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 Ecclesiastical 
 
 AlamanRG, for ministers 
 
 and laymen. 
 
 1868. 
 
BR 513 .S33 1868 
 Schem, A. J. 1826-1881. 
 The American ecclesiastical 
 and educational almanac 
 
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 INnOWOlOHd 
 

 ECCLESIASTICAL^ ^ 
 
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 .A5H 
 
 FOR MINISTERS AND LAYMEN 
 
 Prof. ALEXANDER J SCHE: 
 
 P K I C E^jO C E N T S^ 
 
 COXsTTElSrXS. 
 
 ASTRONOMICAL I>liPAH1MKM-: 
 
 Calendar, Kclii>»es, &c. 
 
 HlSTOBlCAI, DePAKTMEM: 
 
 The </'hiistian Church in 18fi7 . 
 
 The Kviingelical Alliance .... 
 
 The Pail Aiiirlican Synod 
 
 Bible Societies . . . 
 
 Young Men's Christian Asaociations . 
 
 The Koman Ciitholic Council . . 
 
 Union Movements in the Christian Worl.i 
 
 Religious Societies ..... 
 
 The Presbyterian National Tnidrj Convention 
 
 Temperance. ...... 
 
 N, V. Sabbath Committee 
 
 Sunday Schools ..... 
 
 Centenary of -American Meth'idigtn 
 
 Church and State. — Frngr«ss of ReliKious Liberty 
 
 The Church ,the slavery Question and the b'reedmen 
 
 The Churches and Secret ;rocietie.s 
 
 V'oreign Missions . . . . 
 
 LiTERART Department. 
 ♦ Books on Religious. Ecclesiastical and Moral Sulij'jcts. published 
 
 ' DSKOMINATIONAL RECORD. 
 
 Interesting Events and Incidents in the Religious History of ISijr 
 Statistical Department : 
 
 The Creeds of the World . . . . . . 
 
 Ecclesiastical Statistics of America, Europe, Asia. .Africa and Australi; 
 
 Denominational Statistics, giving a full Statistical Account of the principal Religious De- 
 nominations .......... 
 
 Alphabbtioal Index ........... 
 
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 NEW YORK, pS5ifiS252SJSJS^5S2S^ FREDK. GERHARD, a- 
 
 18 68. 
 
 15 DEY STREET, 
 
 (POST BOX 4001.) 
 
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 GREAT AMIMtAi\ TEA COMPANY. 
 
 Established 1861. 
 
 THE inil^lEi^SE PROFlTJii OF THE TEA TRADE 
 
 CiREATEY REDUCED. 
 
 THE PROPRIETORS OF THE GREAT AMERICAN TEA COMPANY l.fiamc fully convince.l 
 several years ago, that consumers of Tea and Coffee were paying too many ami too larjie prDflts on 
 these articles of every-day consumption, anil therefore organized THE GREAT AMERICAN TK.* 
 COMPANY, to do away, as far as possible, with the.se enormous drains upon the consumers, mid 
 to supply them with these necessaries at the smallest possible price. 
 
 lo give our readers an idea of the jirofits which have been made in the Tea Trade, we will 
 start with the American houses, leaving out of the account entirely the profits of the Chinese 
 factors. First, the American House in China or Japan makes large profits on their sales or ship- 
 ments, and Fome of the richest retired merchants in this country have made their immense fortunes 
 throuph their Houses in China. Second, the Hanker makes large profits upon the foreign exchange 
 used in the purchase of tea. Third, the Importer makes a prolit of 30 tu &0 per cent, in many cases. 
 fourth, on its arrival here it is sold by the cargo, and the Purchaser sells it to t.'ie Speculator in 
 invoices of 1000 to 2000 pHckageg, at an average profit of about JO per cent. Fi/th, the Speculator 
 sells it to the Wholesale Tea Dealer in lines, at a profit of 10 to 1.5 per cent. Sixth, the Wholesale 
 Tea Dealer sells ii to ^he Wholesale Grocer, in lots to suite his trade, at a profit of about 10 per 
 cent. 3tventli, the Wholesale Grocer fells it to the Retail Dealer, at a profit of 15 to 25 per cent. 
 litfflith,iY\e. Retailer sells it to the Consumer for ALL THE PUOKIT HE CAN GET. When you 
 have added to tlie.se EIGHT jirofits as many brokerages, cartages, storages, cooperages, and waste, 
 and add the original cost of the tea, it will be perceived what the consumer has to pay. ^n I now 
 we propose to show why we can sell so very much lower than other dealers. We prcpo^e lo do 
 away with all these various jirofitsand brokerages, cartageB, storages, cooperages, and waste, with 
 Ihe exception of a small commission paid for purchasing, to our correspondunts in China and Jajian. 
 one cartage, and a small profit to ourselves, which on our large sales, will amply pay us. Through 
 our system of supplying Clubs throughout, tlie counuy, consumers in al; parts of tlie United States 
 can receive their teas at the same price (with the small additional expense of transportation) as i 
 though they bougJit them at our warehouses in this city. Parties getting their Teas from us may 
 confidently rely upon getting them ]iure and frci^li, as they come direct from the Custom Housi- 
 stores to our warehouses. We warrant all the goods we sell lo give entire satisfaction. If they 
 are not satisfactory they can be returned at our expeii.se within 30 days, and have the money 
 refundeil. 
 
 P. S. All villages and towns where a large number reside, by c/Kfcfci/i^ together, can reduce 
 the cost ofthcir Teas and Coffees about one third by sending directly to the 
 
 GREAT AMERICAN TEA COMPANY, 
 
 31 and S3 Vtsey-streit. Post-office box 5643 New York City. 
 The Company has selected the following kinds from their stock, which they recommend to 
 meet the wants of Clubs. They are sold at Cargo-Prices, the same as the Company sell them in 
 New York, as the list of jirices will show. 
 
 OO'LO'Sti, ^Itliick) tiO, 70, 80. 00, Iirst $L per lb. 
 
 COFFEE ROASTED AND GROUND DAILY. 
 
 GROUND COFFEE, 20c., "JSc, 30c., Sic.bcst 40c. i>er lb. Hi. Ids, Saloons, Boardiug-HouseKeep- 
 ers and Families who use large Quantities of Coffee can economize in that article by using our 
 FRENCH BREAKFAST and DINNER COFFEE, which we will tell at the low price of 30c. per lb., 
 and warranted to give perfect satisfaction. 
 
 ROASTED (UNGRUUND) 30c., 35., best 40c. per lb. 
 
 GREEN (UNRAOSTED) 25c., 30c.. 3.1c., best 35c. per Ih. 
 
 Consumers can save from 50c. to $1 per )iound by purchasing their Teas of the 
 
 GREAT AMERICAN TEA COMPANY, 
 
 No«. 31 AND 33 VESEY STREET. 
 
 Po6t-cifflc« box^43. New York Ci<y. 
 
THE i^MERIO^N" 
 
 ECCLESIASTICAL 
 
 ALMANAC, 
 
 FOR MINISTERS AND LAYMEN, 
 
 FOR 
 
 1868. 
 
 B7 
 
 Pb0F. ALEXANDER J. SCHEM. 
 
 FREDK. GERHARD. Aet., U Dey St, 
 
 POST BO2: 4001. 
 
Oil Febrnary 1st 18G8, will be paLlished a splendid EngraTiag ol 
 
 designed and engraved by H. CLAUSSEN. 
 Size, 24x30 Inches, Price, Two Dollars. 
 
 This beautiful en(»ravinff, the finest work of the kiud ever pnViIished, ts certain to becon>e a 
 favorite with Christiau families, and ought to find iis way into every Christian home. The design 
 is appropriate, executed in the best style of art, and harmonizes in the most striking and symbulical 
 manner with the spirit of the divine instruction. 
 
 The Rftentinn of ministers is JDvited to this magnificent work, and they are reqocsted. ff they 
 see fit, to introduce it to the notice of their church-members. 
 
 Ministers and other Gentlemen, desiring to act as agents, will be allowed a very liberal discount, 
 which will enable them to sell it at a very handsome profit. 
 
 Agents wanted in every City and County. Canvassers can make easily from 10 to 20 Dollars 
 a day. 
 
 Circulars stating the terms for agents &c., sent on application to the Publisher. Those, wishing 
 at the same time to receive a sample-copy will please enclose Two Dollars. 
 
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 JOSEPH S. KXAPl', KElWAliD MAICSHALU 
 
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 NEW A M S T E U D A M F I 11 E INSURANCE COMPANY, 
 
 CAPITAL $300,000. 
 
 OFFICE: ISO. 173 HROADWAY. COIi. OF CoRTLANDT ST. N. Y. 
 DIRECTORS. 
 
 DAVID S. MANNERS 
 A. H. WaLLIS. 
 FRANCIS MANY. 
 JOHN WESTFAI.L, 
 WM. F. BEARNS, 
 PETER DURYER, 
 
 jAinES G-. p OWE as, 
 
 JOHN WHEATON. 
 WILLIAM T. HALL. 
 NICHOLAS D HER[>ER. 
 D. R. DOREMUS.SuRVFTOB. 
 
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 ANDREW IIOOGLANO, 
 HERviaN H. BKU.VJE8, 
 JAMES S. BKARNS. 
 H. H. KATTEXHORN. 
 E. C. KoRNER, 
 FRANCIS BOLTING, 
 HENRY J, BEERS. 
 HENRY A. BOoREAM, 
 
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 ABRAHAM VOORHIS. 
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 LE'NDER B. SHAW. 
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 JNO. G. LINNEMANN, 
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 tn full assortment ; 
 
 EU SEEiS, 
 
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 all carefully tested before smding out, and 
 
 i;^ARRAI^TED TO C;R0W. 
 
 The fMTowing Catalogues are issued, and mailed to any address, on receipt of Rfaicp; 
 1 Aruateur'i Price Lift of Fruit and ornamental Trees, Grap«-Viik«s, Small Fruits, he. 
 S. Dtscriptive Strawberry Catalogue, with SopplemeDt. 
 
 3. Wholfs.ale Cataio^'ue of Fruit aud ornameutaJ Trees, &c. 
 
 4. Descriptive Seed Catalogue. 
 
 5. •' Circular of New Seeds. 
 
 6. " Cai.nlv,'ue <>f BeddiBg Plants, ko. 
 
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 FEBRUARY, 18G8. 
 
 39 OAYS. 
 
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 OF NEW YORK:. 
 
 144 and 146 Broadway, 
 
 FREDEKICK S. WINSTON, PREsioEnt. 
 
 This Comfant offers tbe foTIowing pecuTiai advantagea to persona intending to In 
 siSre their live*: — 
 
 Its Assets are tarfffr than those of any other life losurance Company ilk the Uni- 
 ted States, amonnting to 
 
 S2^, 000,000- 
 
 and are exitusively eusTt. 
 
 Its Kates of PaEMttrM are hicer tlran those of the majority of other Life Ingirrance 
 Corapnnies — yet its Dividends have been ^rea/fr; the result of a very low rate of, 
 mortality among the insured, consequettt oa-a most careful and judicious selection 
 of lives. 
 
 The Mo^TAtiTY among its MeMbehs baff heen pTOportionsHy less than that of any 
 other Life Insurai\ce Company in either America or Europe whose expevienee has 
 been made known— a, result in th« highest degree fa'vorable to Policy-holders. 
 
 Its- Dividends are made annually, and may he used either to increase the amount 
 insured, or to decrease the premium. 
 
 Evert Policy ha* a dividend, vrhich mny he soused art the end of the ftret and 
 every subsequent year that he remains insured. 
 
 The Assets of the Company are invested exclusively on Bond and 3Iortgapre on 
 Real Estate in the City and State of i^ew TTork, worth in each case at least douhk 
 the amount loaned, and bearing interest at seven per cent: the solidity and security 
 of this disposition of the Company^ a funds cannot be over-rated'. 
 
 jVbfe. — The business of this Corrrpany is conducted on the Mltuat. principle ia the 
 strictest sense of the term; the entire surplus, diduclinff necessary expenses akme, being 
 equitably divided among the assured. 
 
 ErcitARD A. McCtfimY, Vice-Presi^kr^. 
 SiiEPPARD HoMANS, Actuary. 
 
 WlLMAW BETT-f, LL.D., V 
 
 Hon. Lucius Uobinson, J- Coimad. 
 
 MiNTUR« I'o^. M.D.. ) Medicd Emminm. 
 ISAAC L. Kip, M.D., j 
 
8d MONTH. 
 
 MARCH, 1868, 
 
 Si DAYS. 
 
 MOOiN'S PHASES 
 
 First Quarter 
 
 Full Moon 
 
 Third Quarter. 
 New Moon . . . . 
 First Quarter 
 
 BOSTON, 
 
 5 mo. 
 38 ev. 
 45 er. 
 15 mo, 
 41 m'. 
 
 i^EW YORK, 
 
 53 er. 
 26 ev. 
 33 ev. 
 3 mo 
 29 mo. 
 
 M. 
 
 41 ev 
 14 ev, 
 21 ev. 
 51 mo. 
 17 mo 
 
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 29 ev. 
 
 2 er. 
 
 9ev. 
 39 mo. 
 
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 ifiTICL[S, 
 
 Ileiicinan & Co.'s Benzine, 
 
 For the insf.int removal of Paints, Grease Spots, etc. 
 
 ZSegeiiiaiii & Co/s Camphor Ice, with Glycerine, 
 
 A certain cure lor Cliapped Hands, Sunburn Sore I-ips, Chilblains, etc. 
 
 IIegeni:«n A Co.'s Genuine Cod Liver Oil, 
 
 Warranted pure, and prepared from the Iresli Livers, without bleacliing or any chemical prepa- 
 ration. This article has stood the test of filteen years' experieDce, with increasing rcputatiuu, for 
 Consump'iop, Scrofula, etc. 
 
 IletieKsan & Co.'.t Cordial Elixir of Calisaya BarEi., 
 
 Prepared from the Calisaya (or King's) Rark, being the heft variety of Peruvian Barli. It Is an 
 ;i_'retal>le cordial to the taste, and posse.-sing the valuable tonic prnpeilies of the bai k — an excel- 
 lent preventive to Fevers, Fever and Ague, etc , for residents in lualaiious diftricts. 
 
 EIt|;:ciuan & Ci»/s Velpt auN Di>irrliea Remedy and Cliol*-ra 
 
 Preventive. 
 
 Uged with unfailing imccess durinsj and since the cholera of 1845, A single dose will asually 
 check or cure the Diarrliea. No family should be without it. 
 
 Megcnian^s Ferreted Elixir of Bark, the Most perfect Iron 
 
 Tonic in Use. 
 
 This Elixir is composed of the active principles of Calisaya Bark, combined wtth PyrophospUate 
 of Iron, and in nil cases where an efficient Iron Tonic is required will piore veiy valuabie. 
 
 Ili'g^enian'^ Odonto or Pearl Dentifrice. 
 
 A most agreeable and economical Powder for cleaning and preserving the teeth. 
 
 liegeman & Co*s Bronchial Pastilles. 
 
 They allay irritation of the mucous mi.rabrane, cure Catarrh, Cough, and incipient Bronchitis. 
 I'articulaily valuable for Clerg.vmen and Public Speakers, as they keep the throat moist, etc. 
 
 THE AliOVE PREPARATIONS ARE SOLD BY DRL'GGISTS fiENERALLl, 
 
 In the United States and Canadaa. 
 
4th 9f ONTU. 
 
 APRIL, 1868. 
 
 80 DAYS. 
 
 MOON'S PHAGES 
 
 Full Moon 
 
 Third Quarter. 
 
 Mew Moon 
 
 First Quarter.. 
 
 BOSTON. 
 
 H M 
 
 2 23 mo. 
 5 51 ev. 
 
 3 36 ev. 
 I 34 ev 
 
 NEW YORK 
 
 M. 
 21 mo. 
 
 H 
 2 
 5 
 
 3 24 ev. 
 1 22 ev. 
 
 WASB'TON. 
 
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 27 ev. 
 12 ev. 
 10 ev 
 
 CHARLES'N 
 
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 M. 
 
 57 mo. 
 15 ev. 
 ev. 
 
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 The CcR'brntcd 
 
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 AND 
 
 CLOTHES WSI1GI8. 
 
 COMBINED OR SEPARATE. . 
 Over 40,000 Soid and note Used in Hotels, Fatnilies etc. 
 
 UNIVERSALLY ADMITTED TO BE THE BEST MACHLNE IN TME WORLD. 
 FIRST PRIZE MEDAL A WARDED IN EUROPE AND AMERICA. 
 
 ■Warranted to w.ish perfectly without soaking, rubbinE or boiling and without injury to the 
 most tender fabric. Soap, labor and health saved. No drudgery, no steam, no Blops. The Union 
 Wringer will fit any kind of tul) and is the best and most durable in use. ClerRvmen ot all 
 denoiiiinations, I'liysicians and Philantrophists have written in the most glowins; terms of the 
 merit-i of these machines. Ladies who have them, say. they would not be without thtm for buodrcus 
 of dollars. 
 
 We keep on hand the largest assortment in the United States of'mangles for ironing all kinds 
 "' plain clothes without heat. Suitable for hotels, laundries and families. 
 
 The Washer Womans Friend ! 
 
 No Further Use for a Wash Board ! 
 
 Hand Rubbing and Back Breaking Abolished 
 
 ■PRICE, (without wringer) ONLY §10. 
 It Is so simple in construction and so easily operated that a meie child can understand and 
 work it. SERVAST GIRLS adopt it at once, and are quite willing tu throw aside their wash 
 board iu favor of it. 
 
 Every Family can afford to set one. 
 
 IT WILL WASH CLOTHES PERFECTLY. 
 
 WITHOUT ANY HAND RUBBING WHATEVER, 
 
 Saving Three-Fourths in Time, Labor and Soap. 
 Excepting the celebrated 
 
 It is the Best, Simplest and Cfieapcst Washer 7iow before (he PMic. 
 Can bo Attached to it. 
 
 J. WARD & CO. 
 
 2.*? CORTLANDT ST.. NEW YORK 
 AUD 102 SUMMER ST., BOSTON. 
 
 VAN NAME & Co , St. Louis and Cincinnati. 
 
 HAUUY DUVALL, 164 Lake St., Chicago. 
 
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 Sth DIONTII. 
 
 MAY, 1868. 
 
 SI D1V8. 
 
 IIOON'S Pil4SE!!i 
 
 P'hII Moon , 
 
 Third Quarter,. . . 
 
 Vew Moon 
 
 l-'lrst Quarter . . . , 
 
 M. 
 
 53 ev. 
 31 er, 
 52 mo. 
 58 ev. 
 
 5fEW TORK, 
 
 4. M. 
 
 1 41 er. 
 
 19 ev. 
 
 1 40 mo. 
 
 fi 46 ev 
 
 WASH'TOX 
 
 H M. 
 
 1 29 ev 
 
 7 ev. 
 
 1 28 mo. 
 fi 34 ev 
 
 CHARLES'N. 
 
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 17 ev. 
 55 mo. 
 16 mo. 
 22 ev. 
 
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 Awarded over Eighty-two Competitors, the Hieheat Premium, 
 
 FOR THE PERFECTION OF 
 
 SEWL\G }mmu m nmMm Miraiis, 
 
 The only GOLD MEDAL for this Branch of Manufacture. 
 Paris Fxposition. — Sewing: ]TInc]iiiie Awards. 
 
 There was recently published a brief telegram from Paris, announcing the award, over elphty- 
 two competitors, tu Messrs. Wheeler & Wilson, of ti.e Highest Premium, a Gold Medal for tin; per- 
 fectioB of P«wing Machines and Button-Hole Machines. The following are copies of the oCicfal 
 documeuts confirming the announcement: 
 
 Exposition Universelle, Paris. 1867, ) 
 
 Commission Imperiale, Champ-db-mars, Ju y 16, 1S67. j 
 Mr. R. HuNiiNO, No. 139 Regent Street, London : 
 
 Dear Sir —Replying to your inquiry, I beg to slate that the only Gold Medal for the manufac- 
 ture and Perfectdn of Dewing Maouines and Buiton-Holk Machines was awa:ded to Messrs. 
 WuEELBft & Wilson, of New-York. 
 
 Yours respectfuHy, 
 
 HENRY F. Q. D'AUGNY, 
 Member of Internal tonal Jury and Reporter of same, 
 Another letter of the same date says : 
 
 Pear Bill, —Replvins to your inquiry. I herewith give you the list of Rold-Mt'dals awarded to 
 my class : Dupuis et Dumkrt, for Screw Shoe Machines ; Wueelfr & Wilson, New York, for the 
 manuficture and perfection of their Sewing Machines and Butionll le Machines. There is, aNo, 
 in 1 he list of ■•Co-operators," a Gold-Medal granted to Mr. Elias lIowB, Ja., personally, as Pro'- 
 MOTsaof the Sewing Machine. 
 
 Respectfully yours, 
 
 HENRY F. Q. D'APIGNY, 
 Reporter ofClatt No. 57, (drnnp No. 6. ) Me/r^ber of Inltrnational Jury 
 at the Exposition Vmverselle, 
 
 Extract rrom L« Monitkur Univbrsbl, official Journal of the French Empire : 
 "The Wheeler k AVilson Company, of New York, manufacturers of American Sewing Machines 
 have jtist received the GoLO Medal at the Exposition Universelle, for the good construciion of 
 their Maehine-. ; the new imi>rovement for making Button IIole^, apiilicahli to their Sowing Ma- 
 chines ; also, for their Maclline especially for makiTg Button IIol?s. Ihis award is accoiiled for 
 tlie great ilevolopment that Messrs, Wueeler & Wilson have given to the Sewing Maehhie Induslry, 
 iu bringing their Miicliine to the doors of all, by their cheapness and solid construction, which 
 allows theiT employment with satisfaction in families, and with great adrantage in workrooms." 
 
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 JUNE, 1868. 
 
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 ffllclobcons, fiarlor, C^Imteb ^ Cabinet Prgans, 
 
 THE BEST MANUFACTURED; WARRANTED FOR SIX YEARS. 
 
 SECOND-HAND PIANOS, MELODEONS AND ORGANS, 
 
 At Great Bargains. Prices from $50 to $..}00. 
 
 Adj «»f the above instruments to let, and rent applied if purchased ; monthly instalments received 
 for the same. Old Pianos taken in exchange, or bought for cash. 
 
 ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUES SENT TO ANY ADDRESS. 
 TESTIMONIALS. 
 
 Th«f Horace Waters Pianos are known as amon;? tho vei-v best. — N, Y. Evans^flist. 
 
 Wh ean speak of the merits of the Horace Waters Pianos from personal knowledge as lieing of 
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 Advocate and Journal. 
 
 Waters' Pianos and Melodeons challenge comparison with the finest made anywhere in the 
 country. — Home Inurnal. 
 
 Out friends will fimi at Mr. Waters' store the very best assortment of Music and Pianos to be 
 found in the United States. — Grahams Magazine, 
 
 Manufactory and Warerooms, 
 
 HORACE WATERS & CO. 
 
7th MONTH. 
 
 JULY, 1868. 
 
 Si DAYS. 
 
 UOON'S PUASES* 
 
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 PRINCIPAL OFFICE, 
 
 516 Broad'way, Nevr "York, 
 
 AGENCIES in ALL the PR NCIPAL TOWNS of the Union. 
 
 The EMPIRE SHUTTLE MACHINE, patented February I4, 1860, is constructed 
 on a new principle of mechanism, possessing many lare and valuable improvements 
 and having been examined by the most profound experts, has been pronounced 
 to be 
 
 SIMPLICITY AND PERFECTION COMBINED. 
 
 The EMPIRE SEWING MACHINE has a Straight Needle, Feiymdinilar Action. 
 makes the Lock or Shuttle Stiich, which will neither rip or lavel, and is alike 
 on both sides ; performs perfect sewing on every desciiption of material, fiom 
 leather to the tinest Nansook muslin, with cotton, linen or silk thread, fix rathe 
 coarsest to the finest number. ^E&~ It Hems, Fells, Binds, Braids, Tucks, Quilts, 
 Plaits and Gathers. 
 
 Having neither cam or cog u-heel,a,nd the least possible friction, it runs as smooth 
 as glass, and is 
 
 EMPHATICALLY A NOISELESS MACHINE. 
 
 We make three sizes of all degrees ot finish. The No. 1, or Family Jlachine, 
 can be had with either Iron or Walnut Table, halt cabinet, folding top, or full 
 cabinet enclosed, and is alike a handsi me, useful piece of furniture. 
 
 Tlie No.- 2, for small manufacturing purposes, aie all fitted up alike with large 
 extension table of walnut and drawer This JIachine for tailoiing work, heavy 
 cloth, liglit leaiher, or family sewing, has no s-uperior. 
 
 Our No. 8, New Leather and Coach Trimming Machine, is the same as our 
 No. 3, (loth Manulacturing Machine, whicli can be adapted to the Heaviest or 
 Kinest Leather Work, bv removing the flat foot and substituting the roller fdot in 
 its place. This is especially desirable in Seuing I'atcnl Leather, and is highly lecom- 
 nieiided to 
 
 SHOEMAKERS, LEATHER FITTERS, HARNESS MAKERS, >. 
 
 AGENTS WAN'l-ED. APPLY FOR TERMS TO THE COMPANY. 
 
StU MONTH. 
 
 AUGUST, 1868. 
 
 81 DATS. 
 
 MOON'S PHASES, 
 
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 Third Quarter 
 New Moon . . . 
 First Quarter . . 
 
 BOSTO>J. 
 
 W. 
 
 8 mo, 
 44 mo. 
 27 mo. 
 
 3 ev. 
 
 NEW YORK. 
 
 H. M. 
 
 a 51 mo. 
 
 7 32 mo. 
 
 U 13 mo. 
 
 7 51 ev. 
 
 WATH'TON. 
 
 M. 
 
 44 mo. 
 
 •M mo. 
 
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 39 ev. 
 
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14 
 
 ECLIPSES FOR THE "TEAR 1363. 
 
 There will be only two Eclipses this year, both of the Sun, and neither of them visible In the 
 tJQitcd States. 
 
 I. Aq Annular Eclipse of the Sun, February 23. Visible in South America, Africa and 
 Sonihern Europe. 
 
 II. A Total Eclipse of the Sun. August 18. Visible in Eastern Africa, Southern Asia, and 
 in Australia. 
 
 A Transit or Meecort over the Sun's disc, will occur November 5. Invisible in the Upit«d 
 States. 
 
 MORNING STARS. 
 
 Venus (Q) after July 16. 
 Mar» ((J) from January 2 to November 13. 
 Jupiter (Oj.) from March 10 to July 4. 
 Saturn (T^) until Feb. 24, and afier Nov. 29. 
 
 EVENING STARS. 
 
 Venus until July 16. 
 
 Mars until January 2, and after November 13. 
 Jupiter until March 10. aud after July 4. 
 Saiurn from February 24 to November 29. 
 
 THE FOUR SEASONS. 
 
 D. U. M. 
 
 Winter begins, 1867. December 22, 1 31 mo., and lasts. 
 
 Spring " 1863, March 20, 2 27 mo.. 
 
 Summer " 1868, June 20, 10 54 eve., " 
 
 Autumn " 1868, Sept. 22, 1 25 eve . " 
 
 Winter " 16Grf, December21, 7 20 mo.. Trop.year, 365 
 
 D. 
 
 B. 
 
 H. 
 
 .f3 
 
 
 
 5(5 
 
 .92 
 
 20 
 
 27 
 
 93 
 
 14 
 
 31 
 
 .89 
 
 17 
 
 55 
 
 363 
 
 5 
 
 49 
 
 CYCLES OF TIME AND CHURCH DAYS. 
 
 Dominical Letters ED 
 
 Epact 6 
 
 Golden Number 7 
 
 Solar Cycle 1 
 
 Koman Indiction 11 
 
 Jewish Lunar Cycle 4 
 
 Dionvsi-.in Period 197 
 
 Julian Period 6581 
 
 Septuagesima Sund...Feb. 9 
 
 Sexagesima '' " 16 
 
 Quiuqiia^esima '" " i3 
 
 Ash Wednesday " 26 
 
 Quadragesima Sund., Mar. 1 
 
 Mid-Lent Sunday. .. " 22 
 
 Palm Sunday April 5 
 
 Good Friday " 10 
 
 Easter Sunday April 13 
 
 Lqw Sunday April lU 
 
 Rotation Siiuday. 
 
 Ascension Day 
 
 Pentecct .Sunday ., 
 
 Trinity Sunday 
 
 Middle of ilie Vear. 
 
 May 
 
 June 
 July 
 
 Ad vect Sunday Nov. 
 
 On the 12th of May, 1606, a star of the second magnitude suddenly appeared in the constella- 
 tion of the Northern Crown, but quickly began to lose its brillance. Its light being examined by 
 the spectroscope, showed two disiinct spectra, one like that of the other stars and of the sun, the 
 other consisting of four bright lines, indicating the comhustion of gas, esi)ycially hydrcen. 
 The great brightness of the lines showed that the luminous gas was butter than the star 
 itself. These indications, together with the suddennes of the outburst of light, and its rapij 
 decline from the second magnitude to the eigtht in twelve days, suggest the startling conceptioa 
 that the star had suddenly become enwrapped in the flames of burning hydrogen which also 
 intensified the heat and light of the star itself, till the caase of the combusiion wa.s exhausted, and 
 the star relapsed to its former insignificance. All this, though so recently visib.e to us, must have 
 occurred many years ago. 
 
 The Meteoric Showee of November, 1866, which was so brilliant in Eurojye and so insigni- 
 ficant or invisible in America, has led two eminent astronomers in Paris and Milan to form the 
 same conclusions — each from his own observations and calculatio's. Tliey agree in ascribinr^ 
 these meteors to one or more vast nebulous masses, moving in very elliptical orbits, which briu ^^ 
 them at long regular intervals within the earth's attraction and the oxidizing and iguitin" 
 influence of the atmosphere. Le Veirier judges that their orbit extends as far at least a« 
 to the orbit of Uranus; and both astronomers fix their period of revolutitn ai 33!^ years. 
 The orbit of the November meteors nearly coincides with that of Tenipol's cjmet, the first 
 of 1866 ; while the August meteors have an orbit almost identical with tliat of the great 
 comet of 1862. 
 
 Clerk 
 
 Ente'-ed acording to Act of Congress, in the year 1867, by Frdr. Gerhard, in tha 
 ■k'g Office »f the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New-York 
 
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 WHICH BM) 
 
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 Seen favorably known and Extensively U^cd in New York 
 City and vicinity for upwards of 
 
 TWENTY-FIVE YEARS. 
 
 iL 
 
 MADAME ZADOC PORTER'S 
 
 GUMTIfl eeiei BILSM, 
 
 Price, 25, 50 & 75 Cents per Bottle. 
 
 The Best, Clieapest, and most effectual Bemedy for Coughs, Colds, &c., (he World has ever pro- 
 duced. Purely VeytahU, contains no 3Iinerals or other 
 Deleterious Drwjs. 
 
 The cukative BALSAM is Warranted, if tised according 
 to Directions, to cure or relieve in all cases, Codohs, Colds, 
 Croup, Whooping Cough, Asthma aad all affections of ilie 
 Throat and Lungs. 
 
 Madame Zadoc Porter's Balsam is a purely Vegetable 
 Expectorant, prepared with great care and scientific skill, 
 from a combination of the beat remedies the vegetable 
 kingdom affords. 
 
 Its vemeiiial qualities are based on its power to assist the 
 healthy and vigorous circulation of the Blood through the 
 Lungs. 
 
 It enlivens the muscles and assists the skin to perform 
 the duties of regulating the heat of the system, and 'v\. 
 gently throwing off' the waste substance from the surface of | 
 the boily. 
 
 It loosens the phlesrm. induces free spitting, and will be 
 found VERY AGU?:EABLE TO THE TASTE. It is not al 
 violent remedy, but emollient, warming searching and eft'ec-j 
 tive ; and can be taken by the oldest person or youngest ^ 
 child. 
 
 If 3'ou have a Cold, if ever so slight, do not fail to give 
 the Balsam a trial, as tlie very low price at which it is sold 
 brings it within tiie reach of every one, that they may al- 
 ways keep it convenient for use. The timely use of a 'i.*) 
 cent bottle will often prove it to be worth a hundred times 
 its cost. 
 "7.5 renin f>' tile is more profiti^hh to the consumer as it contains fonr times die quantity 
 m the sinidl bottle. Sold by all Druyyists. 
 
 RUOKEL & HETOEL, Proprietors, 
 
 The 
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15 
 
 THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH IN 1867. 
 
 The "American Ecclesiasiical Almanac" 
 JntenfU to give ii bii^'f ao omit ot the must im- 
 P'jrtant events in the religious history of tho 
 year, togoiher with tlie latest and cjmpletost 
 •ttitistic.il iutelligence on tue several reiigious 
 dBnominalions ol this and other couutries It 
 is to be a brief comiieaditira of important facts 
 and fi:;ures, wliich. it is supposed, will infere-it 
 alike members of all religions denominations. 
 It has been our endeavor to avoid ail paitizan- 
 ship, and to be. in all our stuteraents. im|.a tial 
 ami accurate ; aud. so far as the brief space of 
 the Almanac allows, we have aimed at com- 
 pleteness. 
 
 Although the Almanac briefly notices re- 
 ligious movements of every kind, it is chiefly a 
 chronicle of the history of the Christian Church. 
 Commonly, the Christian Church is divided into 
 three large groups. The first of th se is tlie 
 Roman Catholic Church; the second is formed 
 by the Creek and the other Eas.eru Churches ; 
 while all the others have frequently been com- 
 prised under the collective name of Protestants 
 or of Bible Christians, although neither name 
 bas been generally accepted. 
 
 One of the largest denominations of Chris- 
 tians the Anglican Church, is in a state of 
 transition. Cne pai ty in it claims to be one of 
 the Protestant group of churches ; another 
 wishes to be regarded as substantially one with 
 the Greek and Eastern Ciurches. and endeavors 
 to bring about a closer union with these cnurch- 
 es. The conflict of these parties gi ve-< a special 
 Importance to the " Pan-Anglican Synod," or 
 the first general meeting of iiishnps of all the 
 branches of the Anglican communion, which 
 ■WAS held in I5tj7. 
 
 A majority of the Protestant churches, al- 
 though dilloiing in some points of their creed, 
 agree in beliering in the divinity of Christ, iu 
 the inspiration of the tjible, »nd in the Bible a4 
 
 the only rule of faith. Thsy are commonly de« 
 
 signaled by the eollective n:-inie of " Evangeli- 
 cal Djniimin.uions." They have emleavoied to 
 effect a perni^iuent union by the estanlishmeuS 
 of the ■' Evani-elicai Alliance " which last year 
 held its fifth oecumenical council. They have 
 also in common many religious Societies, such 
 as Bible aud Tract Societies and Young Meu's 
 Christian Associations. 
 
 Among tho deuominations not repre-ented 
 in the •' Evangelical A.liance," are the Unita- 
 rians, Univei'aalists, and the " Christian Con- 
 nection," which have of late begun to unite in the 
 establishment of " Liberal Christian Unions." 
 They differ from the djaomiuat;om; comprised 
 under the name of " Evangelical " in many doc- 
 triiiej, regarded by the latter as essential, but 
 agree with them iu accepting the Bible as thu 
 rule of their faith 
 
 There are a number of smaller communions, 
 also accei)ting the bible as the rule of faith, 
 but keeping outside of the above-mentioned or- 
 ganizations. 
 
 There are, finally, organizations which pro- 
 fess a belief in the religion founded by Christ, 
 but refuse to accept the liible as the unchanging 
 standard of faith. This opinion is held by 
 men and parties in a number of the Europeaa 
 Sta'.e Churches, where it is commonly designa- 
 ted as Rationalism or Liberalism. A new or- 
 ganizatiou, intended to embrace men of these 
 views, was established last year in the United 
 States, under the name of "Free Religious As- 
 sociation." 
 
 All the more important facts in the history 
 o' these churches and organizations will be no- 
 ticed in this Almanac ; and though it is impos- 
 sible to obtain absolute completeness, we feel 
 Cunfident tliat no oilier publication in the Eng 
 lish or any other language presents a fuller 
 amount of information. 
 
 THE EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE. 
 
 3 — History of the Evangelical Aili- 
 
 It is about twenty-two years since the idea 
 of the Evangelical Alliance was elaborated by 
 a Conference held at Liverpool. This conference 
 was preparatory in its character, and after a 
 Ions discussion of the points common to " evan- 
 pelical denominations." itmade membership of j 
 the alliance de|)endent upon nine tenets, among 
 Whichwere the inspiration of the Scriptures, 
 the Trinity the utter depravity of human na- 
 ture, the Divinity of Jesus Christ and the Atone- 
 ment, justifloation by faith alone, and the Di- 
 vine institution of the sacraments of Bantism 
 and the Lord's Supper. The first attempt to fix 
 a common creed of evangelical Protestantism 
 did not meet g-neral approval, as it excluded 
 denominations like the Friends and the Ply- 
 mouth brethren. The fi-st General Assanbly 
 «f the members and friends of the Alliance was 
 
 held in 1846, in London, under the Prssideney 
 of Sir Culling Eardley Smith, one of t e origi- 
 nators and actio promoters of the alliance, 
 England, the United States, and Germany, were 
 represented. Belief in immortality, the judg- 
 ment of the world through Ciirist, t c everlast- 
 ing bliss of heaven, and the everlasting damna- 
 tion of the wiciied. were added to tho ininciples 
 previously adopted. The alliance spread io 
 France, Switzerland, and Belgium, without 
 agreement with its definition of the evangelical 
 creed being insisted on. It met with much op- 
 position in Germany from the Lutherans, who 
 did not find the creed sufBciently exi)licit on 
 certain points, and from the disciples of Schlei- 
 ermacher, who disapproved of some of the arti- 
 cles. A second assembly was held in Paris ia 
 1855, on the occasion of tne World's Exhibition. 
 The tinrii meeting yia,^ held in Berlin, in 1857. 
 The (" Confessional ") Lutherans became mora 
 determined in their opposition, while the Evan- 
 gelical party of Germany, though approving of 
 
16 
 
 th« general scope of tb* alliance, deemed It in- 
 expedient to iusist on acceiitance of the nine 
 pribciples as a cuudition of meuibcrship. I'his 
 ueeiiug waj larj^ely attended, delegates from 
 Macao. Africa, and Australia being present, and 
 brought the alliance more prominently before 
 tha churches of Coutinental Europe. The/ourth 
 mettinif was held at Geueva in 166(1. It was 
 successful, notwithsianding the declension of 
 the Genevan National Church to sympathize 
 with its objects. Dr. Guthrie, of Scotland ; Dr. 
 Baird, of the United States; Monod, I'resens^, 
 aud Gasparin, of France ; Kruramacher and 
 Dosner, of Germany ; Groen van Priosterer, of 
 Holland ; and Merle d'Aubigne, of Switzerland, 
 Were among ths most prominent and active 
 members. The fifth meeting was to hire been 
 held at Amsterdam in 1b66, but was pustponed. 
 on account of the prevalence ot the cholera at 
 tii« appointed time, till ]867. 
 
 2.— Conference of 1867. 
 
 The Jijih General Conference actually took 
 place at .-imsterdamon the 18th of August, 1867. 
 The citizens of the place extended a hearty 
 welcome to all the members. The meeting was 
 largely attended. Ihere were delegates from 
 Fr.ince, Germany, Switzerland, Holland, Great 
 Britain, the United States, the liritish .imer'can 
 Provinces, Italy, Spain, Sweden, and Eastern 
 countries. Baron Van Wassenaar Catwijk pre- 
 sided. Among the more prominent delegates 
 Were Dr. Krummacher, Prof. Herzojf. Dr. Tho- 
 luck, and Prol. Lange, of Germany ; Pasteur 
 Bersier, Dr. de Pressens^, and Prof. St. Hilaire. 
 of France ; Dr. Guthrie, of Scotland ; John Pye 
 Smiih. Archdeacon Philpot, aud 8. Gurney, M. 
 P., of England ; Merle d'Aubigne. of Switzer- 
 land ; the Kev. Dr. Prime, of the United States, 
 and many others. The opening sermon was 
 preached by Prof. Van Oosterzee. Among the 
 nubjects discussed were the religious condition 
 of the Church of England, the Scottish church- 
 es, the connection of Missions With Civilization, 
 Christianity, and Literature, and Art and .Sci- 
 ence ; the methods of operating missions : tlie 
 religious condition of Germany, France, Hol- 
 land, Belgium, and Italy ; Evangelical Non- 
 conformity ; Christianity and the Nationalities ; 
 and various subjects of theology and philosophy. 
 Interesting reports were received of the pro- 
 gress of religious liberty in Turkey, and of the 
 thraldom of opinion in Spain. The oiiservance 
 of the .Sabbaih receive'! especial consideration, 
 resulting in the adoption of a resolution calling 
 upon the members of the Alliance to use, in 
 their several places of abode and spheres of in- 
 fluencs, earnest endeavors to secure from Slates, 
 Municip ilities, and masters of establishments, 
 from every o^ie, the weekly day of rest from la- 
 bor, in order tljat all may freely and fu'ly par- 
 ticipate in the tei^iiporal aud spiritual benefits 
 of the Lord's day." 
 
 A letter of affection and sympathy was 
 adopted to Christians scattered abroid. pariic- 
 ularly to those who are laboring against the 
 hostile inliuvnces of heathenism or of supersti- 
 tion, and whose rights of public worship are re- 
 •traioed or abridged. An address of protest 
 against war was adopted. Statistics were giveu 
 of Toung Men's Christian Afsociations, showing 
 that theie are in the Ciiiistian world upwards 
 ti eight luiudred such associations, numbering 
 npwarcis of 55,0(10 niemiiers. Special meetings 
 Weri» h«lU on Sunday Schools aud systematic 
 
 benevolence. A series of meetings f)r the poor 
 were held in one of the mission rooms of tha 
 city, with wholesome effect, aud two trmperaiiO« 
 meetings. 
 
 An invitation was presented and urged by 
 the representatives of the American branch t« 
 hold the next (ieneral Conference at New York, 
 which was referred to the different branches of 
 the Alliance for consideration. 
 
 The assembly adjourned on Tuesday, fh« 
 27th of August, but on the following day aa 
 open-air missionary me ting was held at Vogel- 
 gesang, at which ten thousand persons were ad- 
 dressed in French, Dutoli, ami Get man. 
 
 The Evangelical Alliance" of the United 
 States was organized in New York city on (ha 
 3tlth of January. 1867. Eminent divines and 
 laymen of the Episcopal, Methodist. Presbyte- 
 rian, German Reformed, Kelormed Dutch, ad 
 Baptist churches, and from various parts of the 
 country, signified their approval of the move- 
 ment, either by attendance in person or by let- 
 ter. A letter of cooperation was read from ths 
 Secretary of the British branch of the Alliance* 
 Hon. Wm. E. Dodge is President of the Ameri- 
 can branch. 
 
 The central idea of the Evangelical Allianco 
 is to represent to the world the .spiritual unity 
 of the Evangelical deuominations, and to estab- 
 lisli between them a bond of union. The Brit- 
 ish branch, only, of the National branches, has 
 been in the practice of holding annual meet- 
 ings. 
 
 3.— Report of the American Branch. 
 
 The report on the state of religion in the 
 United States of America, which was presented 
 by Dr. Benry B. Smith. Chairman of the Exec- 
 utive Committee of the American branch of the 
 Alliance, after a brief reference to the ties of 
 sympathy, particularly in a religious aspect, 
 between the United States aud Holland, dwelt 
 at length upon the character and results of the 
 American civil war; its causes, the nature of 
 the questions, moral and political, which were 
 involved in it, and what has been obtained by 
 it, particularly the national unity and V.ie ex- 
 tinction of slavery It referred to the workings 
 of the Freedmen's Bureau, and the bright pros- 
 pects which are presented for the moral and in- 
 tellectual development of the colored popula- 
 tion. 
 
 The doctrine of the separation of Church 
 and State was incidentally referred to as sus- 
 tained by the events of the war This repara- 
 tion, it was shown, does not imply iiidiffercce, 
 still le 8 opposition, of the Goverumeni to 
 Christianity, for the Government, in numerous 
 acts of its highest officers, shows a tacit recog- 
 nition of Christianity; an fffurt is being mad-;, 
 moreover, to have an exp-ess recognition insert- 
 ed in the National Constitution. .Vmerica i 
 churches, under the voluntary system, show a 
 •arger growth than ahy other. The operations 
 of th* chur> lies have not been impeded, but in- 
 vigorated and accelera'ed, by the war. Its di- 
 rec(; fruits were an impulse of benei'olencesho'va 
 in the organization and Hoeial support of the 
 Sanitary anil Christian Commissions, and ither 
 enterprises for the benefit of the 8oi,liers. statis- 
 tics of the operations of which were given, fhs 
 rapid advai c-s of other benevolent enterprises, 
 and of education, were described. 
 
 The report th-'n gave a summary of the edu- 
 cational statist a of the couuir. , the operation! 
 
17 
 
 of the missionary, religious, and charitable so- 
 cieUes, of Youuj; Meu's (ihristiaa Associalious 
 and Sunday dcliools ; anJ fiimlly, a review of 
 the strength, tDterprise, and conaitiun of all the 
 churches severally, of the Uuiteil Slates. 
 
 la couclusiou, it is naid, referring to the di- 
 
 versity of denominations in America : " But in 
 all this diversity of tongues, there is still one 
 language. We hare one Lord, one faith, and 
 one bapiism. Our differences are chiefly exter- 
 nal and superficial ; our uuiou is eternal and 
 vital." 
 
 THE PAN-ANGLICAN SYNOD. 
 
 The so-called " P^n-Anglican Synod" was 
 called in pursuance of a resolution passed by 
 tli8 Convocation of Canterbury in February last, 
 requesting the Archbishop to give an invitation 
 to all hishops in communion with the Church ot 
 England to assemble for the purpose of united 
 deliberation on matters of common interest at 
 home and abroad. The 24th of September was 
 appointed as the time of meeting. 
 
 The following is a summary of the churches 
 called Anglican, whose Bishops were included 
 iu this invitation : 
 
 3 The Anglican Chxirches. 
 
 I. The Established Church of Enirland.— 
 This has two Archbishops, of Canterbury and 
 York, with twenty-six Bishops, of whom twenty 
 are attached to the Convocation of Canterbury, 
 and six to that of Yorlt. It is estimated that 
 one-half, or 1U,0:jO,OUO, of the population of Eng- 
 land, are under the control of this church. 
 
 II. Churc/i of Ireland. — It has two Arch- 
 bishops, of Dublin and Armagh, with ten Bish- 
 ops, equally divided between the Provinces. 
 The population connected with it is estimated at 
 657,661. 
 
 III. The Scotch Episcopal Church. — This 
 has Steven Bishops. The member.-hip is small. 
 
 IV. Tue Efjiscopal Colonial Churches. — 
 These have fifty Bishops, all except those of Je- 
 rusalem, the Sandwich Islands, Melanesia, and 
 Central Africa, within British dominions. Ec- 
 clesiastical Provinces with Metropolitan heads, 
 have been formed in Canada, India, South Afri- 
 ca, Australia-, and New Zealand. 
 
 V. The " Prolfatiint Episcopal Church of 
 the United States."— This has forty-four Bish- 
 ops, The Senior Bishop (Hopkins, of Vermont,) 
 pre.-ides over the House of Bishops at the tri- 
 ennial General Convention, and is styled the 
 Presiding Bishop. Number of communicants 
 (166o), 161,224. 
 
