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hundred aiid eight ordained ministers, twenty licensed preach- 

 ers, besides thirteen candidates, for the ministry. Let us see, 

 three hundred and eight ministers, and four hundred and 

 seventy-seven churches, or sixty nine more churches, than 

 preachers. 



The Methodist Episcopalians are far more numerous, than 

 any other christians, as the following statement, derived from 

 the very best authority shows. Number of church members, 

 seventy-seven thousand and thirty six; two hundred and ninety 

 four traveling preachers; five hundred and sixty local preach- 

 ers, four hundred and ninety churches, in the state, fifteen dis- 

 trict, and these are divided, into one hundred and thirty nine 

 circuits and stations. They liave erected, at different places, 

 fifty six parsonage houses for the accommodation of the itini- 

 rant ministers. 



This denomination, own a large commodious. Book room in 

 Cincinnati, eighty feet, by forty-two, four stories in height, erect- 

 ed on the corner of Eighth and Main streets. From this western 

 book establishment, they distribute many thousand dollars worth 

 of books, annually, into Ohio, and all the states and territories, 

 west of the Alleghanies. The present agents, of this valuable 

 establishment, are John F. Wright and L. Swarmsted. They 

 publish at this establishment, a religious periodical, called 

 " The Western Christian Advocate." And to this paper, there 

 are now, eleven thousand subscribers. C. Elliot and L. L. 

 Hamline are the editors of this paper. 



PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH. 



Names of the churches ; places where located, in 1834, to 

 wit : 



Trinity Church, Columbus, Trinity Church, Newark, 



St. James' " Zmesville, St. Luke's " Marietta 



St. Paul's « Chillicothe, Trinity " Cleveland, 



St. Peter's " Ashtabula, St. Paul's " Norwalk, 



St. James " B )ardman, St. Paul's, « Mt. Vernon 



Christ Church, Windsor, Christ « Dayton, 



