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METHODISTS. 



both the Conventions before the union. The 

 Convention resolved to cooperate in the Coun- 

 cil, and a committee of four ministers and four 

 laymen was appointed to represent the Metho- 

 dist Protestant Church in it. A committee 

 was appointed to extend fraternal greetings to 

 the several Methodist Conferences of Great 

 Britain, to communicate to them the fact of 

 the organic union of the Methodist Protestant 

 and Methodist Churches, and invite further 

 fraternal intercourse by visitation and cor- 

 respondence. The question of suffrage and 

 eligibility to office was left "to the Annual 

 Conferences respectively, provided that such 

 Annual Conferences shall be entitled to rep- 

 resentation in the same ratio in the General 

 Conferences, and provided that no rule shall 

 be passed which shall infringe upon the right 

 of suffrage or eligibility to office." A report 

 was adopted in favor of the early establishment 

 of a theological seminary. The several An- 

 nual Conferences, or their presidents, were re- 

 quested to take measures for the celebration, in 

 their respective districts, of the first half-cen- 

 tury of the Methodist Protestant Church, which 

 will take place in November, 1880. It was 

 ordered that the first General Conference of 

 the reunited Church should convene on the 

 third Friday in May, 1880, and every four 

 years thereafter ; and that the ratio of repre- 

 sentation should be two delegates one minis- 

 terial and one lay delegate for each 1,500 

 members, provided that if any district number 

 less than 1,500 members, it should neverthe- 

 less be entitled to two representatives. 



The following is a summary of the statistics of 

 the two branches of the Methodist Protestant 

 Church as they were published in connection 

 with the official report of the First Conven- 

 tion, held in Baltimore, Md., in May, 1877 : 



Number of churches, 674 ; of parsonages, 

 169; value of church property, $1,494,347. 



Number of churches in the Methodist Prot- 

 estant Church, 677; in the reunited Church, 

 1,351 ; value of church property in the Metho- 

 dist Protestant Church, $1,168,389; in the re- 

 united Church, $2,662,736. 



The receipts of the Methodist Board of Pub- 

 lication at Pittsburgh, Pa., for 1876, ae they 

 were reported to the Annual Council of the 

 Methodist Protestant Church, held at Spring- 

 field, Ohio, in July, were $23,524, and left 

 a profit in the hands of the treasurer of 

 $1,912. 



The receipts of the Board of Missions of the 

 Methodist Protestant Church, Springfield, 

 Ohio, for the year ending June 30, 1877, were 

 $2,641 ; the amount of assets on hand at the 

 close of the year was $3,173, with liabilities of 



The receipts of the Board of Ministerial 

 Education of the Methodist Protestant Church, 

 at Pittsburgh, Pa., for the year ending June 

 30, 1877, were $3,182, and expenditures, $1,- 

 908, leaving ft balance in the hands of the 

 treasurer of $1,274. The receipts of the Board 

 since its organization, January 19, 1866, to the 

 time of making the report for 1877, were 

 $38,114, and its expenditures $37,291; of 

 which $24,268 had been paid to beneficiaries. 

 The permanent fund amounted to $4,400 ; the 

 liabilities of the Board were $3,800. The 

 assets of the Board of Church Extension, on 

 July3, 1877, were $166. 



IV. WELSH CALVINISTIO METHODIST CHTJKCH 

 IN THE UNITED STATES. The followingis a sum- 

 mary of the general statistics of this Church, as 

 they were reported to the General Assembly 

 in September, 1877 : number of synods, 6 \ of 