 2.— Meeting of the Synod. 
 
 The Synod was formally opened in the 
 Archiepiscopal Palace at Lambeth on the 24th 
 of September, with religious services, which 
 were followed by a discourse by Bishop White- 
 house, of Illinois, who had been pre.-eut at the 
 meeting of the Convocation, at which the call- 
 ing of the Synod was projected, and was chosen 
 to this office for that reason, and as a compli- 
 ment to the American church. Seventy-six 
 Bishops were in attendance. 
 
 The sessions were not open to the public, but 
 the Archbishop was commissioned to furnish an 
 official report of the proceedings. The more 
 important portions of them were communicated 
 to the public immediately after the adjournment 
 of the .Synod, iu a semi-oflacial mauuer. They 
 
 are covered by a series of reso'-'itions. which 
 were i)receded by a preamble expressing the 
 conviction of the Bishops that the unity of the 
 church "'will be most effectually promoted by 
 maintaining the faith in its purity and integri- 
 ty—as taught in the Holy Scriptures, held by 
 the Primitive Church, summed up in the Creeds, 
 and affirmed by the indisputed General Coun- 
 cils — and by drawing each ot us closer to our 
 common Lord, by giving ourselves to much 
 prayer and intercession, by the cultivation of 
 a spirit of charity, and a love of the Lord's ap- 
 pearing." The Resolutions were as follows : 
 
 1 — That it appears to us expedient, for the 
 purpose of maintaining brotherly intercommu- 
 nication, that all cases of establishment of new 
 sees and appointment of new Bishops be notified 
 to all Archbishops and Metropolitans, and all 
 presiding Bishops of the Anglican Communion. 
 
 2 — That, having regard to the conditions un- 
 der which intercommunion between members of 
 the Church passing from one distant diocese to 
 another may be duly maintained, we hereby de- 
 clare it desirable : 1. That forms of letters com- 
 mendatory on behalf of clergymen visiting oth- 
 er dioceses be drawn up and agreed upon. 2. 
 That forms of letters commendatory for lay mem- 
 bers of the Church be iu like manner prepared. 
 3. That his Grace the Lord jirchbishop of Can- 
 terbury be pleased to undertake the prepara- 
 tion of such forms. 
 
 3 — That a committee be appointed to draw up 
 a pastoral address to all members of the Church 
 of Christ in communion with the Anglican 
 branch of the Church Catholic, to be agreed up- 
 on by the assembled Bishops, and to be puolish- 
 ed as soon as possible after the last sitting of 
 the Conference. 
 
 4 — That, in the opinion of this Conference- 
 unity of faith and discipline will be best main- 
 tained among the several branches of the Angli- 
 can Commuuity by due ani canonical subordi- 
 nation of the Synods of the several branches to 
 the higher authority of a Synod or Synod* 
 above them. 
 
 5 — That a committee of seven members (with 
 power to add to their number, and to obtain tha 
 assi-tancc of men learned in ecclesiastics and 
 canon law) be appointed to inquire into and re- 
 port upon the relations and functions of such 
 Synods, and that such report be forwarded to 
 his Grace the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, 
 with a request that, if possible, it may be com- 
 municated to any adjourned meeting of i,hii 
 Conference. 
 
 6— That, in the judgment of the Bishops now 
 assembled, the whole Anglican Communion is 
 deeply injured by the present comlition of tha 
 Church in Natal ; and that a committee be now 
 appointed at this general meeting to report on 
 the best mode by which the Church may be de- 
 livered from the contiuuauce of this scandal, 
 
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 end the true fa th maintained. That such re- 
 port be forwarded to his Grace the Lord Arch- 
 bishop of Canterbury, witli the request tliat he 
 will be pleased to transmit the same to all the 
 Uichops of the Anglican cummunioD, and to ask 
 for their judgment thereupon. 
 
 7— That we who are here present do acquiesce 
 in the resolutiun of the Convocation of Canter- 
 bury, passed on June 26, ItibC, relating tr the 
 Diocese of Natal, to wit: 
 
 If it bedecidedthat a new Bishop should he 
 consecrated —lis to the proper steps to be taken 
 by the members of the Church in the Province 
 of Natal for obtaining a new bishoji, it is the 
 opinion of this House — fir.-t, that a formal in- 
 strument, declaratory of the doctrine and dis- 
 cipline of the Church of South Africa, should 
 be i)repared, which every Bishop, priest and 
 deacon should he required tosubscibe ; second- 
 ly, that a godly and well-learned man should be 
 chosen by the clergy, with the assent of the lay 
 communicants of the Church ; and thirdly, that 
 he -hould be presented for consecration, either 
 to the Ar.hbishop of Canterbui'y--if t'le afore- 
 X said instrument should declare the doctrine and 
 discipline of Christ as received by the United 
 Church of England and Ireland — or to the Bish- 
 ops of the Church of South Afrjca, according as 
 hereafter may be judged to be most advisable 
 and cmvenieut. 
 
 8— Th it, iu order to the binding of the church- 
 es of our Colonial Empire and the missionary 
 churches beyond them in the clostst union with 
 the Mother Church, it is necessary that they re- 
 ceive and maintain without alteration the stand- 
 ards of faith and doctrine as now in use in that 
 Cuurch. That, nevertheless, each province 
 should have the right to make such adaptations 
 and additions to the sei vices of the Church as its 
 pe-.uliar circumstances may require, provided 
 that no change or addition be made inconsistent 
 with the spirit and principles of the Book of 
 Common Prayer, and that all such changes be 
 liable to any revision by any Synod of the An- 
 glican communion in which the said province 
 slifcll be represented. 
 
 9 — That the committee appointed by resolu- 
 titm 6, with the addition of the names of the 
 Bishops of Lond"n, St. David's, and Oxford, and 
 all the Colonial Bishops, be instructed to con- 
 sider the constitution of a voluntarj- spiritual 
 tribuLial, to which questions ofd.ictrine may be 
 carried by appeal from the tribunals for the ex- 
 ercise of discipline in each province of the Co- 
 lonial Church, and that their report be forward- 
 ed to his Grace the Lord Arclibishop of Canter- 
 bury, who is requested to communicate it to an 
 Bdjourned meeting of this Conference. 
 
 lU — That the rusol utioiis submitted to this Con- 
 ference relative to the discipline to be exercised 
 by Metropolitans, the Court of Metropolitans 
 the scheme for conducting tlie election of liish- 
 ops, when not otherwise provided for, the do- 
 claration of submission to the regulation of the 
 Synods, and the question of what legislation 
 should be proposed for the Colonial churches, 
 be referred to the committee specified in the 
 preceding resolution. 
 
 il — That a special committee be appointed to 
 consider the resolutions relative to the notifica- 
 tion of proposed Missionary Bishops, and the 
 subordinates of Missionaries. 
 
 12— That the (piestiou of the bounds of the ju- 
 lisdictioQ of dillereut Biahops, when any ques- 
 
 tion may have arisen in regard to them, the 
 ((uestion as to the obedience of Chaplains of tlia 
 United Church of England and Ireland on the 
 Continent, and the resolution submitted to the 
 Conference relative to their return and admis- 
 si.in into home Dioceses, be referred to the com* 
 mittee specified in the preceding resolution. 
 
 13 — That we desire to render our hearty thanks 
 to Almighty God for His blessings vouchsafed to 
 us in and by this Conference ; and we desire to 
 ex))ress our hope that this our meeting may 
 hereafter be followed by otlier meetings, to be 
 conducted in the same sjoiit of brotherly love. 
 
 The resolution in relation to lii.->hop Colenso 
 was adopted almost unanimously, there being 
 but three hands raised against it. 
 
 A Pa-toral Addre-s was adopted, and signed 
 individually by the Bishops, addressed ' to the 
 faithful in Christ Jesus, the priests and dea- 
 cons, and the lay members" of the Church, ex- 
 horting tlnem to keep whole and undefiled the 
 faith, til strive heartily against the frauds and 
 subtleties wherewith it has been and is assailed ; 
 to hold fast as the sure Word of God all the ca- 
 nonical Scriptures of the Old and New Testa- 
 ment, and. by diligent study of these oracles of 
 G(d praying in the Holy Ghost, to seek to knoif 
 more of the Lord Jesus Christ our Savior, whom 
 they reveal, and of the will of God which they 
 declare ; to guard " against the growing super- 
 stitions and additions with which, in these latter 
 days, the truth of God hath been overlaid," 
 particularly the .sovereignty of the Pope and the 
 exaltation of the Virgin Slary ; to grow in graec 
 and show a godly walk and example ; to " hold 
 fast the creeds, and the pure wor-liip and order, 
 which of God's grace has been inherited from 
 the primitive chu ch ; to beware of causing di- 
 visions contrary to the doctrine ye have receiv- 
 ed," and to pray aud seek for unity among 
 themselves and amongst all the faithful in Christ 
 Jesus. 
 
 A memorial was presented, signed by Dr. 
 Pusey, Dr. F. G. Lee, the Rev. A. U. Macono- 
 chie, and other clergymen. exi)ressing sorrow at 
 the long-continued divisions of Christendom, 
 and praying that steps might be taken to jiro- 
 mote intercommunion between the Church of 
 England aud the orthodox Church of the East. 
 The Synod made no expression on the sub- 
 ject of ritualism. 
 
 Saturday the 28th of September, was given 
 to the closing ceremonies of the Synod, which 
 were celebrated with a choral service and com- 
 munion in the parish church of St. Mary, Lam- 
 beth, and a sermon by tl^ Rev. Dr. Fulf.ird, 
 Bishop of Montreal and Metropolitan of Canada. 
 The Synod was a mere voluntary and infor- 
 mal gathering of such Bish ii)s as chose to re- 
 spond to the inv tation. and is without legal 
 force or ciTeet. Its significance, in the opinion 
 of the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bi-li- 
 o])s who were instrnmeiital in its convocation, 
 must be looked for In its moral re-ults, which 
 may be great and permanent. They will be 
 found in the beter understandins: which will 
 be promoted among the Bishops, increast-d har- 
 mony of action, particularly betwt-en those of 
 di-fifei-ent jurisdiction who occupy cuniiguoui 
 teVrimry. and in the stronger tendency tt) pre- 
 serve uniformity of doctrine and prictice. 
 Thoii-.-h an informa' one. it ma\ be regarded as 
 a first step towards uniting all the Anglican 
 churches iuio a common body. 
 
19 
 
 BIBLE SOCIETIES. 
 
 1. — American Bible Society, 
 
 One hundred and fifty-five auxiliary soci- 
 eties have been recognized during the year 
 ending May 1st, 1867, of wlncli sixty-four were 
 in the Southern and border State*. The whole 
 number of auxiliaries in llie tiL-ld is 1639, and 
 of branch societies 3,805. Tiie Society employs 
 forty-five agents, of whom there are in foreign 
 lands sixteen assi-tant agents, and sixiy-oue 
 colporteurs, besides whiiii tliere are 135 agents 
 employed by County >ocieties, and 20,373 vol- 
 untary local agents, or Uible visitors. Its ag(.'n- 
 cies are established in eveiy state o the Union, 
 except those that are occupied by State Bible 
 Societies that emidoy their own agen;s. 
 
 The total receiiits of the year ending May 
 1st, 1S67. were $734,()ft9 14, coining from ihirty- 
 nine States and Territorifs and twelve foreign 
 countries. Of these. $431,e'i4.b8 were from s iles 
 of books. $174, 83a, 46 from donations and collec- 
 tions, $105,971.96 from legacies, a.id 21 0U6.94 
 from rents. These are $Jl,4ii3.94 larger tnan 
 the receipts of the Jubilee year, $56,237.76 
 litrger than those of any jirevious ytar ol l.irg- 
 est receipts 
 
 The issues from the Depository were 406,.^51 
 Toluinei, worth $52,.,6:<5.73. of which 843,177 
 volumes, worth $443,367.18, were sold, and 
 173.177 volumes, north $61,924.07, were given 
 away. This is the largest number of issues ever 
 given out, except during the war. 
 
 There were jirinted at the Bible House dur- 
 ing the year, 635,7. 8 volumes of editiims of the 
 Bible, Testamems and parts of the Bible, and 
 313.S5U volumes abroad, making a total of 1,249,- 
 318. The entire number of I3ibles published by 
 the Society, during the fifty-one years of its ex- 
 istence, is 22.'J4(I,4U4. 
 
 In accordance with a resolution passed at 
 the Jubilee of il ay, 1806. a third f;eneral sup- 
 ply of the United St.ites with the Holy Scrip- 
 tures has been begun. The books given away 
 jn pursuance of it, numbered, at ttie date of the 
 last annual report. 173.177 volunus, and they 
 were valued at $-'1,924.07. Of these, 141,571 
 volumes were for the South, and 31,606 for other 
 sections of the Union. But the-e really include 
 but a small noruou of the L-r,ituitous work which 
 has been accom|pli!.hed by the Socie'y. Tlio>e 
 volumes which have been jiurciased. ar.d dis- 
 tributed by auxiliaries, must lie adiled. The 
 extent of the resupply will be more truly seeu 
 in the facts report.cd by agents, that 496.248 fam- 
 ilies have been vi>ited by Bibis distm uters ; 
 that 3t).533 families have been supplied with the 
 Scripture-, besides 111,554 to caildren, and other 
 individuals ; that 709 Sabbai.K' and oilier schools 
 have been luniished, in addition to all those 
 supplied by the .American Sunday School Union 
 and similar societies, to which grams have Ijeen 
 made for this ])ur])ose. During the year pre- 
 vious 307,698 families were Visited ; 14,846 des- 
 titute su|>phed ; making a lo'al in two years of 
 814,186 families visited, and 51,379 destitute 
 familiers supplies. 
 
 K-peciai attention lias been paid to the 
 Soutliern States. Including those purchased, 
 270,312 Bibles were sent to the tiimth liuriiig the 
 year, making about half a million since the 
 close of the war. The most interesting part of 
 this work is among the froedmen, whose anxiety 
 to possess and reail the itible is pron lunced re- 
 mar , able, and has nothing compaiaole to it 
 
 among the whites or foreigners. Bible societies 
 composed of colortd peo]de have been formed 
 at Nashville and Kiioxville, Tenn., Columbia, 
 S. C, and other places, and several societies 
 employ colored colporteurs. The army agency 
 has been continueu in connection with the agen- 
 cy to the fi eedmen, and also that to the naval 
 and mercautile marine. 
 
 The Gospels of Matthew and John and the 
 Epistle to the Kphesians have been published in 
 Microuesiau. and the Arabic Bibie has been 
 printed. Platen have been prepared for a Ha- 
 waiian Family bible, and a Slavic and Bulgarian 
 I'estainent. This society publishes 262 editions 
 of the Bible and parts, in upwards of forty dif- 
 ferent laDfua^'es and dialrc:s, of America, Asia, 
 Europe, Atrica, and the i.-lands of the ocean. 
 
 Tlie foreign work of the America . Bible So- 
 ciety IS prosecuted in all quarters of the earth. 
 The total distribution is 241,066 volumes, as fol- 
 lows, so far as has been reported: 
 
 Brazil 6i9 ; Argentine Oonlederation 3,742; 
 Italy 8,130; Russia (Ksihonia) 11,441 ; Germai.y 
 and Switzerla'ni 16,920; Africa l,3(il ; Turkey 
 upwiirds of lb, 641 ; China 166,117; India about 
 2ii.000: Sandwich Islands 1,428; Canada(Kreiich) 
 U-6. Smaller giants have been made to Guiana, 
 Venezuela, Liberia, Cuba. India, &c.. which 
 cannot be reported in detail, but amount to 
 about 1 1,000 in the aggrei;ate. 1 ht: Scriptures 
 are pi anted abroaii in forty different languages 
 and dialects, and at home in thirty-two. 
 
 The slated m etings of the Socieiy, which 
 have been held monthly since the anniversary 
 in M ij'. exliibit continued enterprise and pros- 
 perity on the part of the Society, its branches 
 and auxiliaries, showing new accessions, and 
 disclosing new helds of distribution. 
 
 2.— British and Foreign Bible So- 
 ciety. 
 
 The 5eld of operations of this Society ex- 
 tends into nearly all the accessible quarters of 
 the world. It has its headquariers at Loudon, 
 and has branch and auxiliary societies through- 
 out the British Isles, in all the British colonies 
 :n America, A.';ia. .\frica. and Australasia, and 
 at Carlsruhe, Florence. Hamburgh, C lustanti- 
 nople. Frankfort. Stuttgar and Cionstadt, Gi- 
 braliar, Corfu, Dresden, on the continent of Eu- 
 rope, and Smyrna, and depositories at Paris, 
 Brussels. Arasterd.im, Franklort. Cologne, Ber- 
 lin, Vienna, Sco.-kholm, various points in Nor- 
 way, Copenhagen. St. Petersburg. Leghorn. Lis- 
 bon. Mexico, and Buenos Ayes, and several oth- 
 er places in Eurojie and other countries The 
 number of auxiliaries ard branches in Kugland 
 and \Val«s given in ihe repo: t of May 1st, 1667, 
 is 4,liai, to which should be added 50S connect- 
 ed with Ihe Hibern'an Bibie Society, and 1,275 
 .u the colonies, other Jependeiic.es, &c. Besides 
 these, 63 foreign Bible societies (including three 
 in the United States), have been assisted by it. 
 The Society has printed the Bible, Testaipent, 
 or portions of the Bible, in 134 languages and 
 dialects, and assisted in me circulation in 44 
 others, making a total of 178 languages ami 
 dialects in which it has assisteil ihe circulation 
 of the Scriptures, and 218 versions. 
 
 The receipts during the year ending May 
 1st, l,sfi7, from ordinary sources, were £l71,9:i3, 
 i2s., 6d., £10,U93, 18i., 5d. in advance of lai>» 
 
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 year, in addition * which tne special funds 
 (China, Iniiia, for new buiidintr, and fo' the 
 Paris Exposition), swell the grand total to 
 jE187,5(i8, 17s., 7d, the largeit year's receipts 
 ever enjoyed by the Society. The receipts are 
 thus classified : From sale of Scriptures, £84,- 
 16^, 16s., 8d ; Donations, £ I2,li63, 43., 4d. ; Lega- 
 cies, £15,159. 168., 7d. — all showing an increase 
 over the previous year. The number of copies 
 of tlie Scn])tures circulated (exclnsive of the 
 Indian yeinacular Scriptures) is 2,383,380, an 
 increase of 87,250 over the circulation of the 
 previous year. Tlie total issues of the Society 
 now amount to filty-two millions, six hundred 
 and sixty nine thousand and eighty-nine copies. 
 The increase in issues is in those from the for- 
 eign depots, which have increased li 4,318 co- 
 pies, while those from the home depots have 
 fallen off 77,068 copies. The foundatiou of a new 
 Bible House was laid June 11th, 1866. It is to 
 cost about £4ti,668. Happy results have gen- 
 erally attended the operations of the society, the 
 only serious embarrassment being met in some 
 Catholic countries, like Portugal, where, how- 
 ever, 8,778 copies have been circulated ; and 
 Spam, where, to circulate the Bible, is still 
 made a crime. 
 
 3, — ^American and Foreign Bible So- 
 ciety (Baptist). 
 
 The thirtieth annual meeting was held Miy 
 25th. 1867, in Cliicaco, Illinois, The receipts of 
 the treasury from all sources, including a bal- 
 ance on hand at the commencement of the year, 
 amount to $51 ,467.45. The appropriations to In- 
 dia were as follows : Burmese and Karen Scrip- 
 tures, $3,000 ; Assamese, $500 ; Teloogoo, $500 ; 
 Chinese at Tie Chien, $500 ; Ningpo, $500 ; also 
 $300 to China by other channels. Issued from 
 the depository during the year, 21,588 copies of 
 
 Seripturej, of which number 5,863 were sold at 
 
 full or reduced prices. 
 
 4.— American Bible TJnioa 
 
 The anniversary of this Society was held In 
 New York in October. Sjjeakitig of the fruit* 
 of the Union, the report slates that the Biblo 
 Union has issued 603,184 copies of sacred Sciip- 
 ture ; number of pages, 108.604,418 ; tracts and 
 quarterlies, 1,716,26a; number of pages. 28,- 
 385.140. These make nn affgregate Of 2,319.453 
 publications, and 136,989 558 pages. The finan- 
 cial progress which tlie Union has made, may 
 be judged by tlie following statistics : Receipts, 
 1863, $16,599.01; 1864, $21,18922; 1805, $29,- 
 231.36; 1860, $41,799.96 ; 1807, $55,127.79. 
 
 5.— Other Bible Societies. 
 
 The following are the statistics of some oth* 
 er Bible Societies in Europe : 
 
 BIBLE SOCIE IE3. Fxpend- jggug,. 
 itures. 
 
 Bible Translation Society 8 891.08 ■ 
 
 Trinitarian Bible Society.... 4,009 
 
 National Bible Society of 
 
 Scotland ' 64.885.04 204,433 
 
 Upper Canada Bible Society .24.727.56 49,591 
 
 Bible Society of France 2,901.44 6,334 
 
 Protestant Bible Society of 
 
 Paris 7,744.00 10,340 
 
 Basle Bible Society 1,030.93 13,269 
 
 Netherlands Bible Society.. .18.692 00 35,684 
 
 Central Prussian Bible Soc... 7,744.00 89 293 
 
 Bavarian Bible Society 7,958 
 
 Leipsio Bible Society 566.28 — — 
 
 Wiirtemberg Bible Institution 21,685 
 
 Danish Bible Society 8,009 
 
 YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION. 
 
 1. — ^The American Convention. 
 
 The Executive Cammittee of the National 
 Convention of Young Men's Christian Associ- 
 ations roported at the Convention which was 
 held at Montreal in June 1867, that they had 
 correspimded with 2.115 Associations, of which 
 141 rejorted an aggregate of 32.347 members, 
 94 reported an expemliiure during the year in 
 the agirregate of $164,013,211, 63 reported a total 
 of 52,378 volumes in their libraries, 25 had 
 courses of free lectures. 59 courses of sermons 
 for young men, and 108 maintained more than 
 one weekly prayer-meeting. Eleven years ago 
 the whole number of associations was sixty-sev- 
 en. The convention of 1867 was attended by 
 about 600 delegates, from 106 different associa- 
 tions. Among the more important topics dis- 
 cussed were the best means of reaching young 
 men apparently outside of religious influences, 
 »nd German young men and French Cauiidian 
 residents of the United States and British Prov- 
 inces, the giving aid to the formation of colored 
 associ.Uions in the South, and the .introduction 
 oC worldlv omusementM iato the ossucia^ioa 
 
 rooms. An adverse expression wtis arrived at 
 concerning the last, 
 
 2. — Foreign Associationa. 
 
 The following statistics of the associations 
 throughout the world were given by Mr. W. E, 
 Shipton at the Amsterdam meeting of the Evau- 
 gelical Alliance : In England there were 51 as- 
 sociations reported, with 7.390 members ; in 
 Scotland 23, with 2,031 ; in Ireland 6, with 662 ; 
 in the colonies 12, with 223; Holland had 100 
 associations, with 2,009 members; Belgium II, 
 with 167 ; North Germany 107. with 3,026 ; West- 
 phalia 112, with 5,033 ; Wurtemberg 44, with 
 560; France 54, with 837; French Switzerland 
 59, with 587 ; German Switzerland 45, with 400 j 
 Italy 5, with 100; Mediterranean 5, with 100; 
 North America 143, with 33,374. Altogether 
 there are perhaps at present upward of eight 
 hundred associations, numbering upward of tif- 
 tyfive thousand members. 
 
 To tills must be added over 100 Americaa 
 Msociatiooj, which have not been reported dea* 
 nicolv. 
 
21 
 THE ROMAN CATHOLIC COUNCIL AT ROME. 
 
 "I 
 
 1.— Th9 Eighteenth Centenary of 
 the Martyrdom of St. Peter 
 j and St. PauL 
 
 The eighteenth centenary anniversary of 
 the martyrdom of St. Peter and St. Paul was 
 the occasion of calling together at Rome a grand 
 council of the bishops and clergy. The osten- 
 sible object was to celeljrate the ceremonies in 
 honor of the Holy Apostles, and to assist in the 
 canonization of several saints. Five hundred 
 and eighty-seven Cardinals and Bishops, as 
 follows : Cardinal Bishops 5, Cardinal Priests 
 32, Cardinal Deacons 9, Patriarchs 6, Arch- 
 bishops 95, Bishops 420, and about 300 cler- 
 gymen and members of the religious orders, 
 were in attendance. 
 
 On Tuesday, the 25th of June, the Pope re- 
 ceived the American clergy. The archbishops 
 of Baltimore, St. Louis, New Orleans. Cincin- 
 nati, and the bishop of Philadelphia, twenty-two 
 other American bishops and many clergymen 
 were present at this interview, during which 
 the Pope took occasion to spe:il£ very warmly 
 and kindly of t-he American Minister, General 
 King, and to especially compliment the Ameri- 
 can prelates upon the result of their recent con- 
 vention at Baltimore. 
 
 An offering of $200,000 in gold was present- 
 ed, of which $60,000 was offered by Archbishop 
 Purcell, of Cincinnati, on behalf of the Prov- 
 ince of Cincinnati, and a part of this in a gold 
 model of a yacht. A noteworthy fact in the 
 composition of the convention was that America 
 sent more prelates than even Catholic Austria. 
 
 On ThursJay, June 27th, the Pope delivered 
 ■n allocution to the assembled prelates, in the 
 course of which he praised their great zeal in 
 coming to Rome from such distances, and thus 
 evincing their attachment and devotional obe- 
 dience to the Holy See. He said that the exam- 
 ple shown to the world by the union of tl:e 
 church at large in its celebration of the canoni- 
 zation of several new saints and the eigh- 
 teenth centenary anniversary of St. Peter's 
 martyrdom, would show forth to the enemies of 
 the chair of Peter the immense power which the 
 Church wields on earth. 
 
 The Pope confirmed the condemnation of th« 
 errors of theactof December 8th, 1864. He also 
 expressed his desire to convoke at an early day 
 an oecumenical council, with a view to delibe- 
 rate on the best means of repairing the eviJs 
 which oppress the Church. 
 
 The observances of the celebration prorjer 
 commenced on the evening of the 28th, with a 
 general illumination of the city of Rome. At 
 seven o'clock the next morning there was a 
 grand processfon of prelates, priests, monks, 
 and soldiers from the Vatican, to St. Peter's, 
 The Pope was carried on his throne. There was 
 an immense crowd assembled in the interior of 
 the church before his arrival. St. Peter's was 
 most magnificently decorated with cloths of 
 gold, silver tapestries, paintings, and two hun- 
 dred thousand yards of crimson silk. The build- 
 ing was lighted with many millions of wax can- 
 dles. There were one hundred thousand people 
 inside its walls, including the ex-King of Na- 
 plej, the foreign Ministry, five hundred cardi- 
 nals, archbishops, and biihops, and many thous- 
 ands of cler^'ymen, lu-iests, friars, and monks. 
 There Wsre even nuns and soldiers from almost 
 
 every country in the world present, and the as- 
 sembled multitude made up a most brilliant 
 congregation. Pope Pius the Ninth celebrated 
 the Gregorian mass in Latin and Greek. Thera 
 were two interruptions to the ceremony. The 
 curtains of one of the windows of the church 
 caught fire at one moment, but they were speed- i 
 ily torn down by the guard, and no damage oo- j 
 curred. After this, a man who had become crazy ' 
 from excitement, produced by the pomp, and 
 glitter, and lights, cut his throat, and died just 
 under the bronze statue of St. Peter. There was 
 no confusion in consequence. His body was 
 quickly removed outside. The Pope at once 
 proceeded to reconsecrate the church stained by 
 the blood of the suicide, and then proceeded 
 with the service of the altar. Liszt composed 
 extra music for the Grand Mass, and a choed 
 placed on the dome of St. Peter's made the an- 
 gelical responses, the cannon of the Castle San 
 Angelo thundering forth the accompaniment. 
 
 The following saints were canonized ; Bless- 
 ed Johosaphat Kuncevich, Archbishop ; Blessed 
 Peter De Arbues, and Nicholas Vich, with 18 
 companions, martyrs ; Blessed Paul of the Cross, 
 passionist ; Blessed Leonard of Port Maurice, 
 Franciscan confessors ; Blessed Mary Francis of 
 the Wounds of our Lord ; and Blessed Germana 
 Cousin, a poor shepherdess virgin. 
 
 The place of honor at the Pope's right hand, 
 on occasion of the canonization, was occupied 
 by Archbishop Purcell. of Cincinnati. 
 
 The Bishops presented an address to the 
 Pope in reply to his allocution, acknowledging 
 the courtesies received in 1862, lauding the vir- 
 tues of Pius IX. and his fidelity and zeal in de- 
 fending the faith against error, and promising 
 implicit obedience to him and his decrees. It 
 also expresses joy at the Proclamation of the 
 speedy assembling of the CEoumenical Council, 
 from which the bishops expect abundant fruit. 
 
 This address, it is stated, had five hundred 
 and thirty-seven signatures. The bishops of 
 each nation held a special meeting for appoint- 
 iug the members of the committee charged with 
 drawing up the Address. In this committee, 
 France was represented by four bishops ; Aus- 
 t.-ia, Spain, Italy, North America, and the East 
 by three each ; England, Ireland, Prussia, by 
 two each ; and Belgium, Holland, Bavaria, 
 Switzerland, Portugal, Brazil, and Mexico, by 
 one each. The Eastern bishops in the commit- 
 tee were the Patriarch of Jerusalem, the Arch- 
 bishop Primate of the Catholic Armenians, and. 
 ft Vicar Apostolic of China. 
 
 2. — The Coining General Council 
 
 The Pope has named a congregation of sev- 
 en Cardinals, to whom he has entrusted the du- 
 ty of arranging the preliminaries for the meet- 
 ing of the Council which he has expressed hla- 
 intention of calling. 
 
 3.— Councils that have been held. 
 
 The Catholic Church recognizes nineteen' 
 General Councils, the first of which was that of 
 the Apostles, at Jerusalem, A.D. 50. The oth- 
 ers were held as follows : 
 1st of Nice, in Bythinia, A.D. 325. 
 1st of Constantinople,.. " 381. 
 1st of Ephesus " 431. ' 
 
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 Chalceaon l.D, 451. 
 
 2il of Constantinople.. . 
 a of (Jonstantiuople... 
 2(1 of Nice 
 
 ' 553. 
 
 ' 680. 
 •' 787. 
 
 4th of Co!i.stai)tinoi)le.. 
 4 councils of LatL'ran — 
 
 ){ame • • .. 
 
 1st anil 2(1 of Lyons.... 
 Vieune, in DauphiDy... 
 
 '• 869, 
 
 ' 1123,1139.1179,1215 
 ' 1215, 1274. 
 • 1311. 
 
 Constance A.I>. 1414. 
 
 Basle .i.D 1431. 
 
 Trent " 1515. 
 
 The couDcils of Pisa in 14 9. of Florence In 
 1439, and the fifth of the I.atcran, in 1512, ars 
 regarded by some a oecumenical. 'I'lie confer- 
 ence of IS.'H, when the (lfi;;ina of the immasulatt 
 conception wan proclaimed, waji uotau cccumea- 
 ical cuuQCil. 
 
 UNION MOVEMENTS IN THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. 
 
 The present year will be conspicuous in the 
 history of the Christian Church for the number 
 and earne?tiieS3 of the efforts made iu all parts 
 of the Christian world for promotiug the union 
 of denominations heretofore separated. This 
 movement has been going on for many ye.ars, and 
 is annually increasin;^ in magnitude and im- 
 portance. In no previous year have an equal 
 number of important me^jtings been held, hav- 
 ing for their especial object the promotion of 
 vnion. V 
 
 The most important of these meetings in the 
 Protestant grou]) of churches was the fifth oecu- 
 menical assembly of the Evangelical Alliance 
 at Amsterdam. The interest of the Protestant 
 churches in the object, tiie permanent organiza- 
 tion and the periodical meetings of the Alliance 
 have been growing slowly, bat steadily. The 
 meeting of Amsterdam has undoubtedly at- 
 tracted the attention of the churclies, and of the 
 world generally, to a targer extent than any of 
 the four preceding' ones, and gives a new im- 
 pulse to the qut'stion hovv to secure a defjiitc 
 and permanent organization. The alliance dies 
 not aim ut abolishing the landmarks which stii 
 arate the Christim denoaii nations from each 
 other, but at bringing to the cons3iomne?si of 
 the churches comm mly design^ited by the col- 
 lective name of evangelical, the fact of their 
 union in the matter regarded by all of them as 
 essential. The Alliance has enli-ted the cor- 
 dial sympathy of the llethodists. Baptists, Con 
 gregationalisis. Presbyteriins, and the ' evan 
 gelical " or Mow church " parties in the Angli 
 can, Lutheran, Reformed and thi- German United 
 Evangelical churches, beside a numbc- of sinaJI 
 er den imi nations ; and the meeting at Annter- 
 dam has mide it more probable than ever that 
 this attempt to consolidate tlie confederation of 
 all these bodies on one c immou )>iaiform, so as 
 to represent them as a unit a.ainst the Roman 
 Citholic and Eastern churches and the " Ili^'h 
 Church" and '■Rationalistic" schools of the Pro- 
 testani Church, will be, in course of time, en 
 tirely successful. If carried through, the organ 
 izatiou is likely to embrace the nnjority of the 
 aggregate membership of the Protestant church' 
 es of the world, though this result will be some- 
 what contingent upon the i^ae of the di<sen- 
 tions in th-^ Anglican ami the Lutheran denom- 
 inations, two of the largfst divisiois of the Pro- 
 te.-tanl world. 
 
 The movement for reducing the number of 
 Metholisl and Presbyterian denominations in 
 this C'lUiitry Hnd E. gland has been earnestly 
 continued. Definite results have not been ub- 
 tained during ilie year; on th ; conirarv, the ai 
 tempted fusion o'' tie Methidist i'rolestant 
 Church and tlie American Wesley ins and that 
 tf the Old and Xew School Presuyferians, has 
 
 for the present failed. The movement, howerer, 
 is actively continued. In Scotland a union of 
 the Presbyterian churches, except the Kstat>- 
 lished Church seems to be sure of speedy con- 
 summation. In the United states the convoca- 
 tion of a general Pr<-~byterian Convention, em- 
 bracing all the Presbyterian denominations, at 
 Phil%del))hia, in November, is an important 
 union movement. Numerous movements of the 
 same kind have been made iu other religious 
 denominations. 
 
 Among the Protestant denominatiorts, not 
 included under the head of Evangelical, a 
 movement has been started for the o iganization 
 of"LiDeral Christian Unions." 'bus far it is 
 chiefly the Unitarians, the Universalists, and 
 the C iristian Connection in this cuntry and in 
 England, which have taken part in the move- 
 ment, but it is expected that ere long a coopera- 
 tion with the 'Lioeral'" (Rationalistic) partiesof 
 the European State church s can be secured. 
 
 Tlie first effort ti e>tabli>h an organic union 
 among all the branches of the Anglican Com- 
 mnnion was made this year by th-; convocation 
 &f the Pan-Anglic*n Synod. This movement 
 had the approval of nearlv every bishop of the 
 Anglican churches ; and the resolutions which 
 were adopted by the Syn )d, provide for the 
 piiriodical repetition of tliese Synods, Among 
 the bishops of the Anglican chu ches. the opis- 
 ion on the desirability of these gatherings seems 
 to be so general tnal a further progress toward 
 the permanent establishment of " Pan-Anglican 
 Sy.iods " can hardly be noub'ed. With the suc- 
 cess of this movement, the efforts for establish- 
 ing a closer inlercooiinuni m with the Greek 
 and Eastern churches, which has already re- 
 i^dved the approb itnm nf the English convoca- 
 tions and of the General Convention of the Uni- 
 ted States, will naturally assume an increased 
 importance. 
 
 The •' Radical " party in the Unitarian tfnd 
 Universalist chnrche- of the United States, en- 
 deavor to establi.-h a regular md permanent 
 co6l)eration with the Sid itnalists. Reformed 
 ./tiws, Hicksite-i, and Prog essive Friends. The 
 first convention of this kind was held in 1667. 
 
 Many of the Christian chmches co-.tinue to 
 be greatly agitated bv th; strife of parties 
 Widely differing in Ihe r r-Ii^ious views. !■ 
 the Lutheran l.hurch of the Unic-d States, a 
 number of Synods wh c)i urgf a -trict adhesion 
 to the unaltered Coiifes-i'ii of Uigsburg, with- 
 drew from the ■' General -yno I " of the United 
 States, and re-olved to estabi-h a new "Gen- 
 eral Council." wiih whi -h a'so some of the 
 heretofore inde]iemient i^yn.ids will unite. 
 
 In the Church of England the ipiiointment 
 of a new bi-hop for the diocese of Nata , in Ihe 
 place of Dr. Coleuso, completes the iieparation 
 
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 which has aJready existed for some time be- 
 tween the Anglican Church as represented by 
 its bishops, and the followers of Colenso. There 
 is. however, no prospect of a loug durati'm of 
 this schism, which, if not sooner, will come to 
 ftn end by tiie death of Culeuao. 
 
 Gerras of disruption exist in a number of 
 other churches in this country aud in Europe, 
 but we have to report no other accomplished 
 facts. 
 
 THE RELIGIOUS SOCIETIES OF THE UNITED STATES AND GREAT 
 
 BRITAIN. 
 
 The following is a summary of the Receipts 
 0f the chief Religious Societies of the United 
 States and Great Britain during the year IStiti- 
 67: 
 
 I. — Araericau. 
 
 1. National Societies. 
 The following are the receipts for the year 
 einding May, 1867, of the American Benevolent 
 Sooieties who<ie headquarters are in New York : 
 American Bible Society — Sales 
 
 and rents $453,165 
 
 Do. — Donations and legacies.... 280,843 
 
 734,089 
 
 American Tract Society— Sales. 384,359 
 
 Do. — Donations and legacies 159,660 
 
 544,151 
 
 American Tract Society (of Bos- 
 ton)— Sales 91 ,273 
 
 Do. — Donations and legacies.... 44,192 
 
 135,466 
 
 American Seamen's Friend Society 98,230 
 
 American Guuruiiui Society 87,768 
 
 American Missionary Association 253.000 
 
 American B.ard Com. Foreig-n Missions. 448 090 
 Methodist Episcojjal Missionary Society. 060,000 
 American Church Missionary Society... 60, COO 
 American Home Missionary Society. . ... 212,567 
 
 American .Sunday School Union 77,753 
 
 Protestant Episcopal Board DomesticMis- 
 
 sions ._ , 123,273 
 
 Protestant Episcopal Board Foreign Mis- 
 sions 72,613 
 
 American and Foreign Christian Union.. 110,000 
 American and Foreign Bible Society . ... 30. 719 
 
 American Baptist Missionary Union 190,994 
 
 American Baptist Home Missionary Soo. 137,810 
 American Bapiist Free Missionary Soc. 30,009 
 Presbyterian Board F .r. Misions (0. S.) 207,526 
 Presbyterian Board Dom. Missions(0. S.) 168,241 
 P«-e-byteriau Board Church Extensions 
 
 W.S.) 35^870 
 
 Presbyterian Committee Home Missions 
 
 _ (N, S.) 128.503 
 
 Presbyterian Committee Education (N.S) 20,455 
 Presbyterian Com. Publication (N. S.).. 13,325 
 Board For. Missions R-f. Dutch Church. 68 685 
 Boaid Dtim Missions Ref. Dutch Church. 21 589 
 
 Katioual Temperance Society 26,692 
 
 American Freedmena Union Commission 50,000 
 
 Total $4,766,69b 
 
 2. Local Societies in !fiw York City. 
 
 Ne-T York- Association for the Poor; . ..$51,643 
 
 New York Sunday School Union 30,000 
 
 A'ew York and Brooklyn Foreign Mis- 
 sionary Society 43 802 
 
 New Yorii Children's Aid Society!!!!.'.! 93i577 
 
 New York Juvenile Asylum.... , 87.439 
 
 New York City Mission . 29,064 
 
 New York Five Koints House of Industry 67.1S6 
 New York Ladies' Five Points Mission.. 16,682 
 
 New York Howard Mission 26,000 
 
 New York Female Assistance Society. . . 24,7^1 
 New York L»dies' Union Aid Society... 5,079 
 
 New York Ladies' Christian Union 12.817 
 
 Wilson Industrial Mission lo,6' 8 
 
 New York Bible Society 23,915 
 
 New Yorfc Port Society .., 3l),0u0 
 
 Union Home and School 20,259 
 
 Female Benevolent Society 8. 881* 
 
 New York Prot. Episcopal City Mission. i6,8y9 
 
 Methodist Episcopal City Mission 31.853 
 
 New York Prison Association 13,250 
 
 New York Soc. for Ruptured & Crippled 19,942 
 
 New York Widows' Society 13,165 
 
 New York Nursery and Child's Hospital 29,3!I4 
 New York Half Orphan Asylum 15,776 
 
 Tot»l $732,059 
 
 n.— British. 
 
 1. Principal Foreign Missionary Societies. 
 
 Church Missionary Society £159,356 
 
 Wesleyan Missionary Society 148,140 
 
 Society for the Propagation of the Gos- 
 pel in foreign parts 91,186 
 
 London Missionary Society 78 958 
 
 Baptist Missionary Society 30,105 
 
 South American Missionary Society.... 7*431 
 
 Moravian Missions 6.848 
 
 English Presbyterian Missions 6,' 10 
 
 Turkish Missions-Aid Society 2,838 
 
 Total £522,482 
 
 2. Colonial, Jewish, and other Missions. 
 London Society for Promoting Cristiani- 
 
 ty amonp the Jews £33,32T 
 
 Colonial Continental Society 31,679 
 
 United Methodist Churches, (Home, Co- 
 lonial, and Foreign) 9 664 
 
 Primitive Methodist (Home and Colo- 
 nial) Missions 9,557 
 
 British Society lor the Propagation of the 
 
 Gospel among the Jews 7,140 
 
 Colonial Missionary Society 3,042 
 
 Evangelical Continental Society 2,455 
 
 Foreign Aid So;;iety 2,424 
 
 Total £98,688 
 
 3, Home Missions. 
 
 Church Pastoral Aid Society £47,829 
 
 Bishop of London's Fund 41,090 
 
 London City Mission 3o,495 
 
u 
 
 Ad (TitionaT Carates' Society 29,800 
 
 Wesi cyan Home Missions 24,45!> 
 
 Irish Church Missions to the Roman 
 
 Catholics . . 22,507 
 
 Church of England Scripture Readers' 
 
 Association 12,354 
 
 Army Scripture Readers' Society 8,176 
 
 Incorporated Church Building Society.. 7,72u 
 
 Missions to Seamen 7,681 
 
 Home Missionary Society (CongregatioD- 
 
 ali 7,541 
 
 Protestant Reformation Society 4,727 
 
 Baptist and Home Missions 4.512 
 
 Baptist and P'oreign Sailors' Society.... 3.934 
 
 Irish Bvangelical Society 2,633 
 
 Midnight Mi.<sion , 1,223 
 
 Baptist Building Fund 1,140 
 
 Royal Navy Scripture Readers' Society.. 683 
 
 Church Home Mission 683 
 
 Ragged Church and Chapel Union 477 
 
 Total , f264,e33 
 
 4. Religious Educational Societies. 
 
 national Education Society £14,152 
 
 IrKsh Society for Education of Roman 
 
 Catholics 10,055 
 
 Christian Vernacular Education Society 
 
 forludia 6,345 
 
 Wesleyan Education Committee 5,670 
 
 Ragged School Union 4,714 
 
 British and Foreign School Society .... 3,669 
 
 Congregational Board of Kducation 3,017 
 
 Loudon Society for Teaching the Blind.. 2,531 
 
 Sunday School Union , 3^432 
 
 Home and Colonial School Society 2,261 
 
 Ciiurch of England Sunday School In- 
 stitute 8C6 
 
 Total JtSS^a 
 
 5. Miscellaneous. 
 Society for Promoting Christian Knowl- 
 edge £28,54/ 
 
 Religious Tract Society 14,170 
 
 Protestant Alliance 1,821 
 
 Naval and Military Bible Society 1,783 
 
 fiihle Translation Society 1.552 
 
 Lord's Day Observance Society 1,417 
 
 Prayer Book anci Homily Society 1,163 
 
 Workingmen's Lord's Day Rest Assoc'n. 916 
 
 Book Society 459 
 
 Total £51,819 
 
 6. Other Societies. 
 
 Operative Jewish Converts £ 1,151 
 
 Baptist and Foreign School .Society 13,583 
 
 Church of England Sunday School In- 
 stitute 2,71 9 
 
 National Temperance League 3,252 
 
 Churcli of Kngland Temperance Society 268 
 
 Trinitarian Bible Society 1,153 
 
 British Home for Incurables 6,007 
 
 Total £28,733 
 
 British and Foreign Bible Society £103,34& 
 
 THE PRESBYTERIAN NATIONAL UNION CONVENTION. 
 
 The ministers and elders from the various 
 presbyteries and kindred bodies met in Con- 
 rention at the First Reformed Presbyterian 
 Church, Philadelphia, on November 6th. The 
 Convention was called for the purpose of adopt- 
 ing measures looking to a consolidation of th« 
 different branches of Presbyterians into one 
 family. Tlie first impulse to this assembly pro- 
 ceeded from the General Synod of the Reformed 
 Presbyterian Church, which, at its late meeting 
 in Philadelphia, passed a resolution to invite 
 the several Presbyterian bodies to take part in 
 such a meeting, and appointed a committee to 
 effect arranv-emenis for the calling of the Con- 
 vention. The attendance was very large, there 
 being delegates from all parts of the Union pre- 
 sent. The Convention was organized by the 
 election of George H. Stuart, Esq., as Chairman, 
 and Rev. Dr. Archibald, of New Jersey, as Sec- 
 retary. Mr. Stuart addressed the members of 
 the Convention, welcomed them to ihe city, and 
 hailed their coming as the harbinger of "better 
 days for Zina, This, as far as known, was the 
 first Convention of the kind ever held. He be- 
 lieved that all had been praying for the union of 
 the great Presbyterian family in America, and 
 that measure would soon be effected. Mr. Stu- 
 art read a lengthy letter from a number of Scot- 
 tish I'resliytenan clergymen, favoring the union 
 of the clinrclies. 
 
 On November 7th, addresses were delivered 
 by Robert Carter, of New York, Rev. Mr. Park, 
 .nnd Rev. Mr. Pratt, favoring the union of the 
 Presbyterian churches, and advocating a grand 
 
 cooperation in the great work of the gospel. 
 Rev. Dr. Cyrus Dixon, of Baltimore, said that 
 there were 5,000 Presbyterian churches. 6,300 
 ministers, and 700,000 communicants; and in Re- 
 formed Dutch Church, 444 cliurches, 4G1 minis- 
 ters, and 68,000 members. There are embraced 
 in these churches four millions of children. He 
 advocated in strong language the union desired 
 by the Convention. Trouliles, he feared, were 
 soon to be felt in the Church, and it therefore be- 
 came necessary that the whole body should unite 
 their forces against the evils with which the 
 Church is threatened. 
 
 The Committee on Credentials reported that 
 there were 181) Old School, 75 New School, 2S 
 United, 20 Reformed Presbyterian, 5 Cumber- 
 land, and 4 Reformed Dutch churches repre- 
 sented. Total, 313. 
 
