 

 Thirty-ei-ht missionaries were supported in the 

 foreign field, 15 of whom were working in ( 'hina. 

 Mexico, 8 in Brazil, and 1 in the Indian 

 Mission. Nine missionary candidates had been 

 accepted, and were awaiting appointments. The 

 missions further returned 109 teachers and help- 

 ers, 12 boat-ding schools, 40 day schools, 1 hos- 

 pital. 11 Bible women, ami 4,:J79 women and 

 children under instruction. A new center of 

 work had been opened in Guadalajara, Mexico, 

 ami Centenary College. Rio de Janeiro, was to 

 be rauuied to Petropolis, where a large estate 

 had been bought. 



The Woman's Parsonage and Home M 

 Board reported as its most important single act 

 during the year the determination to establish 

 a school in the mountain- ,.f Kentuckv 

 people of London had offered a site and '$15,000 

 on condition that $20.000 additional be raised 

 asan endowment; and the affiliated society of 

 the K onference had $5,000 in hand 



for the building fund. An agent was appointed 

 to canvass for the endowment 



The separate existence of this church 

 begun May 1. L845, In the city of L.misvi: 

 ft Jubilee celebration of the event \\. 



11.;; the first week in ' >. under I' 



pices of the Church I r.;ird in \\ 



place; and the College of Bishops ai 

 Missi< \ited in hld I heir m. 



and participate. The opening address 

 jubilee was made by Bishop llen.i- 

 lated largely to tin- 'history of the . 

 . f the Church and >f the men most ; 

 in etl dresses were : 



ftn'l \\ rk in the Church." 



. -M.ss,,,, ii. c. If, 



nary Secretary : "the Church I'n 



I ll,,-s. editor ..f the "Chri 

 cate " (Nashville) ; - ivlu. ati-n in ih.-( : 

 by Dr. \\. \\. Smith, Beontat 



Is," by Dr. W. 1) 

 "The Knworth League," by I'p-f. C..I 

 and "Church Extension," '*> |)r - ^ 

 tarv of the Board, Bishop Cranberry. 

 (iailoway. The sum of $1.7S wn- 

 during the meetings for Chun-h lv 



III. Colored Methodist I |.is, .,,,.,1 ( h.irci.. 

 A congress representing this dim 



in Atlanta. (Ja.. Nov. 14 and IT... -it which 

 were read by the bishops and ot he: 

 the interests of the Cnurch ami \ 

 tions relative to the welfare of t he . 

 Among the subjects of the papers wen 

 Relations of Methodism to Society, 

 on the Moral and Civil Status of the Negri> 

 Race"; "The Papacy and th- UAOB"; 



"The Debt of Methodism to Wot- 

 Cause of the Origin and Growth of 

 Methodist Episcopal Church in 

 '* Methodism as a Factor in Kduca* 

 Intluence of its Literature" : " The |: 

 tern"; "The Relation the Colored Chun -h 

 sustain to the Temperance ( 'aiise " : 

 acterand [nfluenceof the Xeu'ro I'nl] 

 as a Missionary Field for the Color. 

 "li'digious Proclivities and Po-<il.i 

 Negro Race"; "What the I'.il.le i 

 for the Negro Race " ; " The M , ,ra 

 terial, and Intellectual Development 

 <> Race," and others more general. 



IV. American Wesleyan ( hur.-li. 

 fourteenth i|uadrennial session of 

 Conference of the American Wesle 

 was held at Fairmount. Ind.. 1 



The Rev. N. Warder presided. \ 



nual conferences were represented 



The Pacific Conference had In-come 



but a new conference had beet 



Pacific coast, known as the Willm. 



ence ; its delegates, however. 



An overture was sent down to the ; 



ferences, making it unlawful t< 



Church persons who used t< 



favoring such a change in t! 



pline as, modifying the prohibit ! 



membership in &< 



members of " minor " bodies of that class to ft 



miiiiion in the ChurcJi. was f>r 



ably upon by the c-omm 



referred; but there bj-inff a general il 



conference that it should romn. 



the subject, the paper was reported, 



it was rejected, and the conference express 