 Rev. Dr. Eagleson, chairman of the comnrit- 
 tee to prepare and report a bond of union, to bo 
 submitted for consideration, by the various 
 branches of the Presbyterian Church repre- 
 sented in the Convention, submitted the follow- 
 ing: 
 
 1. An acknowledgment of the Scriptures of 
 the Old and N«w Testament to be the Word of 
 God. 
 
 2. That in the United Church the Westmin- 
 ster Confession of Faith shall b:- received and 
 adopted, as containing the system of doctrines 
 taught in the Holy Scripture-. 
 
 While the committee recommend the fore- 
 going basis of doctrine, they do nol wish to b« 
 understood as impugning the orthodoxy of tl»e 
 
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 Peiaelberg Catechism, and the candor of the 
 Synod of Dort. 
 
 3. That the united Church shall receive and 
 adopt the Presbyterian form of church govern- 
 ment. 
 
 4. The Book of Psalms, which is a divine 
 Inspiration, is well adapted to the state of the 
 church in all ages and circumstances, and 
 should be used in social worship ; but, as va- 
 j'ious collections of psalmody are used in the 
 different churches, a change in this respect shall 
 not be required. 
 
 5. That the sessions of each church shall 
 fcave the right to determine who shall join in 
 communion iu the particular church committed 
 to their care. 
 
 The committee recommended the adoption 
 af the following resolutions: 
 
 1. That we unite in requesting our respect- 
 ive churches in their supreme judicatures to 
 appoints committee of five each, which shall 
 constitute a joint committee, whose duty it shall 
 be to meet, at a time and place to be agreed on, 
 and proceed with all convenient despatch in an 
 attempt to form a basis of union, according to 
 the principles of this report, which basis they 
 shall submit to the churches for their consider- 
 ation and adoi)tion. It being understood that 
 this is not designed to interfere with the exist- 
 ing arrangements for reunion between two of 
 the larger bodies represented in this Conven- 
 tion. 
 
 2. As there is so much agreement among all 
 the churches here represented in all essential 
 matters of faith, discipline, and order, it is re- 
 commended that friendly and fraternal inter- 
 course be cultivated by interchange of pulpits, 
 by fellowship with one another in social relig- 
 ious meetings, and by communion with each 
 other at the Lord's table, subject to the regula- 
 tions of each branch of the church. 
 
 3. In case the above paper should be adopt- 
 ed, that a committee be appointed to lay this 
 action of the Convention before the highest ju- 
 dicatures of the various branches of the church 
 here represented. 
 
 4. That the members of this Convention who 
 may vote for the foregoing plan of union to be 
 laid before the churches, shall not thereby be 
 regarded as being committed to advocate its 
 adoption when laid before the branches of the 
 chnrch respectively, but shall be free to act ac- 
 cording to the indications of Providence at the 
 time. 
 
 The first article was put, and carried 
 On the second article, Eev. H. B. Smith, of 
 Kew York, moved to amend by adding the 
 words, " It being understood that this Confes- 
 sion IS received in the historical, that is, the 
 Calvimstic or reformed sense." The amend- 
 ment was agreed to, and the section as amended 
 passed, by a vote of four in favor, to one against 
 
 as follows: For the amendment, Kev School, 
 Old School, United Presbyterian, and Dutch 
 Reformed. Against it. Reformed Presbyterian. 
 Rev. W. AV. Barr moved to further add to the 
 section the words, '• with the larger or shorter 
 catechism," which was lost, two churches voting 
 iu its favor— namely, New School Presbyterian 
 and Reformed Dutch ; and three against— najne- 
 ly.Old School, United, and Reformed Presbyte- 
 rian. Upon a reconsideration, the amendment 
 was agreed to. The delegation of the Cumber- 
 land Presbyterian Church declined to vote ; but 
 when their right to sit in the Convention, unless 
 they took part in the vote, was questioned, re- 
 corded their vote against the amendment to the 
 second section, which made the final vote four 
 churches in favor to two against. 
 
 Section three was adopted without amend- 
 ment. 
 
 To section /our Dr. Eagleason moved the 
 following as a substitute : " The liook of Psalms, 
 which is of divine inspiration, is well adapted 
 to the state of the church in all ages and cir- 
 cumstances, and should be used in the worship 
 of God. Therefore, we recommend that a new 
 and faithful version of the Book of Psalms be 
 provided as soon as practicable. But inasmuch 
 as various collections of psalmody are used ia 
 the dilTerent churches, a change in this respect 
 shall not be required." 
 
 The fifth article was laid on the table. 
 Of the resolutions, the first, third, and 
 fourth were adopted. 
 I The second was amended so as to read : "As 
 there is so much agreement among all' the 
 churches here represented in all essential mat- 
 ters of faith, discipline, and order, it is recom- 
 mended that friendly and fraternal intercourse 
 be cultivated, by interchange of pulpits, by fel- 
 lowship with one another in social religious 
 meetings, and in every practicable way." 
 
 An address to all the Presbyterian church- 
 es, defining the importance of the action of the 
 Convention, and requesting all interested in the 
 subject to stand by the union, was read. It met 
 with the approbation of the members. 
 
 The Convention voted by Ckurchee, and ou 
 the adoption of the Basis as a whole, the final 
 vote stood : 
 
 Old School, unanimous. 
 New School, unanimous. 
 United Presbyterian, 10 for, and ! against. 
 Reformed Presbyterian, 5 for and 4 against 
 Reformed Dutch, unanimous. 
 Cumberland Presbyterian, declined votiDir 
 The Report was declared adopted by the 
 Churches voting unanimously. 
 
 The only delegate from the South, in the 
 Convention, was Professor A. D. Hepburn He 
 appeared with credentials of his appointment 
 from the Presbyter/ of Orange, Sj^nod of North 
 Carolina. 
 
 1— National Temperance Society 
 and Publication House. 
 
 The Principil Temperance Society in the 
 Uaiiod Slates is the National Temperance Soci- 
 
 TEMPERANCE. 
 
 ^iV" .Ll^''^**'"" ^'"'^«' '^'I'oh was organ- 
 
 ■ zed m 1865. State societies are working in co- 
 operation with it in New York, Connecticut, 
 New Hampshire, Vermont, New Jersey. Penn- 
 
 h^»l?^!^- k"*^'^"^' ^^''^- ^""^ au.viliary societiea 
 have also been organized in the cities of New- 
 
M 
 
 York. Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Detroit, Dayton, 
 
 Newark, Chicago, etc. 
 
 It is in friendly communication with the 
 ?ons of Terai)erance and the Good Templars, 
 which tofjether numlier some four hundred 
 thousand members and six thousand Lodges and 
 Divisions. A society auxiliary to ttris society 
 lias been formed among the members of Con- 
 gress; from which salutary results are hoped. 
 The socieiy, with its auxiliaries, has worked 
 earnestly, since its organizatinn, to revive the 
 cause of temperance and cultivate the senti- 
 ment in favor of it, and for legislation to more 
 effectually repress the traffic in intoxicating 
 drinks. " During the past year," also says the 
 report, " the cause of temperance for the chil- 
 dren has been pressed upon the attention of min- 
 isters. Sabbath-school teachers, pai-ents, and 
 others, with more than usual earnestness and 
 persistency, and with the most gi-atifying re- 
 sults. Large numbers of children and youth 
 have been gathered into tlie several Bands of 
 Hope and juvenile temperance organizations, 
 now rapidly multiplying throughout the coun- 
 try." 
 
 The receipts of the society for the year end- 
 ing April 30, I8&7, w-ere $17,959.96, and from all 
 sources, $32,489.55. It publishes two papers, 
 ene a children's paper, the joint circulation of 
 which is 41,000 copies monthly, and the aggre- 
 gate circulation 549,000 copies since the organi- 
 sation of the society. It circulated also during 
 the year, 2,(556,000 pages of tracts, and 2,8J6,000 
 since its organization. The total number of pa- 
 ges — books, papers, and tracts — published since 
 the formation of the society, is 10,802,700. 
 Eighteen thousand dollars have been raised to- 
 wards a $100,000 endowment fund. 
 
 2. — Sons of Temperance. 
 
 The tvrenty-fifth anniversary of this Order 
 was celebrated this year on the 30th of Sep^tem- 
 ber, with ap-propriate ceremonies throughout 
 the United States and the Dominion of Canada. 
 The Order was instituted September 29th, 1842. 
 by sixteen men in the city of New York, and 
 has extended into every State and Territory in 
 the Union, and the British provinces. 
 
 During the twenty-five years, it has num- 
 bered over a million and a half of men in its 
 ranks, and though its numl>ers are not as great 
 now as at some former periods, it has been so 
 well organized and disciplined that its power 
 for good to the cause of temperance never was 
 greater than at present. 
 
 Lvdies now are admitted to full membership 
 in nearly all the States. Youths of both se.\es 
 of fourteen years and upward are permitted to 
 join. 
 
 3. — United Kingdom Alliance. 
 
 The anniversary of this society was held at 
 Manchester on the 22d of October. The report 
 Biated thav the work of the Alliance in Scotland 
 was never in a more promi.^ing condition than 
 at the present moment. In Ireland there had 
 been an unusually active and healthy agitation. 
 In London there had been a series of demon- 
 strations to bring the principles of the Alliance 
 before public notice. At no former stage of the 
 agitation had the press showed greater willing- 
 ness to r'-ceive information. At the meeting of 
 the British Association at Dundee, and at the 
 Suciil Science Cooigresa at Belfast, t!ie priaci- 
 
 plesof the Alliance had been ably supported; 
 and the questions of temperance and the liquor 
 traffic had arrested the a:tention of church con* 
 gresses and annual conferences of religious de- 
 nominations. Among collateral eff irts had been 
 a conference of influential friends of teetotal ism 
 at Exeter Hall. The licensing system had again 
 forced itself on the attention of Ptirliament, 
 Good ri'Siilts were hoped from the future consid- 
 eration in Parliament of bills to regulate public 
 hou.ses, &c. The committee had nothing to do 
 with the Sunil.iy-sales bill. The public-housa 
 closing acts of 1864-5 had worked in a lienefici il 
 and satisfactory manner. Efforts had been made 
 in contested elections to secure the return of 
 members favorable to the cause. The commit- 
 tee had received several suggestions of compro- 
 mise, but refused to be influenced by them. Of 
 the £5,000 five years' agitation fund, £1.500 have 
 been collected. The total receipts for the year 
 were £14.510. The present condition and pros- 
 pects of the Alliance are regarded as very prom- 
 ising. Resolutions were adopted to work in be- 
 half of temperance with the new voters enfran- 
 chised by the Reform bill, in favor of medical 
 treatment of patients on the non-alcoholic sys- 
 tem, calling upon all ptitiiotic, moral, ami re- 
 ligious men to aid the Alliance in its efforts to 
 banish iutemi)erance from the land, and calling 
 upon the government to deal with the question. 
 The principal speech was by Archbishop 
 Manning, mover of the third resolution, in favor 
 of it. Neal Dow and William L. Garrison, of 
 the United States, were present and spoke. 
 
 4. — Tlie Temperance Cause on the 
 Continent of Einrope. 
 
 The following is a summary of a report pre- 
 sented by the Rev. L. Nippert before the last 
 •jession of the German and Swiss Methodist Mis- 
 sion Conference : 
 
 In Prussia, temperance societies have exist- 
 ed since 1837, and a journal (the Monnhertei 
 se<;eu dm Hranntiuein) is issued by two of them. 
 The Konigsberg Society, which is the central 
 point of all the temperance operations in East- 
 ern and Western Prussia, has published for 
 twenty-seven years the organ for all the socie- 
 ties of those parts of Prussia, the Rhine prov- 
 inces, and Westphalia. The provinces of Posen, 
 Poraerania, and Saxony, are influenced by the 
 Herlin Society. In Hanover there is a society 
 which publishes its paper, and throughout the 
 Kingdsin (now become Prussian) great success 
 has crowned tlie efforts of the advocates of tem- 
 perance. In Holland, the c;iuse has been rap- 
 idly progressing for twenty-live years, and the 
 most distinguished and prominent men in the 
 country are identified with it. In England and 
 Scotland there are over one hundred societies, 
 while Father Matthew's labors are still bearing 
 good fruit in Ireland. In Sweden, King Oscar 
 abolished all the distilleries in the crown lands, 
 and thereby, within the space of twenty years, 
 the one huiulred and seventy thousand distil- 
 leries have been reduced to only two hundre<U 
 and the manufacture of fifty million quarts of 
 brandy has been reduced to from ten to fourteen 
 millions. In Denmark, the priijcipal pre<icher\ 
 Visly, )f Storchediiiz, Zealand has been ca-ry- 
 ing on the battle against brandy for twentv-flve 
 years; yet he gets but little sympathy, since 
 the so-ci\lled "believers" stand upai-ainft h'ln, 
 and the rolinseaclwitisticaJ. pivriy (wbicUislk* 
 
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 High-Lutheran) are unanimous in their opposi- 
 tion to the clergy takinj? part io the affair, and 
 Buch clerjjymeu as show auy tavor toward tem- 
 perance are persecuted, ealiimiiiated,and charg- 
 ed Willi being apostates from Glir.st. In Russia, 
 where drunkenness abounds to an alarming ex- 
 tent, there have been at least some successful 
 «irort8 fur it3 decrease, la Swiizerlaud, where 
 
 whole cantons are now in danger of beinp: mor- 
 ally and physically ruined by drinking brandy 
 and other strong liquors, temperance societies 
 have already been organized. 
 
 All these societies proclaim war against dis- 
 tilled liquors alone, and da not touch the ques- 
 tion of beer and wine. 
 
 NEW YORK SABBATH COMMITTEE. 
 
 The New York Sabbath Committee was or- 
 gtinized in 1857. Its object is, by personal in- 
 fiueuje, by the aid of the pulpit and the press, 
 and in all judicious, prudent, and practicable 
 methods, to promote the proper observance of 
 the Sabbath. It seeks the enforcement of the 
 Sunday laws, and the enactment of new ones, 
 where they api>ear to be necessary. In its 
 prominent movements it has had the aid of 
 nearly all the religious and many of the secular 
 journals of New York. The result of its U'liors 
 are thus summed up : *' Information gathered 
 in regard to the Sunday Laws of New York, and 
 the alarming extent of Sabbath desecration ; 
 the suppression ot Sunday desecration in the 
 Central Fark : of Sunday public parades and 
 pageants ; of Sunday theatres and other Sun- 
 day nuisances; protection of the Sabbath in- 
 terest in the Army and Navy during the war, 
 culminating in the issue of President Lincoln's 
 famous Sabbath Order to the Army and Navy, 
 in 1862 (this order was prepared by the Sabbath 
 Committee, and adopted by the President as his 
 own); the National Sabbath Convention at Sar- 
 atoga in 1(563 ; nearly lUO sermons on Sunday 
 observance preached by the Secretary during 
 
 1861 and 1866, in German and English churches 
 in New York and the surrounding cities ; seven 
 Gorman mass meetings in New York and vicin- 
 ity, ill favor of Sabbath observance ; help ta 
 Sabbath movements in other States and in Eu- 
 rope, rendered in various ways ; and in the 
 suppression of the Sunday liquor traffic through 
 the Metropolitan Excise law of 1856, and by ob- 
 taining decisions of the Supreme Court and the 
 Court of Appeals against Sunday theatres and 
 in favor of the Excise law. The Excise law is 
 the crowning triumph of the cause of Sunday 
 Observance. It has been well enforced, and 
 with perceptible resul's in the comfort of citi- 
 zens, public order, and the dimihu'ion of crime 
 and arrests on Surj(:av. The evidence of offi- 
 cial reports on this subject is ilecisive." Efforts 
 similar to those of this Committee have beeti 
 made in other cities with different degrees of 
 success, and in Europe, where, particularly in 
 Prussia and other portions of Germany, consid- 
 erable progress has been made towanls the 
 adoption of the American idea of the Sabbath. 
 The Committee, during-.the ten years of its ex- 
 istence, has published and circulated 34 origi- 
 nal Sabbath documents and other works. 
 
 RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETIES. 
 
 3 — American Tract Society, New 
 York. 
 
 During the year 126 new publications have 
 been stereotyped or electrotyped, in English, 
 German, Danish, Swedish, Italian, Spanish, 
 Portuguese, Hawaiian, and the Gilbert Islands 
 language, of which 37 are VJluraes, making the 
 whole number of publications on the Society's 
 list 3,781. of wh ch 765 are volumes of larger or 
 smaller size. Forty-one publications have been 
 approved to be issued at foreign stations, making 
 the whole number approved for publication 
 abroad, 3,798, of which 5J3 are volumes. The 
 three periodicals of the Society— the Ajnrricnn 
 M'ssenger, the Hotsckn/ter iGermtin), and the 
 Child's fiiper—\\a,v^ an aggregate monthly cir- 
 culation of 502,tJ0l) copies, an. I the total circuln- 
 tion of the three for the year has been 6,t;y7,50U 
 copies. 
 
 The total receipts for the year have been 
 $515,131.13, of which $159. 801)47 have been from 
 donations and le.tacies, and $384,350.96. The 
 expenditures were $544,313 24. 
 
 The Society have realized $57,0C0 of a sum 
 of $100,(100 which they are trying to raise from 
 voluntary contributions. Two hundred and 
 
 nineteen colporteurs have been employed, in 
 twenty-one States of the Union and the British 
 Provinces. They have sold and given away 
 10,876,672 volumes, addressed public meetings 
 and held prayer-meetings to tflie number «( 
 228.816, conversed or prayed with 5,034,990 
 families, and paid 9, 59'. 657 family visits. 
 
 The total amount of publications circulated 
 since the forma;ion of the Society is 21,028,680 
 volumes, 280,911,656 publications. 
 
 The Society has branches or agencies at 
 Bost(m, Phila(le"lphia. Rochester, Richmond, Va., 
 Cincinnati, Chicago, and St. Louis. In connec- 
 tion with the Rochester agency six coli)orteur3 
 have been employeii in Canada West, who have 
 visited about 7,000 families, held 189 religious 
 meetings, and circulated, by sale and grant, 
 .$3,642.36 worth of publications. The Society 
 has expended in Canada, during nineteen years, 
 $42,303.78, employed 167 colporteurs, who have 
 made 223,617 family visits, and distributed 
 291,360 volumes. 
 
 A beginning of work has been made in Mex- 
 ico and South America. 
 
 Ten thousand dollars have been granted to 
 foreign lands f.>r the year. The total of cash 
 grants to foreign lanils, since the or^'anizatioa 
 of the Society, is $553,895.78. Publication! have 
 
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 also been granted to foreign lands to the value 
 of $.1,501). 
 
 The foreign work of the Society la carried 
 on in Franyu (CDOperating with the Paris Relig- 
 ious Tract Society). Italy, Hxmbiug, Denmark, 
 Sweilen, Turkey, Syria, E^ypt, Wen ami Cen- 
 tral Africa, India, China, Micronesia, &c., where 
 it cooperate.s with the Missionary and other 
 erangelical societies. 
 
 2.— American Tract Society, Bos- 
 ton. 
 
 The cash receipts of this Society, from all 
 sources, were $l6ii,569.78. Of this, $58,050.10 
 were from donations, $10,553.46 from legacies. 
 The donations were greater, and the legacies 
 less, than last year. The publications of the 
 Society were : Tracts, in the 12mo series, 1.160,- 
 600 copies ; envelope, pocket, and children's 
 tracts, 156,000; leaflets, etc, 234,000. Total, 
 J. 526,500 coi)ie.s, embracing 6,235,008 pages. 
 Volumes, 3^9,-50, comprising 42,070,500 pages. 
 and papers, 3,103,0110 copies. Tiie Society's cat- 
 alogue now numbers 851 publications in the 
 English, German, Spanish, and Dakota lan- 
 guages. Tlie whole number of publications 
 since the institution of the Society, in 1859, is 
 16,091.276 copies of books and tracts, with 329.- 
 844,200 pages, and 24,541,700 copies of periodi- 
 cals. The vaiue of publications granted during 
 the year was $43,500, $4,000 for foreign fields. 
 The work of the Society among the freed- 
 men is particularly worthy of notice. It has 
 been diligently prosecuted, with most encour- 
 aging success. The general work is carried on 
 throughout the United States, in the army anil 
 navy, and at foreitiu inissinu stitions. The work 
 in this country is under the charge of ten dis- 
 trict secretaries. Two labor in the New Eng- 
 land States, one in New York New Jersey', and 
 Pennsylvania, one is located at Cleveland. Ohio, 
 three in Illinois, Jlicliigan, and Wisconsin, one 
 in Iowa and Minnesota, and one among the freed- 
 inen. The secretaryship at Memphis, Tennes- 
 see, was vacant at the time of the last annual 
 meeting. 
 
 The subject of the union of this with the 
 Society at New York, is under consideration. 
 
 3. — Religious Tract Society, Lon- 
 don. 
 
 Receipts for the year ending March 3Ist, 
 J867. £110,774, 19s. 3d. Total grants £13,012, 
 4s. lid. I'liljlication^ during the year, at home 
 and abroad, 46 720,101 ; total since the founda- 
 tion of the Society. 1,193.11(10,000. The foreign 
 Work of the Society is i)rosecuteil on the conti- 
 Beut of Europe, in the liritislk colonies, and at 
 
 nearly all points where there are Missionary 
 stations, 
 
 4.— Religious Tract Society, Paria 
 
 R-celpts (to Anril, 1816) 69,000 /rancs, or' 
 $19,000 in gold. Publicatioas. 347, in Spiiiish, 
 German, Italian, and Breton. S ties 40. 0;i0 co- 
 pies. Total issues since foundation (44 years). 
 25,006,000. 
 
 5.— O.her Tract Societies. 
 
 [For the oper.atioDS of the Tract Society of 
 the Methodist Ejiiscopal Chmch in the Un ted 
 States, see Statistics of Methodist Episcopal 
 Church. 
 
 For an account of Baptist tracts published 
 in the United States, see Statistics of Baptists.] 
 
 Societies. Expend- 
 
 illli'63> lSSU69 
 
 English Monthly Tract Soc....£2i,.'>5l 713 515 
 
 Weekly " " .... 673 663,298 
 
 Baptist " " . . 359,325 
 
 Rel. Tract and Book Society of 
 
 Scotland 851, 61T 
 
 Tract Soc. of Methodist Episco- 
 pal Church (Geimaii Branch, 
 
 Bremen) 2,721 587,239 
 
 Ui)per Canada Religious Tract 
 
 Society 219,611 
 
 Relig'ous Tract Soc. of Pans... 1,781 400.000 
 
 Basle Christian Book Society.. ItsQ 
 
 Prussian Tract Society iM'-i 137,3.)U 
 
 Danish Tract Society — ^ 137, uot) 
 
 6.— City MLsslon and Tract Soci- 
 eties. 
 
 New York City Mission and Tract Society. 
 Receipts, $60,000; stations. 14; missiona- 
 ries 45. who made 118.277 visits ; voluntary vis- 
 itors, 539; tracts distributed, 1,076,779; chil- 
 dren led to Sunday schools, 3,722 : persons in- 
 duced to attend c'lurch, 10,u29. 
 
 Brooklyn City Mission and Tract Society. 
 Receipts, 21,021.60. Tv/onty missionaries 
 are employed, who have distributed l,323,h3i 
 pages of tracts, made 36.474 vi-its, and induced 
 1,148 children to attend Siiodity aud publio 
 schools, and 1,179 to attend church 
 Boston Ciiy Missinii. 
 Missionaries, 21 ; receipts, $3 994.45 ; visits 
 44,247. 
 
 Other Societies are the New Jersey, Phila- 
 delphia, Ne Y Brunswick, Albany, Tr.)y, Utica, 
 Syracuse, Hilwaukie, San Francisco, Sia. 
 
 SUNDAY SCHOOLS- 
 
 1. — American Sunday School 
 Union. 
 
 I day Schools of an undenominational character. 
 
 It has asonts in till the States, whose zenl and 
 
 success are well represented by the summary of 
 
 the work for the year p evioin to the last An- 
 
 The object of the American Sunday School niversary, in .May, which is a- f>lloyr3: 
 
 ITnion, which is now in the forty-fourth yuar of I Schools organized 1,671 
 
 its existence, is to ostablish and carry on Sun- I Teachers ia the same lU,55lt 
 
Scholars 67.204 
 
 Schools visited and addressed 6.(l91l 
 
 Teachers in the Bame 45.175 
 
 Scholars 351,48j 
 
 'Whole Dumber of schools organized 
 
 anil aided .. 7.761 
 
 Teachers in service 55,734 
 
 Scholars 418.6^y 
 
 Families visited 35.U'24 
 
 Uiblesanil Testaments distributed. .. 9,8<:1 
 
 Miles traveled 314,41(1 
 
 Grants made to needy Sunday-schools $15, 331. U8 
 Addresses delivered 8,602 
 
 The receipts of the Society during the year, 
 were $lC)8,8:i:i.25. The whole number of the So- 
 ciety's iiublicatioiis exceeds fif;een hundred. 
 
 The following is an exhibit of the mission 
 trork of the Society for the last eleven years : 
 
 New schools organized 18.983 
 
 Teachers enlisted 121.378 
 
 Children gathered in 775,984 
 
 Other schools visited and aided 33,441 
 
 Children in attendance 1.545.4.S8 
 
 Whole number of cliiUIren 2.534,820 
 
 Amount granted to poor schools $102,992.64 
 
 The usefulness of the Society is indicated by 
 the statement in its last report, that an exiuni- 
 nation of the statistical returns of the several 
 Slates, where a Sunday-«chool canvass has been 
 made, shows that in no State are one-half of the 
 children and youth regular attendants of the 
 Sabbath-school, and in some of our Western and 
 Southern States the large majority are beyond 
 tie reach of any organized church. 
 
 2.— Sunday School Union of Eng- 
 land. 
 
 The total number of schools, teachers, and 
 
 scholars now connected with the Union, are as 
 
 toUowa: 
 
 9 Xfetrojwlitan auxiliaries. fi70 14,920 166,036 
 162 Country Unions 2,679 67,970 500,683 
 
 Tot.il 3,869 82,890 660,719 
 
 Increase from last year... 26 1,175 12,924 
 
 The income of the benevolent fund Cexclu- 
 sive (if the Continental fund, was £2,432. lis. 
 2d. The subscriptions to the Continental fund 
 were £122. Os., lid. The sales at the Deposi- 
 tory aniouutfd to £22,339 13s., 4d., being an in- 
 crease of over £700 from last year. 472 lending 
 libraries were granted to schools containing 
 111 876 scholars, of whom 75.253 were Scripture 
 readers. 
 
 The Society supports ai-encies in Germany, 
 Holland, SwiiZtrlanu. and ntlier points on the 
 continent, and a>sists the Paris Society in sup- 
 porting a mi^siouary agent. 
 
 3 — The Continent of Europe. 
 
 The first Sunday School in France was foi m- 
 ed at Bordeaux in 1815. Koiv there are 874 
 schools, with about 3,500 children. 
 
 The Sunday School movement makes pro- 
 gress in GL-rmaiiv. There are now 10 schools in 
 Berlin, with 3,-190 children and 284 teachers, 
 anil 31 in other parts of Germany, with 2,74(5 
 children and i:60 teachers. 
 
 CENTENARY OF AMERICAN rJETHODISM. 
 
 T'^e year 1866, being the centenary, or hun- 
 dredth anniversary of the estnblishra'i'nt of 
 llelho.lism in the United States, was celebrated 
 by the several denominations of Methodists, and 
 particularly by the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
 by extraordinary exertions to raise (uuds for 
 various church purpo.-^es, and for the endow- 
 ment of Biblical .schools, colleges, and acade- 
 mies, and for local objects. Meetings were held 
 in all the churches, and subscrii)tions taken. 
 The success of the movement was truly wonder- 
 ful, and exceeded all aiitici|iations. 
 
 The Gsnenil Contereuce of the Sfethodist 
 Episcopal Church, at its ses.-ion of 1864. de- 
 cided tliat the thank-offeiings of the Church 
 durini the centenary year should be divided 
 Into two general classes— Co-mectional and 
 Local. The connectional objects designated 
 are as follows : 
 
 1. The Centenarv Educational Fund. 
 
 2. Tlic G-irrett Biblical School at Evanstnn. 
 
 3. The Meihod'st Goi^eral Bihlira! Institute 
 ftt '^oncord, to be removed to the vicinity of 
 B..ston. 
 
 '.'. A Biblical Institu'.e in the Eastern Middle 
 States. 
 
 5. A Biblical Institute in Cincinnati or vicin- 
 ity. 
 
 6. A Biblical Institute on the Pacific coast. 
 
 7. The erection of Centenary Missionai y Build- 
 ings for the Mission House at New York. 
 
 8. The Irish Connectional Fund. 
 
 9. The Biblical School at Bremen. Germany. 
 
 10. The Chartered Fund. fSiich sums as con- 
 tributors may desire to ajioropriate in that way 
 to the support-of worn-out preachers, their wid- 
 ows and orphans). 
 
 11. The Sunday School Children's Fund. (A 
 fund to he raised by the Sunday-school children 
 of the Church, the interest of which should be 
 devoted to aiding meritorious Sumiay-scliool 
 s<;holars in obtaining a more advanced educa-. 
 tion.) * 
 
 It was decided that the Local Funds should 
 be ai'propriaied to the cause of education and 
 church extension under the direction of a com- 
 mittee, consisting of an equal number of min- 
 isters and laymen, appointed by the several An- 
 nual Conferences within the bouuds of which 
 they are raised. 
 
 The following gentlemen were appointed as 
 a " Central Centenary (-'omniittee " : J M'Clin- 
 toek, D D., D. Curry, D.D., G. K. Crooks D D., 
 Oliver Hoyt, Esrj., James Bishop, Esr]., C. C. 
 North, Esq. Rev. W. C. Hoyt, Secretary. 
 
 The reports of the amounts of contributions 
 
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 have not yet (yovember, 1867,) been completed 
 and clasailii.-d. Euou;,'!! lias buen rcturai.-d, 
 however, to give au approximate idea of the 
 ainouiita that have been realized, and the pro- 
 piM-iioiia iu which they will be applied to the 
 various <iesiguatud objects. 
 
 The fullest estimate yet given appeared in 
 the Methodist of November "JSd. The returns 
 from which the aj-'gretates were cotnputed were 
 all incomplete. Hence the aggregates cannot 
 be made to agree. The sums given will in all 
 cases be exceeded by the complete returns 
 when they are made. The aggregates as given 
 are as follows : 
 
 Grand totals from 45 Conferences. $6,931,255.96 
 Totals for conm-clional objects, 
 
 from 22 Conferences.. 707,011.04 
 
 Totals for loual objects, from 23 
 
 Conferences 4,092,572.99 
 
 SPECIFIC OBJECTS : 
 
 Centenary Kducation fund, 18 Con- 
 ferences 9.195.36 
 
 Garrett Biblical Institute, 9 Conf. 11,428.22 
 
 [To tins $1U0,0II0 of the contri- 
 butions of the Xew England 
 Confereooe should be added.] 
 
 Drew Theological Iustitute,2 t'oiif. 500.016.00 
 
 General Ijildical Institute (at iios- 
 
 ton) 11,426 22 
 
 New York Mission House, 15 Conf. 68.9' G 10 
 
 Irish Connectional fund, 14 Conf.. 29,768.53 
 
 Biblical School iu Germany, 12 
 Conferences 1,675.00 
 
 Chartered fund. 15 Conferences. . 12,639.35 
 
 Sunday-school Children's fund, 12 
 Conferences 27,843.79 
 
 Not designated, 10 Conferences. . . 27,536.63 
 
 Church li;xcen>ion, 14 Conferences. 9,445,296.95 
 
 Payment of Church and Far.>ouage 
 debts, 7 Conf>.rences 212,575.27 
 
 Colleges and t^chool.s, and local ed- 
 ucation, 17 Conferences 759,082.23 
 
 Preachers' Aid SocieJes, 5 Conf., l.'),7'>4 20 
 
 Uiher objects 42,a33.::5 
 
 CHURCH AND STATE.--PROGRESS OF RELIGIOUS LIBERTY- 
 
 Upon the establishment of independence, 
 the United States made the absolute sejiaration 
 of Church and State, and the legal equality of 
 all forms of religion, one of their fundamental 
 institutions. Thus, a new principle was formally 
 established in the Protestant world, and the 
 history of this principle since that time consti- 
 tutes one of the most interesting portions of 
 modern Church history. Gieat political events, 
 such as the revolutionary movements of 1789, 
 1830, and 1818, gave ])Owerful impulses to this 
 movement which is now being vigorously car- 
 ried on throughout Europe. Progres '.las been 
 made in every country, though the final goal 
 has not yet been attained. 
 
 In the Uiiittd Siafes all political and eccle- 
 siastical parties agree that the right of every 
 citizen to wor.ship God according to the dictates 
 of his own con^^cience shall not be curtailed, 
 and that the voluntary principle in church af- 
 fairs shall be maintained. 
 
 Full religious ireeilom also exists in Ilrilish 
 America, although the ge|iaration between 
 church and state is not yet fully carried out. 
 
 In Latin America, the Koinan Catholic 
 Church is almost every where tlie'only form of 
 religion acknowledged by the state. But full 
 religious lilierty has been proclaimed in the 
 United States of Coiomhla and in the Kepublic 
 of Mexico, and will undoubteilly be reinforced 
 in the latter country. In Chili, in 1866, and in 
 Peru, in 1867, the enlargement of religious tol- 
 eration was the subject of a very animated dis- 
 cussion, which materially advanced the cause of 
 religious freedom. In Brazil and the Arseittine 
 Ripuhli':, religious toleration is practically es- 
 tablished, and the number of Protestants is rap- 
 idly increasing in consequence of a steady in- j 
 flux of emigrants from Northern America and 
 from Kurope. I 
 
 In England, the per«onal right of religious I 
 freedom is is firmly establi-hei! and as generally I 
 acknowledged as in the United States. The I 
 State Church still enjoyi enormous privileges; j 
 but no year pa-ise.s in which Parliament does not i 
 reduce, or at least assail, these iirivileges, and 
 
 in which. not some progress is made towards the 
 final separation of Church and State. 
 
 Hoitand iiniX lie^^ium enjoy full liberty of 
 relii-'ion, and the separation between Church 
 and State is nearly accomplished. 
 
 In t'ranre the right of religious opinion is 
 secured to the individual ; but religious meet- 
 ing suffer from a restrictive legislation, as 
 well as political meetings, and th- State vigor- 
 ously maintains its control of the state churcli- 
 es, denying, in particular, to the Kclonneil 
 Church the right of reorganizing the General 
 Synod. 
 
 In Germany, the absorption of the minor 
 States by the North German Confederation, lia3 
 put an end to the persecution to which many 
 Christian sects were exposed in some of the mi- 
 nor States. Religious toleration is making 
 steady progress; public opinion strongly ex- 
 presses itself in favor of universal religious 
 liberty ; and the prospective consoliilation of the 
 Protestant State Cliurches into one, will bring, 
 if not the full separation between Church and 
 State, at least a larger degree of ecclesia-tical 
 self-government. In Austria, the " Keichs- 
 rath " (Parliament) was, in Ib67, almost a unit 
 in demanding the abolition of the Concordat of 
 1855, which secured to tlie Knmau Catholic 
 Church many privileges, and in asking equality 
 of civil rights for the professors pf every kiufl 
 of religious belief. The Hungarian Diet ex- 
 presse.i views equally liberal. 
 
 Denmark is in pnssession of full religious 
 liberty, and the separation between Church and 
 State makes progress. Swden has repealed 
 part of her intolerant legislation again.-t Cath- 
 olics and Btipti.sts ; and Umitzer-and is becom- 
 ing liberal toward the Je\. s. 
 
 Itali/ firmly adheres to the independence of 
 the Secular government in the regulation of 
 church alfairs, and to the principle of reliL'ious 
 freedom : and some of her leading statesmen 
 have declared for the absolute separation be- 
 tween Church and State, as it exists iu the Uni- 
 ted States. 
 
 In i'ortuga!, public op'nion expresses itself 
 
SI 
 
 In favor of religious tolerafion, but Spnin con- 
 tinues to lorbid every public form of worship 
 excejit iMat of the Komau Catholic Church. 
 
 Kussta still ditgi-aces herself by bloody 
 edicts of persecutiou against Catholics; al- 
 tliuuyh her legislation with regard to Protest- 
 ants has become somewhat more tolerant. 
 
 The Christian tribes of 2'ii key are prepar- 
 ing to shake otT the yuke of the Mohammedans, 
 but they deny the liberty which they claim for 
 themselves to the Jews, who, in several of the 
 Christian provinces of Turkey, have snfifered a 
 terrible persecutiou. tn K/iypt. the Coptic Pa- 
 triarch instituted a furious persecution against I 
 the Protestant American Mls^iuuaries and their j 
 adherents among the Copts. For a long time , 
 th« Egyptian g»veinuieut encouraged this per- 1 
 
 seou'ion, until at lencth the Consul-General of 
 the United States caused it to be stopped. 
 
 Ill Japan the government severely persecu- 
 ted tlie descendants of the former Christians, 
 who, in consequence of the friendly relations 
 now existing between .Japan and ihf Christian 
 countries, had i bought it safe to shuiv- their re- 
 ligious faith. It was hoped that the intiuence 
 of France would put an end to this jiersecution. 
 In all other missionary fields, the toleratiou of 
 the native Christians was not disturbed. 
 
 On the w .,ole, therefore, it may be said that 
 the cause of religious toleration and liberty is 
 I a'iing steady progress, and that the time seems 
 to draw near wlieu religious persecution will 
 beloni; among the things of tte piut. 
 
 THE CHURCH, THE SLAVERY QUESTION, AKD THE FLEEDM2W, 
 
 1— American Ciiurchea North anil 
 South. 
 
 In consequence of the different views en- 
 tertained with regard to slavery, and tlie right 
 of church and state to pass ordinances for its 
 abolition, a split gradually arose between the 
 churches in tlie Northern and Southern St-ctions 
 01 the United States. In 1844 the great division 
 in the Methodist Episcopal Church occurred, 
 and the Methodist Episcopal Chuich South was 
 estaiiiished. In 18 J j. the Southern Baptist Con- 
 vention w 13 organized, and in 1817 the South- 
 ern Baptist Publication Society. In 1857, the 
 Southern Presl^yteries ot the New School Pres- 
 byterian Church organized the United Synod of 
 the Presbyterian Church. After the beginning 
 of the war, the Soutiiern Presbyteries of the 
 Old School Presbyterian Church, the Southern 
 Dioceses of the Protestant Episcopal Church, 
 and some of the ."Southern Synods of the Luther- 
 ans, effected independent Southern organiza- 
 tions. Where no formid division occurred in a 
 church, there was, of course, an interruption 
 ot communication between the Northern and 
 Southern branches. After the war. a movement 
 begau in maijy quarters for reuniting the ^ejla- 
 raied churches. There are quite a number of 
 churches who are now fully united ; such are the 
 Pro estant Eoiscopal Church, the Cuiiiberland 
 Presbyterians, the German Reformed Church, 
 the Friends, the Swedenborgiuns, and the Ro- 
 man Catholics. 
 
 There is another class of religious denom- 
 inations which before the war had hardly any 
 reiiresentation in the former slave St:ite«j, and 
 which since then have begun to extend south- 
 ward, and to jirepare for the establishment of 
 congregation> .n every State of the Uniop. The 
 aggregate of toe new congregation.s of these de- 
 noniiualions in the former slave States already 
 represents a considerable aggregate of mem- 
 bers. Thus the Congregationalists, who, beside 
 an isolated church in Charleston, had, in 1800, 
 only two or three churches in Missouri, have 
 now, in the latter State alone, upward of forty 
 churches, ami have established thesmselves in 
 all the large cities of the South. The United 
 Brethren in Christ have established new con- 
 ferences in Kentucky and Tennessee. The Uni- 
 teii Presbyterians have organized a new South- 
 
 ern Presbytery, and the Free Will Baptists an 1 
 others now .support missions in several States 
 which were formerly not occupied by them. 
 
 As regards fimiUy, those churches which 
 have long been sejiarated by dilTei eiice of views 
 on the slavery question, they have all begun, 
 more or less, to outgrow their sectional organi- 
 zation, and to assume national dimensions. It 
 is mostly the churches of the Northern section 
 which grow southward ; though also, on the 
 other hand, the Southern churches begin, in 
 some instances, to exjiand northward. In this 
 respect, the greatest progress has been made by 
 the Methodist Episcopal Churidi. In 1661), the 
 Southern congregations of the Methodist E))is- 
 copai Church were mostly scattered at a short 
 distance from the boundary line between North 
 and South, in Missouii, Kentucky, and Mary- 
 land , now the Church has a firm organization 
 in almost every Southern Stale, with a number 
 of new Annual Conferences ( Virginia ami North 
 Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama Georgia, 
 Tennessee, Mississippi) aud a membership of 
 more than one hundred thousand, mostly white 
 members. 
 
 The New School Presbyterian Church has 
 
 _ reorganized the Synod "f Tennessee with three 
 
 i Prcsiiyteries ; while Uie Old-School Church has 
 
 Presbyteries fully organized in North Carolin.i, 
 
 South Carolina, and I'ennessee, with a prospect 
 
 of additions in other .'^tales. 
 
 The Southern Methodist Church, on the 
 other hand, has absorbed a part of the Balti- 
 more Conference of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church. It has, moreover, organized, in I8I>7, 
 I an Annual Conference in Oregon (" Columbia 
 I Conference "), and anotner in Illinois, the lat- 
 I ter from congregations formerly belonging ta 
 I the "Christian Union," a new religious denom- 
 I ination established since Ihe beginning of the 
 ! war, and sympathizing with the views held by 
 ■ the Southern churches on the suliject of sla- 
 I very. In a like manner the Southern Presby- 
 I terian churches, in 16()7, received additions 
 from Presbyteries in Maryland, Kentucky, and 
 , Missouri, and may annex others even more 
 I northward, among those who jirefer the position 
 j of the Southern Presbyterian Church to that 
 1 of the Northern. 
 
 j A large portion of the colored population of 
 
 ! the Southern churches has, since the end of the 
 I war, either conuectei itself with KurtUern 
 
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 churches or joined independent African church- 
 es. The African Methoilist Episcopal Ctiurch, 
 which, in 18t)0, reported a membership of ahout 
 2U,(JO0, now claims upwards of ViUU.OOO mem- 
 bers, the additions bein;; almost exclusively in 
 the Southern States. The African Methotist 
 Kpi.-<copal Zion Church had, in 1«6U, only b,OOU 
 members, which have now increased to upwards 
 of oO,UUO. The Baptist colored churches have 
 in many States been organized into indepen- 
 dent Associations, and annually hold a Gen- 
 eral Convention. In Georgia, some colored 
 Presbyterian churches have organized them- 
 selves into an independent Presbytery, and tlie 
 organization of a colored Protestant Episcopal 
 Church has been discussed. In Tennessee, a 
 colored Conference is to be organized in con- 
 nection with the Methodist Episcopal Church 
 South. 
 
 Thus, while a part of colored church mem- 
 bers remain in conueciion with the Southern 
 churches, another part prefer incorporation 
 With the churches of the North ; and still an- 
 other part — as far as we can judge, by far the 
 largest— deems it best to join inUependtnt col- 
 ored church organizations. 
 
 2 Education of Freedmen. 
 
 After the abolition of slavery in the South- 
 ern States, nearly all the American churches, 
 both North and South, paid a particular care to I 
 the religious instruction of the Freedmen, and 
 many of them have organized special commit- 
 tees on Freedmen. 
 
 The fourth Annual Report on Schools for 
 Freedmen was made on July 1, by J. M. Alvord, 
 General Superintendent of Schools, in the Bu- 
 reau of Refugees. Freedmen, and Abandoned 
 Lands. We learn from this report that there 
 are officially reported 1839 day and night 
 schools; 20b7 teachers, and 111,442 pupils; 
 showing an increase since the last report of 
 632 schools, ()57 teachers, and 33,444 pupils. 
 
 By adding industrial schools, and those 
 " within the knowledge of the superintendent," 
 the number will be 'J'JO? schools, 2442 teachers, 
 and 13u,735 pujiils ; making a total increase of 
 U08 schools, 764 teachers, and 40,222 i)upils. 
 
 Sabbath- schools also show much larger 
 numbers during the past six months, the figures 
 bring 1126 schools, and bO,t>47 pupils ; and if we 
 add tliose '• not regularly reported," the whole 
 number of Sabbath-sclxools will be 1468, with 
 105,766 pupils; thus giving an increase since 
 last report of 686 sciiools, and 3i,176 pupils. 
 
 TOTALS. 
 
 Schools of all kinds, as reported 3,(>95 
 
 Pupils 23?, 345 
 
 TOTAL INCREASE FOB THE LAST SIX MONTHS. 
 Schools 1,503 
 
 Pupils 76,t.38 
 
 Of the above schools, 10.''5 are sustained 
 wholly or in part by the fieedinen. and 391 of 
 the buildings in wliich these schools are held 
 are owned by themselves. 699 of the teachers 
 in I he day and night schools are colored, and 
 1388 while — a small jiroportionate increase of 
 the former during the six months. 
 
 28,0t>8 colored pupils have pr.id tuition. 
 
 The average amount iier month being $14,555, 
 
 or a fraction over 61 cents per scholar. Only 
 
 6911 of the pupils wi're free before the war. 
 
 This iiureau hus supplied fuurliuudred and 
 
 twenty-eight of the school buildings, and fur- 
 nished nine hundred and seventy teachers with 
 transportation. The total expenditure for all 
 educational purposes by the Bureau has been 
 $220,833.(11. 
 
 The following is an incomplete list of pa- 
 pers published, in 1867, by &nd for colored peo- 
 ple ; 
 
 The Elevator, at San Francisco, circulates 
 2,300 copies ; Tke Pacific Appeal ; The JSew Or- 
 leans Tiibune, daily and weekly, circulates 
 about 10,000 of each issue ; The True Commu- 
 nicator, at Baltimore ; Zion's Stuiidard and 
 Weekly Review, published at New York, edited 
 by William Howard Day (coloied;, circulates 
 4,000 copies ; The Christian Recorder, Philadel- 
 phia, published by the African Methodist Epis- 
 copal Church, and edited by Rev. James Lynch, 
 a man of color, circulates 5,000; The People's 
 Journal, Brooklyn, edited and printed by a col- 
 ored man, circulates 2,000, and the freedman's 
 Torchlight, &\-e both published by the African 
 Colonization Society; The Colored Citizen, is- 
 sued at Cincinnati, Ohio, circulates 2,400 cop- 
 ies, and is under the entire control of colored 
 men. 
 
 3. — The Paris Anti-Slavery Confer- 
 ence. 
 
 The Anti-Slavery Conference convened by 
 the Comite Francais d' Emancipation, the Span- 
 ish Abolitionist Society, and the British and 
 Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, met at Paiis on 
 the 26th and 27th of August, 1867. M. Labou- 
 laye. President of the French society, presided. 
 Delegates were present from the United States, 
 Porto Rico, Brazil, Hayti, Liberia, Sierra Leone, 
 Spain, Great Britain, France, the South Ameri- 
 can Republics, Russia, Italy, Jamaica, &c. Let- 
 ters of adhesion were also read from sevoral 
 members of the British .Parliament and other 
 well-known friends of the Anti-Slavery move- 
 ment, at home and abroad. A lesoluiion, em- 
 bodying several arguments based on what is 
 proven by experience, was read by Prof. Horn, 
 of the Ecole de Commerce, urging the abolition 
 of the slave-trade and slavery, which are still 
 practiced by Spain. Portugal, Brazil, Tuikey, 
 Egy;)t, and the Transvaal Republic, South .\f- 
 rica, besides uncivilized countries. It also pro- 
 posed an address to the Pope, urging him to fol- 
 low the example of his predecessors, and raise 
 his Voice in favor of the unhappy slaves held in 
 C.itholic countries. M. Elise Reclus, of the 
 Revue def Deux Mond'S, proposed also a series 
 of resolutions denouncing all institutions, laws, 
 customs, and prejudices growing out of slavery, 
 .•imoiig those who spoke on the resolutions was 
 Seiior Bera/,a. one of the Spanish delegates, 
 who asserted that the Cubans and Porio Ricans 
 were favorable to emancipation, but the gov- 
 ernment would not accede to the demand for it ; 
 and Senor Olozaga. another Spanish delegate, 
 who said that heretofore the •■Spanish govern- 
 ment had been pressed from without for eman- 
 cipation, but that now the pressure came from 
 within, from the colonies themselves, a fact 
 which he regarded as unprecedeoled and highly 
 encouraging. Bishop Payne, of the African M, 
 E. Church of the United States, sjioke of the 
 results of emancipation so far as the negroes he- 
 longi' g to his denomination were concerocii. 
 An address was delivered also by William Llovd 
 Garrison, of the United States, and by J. G. 
 
S3 
 
 Palfrey. M. le General Dubois gave an outline 
 of the historj' of Hayti, and viniiioited the peo- 
 ple calumniated by the allegation that they are 
 iucompetent of self-government. A second res- 
 olution was adopted of thanks to the AlmiRhty 
 for emancipation ia the United States and lius- 
 
 sla; also acknowledging the merits of states* 
 men and philanthropists who have contributed 
 to emancipation, to the travelers and mission- 
 aries who are explorinj; and evangelizing Afri- 
 ca, and to the organs of the press of all coun- 
 tries who have aided anti-slavery principlea. 
 
 -0- 
 
 THE CHURCHES AND SECRET SOCIETIES.-STATISTICS OF FREE- 
 MASONRY. 
 
 A considerable number of Christian church- 
 es forbid their members to join secret societies, 
 and this question continues to be discu-sed in 
 the church assemblies with cunsiderable anima- 
 tion. This prohibition is especially directed 
 against the Kree-Masons. 
 
 Among the churches which vigorously en- 
 force the prohibition to join secret societies are 
 the American Wesleyans and the United Breth- 
 ren in Christ. When the former, in 1866, en- 
 deavored to form a union with the Methodist 
 Protestants, the non-concurrence of the latier 
 body in prohibitory measwes against Freema- 
 sonry was one of the reasons why the union 
 movement proved a failure. The quadrennial 
 General Conference of thd Wesleyan Connec- 
 tiiin, in 1867, by an overwhelming majority, re- 
 affirmed its ol'd position on this question. The 
 question is also ap:itated in other denominations; 
 and Some Presbyteries. Congregational Confer- 
 ences and Lutheran Synods have, in 1667, taken 
 decided ground against Freemasonry. 
 
 An ''Anti-Secret Society Convention" met 
 at Aurora, 111., on Oct. 31. The Convention con- 
 sisted of eightv members, from five differeMt 
 State», representing ten evangelical denomina- 
 tions (Wesleyans, United Brethren in Christ, 
 Free Methodists, Baptists, Congregationalists, 
 etc.) Resolutions were adopted declaring the 
 secret orders hostile, in their nature, to the 
 Chri.-tian religion, and a National Convention 
 of Christians was resolved on, to meet some time 
 next May. 
 
 In the Roman Catholic Church Free- Masons 
 are excommunicated ; and the present Pope, in 
 1865, issued a very severe encyclical against 
 the society, and called the attention of the 
 church members to the ecclesiastical censures 
 Incurred by all Free- Masons. But numerous 
 lodges have, nevertheless, been established in 
 all the Roman Catholic countries. Only Austria 
 and Spain continued to conform their legislation 
 to that of the Roman Catholic Church. But in 
 Austria the prohibition was repealed in 1867. 
 The Spanish government, on the other hand, 
 tried to enforce its legislation by prosecuting 
 the members of the lodges in Cuba, in which 
 island there are about twenty lodges. 
 
 The following is a list of Grand Lodges of 
 Freemasons in 1866, together with the number 
 of affiliated lodges, as far as the same was 
 known : 
 
 List of Grand Lodges, with numbkb o» Affil> 
 
 lATEO LOOQBS, IN 1866. 
 
 1 . United States, 
 
 Grand Affiliated 
 
 Lodges. Lodges. 
 
 Alabama 325 
 
 Arkansas — 
 
 Grand Affiliated 
 
 Lodges. Lodges. 
 
 California 163 
 
 Colorado 7 
 
 Grand. Affliliated. 
 
 New Brunswick... — 
 New Hampshire... 52 
 
 New Jersey 67 
 
 ■' colored. — 
 
 New York ...523 
 
 " city col'd. 6 
 North Carolina.... — 
 
 Ohio 318 
 
 " colored — 
 
 Oregon 28 
 
 Pennsylvania 174 
 
 col'd. 21 
 Rhode Island .... 16 
 South Carolina.... — • 
 
 Tennessee — • 
 
 Texas 109 
 
 Vermont 63 
 
 Virginia ^ 
 
 Washington 10 
 
 West Virginia 9 
 
 Wisconsin 127 
 
 413:2 
 
 Grand. Affiliated. 
 
 Colombia 13 
 
 Cmnecticut 70 
 
 Delaware 13 
 
 ■' colored... 9 
 
 Florida -- 
 
 Georgia . . — 
 
 Illinois 395 
 
 Indiana 285 
 
 Iowa 152 
 
 Kansas 37 
 
 KentucItLy 324 
 
 Louisiana 128 
 
 Maine 112 
 
 Maryland 41 
 
 " colored . . 6 
 
 Massachusetts. . .143 
 
 " col'd. — 
 
 Michigan 169 
 
 Minnesota — 
 
 Mississippi — 
 
 Missouri 229 
 
 Nebraska — 
 
 Nevada 8 
 
 2. In Other Countries, 
 
 G. L. Toronto, Canada 170 
 
 G. L. Halifax, Nova Scotia - .... 10 
 
 G. O. Lima, Peru 8 
 
 G. O.Val|>arai80. Chili 4 
 
 G. 0. Rio Janeiro, Brazil 84 
 
 G. O. Caracas, Venezuela 15 
 
 G. L. Montevideo, Uruguay 97 
 
 G. L. Buenos Ayres, Argentine Republic... — 
 
 G. L. Santiago de Cuba — 
 
 G. L. Port-au-Prince, Hayti.... ". — 
 
 G. L. to the 3 Globes, Berlin, Prussia 103 
 
 N. L. Berlin, Prussia 70 
 
 Royal York, Berlin, Prussia 29 
 
 G. L. Hamburg 25 
 
 G. L. Bayreuth, Bavaria , 13 
 
 G. L. Dresden. Saxony 17 
 
 G. L. Frankfort on the Main, Prus3,la 10 
 
 G. L. Hanover, Prussia 22 
 
 G. L. Darmstadt, Hesse- Darmstadt 2 
 
 6. L. Berne, Switzerland 28 
 
 G. L. London, England 10^8 
 
 G.L.Edinburgh. Scotland 386 
 
 G. L. Dublin, Ireland 319 
 
 G. L. the Hague, Holland 68 
 
 5. C. Luxemburg, Luxemburg 2 
 
 G. L. Stockholm. Sweden 19 
 
 6. L. Copenhagen, Denmark 5 
 
 G. L. Brussels, Belgium — 
 
 S.C. " " 14 
 
 G. O. Florence, Italy 87 
 
 G. L. Lisbon. Portugal 1 
 
 G. O. Paris, France 248 
 
 S.C. " " 10 
 
 [G. L. stands for Grand Lodge; G. 0. for 
 Grand Orii»nt; S, C. for Supreme Council, and 
 N. L. for National Lodge.] 
 
34 
 
 FOREIGN MISSIONS, 
 
 2. The Protestant Missionary So- 
 cieties of the World. 
 
 We give below a list of Protestant missionary 
 societies «rith the year of their foundation 
 and the mission fields occupied by each. 
 More information on mogt of the American So- 
 cielies, may be found un<ier the head of denom- 
 inational statistics ; on some of the more import- 
 ant European Societies we subjoin a statement of 
 their operations to the list of the Societies. 
 1. — American Missionary Societies. 
 
 1. The American Board of Commissioners for 
 Foreign Missions. 1810. East Indies, South Africa, 
 Turliey, China, Polynesia, North America. 
 
 2. The Baptist Missionary Union. 1814. Bur- 
 Doah, Farther- India, Siam, China. 
 
 3. The Methodist Episcopal Miss. Soc. 1819. 
 West Africa, India, China, North and South 
 America, Polynesia. 
 
 4. The Episcopal Board of Missions. 1820. 
 North America. West Africa, China, Japan. 
 
 5. the Free- Will Baptist For. Miss. Sue. 1843. 
 India. 
 
 6 Ihe Board of For. Mi'S. of the Presbyterian 
 Church. 1837. West Africa, India, Siam, China, 
 Japan. Morth and South America. 
 
 7. Foreign Mission of the Keformed Presby- 
 terian Syood. Syria. 
 
 8. Lutheran Missionary Society. 1837. India, 
 West Africa. 
 
 9. Seventh-Day-Baptist Miss. Soc. 1842. China. 
 
 10. American Indian Misa. Association. 1612. 
 North America. 
 
 11. Tne Baptist Free Miss. Soc. 1843. West 
 Indies. 
 
 12. The United Presbyterian Board of Miss- 
 ions. 1844. India, Turitey, Polynesia. 
 
 13. Mission of the German Lutheran Synod of 
 Iowa (?) North America 
 
 14. The .Southern Baptist Convention Board of 
 Miss. 1H45, West Africa, China. 
 
 15. The SouthTn Methodist For. Miss. 1846. I 
 North America, China. 
 
 16. The American Miss. Association. lS4fi. 
 North America. West Indies. Egypt, Siam, Poly- 
 nesia. 
 
 17. The Reformed Protestant Ditch Church's 
 For. Miss. 1857. India, China, .lapan. 
 
 18. Korei:-'n Mission of United Brethren in 
 Clirist. Africa. 
 
 19. American Church Missionary Society, 1859. 
 U. S. ot Columbia. 
 
 20. The Board of Foreicn Missions of the Pres- 
 byterian Church of Nova Scotia. 1848. New 
 Hebrides. 
 
 21. Tiie Micmac Missionary Society. Nova 
 Scotia, 
 
 2. — British Missionary Societies. 
 
 22. Society fw the Propagation of the Gospel 
 In Koieijn Parts. 1701. Kast and West Indies, 
 Soutli Africa, Australia, New Zealand, North 
 Americ.i. 
 
 2H. Tba Baptist Miss. Soc. 1792, East and 
 West In.lies, West Africa, China. 
 
 24 Tiue l.onlon Mi.ss. S<ic. 1795. South Sea 
 E>ist and W' st Indies, South Africa, Madagascar. 
 
 25. Tlie Church Miss. Soc. 180(1. East and West 
 In'iies, Turkey, China, New Zealand, West Africa, 
 UaunUus, Madagascar, North America. 
 
 26. The General Baptist Miss. Soc. 1816. East 
 Indies. China. 
 
 27. The Wesleyan i Methodist) Mis*. .Soc. 1817. 
 East and West "indies. West an I .South Africa, 
 China, Australia. Polynesia. North America. 
 
 28. E-itabli.sHed Church rif Scoilands Foreign 
 Miss. 1824. East Indies. (£55 5,13 missionaries, 
 116 native agents, 5 statinns, 250 communicants.) 
 
 29. Society for promoting Female Educalioa 
 in the East. 1834. 
 
 30. Welsh Foreign Miss. Soc. 1840. East In- 
 dies (Silbeti. 
 
 31. Tlie Irish Presbyterian Church's For. Miss. 
 1840. East Indies. (Gu^jerat). Syria. (7 mission- 
 aries, 6 stations, 3il0 communicants.) 
 
 32. The Edinburgh Medicil Miss. Soc. 1811. 
 
 33. The Reformed Presbyterian Church's Far. 
 Miss. 1842. New Hebrides. 
 
 34. The Free durch of Scotland's For. Miss. 
 1843. East Indies, South Africa. (£15,751. 22 
 missionaries, 70 stations, 144 native agents). 
 
 35. The English Hresbyteiian For. Miss. 1844. 
 China. East Indies. (£3907. 107 missionaries.) 
 
 36. The South American (Patagonian) Miss. 
 Soc. 1844. Soutli America. (£7132. 10 stations.) 
 
 37. The United IVesbyterian Cn#rcli's For. 
 Miss. 1847. East and West Indies. West and 
 South Africa, (£21,296. 28 mi^9ionaries, 121 
 native agents, 740 communicants). 
 
 38. The Chinese Evangelization Poo. 1850. 
 China. 
 
 39. The Primitive Methodist Miss. Soc. 1858. 
 
 39. The Free United Methodist Miss. Soc. 1860. 
 East and West Afi ica. 
 
 40. The Moslem Miss. Soc. 1860. Syria, Egypt. 
 (£2623. 120 native agents.) 
 
 41 The Universities Miss. Soc. 1861. East 
 Africa. 
 42. The Foreign Evangelist Soc. 1864. (£1890). 
 
 44, Methodist New Connexion Missionary So- 
 ciety. 
 
 45, Foreign Aid Society. (£2002, 3s 8d,) 
 
 46, Evangelical ConUnental Society (£2406 
 23 8d. ; 
 
 3. — German Missionary Societies, 
 
 AT. Mission of the Evangelical Moravian Broth- 
 erhood. 1732. Greenland, I>il>;aior, .N'nrth 
 America, West Indies, South Africa, Australia. 
 Thibet. 
 
 4b. Evang. Miss, at Bale. 1815. West Africa, 
 Inlia, China. 
 
 49. .'Society for the Advaicement of Evangelic- 
 al Missions at. Berlin. 1823. South Africa. 
 (£7421). 
 
 5(1. Rhenish Miss. Soc. at Barmen. 1828. South 
 Africa, Holland, Ea<t Indies, Cliina. 
 
 51. North (ier. Hiss. Soc. of Bremen. 1835. 
 West Africa, New Zealand. (£3707. 29 agents, 
 28 stations.) 
 
 52. Evangelical Lutheran Missionary Society. 
 of Leiimc. 1836. India. (£1477). 
 
 53. Gossner's Eva' gelical Missionary Union of 
 Berlio. 1?42. Farth T In la, Holland, India, 
 Australia, (£4175. 4 .\lis^io^aries.) 
 
 54. Berlin Woman's Missions for China. 1852 
 China. (£857 4 Missionaries.) 
 
 55. Berlin Man's Union for China. 1852. Chin* 
 (£771. 1 aeent.) 
 
 56. llerinannsbiirg Missionary Society, 1854, 
 South Afiica, India. (31 missionaries )' 
 
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 57. Pilgrim's Mission of St. Erischona near 
 Bale— Palestine, Abyssinia. 
 
 58. Kaiserswertli Deaconesses Institute. Asia 
 Minor, Syria, Kgypt. 
 
 59. Jerusalem Union at Berlin. Asia Minor 
 Syria, Egypt. (£953.) 
 
 4. — Dutch Missionary Societiet. 
 
 60. Netherland Missionary Society at Rotter' 
 dam. 17M7. Ambon. Miuahassa, South Celebes, 
 Java. (£6926. 24 missionaries.) 
 
 61. Ihe Java Society at Amsterdam. 1854. 
 Java, Sumatra. (£S35. 7 missionaries.) 
 
 62. Tlie Ermeloer Missionary Society. 1854. 
 Talaut Islands. 
 
 63. Mission of the Separatist Reformed XJhurch 
 at Kampen. 1837. Surinam, Orange Kepubic. 
 
 64. Tlie Xetherland Miasiona'-y Society. Rotter- 
 dam. 1859. Sava. (£1930. 5 Missionaries ) 
 
 68. The Uirecht Missionary Society, 1859. New 
 Guinea, Bali. (£'2666. 12 missionaries ) 
 
 66. The Xetheriaiid Reformed Missionary So- 
 ciety. Amsterdam. 1859. Java. (16 mission- 
 aries.) 
 
 67 Mennonite Association for the Diffusion of 
 the G;)spel in the Dutch Maritime Possessions at 
 Amsterdam. 
 
 68. Java. The China Society. 
 
 69. Netlierlaud Auxiliary Miss. Soc. atBatavia. 
 (£835. 7 missionaries ) 
 
 70. Netlierland Society for Israel. 
 5. — Scandinavian Missionary Societiet. 
 
 71. Swedish .Mis«;ionary Society of Stockholm. 
 18:i7. E .'stern Alrica. 
 
 72. Missionary Society of Lund for China, 
 1852. 
 
 73. Missionary Institute of the Evangelical 
 Fatherland's Foundation of Stockholm. IboO. 
 
 74. Missionary Society of Goreborj;'. 
 
 75. Tlie N'"rie Missionary Society of Stavanger. 
 1842. South Africa. 
 
 76. The Di'nish Missionary Society of Copen- 
 hagen. 1821. India. (fStiQ.) 
 
 77. Finnish Missionary Society of Helsingfors. 
 1861. 
 
 6. — French Missionary Societies. 
 
 78. Society of Evangelical Missions. Paris. 
 1824. South Africa, Senegamljia, Polynesia. 
 (£8239 ) 
 
 7.— Colonial Misnonary Societies. 
 
 79. The Refiirmed Churcli ilission to the Cape" 
 Capstadt. 1861. South Africa. 
 
 80. Society of Internal and External Missions. 
 Batavia, 1851. Holland, India. 
 
 81. Presbyterian Missionary Society. Mel- 
 bourne. (?) Au.ftralia. 
 
 82. Melanesian Miss. Soc. (?) at Aukland, 
 18fil. Melanesia. 
 
 83. i/awaiian Missionary Society at Honolulu. 
 Micronesia, Marquesas Islands. 
 
 84. Jamaica Bapti^t Miss. Soc. {?). 
 
 85. West Indian Missionary Board. West.ifrica. 
 
 86. Palestine Christian Union Mission to 
 Arabs. (1 agent). 
 
 The following is a fuller statement of the oper- 
 ations of some of the larger sorieiies. 
 Amtrtca7i Board of Comtnissiouers of Fortign 
 Mmsions. 
 
 The income for the year has been as follows : 
 From dnnations, $350,172 08 ; fiom leiracies. 
 ■$74,428 44; from other sources, $12,783 25— mak- 
 ing a tutal of $437 8H4 77. There was a balance 
 
 ia favor of the treasury September 1st, 1866, of I missions, 
 
 $6,20107. Now there is a balance against it of 
 $4,432 34. 
 
 The number of foreign missions established, 
 including station.^ and out-stations, are 604 ; the 
 wiiole number of laborers employed, including 
 natives, pliysicians, and ordained missionaries. 
 1204. The Secretary reports as the number of 
 foreign churches under the Board's control, 205; 
 the number of church members, as far as report- 
 ed, 25,502; added during tlie year, 1447. 
 
 The Prudential Committee, in their report, asit 
 for eighteen new missionaries, three missionary 
 physicians to reenfnrce the stations already oc- 
 cupied, and for forty new mi.-sionaries to be for- 
 warded to a new field, making sixiy-one, which 
 tliey request to be sent without delay. 
 
 The approjuiatious for the coming year have 
 been fi.xed at $525,000. The Prudential Com- 
 mittee in their report lay especial stress upon 
 the importance of the Chinese mission. 
 
 (English) Baptist Missionary Society. 
 
 The receipts of the Baptist Missionary Society 
 were £30,104 83 Id, somewhat in advance of 
 those of last year. They liave been exceeded by 
 the expenditures, wliich have been increased 
 chiefly because of the advance of the prices ii"( 
 Jiving in India. The society publishes three 
 periodicals, two monthly, and one quarterly. 
 
 The mission stations, etc.. are as follows: India. 
 
 4 stations, 9 English missionaries and assistants, 
 
 5 natives; Bengal, 6* stations, 18 En-glish, 98 
 natives; Northern India, 14 stations, II English 
 61 natives ; Southern India, 2 .-tations ; China, 3 
 stations, 2 English, 6 natives; Ce.vlon, 57 stations. 
 and sub-stations, 3 English, 17 assistants ; West 
 ludiej, 6 missions. 2 missixiaries, 6 assistants; 
 Baliamas, 42 stations, 2 missionaries, 71 assist- 
 ants ; Haiti, 26 stations, 2 missionaries, 7 assist- 
 ants and Bible readers ; Jamaica, I mission, 3 
 missiDuaries; We>tern Africa, 9 stations, 5 miss- 
 i'lniries ; 6 assistants ; France, 9 stations, 3 
 missionaries, 6 assistants and teachers; Norway, 
 1 station and 1 missionary. 
 
 The returns from the stations were so imper- 
 fect that no statistics were given. The rcoort of 
 the previous year gave 17,177 as the number of 
 nominal christians connected with the missions. 
 
 London Missionary Society. 
 
 The London Missionary Society is principally 
 sustaineci by the Independents, or Congrei.'ation- 
 alists. The receipts of the Society fur the year 
 were £105,090 10s 4d. Tiie total income sfthe 
 Society since its institution in i6U5. has been 
 £3,255,193. Several of the mission churches 
 under the care of the Society have contributed 
 liberally to the spreail of the Gospel. Collections 
 have been made on a large scale in the West 
 Indies. So nth Africa, and South Seas. The total 
 foreign contributions for several years have 
 amounted to £15.000 a year. Of total contribut- 
 ions from abroad during the last year about 
 £9000 were o£fe ings of native churches todirect- 
 ly religious oiijects. Among other specific items 
 of their year's work, the Society calls attention 
 to the fact that in Cliiua they liave held 7000 
 religious services, instructed 170 therflogical 
 studen's, and 40.000 children, and exercised 
 pastoral care of congregations with 26,01J(l mem- 
 bers and 150,000 people. Two of the missionaries 
 starting from Tientsin, undertook a, journey of 
 1700 mile-i into the interior of North (. hini. 
 The followiDj: are the statis ics of tlie Society'! 
 
8(r 
 
 rf i at. 
 
 Missions. I I III 
 
 S ^ "> 
 
 China 19 1,248 214 
 
 North India 1» 205 754 
 
 Southlndia 24 841 1,746 
 
 Travancore 8 1,876 6,783 
 
 Madagascar and Mau- 
 ritius 13 4,54. 850 
 
 South Africa 35 4,642 2.161 
 
 West Indies 16 4,798 2,285 
 
 Polynesia 27 9.3-Jl 10,541 
 
 Total 161 27,562 24,334 
 
 There are also connected with the missions 12|) 
 native ordained pastors and missionaries, 590 
 Kvangelists, Colporteurs, and readers, (and 
 mostly in the Indian missions), 134 boys in board- 
 ing schools, 33J7 boys in the Anglo Vernacular 
 schools, 2823 girls in the day schools, 445 girls 
 in the boarding-schools, and 70 women (in the 
 North Indian mission). The South Sea missions 
 have contributed £2650 to the mission funds, the 
 China missions, £1.615, North India, £2521, South 
 India, £3269, South Africa, £797, Demarara, 
 £1689, Eerbice, £1944, and Jamaica, £2089. The 
 total number of native local assistants, if they 
 could be ascertained, is supposed to be about 
 1400. The Society publishes a monthly Chronicle 
 of its work. It has 10 theological institutions, 
 in the Eastern and South Sea missions, and 
 classes have been formed in Savage Island and 
 the Loyalty Group. The total number of students 
 is 170, of whom 60 are in India, and 108 in the 
 South Seas. 
 
 Church Missionary Society. 
 The receipts of the Church Missionary Society 
 for its 68th year, 16e6-'67, were £150,365 5s lud. 
 a decided advance over the receipts of the pre- 
 vious year, as those were over those of the year 
 before. Of the rect-ipts, £4000 came in the form 
 of an anonymous donation for a mission to Japan, 
 whicli being deducted, leaves the ordinary 
 general income £146.386 5s lOd. The expend- 
 itures were £5477 18s 4d aibove this, and swal- 
 lowed up more than the surplus from the pre- 
 vious year. The publications of the Society con- 
 sisting of Bibles and numerous works suitable to 
 its objects, are issued in the English, Arabic, 
 Armenian, GreeK, Italian, Maltese, Persian, 
 Turkish, Armeno-Turkish, Chinese, and New 
 Zealand laniiuages, nineteen languages of Africa, 
 ten of India, and two of North-West America. 
 The Society publishes four monthly and two 
 quarterly periodicals. It sustains a missionary 
 institution, in which the number of students is 
 reported to be diminishing, and a Missionaries' 
 Child reus Home, 
 '''he following are the statistics cf the missions. 
 
 Missions. 
 
 West Africa 8 
 
 YoiuUa 8 
 
 Niger 4 
 
 MeJiterraueau 4 
 
 
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 > a 
 "^ 3 
 
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 ^n 
 
 
 
 
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 32 
 
 1,228 
 
 60 
 
 8J9 
 
 19 
 
 77 
 
 IC 
 
 59 
 
 Western India... 9 87 I8T 
 
 Southlndia ^ 29 941 8,503 
 
 Norihludia 34 647 1,835 
 
 Ceylon 12 218 742 
 
 Mauritius 2 13 72 
 
 Madagascar 1 2 — 
 
 East Africa 1 1 ' 
 
 China 6 41 160 
 
 New Ze.aland 18 31 ■— 
 
 Rupert's Land Itt 39 1,001 
 
 Fort Simpson 1 5 — — 
 
 Total 154 2,132 14,762 
 
 The number of native Scholars in the schools, 
 so far aa reported, is as follows : West Africa, 
 532;yoiuba, 1(168 ; Niger, 136; Mediterranean, 
 401 ; Western India, 1555; South India, 13.123; 
 North India. 11,4S2; Ceylon, 3S02 ; Mauritius, 
 3S8; China, 70; Rupert's Land 758; Fort Simp- 
 son, 170. 
 
 Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. 
 
 The object of the Society for the propagation 
 of the gosjiel in foreign parts is to receive, man- 
 age and dispose of funds contributed for the 
 religious instruction ot " the Queen's subjects 
 beyond the seas, to maintain clergymen in the 
 plantations, colonies, and lactones of Great 
 Britain, and to propagate the gospel in those 
 parts". Its President is the Archbishop of Can- 
 terbury, and its Vice-Presidents are the Bishops 
 of the /inglican Churches in Great Britain and 
 the Colonies, noblemen, gentlemen, and clergy- 
 men. Thirty local Associations, in England, Ire- 
 land, and Scotland, co-operate with the s^ociety. 
 Its total receipts last year were £91166 bs 7d. 
 Its Indian appropriations prove insufficient for 
 the work in that region, and it calls for £12.500 
 additional, to enable it to discharge its obligat- 
 ions there. Its missionaries in all the colonial 
 dioceses, number 517. An auxiliary society was 
 formed last year, called the "Ladies Association 
 for Promoting Female Education among the 
 Heathen." The Society issues a number of 
 gratuitous publications and two monthly maga- 
 zines. 
 
 Wesleyan Missionary Society. 
 
 The report of the Wesleyan Missionary Society 
 gives £109,288 16s 6d as'the total of home re- 
 ceipts, and the total, including the foreign re- 
 ceipts at £148,140 14s 9d, being an increase of 
 over £3288 in the Home recei))t3. and of nearly 
 £3000 in the Foreign receipts. The income is in 
 excess of the Expenditure. Twenty-seven miss- 
 ionaries and 12 wives of missionaries have been 
 sent out during the year. The missions include 
 688 principal stations. 9227 preaching placo-s, 
 1011 ministers and assistants. 1630 paid and 20, 
 340 unpaid agents, 148,900 members, and 17,029 
 probationers, 161,402 scholars, and 8 printing 
 establishments. An exhibit by stations is given 
 under the head of th« Wesleyan Connection. 
 
 Mtthodist New Connexion Missionary Society^ 
 The total income of this society was £f)504 Ss 
 8d. £1661 Pis lOd were contributed for home 
 missions. Other particulars are given under 
 the head of the Methodist New Connexiou 
 Church. 
 
 Primitive Methodist Missionary Society, 
 The receipts of this Society were £12.525 fid. 
 The expenditure has been incrcasi'd arid an in- 
 crea'^eii income is called for. O'her siati-'ics 
 are given under the Pr'mitive Mcthodis bead. 
 
? 
 
 37 
 
 ilissions of the United Methodist Free Churches. 
 
 Incline, £7626 14s 5ii. Foreign local income, 
 £2425 13i lltl; total, £10,052 83 4d. Fourjeen 
 persons have been engaged in the home missions, 
 have held hundre.is of meetings, made nearly 
 20,001) visits, and report between one and two 
 hundred hopeful cases of conversion. Other 
 particulars and foreign mission statistics are 
 given under the head of this denomination. 
 
 Society for the Propagation 0/ the Gospel among 
 
 the Jews, 
 The British Society for the Propagation of the 
 Gospel among the Jews is regarded as its mere 
 immediate field of operationt»London and the 
 larger towns of the United Kingdom, and co- 
 operates with the church of Scotland's mission 
 to the Jews. Its objects are explained by its 
 title. It employs 24 missionaries at home and 
 abroad. Those abroad labor at Paris, Nancy, 
 Pre^sburg. Vienna, Bromberg, Wurtemberg, 
 Nuremberg, Breslau, Konigsberg, Wallachia, 
 Adrianople, Algiers Oran, and in Italy. Its 
 total income for the year was £877b 8s 1 Jid. It 
 issues a monthly periodical, called the Jewish 
 herald. 
 
 Colonial and Continental Church Society. 
 The object of this Society is to supply clergy- 
 men, Catechists, and Teachers to British resid- 
 ents and sojourners in the colonies, on the con- 
 tinent, and other pirts of the world. It employs 
 253 agents ; viz. 103 Clergymen, 89 Catechists 
 and schoolmasters, and 61 female teachers. Its 
 receipts last year were £33,640 16s 6d. 
 
 Christian Vernacular Education Society for 
 India. 
 
 The object of the Christian Vernacnlar 
 Education Society for India is to establish in 
 the great towns of that country. Christian Ver- 
 nacular training Institutions, male and female, 
 and to supply school-books and other works pre- 
 pared on Christian principles, in the native 
 languages of India. It has in Bengal, the North 
 West Provinces, Punjab, Bombay, Madras, and 
 Ceylon, 4 Institutions, with 136 scholars, and 98 
 institutions with 4423 scholars. It has printed 
 307,350 volumes, and has circulated 231,361. Its 
 receipts were £6231 193 9d. 
 
 TJte Kaiserswerth Deaconesses, 
 The Kaiserswerth Deaconesses Institution in 
 Prussia had 139 stations during 1866. There 
 were 401 sisters, 311 deaconesses, and 180 on 
 trial. The hospital numberad 820 patients in the 
 course of the year. Fifteen new stations were 
 occupied during the year, but many requests 
 had to be denied for lack of sisters. Thirty-six 
 sisters devoted themselves to cholera patients, 
 and two died; 56 were also engaged during the 
 war in various hospitals. The total number of 
 persons, old and young, who came under the 
 hands of the deaconesses was 37,991. 
 
 Basle Missionary Society. 
 The income of this Society for the past year is 
 stated to have been as follows : 
 
 From auxiliaries Fr. 230,185 
 
 '• individuals 220,424 
 
 " half batz and kreutzer collect- 
 ions 236,749 
 
 *♦ other sources 100,988 
 
 Fr. 788,316 
 
 The expenditures were 832,547 francs. The 
 expenses in the different missions were as follows: 
 
 The mission of Africa 223,438 
 
 The mission in India 400,503 
 
 The mission in China 50,058 
 
 Efforts elsewhere 5.040 
 
 The following are the statistics of the missions 
 
 India, 15 stations, 1558 communicants, 112 neR^ I 
 communicants, 1557 children, total, 3227. | 
 
 West Africa, 7 stations, 528 communicants, 71 { 
 non-communicants, 419 children, total, 1048. 
 
 China, 3 stations, 235 communicants, 9 non^ 
 communicants, 97 children, totol, 341. 
 
 The whole number of male laborers is reported 
 as 91, (of whom four are "at home,") 53 havinu' 
 received ordination, and 38 being "unordained." 
 The proportion of the latter is unusual, in conse- 
 quence of the peculiar policy adopted in India 
 and West Africa, there being a large number of 
 mechanics in both these fields. 
 
 Fifty of these are married, and there are 2 un- 
 married woman in the foreign service. 
 
 These returns are from the latest formal report 
 of the Society, which is given in the Christian 
 \Vorko{ July 1867, as the fifty-first. From the 
 reports of the last anniversary, it appears that 
 the income of the society for the last year has 
 fallen off 30,000 francs, being this year 757,000 
 francs, and that the expenditure has been 858, 
 870 francs, the expense of the African mission 
 having been increased 25,000 francs. The ex- 
 penses of the Indian and China missions are re- 
 duced. The SoutLiwesteru Indian mission flour- 
 ishes very encouragingly, the number of native 
 Christians having risen in ten years from 2500 
 to 3810. 
 
 Leipzic Missonary Society, 
 
 From the report presented at the last anni- 
 versary of this Society it appears that the mission 
 seminary has at present 10 students. In India 
 there are 6 missionaries, and 1 is at present on a 
 visit to Germany. During the last year 741 
 heathen were ba|>tized by the missionaries, and 
 there are now 8303 converts, in 373 places. The 
 receipts have increased, notwithstanding the 
 war. The Director of the Seminary, Pastor 
 Hardeland, is about to undertake a tour of in- 
 spection to the stations, taking with him one new 
 missionary. 
 
 Moravian Missionary Society. 
 
 The total income for the year, including special' 
 contributions for individual stations, and what 
 the stations themselves raised, was about 350, 
 000 thalers, or £52,500. The number of stations 
 was 68; of laborers 318, and of converts, 70,311. 
 The home contributions alone were 100,280 
 thalers. 
 
 Fiench Missionary Society, 
 
 The Evangelical Missionary Society of Pari* 
 'commenced a mission in South Africa in 1822- 
 The attendants on religious services number 
 5000; there are 2000 communicants, and 1500 
 pupils in the Sabbath-school. The society has 
 recently commenced anew station at Senegambia, 
 in West Africa. The number of missionaries 
 connected with the Society is 16. 
 
38 
 
 2. —Protestant Mission Hoases. 
 
 The Ba»le Institute. 
 This institute was foundeilin 1815. The 
 first young men who flnislicJ their simlies left 
 the institute in lf?18. Since then oyer 40(1 otiiers 
 have left its walls. Th; first oliject ofth'iin- 
 BtituHon w!js to cihu'ate missiouaries. To send 
 them Hbroad on its own account wis the thought 
 of several years afterwards. The Professors are 
 mostly of till' Lutheran and Rsformed churches, 
 but the management of the institute has always 
 been exceedinsjly liberal. For instance, it has 
 trained 88 younj; men for the Church Missionary 
 Society. 
 
 Church Missionaiy College. 
 The Church Missionary College atlslingtoui 
 London, was esiaidi-hed in January, 1825. It 
 has educated abuiit 330 missionaries. 
 St. Augwstiiif' a, Canterbury. 
 This institute was establishe<l about 15 years 
 aso. by the society for the piopagation of the 
 Go-p,'l. It has educated about 100 missionaries, 
 and has now about 40 siiidents. 
 
 St. Aidare's. Hirkenhead. 
 This is a new institution, under the charg^e of 
 
 the Rev. Dr. Baylee, of the established Church 
 of Ivn^iand. It had at the last accounts, about 
 15 students. 
 
 Wesleyan Training School. 
 The committee of the We^levan Missionary 
 Society have established a Missjijiiary Train.ng 
 School at Richmond, near London, to v h'ch ])art 
 of tlie revenues received during the Jubilee year 
 (lbti4), are to be devoted. 
 
 London Missionary Society Institution. 
 The l/ondon Missionary S oiety have establish- 
 ed a training school at Ilighgate, near London* 
 
 Free Church of Sc tland. 
 The general assembly of the Free Church of 
 Scotland have rt-solved, in accordance with a 
 recommendation of the Rev Dr Duff, to establish 
 a training school, and to institute a chair of 
 ■'Evan}."'listic Theology"' in connection with 
 their Theological Seminary. 
 
 Mission House in Philadrlpkia. 
 A mission school under the care of the Epis- 
 copalians was opened at Gambier, *>U\o. in 1864, 
 with the Ri'V. J. G. Auer as princip;il. It was 
 removed, a year afterwards, to West I'hiladelphia 
 and connected with the Dlyinily-school there. 
 
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 D. D., in connection with American Divines of 
 varioHS evangelical denominations. 
 
 Dr. Lange's Commentary, so far as it has been 
 finished, is accepted as a standard by German 
 Evangelical Christians, and has acquired a re- 
 putation second to that of no work, in every 
 couintry in which it has been made known. The 
 author, Dr. Lange, is one of the most prominent 
 theologicans of Germany. His theology, as Dr. 
 Schaff says, is essentially biblical and evangelic- 
 al Catholic, and inspiied by a fresh and refresh- 
 ing enthusiasm for truth under all its types and 
 aspects, more positive and decided than that of 
 Neander and I'holuck, yet more liberal and con- 
 ciliating than the orthodoxy of Hengstenberg. 
 His commentary is critical, doctrinal, and homl- 
 letical, the three departments being kept sepa- 
 rate. The translation and revision of the 
 American edition is superintended by Dr. Schaff, 
 who does a share of the work personally and is 
 responsible for the whole, and is aided by a num- 
 ber of scholars of known reputation, wliose 
 names are sufficient testimony of their capacity 
 and conscientiousness, and the accuracy of their 
 work. Dr. Lange's work is given entire, exactly 
 translated into idiomatic English, except the 
 scripture text, which instead of being translated 
 from his translation, is taken from the English 
 authorized version. The additions, comments 
 and corrections of the editors, swelling the work 
 to the comprehension of nearly one third more 
 matter tlian the original German, are given 
 separately, and with distinctive marks, to avoid 
 the danger of confounding them with Dr. Lange's 
 own. The Mrork has been received with unex- 
 
 nmpled favor by clergymen and religious jonr- 
 nalsof all thecvanselical denominations which 
 genei^ally pronounce it the best that lias appear- 
 e<l. Four volumes, averaging from 480 to 5fi0 
 pages 8vo. have been published, comprising the 
 Go,pelsof Matthew. Mark, and Luke, the Acts 
 of the Apostles, and the Epistles of James, Peter, 
 .'ohn and Judo. The fir.u volume contains also a 
 general theoloiiical and homiletical introduction 
 to the New Testiim-nt. The work will embrace 
 the who'e of the Old and New Testaments. No 
 clergyman who lias ever examined one of the 
 volumes will want to remain without the whole 
 work. 
 
 History of the Chnstiin Church. By Philip 
 bchaff, 1). D. Author of the History of the 
 Apostolic Church. 
 
 Dr. Scli.iff s reputation is established as one of 
 the best biblical scholars and greatest church 
 historians. His woro have all been reco-nized 
 as authoriUtive here as weli as in Europe. The 
 present work, which is a continuntion of the 
 torraerone, on the Ai>ost.olic Church, completes 
 the author's History of Ancient Christianity 
 bringing it down to the close of the sixth century* 
 It embo<lies the results of the latest German ani 
 English research, to a higher degree than any 
 other work of the kind published either in the 
 Kngli^h and German languages. For the period 
 over which it extends we regard it as the best 
 work extant. 
 
 Hdinileties and Pastoral T/ieologu. Bv Wm 
 G. T. Shedd, D. D. ^^ ^ "" 
 
 Dr. Sliedd is well known as an able preacher 
 and a thorough biblical scholar. The substance 
 of this work wm delivered as lectures in the 
 Auburn Theological Seminary in ]b62 and 1S53 
 The volume is an excellent practical as well ai 
 theoretical aid to ministers in their efforts to 
 cultivate the highest degree of efficlfency. 
 
 Pray rs from. Plymouth Pulpit. Hy Kev. Henrv 
 Ward Beecher. ' 
 
 These Prayers were selected from reports of 
 Mr. Beecher's Prayers which were taken phono- 
 graphically without his knowledge, but Mr 
 Beecher afterwards consented to the publication" 
 They are distinguished for the same features of 
 excellence which have made Dr. Beecher'a 
 sermons so famous. 
 
 The Methodist, N. Y. 
 The N. Y. Methodist, a christian family paper 
 now in its eighth year has already obtained 
 a weekly circulation of over 15,0(10. The in- 
 crease of circulation during the p.ist year has 
 been greater than during any previous period of 
 Its history, and from all appearances theincrease 
 during the coming year, will exceed that of the 
 past. We call special attention to the fuller 
 statement of the plan as set forth by the publish- 
 er of the paper on another pasre. Some of its 
 features, as the regular publication of sermons 
 from the most eminent pulpit orators of the 
 Methodist and otherProtestant Churches, and the 
 completeness of its department of religious in- 
 telligence, which aims at giving a complete 
 history of all the religions denominations of the 
 world during the current year, recommend it to 
 the attention of clergymen and members of all 
 religious denominations. 
 
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41 
 
 DENOMINATIONAL RECORD. 
 
 In this department wo give, under the head 
 of the seveiiil denouiina iona, a collection of iii- 
 terestiiig events and ircuieuts in the religious 
 histoi-y of the yeai- 1857. It is not intended to 
 give a history of the several denoraiualious, but 
 uierely to select a few of the most memorable 
 tiii:ts of their history, 
 
 Baptists. 
 
 New Missi->n to Farther India. 
 
 A new mission has been established among 
 th>e Laos. A church has been formed of three 
 persons, one of whom is preparing for the min- 
 istry. 
 
 Baptist Colony in Turkey. 
 
 Catalni, in Turkey, is declared entirely a 
 Bap' ist colony. The church has forty-nine mem- 
 bers, and the conjjregatioas average 70 persons. 
 There are now 78 members in Turkey, and more 
 awaiting baptism. Thirty have been baptized 
 during ilie year. 
 
 Southern Baptist Convention. 
 
 The Southern Baptist Convention met at 
 Memphis on May 9th. Two hundred delegates 
 were present from thirteen States, including the 
 Districtof Columbia. The Foreign Mission Board 
 reported the expenditures, amounting to $22,1 (JO 
 during Iha past year. They have six missions 
 in Cliina and Africa. The Domestic Board, lo- 
 cated in Marion, Ala., has collected and distrib- 
 uteii $44,000. It employs 124 home missionaries 
 and 10 Indian missionaries among the Chicoi)ee 
 and Cherokee tribes. 
 
 The Board of Indian Missions reported but 
 little progress during the past year, owing to a 
 mcagreness of funds, fix missions only had 
 been kept in the lield. The receipts during the 
 year amounted to $6,740 ; the disbursements 
 to $6,62U. 
 
 It was resolved to pray for the conversion 
 cf the Jews, and to hold future conventions an- 
 nually. The convention also adopted a report 
 in favor of contributing to the moral and relig- 
 ious improvement of the colored people, by the 
 establishment of Sunday schools, missions, and 
 day schools, and to accept the cooperation of the 
 Northi^ra Baptise Home Missionary Society. 
 They also invited the colored Baptist churches 
 te cooperate with them in sustaining mis-iiooa- 
 ries and colonists fitted to missionary work in 
 Africa. 
 
 Colored Baptists in East Tennessee. 
 
 This year's session (the fourth) of this asso- 
 c'ation, developed tlie interesting fact that in 
 four yearg it has grown from eight churches to 
 tliirty-two. 
 
 Louisiana Colored Baptist Association. 
 
 This has been recently organized. It has 19 
 churclies, all but four formed since 1861. 
 Deputation' from the North to the Southern 
 Baptist Cunxyention. 
 
 During the meeting of the American Bap- 
 tist Home Missionary Society at Chicago, says a 
 correspondent, "an exciiing scene occurred on 
 a motion to appoint a delegation to the Southern 
 Baptist Conveutiyn, to Tjeet in Baltimore next 
 
 May. As might have besn expected, a itrong 
 diversity of sentim-nt was manifest, and soma 
 sharp words were uttered in opposition to the 
 motion, as well as in its favor. For a time tlio 
 confusion was marked, hissings mingling witli 
 ajiplause in a manner more suited to a political 
 caucus than to the house of God. But, finally, 
 the motion prevailed by a large majority, and 
 the delegation was appointed." 
 
 Free Will Baptist Mission in the South. 
 Ten thousand dollars have been offered the 
 Free-Will Baptists towards the establishment of 
 an educational institution at the South. The 
 offer came from a gentleman in Maine, of anoth- 
 er denomination, and is conditioned on the rais- 
 ing an equal amount by them before the first 
 day of January next ; the whole to be a perma- 
 nent fund, which shall itself be increased to 
 $40,000 by January, 1873 ; or otherwise the en- 
 tire income shall be used only to bring the fund 
 up to this latter amount; after which the cor- 
 poration will take charge of it for educational 
 purposes. A provisional act of incorporation 
 has ueen secured, the work of raising the ten 
 thousand dollars has been vigorously entered 
 on, and ample grounds purchased at Harper's 
 Ferry, the site selected for the purpose. A nor- 
 mal school will be opened here next September. 
 
 Theological Institutions. 
 
 A new Baptist Theological Institution has 
 been founded in Pennsylvania. The family of 
 the late John P. Crozer have given land and 
 buildings worth $85,000, and $170,000 as an en- 
 dowment fund, to which $25,000 have been add- 
 ed by Mr. Wm. Bucknell. The institution will 
 not be opened before the fall of 18f)8. 
 
 An effort is being made to endow the Chi- 
 cago Theological Seminary. 
 
 Home Mission Society in the South. 
 
 Among the colored people the Society has 
 had fitty ordained ministers under commission, 
 or about one-sixth of the whole number em- 
 ployed during the year. Ninety-seven colored 
 Baptist churches have been aided. The work 
 of educating ministers for this people has been 
 prosecuted. Schools have been sustained at 
 Washington, Alexandria, Culpepper, Freder- 
 icksburg, Williamsburg, Richmond. Portsmouth, 
 Raleigh, New Orleans, Murfreesboro, Nashville, 
 Albany, and Ashland. Instruction has been 
 given to more than three hundred colored 
 preachers, and persons having the ministry in 
 view. Among the colored youth, fifty-nine 
 teachers have been employed as teachers of day- 
 schools, who have had under their tuition 6,136 
 pupils. The appropriations in the education of 
 freedmen for the year amount to $39,925.11. 
 Bibles /or the Freedmen. 
 
 The American and Foreign Bible Society 
 have printed an edition of the Testament, espe- 
 cially for the freedmen, in large, clear type. 
 Six- Principle Baptists. 
 
 The one hundred and ninety-seventh anni- 
 versary of the Massachusetts and Rhode Island 
 Six-Principle Baptist Association met this year 
 at North Kingston, B. I., in a church which 
 
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 da(03 its history from 1665. The six principles 
 (.omprising the fiiith of this dennmiiiatiou are : 
 repeutance, faith, ba])tisin, laying on of hands, 
 the resurrection, ami a general judgment. The 
 fourth princljile has the same place as the thirJ. 
 wherein this differs from other Baptist chuich- 
 is. The sect is decrea'^iug, and is little kuown 
 out of the abore-meutioned States. 
 
 Mr. Spurgeons' Boys' Home. 
 
 The Rev. Mr. Spurgeon. on the 9th of Sep- 
 tember, laid the corner-stones of three homes 
 for fatherless bovs, to be erected at Stockwell, 
 England, the fruits of a donation of £20,000 
 from Mrs. Ann Hillyard. The homes are each 
 to accommodate from eighteen to twenty boys, 
 who are to receive a godly education, in hope 
 that they may become ministers and missiona- 
 ries. 
 
 Mr. Spurgeon's Church, 
 
 The church edifice is known as the Metro- 
 politan Tabernacle, and will seat five thousaiiii 
 persons. It cost, with ground, about $750,t)0O. 
 The church has a membership of 3,800. A Bible- 
 elass of 200 young men is conducted by one of 
 the elders. Mrs. Uartlett commenced a lady's 
 Bible-class with three scholars — it has now an 
 average attendance of 700. Over 600 young 
 men arc engaged every Lord's clay in preaching 
 in halls, stations, &c. Sixty churches are now 
 supplied with pastors from thi church. Thi; 
 College under its care has 93 students, and 243 
 Bight pupils. The students are sent out to 
 preach as soon as' they are deemed qualified 
 The College costs about $24,000 pe^ annum— the 
 church contributing weekly of this sum $250 by 
 voluntary subscriptions. 
 
 The Anglican Church, 
 
 Ritualism. 
 
 The ritualistic controvorsy has continued 
 in both England and the United States to be 
 jirosecuted with much vigor on both sides, and 
 has received considerable attention from the 
 church authorities, and been made the subject 
 of several official declarations. 
 
 On the loth of January, 18G7, a declaration 
 against ritualism was issued at BuflTalo, signed 
 bj' 28 of the American Bishops. This declara- 
 tion declares that liy the 24th article of religion, 
 each particular or National church has authori- 
 ty to ordain, ehauge, or abolish the ceremonies 
 or rites of the church of merely human author- 
 ity ; that they need not be alike in all times and 
 I, places, but may be changed and adapted to cir- 
 , cumstances, if always accordant with God's 
 ; word ; tliat the American church is "a particu- 
 lar and N.ilional church, and has equal author- 
 itv with the English to establish ceremonies and 
 rites, and that those directed in th*- prayer-book 
 in use in America are the law of the church, 
 "which," the declaration continues, "every 
 bishop, presbyter, and deacon of ihe same has 
 bound himself by subscription to the Promise 
 of CoTiloruiity in Article VII. of the Constitu- 
 tion, toobev, observe, and follow ; and that no 
 strange or foreign usages shouhl be introduced 
 or sanctioned by the private judgment of any 
 member or menib'^r-i of this church, clerical or 
 lay. * * * * That no Prayer-book of the 
 
 Church of England, in the reign of whatever 
 sovereign set forth, and no laws of the Church 
 of England have any force of law in this church 
 suoh as can be justly cited in defence of any 
 dajiarture from the express law of this church, 
 its lituigy, its discipline, rites, and usages. 
 
 "And we, therefore, consider that in this 
 particular Nation il Church, amj att mjit to in- 
 triduce into the public worsliin of Ahnii;fily God 
 usage" that have never ben known, such as the 
 use oj incense, and the humiiif; of lights in thu 
 order /itr the Holy Communiun ; rtvermces to 
 the H'lly Table or to the elements thereon, such 
 as indicate or imply that the sacrifice of our 
 Divine Lord and Savior, ' once offered,' was not 
 a ' full, .perfect, and sufficient sacrifice, obla- 
 tion, and satisl'ac ion, (or the sins of the whole 
 world ; ' the adoption of clerical habits hitherto 
 unknown, or material alterations of those which 
 have been in use since the establishment of our 
 Episcopate, is m innovation which violates tii.e 
 iiscipLme of the Church, ojfendeth against its 
 Common order, and hurtetk ihe authoniy if the 
 magistrate, and woundeth the (;onscienci.s of the 
 weak brethten.' 
 
 " Furthermore, that we be not misunder- 
 ■stood, let it be noted that we include in tbesa 
 censures all departures from the laws, rubrics, 
 and settled order of this church, as well by de- 
 feat as by excess of observance, designing to 
 maintain in its integrity the sound sciiptural 
 and primitive, and therefore tlie catholic and 
 apostolic spirit of the Book of Common Prayer," 
 
 This declaration was signed by the follow- 
 ing bishops : 
 
 Bishop Smith, of Kentucky ; Bishop Mcll- 
 vaine, of Ohio ; Bishop Kemper, of Wisconsin , 
 Bishop .McCoskry, of Michigan ; Bishop Lee, of 
 Delaware; Bishop Johns, of Virginia; Bishop 
 Kastburn. of Massachusetts ; Bishop Chase, of 
 New Hampshire ; Bishop Upfold, of Indiana ; 
 Bishop Payne, African Mission ; Bishop Wil- 
 liams, of Connecticut ; Bishop Davis, of South 
 Carolina; Bishop Kip, of California; Bishop 
 Lee of Iowa; Bi.-.hop Clark, of Rhode !-land ; 
 Bishop Gregg, of Texas; Assistant Bishop Be- 
 dell, of Oliio ; Bishop Whipple, of Minnesota; 
 Assistant Bishop Talbot, of Indiana; Bishop 
 Wiimer,, of Alabama ; Bishop Vail, of Kansas ; 
 Bishop C'oxe, of Western New York ; Bishop 
 Clarkson, of Nebraska ; Bishoj) Randall, of Col- 
 orado; Bishop Kerfoot, of Pittsburg; Bishop 
 Williams, China Missiou ; Assistant Bishop 
 Cummins, Kentucky ; Assistant Bishop Armi- 
 tage, of Wisconsin. 
 
 In the Convocation of York, on the 20th of 
 March, the following resolution was aclopted 
 unanimously bv the President and Bishops, and 
 iu the Lower House by 23 to 7 : 
 
 " Whereas, certaiii vestments and Ritual 
 observances have recently been introduc d into 
 the Services of the Church of England, this 
 House desires to place on record its deliberate 
 opinion that these innovations are to be depre- 
 cated, as tending to favor errors rejected by 
 that Church, and as being repugnant to tha 
 feelings of a large number both of the laity and 
 c'ergy. And tlds House is further of opiuioa 
 that it is desirable that the minister in public 
 praver and the ministration of the sacraments 
 and other rites of the Church, should continue 
 to use the surplice, academical hood, or tippet 
 for non-giadiiate, and t.e scarf or stole ; thesa 
 having received the sanction of long-contiuued 
 usage." 
 
43 
 
 Th& Upper House of the Convocation of Can- 
 terbury on tlie thirteenth of February un- 
 animously (leciared that, "having regard to the 
 dangers, first, of favoring errors deliberately 
 rejected by 'he Church of England, ami foster- 
 inj; a tendency to desert her conimuniou; 
 second, of offending even in things indifferent 
 devout wor^hiptrs in oar Churches who have 
 be.'u long used to other modes of service, and 
 thus of eatr nging many of the faithful laiiy ; 
 third, of unneces»arily, departing from uniform- 
 ity : fourlli, of increasinsr the difficulties which 
 prevent the return of separatists to our com- 
 munion — we c nivey to the Lower House our un- 
 animous decision that, having respect to the 
 considerations here recorded, and to the rubric 
 concerninL' tlie service of the Church in our 
 Booli of Common Prayer, our judgment is that 
 no alterations from long-sanctioned and usual 
 ritual ouglit to be made in our Churches until 
 the sanction of the bishop of the diocese ha8 been 
 obtained tliercto". This resolution being sent 
 down to the Lower House, that I ouse, afer 
 some disoissioti, ai;"eed to concur in the judg- 
 ment of the Upper House, leaving the reasons 
 given by tne bishops out of the question. 
 
 The bishops of tho Irish Church have unani- 
 mously signed a reply to an address from a com- 
 mittee of laymen in favor of adherence to the 
 established usages of the church, and against 
 "excesses of ritual." 
 
 Early in June the Queen of England appointed 
 a commission to inquire what were the practices, 
 orders and rubrics of the Church, and the true 
 interpretation of the same, to suggest such orders 
 and amendments to them, additions to the ser- 
 Tice and iilterations in the lessons as they might 
 deem fit and proper. The Commission consisted 
 of the following persons: The Archbishops of 
 Canteibunj and Armagh ; Earls Stanhope, Har- 
 rowby, an i Baiichamp ; the Bishops of London. 
 S. Davids, Oxford, and Gloucestrr ; Barons 
 Portman and hhury, Spencer H. Walpnle, Ed- 
 ward Cardwell, Sir Joseph Napier, t^ir iViUiam 
 fage Wuoil. Sir Robfrt Joseph Philtimore, 
 Travfrs Twiss. John l.'uke CnUridge, John Abel 
 Smith, Alexander James Beresf'jrd Bfren/ord- 
 Hope, Ji'lin Gellibrand HuObard, Arthur Pen- 
 rhyn Stanley, Haivey Goodwin, Jam e Arneranx 
 Jeretnie, Hubert Payne Suiith, Henry Venn. 
 William Gil. •inn Humphrey, Rub rt Gregory, and 
 Tnumas Walter Perry. (The names given in Ital- 
 ics are supposed to be High Church men). On the 
 19. of August they rendered their first report, in 
 regard to the use of vestments, to the effect that 
 they considered it exj»edient to restrain in the 
 public services of the United Church all vari- 
 ations in r'spect of vesture from that which has 
 long been the established usage of the Church, 
 and that this may be best secured by providing 
 aggrieved parishioners with an easy and efifect- 
 ual process for complaint and redress. 
 
 Incumbents and Curates in England, 
 
 The London Times gives statistics showing 
 that the number of incumbents in the Church of 
 England has increased in .1(1 or 40 years, from 
 60U0 to about 13 ddO, while the number of curates 
 has remained stalionai-y, at about 50U0. Thesi 
 statistics prove the growing activity of the 
 CMurch, and the largt; amount of work done by 
 private voluntary effort, in founding new en- 
 cumhencies and providing livings. No corre- 
 spouding increase has been made in the number 
 
 of Bishops which is now nearly the same as threw 
 hundred years ago. 
 
 Clerical Retreats. 
 
 There was last year a "retreat" for laymen at 
 St. Barnabas. Pimlico, conducted by the Rev. E. 
 D. Cleaver, of Christ Church, Oxford. The work 
 of the day began with the Holy Communion at a 
 quarter to nine, and devotional exercises of vari- 
 ous kinds were continued without intermis- 
 sion until about a quarter to eight in the evening, 
 allowing three quarters «f an hour for breakfast 
 and two hours for dinner anb recreation. 
 Father Ignatius. 
 
 The C'nuick Sews, states that "St. Bartholo- 
 mew's, Moorfields, which in some respects has 
 efficiently helped on the Citholic revival, is so 
 well attended since the Rev. L. Lyne (Father 
 l;-'natiu8) became assistant clergyman, that the 
 galleries, unused for some years, have been 
 lighted with gas,_and are now open and crowded 
 every Sunday." ' 
 
 Episcopal Independence in Au.ftralia. 
 
 The synod of the diocese of Adelaide, South 
 Australia has takes a practical step towards the 
 assertion of its independence of the Established 
 Church of England, and towards its self-govern- 
 ment as an Episcopalian Church. At a special 
 meeting it formally re^olved. "That it is not 
 desirable that all bishops in the British colonies 
 shuuld receive their mission from the see of Can- 
 terbury, and take the oath of canonical obedienca 
 to the archbishop." This resolution was carried 
 by 24 to 7. By another resolution it was decided, 
 by 18 to 7, that it was desirable that future 
 bishops of the diocese should be elected by tha 
 diocese. 
 
 Church Congress at Wolverhampton. 
 
 The seventh annual session of the Church Con- 
 gress was opened atWolverhampton on the 15. of 
 October. A large number of jironiinent men 
 attended, among whom were several Americaa 
 3ish>>ps. The Bishop of Illinois spoke of the 
 necessity of sipplementing secular education in 
 th.! United States by religious teachings. The 
 Bishop of Tennessee deprecated sectarianism, or 
 individualism in the church, and expressed his 
 belief that the church was the only power that 
 could elevate the Freedmen in America. During 
 the Congress a meeting was held of those who 
 favcied ritualism. 
 
 Division nf Dioceses. 
 
 Wisconsin is divide<i into four Convocations 
 with Deans, and with express reference to a 
 future division into yo«r Sees as sjreedily as 
 possible, the Bishop of the Diocese having given 
 his consent. In Indiana, a resolution was car- 
 ried in favor of the ^ee Eniscojiate, small 
 Dioceses, and the Provincial System ; and the 
 Assistant Bishop declared himself sti-ongly in 
 favor of dividing Indiana into three Dioceses. 
 
 The Maryland Diocesan Convention have 
 adoj'ted » resolution pi-oviding for the division 
 of the diccese. and the erection of the Eastern 
 Shore into a separate Epi^cojial See. A com- 
 mittee was appointed to determine the bound- 
 aries of the new dioce e- 
 
 In Ohio the Convocation of Cleveland unani- 
 mously sent in a petition to be set off as a sepa- 
 rate See. The Bishop expresed himself rather 
 uiifavoi-ableon the movement, but the Diocesan 
 Cnnvention referred the subject to a committee 
 of fifteen to report next year. 
 
u 
 
 The Diocesan Convention of Western Kew 
 York adoi.ted a report in favor of liirision. The 
 dividing line is lo follow the eastern boundaries 
 ef Wayne. Ontario, Yates, Schuyler, and S»eu- 
 ben couniica. New dioceses are al.-o talked of 
 at Brooklyn and Albany, New York, and at 
 Readint:. I'a. 
 
 The Bisliop of Nebra-ka reports three churches 
 DOW being erected in Dakota — the only ptares of 
 pu'ilic worship in tiie whole Terrttury— which 
 •hows the use iif gtviug destitute regions a 
 Bishop of their own. 
 
 The Uijlmi) of Capetown is taking measures 
 for a subdivision of hia South African diocese. 
 
 Bishop of London's Fund. 
 
 Within less than four years a sum of £202,000 
 hits been directly subscribed to the fuud, and 
 a further sum of about £9(i,0UO hus been promis- 
 ed : while at the same time, independently of 
 the fund, £853,0(10 has been subscribed by pri- 
 vate donors toward the same objects ; and a 
 further sura of £.t30. 000 has been voted by the 
 Ecclesiastical Coivimissioners toward the endow- 
 ment of small liviii.;3 in the diocese. By means 
 of the money directly subscribed to the luiid, 
 one hundred and filteen clergy and sixty-four 
 lay assistants have been added to the staff of the 
 dioceie. Grants liave been made for fifty-seveu 
 p^;rmanent cliurches. and for seventy-one sites 
 for churches, par»ona;,'es. etc., while a sura of 
 £■28,668 has been voted for educational purposes. 
 This statement does not include two larse do- 
 nations of £1500 and £5000 appropriated to 
 churches and schools in two parishes speci- 
 fied by the donors. Dr. Tait remarks, howevtr, 
 that notwithstiinding the exertions already 
 made, there remains a vast population as yet 
 not rfaclie<l. lu order to secure one clergyman 
 for every two thousand of the population, there 
 will be needed twice as many adilitiooal clergy 
 as have been already secured, with a proportion- 
 ate number of churches and schools. 
 
 Board of Missions, 
 
 It appears from the last report of this board, 
 made at New York in October, that at home the 
 Bum of $'3ll,:<8().vil was paid out for domestic 
 missionary labors, and $142.l3f)i.44 r^ ceiveii. For 
 Foreign Missions the committee show the follow- 
 ing statement: receipt-i, etc., $8ii.fi04 68 ; ex- 
 penditure, fM 1. 694 39 : while the report of the 
 F-reedmen's Cominis.'-io'i shows an expenditure of 
 i30,3 19.42, against a fuud of 20,-.'23.54. Over 
 126,859 has been received in legacies alone for 
 the general fund of the mission. 
 
 Deaconesses, 
 
 At a con'erence of those interested in the ex- 
 tension of the female de.iconate, under the Pre- 
 si<ling of the llishop of Kly, the Bishop spoke 
 favorably of the proj^'ct, in which he had earl.v 
 interested himself and h(i)ied that by means of 
 wise measures tlie ininistration of women might 
 be restored to the Church. The Rev. T. Pelhain 
 Dale gave an aci'ount nf the effect made in the 
 diocese of London, after which the Bi-hop of 
 Gloucester and Bristol moved a resolution, to 
 the effect that it was desirable to extend the 
 movement to other dioceses which, with other 
 resolutions in support of the objects of the meet- 
 ings, was adopted. A committee was appointed 
 to take practical steps to extend the movement. 
 
 Roman Catholics. 
 
 It 
 
 The Italian Deputation to the Pope. 
 
 On the evening on the first of July the Pop« 
 received a deputation commi.<smned to present 
 to him addresses of devot'on from one hundred 
 cities, p-esented through Count Baschetti, the 
 originator of the project. The Count's addresa 
 was not regarded as friendly to the Italian 
 government. The Pope replieil, with muetl 
 emotion, with frequent respotises of applause : 
 
 — "I have always loved Italy, I have prayed 
 for her happiness, and God knows my affection 
 for her. Nevertheless I must coniemn, and I 
 shall ever condemn, the efforts that are made io 
 Italy to constitute a unity without cha-ity, with- 
 out justice, a unity cursed by Gol. I desire that 
 the rights of all sliould be respected, and especial- 
 ly those of the church ; and I. therefore, solemn- 
 ly protest against the violation which those 
 rights have suffered. I am deeply touched by 
 so many demonstrations of affection from the 
 veritable chihiren of Italy. This album, your 
 presence here, are to me solemn aSiUrances of 
 the piety of the majority of Italians. Bear to your 
 families and your cities the expression of my 
 gratitude and my special benediction." 
 
 A Catholic Church in Morocco. 
 
 In accordance with the terms of the treaty of 
 peace between Spain ami Morocco, a Roman 
 Catholic cathedral has been erected in a square 
 near the centre of the town which had been 
 known as the Plaza de E-<pagiia during the 
 Spanish occupation of old times. The church 
 has recently been completed, and has attached 
 to it a mouastery for the Franciscan monks, who 
 are charged with the mission. Immediately ad- 
 joining the religious edifice is the Consular 
 Palace, the whole forming a very imposing pile 
 of buililiiigs. The 19. December, 1861). being the 
 anniversary of Queen Isaoella's nirthday. was 
 selected fiu' the solemn npen'ng of the church, 
 and the ceremony was performed in the presence 
 of theS'panish Amba.^saiior, Don Francisco Merry, 
 and the principal members of the Legation. 
 New Bishoprics in Algeria. 
 
 By decree of the French Imperial Government 
 the see of Algiers has been raised to an arch- 
 bishopric, and suffragan dioceses are created at 
 C'onstautine and Oran. Algeria has now a 
 Kuropean (mostly Roman Cathol'c) population 
 of 230,000, in a total population of 3,000.000. 
 Progress in China. 
 
 The French Ronran Catholics are erecting a 
 cathedral in Pekin, China, the towers of which 
 are of such height that they overlook the im- 
 perial palace. 
 
 PassasUa. 
 
 The lender of the "Liberal" priests, Signor 
 Carlo I'a>sai;lia. who drew up the famous Liberal 
 p tition to the Pope, and succeeded in getting 
 10,(100 jiriestly signatures to it, was reported to 
 have abjured Liberalism and submitted to the 
 Bishop of ilundovi. 
 
 Missmnaries in China. 
 We learn that so far back as 185-1. after an In- 
 finitude of defeats and anxietie-, the Catholi* 
 congregation of Fo-Teheou-Fou rlaimed, through 
 the medium of the French Minister, the rest 
 itition of a beautiful church built in the interior 
 of that province, but which had been long «se4 
 
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 as a Pagan temple. "Our rights", says the 
 bishop, "'having iieen recogcized, and the man- 
 darin refusing to ab.indon this temi>le, they gave 
 us in exchange a spacious territory, situated a- 
 long the borders of the river. We are at present 
 engaged laying the foundation of a residence, 
 and when we have collected suflaeieat funds, we 
 will commence building a church." It appears 
 that the Dominican FaMiers, after being long 
 exiled from Formosa, have been able at length 
 to replant their feet upon that beautiful but un- 
 happy island. They had the con-o'ation of 
 baptizing, in the course of the year 1863, fifty- 
 two adults, ttie first fruits of the renewal of 
 Christianity. On .June 29, in the followiug year, 
 they opened a little seminary in the village of 
 Ban-Kim-Ching. Great- r victories than these 
 are still before these heroic missionaries.— Ca^Ao- 
 lic Opinion. 
 
 Japanese Mission, 
 
 The Catholic Church has strong hopes of being 
 permitted to reopen its missions in Japan. They 
 rest upon the number of Christian on the island, 
 who are many, it being rciiorted that there are 
 60,000 of them in one locality alone. 
 
 Persecution oj Catholics in Russia, 
 
 The Cologne Gazette says that the Governor- 
 Geueral of the provinces of Fodolia has just 
 published a ukase, in virtue of vhich every 
 Catholic priest wishing to preach a sermon is 
 bonnd to deliver beforehand to the censorship 
 cf the police a manuscript copy of his discourse. 
 Any priest acting in contravention of this order 
 is to be liable to severe penalties. The Kmperor 
 Alexander has written a letter to the Pope in 
 defence of hi^ policy In Poland charging the 
 priesthood with "reprehensible behavior", with 
 being in alliance with abtttors of disorder, and 
 saying that his Holiness ought to be as anxious 
 as he to bring it to an end regretting that cir- 
 cumstances had jjievented his reception of a 
 Nuncio, and expressing his readiness to accept 
 such au envoy. 
 
 Sunday School Uniomn Niw York, 
 
 Th6 Sunday schools of fifteen churches are 
 cow represented in the Union. The total num- 
 bf-r of children attending these schools is 10,01)0, 
 cf which 5,500 are boys, and 4.500 girls, under 
 the care of 405 male and 353 femiile teachers. 
 The female departments of six of tiie schools, 
 h )wever, are not included in the above. Thire 
 are he-ides in the city the Sunday-tchools of 
 nineteen chur-;!a2« cit yet represented. 
 
 The Jesuits. 
 
 This order, according to their late'y published 
 »tati>tics reckoned at the close of I66t) tour con- 
 E'stories and iwenty provinces: the number of 
 loembers being Bltit, sliowing an augmentation 
 of 215 over the year lbti5. Inthei-reurh pro- 
 vince there are 2422, whereas, in 18(15, there 
 were only 22S6. Not withstanding their expulsion 
 from Naples. Sicily, Turin. Vem-tia. and the 
 Mexican empire, they are incessantly increasing 
 Li number. 
 
 Catholics in Venmarl. 
 
 Catliolicisra is advancing inDenmaik under 
 the more liberal policy of the government. Still 
 there are but 1500 Catholics in Coi euhagen out 
 q\. a populalion of 100,00 ), 
 
 Catholics in Holland. 
 Out of a population of 3,493.004, Holland has 
 1,280.062 Ciithnlics. an iucrea-e since 1860 uf 
 5(1,00(1, iOfi9 churches and chapels, and 1801 
 priests. Over 6 lO young jieopie have entered 
 the military service of the p 'pe, and last year 
 400,00(1 fntncs were forwarded to the pope as a 
 New Year's gift. 
 
 The Hierarchy in Scotland. 
 
 The pope proposes to re-establish the Roman 
 Catholic hiemrchy in Scotland, hy giving terri- 
 torial jurisdiction to the vicars apoatolio, and by 
 the appointment of other bishops. There will 
 be an Archbishop of Glasgow, with six suff- 
 ragans, who will take their respective titles from 
 Edinburg, Aberdeen, Perth, Inverness, Stirling 
 and Kilmdrno. 's.. 
 
 Congress at Inspruck. 
 The Roman Catholic Congress of Germany as- 
 sembled at Inspruck, the Capital of Tyrol, on 
 September 9lh. Ihc number present was 500. 
 The German Catholic dignitaries expected did 
 nut attend. 
 
 Congress at Malines. 
 
 The Congress of Malines opened its third 
 session on ihe 3. of September. About 2000 mem- 
 bers were in attendance. Among them were the 
 Bishojisof Orleans. .=>f Charle.-ton, and of Van- 
 couver, the Patriarch of Anticch, &c. Great 
 devotion to the Holy Fathf-r inspired the Con- 
 gress. The Unity of the Church, the means of 
 restoring Ptussia to Unity, and the comparison 
 of Catholic with Prote.stauts propegandiem, 
 were prominent subjects of discussion. An .ad- 
 dress to the Pope was voted, which declared the 
 obj ct of the Congress to be the study of the 
 wants of our times by the light of the teaching 
 of t'le Church. Bishop Lynch, of Charleston, 
 spoke of the rapid increase of Catho icism in the 
 United 3 ates, and m.'\de an appeal in behalf of 
 the spiritual wants ff the enaanchised blacks, 
 among whom he said were 159,000 Roman Catho- 
 lics. 
 
 Th." '^Reform Movement" in Italy. 
 
 The Esamuialore, a religious paper published 
 inFlore&ce, gives a fuller account of the '-refurm 
 movement" inltaly than we have elsewhere seen. 
 
 Tiiere are two schools of reformers, whose 
 headquarters are respectively at Naiilcs an I 
 Florence. A society called •■the National Eman- 
 cipation Society," pledged to open opposition to 
 the Papacy, nambers nearly one thousand mem- 
 bers. Their organ, Kmancipatore Caitolico is a 
 weekly journal, publislied in Napes, which 
 combines politics and news with religion and 
 reform. Men disting- ishcd in civil life and 
 ecclesiastics contribute to its pages, mos'Iy ^ 
 under the evil of secresy. The association which^ 
 this paper represents, announce as features of 
 the religious reform at wliich they aim, the 
 restituiion to the laity of their ancient rijihts of 
 el'.'Cting the parnchial clergy uid administering 
 the temporal affairs of lliechurcli; the independ- 
 ence of the bishops and metroiiol'tans of the see 
 of Kome, and the abolition of every oath of 
 vassalage to the chair of St. Peter ; the cessation 
 of the enforced celibacy of the clergy ; the free 
 circulation of the Holv Scrip ures' among all 
 classes: the celebration of public worship in 
 the Iialian language ; the leaving the confess' 
 
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 ionnl optional with nil ; and the administration 
 at ilie couiniuDion in both kinds. 
 
 R(fnan Catholic Clrrgy in Austria. 
 The foiluwin.' ;uethe members of clergy in 
 Austria; lu nil, 53,370. Tliere are. 1 I'jiinarch 
 4 Primates, 11 Archnishops, 5H Bishups, 24 
 Assistant liifhops, i;!.bC3 I'arish l'ries;s, 3119 or- 
 dxinetl I'rolesiors, 720 monasteries with 59 
 Abbots. 45 ►'roviucials, fi,754 Priests, 654 Clercs, 
 240 Candidates, and 1917 Lay Brethren; 25s 
 nunneries, with 5198 nuns. The value of the 
 church properly is 185.()72.9fi8 llorius, or £18, 
 567.n'j9. and the incume, 19,1)39,713 llorins, or 
 $1,963,571. 
 
 The Eastern Churches. 
 
 Russiiin Missionary Society. 
 The Russian Government has auihorized the 
 establishment of a society for tlie ^pread of the 
 "orthodox" .religion am;iif,' heathens. Mussul- 
 mans, and I'uddhists, in tlieir territory. The 
 operations of the society will be directed in the 
 first instance lo the conversion of the pagan 
 tribes in the Altai and Trans-Baikal country, 
 and the countTacting of Mussulman ami Bud- 
 dhist propaganda in those parts. The Caucasus, 
 being assif^ned to the labors of a special society 
 of the kind, ise.^cluded from the sphere of the 
 present one. 
 
 Tke Greeks in the West. — Establishment of a 
 Greek Religious Paper in Ungla'.d. 
 One of the strangest of the many extraordinary 
 projects of the day is that for setting up the 
 Greek Religion in the West, upon the ruins of 
 Roman and Protestant communities, which those 
 who lead tlie movement jirofess to regard as 
 alike beyond the pale of catholicity, and as fast 
 approaching dissoluti n. The design was broach- 
 ed some time ago by Dr. J. J. OverbecU, in a 
 book entitled Catholic urthodoxy and Anglo- 
 C'tthoUcism. It has now its monthly organ, the 
 Orth dox Catholic Riview. Union between the 
 Greek and Knglish Chuiches is con^ideced by 
 Dr. Overheck to be impos-iible. "There must 
 be no illusions," he says. The Orthodox Church 
 never will, nor can recognize the Anglican 
 orders." 
 
 Greek Bishops on the projected Greek- Anglican 
 Union. 
 
 It appears from a late number of the Pall yfall 
 Galrtte, that the j)ariy in the Kngtish Church 
 which has been laboring for several ^-ears to 
 bring about a union, or at least a recognized in- 
 tcrcouim niou, b-tween that church and the 
 Greek, still entertains sanguine hopes of success. 
 At a meeting of the members of the Oriental 
 AssociaiioM, a society furi;ied for the purpose of 
 proaiiitiiig the above object, encouraging com- 
 munications were received from Rev. .Messr. 
 Pillow and Williams Mr Pillow reported, as 
 one of the n<)>t important events of the past 
 yeiir, the elevation to the j.atriarchal chair of 
 C'l-nnta' tinop e of a prelate acceptable to all 
 who desire to see that ollice independent of the 
 iutrigue~ of statesmen ami ambassadors. The 
 new pHtriHreh of the Aiineniaus. Gregory, a so 
 showed, he said, plain imlicntions of a disposit- 
 ion favorab'e lothe recoiic liation ol his church 
 With theOrlhod..x Kas'erii Church. 
 
 During the past year Mr. Williams had like- 
 wise the opportunity, during his journey through 
 
 the East, to become acquainted with most dlf- 
 tinguished parsonages among the Orthodox 
 Eastern clergy. lie had conversed with the 
 patriarchs of Constantinople, Antioch and Jeru- 
 salem, and with other eminent bishops of tha 
 same communion. The patriarchs had expressed 
 their entire approbation of the union of the 
 churches. Jlr. Williams declared, moreover, 
 that the Metropiliian of Scio had said to him, 
 that the time for electing commissioners from 
 both sides to adjust the differences. between them 
 was at hand ; and that the patriarch of Antioch 
 had assured him that he proposes to found a 
 school, as a preparative for the union, and he 
 desired to obtain an Englishman as a professor 
 in it, that the members of it might learn the 
 English language. 
 
 Russian Bible Society. 
 The Russian Bible Society has been recently 
 organized at St. Petersburg, with the sanction of 
 the Emperor Alexander. It seems, from a letter 
 in the New York Olisemer from Rev. W. H. 
 Bidwell, that various attempts have been made 
 before to organize such a . society in Russia, but 
 they have been failures. This begins its career 
 under happy ausidces. The first Russian Bible 
 .Soci'-ty, organized under the auB|)ices of Alex- 
 ander I., had 279 anxiliaries, and printed and cir- 
 culated 801, 0(10 copies of the Sciptures, and was 
 still makin;.' successful progress, when it was 
 suppressed by the emperor Nicholas. 
 
 Tke Greek Church in Turkey. 
 The Greek Church in Turkey, having secured 
 a civil constitution from the Porte like that 
 granted the Armenians has forced its Patriarch 
 to resign his office. He was elected as a liberal 
 and a patriot, but adopted another jiolicy, and 
 became the suppliant tool of the Turks. The 
 Porte refused to accept his resignation till tha 
 excitement amorg ihe Greeks and perhaps a 
 hint from St. Petersburg, left no choice. The 
 people went furthe-, and restored the same 
 liberal patriarch to ofBce whom the Porte depos- 
 ed many years ago. 
 
 The Greek Catechism. 
 
 G. P. Putnam & Son, New Yoi k, publishers, 
 have pubiishe'i an abridged edition of the Cate- 
 chism of tlie Holy Greek Church under the 
 sanction and by the request cf the bishop of 
 Joua. 
 
 Re/ormin the Armenian Church. 
 The movement for a reform in the Armenian 
 Church gathers new interest at Constantinople, 
 and has broken forth strongly in the interior. 
 The publishers of the new Prayer Book in the 
 vernacular have made .o much jirogress in 
 evaiigelical sentiment, that during the time of 
 its passing through the press they have can-t 
 celled some of the earliest pages in.order to pre-(i 
 sent a better view of doctrine. The Patriarch ' 
 has olKcially deuounceil the book. Some of the 
 Armenian newspapers characterize its teachings 
 as Protestantism, and others as yet are non-com- 
 mittal. The effect of the attacks upon it thus 
 lar has been only to draw attention to it and 
 stimulate discussion of its merits. The agitation 
 is producing a religious ferment, such as there 
 has not been before for twenty years in Cou- 
 siantinnple. The reformers disclaim the name 
 of Protestant ; but they find themselves drawn 
 towards the Protestants ; and the aid and com- 
 fort giving by t.e latter is having a good in* 
 
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 fluerce on the Protestant churches. In Karpoot 
 th.B ••Reform Societies" are active iu pr-;ventiDg 
 the atteadance of adherents to tlie Armeniau 
 Church on Protestant meetings. The reform 
 movement makes rapid progress e-pecially 
 among the young men. The ProtestanH, who 
 receded from the Armenl inChurch in 1817, num- 
 ber 15,000, and the circulation of the H. de and 
 religious books among those who remained in 
 the church has led the whole body to take new 
 views of the teachings and practices of the 
 church. Many priests of the "enliglitened" pany 
 in the old church preach evansre.ical doctrine, 
 and this party has forced the Porte to deprive 
 the Patriarch of his temporal power, and to in- 
 vest it in a committee of laymen. In Smyrna 
 and Constantinople they are especially strong 
 and confident, while in the interior stricter lines 
 are drawn, and reformers have to secede and 
 join the Protestant party. 
 
 Many enter into the scheme for political rea- 
 sons, as the Protestantizatiou of the church will 
 secure English protection for the Armenians, 
 the only Ciiristian sect in Turkey who have no 
 friends abroad, 
 
 Presbyterian. 
 
 Old School Presbyterian General A ssembli/. 
 This body met on the 16. of May at Cincinnati. 
 A report on the secessions in the synods of Ken- 
 tucky and Missouri was adopted by a vo.e of 
 207 to 6, declaring that members ami churches 
 would be received back on their application ami 
 declaration of willingnes-* to submit to the 
 established authority of the church, but declin- 
 ing followship with all who refuse to return be- 
 fore the meeting of the Presbytery and Synod 
 next spring, and that they would be considered 
 as having voluntarily withdrawn from the com- 
 munion. On the subject of union, with the New 
 School Presbyterian General Assembly the ma- 
 jority report, favoring reunion on the basis of the 
 report of the joint committee, was adopted. A 
 pastoral letter was adopted, deprecating the or- 
 dinary desecrations of the sabliath, and counsel- 
 ling ministers and elders to cultivate in their 
 families, and in all over whom their iufluenec 
 extends, just and scriptural views of the sacred 
 ness of the day, and recommending to jiastors to 
 preach as often as convenient, on tii.' proper 
 observance of the sabhath. The collections for 
 the disabled minister's fund were reported at 
 $i7,000-$5liOO moie than last year. At the sug- 
 gestion of the Presbytery of Chicaijo, the as- 
 eeuibly decided to call upon the Prpsb> teries to 
 report the numbers of unbaptized children whose 
 parents are members of the communion. 
 N w School General Assemhit/. 
 This bodv met at Rochester, N. Y,, May 
 I6th. The reports of committees were all favor- 
 able. The standing committee on the Erection 
 of Churches reported one hundred churches 
 without buildings of their own, mid r com- 
 meniled that one hundred thousand dollars be 
 rai^ed to as-ist in providing buildings. The re- 
 port on Union, of the joint committee of the two 
 assemblies was appi^oved. The matter of con- 
 Btitutional changes was referred back to the 
 joint committee to report to the assembly of 
 18f)8. The report of the standing coiumittee on 
 Publication states ihat the iiublication scheme 
 has become a fixed fact, and a success. The 
 permanent committee on Sabbath Schools was 
 
 I made a distinct executive body to carry out the 
 Sabbath School work. 
 
 The Party of the " Declaration nf Testimony." 
 Those Old School Presbyterians in Ken- 
 tucky and Missouri who have put themselves in 
 opposition to the deliverances of the Old School 
 Presbyterian General Assemblies on the subject 
 of loyalty and slavery, have been known under 
 the name of the •' Declaration and Testimony " 
 party, as in 1865 they published their views in 
 a document called '•A Declaration and Testi- 
 mony." The .Synods of Kentucky and Missouri 
 were in 1867 fully dissolved, one party remain- 
 ing in connection with the Old School Presbyte- 
 rian General Assembly, and the other refusing 
 to surrender the position taken by their " Dec- 
 laration and Testimony." The latter were di- 
 vided on the question whetlier it was expedient 
 to join the Southern Presbyterian General As- 
 sembly, but it was expected that a majority 
 would ultimately adopt that course. 
 
 Cumberland Presbyterians. 
 
 The General Assembly of the Cumberland 
 Presbyterian Church met at Memphis on the 
 Ifith of May. The most vexed question which 
 engaged attention was the deliverance of la<t 
 year concerning slavery and rebellion, which 
 was regarded by some members as reversing the 
 dfliverance of preceding years, and as signs of 
 undue conversion to pro-slaviry tendencies. 
 The matter was settled by the adoption of a res- 
 olution that this deliverance did not repeal the 
 decisions of former assemblies, and that neither 
 this decision nor those of the former assemblies 
 Could beset up as tests of membershiii unless, 
 they were referred to the Presbyteries and ap- 
 proved by them. The assembly adopted a reso- 
 lution referring the subject of the moral and re- 
 ligious treatment of the black men to the st ind- 
 ing committees on Education and Missions. 
 United Presbyterians. 
 
 At the general assembly of the United Pres- 
 byterian Church, favorable reports were receiv- 
 ed from the foreign missions. The Board of Ed- 
 ucat on reportfc-d that f.rty young men had been 
 assisted during-the year, "eighteen of them en- 
 gaged in littrary and twenty-two in a theologi- 
 cal course of study. An appropriation was vo- 
 ted to carry on the missions to the freedmen, and 
 the bi ard ytvre instructed to inquire into the 
 feasibility of forming a connection with the 
 American Union Freedme-n's Commission. The 
 most exciting subject which came before the 
 assembly was the '• McCune case." Mr. McCune 
 Has condemned for holding views lavorable to 
 ojien communion and on the requisites of church 
 memljership which were regarded as at variance 
 with the standards of the church. 
 
 Reformed Presbyterians. 
 
 At the last meetins- nf the General Synod 
 of the Reformed Presbvterian Church, it was 
 stilted that a disintegiaiion of the Synod had 
 Ijeen steadily going on, and that it was falling 
 off in members, ministers^ an. I churches. Two 
 churches of the Western Synod had dis-olved, 
 and two others had given notice of an intention 
 to act similarly if not provided with ministers. 
 Associate Reformed Presbyterians in the South, 
 • There are signs of a continued and vigorous 
 existence of the Associate Reformed Church ia 
 the South. Negotiations for a ui ion wiih the 
 Souihevn Presbyterian chuich, which have beeu 
 
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 going on for year?, hfire been dropped, and the 
 A. R. Synod of the Sou.h has turned Itj atten- 
 tion to it4 own npiiroiiriate worlt. It has re- 
 vived its paper, fonneily the Due West Telrs 
 ropr, under the uaino of the Atsociate Reformed 
 Prtahyterian, 
 
 United Presbyterian Synod of Scotland. 
 
 Tlie United Presbyterian Synod of Scotland, 
 at its raeetin); in Kdiiil)U t:h, in JIay. decided, 
 after a full ili.-ciission, to adhere to its decision 
 in 1658, aitaiiist the use of orjrans in the church- 
 es. A motion off red hy Dr. Cairns, on union, 
 d claring satis'action at Ihe amount of harmony 
 8ubsis(iii« between tl'e nejjotiatiiig churches, 
 expressing the opinion that there is no insuper- 
 able bar to union In their distinctive principles, 
 and. in that belief, reappointing the committee 
 t) prosecute th'- negotiations, was adopted by a 
 vote of 389 to 39. 
 
 The Sci.ttisk Presbyterian Ckurche*. 
 
 The points of difference between the bran- 
 ches of ilie Presbyterian church in Scotland are 
 thus stated in a letter from Mr. Bryant to the 
 New Y-trk Ev >ii»s Post: "The Presbyte- 
 rians of the Ksiablislied Church not only claim 
 that public worship should be supported by the 
 Government, but allow the Government to in- 
 terfere with certain ecclesiastical matters, ami 
 permit the pastoral charge of parishes to be 
 given by laymen to their friends. The Presby- 
 terians of tlie Free Church insist th.at the Church 
 ought to be supported by the Government, but 
 deny the right of the latter to interfere iu any 
 ecclesiasiical concerns. The United Presbyte- 
 rians insist that the Government should have 
 nothing to do with the Church, either with sup- 
 por ing its min'sters or in any other manner. 
 Presbyterians of the Reformed Church not only 
 agree with the Unit-d Presbyterians in these re- 
 spects, but insist that until the temporal sover- 
 eign of thec'untry becomt»3 i)ledi;ed to the cov- 
 enant there is no obligation on the part of the 
 subject to obey. This sect is very small, and, 
 notwithstanding the ajiparently disloyal tenet I 
 liave mentioned, is composed of persons as obe- 
 dient to the laws and the civil authority, an^i as 
 orderly in their Conduct, as either of the oth- 
 ers." 
 
 The Esta'dished Church does not favor the 
 propxitions for a uulon of the unendowed 
 c lurches, fearing a weakening of its own polit- 
 ical influence couseciuent upon the consumma- 
 tion of the union. Propositions have been of- 
 fered in Presbyteries of that branch to create a 
 diveision by encouraging in the Free Church 
 hopes that the Kstiliii-hed Church might offer 
 tliem terms of union with iiself which the Free 
 Cliurch could consider, but such suggestions 
 receive no favor iu theassemblies of that liraich. 
 
 The General Assembly of the Free Church, 
 at its last session, adopted a resolution directing 
 the committee on union to continue their inijui- 
 ries whether tlie questions of worship, goveru- 
 ment, and discipline were a suflicient bar to 
 Union b-iween the unendowed ciiurches. The 
 peueial seiitimcnt of tiie assembly eviilently was 
 that they were uoi, and the vote taken was in 
 favor of union. 
 
 The United Presbyterian Synod adopted a 
 resohuion of similar eCTticl. 
 
 The meetings of ihe committee of the four 
 bodies have been resum-d. A leviow of the 
 proceedings of their Syno.ls on the reports of 
 lijeir previous uegotialiuu4 cucuura^ed them to 
 
 persevere lo their work. It was agreed to con- 
 sider first the subjects of finance and church 
 I)ro|)erty, and the titles to the latter in its bear- 
 ings on the question of an incoriiorated union. 
 Sub-committees Were ajipuinted io consult with 
 legal gentlemen on various branchesof the sub- 
 ject, anil report at a meeting of the joint com- 
 mittee to be held towards the close of October. 
 Notice was given of an intention to move for the 
 apoointment of a sub-committee to consider 
 what sliould be done in the matter of a unioi 
 between that portion of the United Presbyterian 
 Church situaed in England and the Kuglisb 
 Presbyterian Church. 
 
 Congregationalista. 
 
 American Congregational Union. 
 The Fourteenth Annual Business Meeting of 
 this Society was held in Brooklyn on Thursilay, 
 May 9th. The Secretary's re))ort stated that 
 during the past year, through the instrumental- 
 ity of the Union, the Congregational Clerical 
 Union, consisting of Congi egatioual ministers 
 in New York and vicinity, has been organized, 
 a convenietit place provided at the Bible House, 
 where ministers of the denomination may meet, 
 and a special effort has been made to promote 
 the work of church education. In this latter 
 work, the receipts have been double those of 
 any year except under the special effort of 18fi6. 
 The most prominent churches in the South 
 which have received aid have been in Balti- 
 more, New Orleans. Memphis, .^tlan a, ami thir- 
 teen churches in Missouri. The seven Western 
 •states of Kansas, Missouri, Minuesota, Iowa, 
 Wisconsin, Illinois, and Michigan, contain 816 
 Congregational churches. During these ten 
 years this Union has aided in paying for the 
 building of more than one-fourth of all these 
 churches. The Treasurer's report stateil : 
 
 Receipts of the year, total $32,530.22 
 
 Balance over last year 67,119. .8 
 
 Total funds for the year $9J,fi4i).40 
 
 The total amount of appropriations piid 
 feeble churches, $83 790.44. Amount voted, but 
 yet unpaid, waiting for the erection of build- 
 ings, $'23,200. Amount loaned feeble churches, 
 $2,700. 
 
 Congregatio?ial Union of Canada. 
 The number of ministers connected with the 
 Unloti is about 70 ; the uumber of clan ches 94, 
 with a membership of about 4.(lt'0. and 147 
 preaching stations. They have 81) church edi- 
 lices, witii 2ll,5iO sittings, and 12.4117 ''adher- 
 ents," and 3. &90 enrolled Sabbath school schol- 
 ars. Tliey have a colleL-e in .Montreal for rais- 
 ing up ministers for their domestic ms--ionary 
 Work. As yet, however, it numbers but four or 
 live students, and has but one Professorship. 
 
 Congregationalism in Missouri. 
 
 There has grown up on the soil of .Missouri 
 a General Conference, wi'h three district asS'i- 
 ciations, embracing about thirty churches and 
 more than ti.irty ministers. At the second an- 
 nual meeting of the conference, eigh een new 
 churches, with their ))astors, were rec-ived into 
 membership, and three new district associa- 
 tions were recognized. 
 
 The first church of the ord»v was organized 
 in \SM. near t'ilot Knob, which, by the force of 
 cireonista'ice-:, was changed to a Presbyterian 
 bhurch iu Ibjj : the sucuud was o:gauized at 
 
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 St. Louis in 1852 ; the third atHaiiniba in 1859. 
 Tivo German churches were organized subse- 
 quently at Canton and Lagrang-, which have 
 become extinct. In 1864 t^vo Welsh churches 
 were organized at Sevier and New Cambria 
 Up to January, 1865, this was the extent of the 
 efTort to organize churches of tliis order in the 
 State. 
 
 In October, 1865, the churches numbered 
 eighteen, with five hundred and thirty-seven 
 members. Since tlien there have been organ- 
 ized eleven more, malting twenty-nine in all. 
 Twenty-two of these churches are north of the 
 Missouri river, and seven are south of it. The 
 number of ministers is now thirty-one, against 
 twenty a year ago. 
 
 Congregational Union in England. 
 
 At the semi-annual meeting of the Congre- 
 pational Union of England, held in London, 
 May 7, the discussion on the admission of Hap- 
 lists to membership resulted in the adoption of a 
 resolution in favor of it. by a very large major- 
 ity. The resolution contained an expression of 
 adlierence to the doctrines of the hurches of 
 the Union on infant baptism. Resolutions were 
 also adopted protesting against the growth of 
 ritualism in the established Church. 
 
 Congregationalists and Secret Societies, 
 
 The Western Congregationalists, in conference 
 at Ottawa, III., have adopted a series of strong 
 resolutions agaiostFree Masonry and other secret 
 institutions, for these, among other reasons: 
 because, while clniming a religious character, 
 they, in their rituals, deliberataly withhold all 
 recogni Jon of Christ as their only Saviour, and 
 Christ anity as tlie only true religion ; because 
 I while they are, in fact, nothing but restricted 
 partnerships or companies for mutual insurance 
 and protection, they ostentatiously parade this 
 characterless engagement as a substitute for 
 brotherly love and true benevolence; because 
 they brins gond men into confidential relations 
 with bad men, and because, while in theory they 
 supplant theChurch ofChr i»t, they do also, in fact, 
 Iar:;ely tend to Withdraw the sympathy and 
 active zeal of professing Christians from their 
 respective churches. The General Association 
 of Illinois also adapted a strong report against 
 Secret Societies, chiefly directed against Ma- 
 sonry. 
 
 Congregationalism in Louisiana, 
 
 Mr. Charles Van Norden was ordained pastor 
 of the first Congregational church of New Or- 
 leans, Louisiana, on Wednesday, December 10., 
 Ib66. This is the first Congregational Church 
 of Louisiana. 
 
 Reformed Churches. 
 
 Liturgical Controversy in the German Reformed 
 Church. — Meyerstown Convention, 
 The German Reformed Church, lilce the 
 Anglicans and theLutherans, are troubled with an 
 agitation on ritualism. A convention of mem- 
 bers of the Church, which was called at Meyers- 
 town. Pa., on the 24. of September, took ground 
 against ritualism, and condemned some of the 
 features of the "Revised Liturgy" as at variance 
 with the old liturgies, and witn the Heidelberg 
 Catechism and the Word of God. Upon the reso- 
 lution of the Meyertown Convention being pre- 
 s nted to the Eastern Synod at Baltimore, that 
 body pronounced the Courention and its pro- 
 
 ceedings irregular and schismatic, and warned 
 the members of the church against attending 
 meetings "'calculated to interfere with the peaca 
 and prosperity of the Church." 
 Ciia'<geof yame of tiie Dutch Reformed Church, 
 
 The proposition to change the name of the Re- 
 formed Dutch Church in the United States by 
 striking out the word "Dutch" has been voted 
 on by all the classes but one. Twenty five have 
 recorded themselves in favor of it, and six 
 ag^aiast ii. Those voting in favor of the church 
 were : HoUaml, Albany. Paramus, Rensselaer, 
 Schoharie, Hudson. Saratoga, Greene, Schenect- 
 ady, Long Island, (South). Mootiromery.CavuL'a, 
 Kingston, Geneva, Passaic, Michigan, Mon- 
 mouth, Karitan, Illinois, Foughkee, sie. South 
 New York, Westchester, South Bergen, Phila- 
 delphia, Orange. Those voting against were: 
 Bergen. Wisconsin, New York, .Sew Brunswick. 
 North Long Island. Ulster. The subj'Ct h,ii yet 
 to he acted on finally by the ^^ynod. In a to.al 
 cf 681 votes cast the majority in favor of the 
 amendment is 371. The vote at the General 
 Synod had been ayes 102, noes 7. 
 The Reformed Churches of France. — The Ortho- 
 dox and Liberal Partits, 
 
 A decree of the Consistory of Caen requiring 
 all Protesiant electors to assent to the Apostles 
 Creed, before, excited much opposition on the 
 part of the liberal division of the French Pro- 
 testants. It was finally annuIU'd bv the minis- 
 ter of worship M.Baroche. who basel his decision 
 on the fact that the Central Council of the 
 Church, a body selected bi/ th- Government, 
 several years ago, declared that the certificate 
 of admission to communion was sufficient evi- 
 dence of the candidate's standing. 
 
 To get rid of this and other difficulties, the 
 principal Consistories demand that the Govern- 
 ment shall convoke a General Synod of the 
 Church. This body has not met since the be- 
 ginning of the French Revolution. Several 
 eminent men have asked an audience of the 
 Emperor, in order to secure its convocation. The 
 elevation of Dr. Grandpierre to the Presidency 
 of the Consistory of Paris, and of the Rev. 
 D'Hombres to a ]iastorate of Paris, in spite ol the 
 claims of the Messrs. Coquer<il (Liberal), is 
 regarded by the Liberals as further separating 
 them from the orthodox party. 
 
 The Reformed Church of Geneva, 
 
 The election of the Consistory of the National 
 
 Church in Geneva this year resulted in the 
 
 triumph of the orthodox party. The Consistory 
 
 is chosen for four years. 
 
 Lutherans 
 
 The Split in the Lutheran Church in the United 
 States. 
 Some of the Lutheran Synods have withdrawn 
 from the General Synod, in order to take part in 
 firmation of a new organization, the ••General 
 Council", The proceedings of the first meeting 
 of this council we rci-ort elsewhere. The 
 old "General Synod" will endeavor to establi h 
 congregations in the territory of the seceded 
 Synods. Thus the Lutherans will soon be divid- 
 ed all over the United States into an Old Schnol 
 and New School organizntion. Several parli-^Uiar 
 Synods have dissolved one part siding with the 
 General Counc;! and the other witu the General 
 Synnd. 
 
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 The MilUnayian CoDtrnvniy. 
 
 The Confessional [.utliernns. who nowentJeavor 
 to effect a new orgiinlziition in llils country in 
 oppiisiiion to the present ''General Synod." 
 wliicli they repudiate on account of its Low 
 Cliurch pliitfuim, are dividid amon',' themselves 
 OD the 8ul>ject uf Milleuarianism. Tne L itiieran 
 hynoil 01 Missouri has expelled tlie llev. Mr. 
 Schieferdoclter, one of tlie>r oldest mini-ters, on 
 the Krouiid of his having becoms entangled in 
 the web of Milleuarianism, which is condemned 
 by the seventeenth article of tlie Augsburg Con- 
 fession, and the Smaller Catechism. 
 
 The Pennsylvania Synod, on ilie other hand, 
 the first which last year withdrew from the old 
 Ueneral Synod, has tolerated and honored pro- 
 minent Milleuarians in its connection, the l?oard 
 of its .Seminary electing one of them its Presi- 
 dent. 
 
 Secret Sorietiet. 
 
 The Lutheran says : "It is estimated that not 
 less tlniu/uur-JiUlis of the male members of the 
 German Lutheran Churches in the Eastern cities 
 belong to some secret order — such as the Odd 
 Fellows, R"d Men. Turners, and tne like. The 
 Synoiis which will organize the new "General 
 Council'' are generally in favor of excluding 
 members of Secret Societies fiom the Churcli. 
 Every one of these will have to be excommuni- 
 cated, or renounce their connection with these 
 societies, before they can become an integral 
 part of the General Council. 
 The Lutherans of Germany. — Tie Vnion and 
 Close Coimnwdon Questions. 
 
 The Religious Jovirnals of Germany are 
 occupied in the discussion whether, in the Pro- 
 testant countries recentl.v annexed to Prussia 
 the Lutheraa and Ktformcd Cliurches are to re- 
 main separate or to be forced into one united ' 
 church, as they have been throughout the old 
 realm. The principal opposition comes from the 
 Lutheran church, and is strongly nianil'ested 
 in Hanover where, at a conference of 55U Luth- 
 eran clergymen held in July, the vast majority 
 expressly aporoved a resolu;ion declaring it 
 wrong to admit members of the lieforraed 
 church to the Lord's Table in Lutheran churches. 
 
 Moravian. 
 
 Foreign Missions. 
 
 The Moravian publlshi s the following statistic- 
 al summary of the Foreign .Missions of the Mor- 
 avian Church for the year ending August, 1867. 
 
 1. Mismoiis. — Number of mission provinces, 
 15: stati ns, 88; prtaching-places. 307. 
 
 a. L'tbnrers, — Number of missionaries, 160; 
 female assistaDts, 151— total of laborers sent out 
 by the Church at home, 311 ; number of ordain- 
 ed native missionaries, 7 ; native assistants (as 
 far as reported), -58(i ; female do. do., 407 ; 
 Scrijiture readers. 13; le.aders of meetings, 45 ; 
 whole number of native laborers, 1(152. Whole 
 number of Uborers, native and foreign (as far 
 as reported), 1303. 
 
 3. tichnols. — Mumber of training schools, 7 ; 
 rtation do., 8ll; country do., 65; Sundav do., 86; 
 Whole nnrnbrr of schools. 238 Scholars in sta- 
 tii'ii and cou»tiy schools, 12,904: in Sunday 
 schools (children and adults), 11,852. Whole 
 number or.>cli'>lars (as far as reported). 24.746. 
 n-'roin Surinam there are no figures in the re- 
 port on tbit point, la 1865 the wholej number 
 
 of scholars w.as 2339). Vumher of male teachers 
 (natives) 117, female do. 75; monitors, 498; 
 Sunday-school teachers, 1090. Whole number 
 of teachers, 1781). 
 
 4. CO'iv-rts. — Xumher of baptized members, 
 32,801 ; cainldates. 7167. Whole number of 
 adult converts. 3J.y6fi; number of ''Xew People"', 
 4401 ; nuiuiier under discipline, 2336 ; baptizeil 
 c'lildren. 23.6i)6. Whole number of persons 
 under instruction, 70'311. 
 
 5. The Financial Statement.— T\\e total re- 
 ceipts from all sources during the pist year 
 were 100,280 Germin dollars; the total expenses 
 118.072; from the Continent of F.urope there 
 Were leceived 51.4i5 ihalers; fromOreat Britain, 
 38,087 : from America, 10.164. 
 
 The missions are located in Australia (com- 
 mencfd 1849), 3 stations; West Himalaya (com- 
 menced 1853), 2 stations; Surinam (commenced 
 1735). 12 stations; West Indies (c .m'Uenceil 1732), 
 40 stations; South Africa (commenced 1736. re- 
 newed 1792). 12 stations; Green and (comiu-'nced 
 1733), 6 stations; Labrador (commenced 1770). 
 5 stations; The Mosquito coast (commenced 
 1648), 6 stations. North American Indians. 
 The Northern Synod. 
 
 At the last session of the Northern Provincial 
 Synoti of the Moravi:in Church, held in P/)ila- 
 deljihia in May last, the Committee upon Home 
 .Missions repo ted the succ ss of the Moraviaa 
 work among the Germans in New York, the 
 erection of a Moravian church in Pliilailelphia, 
 and c mdiLiooally appropriated a sum of money 
 towards the erection of a Moravian church in 
 New Haven, Conn Tne Synod approved the 
 use of the Kuglish version of the Liturgy for the 
 Lords's f-ujiper, directed the clergy to wear the 
 surplice at Hie celebration of this sacrament, and 
 enjoined upon the Congregations to give the 
 "right hand of fellowship" at the beginning, ancr 
 again at the close of the celebration. 
 
 United Evangelical Church, of Ger- 
 many. 
 
 Missions. 
 Th2 Central Committee for Home Missions In 
 Germany has directed its eflbrts to that vast 
 population of Germany who go away from home 
 at certain periods of the year to work ; to tne 
 workmtn in tlie sugar factories of saxony, and 
 to the miners near the Rriine. Ihe sei retary and 
 the travelling preachers muke yearly journeys 
 to advance the ohject of the society, and now 
 propose t . give attention to .Vustria, particularly 
 to the I'rotestants scatte ed among the Catholic 
 populations, especially in Boheinia. The com- 
 mittee has its seat at H.imburg. and includes 
 anion;,' its membera some of the must eminent 
 men of Gernimy. Its income is about lu,UOO 
 thalers, or £1500. 
 
 The Evani^elical Cliurch Diet of Germtny. 
 The Evangelical Church Diet met this year at 
 Kiel. Ihe President, Prolessor llerrniann. of 
 Gotiingen, delivered a lecture on "CoufeSsion 
 and the -Sale Church," in wliich he dwell on the 
 historical development of the Lutheran and K:- 
 formed Churches, ami showed that the territorial 
 principle had been of scarcely less inlluence tlian 
 t'leir respective confessions in markiimoul their 
 course tlirough the centuries. Pi of. D.irner, ot 
 Berlin, delivered a lecture ou "Justification by 
 
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 Paith in Christ ; its importance for Christian 
 KnovrleJge aud Christiau Life." 
 
 The Gustavus Adolplius Association. 
 This Society, for supporting Protestant con- 
 gregations in Koman Catholic countrie-i. is one 
 in whicli most parties of tlie German churches 
 unite. Jt met in 1867 at Worm-i. The reports 
 of the cooperators revealed a state of great re- 
 ligious destitution. Among the subjects which 
 received attention, were the Protectant "Dias- 
 pora" in Austria, and the wants of the Paris 
 nssociation for the' evangelization of France. 
 The receipts for the year 1806-7 are 177,526 
 thalers. The Female Unions have greatly in- 
 creased their contributions, wliile there has 
 been an inc -ease of 10 new female unions and 
 31 auxiliaries to the parent society. The num- 
 ber of congreifatious aided is 800 ; IS new 
 churches have been built; and besides the 23 
 churches. 8 schools, and 6 parsonages in course 
 of erection, it isdesigmd to build 117 churches, 
 6 chapels, 109 schools, and 55 parsonages. 
 
 The German Protestant Diet (" Protest anten- 
 tag.") 
 This is an organization of the "Liberal" 
 party in the German churches. It held its ses- 
 sion at Neustadt in 1807. Prof Mol Zm m, of 
 Heidelberg, spoke on " the relation o. Piutest- 
 «.nt union to the present q.iestion of the mstoii- 
 cal (Jhrist." This pJirty lias sustained a severe 
 loss in the death o} Prof. Kothe, at Heidelberg, 
 August 20tli, a remarkably lo.irued man, gentle 
 anc' amiable, highly respected, and its most ia- 
 Uueutial leader. 
 
 Methodi.3t3. 
 
 Mfthodist Episcopal Church Lny Delegatinn, 
 
 The canvass for the introduction o.' lay del- 
 esation into the Conferences oi the Metliodlst 
 Kplscopal Church has been very a.;tive during 
 the year, and has been attended with results re- 
 garded as exceedingly tlatceriug to those who 
 have participated in it. The general results, 
 as exhibited at this time (N'ovember, 1867.) are 
 described by a friend of tlie movement as fol- 
 lows : It has been brought before the annual 
 conferences and a numbe.' of them have ex- 
 pressed themselves absolutely in favor of it. A 
 majority of the conferences favor it in case it 
 can be shown that the people desire it. No An- 
 nual Conference has declared agaiu.-^t it. Nearly 
 all the church papers favor it. None oppo,se it. 
 A majority of the delegates chosen to tlie Gen- 
 eral (JonCerence are known to be in favor of it. 
 Among the best known ministers and laymen of 
 the church wlio are laboring earnestly for lay 
 delegation, are Bishop Simpson, the Kev. Dbs. 
 MeCliutock, tjtevens, and Crooks, Gen. Clinton 
 B. Fisk, U. S. Senator Harlan, and others. A 
 laymen's convention will be called to meet si- 
 multaneously with the General Conference in 
 May next at Chicago. The action of the Gen- 
 eral Conference on the subject is looked forward 
 to with much interest by ail, and with hope by 
 tho<e who have been laboring to elfect this great 
 change iu the economy of the church. 
 
 On the centenary colleclioiis taken up in the 
 Church dm-iug the year 1866, we report else- 
 where. 
 
 Methodist Episcopal Church, South. 
 The Annual Conferences of this Church tiok 
 * vote on the questioa whether, ia .accordance 
 
 with the proposition of the General Conference 
 of 1860, the name of the Church should be 
 changed from ''Methodist Episcopal Church, 
 South," to " Kpisoopal Meihidist Chili'ch," and 
 whether lay delegaiion shou-d be introduced 
 into the councils of the Church. The latter 
 me;isure was adopted, more than three-fourths 
 of the memb.'rs of the Annual Conferences vot- 
 ing for it, while the former failed from want of 
 a three-fourths' majority. 
 
 The number of Annual Conferences of this 
 Church was increased by the establi^iiment of 
 one in Illinois, which, however, adopted tha 
 name of Episcopal Methodist Church. 
 
 A Union Convention, held at Montgomery, 
 projiosed apian of union between ihc Jletlio list 
 Kpiscopal Church, South, and the Southern 
 Uutliodist ProtUi>iaut Cliurches. 
 
 " The Methodist " General Conference. 
 
 The General Conference of the Methodist 
 Church commenced its session at Cleveland, May 
 15. It represents mainly the late Methodist 
 Protestant Church, whose last General Confer- 
 ence was held iu November, laOO, when it adopt- 
 ed a plan of union which the non- Kpisoopal 
 Methodists agreed to submit for approval to their 
 Conferences and ChurchfS. The C- inferences of 
 the other bodies did nut adopt that plan. A few. 
 local churches (two Wesleyan and two inde- 
 jiendent) were repiesented. The ratio of con- 
 ference represemation was one minister and one 
 layman for every thousand communicants. The 
 roll contains over seventy names, nearly all of 
 whom were present. The constituency repre- 
 sented, therefore, exceeds thirty-live thousand 
 members. 
 
 The Conference made the following organic 
 Disciplinary elianges in their polity: The Re- 
 strictive Kule was so modified as to allow sta- 
 tion and circuit p.eacheis to remain in one 
 charge for four years. The Leadi.-rs' meeting 
 was abolished, and monthly meetings, composed 
 of all the members of each church, together 
 with its pastor, substituted in its stead. Vhe 
 old constitutional obligation of the Conference 
 President to visit all the circuits an<l stationsiu 
 liis district, was removed, and each Annual Con- 
 ference is allowed to use its own discretion as to 
 imposing such a duty upon its Pre.-ident. 
 
 Tlie next General Conference (jf the Church 
 will meet at Adrian, Michigan, in 1871. 
 
 American WesUyan General Cmiference. 
 
 This body met in Cleveland, 0., October 2. 
 Rev. S. Salisbury was elected president. About 
 5U delegates were present. 
 
 Two questions, iliat of the revision of the 
 Discipline, so as to cut off churches toierating- 
 meraoers connected with Masonry and other se- 
 cret societies, and that favirring the granting to 
 worn n the right of elective franchise, gave rise 
 to lengthy discusdous. Both were decided ia 
 the atarniative. the former by a vote of 48 in fa- 
 vor to ft against, and the latter by a very large 
 majority. 
 
 The condition of the publishing house at 
 Syracuse was reported as follows : amount o* 
 property in the hands of the Hook Coouni'.tee, 
 and owned by the Publishing Assuciation, $14,- 
 332.50; subscription list of the American Wts^ 
 I yan,$l,SOO. \ 
 
 Canadian Wesleyan Coyi/iretice. 
 
 This body, which met at Hamilton, in June, 
 discussed the question of the division 
 ference into three annual conferences. 
 
 n, in June, -, 
 I of ihe con- \ 
 cos, with a f 
 
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 General Conference to meet onee in four years. 
 A Toie was taken Willi th« followiuu result: 
 Yeas. 125 ; nays. 1(52 ; a mijoiily of 37. So tli« 
 measure fails for the preseiu. Notice was given 
 that the uiotiua fur division would be renewed 
 next year. 
 Evangelical Associatinn General Conference. 
 The General Conference of the Evangelical 
 Assiciation met at Fittshurfj on the loth of Oc- 
 tober. It a<lo|)tecl a geneial resolution in reply 
 to overtures of union from the M. E. Church, in 
 favor of the cultivation of a spirit of brotherly 
 love and mutual C(JO|ieration in various inter- 
 ests of the church, but not contemplating actual 
 union as either very prolial)le or certainly de- 
 sirable, and appointed a delegation to the Gen- 
 eral Conlerence of the .M. E. Church. It deter- 
 mined to draw the attention of the Board of 
 Missions to the importance of securing, at an 
 early day, some town lots at important points 
 along the Pacific railroad, for the purpose ol 
 erecting houses of worship thereon, whenever 
 advisable, and reeommemled the opening of 
 Missionary Institutes in connection with the lit- 
 erary in dilutions. The Association has mis- 
 sions in Germany, California, atid Oregon, a 
 board of public ition, a tract and sunday-^chool 
 society, and publishes two papers, one English 
 and one German. It has two bishops. 
 
 British Wealeyan Conference. 
 
 This body met at Bristol, England, July 25. 
 The Rev. John Bedford was elected President. 
 Fjr the first time in the history of the Confer- 
 ence, laymen were called on to offer prayer at 
 the opening or closing of tlie committees, rii.xtv- 
 one candidates for the ministry were ordained. 
 .Mr. William M. Punshon was deputed to attjud 
 the Canada C inference. The Kev. AVilliam .Air- 
 thur was, in response to a request of the Irish 
 Conference, a|)pointed Principal of the new 
 U'esleyan College at B-lfast. A recommenda- 
 tion to seek thi*.repeal of a law which requires 
 the presence of a registrar at the solemnization 
 of marriages, was discussed, and remitted to the 
 consideration of the proper committee. The 
 candidates for ordination were required to give 
 pledges to abstain from the use of tobacco, i'he 
 case of one candidate, who declined tn give the 
 pledge, was ])ostponed till next year. The Con- 
 ference made an informal expression against 
 ministers wearing surplices and other vest- 
 ments. A discussion took place on the number 
 of collections taken in the churches, which 
 some seemed to regard as burdensome to the 
 members. The Conference agreed, in reply to a 
 letter from the New Connexion Conference in 
 regard to a union of Methodist bodies, that 
 while it did not see the way to an organic union, 
 it repeated its desire to cherish the most friendly 
 sentiments towards kindred denominations. The 
 Increasing favor which total abstinence princi- 
 ples receive from the Conference is subject uf 
 remark. The Conference, by resolution, ex- 
 pressed its desire to maintain and extend the 
 practice of open-air services which has existed 
 in the denomination from its origin. 
 
 The Wesleyans liave laid the corner-stone 
 of a liieological college at Leeds, the third un- 
 der iheir control. 
 
 Iri$h Conference, 
 
 The 98th session of the Irish Wealeyan Con- 
 ferance was hel.l atBelf.st, commencing June 
 13Mi. The Kev. Dr. Kibinson Scott, who re- 
 ceully visited the Unito-1 States Uii a delegate. 
 
 gave an interesting account of his obserratioos, 
 and of the condition of American Methodism. 
 Ml. McArthur also spoke on the same subject. 
 A congratulatory address was read from the 
 Engl.sh Conference. An entertainment was giv- 
 en to the members who are teetotallers by the 
 Irish Temperance League. The returns show a 
 small decrease in the membership. 
 
 ilethoii^t New Connexion Conference. 
 
 This body discussed and adopted a pro- 
 gramme of Methodist union to be submitted to 
 the quarterly conferenci's'. It adheres to the 
 itinerancy and to the participation of the laity 
 in all the church courts. 
 
 The Canadian Methodist New Connexion 
 Conference held its annual session in Aurora, 
 Canada. T'le increase in the number of mem- 
 bers was reported as '^M. The total member- 
 ship in Canada is over 8,000. The question of 
 .Methodist union was left in the hands of the Ex- 
 ecutive Committee. 
 
 In the province of Tien Tsin, north of Chi- 
 na, where this church has three missionaries, 
 about 3U0 Chinese have professed conversion and 
 abandoned heathenish practices. The Canada 
 mission is prospering. The contributions are 
 $6UU, and the membership lias increased 22. 
 
 United Methodist Free Churches. 
 The .\nnual Asserilbly of this body met at 
 Manchester. The rejjorts showed a marked in- 
 crease in the membership. A resolution ap- 
 proving the steps that have been taken in favor 
 of union with the New Coiiiie.\ion was unani- 
 mously adopted after a lively discussion. This 
 body adheres to free representation and the in- 
 dependence of the circuits. The subject was 
 then remitted to the conuexional comiuiitee with 
 an e.xpress reservation in favor of these princi- 
 ples. The assembly made a deciiled expression 
 in favor of total abstinence, and endorsed the 
 principles of the United' Kingdom Alliance in 
 its effirts to abolish the sale of intoxicating 
 liquors. 
 
 Union between the New-Connection and Unitid 
 Metknd'sts. 
 At a conference between the members of the 
 annual committee of the Methodist New Con- 
 nection and of the conuectioual committee of 
 the United Methodist Free Churches, held at 
 Leeds, resolutions were adopted declaring the 
 desirability of an organic union of the two de- 
 nominations, and recommending the appoint- 
 ment of a sub-comraittee of three persons from 
 each of the connectional committees in order to 
 the removal of difficulties caused by the pro- 
 visions of the •• deeds " under which the church- 
 es were respectively constituted. The sub- 
 committees have been appointed, and there is 
 no doubt that the question will form an imjior- 
 tant feature in connection with the proceedings 
 of the forthcoming conferences. 
 
 Primitive Methodists.— Thettogical Seminary tn 
 Canadj. 
 
 The Primitive Methodist Conference of Can- 
 ada resolved to establish a theological Semi- 
 nary, and ap])()iuted a committee to carry out 
 the matter in detail. 
 
 The Canada Primitive Methodist Conference 
 have resolved to require a pledge of abstinence 
 from the use of tobacco from all who in luture 
 enter its mini-try. 
 
 A Primitive Methodist Theological Semi- 
 nary is to be opened at Sunderland in June, ltt)8 
 
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 Methodism in France, 
 There are no>r three districts in France, 
 »wo of which report an increase, the third not 
 having yet reported. The Southern district has 
 more than 1,000 members, an increase of 132 
 from last year. There are 115 preaching places, 
 with 11 itinerant and 75 local preachers. 1,200 
 Sunday scholars and 145 teachers. There are 
 several educational institutions at Nismes. 
 
 The Wesleyan Reform, Utiion on Clerical Titles. 
 
 The meeting of the representatives of the 
 Societies of the Wesleyan Reform Union adopted 
 a resolution against the use of any prefixes or 
 affixes to the name of any person (minister). 
 Bible Christians on Union. 
 
 The annual assembly of the churches of this 
 name ailopted the resolutions of the New Con- 
 nection Conference on Alethodist Union. 
 
 Unitarians and Universalista 
 
 British and Foreign Unitarian Association. 
 The British and Foreign Unitarian Associ- 
 ation held its forty-second annual meeting this 
 ytsar. A prosperous conlition of the denomina- 
 tion was reported. The Unitarian churches of 
 Transylvania annually send over a student to 
 complete his education at Manchester New Col- 
 lege. The report gave an encouraging account 
 of the condition of missions connected with the 
 Association in the north of England and Scot- 
 land, referred to the formation of a theological 
 library for the use of members and all free in- 
 quirers recommended by them, and to the dis- 
 tribution of books and tracts during the year. 
 
 " Liberal Christian " Conferences. 
 
 The organization, of Unitarians, Universal- 
 
 Ista, and members of the Christian Connection 
 
 into " Liberal Christian " is making progress. 
 
 Universatist Convention. 
 
 At the General Convention of Universalists 
 this year aspeoial committee reported adversely 
 to propositions to amend the Constitution, and 
 to a change of time of meeting, approving of the 
 proposition to publish the Church History and 
 recommending its reference to a committee con- 
 sisting of Rev. Drs. Paige, Sawyer, and Thayer, 
 and recommending the adoption of the follow- 
 ing declaration, in reference to the meaning of 
 the Winchester Confession : 
 
 That it was the evident attention of our denom- 
 inational fathers to affirm the Divine Authority 
 of the Scriptures and the Lordship of Jesus 
 Christ; and in the ju(lgment of this Convention 
 those only comply with the prescribed conditions 
 of fellowship who accept the Confession with this 
 interprttation. 
 
 The Declaration was finally adopted, only one 
 Toting in the negative. 
 
 A resolution on the state of the country was 
 adopted, affirming the principles of human 
 brotherhood, and professing loyalty to the 
 Government. A committee was appointed to re- 
 port next year on the proper method of celebrat» 
 ing the centenary. 
 
 The Circuit System among the Unitarians. 
 
 A Committee on Christian Union, consisting of 
 James Freeman Clarke, Hon. John G. Palfrey, 
 and Rev. Eli Fay, in a report to the American 
 Unitarian Association, have recommended a 
 plan very like the old Methodist circuit system. 
 
 The Committee says : "Oar plan contemplates 
 brietJy this change, /nstead of having a minister 
 in every church, as now, let us liave a minister 
 presiding over several churches. In othei words 
 let us return to the origin of the eniscopate, in 
 which every church had its own officers chosea 
 from among themselves, who were not clergy- 
 men but laymen ; and one presiding overseer, 
 who had the charge of several churches." 
 Progress of Universalism. 
 During the year over thirty churches hare 
 been ertcted, and over twenty are in progress 
 and will be dedicated in a few months. Uver 
 forty societies have been reported in the papers 
 as organized during the time. But the increase 
 of ministers has not kept pace with that of 
 societies and church buildings. There have beei: 
 only five ordinations, not so many as there have 
 been deaths in the ministry. 
 
 Western Unitarian Conference. 
 
 The Conference of the Western Unitarian 
 churches met at Chicago on the 23d of Octoben-. 
 The executive committee presented a report, 
 from which we extract : 
 
 " We have assisted in the support of twelve 
 pastors and missionaries and one theological 
 student. Three new church edifices have been 
 erected and paid for, in part, by our contribu- 
 tions. Preaching has been commenced at a 
 number of new points, in several of which, new 
 churches have already been organized. In no 
 year of our existence has there been so much 
 general missionary labor performed within our 
 bounds, so many books, tracts and papers sold 
 and distributed, and so large an amount of mon- 
 ey collected for the various objects demanding 
 our attention." 
 
 Tlie conference at Buffalo had voted to raise 
 $6,000 for the missionary fund during the year, 
 but nothing has been contributed towards it. A 
 resolution was adopted to raise $5,000 for the 
 organization of societies in various parts of the 
 West. A resolution for combining the Confer- 
 ence for missionary purposes with the American 
 Unitarian Association, was reported by the 
 committee on that subject, and laid over for con- 
 sideration till next year. Cheering reports were 
 received from the Meadville Theological schooli 
 and Antioch college, and from most of the 
 churches. The Conference adopted resolutions 
 expressing gratification at emancipation, re-- 
 commending the education of the freedmeo, 
 and approving the objects and action of the 
 American Freedmen's Union Commission. An» 
 other resolution recommended the holding a 
 Sunday School Convention in each State. A 
 committee was appointed to see what opportu- 
 nity there may be for organizing Liberarl relig- 
 ious thought and feeling among the Germane, 
 and in connection with the executive commit- 
 tee, to carry on whatever work may be deemeti 
 necessary till the next meeting of the Confer- 
 ence. 
 
 American Unitarian Association. 
 
 The forty-second annual meeting of this so- 
 ciety was held at Boston on the 28th of May. 
 The Treasurer's report showed receipts and dis- 
 bursements to the amount of $177,526.22. Tho 
 amounts of the trust fund are as follows : Gen- 
 eral fund, $26,400 ; Hayward fund, $20,060 ; 
 Kendall fund, $2,000 ; Lienow trust fund, $3,- 
 300; Perkins fund, $8,000; balance of tempo- 
 rary investments, $23,000. During the year, tha 
 Association has aided 58 organized societies with 
 
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 moopy, ha<i afforded preaching in 126 towns and 
 eiiius where u-< Uiiitariau oigauizaiion exi»teil, 
 eiupluy-d .8 mis-ionanua fur three mou ris or 
 m ire, iind btt miiiistets for -hortei puriods, form- 
 ed permaiieut orgaiiizaiioni in 8 places, ami hud 
 good piospec 9 111 *i more. A mission liaj been 
 opened iii Wi)iiiiiJ(;lon, N. C, with a scImoI of 
 Hi pupils, au iudustrial scho.d of 54 pnpil", 
 and a -Sunday scliool oi 98 pupils. The Imliiin 
 mission l>iw been aided by a general beque.-t. 
 audisdoini; well, and a roissionaay ha^< he' n 
 c<lInIni^^ioned to Uueni>s Ayres. The Arsociation 
 ^ave publi.'-lied severnl new works, ciiciilnitd 
 63,11(10 tracts, tind given its pul>lic;iti')ns to 38 
 public libraries. All the branches of its work 
 were reported in a healtliful condition. 
 
 Sandiiuanians. 
 
 Tkf laie Pro/rssor Faraday. 
 The late Professor Faraday belonged tir a 
 imall sect ciille.l Sandunanians or Glas><1tes, 
 founded oy S ■iidiman and Glass, botli tScotch- 
 meo. Sandiroani;ui3 profess very high Calviui^in 
 and liave lieen decreasing in numbers and iin- 
 portaiice for many years past. Of late yeais. 
 raraday was an eliler, and frequently preached 
 in ihe chapel, Goswell road, Lon Ion. A cor- 
 respoiideut writes from Mottiugham to a L'lnd'in 
 paper: "I heard Faraday read the Holy 
 pcriiitures nearly forty years ago in the li;lle 
 Sanilimaniau chapel in Hound's Gate (now u 
 warehouse), in tins 'own, and was then struck 
 by the siiuplicity of his manners and the clcar- 
 jiegi and impressiveuess of his reading. 
 
 '•« New Jerusalem Church. 
 
 The Nntinnal Conference, 
 The •Nationnl Convention of the New Jeru- 
 Wlera churches ol" the United 8tates met at Cin- 
 cinnati, .Vlayitlst The reports of the tState a- 
 •ociations w revvery jmp rfect. The report of 
 the Board of I'ulilicatiou allowed that hesi le> 
 the t\em Jenisnlrm M'fSrv^eT and the ( hil- 
 lireii's ilufi'izim, foiirnew books have been pub- 
 li.'<hed in New Vorjc. The Theolo^'ic il luuLitu- 
 tion at Waltham .Mass., has ei^'ht studi-nti. 
 
 The ^ixtie^ll Gefteiial Conference of 'he Kn:;- 
 Jish cliiiicnes .wa- aitemjed by Diiie niiui.-ters 
 iind "iU representatives. 
 
 Tiie pr 'Cee.)iii>!s of the <3»qada Conference 
 ehow the church' there to be >» a coiiUuion of 
 juauifest jjrowUi uud progress. 
 
 The Friends. 
 
 Tlie Eif^Ush. Yearty Heeling, 
 Atthe yearly meeting of the Englis'i Friends, 
 the Society a(.;aiii was anxious to sustain its '.e- 
 tiinuiiy Aga Dst «ar. It »a< the subju'ct of an^ 
 Dual iiKjui'y wlieili*-r all Friends liau heeu cuu- 
 sistetit in .this i e.sjiect. la the United ^^'^es. 
 the testiiiiony s;;aiii>t war appeared to be cy,r- 
 ried out with more i)raetical effrtt than jugong 
 members of Ihe sn-i--tv in Kn;,'land. Xow tliat 
 slavery h id gone, the American Friemls w^re 
 resolved 111 U!ake war lli.- object of 8» a'eiiiatic 
 and uuit-d Kitack. 'he cla lus of teiiiMcrance 
 on Friends were earncs ly lanen into connid.-r- 
 ntion, one aflernoon being devoted to tin- eub- 
 ject and it was ibcided to issue a minute, ex- 
 I>re«»ive of the concern felt by the yearly meet' 
 •■••■• pu the BUbj<.ct, 
 
 ithiinnt 
 
 Hitherto, the peculiar mission?, or " relfg'- 
 lous vjsiis," constantly undertaken by devoted 
 and earnest Friends have b-en of the nature of 
 transient journeys throu>:h the country Ti.sited. 
 I/vtely three menmers have been moved to go to 
 Madagascar, for the purixxe ot taking up their 
 abode in that country, to deviite themselves to 
 wornsof Christian beneficence as they may find 
 oppo' tuniiy. This movement has raised two 
 im]>)rtant (juestions : In their own minds, how 
 they shall act ; in the minds of the Friends at 
 h ouie, how tliev shall b- supported. A subscrip- 
 tion 0} £1.0(111 answers the lat er. A»to the for- 
 mer, ihe three have declared that, in case they 
 f.innd it ncce-sary to modify their p'evious hab- 
 its, they wished to be left at liberty to act as 
 '•w.iy might open," and "cutoi Chriuian con- 
 ■Jideration for their weak and late'y pagaa 
 brethren, and, to avoid wounding their con- 
 soiences or distrac'ing tlioir poor i;>inds, not to 
 intiTfeie with customs alreaily estaWi.shed by 
 William Ellis and his brother irtissicnaries " 
 
 In other words, they do not pro|jose to forin 
 a separate *■ Friends' Meeting," or to organiza 
 a distinct society at all ; bi't to do good in all 
 tlie ways that piety and humanity shall dictate, 
 and leave the religious order and p-ractices of 
 t)ie [leofde to the free determinatii n ot the peo- 
 ple theuuul ve3. as they sli.ill be guided by ex- 
 perieucu and the impulses of the Divine Spirit. 
 
 The Oneida Communities* 
 
 Peculiar colonies of Comirunists exist near 
 and at Wal!int;ford, Ct., and near Oneida, New 
 Vork. Their economical I'e.itures do not differ 
 materially from those of the Shakers and other 
 socialistic organizavioDS. In religion, they hivve 
 no loimai creed, but claim to take the whide Bi- 
 ble as their guide, believe that the tecond com- 
 in;4 of Christ t lok place at the fall of Jerusa.. 
 leiii, that then there was a primary resurrectioiii 
 and judgment in the s]dritual >?orld ; t.'jat » 
 church on earth is rising to meet the approach- 
 ing Kingdom ia the heavens, and to become itj 
 duiilicate and representative; that inspiration, 
 or open communication with Gai, involiing per- 
 fect ho!inc.-s, is the bond of unhjn between the 
 churc'.i above and the church be'ow, and the 
 |) .yer hy w.'iich the Kinj-iioiu of G d io to be os» 
 lahlished and reign iu the world. They have 
 MO religious service, or forms of worship, aa 
 tlicy consider themselves perfect. They do not 
 lai'orou the Sabbath, yet do not regard it as 
 sacrtd. Iheir most peculiar notions are as to 
 marriage, which they do not entirely repudi.ite, 
 11', r do they regard it as a permanent relation, 
 n .r entirely voluntary. They hold it to be as- 
 aunied according to afBuity, but to be regulated 
 by tiic rules of the Society, and a certain re- 
 siiocl 10 the ji:dKnien'. ol the c ii.i.i)ui.ity The 
 childrjn Iieloiig to and are canal for by the 
 coiiiiuuaity, and not by their lair'jiits. The 
 Oneida community was organizsd in 1848, has 
 '^}5 members, and owns more than 50U acres of 
 iind. The Wallingtord community was estab- 
 lithed in 1851, has about 45 members and 'iiS 
 acres of land. There are also two other siualJ 
 J'ajniiies, iu New llaveu and New Vork. 
 
 Jevrs. 
 
 Tk". Unipertal hraeli'e Alliance. 
 At the meeting of the Universal loracllte 
 .Mliauue in Paris, tield Kovvmber 'i'iih, Ibtio, 
 
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 55 
 
 the nnmber of members was reported at 4,500, 
 the receipts since May, 1863, 50,6(0 francs, and 
 the expenditures 33 700. Frotectinn and eman- 
 cipation, iusti'uction and educatiua, religion 
 and morals, are what the Alliance seeks to gain 
 for its people. A Hungarian rabbi brought 
 money to encourage emigration to colonize the 
 Holy Land. It was accepted as a deposit, but 
 Armenia was suggested ai a preferable place. 
 The President, M Cremieux, told of his journey 
 to Bucharest, and of his aiguments in favor of 
 liberty for Jews before a commission of sixty 
 members of the chambers. His pointed ques- 
 tion was, If the fathers had slain Jesus Christ, 
 Why must the childien, 1833 years afterward, be 
 made re.-ponsible '^ Surely, if God came upon 
 earth again, they wnuld not crucify him! Be- 
 sides, if we take the Christian religion as it 
 stands, that death is the pledge of sai vation for 
 all the world, ihe worship which people give 
 themselves up to with so much happiness, is 
 owing to the death of Christ. And yet 1800 
 years have done nothing to mitigate the accusa- 
 tion! 
 
 Synagogues in the Ea.it Indies. 
 A Hamburger, recently from Delhi, furnish- 
 ed the Wtekbiad of Amsterdam with an account 
 of the Jews in the East-Indies. He sta?vs that 
 in Delhi, Meirut, Agra, i.ahore, Benares, Patna, 
 Dinjapore, Cabul. Candahar, Pooua, Bangalore. 
 Mysore, Calcutta, Bombay, Madras, and other 
 large towns, there are Jewish congregatiens. 
 In the three last mentioned cities, there are a 
 great number of European Israelites, while in 
 the other places they are mostly natives, and 
 <;annot be distinguished from tbe Mohammedans 
 ■by dress or manners, the only difference being 
 4u tlieir religion. 
 
 The Israelitish Congress at Florence, 
 An Italian Jewish Congress met on the SOth 
 X>{ April last, at Florence, and completed its la- 
 bors on May 5'#i. Twenty congregations were 
 represented by as many deputies. Among other 
 things, an annual grant of one thousand francs 
 was ag,aiu voted toward the publication of good 
 books; it was further resolved to subsidize the 
 Kabbinical college at Padua; the majority, 
 moreover, passed a vote favorable to the convo- 
 cat on of a synol. An executive committee was 
 then aiipoiuted, charged with carrying out the 
 resolutions of the congress, after which the as- 
 sembly adjourned. 
 
 Convention of American Jews. 
 A convention of Jews at Philadelphia in 
 1867, resolved against sending money to Pales- 
 tine to be speot in almsgiving, proposing to de- 
 voie money for that country to the development 
 of agriculture and industrial pursuits there. It 
 was resolved also to cooperate in measures for 
 removing the Jews of Servia, Moldavia. Wal- 
 lachia, Kouraania, and the Barbary States to 
 Palestine, and colonize them there. 
 
 Anti-Conversion. 
 The Universal Israelitish Alliance of Paris 
 have determined to send out a messenger to 
 counteract efforts to convert the Fallaohahs 
 tribes of Abyssinia — suppjsed to be descendants 
 at the lost tribes — to Christianity, 
 
 Jews in Qffi:e. 
 There are four Jews in the Prussian Par- 
 liament — all Liberals. There are five Jews in 
 
 the Parliament and five Jewish magistrates in 
 New South Wales, and one Jew in the Ministry 
 of Van Uieman's Land. Seven Jews have been 
 elected to tiie Italian Parliament, and thiee 
 Jews have been elected from Praga« to the Pro- 
 vincial Bohemian Diet. 
 
 The Jews in Roumania and Sirvia, 
 The Board of Delegates of American Israel- 
 ites have called the attention of our Govern- 
 ment to the persecution of the Jews in the Dan- 
 ubian principalities, with a view of procuring 
 the exercise of its powerful influence in the in- 
 terest of humanity, in behalf of their persecu- 
 ted brethren. The Secretary of State has sig- 
 nified the compliance of our Government with 
 the request of the Board of Delegates, 
 
 Jewish College^ 
 
 A new Hebrew collegiate institution, to be 
 located at Pniladelphia, has been detinitely de- 
 termined on by the convention which met in 
 that city last year. 
 
 The Jews in this country have already es- 
 tablished eilucatioual institutions of ditferent 
 grades in New York, Savannah, Mobile, New 
 t'rieans, Cleveland, Albany, and other cities. 
 This projected Maimonides College at Philadel- 
 phia is designed for a more advanced course of 
 study than is pursued in any of the others, and 
 of more thorough instruction in Hebrew than 
 has ever yet been afforded in any theological 
 seminary in America. '"The conclusion has 
 been formed," says The Jewish Messmi^er, " of 
 B'.t restricting the college course to Hebrew and 
 theological studies, so that, instead of a divini- 
 ty school, it is to be a college in the popular ac- 
 ceptation. It will have a faculty of science and 
 letters as well as a faculty of Hebrew; it will 
 furnish general instruction in classics, mathe- 
 matics, and belles-lettres, as well as a special 
 course for the future Hebrew minister and teach- 
 er. The plan is somewhat more grand and com- 
 prehensive than was first contemplated, but 
 there appear to have been judicious reasons for 
 its adoption," 
 
 The Tax on the Jews of Rome. 
 Dr. Philip, the Jewish Missionary in Leg- 
 horn, informs a correspondent of the Evangelical 
 Christendom that there used to be a ni'ist im- 
 portant Hebrew colony in Venice, and that the 
 printing press w.as much use t among ihem. Al- 
 most all the old Jewish works bear either Am- 
 sterdam or Venice on their title pages, as the 
 place of publication. Dr. Philip also mentioned 
 a very interesting discovery he had made with 
 regard to the Jews in Rome. It appears that 
 every year the representatives of the synagogue 
 humbly betake themselves to the Capitol, and 
 deposit a sum of money in the hands of a lordly 
 prelate who sits there, as officer of the Pope- 
 King, at the receipt of custom. This annual 
 tribute comes down from the time of Vespasian, 
 who ordered that the contributions which the 
 Romans were in the habit of bringing, in order 
 to be forwarded for the Temple service in .Jeru- 
 salem, should then and thereafter be changed 
 into a perpetual tax of seven dtnari per Jew, 
 to be paid to the government of Home, in aHdi- 
 tioti to all other taxes levied from .lew jind Gen- 
 t l-i alike. And to this day, and through all 
 tlie intervening a-.-es. from the time of t!ie fit i-r 
 of Tit IS. has this sum been exacted from tlio 
 heails of the Jewish community. 
 
66 
 
 Free Religious Association. 
 
 A meeting of persons of various shades of 
 liberal l)elief was lield in Boston on the 30th of 
 May, 18rt7. " to consider the canJition, waatg, 
 anil prospects of Free Religion in America." 
 Addresses were delivered by Uiiiversalists, Uni- 
 tarians, Kriends, Progressive Friends, Spirit- 
 ualists, and persons of various shades of belief 
 iu doctrines commonly known as transcenden- 
 tal. Afterward a constitution was adopted for 
 an as-iociation to be called a " Free Keligious 
 Association," theobjectsof which were declared 
 to be to promote the interests of pure religion, 
 to encourage the scientific study of theology, 
 and to increase fellowship in the spirit ; and to 
 this enii all persons interested in these objects 
 are cordially invited to its membership. Each 
 member of the Association is left individually 
 responsible for his own opinion alone, and 
 alfects in no degree his relations to other as- 
 sociations. Any person desiring to cooperate 
 with the association will be considered a mem- 
 ber, with full right to speak in its meetings, but 
 )3 required to contribute a small annual fee as 
 a preliminary to the privilege of voting on 
 questions of business. The association meets 
 annually at Boston, one month's notice of the 
 meeting being previously given. A permanent 
 organization was effected, of officers and com- 
 mittees. The participants in the meeting were 
 men and women of prominent rank in their re- 
 spective spheres, and among them Were persons 
 of national fame as ministers, leclarers, and 
 authors. 
 
 Positivism. 
 
 August Comte, author of the Positive Phi- 
 losophy, was a Frenchman, of a C.itholio fami- 
 ly, born in 1798, and died in 1857. Rejecting 
 the Catholic faith at an early age, he wrote a 
 system of Positive Philosophy, the basis of which 
 was science, rather than metaphysics or theolo- 
 gy. He followed this by a treatise on Positive 
 jiolitics, in the composition of which he framed 
 a system of Positive religion, to correspond with 
 his other theories. His deity was a perfected 
 Humanity, in which all mankind would be 
 merged after death. 
 
 During the past year his followers in Eng- 
 land have organized themselves into a church, 
 under the leadership of Richard Congreve, for- 
 merly a clergyman of the Established Church. 
 Kuriuent men who have contributed to the im- 
 ])roveinent of the race are objects of worship. 
 Comte is an objectof special reverence. It bases 
 one of its claims for superiority over other re- 
 ligions on the fact that it sympathizes with the 
 latest teachinu'S of science, and utilizes tliem 
 for the benefit of man. 
 
 A Positivist church has for some years ex- 
 isted in Paris, where M. Littre, an eminent 
 French scholar, is the foremost representative 
 of Comte'8 views. M. Littre has also begun the 
 puldication of a Positivist periodical. I'he or- 
 ganization of a Positivist community has been 
 uiichrlakeii in this country at Modern Times, Suf- 
 folk county. Long Island, by Mr. Henry Kdger. 
 
 Chiirch of the Messiah. 
 
 This is a sect e-itahlished in the United States 
 a few yi-ars ago by (}. M. Adams, f^irmerly a lec- 
 turing Mormon Klder. In 18fi3, Mr. Adams ap- 
 ]>earcd near .lonesboro, Maine, and there organ- 
 txs4 a c lOgreK^tion and estriblished a periodiual 
 
 for the dissemination of his views. The only 
 conditions of membership were immersion and 
 belief in his apostolic character. Among tha 
 peculiar points of faith preached by Adams, is 
 one that the members of the Church of the Mes- 
 siah are of the tribe of Kphraim. and that, as 
 the " curse is now taken off from I'alestine,'' the 
 time has come for the lost ten tribes to return to 
 the land of their fathers. The re-estahlistiment 
 at Jerusalem of the throne of David, in greater 
 than Solomonic si)lendor, is promised. In ex- 
 pectation of the near advent of the Messiah, lift 
 nicmbers of the sect from the State of Maine, ia 
 IHtJfi went to Palestine to establish a colony at 
 JulTa, the seaport of Jerusalem. Land had beeu 
 secured for them in advance, and their settle- 
 ment began under tlie most favorable auspices. 
 But soon a large number of the colonists be- 
 came dissatisfied with the management of "Pres» 
 iileut" Adams, who was charg.-d with dishon- 
 esty. The financial condition of the coloui«t3 
 was represented as most wretched. 
 
 The American Colony in Jafffa. 
 The agent sent out by the United States 
 government, in the spring nf 1867, to inquire 
 into the condition of the Jaffa colonists, made a 
 favorable report, but he must have been misled 
 by those whom he saw, as the colonists on the 
 4th of July issued an appeal for help to retura 
 to their homes, which was endorsed liy a com- 
 mittee in Palestine, at the head of whom was 
 the American Consul. This stated that out of 
 151 of the original colonists, 54 had returned, 
 17 had died, and the remainder, except " Pres- 
 ident" Adams and tiiirteen others, desired to 
 return. The steamer Quaker City, with a party 
 of e.tcursionists, stopped at Jaffa in the early 
 fall, and took on board several of the colonists, 
 whom it carried to Alexandria, Egypt, where 
 they were furnished by contribution with means 
 to pay their expenses to America. " President" 
 Adams and a small number of the colonists yet 
 remain in Palestine. 
 
 Free Congregations (Freie Qemein- 
 den). 
 
 There are in Germany, and among the Ger- 
 mans in the United States, a number of socie- 
 ties under the above name. Their bond of union 
 is the absolute freedom of inquiry for every in- 
 diviilual on all suljjects ol religion and philos- 
 ophy. Although not requiring a specific opin- 
 ion on any other subject, all tne societies, with- 
 out exception, agree in rejecting a supernatural 
 revelation. Some of the leading men were for- 
 mtrly deists ; but it is understood that the re- 
 jection of the belief in a personal God is novr 
 the rule. 
 
 In Germany, the Union of Free Congrega- 
 tions numbers at present 121 congregations, 
 with 25 (100 members, and 6 periodicals advo- 
 cate their views. Among the Germans of the 
 United States, the Union (liwd) of Free Con- 
 gregations embraces 5 congregations; namely. 
 Philadelphia (since 1852); St. Loui.i (185(1); 
 Sauk Co., Wisconsin (3 branches) ; Dane Co., 
 \yis. ; Hoboken (1665). A periodical is publish- 
 ed iu Philadelphia. The Uniim acts hand in 
 hand with the "Alliance of Freethinkers " la 
 German society in Kew York) and a number of 
 " Free Men's Associations " in different parts of 
 the country. 
 
 Similar Free Societies pxist in Franco, Ita- 
 ly, Belgium, and Holland. 
 
57 
 
 NATIONAL RELIGIOUS RECORD. 
 
 In this department we give some interesting 
 facts o." the history of the year 1867, which could 
 not be given in the "Denominational Record," 
 as they do not refer to any particular religion. 
 
 State Christian Conventions in the 
 Uxiited States. 
 
 The American Christian Commission, in 
 view of the numbers of the people who do not 
 hear tlie gosjiel, and believing that many of 
 them would gladly receive it when it was car- 
 ried to them, appointed State Christian Conven- 
 tions to be held in some of the Northern States. 
 Among the subjects discussed, were : 
 
 1. How can we best reach and influence 
 those who Ijabitually neglect public worship ? 
 
 2. How shall the whole Church be inter- 
 ested and engaged in efforts for those who ne- 
 glect the Gospel ? 
 
 3. What can the laity of our churches do 
 for Christ? 
 
 4. How can the unity of Christ's followers 
 be better manifested to tlie world ? 
 
 5. How can the Gospel be carried to neigh- 
 borhood? remote from churches? 
 
 6. How can our devotional meetings be 
 made more interesting and profitable to the un- 
 converted ? 
 
 and others of similar tenor. 
 
 The Convention at Indianapolis adopted res- 
 olutions recommending street preaching, preach- 
 ing in halls and houses, cottage prayer-meet- 
 ings, personal and houseliold distribution of 
 tracts and cards of invitation to the churches, 
 that habitual attendants of churches come in 
 plain attire, recognize strangers and invite them 
 to come again; that ministers remember the 
 poor in their prayers, and inquire if they suffi- 
 ciently ada|)t portions of their discourses to the 
 wants of tlie poor ; that the laity interest them- 
 aelves in Christian work, &c. 
 
 A iState Convention for the State of New 
 Tork met in Nev York city on Ihe 13th of No- 
 vember. The discussions took a similar range 
 to those in the other conventions. An address 
 was adojited " to the jiastors and members of 
 the churches of Christ throughout the State," 
 recommending the holding of County Conven- 
 tions. 
 
 A Good Year for American Col- 
 leges. 
 
 The past collegiate year has been one of un- 
 exampled liberality toward the higher eduea- 
 tional institutions. The colleges, old and new, 
 have received the donations of their generous 
 friends in such amounts as to inspire them with 
 new vigor, while adding to their means of use- 
 fulness. Some idea of the aggregate amount of 
 these benefactions m:iy be gathered from the 
 following table, which we find in the Yale Cou- 
 rant, and believe to be trustwortliy. In this 
 list, no account is made of the amount given, in 
 the way of land grants, to the Agricultural Col- 
 leges. The handsome gift of Mr. Co' nell w^s 
 made in I8()5, but is given below, as it was not 
 apiilied until within the last year : 
 
 Alliion College, Albion, Mich $ 25.0en 
 
 Ualdwijo University, 13erea, 0.... 103,000 
 
 Belo't College, Beloit, Wis.. 18,600 
 
 Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Me 27,000 
 
 College of New Jersey, Princeton 20,00» 
 
 Cornell University, N. Y 760,000 
 
 Cornell College, Mt. Vernon, Iowa 25,000 
 
 Cumberland Universitv, Lebancw, Tenn 35,000 
 Dartmouth College, Hanover, N. H.... 35.000 
 
 Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa 100,000 
 
 Hamilton College, Clinion, N. Y 94,000 
 
 Hanover College, Hanover, Ind. ■ 35,000 
 
 Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass ... 400,000 
 
 Kenyon College, Gambler, O 35,000 
 
 Lafayette College, Easton, Pa 30,000 
 
 Lawrence University, Appleton, Wis... 3(),O0O 
 
 McKeudree College, Lebanon, III 20,000 
 
 N.W. Christian Univ., Indianapolis. Ind 35,008 
 Norwich University, Northfield, Vt.... 16,000 
 
 Oberlin College, Oberlin, 34,000 
 
 Otterbein University, Westerville. O.. . 30,000 
 Rutgers College, New Brunswick, N. J. 50,000 
 Shurtleff College, Upper Alton, 111.... 80.000 
 
 Tuft's College. Medford, Mass 309,000 
 
 University of Mississippi, Oxford, Miss. 35,000 
 
 University of Chicago, Chicago, III 100,060 
 
 Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Ind.. 46,009 
 Washington University, St. Louis, Mo.. 100,000 
 Wesleyan University, Middletown, Ct.. 98,000 
 
 Western University, Pittsburg, Pa 95,000 
 
 Yale College, New Haven. Ct 206,000 
 
 Total of 31 colleges $3,041,000 
 
 The South American Missionary 
 Society. 
 
 At a late meeting of the South American 
 Missionary Society of the Church of England, 
 the Secretary said that the Society contempla- 
 ted, among its objects of evangelistic labor, not 
 only the aborigines, numbering six millions, 
 and four millions of negroes, but a large Eng- 
 lish population settled in many districts, follow- 
 ing mining, agricultural, and mercantile pur- 
 suits. British sailors, frequenting the South 
 American ports and Chincha Islands in great 
 numbers, formed another sphere of labor. The 
 stations alreidy opened were Panama, Callaoin 
 Peru, Coquimbo and Lota, with Araucania, ia 
 Chili, Paysaudu in Uraguay, El Carmen in the 
 North of Patagonia, and Keppel Island at the 
 Falklauds, with a mission vessel, the ' Allen 
 Gardiner," named after the founder of the So- 
 ciety, for the work in Terra del Fuego. 
 
 Churches in British Guiana. 
 
 The London Missionary Society has now 
 twenty churches, with nearly three thousand 
 members, in British Guiana. 
 
 Protestantism in Mexico. 
 
 A Protestant Church of about thirty Mexi- 
 cans has been organized in Monterey. A lot has 
 been purcliase<i, and effirtsare being made to 
 raise money to erect a building. 
 
 Sects in England. 
 
 The following is a list of denominations certi- 
 fied to the Registrar-Gener.iil : — Apostolics, 
 Arminian New Society, Baptists, Baptized Be 
 
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 HeTem, ■^-lUrers In Christ, Bible Christians, 
 Bible Deffc ^e Associalii.u, Brethren, Cnlvinists, 
 CalvinUtic Rk|iiist8. Catholic and Apostolic 
 Church, ClirUiians, Christians who ohjeot to be 
 otherwise deiiiKuated. Christian BelieTert, 
 Christian Brethren, Christian Klia.-ites, Christ- 
 ian Isriielltes, Christian leetotallerg. Christian 
 Temperance Men, Cliristian Unionists, Church 
 of Sciiliand. Church of Christ, Countess of Hunt- 
 ingdon's Connection, Disciples in Christ. Eastern 
 Orthodox Greek Church. Electics, Kpiscopalian 
 Dissent! rs, KvanBelical Unionists, Followers of 
 the Lord Jesus Christ. Free Grace Gospel Christ- 
 ians, Free Gospel Church, Free Christians, Free 
 Church. Free Church (Rpiscopal,) Free Church 
 of Kngland, Free Union Church, General Baptist, 
 General Baptist New Connexion, German Luth- 
 eran, German Koman Catl.olic, Greek Catholic, 
 Hallelujah Band, Independents, Independent 
 Religions Reformers, Independent Unionists, 
 Inghamites, Jews, Latter Day Saints, Modern 
 Methodists. Mormons, New Connexion of Wes- 
 leyans. New Jerusalem Church, New Church, 
 Old Baptists, Original Connexion of Wesleyans, 
 Plymouth Brethren, Peculiar People, Presbyteri- 
 an Church in England, Primitive Methodists. I 
 Proges.'iionists. Protestants aiihering to the Arti- 
 cles of the Church of England 1 to 18 inclusive 
 but rejecting order and ritual, Providence 
 Qualter^, Ranters, Reformers, Reformeu Presby- 
 terians or Covenanters, Recreative Religionists, 
 Refuge Melbodiats, Reformed Free Church of 
 Wealeyau Methodists, Revivalists, Roman Catho- 
 lics. Salem Society, ^andemanians, Scotch Bap- 
 tists. Second Advent Brethren, Sepaiatists (Pro- 
 testants), Seventh Day Baptists, Swedenborgians, 
 Teaiimony Congregation Church, Trinitarians, 
 Union Baptists, Unitarians, Unitarian Christian. 
 United Christian Church, United Free Methodist 
 Church, United Brethren or Moravians. United 
 Presbyterians. Unitarians Bapti^<t3, Welsch Cal- 
 ■vinistic Methodists. Welsh Free Presbyterians, 
 AVesleyan Methoilists Associations, Wesleyan 
 Reformers, and Wesleyan Reform Glory Band. 
 (Many of the names in the above list do however 
 not denot • dilTerent denominations, but are only 
 different names of a particular denomination.) 
 
 Religious Societies cf France. 
 
 The following are the principal Protestant 
 Societies of France. 
 
 J. There are at Paris two Biblical Societies — 
 the one called Snr.iole Hiblique de France; the 
 other Snctklo Btbliqtie Protent'inte. The one is 
 orthodox, the other rationalistic. 
 
 2. The S'^ciittj of the History of French 
 Priilratantistn collects with care all which relates 
 to the old Hugenoti — their synodic delilierations, 
 
 . their BulVerings. their heroic virtues, etc. 
 
 3. The Society of PrntiSlam ColUctioni ad- 
 dresses itself to the poor, and asks of each a 
 subscription — of one cent p'T week. 
 
 4. T\iid hvangelical Societif of France is main- 
 taineil liy the members of independent congre- 
 gations. Its design is to proclaim the Gospel to 
 Catholics, and to open new places of wor.-hip 
 wherever the number of converts has become 
 oonsiilerable. 
 
 5. The Hunddy-iichoot Society deserves also to 
 be mentioned. Many thousand children have 
 been gathered in a lirge hall, called the 
 Virqne Niti'oleim, and th-re pastors, elders and 
 other* have addressed brotherly words to the 
 
 members of the rising nenerati in. The children 
 were attentive. intereBted, and more than once 
 encouraged the speakers with their applause. 
 
 6. The Kvatigrtical Mission Society establish- 
 ed in France more than thirty years since. It 
 has foaniled stations at Tahiti, at .'^negal, at 
 the Cape of Good Hope, etc. Its missions at the 
 Cape have during the last year been attacked 
 and grievously maltreated by the Boers, or 
 Dutch settlers of that region. 
 
 7. The Central Evan!;etization Society is 
 doing a work analogous to that of the Evangeli- 
 cal Society. But it turns its efforts and rev* 
 nues entirely to the benefit of scattered 
 Protestants, that is to say. of individuals, 
 and families who have taken up their abmle far 
 from any place of worship, in the midst of Catho- 
 lic populations. 
 
 8. The Tract Society (the Paris Religious Tract 
 Pociety ) moves in the same path as those of Lon- 
 don, New York, Boston, etc. 
 
 9. The Society of Primary Instruction labors 
 as its name indicates, to increase the number of 
 the public schools, and to send good teachers in- 
 to more humble village-. 
 
 10. The Societe ds Ditconesses, the Socikib 
 de laColimie Agricole. the Maisons d'Orphelins 
 d'"rph>:li'ies, de V'ifi//a)rfs (Asylums of Orphans 
 and the Aged) devote themselves especially to 
 works of charity. 
 
 Deaconesses. 
 
 The Kaiserswerth Deaconesses' Institution hai 
 139 stations during 18C6. There were 4!'l sisters. 
 At the present moment tiie number am mnts to 
 500. The hospital has admitted 8-0 paiien s in 
 the course of the year. The Orphan House 
 in Smyrna was supplied with 20, the Servants' 
 Refuge in Friedrichsdorf with 5. and the Ho.^pital 
 at Pesth with 3 sisters. Besides, there are a 
 number of institutions under their care, schools, 
 in&rmaries, almshouses, etc. 
 
 Protestantism in PortugaL 
 
 A protestant congregation has been formed io 
 the Azores. Another has been formed in Lisbon, 
 of about 60 members, who meet secretly ou Sun- 
 day, for fear of persecution. 
 
 Religious effects at the Faiia Ex- 
 position. 
 
 A system of Bible and Tract distribution was 
 organized for the grand Exposition at Pa-is, by 
 the separate or conjoined effo ts of several so- 
 cieties, some American. Age^'ts of Sunday- 
 school, Tract, and Bible Societies were in con- 
 stant attendance, to converse with suitably dis- 
 ))nsed visitors, and to sell or give awav their 
 publications. The '-Salle Kvangelique" was 
 visited daily. Every one who came received at 
 least a Tract. Twenty-two thousand sheets were 
 given away in this manner on one Sunday. The 
 attempt to conduct stated religious services in 
 the "Salle Kvangelique" was not successful. 
 
 Evangelization in Venice. 
 
 The Evangelical work is prospering in Italy 
 Four hundred and thirty-six persons attend th. 
 services at Venice with more or less regularitys 
 
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 and are frif?n<lly to the preaching of the gospel. 
 The evanL;sii!>t. hoijes sooa to opea a class oi' 
 catechism. 
 
 Freucli Christian Associatious. 
 
 A conference nf Youna: Men's Associations was 
 held in Pitris ilurinjr the yjfir, ni):ier the Pro- 
 gidency of Ur. Pan: Cdok. It i? pionouucid suc- 
 cessful, liarmoriiouii and fraternal. yrance, 
 Switzerliinil, Kii;,!mC'1. and Araerici were repre- 
 sented on the li-it (.f Vice Presirl-nts. Aiinthfir 
 general confererce \va.^ appoinied for ]'s7'.\ at 
 Amsterdam. A (rencral coulerenoe of French 
 Unions was also re.iolved uiion to meet every 
 three years. 
 
 Protestantism in Hungary. 
 
 The Protestant Church in Hnnp-ary has attain- 
 ed a development a-d infliunce which, cinsitlei- 
 ing the cbstnclei against which it had • tru/fxJed 
 are retrarded by a writer io the Christian U'orV 
 as little less Ihnn niiraculons. It is (liv:ded into 
 two branches, the Reformed (Calvitiisti,) an I the 
 Lutherans. The Calvinists are nearly all Majry- 
 ars, and are ti\ice as numerous as the Lutherans. 
 The characieiis ic- of the Pr itestant Church in 
 Hungary are: its ln<lisf.oti'.i<in to amalgamate its 
 affairs with those o! the state, or to subnrdinate 
 the gospel to the stare interest, the participation 
 of the laity in all ec'clesiastical funclirins except 
 the administriUion of thesacraments, thesolemn- 
 Szation of inatrhnony, and ihe rrdiuatiini of 
 ministers; ami its consistent adherence tu ortl o- 
 doxy. The Bible and Hymn booli are generally 
 distrilmted, ^ind 'ii is no rav( occurtnce for po 'r 
 and simple pevis^iits to be so well versed in the 
 Scriptures thai, tliey can pui. to shaine maiy 
 preacheis.'' T)ie Churches are generally well 
 filled on Sujdays. Many Associations for the 
 promotion of a Cii>'istian Spirit have long exist- 
 ed in Hungary, and many have ancen in recent 
 times where permitted by the laws, as confer- 
 ences of presi-hfrs, ciicles of school teachers, 
 Y»ung Men's Uuions, Auxilinry Unions for the 
 poor; and an Assiciatiun of Hongiviiun Pr test- 
 tant authors i- comemplatHd. A movement h;is 
 been m:icle tcwirds ihe di.sseinination of p'jpular 
 Christiau bimUs, and to exiend the Gospel in 
 Croatia and Di.nuhian prinoi|iaiities. But very 
 little has been done for missions to the heith'-n. 
 Signs of a rtvival of lireater religious activity 
 are showing tUemselves. 
 
 Irish Societies. 
 
 The Hibernian Bible Society received for the 
 year, ending lH<t May £4.590, and issued 67,165 
 coines of the Sovinturei. Its support has lieeo 
 chiefly drawn from the South and its benefit-- 
 have been equally dislribuled all over the 
 Island. 
 
 The Sunday-school Society reported 25C5 
 schools, with J8 133 gratuitors teachers, and 
 194,172 choiars. It has issued over 5<l.(l()0 Bibles 
 and Testaments and other books. Since it wa-f 
 established. 58 years ntzo, it ha.-- supplied 
 1,527,105 Bibles and Testaments, and St)7 518 
 portions of Scripture and Scripture reading 
 books. 
 
 The Protestant Orphan Refuge snpports 445 
 children, making' a total of 1887 provided for 
 since its fuuadatioQ. Its receipts were £5,51f . 
 
 The receipts of the Orphan Refuge were *176S. 
 
 The Church Kducation Sociuty reports 1510 
 schools, with 68,277 children, and £45,619 in- 
 cotne. 
 
 The Dublin Young Men's Christian Association 
 has 553 members, with 47 affi.iated societies, 
 making the total member.ship ioOO. 
 
 The receipts of other societies are as follows : 
 
 Iri^li Society £ 8.460 
 
 Irish Cfurch Missions 22,507 
 
 Protestant Orphan Society 5,518 
 
 Churc Missionary Society 6,059 
 
 .So.;iety for the Propagation of the Gcspel 4,596 
 Colonial and CoDtinental Society 41 g 
 
 The Protestant Alliance of England. 
 
 The object of the Protes'ant Alliance is to 
 ma'nfain against all the encioachments of Roman 
 Ciiho'icism the doctrines of the Reformation, 
 an I the Principles of reli .'ious liberty. To this 
 e' d it endeavors to awaken British Christians 
 in the exTcise of their constitutional privileges, 
 to rej'ard the in'eresls of Protestantism as their 
 i>aramount concern ; to unite the Protestants of 
 the empire in demands for he dicontinuince of 
 the tiat'onal support and enconracement given 
 to Roman Catholicism : and to extend sympathy 
 and support to those in foreiu'n countries who 
 may be suffering oppress on for the cause of the 
 go-pel. In accordance with this plan, its atten- 
 tion has been directed to various objects, such 
 bs preventing the introduction of sisterhoods in- 
 to hospitals as nurses, keening catholic influences 
 out of schools, contending acainst the progress 
 of ritualism, and the modificalon of acts of 
 Parliament containing concessions to Roman 
 C.itholics, and preventing others from being 
 passed. It has in hand th" erec'ion of a memorial 
 to nine of the principal English Protes'ant 
 ma.'tyrs, and another to Bishop Ferrar, of Wales, 
 ihe receipts of the Society have fallen off on ac- 
 count of the stingencv of the money market, and 
 were for last year, £1823 Hs 8d. 
 
 Protestantism in Italy. 
 
 A free Italian Church has been organized In 
 Italy, with places of worship in Florence and 
 other cities The sect of Plymouth b-ethren 
 have succeeded in infusing their views into this 
 movement. 
 
 The Vaudois, or Waldensian Chinch of Pied- 
 mont consistsof six communities with a member- 
 ship of 22,000, It has 23 principle stations, under 
 its evangelistic agencies, mostly in Northern 
 Italy, with some in Naples, Sicily, Elba, and 
 France. It employs 19 i>a':tnr-, II evangelists, 
 and 29 teachers, and has 15 scholars in the theo- 
 logical school at Florence. The number of 
 attendants upon public worship at these stations 
 is reckoned at from 20110 to 250n; of communi- 
 cants. 11,095. Income, £5611, Expenditure. 
 £4911. The Synod, at its last nieetini.', resolved 
 to employ a por.ion of the timeof the evangelists 
 iu itinerating, so as to overtake, as much aa 
 possible, the calls for supplies. 
 
 The committee of evangelization connected 
 with the Waldensian Church have also 'nder- 
 ta ingtoopen two schools in Venice, and had 
 fifty children engaged and waiting the arrival 
 of the 'eachers Anew mi sion has l)een com- 
 menced by the Waldensians at Mantua. 
 
«0 
 
 APPENDIX TO THE DENOMINATIONAL RECORD. 
 
 nn this page we give an acC'iunt of some eccle- 
 •insticiil 111 i-liiitis, wli ch look place after the 
 '•Ueuiiiiiiii.iiional Record" given on the pre- 
 ceediug pages had been closed. 
 
 Lutheran. 
 
 Hferting of the '•General Council." 
 The new ecclesiastical organization of those 
 J.uthc'aiis who strictly adhere to the unaltered 
 Confession of Aiifrsliurg as their stindard of 
 Ijith, was compk-ted by the 'General Council" 
 which met at Kurt Wayne, Indiana, on the "idth 
 »f November. The Council was orfianized by 
 the elecii in of Rev. G. Bassler, President, Revs. 
 H. W. Roth and G. Fritschell, Secretaries, and 
 Dr. H. H. Muhlenberg. Treasurer. 
 
 The fcdiowint.' are the statistics of the Synods 
 composing the Council: The Pennsylvania Syn- 
 od. 125 pastors and over 50,(100 communicants: 
 the New York Ministerium. 5(1 pastors and above 
 12,000 comiuunicants; the English Synod of t)hio. 
 
 12 pastors and near 250(1 comiuunicants ; the 
 Pittsburg Syr.od, 63 pastors and over 10,000 
 communiciuts; the Synod of Illinois, .^2 pa-tors 
 and nearly 400C communicants; the Synod of 
 AVisconsin, 51 pastors and about 15,000 com- 
 municants ; the German Synod of Iowa, 52 past- 
 ors and 7000 communicants; theMichipan Synod, 
 
 13 pastors and above 3000 communicants ; the 
 Canada Synod, 23 pastors and over 7000 com- 
 luunciints; the Augustana (Swedish and Nor- 
 wegian) Synod, 48 jnistors and near 12,000 cjra- 
 jnunicaiits ; the Minnesota Synod, 22 pastors and 
 3000 commnnicant'i; the English District of the 
 Joint Syno 1 of Ohio, 40 pastors and 8000 com- 
 mnnicantp ; in all about 550 pastors and 140,000 
 communicant members, embraced by 12 Synods. 
 (Accnrdinu to the '•lAit/ieran Observer" of Phila- 
 ♦lelphia. an organ of the General Synod tnese 
 figures are too high. The Lutheran Almanac of 
 Kaltimore gives to the 12 Synods together 119,000 
 communicants. 
 
 A resolution was passed inviting those only, 
 •'who are in Ihe unity of the faith witn us. as 
 fet forth in tlie fundamental articles of this 
 General Co"ncil " as "v siiing brethren.". 
 
 The "Fundament:il Principles" were then taken 
 up. The New York Ministerium and the Wis- 
 c insin .Synod, hiiviog jiassed amendments, it 
 was decide<l, that inasmuch as ten Synods had 
 ndopted them without any change, they cannot 
 iiow be 8ui)jected to aniet'dmeat, except in ac- 
 cordance with the provision which they contain. 
 Other parts of the coiii^titution were then con- 
 Bidered, amended and adopted. The ratio of re- 
 jiresentation was based upon the number of past- 
 oral char;;es, ten of which are to be entitled to 
 one clerical and one lay didegate. and more than 
 live additional chargei shall entitle a Synod to 
 two more delegates. 
 
 The action oif the Joint Synod of Ohio was nre- 
 pented, declaring the conditions upon which it 
 could alone unite with the Council, viz: ex- 
 clusion of coniriegations and ministers belonging 
 10 secret S'Cieiies, thee iinmunioii to be restrict- 
 ed to I.utlierans, non-interchange of pulpits With 
 other denominations, and the rejection of Millen- 
 srhinK. After much debate, a Committee was 
 appointed, which reported certain principles by 
 
 which the Council woubi he jrnvsrnedin decid- 
 ing these questions, when regularly jiresented. j 
 
 The Missouri Synod having addressed a com-* 
 municaiion to tlie Council, proposing a Confer- 
 ence with it, resolutions were adopted, lauda- 
 tory of the fidelity of the Missourians to Ihe faith 
 of the Church, and expressing a willingness, ai; 
 some future meeting of the Council, to meet 
 them in a Free Conference. 
 
 The Iowa Synod presented a communication. 
 containing its views on the subjects introduced 
 by the JointSyno i of Ohio, on which a Committee 
 reported, that the Council was not ready to en- 
 d'lrse as correct the lugic:il deduction and ap- 
 ])licatiou of the negative part of our Confessional 
 RuoUs, "made by the lowa Synod, and recom- 
 meniiing that the matter be referred to the dis- 
 trict Synods, in the hope that the Holy Spirit 
 Tvill enable them to see eye to eye in all the de- 
 tails of practice and usage." The resolution to 
 publish the "Church book" prepared by a Com- 
 mittee of the Synod of Pennsylvania was adopt- 
 ed. The book is to contain as much of the Litur- 
 iry as will be needed for public worship, a col- 
 lection of about six hundred hymns, the Unalter- 
 ed Augsburg Contessioa, Luther's Small Cate- 
 chism, and a collection of Family Prayers. A 
 Committee was appointed, to correspond with 
 Lutheran churches in the Danish Wesr India Is- 
 lands, and the Russian Possessions, when, after 
 a vote of thanks ti the peojile of Fort Wayne for 
 theh- hospitality, the Council adjourned to meet 
 in the English Lutheran Church of Pittsburg, 
 at such time as the officers shall designate. 
 
 Presbyterian. 
 
 Southern Presbyterian General Assembly. 
 The General Assembly of the Presbyterian 
 Church in the United States, or S>uthei n General 
 Asstinldy, met in Nashville. Tenn.. on the aistof 
 November. Delegates were present from the 
 Synods of Alabama, Arkansas. Georgia, Memphis, 
 Mississippi, Nashville, North Carolina, South 
 Carolina, Texas and Virgin a. The Committee 
 who had been appiiinted to confer with a com- 
 mittee of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church 
 on the subject of union, reported that they found 
 all things favorable to union except that the 
 Cumberland Presbyterians asked for modificat- 
 ions of doctrines, some of which were only verbal 
 in their character, but others so fund:imental as 
 to require the deliberation of the General As- 
 sembly. A Commitie from the "declaration and 
 testimony" Syn'>d of Kentucky presented the case 
 of that body, which was admitted tn the Generjvl 
 Assembly. The Kev. Dr. Pressly of the Associate 
 Reformed Presbyterian Church, addressed the 
 Assembly to the effect that the body he repre- 
 sented declined the terms of Union tendered by 
 the ])revious General Assembly. The report of 
 the Church sustentation fund shows that 104 
 ministers representing perhaps 230 churches, 
 have received aid from it. The foreign mission 
 contributions of the churches were reported at 
 $13,000. Eighty six thousand b..oks hikI 335.000 
 copies of the ChiUtrcns l'rir>i(l\\\\e bren publish- 
 ed during the year. The Unok of Chuicli order 
 was reported rejected by a mLij,.nty o. the Pres- 
 byteries. 
 
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 STATISTICAL DEPARTMENT- 
 
 The Creeds of the World. 
 
 It is, of course, extremely difficult to ascertain 
 th« numerical strength of religious denomin- 
 ations. The most trustworthy statistics of the 
 class are those of the religious denominations 
 which annually ascertain the number of their 
 members. This is the case with most of the de- 
 nominations of the United Slates, with most of 
 the disseutei s in England and with some of the 
 free dooomiuations on the Continent of Europe. 
 In most of the European countries, the state 
 governments, at the official census of the popu- 
 lation, ascertain the population connected with 
 each church. As a general rule it may be as- 
 sumed, that the number of actu Hi members multi- 
 jilied by 2Ji will be about equal to Ihe number 
 of population connecCud with a Church, | 
 
 Total Popul. Rom. Cath, 
 
 America 72,8()U,(HiO 4-.i,700,0U0 
 
 Europa 287,0ll!i,0(;0 140,2(l'',(l00 
 
 Asia 798,600,01 4,f.U0,0(() 
 
 Africa ISB.OOO.OCO J,1(MI.000 
 
 Aastralasia and Polynesia .. . 3,800,0(0 400,000 
 
 1,350,200,01.0 195,000,000 
 
 Tt.e collective name of Pro!e5fants has been re- 
 tained in the foiluwiug tables for all Christians 
 who do not belong to either the Roman Cathulic 
 or the Greek or one of the other E:istern Episc-i- 
 I pal Communions. The name is objected to by 
 I large portion of some of the deoommations em- 
 i braced under it, but no other name, that would 
 I be appropriate, has been proposed. 
 
 The following is the estimated summary of the 
 I aggregate population of the world, ami of the 
 j total number of Roman Catholics, Protestants 
 and Christians in general In the latter num- 
 ber are embraced, beside Roman Catholics and 
 Protestants, tiie membership of the Greek and 
 I her Eastern religions. As we cm only esti- 
 1 mate, we leave out numbers smaller then ouo 
 tiundert thousand. 
 
 90,900,000 
 
 Tot. Christ. 
 
 70,2'I0,II0U 
 
 260,00(1.000 
 
 12.900.000 
 
 4,900,000 
 
 1,400,009 
 
 369,400,000 
 
 Ecclesicistlcal Statistics of America. 
 
 Total Popul. Protectants. Rom. Cath. 
 
 United States of America 31,429,m1 2J,(tOO,000 4,500,000 
 
 (with the late Russian AmericaJ 70,000 
 
 Mexico 8,218,080 .'i,0;)0 8,200,000 
 
 Central America - 2, odd. (100 2,500,000 
 
 U. S. of Colombia 2,791,473 4,000 2,79(1,000 
 
 Venezuela l,5fi5.i'O0 1.500,0(io 
 
 Ecuador... 1.040.371 .... 1,040,000 
 
 Peru 2,500,000 1,000 2,49J,O(i0 
 
 Bolivia 1,987,352 l,987,.'iO0 
 
 Chili 2. 08-1, 945 10,(.'(i0 2070.000 
 
 Brazil 9 lOfi.OOO 80.000 6.020,000 
 
 Argentine Republic 1,171,800 10,000 l.lOtl.OOO 
 
 Paraguay 1,837.431 . ... l,:^37.i!0a 
 
 Urugay 240,965 3,000 237,0 lO 
 
 Haytiand St. nomingo 900,000 10,000 8Su,000 
 
 Dominion of Canada (incl. Prince Edward Island and 
 
 New Foun.Uand) (1861) 3 295.706 1.750,000 l,'1'i5.flrK 
 
 Other BrikishPossessions 1,140,000 600,000 ISO.OOt 
 
 French '•(1662) 30'>,9I2 30R.0((0 
 
 Spanish " 1.032.002 1.032,000' 
 
 Dutch " 66,703 35,000 3O,00C> 
 
 Swedish '* 18,000 ) ,,,,,,,, > ,„„., 
 
 Daniiih " 48,111 j "''^™' | '"•"«- 
 
 72,873,402 27,583, OoO 42,793,000 
 
 At the usual rate of increase in the several i 1867, would amount to about 80 000,000, of whom 
 
 countries O' America since the la.st census, 30,500,000 ma.v be reckoned as Protesiauta and 
 the aggregate ijopulation at the close of this year 1 46,500,900 as Roman Catholics, 
 
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 Ecclesiastical Statistics cf Europe. 
 
 Total. 
 
 P.iTtugal 4,3'19,y66 
 
 S|)«in 16.;tl»2,625 
 
 > r«iicB 3S,(i()7.U<J4 
 
 Xorth Ocrman C'lnfederation i9,-'4h,5:(3 
 
 South GuriuaD States 8.5'-'4.460 
 
 Austria 32.573,0()2 
 
 Italy 24.55ll,M5 
 
 I'apil Stites titfO.OUO 
 
 San Marino 7,600 
 
 Switzerland 2,510.494 
 
 HollauJ (incl. of Luxemburg) 3,735 682 
 
 BelKium 4,3i)3,0vil 
 
 O.reat Britain 29,591,(1(19 
 
 Denmai k l,tiM,0()4 
 
 Sweden and Norway 5,6l4.3b6 
 
 Russia 67 ,71il, 1 76 
 
 Turkey 15.725.967 
 
 Greece 1.096,310 
 
 rotestanta. 
 
 Kmn Cath. 
 
 7,0(10 
 
 4,340,000 
 
 10,000 
 
 16,280.001 
 
 1,6110.000 
 
 36,000.000 
 
 20,682,(100 
 
 7,f75,O0O 
 
 3,351,0(10 
 
 4,935.000 
 
 3,237,(J('0 
 
 25,058,000 
 
 60,000 
 
 24,000,000 
 
 1,000 
 
 6,680,000 
 
 
 7,000 
 
 1,482,000 
 
 1.023,000 
 
 2,200,(100 
 
 1,450.000 
 
 25.000 
 
 4,8 0,000 
 
 23,000,000 
 
 6,000,000 
 
 1,675,000 
 
 1,000 
 
 5,800,(100 
 
 5.100 
 
 3,918,000 
 
 7,081.000 
 
 30.000 
 
 640,000 
 
 3.000 
 
 60,000 
 
 287,066 174 67,051,000 I46,23O,0iiO 
 
 The population connected with the Greek Church is about 70,000,000. The number of Jewi 
 la estimated ut 3,300,000, and that of the Mohammedans at 4,800,000. 
 
 Ecclesiastical Statistics of Asia. 
 
 The total popoulation in the following column is taken from Brehra's Geographisches Jahrbnek 
 (Vol. I. isOO.) 
 
 Inhabitants. Protestaata. Rom. Cath. Tot. Chtsh, 
 
 Russian Dominions 9,:i27.9ti6 40,0(0 K'.OOO 4,500,000 
 
 Turkish Uominious 16,050,900 10,000 260,000 3,270.000 
 
 Arabia 4,0(10.000 
 
 Persia 5,000,' 00 2,000 10,000 70,000 
 
 Affghanist.in and Herat 4,(iO(i.onO ..... .... 
 
 Beloochistan 2,000.0(10 .... .... 
 
 Toorkislan 7,870.000 
 
 China and dependencies 477. S^O. 0(10 
 
 Japan 35,000,000 
 
 India (incl. of British dominions in Far- 
 ther India.) 187.694 323 
 
 Ceylon 1,919,187 
 
 Farther India 21.109,(00 
 
 Easl India lilauds 27.164.728 
 
 79S 635,504 723.000 4.580,000 12.951.000 
 
 To the East Asiatic religions a population of about 600,000,000 belong. The number of 
 Msbamniediins in Asia is estimated at 50,000,000. The number of Jews will hardly be more tLaa 
 about 5UO,000. 
 
 Ecclesiastical Statistics of Africa, 
 
 20,000 
 1,000 
 
 70n,000 
 10,000 
 
 750,000 
 11,000 
 
 500,000 
 
 1,600,000 
 
 2,200,000 
 
 150,000 
 
 2,000,000 
 
 2.150.000 
 
 The total population of Africa is estimated in 
 Brehm's tiiti>gr:ip'iisclies Ja/irOurh (Vol. I. 18fi(i) 
 a itaodard authority in geographical matters, 
 at about Its. 000. 0(10 divided as follows : 
 
 1. Kasicrn Africa 29.610.000 
 
 2. South Africa 15.843.000. 
 
 3. Islands in the Indian (Jcean 3,838,000. 
 
 4. Islauds in the Atlantic Ocean 114,000. 
 
 R'im. Cath, 
 
 British Possessions I4(i.('(i0 
 
 French " 1 :i3,O0O 
 
 Portuguese " 439.i 00 
 
 t^panish " 12 000 
 
 Angola. Benguela. Mozambique lOo.OOO 
 
 Algiers 185,O(i0 
 
 Egypt 27.( 00 
 
 Aliy-'sinia 30,(j00 
 
 Liberia 
 
 Morocco and Fez 2'10 
 
 Tunis and Tripoli. 10.000 
 
 Madagascar 1,000 
 
 4. The Northern Coast 4,000.000. 
 
 6. Moham. Count, of Ceut. Africa 61,100,000. 
 
 7. Western Africa 8.308,000. 
 
 8. Equatorial Territory 43,000 OCO. 
 The Statistics of the Christian population or 
 
 raiher the population under the influence of 
 Christianity) are about as follows : 
 
 Protestants. 
 
 Tot. Christ. 
 
 650,000 
 
 800,000 
 
 
 140,0CO 
 
 
 439.000 
 
 
 12,000 
 
 
 100.000 
 
 10.000 
 
 20!l.0:)(l 
 
 2,000 
 
 2(iii,(00 
 
 
 J,000,000 
 
 50,000 
 
 50,000 
 
 26,000 
 
 21,600 
 
 i.077,MOO 732,01,0 4,Ma2,0t,0 
 
v<f3 
 
 MiihamtnedaDS are estimafed at about 100,000,000 : Jews in Morrocco, 340,000 : also nameroas 
 in Abysainia. The rest belongs to various pagan religions. 
 
 Ecclesiastical Statistics of Australasia and Polynesia. 
 
 Total Population. Protestants. Kom. Cath. 
 
 New South Wales 378.935 
 
 Victoria 574.331 
 
 South Australia 14('.416 
 
 West Australia 18.780 
 
 Tasmania 92.5ia 
 
 New Zealand J75,:<57 
 
 Queensland 59,712 
 
 1,439,050 1,050,00 350,000 
 
 The totol population of Australasia and Polynesia is about 3.854,000; of whom about 1,200,000 
 may be e-tim;vted as Protesiants and 4(10.000 as Roman Cailiolics. 
 The following are detailed statistics ot three of the Australian Colonies. 
 
 NEW SOUTH WALES. 
 
 Numbers 1861. 
 
 Church of England 159 95R 
 
 iTfSbyterihiis 34 692 
 
 Wesleyans • 23.t)93 
 
 CongregatioLalists 5,4 1 1 
 
 OtherP otestants 9,Ht>3 
 
 Roman Catholics 99,193 
 
 Hebrews 1.75'.) 
 
 llohammedaus and Asiatic creeds ]2.9i'H 
 
 All others 3,393 
 
 There were at the same period, 270 churches 
 and 447 chapel.'*, or buildinscs used as such, i)ro- 
 Yiding .TCComodarion for 119.075 people, that is, 
 rather under one-third of the total population, 
 havinj:; an oversige attemlance of 86,674, or under 
 oue-fuurtli ot the population. 
 
 SOUTH AUSTRALIA. 
 
 Numbers 1861. 
 
 Church of England 43 
 
 Kv)oiaii Cafholicj 15, 
 
 Wesleyan Methodists ... 14 
 
 Gi-rman LHther.ans 11 
 
 Independents (i 
 
 Church of .Scotland 4 
 
 Bible Christians 4 
 
 Free Church of Scotland 4 
 
 Primitive Methodists 3 
 
 Bn;^ sts 3 
 
 Ch!*.ians 1 
 
 United Presbyterians 1 
 
 Other Chris tiHD Denominations 
 
 Unitarians 
 
 Hebrews 
 
 Jloraviatis 
 
 New Church 
 
 Society of Friends 
 
 Mchanimedans and Pagans 
 
 Not specilie J 1 , 
 
 Total ^ 126,530 
 
 VICTOR FA. 
 
 DEMOMINATIOirS. 
 
 Numbers 1861 
 
 Church of Engl, and Episcop. Protest.. . .205,695 
 
 Free Church 454 
 
 Protestants (not otherwise defined) 5,919 
 
 Presbyterian Church of Victoria 5,(i5 j 
 
 Church of .ScodanI 3f.,917 
 
 I'ree Church of Scotl. and Free Presb 21,219 
 
 United Pie.-^b.vierian Church 10,734 
 
 Other Presbyterian Churches 346 
 
 Presbyterians (not otherwise defined) ... 6,835 
 
 Unitarians 1,430 
 
 .Society of Friends 273 
 
 Calvinists and Calvinistic Methodists 650 
 
 other persuasions I,2.i7 
 
 Roman Cati.olics ]07,6l(» 
 
 Catholics (no otherwise defined) ^,219 
 
 Greek Church 239 
 
 Israelites and Chiislian Israelites 395 
 
 Latter Day Saints or Mormons I(i8 
 
 Jews 2.9()3 
 
 Wesleyans, Wesl. Meth., and -Vlethod 40.799 
 
 "Primitive Me'hodists 0,775 
 
 Wesleyan Methodists As oci:>tionandUnit, 
 
 Free Methodist Churches 1,448 
 
 Bible Christians 651 
 
 Other Wesleyan Methodi-ts 140 
 
 Independents or Ccngregatioualists 12.777 
 
 Baptists 9,001 
 
 Lotherans and German Prote8t;ints 10.043 
 
 Unsectavian, no den.m. and .S cularists. . 953 
 
 'N'o religion' , 441 
 
 Mohammedans 189 
 
 '^agans (incl. of Chinese) 1,672 
 
 Chinese 24,5.')1 
 
 Unspecified adults 2,391 
 
 " children m 642 
 
 Objecting to Siate 11.53:i 
 
 Uneuumerated m'gratory population 3,361 
 
 Total 54U,32i 
 
ti 
 
 Bnptdsta. 
 
 i. ReguiaT Baptists tn tht United States in 1868. 
 
 Stales. Assoc. Church. Tot.Pop. 
 
 Alabama, IffiO 2a buS 61,219 
 
 Arkainas, i860 16 3il 11,341 
 
 CKlifornitt 2 36 1,991 
 
 Connecticut 7 114 18,447 
 
 l>elaware — 5 609 
 
 District of Columbia — 7 2,102 
 
 Klorida,1860 5 \H 6,463 
 
 Georgia, 1869 39 994 8»,567 
 
 Illinois 36 719 46,129 
 
 lodiana _ 30 450 29.103 
 
 Indian Teiritcry, 1860 4 45 4,3flO 
 
 Iowa 17 278 14,377 
 
 Kansas, 1865 4 46 1,119 
 
 Kentucky, 1865 47 944 81,631 
 
 Louisiana, 1869 10 209 10.264 
 
 Maine 13 208 19,870 
 
 Maryl.xnd 1 39 4,348 
 
 Massachusetts 14 285 37,948 
 
 Michigan 13 239 15,378 
 
 Minnesota 6 123 3,434 
 
 Mississippi, 1860 22 598 41.610 
 
 Missouri... 37 749 44,877 
 
 Nebraska, 1865 1 10 217 
 
 >ewnampshire 7 84 7.718 
 
 New Jersey 5 129 21,094 
 
 New Mexico, 1864 — 1 49 
 
 New York 45 814 91,92s 
 
 North Carolina, 1860 27 696 60.532 
 
 Ohio 30 482 33.809 
 
 Oregon 3 29 1,082 
 
 Pennsylvania 18 427 47,700 
 
 Khodelsla'd 3 56 8 537 
 
 South Carolina. 1660 18 473 62.984 
 
 Tennessee, 1600 24 663 46.561 
 
 Texas 22 456 19.089 
 
 Vermont 7 108 7,714 
 
 Virginia 22 622 116,526 
 
 AVe«t Virginia 8 220 12.774 
 
 Wisconsin 12 172 8 891 
 
 Germ. Hml Dutch Church.. 2 76 3,896 
 
 Swedish Churches 1 13 600 
 
 Welsh CliurcLes, 1860 3 34 1,400 
 
 Tot. in theUnit»d Sta'e'. .609 12.955 1,094.8(16 
 
 Tlie tn'nl pumt)er of niiiii.-ters (reported at tlje 
 dates ah.)ve given in tli" several States) is 
 b.3'16. and of baptism-. 92,075. 
 
 'i.-baptistn 171 tiie Untisli Frovincfs nf America, 
 Assoc.Church.Toi.I'op. 
 
 Kova Scotia 3 155 16..Su6 
 
 New Bruuiwick ...2 119 8 755 
 
 Cnadii 11 275 15.C91 
 
 West India Inlands 4 101 22,261 
 
 650 
 
 .415 
 
 Grand Tot. in N. America . . .22 
 
 Tliese fiovince* report 444 miuis^ers and 2o36 
 bapti!^ms, 
 
 • 3. — UlKtr Baptist Denominations if America, 
 Assoc. Church.Tot. Pop. 
 
 Antl-MisBinn Baptists 18'l 1.8'i0 105.ni,0 
 
 Ffe-Will iiaptistg 147 1,264 56.25H 
 
 8ix-l'rinriple Ba;)ti3t, 1600 .. — • 18 3.000 
 
 K«veiilli-I)ny Kaptists 4 
 
 Church of God, (Winebren- 
 
 narians.)* 10 
 
 Disciples (Cflmpbellites)!. . .. 
 
 Tmikers. l.'-f)" i -,- 
 
 SlonnniiileK. IM'iO 
 
 08 
 
 360 
 
 5,000 
 200 
 
 7,039 
 
 32.000 
 
 500,000 
 20.000 
 30.280 
 
 Tlios* deuouiiuuiions bav« 5,U22 miuUter*. 
 
 4. — "Baptists in Great Britain. 
 
 At the session of the (Tarticnlar) BapMjt 
 Unim of Etigla-'d in April 1866, 2023 churchei 
 reported, 209.773 members, showing an increase 
 from the year before of 130 churches and 4973 
 members. But 400 small churches are still un- 
 reported. Fifty-six new cha))el8 were erected 
 during the year, with sittings for about 25,000 
 persons, and 25 new churches w«re originated. 
 
 The following statistics of other Baptists ia 
 Great Britain are given by the census of 1851. 
 (In England.) No.ofCliurch.No.of sitt'gs. 
 
 r.eneral Baptists 93 20,539 
 
 Serenth-Diy Baptists 2 390 
 
 New connect. Gen. Bapt... 182 62,604 
 
 Scett. Bapt, (in Engl.) 15 2,547 
 
 Bantists in Scotland 119 26,076 
 
 The annual meetlngsi of the Christian fCamp- 
 bellite) Churches of England, Scotland, Ireland 
 and Wales, wliich was held at Nottingham in 
 August lfe66, reported 505 ad^litions. The pre- 
 sent membership of the Churches represented ifl 
 4G07. How many Churches were unrepresented, 
 is not stated. The inrome for the year was £610 
 123. 6d. The expenditures £482 Os. 11 Jid. 
 
 5. — Baptist Benevolent Societies in the United 
 States. 
 
 The following are the names of the Baptist Be- 
 nevolent and other societies, with the date of 
 their organization, aud amount of receipts for 
 the year preceding tlie la»t report. U Araericaa 
 Baptist Missionary Union, organized 1814, la't 
 year's receipts, $191,714,000; 1[ American Bap- 
 tist Publication Society, 1824, $240,165 88, and 
 has published 171,037,050 18mo. pag>-s during 
 the yeir ; H American Baptist Home ilissiou i^o- 
 ciety, 1832, $17(J.899 0'*: American and Foreign 
 Biule Society, 1838, $51,407 45; If Anieri-an 
 Baptist Free Mission Socisty, 1843, $21. 31b 97; 
 U .-^raerioan Baptist Historical Society, 1843. 
 $368 21, and 459 volumes added to ihc library. 
 
 6.—Bnpti3t Periodicals in tlie United States. 
 
 Thirty-six Bnptist Periodicals— 24 weekly, 10 
 monthly, a'ld 2 quarterly : ar< published in the 
 United Slates, and 3 weekly peri dic:i'3 in the 
 Biitisii provinces. Tlie Bnpti^t educalionti.l in- 
 stitutions in the United --tiies number 30 colleges 
 and 14 theological institutions. 
 
 7. — Baptist Missions on the Continent of Europe. 
 
 Church Memb. Memb. 
 
 Dec. I s66Dec. 1 - 65Deo.l8l>fi 
 
 Frame 6 
 
 GerniHuy 64 
 
 I)i'ijinar< 16 
 
 HlUinrt 1 
 
 Switzerland 1 
 
 France (Germ, miss.) .. . 1 
 
 J'olan.l 1 
 
 Kussia 3 
 
 Sweden lf'3 
 
 3i7 
 
 358 
 
 11.239 
 
 1I.84 
 
 1,702 
 
 1,72B 
 
 36 
 
 !>-2 
 
 269 
 
 iu 
 
 67 
 
 Cfi 
 
 268 
 
 312 
 
 6'. 17 
 
 857 
 
 6 489 
 
 6.875 
 
 Total. 
 
 .276 21,U64 22.402 
 
 * The estim-ities nf thisdenominntion vary from 
 25.000 to 40,000. Tliefiy.ues heie given avo a 
 medium. 
 
 t Theie are supported by this denomination 
 11 C(dl.>geB and Unirrrsities, 27 female Colleges 
 nud MiJiiiiaries. and 26 periodicals ; viz. fi week- 
 ly, 2 si-iiii-monlhly, IC monthly, and one quttrler- 
 1/ periudicul. 
 
«9 
 
 There are ISOO stations and outstations coo- 
 Dectud with the European missions, and about 
 31)0 pre^ichers and assistants. Baptisms last 
 year, 2:^80. Exclusive of the Swedish, these 
 churches contributed 40,599 Prussian thalera to 
 he misiiiouary fund. 
 
 8. — Asiatic Missions, 
 
 The Asiatic Missions are in Burmah and the 
 neighboring liintrdoms, S^iam and China. They 
 embrace 16 stations where missionaries reside, 
 and 400 ovitstaiions with 90 American mission- 
 aries, and 300 native preachers and assistants, 
 and about 16,000 members. 
 
 The Mission Press at Rangoon printed during 
 the year endinir September 30., 1865, 171,960 
 copies of books and tracts (mostly in native 
 languages^ giving a total of 8,573,200 pages, 
 9, — Bap'tst!) in Australia. 
 
 There are 3424 Baptists In South Australia, and 
 96t)l in Victoria. 
 
 10. — Mennoniles in Europe and Asia, 
 
 The number of Mennonites in Europe and Asia- 
 tic Knssia was computed in 1860 at 10,000, and 
 an estimate made at this time gave the total 
 Mennonite population of the worli (not memliers 
 but the entire i)opulation connected with the 
 Congregations) at 222,237. 
 
 Msthodists. 
 
 1. — Methodist Episcopal Church, 
 The following table presents the presentwiem- 
 bership and thei .crease, by Conferences, iu both 
 the ministerial force and the laity: 
 
 Conferences. B.S ^ S 
 
 > a B •- 
 
 Alabama 46 9, 
 
 Bailimoce 107 15 
 
 Black River 213 20, 
 
 Ctlifornia lt)6 5. 
 
 Central (ierman 90 9 
 
 Central Illinois 170 21, 
 
 Cinlral Ohio 128 20. 
 
 Ci:-.cinnati 157 3J, 
 
 Colorado 10 
 
 Delaware 40 9. 
 
 Des Moines 90 12. 
 
 Detroit 174 19, 
 
 Enst Baltimore.. .* 231 38. 
 
 East Genesee 203 23, 
 
 Eastern German 29 2, 
 
 East Maine 91 10, 
 
 K,ia 258 31, 
 
 Genesee 1^0 9> 
 
 Georgia 40 10, 
 
 Germany and Switzerl'd. . 43 5 
 
 Holston M 2^' 
 
 Illinois l^y 32 
 
 Irrdia Mission 24 
 
 Indiana 133 28. 
 
 Iowa.. -.110 19. 
 
 Kansas 74 7, 
 
 Kentucky 81 13, 
 
 Liberia Mission... 19 1. 
 
 Maine 120 12, 
 
 Michigan 16fi 19. 
 
 Minnesota 101 8 
 
 Mississippi 31 7, 
 
 Missouri and Arkansas.. ..161 20416 
 
 Nebraska 30 2,106 
 
 Nevada II 367 
 
 Newark 159 27,465 
 
 New England - ...206 22.2y6 
 
 New Hampshire 127 12 620 
 
 New Jersey 152 27.588 
 
 New York 257 37.446 
 
 New York East 215 35,312 
 
 North Indiana 137 30 079 
 
 North Ohio 123 16,371 
 
 Northwestern German .. .. 85 6,323 
 
 Nor;hwest Indiana 107 18,016 
 
 Northwest Wisconsin 40 3.351 
 
 Ohio 157 31,849 
 
 Oneida. 188 19,697 
 
 Oregim 59 4218 
 
 Philadelphia 280 57,687 
 
 Pittsburj;h 232 44.049 
 
 Providence 131 I7,4l9 
 
 Roc^ River 205 21 033 
 
 South Carolina 29 9,668 
 
 Southeastern Indiana 84 17,713 
 
 Southern Jllinois 127 22.238 
 
 Soutliwestern German 94 7.557 
 
 Tennesoes 61 6.110 
 
 Texas 17 1.584 
 
 Troy 218 27 585 
 
 Upper Iowa 138 16.669 
 
 Vermont ] 38 13,275 
 
 Virginia 14 671 
 
 Wa»hinKt..n 75 17,463 
 
 Won Viginia 107 26.783 
 
 West Wisconsin 77 ?.200 
 
 Wi.-cinain 155 l.i.333 
 
 Wyoming 118 1 7,033 
 
 a 
 
 A 
 
 ,341 
 
 0341 
 
 768 
 
 1.721 
 
 ,933 
 
 dec. 566 
 
 .766 
 592 
 
 1,284 
 438 
 
 ,736 
 
 067 
 
 1,332 
 923 
 
 ,008 
 
 208 
 
 524 
 
 193 
 
 ,024 
 
 809 
 
 882 
 
 793 
 
 368 
 306 
 
 ,858 
 
 2,228 
 
 1,404 
 
 438 
 
 ,659 
 
 231 
 
 ,052 
 
 dec. 625 
 
 ,873 
 
 1.003 
 
 ,465 
 
 194 
 
 235 
 
 928 
 
 10,235 
 
 578 
 
 ■720 
 
 5.509 
 
 835 
 
 2,205 
 
 358 
 
 93 
 
 .740 
 
 1.317 
 
 186 
 
 1,641 
 
 046 
 
 1 119 
 
 ,997 
 
 7,10) 
 
 ,376 
 
 dec. 54 
 
 ,538 
 
 401 
 
 993 
 790 
 
 1,929 
 48 
 
 ,899 
 
 5,207 
 
 7,70a 
 
 109 
 
 122 
 
 8,210 
 
 1,25S 
 
 597 
 
 dec. 182 
 
 939 
 
 1.430 
 
 1.82-i 
 
 1,125 
 
 5«4 
 
 444 
 
 181 
 
 C84 
 
 412 
 
 873 
 
 103 
 
 868 
 
 1,184 
 
 683 
 
 6,531 
 
 dec. 429 
 
 1,08.1 
 
 557 
 
 2,934 
 
 l,56Sf 
 
 1.124 
 
 1,598 
 
 'Mi 
 
 671 
 
 4.251 
 
 7,673 
 
 798 
 
 1.5(17 
 
 191 
 
 Total 7.989 1,144,763 
 
 Last year 7,576 1,(132,184 
 
 Increase 413 112,579 
 
 0{ Annual Conferences there are 68, an in- 
 crease of four over the previous year. This in- 
 crease has been obtained by extending the 
 work in the South. The new conferences or- 
 ganized are : Virginia and North Carolina, or- 
 ganized .January 3.; Texas, January 3.; Georgia, 
 October 10. ; Alabama, October 17.— The number 
 of Churches (houses of worship) is 11,138, beinx 
 an increase for the year of 676 ; nuinbor of 
 parsonages, 3,570. an increase of 256. The total 
 value of these cliurch edifices and parsonages is 
 441,012,479, being; an increase for the year of 
 $6,997,516. The increase in p tnonage properttf 
 alone is nearly a mllion of dolLirs. Full reports 
 of the centenary returns had not been made up 
 to November. Thirty-seven conferences had re- 
 ported a total of $6,141,027. The returns from the 
 remaining conferences it was expected would 
 swell this amount to over seven miUiona of 
 dollars. 
 
 The Statistics of the Principal Societies of the 
 Church durinst the year 1866 were as follows : 
 
 Missionary Society of the Methodist E/nscopal 
 r/iurrAorg.anized in r819. Receipts last year, 
 $671,090 66. Appropriations foi 1807, $1,030,978 
 00. It supports 2341 missionaries and ministeis 
 to 75,754 members. 
 
 Church Extension Society organized 1864. Re- 
 ceipts in 1866, $60,000. It has assisted during 
 the year in building 139 churches. 
 
 Sunday School Vnion. Contributions $19,859 
 89. Sunday Schools, 13,845 : officer* and teacU- 
 
C6 
 
 en, lfi2.0nn ; scholar*, 980,706; volnmes In 
 libraries i.Oi^.Hi. All show an increase from 
 lost year. I'agna printeil 5!j9,74l fi'24. 
 
 Trarl Snruly. Keceipts. $14.57124, an In- 
 creas-of $1007 63 from la-it year. Disbur^Hments 
 $12,318 Ii3. y.<f;-i printed la-t year. 3,83ii.UllO. 
 Ailil i-')i>'l Vfics rcJuceil to 12mo pages, and we 
 have 22. (lis Onil. One thousand dollars have 
 be-n grHiitfd to Germany, and smaller amounts 
 to India and other fields. 
 
 There are under charge of th« Methodist Epis- 
 copal Chiiic!i, iwen'y-three Colleges and Uni- 
 versities, five Tfieolojjical Seminaries, and 82 
 Seminarie^. Female Colleg'-s a',d .Academies. 
 
 The li nk Cunctrn ol the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church beloiigi to the General Conference and 
 is under its control. It has two publishing 
 houses at New Yoik and at Cincinnati, under 
 the charjie of .•separate comraitt es and separate 
 publishing agents, and depositories in Boston. 
 Chicago Pitts lurgh, Baff.ilo, St. I,)ui-', and San 
 Krancisco. Tlie B jok .Agents publish over nine- 
 teen hundred different bound V 'lumes, and the 
 unbouii I anil tract list embraces about one thou- 
 Band. the tracts varying from two to sixly-four 
 ))ages eacli. The books and tracts are in Eng- 
 lish, German, Welsh, Swe<lish, Danish, and 
 French. Toe sales for 1806 were, at .New York. 
 $775,513 19: at Cincinnati, $628,453 66 ; total 
 $1,303, yUti 92, 
 
 Sixteen Periodicals: 1 quarterly review, I 
 monthly, 9 weekl'es, one German vree^ly, I 
 mi sionary journal, 2 iunday scliod papers, ani 
 1 paper in the interest of the M. E. Traci Societ/ 
 ar.; ]>ublished by direction of the General Con- 
 ferenc :. 
 
 The Compirntive Progress of the Methodist 
 R»)iMCopal Church during the C>st century ot 
 its existence is shown by ihe following table : 
 
 Years. 
 
 1707 
 
 1770 
 
 1786 
 
 17% 
 
 1^06.... 
 
 Trav. Preach. Memb. 
 
 24 
 117 
 293 
 452 
 
 '6 695 
 
 ls20 1.4(6 
 
 1835 2.928 
 
 1846 3 682 
 
 1956 5.877 
 
 4.921 
 
 20,689 
 56,664 
 130,560 
 214.235 
 360,800 
 650.109 
 '644,223 
 800.327 
 
 I860 7,576 1 ,032, 1 84 
 
 * By the withdrawal and sepiration of 8outTl- 
 ern conferences in 1844, organizing the Metho- 
 di-t Eoi.<copal Church. South, the Methodist 
 Kpisc ipal Church lost 1,345 traveling preachers 
 and 495.288 members, and yet, so rapid was her 
 (■rowth during the decade, that at its close (two 
 years after the separation) there was a net gain 
 of 754 preachers, and a luck ot only 5.874 mem- 
 bei s of making up the number lost. 
 
 2. — Methodist Episcopal Ckurch, South. 
 
 The following statistics were published in the Southern Methodist Almanac for 1860. 
 official statistics of the Church have been published since the beginning of the war. 
 
 No 
 
 Conferences. Trav. Preach. 
 
 Ken;ucky 81 
 
 liouisville 86 
 
 Missouri 84 
 
 St. Louis 103 
 
 Kansas Mission 24 
 
 Tennes -ee 1 90 
 
 Ilolston ....no 
 
 Memphis 152 
 
 Mississippi 124 
 
 Louisiana • 68 
 
 Virgin a 174 
 
 Westi-rn Virginia 57 
 
 North Caro ina 117 
 
 South Carolina 150 
 
 Georgia 197 
 
 A abaina 202 
 
 Florida. 77 
 
 Texas 130 
 
 Kasiern Texas 80 
 
 Arkansas 53 
 
 Wachiia 66 
 
 luiliaii Mis-ion 34 
 
 Pacific 49 
 
 ToUl 2,408 
 
 Members in Society 
 
 Whites. 
 
 Col. .'tnd In. 
 
 17,737 
 
 6 1 96 
 
 22,068 
 
 4 160 
 
 17,566 
 
 1,915 
 
 22.074 
 
 1,669 
 
 590 
 
 156 
 
 37,3.19 
 
 7,794 
 
 44,977 
 
 4.642 
 
 32,153 
 
 7,960 
 
 16.157 
 
 15,655 
 
 8,3ii8 
 
 5,061 
 
 38,086 
 
 7.007 
 
 10,337 
 
 295 
 
 31,435 
 
 13,195 
 
 37,095 
 
 46.740 
 
 53,863 
 
 25,166 
 
 45,640 
 
 24.086 
 
 9,585 
 
 7,778 
 
 13,990 
 
 3.663 
 
 14,166 
 
 2,398 
 
 12,178 
 
 1,174 
 
 9,532 
 
 2,400 
 
 88 
 
 3,787 
 
 2,667 
 
 14 
 
 Total. 
 23.228 
 26.540 
 19,725 
 24,065 
 762 
 45,704 
 50.144 
 40,662 
 34,150 
 13,612 
 45.473 
 10,767 
 41,94ft 
 84,201 
 79,831 
 70,481 
 J 7,569 
 17983 
 16,84» 
 13.2661 
 13,160 
 3,964 
 2,7GH 
 
 499,694 
 
 191,915 
 
 699J64 
 
 Superannuated preachers, 163; local preachers, 4964. 
 
 At the (ii-iieral Conference of 1866, the number of Conferenees represented was 2.S ; Alabama 
 having bfiMi divided into Montgomery and Mobile. Texas into Texas and Kio Grande, and the 
 Italiini re Conference (part of the rialtimore Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, being 
 admitted. 
 
 In IrO? Bi.'veral "Christian Union fhurchcs" of Illinois were organized into the Illinois Conference. 
 
 The Church has suffered a large dccrea-e in its colored membership. A number of Annual Coo- 
 fe!«iices have not reported their itutisticsj and DO official statement of the aggregate membership 
 vail tlierefuie be given. 
 
67 
 
 The session of the Annual Conferences for If 67 
 began in Se|iteinber. The return of the Ten- 
 nessee Conference show ao increase nt' 3,400 
 white members ; decrease of colored members, 
 390. iircacliers received on trial. 21; readmitted 
 3; located. 5; increase of local preachers 69. 
 
 The West Virginia Conference reports an in- 
 crease of 3,000 members, and 7 preachers re- 
 ceived on trial. Forty-five preachers were 
 stationed. 
 
 The new Illinois Conference has about 40 
 preachers. 
 
 In 18fi7, there were 30 Annual Conferences : 
 Kentucky Mississippi South Georgia 
 
 ]>ouisville I.ouifiana Florida 
 
 Missouri Montgomery West Virginia 
 
 !St. Louis Mobile Virginia 
 
 Indian Mission Texas North Carolina 
 
 Arkansas East Texas South Carolina 
 
 Ijittle RoO'C Nortlnv. Texas Baltimore 
 Tennessee Wnst Texas Colujnbia(Oreg.) 
 
 Holston Triuity (Texas) Pacific (Califor.j 
 
 Memphis North Georgia Illinois 
 
 Offirinl Papers were in 1667 published at 
 Nashville, Macon, Richmond. Memphis, St. 
 Louis, New Orleans, Little Rock, Gaive'ion, 
 San Francisco, and independent papers at 
 Baltimore, Raleigh, Jackson, Catlesburg. 
 
 The Church sustains a mission in China, 
 
 The nnmber of colleges in 1860 was 12, of fe- 
 nials colleges, high schools and academics 
 auout bU. 
 
 S.— Methodist Protestants. 
 
 The main body of the Methodist Protestants 
 comprising the conferences in the Noithern 
 . States held in 1866, a "union convention" which 
 was to effect a union between Non-Episcopal 
 Methiidists. The name of the new body was to 
 be simply the "Methodist" Church. But this 
 plan of union was repudiated by all save the 
 Methodist Protestants and the new "Methodist" 
 Church is sustantially identical with the former 
 Methodist Protestant Conferences of the North- 
 ern States. The complete statistical report made 
 jn 1867 is approximately, not fully, as follows : 
 Annual Conferences, ID ; Ministers, 625 ; local 
 prpachers, 430; communicants, 50,000; churches, 
 480; parsonages, 104, property value, $1,150,000. 
 Contributidn for missions in 6 months were less 
 than $600. 
 
 Thi ir Bdok Concern has real estate, valued at 
 twelve or fifteen thousand dollars only. 
 
 The number of Meihodist Protestants in the 
 Nprth and South together is estimated at about 
 100,000. The present membership in the Mary- 
 land district is between nine and ten thousand ; 
 itinerant ministers, 75; local preachers, 45; and 
 Sunday-schciol children about 10,000. 
 
 The 'Methodist" Church publishes a weekly 
 paper at Springfield, Ohio, and the Southern 
 Methodist Proiestiiuts have an organ at Balti- 
 more. In both these cities there are book con- 
 cerng. 
 
 4. — The Wesltyan Connection. 
 
 At the "Union Connection" held in 1S66 to 
 effect a union with the Methodist Protestant 
 and other Non-EpiscopalChurches, the following 
 annual Conferences were represented : Central 
 Ohio, New York, Iowa, Indiana, Miami, Michi- 
 gan, Rochester, Alleghany, and Syracuse. 
 
 The membership of the denomination is about 
 25.1 00. There 13 a denomiaationul Book-Concern 
 lU, Syracuse, 
 
 5. — Free Methodist Churches. 
 
 This Church, in Oct. 1860, reported thefolloW* 
 
 ing statistics : 
 
 AnnualConferences Preach. Memb.ChurchPr'ty. 
 
 Genesee 31 2,025 $46,050 
 
 Illinois 25 1 j-.TS 42,550 
 
 Snsqiiehana 21 1,104 7,349 
 
 Michigan 8 482 
 
 Total 85 4,839 $95,949 
 
 6, — Primitiue Methodists. 
 
 The following statistics were reported in 1865 • 
 42 Sabbath-schools; 3,018 teacher« and scholars ; 
 20 traveling preachers ; 14 parsonages, and 36 
 churches valued at $43,200 (indebtedness $3000). 
 Members about 2000, mostly in Wisconsin and 
 Illinois. 
 
 7. — Evangelical Association. 
 
 The statistics of this denomination, for 1867, 
 not rtaching us in time, for insertion here, we 
 expect to give on auolh'.T place. 
 
 8, — African Methodist Episcopal Churches. 
 
 Of these there aiv two, generally called the 
 "African Methodist Fpiscopa) Church" and the 
 '"AfricanMi-thodistKpiscoiial Zion Church". Both 
 have of late lar^-ely increased iu membership in 
 the Southern States. 
 
 The former, in 1867, had 10 Conferences, 550 
 preachers, including 5 bi-hops, but exclusive of 
 1500 local preaches, and about 200,000 mem- 
 bers, nine-tentns of whom live in the southera 
 Mates. They have Churoli property to the 
 amount ot four millions ol dollars, a Book Con- 
 cern in Philadelphia, a weekly newspaper, and 
 a college in Oliio. 
 
 The second organization reports more than 
 60,000 members, with nearly 3U0 traveling and 
 many local preachers. 
 
 0. — Methodist Churches of Canada. 
 
 The Canadian M. E. Ciiurch suffers a small de- 
 crease. The Magava Confi-reuce, at its late 
 ses.-ion reported a total ot ministers and mem- 
 bers of 7,294, showiiig ai/ increase of 62; the On- 
 tario Conference repoi".e<l 5,376, a decrease of 
 315 ; and tlie Bay of Q liute Conference 6,287, an 
 increase of 63. From tlie foregoing it will be 
 seen that the atrgregate increase in the first and 
 last named amounts to l;i5, but the large de- 
 crease in the Ontario Conference over-balances 
 the increase in the other two by 190. 
 
 For the statistics of the otlier Methodist bodies 
 which are in connection with ilie Methodist 
 Churches of Great Britain, see the latter. 
 
 10. — Wesleyan Connection of Great Britain. 
 
 I. British Conferenc : JIeiiib,,lDcr'se.Decr'3e. 
 
 Great Britain JS6,07f) 5,887 
 
 Ireland, and Irish Missions. , li),657 178 
 
 Foreign Missions 61,794 1,898 
 
 II. French Conference 1,890 191 
 
 III. Australasian Conf 49,433 1,738 
 
 IV. Canad* Conlerence 65,078 1,124 
 
 V. Conference of Ea^^tern 
 
 British America 14,873, 402 
 
 Totals .539.795 10,838 580 
 
 Last year 529.537 580 
 
 Ket Increase 10,258 10,258 
 
68 
 
 Connrxional Tnstitutiont. 
 
 1. Home Mission anil Continarnt Fund. In- 
 BtiiutL-d I75fi, rciiiodtllt'il 1^5G. Increase £22,000. 
 Has assistitl dvuinp the ytiir in building 65 
 cliapKia, costing ilOU,y70, and accomodating 
 UU,I47 persons. 
 
 2. Wesley in Chapel Committee. Instituted 
 1818, rciustitiited 1851. K.-ceipts (from sub- 
 scriptions and collections) £7,417 7s. fid. 
 
 Amount expended on Wpsleyan trust property 
 during llie year, £295,594. Amount actually 
 
 riilHed and paid, £Z15,7G0 
 
 To whicli add grants from Connexional 
 
 Funds \8,550 
 
 Total £224,300 
 
 An increase from last year '. . .. £32,406 
 
 3. ChtlJrms Fu'itl. Instituted 1818. . 
 
 This id a fund desired to equalize the assess- 
 
 ment on the elroultg for the support of ministers 
 childreu. It is so divided tliat for a certain 
 number of members in the circuit ('JO in 1856) 
 the circuit shall contribute GO guineas a year, 
 the allowance for each child. 
 
 4. W'esUyan Education Committee. Institnted 
 1837, has charge of Suaday-schooU and Day- 
 schools. 
 
 5. Auxiliary Fuid. The Connexion supports 
 an Auxiliary Fund for the supijort of worn out 
 preachers. 
 
 6. Publication House, Theological Inalitutiav 
 SfC. There are under the charjie of the CoofsT- 
 ence. a Book-room in London, a theological 
 institution with branches at Kichraoud, Surrey, 
 and Didsbnry, near Manchester, jschoils at 
 Kingswood and Wood House Grove, u Normal 
 Institution at Winchester, a college at i^beffield, 
 and a collegiate institution at Xauuton. 
 
 Wetltyans Missions, 
 
 ^.2& 
 
 France, Switzerland and Corsica (17 stations) 31 
 
 Gerniiiiy (ScircuitsJ 8 
 
 lialy (2 circuits) 3 
 
 Spain (Gibraltar and Malta) 2 
 
 North and South Ceylon (22 circuits) .. 31 
 
 India (21 stations and circuits) 34 
 
 China (6 stations) ^ 
 
 Cape of Good Hope (9 circuits) 8 
 
 Graham Town (14 circuits) 19 
 
 Incenstown (12circuit3) 10 
 
 Bechnaner (9 stations) 9 
 
 Natal (10 stations) 15 
 
 Siena Loone, Gambia, and Gold Coast (14 circuits) 23 
 
 Antigua, St. Viucent, ami British Guiana (24 circuits).... 45 
 
 Jamaica, Honduras, Bahama, and Hayti (36 circuitsi 38 
 
 Ireland (24 circuits) 30 
 
 Australasia and Polynesia (164 circuits) 2P2 
 
 British America (298 circuits) 381 
 
 n 
 
 
 
 1 876 
 
 2,114 
 
 10,195 
 
 1,807 
 
 200 
 
 4,481 
 
 20 
 
 182 
 
 
 5 
 
 2114 
 
 600 
 
 2,003 
 
 3.582 
 
 9,3e5 
 
 558 
 
 3.625 
 
 
 58 
 
 225 
 
 218 
 
 r7oi 
 
 2,703 
 
 6,889 
 
 6 907 
 
 5,295 
 
 20 530 
 
 3.381 
 
 1,511 
 
 13,800 
 
 1,088 
 
 1,196 
 
 52.110 
 
 1,613 
 
 1,286 
 
 12.840 
 
 7,923 
 
 5,127 
 
 26,713 
 
 90,406 
 
 11,193 
 
 65,290 
 
 19.479 
 
 8.160 
 
 45,429 
 
 2.185 
 
 1.748 
 
 7,125 
 
 57,18'i 
 
 51,607 
 
 251.5-26 
 
 35,316 
 
 13,957 
 
 140,499 
 
 11. — statistics of the Primitive Methodists, 1867. 
 
 Increase. 
 
 Traveling Preachers 891 
 
 Local Preachers 13,865 
 
 Connexial Chapels 3,118 
 
 Rented Chapels and Rooms 3,192 
 
 Sabbath-schools 2,984 
 
 Sabbath-scholars 234,794 
 
 Subbath-schuol Teachers 41,191 
 
 11 
 
 138 
 126 
 
 7,318 
 988 
 
 This does not include these in the United 
 States, but includes those in the Home Missions 
 auU the Colonics. 
 
 Primitive Methodist Missions. 
 
 Missionaries. Members. 
 
 Home stations 101 7,772 
 
 Irrlanil, Scotland, and Channel 
 
 Island 13 818 
 
 Ausiralin, N. Zealand, and Tas- 
 mania 37 1.904 
 
 Chuada 39 2.919 
 
 Total. 
 
 100 13,413 
 
 12. — Statistics of the Uniled Methodist Free 
 Churches. 
 Ministers, 288, increase, 5: local preachers, 
 3,388; leaders, 4,420; raemners, 67.478, increase, 
 1,721 ; on trial, 5,962, increase. 717 ; chapels, 
 1,173, increase 33 ; other preaching-rooms, 398; 
 Sunday-Schools, 1,121, increase, 46. 
 
 ,. United Mtthudiat Free Churches Missions. 
 
 ' . "a »• -3 2 
 
 a D " C £ 
 
 g £ o (►.•^ 
 
 " St: ~ w 
 
 a .'2 rt ^ ^ 
 
 ti S =' 3 5 
 
 si "^^ 
 
 Australi.nn District (10 circuits).. 12 612 1.431 
 
 Jamaica District (7 circuits) 9 1,795 49S 
 
 Eastern Africa and China 4 6 
 
 Siena and Leone 2,618 563 
 
 To'al _ 25 5.030 2,771 
 
 There are 125 local preachers and 229 leader.* 
 at all these stations. There is an increase of 
 preachers and leaders from last year, but a de- 
 cleasoiu meiabcrs and Prebationers of 441. 
 
69 
 
 13.'— Methodist Sew Connexion.— Statistics. 
 
 The Statistics of this body show a total of 3270 
 members. The increase in England is f^5. But 
 there has been a decrease la Canada of 3U0, 
 making a net decrease of 215. 
 
 Methodist New Connexion Missions. 
 
 =i2 ^3 g| 
 go- B^ w-g 
 
 5 3 S o< 
 
 England 50 952 2,316 
 
 Ireland 12 681 819 
 
 Canada 215 8,110 5,190 
 
 China 10 108 6 
 
 Australia 12 147 240 
 
 Total 299 9,998 8,571 
 
 14. — Wesleyan Reform Union Statistics. 
 
 Increase. 
 
 Members 9,175 243 
 
 Preachers 602 
 
 Chapels... , 285 
 
 Schools 182 
 
 Scholars 17,691 704 
 
 Teachers 782 
 
 United Brethren in Christ 
 
 Conferences. .c oS 
 
 SS 
 
 3 O 
 
 East Pennsylyania 165 
 
 Feunsyl vania 119 
 
 Alleghany 154 
 
 ♦Virginia , 95 
 
 Parkersburg 91 
 
 Western Reserve 102 
 
 Erie 93 
 
 Canada 48 
 
 Kansas 86 
 
 Missouri 101 
 
 Muskingum 77 
 
 California 19 
 
 Oregon 33 
 
 White River 125 
 
 Indiana 125 
 
 Miami 85 
 
 Auglaize 154 
 
 Sandusky, 183 
 
 Scioto 219 
 
 Michigan 119 
 
 North Michigan 111. 
 
 St. Joseph 158 
 
 Upper Wabash, 99 
 
 Lower Wabash 142 
 
 Illinois no 
 
 Central Illinois 82 
 
 Rock River 94 
 
 Wisconsin 57 
 
 Fox River 29 
 
 ilinnesota 41 
 
 North Iowa.... •• •■ 61 
 
 Iowa 63 
 
 East Des Moines 67 
 
 West Des Moines...... : 65 
 
 Ohio German 62 
 
 ^^ 
 
 ■^(C 
 
 4.915 
 
 28 
 
 4,477 
 
 29 
 
 4,380 
 
 25 
 
 3,500 
 
 10 
 
 2,905 
 
 2fl 
 
 2,520 
 
 24 
 
 1,629 
 
 3? 
 
 1,121 
 
 n 
 
 1,918 
 
 34 
 
 2,382 
 
 2fi 
 
 2,735 
 
 20 
 
 271 
 
 9 
 
 832 
 
 6 
 
 4.989 
 
 29 
 
 4,575 
 
 21 
 
 3.814 
 
 25 
 
 3,761 
 
 24 
 
 6,161 
 
 45 
 
 7.315 
 
 37 
 
 3,026 
 
 21 
 
 1,813 
 
 28 
 
 4,064 
 
 47 
 
 3,440 
 
 26 
 
 4,029 
 
 32 
 
 3.120 
 
 26 
 
 2,265 
 
 29 
 
 1,971 
 
 29 
 
 1,293 
 
 15 
 
 480 
 
 12 
 
 502 
 
 15 
 
 1,336 
 
 20 
 
 1,497 
 
 15 
 
 1,450 
 
 25 
 
 1,427 
 
 20 
 
 1,253 
 
 19 
 
 Tennessee 209 g 
 
 Kentucky — 402 6 
 
 Cascade 3 106 4 
 
 Total for 1867 3,444 97,982 837 
 
 Total for 1866 3,297 91,570 789 
 
 Increase 148 6,413 
 
 There are 4,428 preaching places, 2042 Sunday 
 schools, with 94,180 scholars and 14,003 officers 
 and teachers. The collections were : for preach- 
 ers salaries, $213,369 27 ; Missions, $'26,999 47^; 
 CoDferenceColIec«ion8, $3,957 57;Sunday-8ch0ols, 
 $25,054 04; Bible Course, $4,416 55, &c. The 
 total of all collections was $418,720 11, an increase 
 of 7,440 20 from last year. 
 
 The Church supports seven colleges and 
 universities, a female colliege and a classical 
 seminary. It has a printing house at Dayton, 
 Ohio, where is published an official organ, a Sun- 
 day-school, and a missionary paper. The bishops 
 are five in number, and are elected at every 
 session of the General Conference. 
 
 The following are the mission statixtics of the 
 United Brethren : During the year ending May, 
 lb67, three missionaries employed in the foreign 
 field, eighty-one en the frontier, and one hundred 
 and twenty-seven in the home fields. These re- 
 ceived from the missions they served, as salary, 
 $41 903 55; and they were paid from the mission- 
 ary fund $29,5f;6 69, making a total of $71,470 24, 
 and an average salary of $338 72. 
 
 Number of missions, 200; appointments, 1,049» 
 members, 13,787; collected- for missions, $3,220 
 69; meeting houses, 130; Sunday-schools, 368; 
 teachers, 987; scholars, 14,798. 
 
 Moravians. 
 
 TheMoravian Churches embraces two American 
 Provinces (Northern and Southern), a British 
 Province, a Contiaental Province embracing 
 missions in Germany, Switzerland, France, 
 Denmark, Norway. Sweden and Russia and the 
 Foreign Mission Field. 
 
 There are 25 churches, and 18 missions in the 
 Northern Province. The number of commuifi- 
 cants in the churches is 4.^27, and the total of 
 souls (including non-communicants and child- 
 ren) is 7,550. The number of communicants ia 
 the missions is 893, and the total 1,730. Total 
 of communicants in the Northern Province, 
 5,2r0, and of souls, 9,280. 
 
 An English and a German Periodical are 
 published by the Moravian Bcok Store and 
 Publication Office at Bethlehem, Pa. 
 
 The numberof communicants in the Southern 
 Province is 1,042, so that the whole number of 
 communicants in the two Provinces is 6,262, and 
 the whole number of souls, 11,033. The whole 
 number of ministers In active service, in both 
 Provinces, is 64. Number of boarding schools, 
 6; of pupils, 875. In the Theological Seminary 
 there are 3 stud'ents ; in the college, 30. 
 
 Thero are 71 communicants and 172 souls ander 
 the care of the Church in the Indian* missions. 
 The whole number of Sunday-school scholars in 
 the Northern Province, including the Indian 
 missions, is 4,836. The statistic! of the other 
 provinces are as follows ; 
 
 ♦Estimated. 
 
70 
 
 Conmun. Total 
 Continental Province (I8fl5) 5,1U4 7,1-^u 
 British " (1865) 3.239 5.402 
 
 Americ. Northern and Soutfiern, 6,262 11.033 
 In the Fureiirn Missions there are 70,235 souU 
 in coDQectioD with the uliiucb. 
 
 Congregationalists. 
 
 1, America, 
 
 States, ct«. 
 
 m 
 
 Maine 243 19.237 21.215 
 
 Kew Hampshire lf-3 18,513 22,5(^5 
 
 Verraont 191 17.149 17,008 
 
 Massachusetts 463 74.955 87,107 
 
 Khode Island 23 3.414 4,390 
 
 Connecticut 286 45,555 20,992 
 
 Kew York 225 22,004 23.924 
 
 NewJersey 8 1,3.S2 1,492 
 
 Pennsylvania 60 3,582 1,490 
 
 Delaware 1 14 
 
 Maryland 1 48 60 
 
 District of Oolurabia 1 174 ^— 
 
 North Carolina 1 20 
 
 Ohio :I65 13,204 14.932 
 
 ln.ilana 24 788 1,151 
 
 Illinois 222 15.297 17,9)1 
 
 Michit-'an 150 8,969 10 201 
 
 Wisconsin 1.^8 9.868 13.110 
 
 Minnesota 58 2.203 2,410 
 
 Iowa 166 7,248 9,157 
 
 Missouri 29 844 1,747 
 
 Tennessee 1 70 80 
 
 Louisiana 1 28 —^ 
 
 Nebraslia 10 190 195 
 
 Kansas 33 891 1,302 
 
 Colorado 4 75 J 50 
 
 WashiDKton Terpitory.... 1 15 50 
 
 Utah Territory 1 18 
 
 Orcpon 8 320 530 
 
 Califnrnia 32 1,428 4,025 
 
 i'oreign Missionaries — 
 
 Tbtals,U. S 2,780 267,353 286,275 
 
 Canada 96 4,311 5,907 
 
 Kova Scotia, etc,... 13 424 402 
 
 New Brunswick 6 372 429 
 
 Jamaica & 415 320 
 
 Totals, Amerlcafl 2,900 272,975 293.333 
 
 The followin); table exhibits the prowth of the 
 Congregational i>te in Churches, Ministers. Mem- 
 bers, and Sunday-school scholar? ia the last 10 
 years. 
 
 Veur. Churches. Ministers. Members. Sund.Sch'l 
 
 Scliolais 
 
 1857 2,479 1.795 232,549 128.772 
 
 1858 2.648 1.810 2:i9 5H6 162 815 
 
 1859 2.678 1. 9)17 257.6:^4 206.441 
 
 1860 2.7.34 1,953 260.389 250.690 
 IWW 2.756 1,9116 250.119 246..'.47 
 |8fta 2.774 1,980 261.474 255,257 
 l8M' 2.8a« 1,90« 264.313 260.492 
 )h64 2,^65 1 968 268,015 286.798 
 |86» 2,840 1,094 1:69, 1)62 279 O.M> 
 |bG6 2,900 2,015 272,975 293,333 
 
 The (o(al number of ministers in the United 
 States, in the pastoral work anil tro' in it, 's 2919. 
 Ihe number in the British i'rovinces (Canada, 
 Kova Scotia, New Brunswick. Jamaica, etc.) ia 
 90. making a total for America of 30.009. The 
 number of admission by profession in llie United 
 States is 11,249. the total for America, 11,485. 
 
 Great Britain and Colonies, 
 
 County Associat., Church. Minist, 
 or Unions. 
 
 England 43 1.923 1,829 
 
 Wales 16 788 405 
 
 Scotland 8 105 105 
 
 Ireland I 27 25 
 
 Colonies 8 278 317 
 
 Channel Islands — 13 — 
 
 Foreign lands — — 202 
 
 Tola! 76 3,135 2,782 
 
 The Congrepatiooalists have 6 theological 
 seminaries, with 28 professors and 258 siuilenta. 
 There are 17 colleges and 20 theological coUegca 
 etc.. in tlie British Islands and Colo its. They 
 have no official organ, but several periuclicaland 
 weekly papers are published, by Private Con- 
 gregational enterprise. 
 
 Reformed Dutch Church. 
 
 Classes. 
 
 
 s 
 i 
 
 Albany 2,007 1,890 
 
 Arcot 341 
 
 Bergen 1.177 l,e82 
 
 South Bergen 2,578 2,5J3 
 
 Cayuga (-83 724 
 
 Geneva I,fi2l 1,006 
 
 Greene 1,488 957 
 
 Holland 2,028 5b5 
 
 Hudson 1.314 965 
 
 Illinois 1,128 1,(81 
 
 Kingston 1.712 J,.-i87 
 
 North Long I land.. 2,179 2,0J5 
 
 Sojth Lonit Island.. 3,495 3,(il2 
 
 Michigan 431 680 
 
 Moumouih 923 522 
 
 New Brunswick.... 1861 1.291 
 
 New York 4,419 4,002 
 
 South New York... .2, 30(t 2,175 
 
 Orange 2 966 2,074 
 
 Paramus 2 376 1,3'JO 
 
 Passaic 1,339 946 
 
 iMiiladelnhia 2 650 2,625 
 
 Poughkeepsie 2. PS 1,255 
 
 Karitan 2418 2,187 
 
 Kensalaer 1 .609 1 .228 
 
 Saratoga 1,412 970 
 
 Schenetady 2,067 1,645 
 
 Schoharie 1028 539 
 
 Ulster l,ti|f) 1,051 
 
 Westchester 1,468 963 
 
 Wisconsin ?.. 1.373 617 
 
 Total 57,846 46,411 
 
 B S 
 
 Ȥ 
 
 $17.329 11 
 
 2.282 10 
 3.708 98 
 
 14,617 29 
 4,016 12 
 
 3 6:^6 97 
 2.248 68 
 6.419 13 
 
 3.180 45 
 1.341 31) 
 
 2.283 04 
 
 5.671 43 
 29,113 66 
 
 69.' 48 
 909 48 
 
 6.672 1 1 
 98.813 45 
 16,0.^9 00 
 
 5.081 37 
 4,758 64 
 1,K65 79 
 5,6i>5«6 
 
 7.181 53 
 
 4 617 10 
 4.'M'J5.23 
 2.224 60 
 2,826 0(j 
 
 917 14 
 5,548 37 
 9,391 94 
 3.705 75 
 
 <377,209 H> 
 
7i 
 
 Domestse Missions. 
 
 The receipts of the Board of Dom' stic Missions 
 for the last year were $25,208 2S. They have 
 extended their care to 8ti churches and stations 
 With 4213 families and 5b39 communicants, 96 
 fcfunday-schools, and 5652 scholars. The numher 
 or domestic missionaries and missionary pastors 
 18 76. 
 
 Foreign Missions. 
 
 The receipts of the Boards of Foreign Missions 
 were $!ly.53(l89. 
 
 Missions at Amoy, China: Missionaries and 
 hssistants, 6: members. 626; contributions, $fi379. 
 
 Mission at Arcot, India; Missionaries and 
 assistants, 14. Members in (Congregations 1525; 
 communicants, 330 ; scholars in vernacular 
 schools, 312 boys, 55 girls. 
 
 A mission has been estaWished in Japan, in 
 which 6 missionaries and assistant missionaries 
 •reengaged. 
 
 German Reformed Church. 
 
 The follf.wing are the General St'riistics of the 
 German Reformed Church in 18(16 as given by 
 the "Almanac of the Reformed Church for 1868." 
 
 1 General Synod. 3 Subordinate Synods, 29 
 Classes. 485 Ministers, 1.183 Congregations. 
 1(13.925 Members, 70.432 Unconfirmed Members, 
 11,115 Baptisms. 6,845 Confirmations. 2 421 Re- 
 ceived by Certificate. 91.547 Communicants, 196 
 Excommunicated, 1,244 i)i,<missed, 4,207 Deatiis, 
 939 Sunday-schools. $60,977 46 Benevolent Con- 
 tributi' n<. 
 
 The statistics of the three Synods, composing 
 the Geni-ral Synod, are given as follows in the 
 Geiman Almanac of the German Reformed 
 Church for 18t)8. 
 
 Preachers. Congreg. Commnn, 
 
 Eastern Sybod 275 703 67.635 
 
 Ohio Synod 130 300 17,444 
 
 Germ. North W. Syn... 83 162 7,726 
 
 Total 488 1,165 82.815 
 
 The Church has iix cnileges, at Lancaster, 
 Mrtunt Pleasant. Meyerstown, and Mercersburg, 
 Pennisylvania, TitTio, Ohio, and Newton. North 
 Carolina; one colle;;e instil "te, at Reimersburg, 
 Pennsylvania; 2 theological SemiF)ariHS at 
 Mercersliur.g, Pennsylvania, and Tiffin, Ohio and 
 a Mission House, at Howard Grove, nearSlieboy- 
 gan. Wisconsin. 
 
 The B ard of Hntne Missioiis In 1867 had 70 
 stations under their care. Ovpr $11,000 were 
 contributed to this object, and upwardsof$i2000 
 for Church Extension. 
 
 The Church has 5 Eng'ish papers, (1 quarter- 
 ly. 2 monthlies, 2 weeklies), and 6 German (I 
 quarterly, 2 monthlies, 1 semimoirthly, 2 week- 
 lies). 
 
 Presbyterians. 
 
 I. — OldScltool Presbyterian. Church: 
 Synods. Ministers. Commnn, 
 
 Alhany 96 10.448 
 
 Alleuhaoy OT 12 846 
 
 Baltimore 105 11.445 
 
 Buffalo 96 5.205 
 
 Chicago 104 7,473 
 
 Cincinnati 105 11.829 
 
 Illinois HO 9.3fil 
 
 Indiana 68 6,939 
 
 Towa 55 3,<)81 
 
 Kansas 22 1,1 18 
 
 Kentucky 83 'J.m 
 
 Mississippi 5 173 
 
 Missouri ; 82 6,936 
 
 Nashville ;..,..., 8 482 
 
 New Jfrsey 245 26 948 
 
 Netr York '. ..224 22,663 
 
 North Carolina 7 1,970 
 
 Northern India 22 352 
 
 Northern Indiana 60 6,(>85 
 
 Ohio.. 100 11,453 
 
 aciflc : 42 1.696 
 
 Philadelphia 245 20,816 
 
 Pittsburg ..117 19 292 
 
 St. I'aul ., .13 1.617 
 
 Sandusky 29 3,677 
 
 Southern Iowa 57 4.271 
 
 Wheelini; .....109 16.980 
 
 Wisconsin 41 2,861 
 
 Total 2,302 247,350 
 
 There are no reports from the Synods of Ala- 
 bama, Arkansas. Geirgia, Memphis, South Caro- 
 lina, Texas, and Virginia. 
 
 Synods in connection with the G«neral As- 
 sembly. 54 ; Presbytcrii's, 176 ; Ministers. 2,302; 
 Churches, 6,622; total of baptisms, 15 295. Num- 
 ber of persons in tlie Sunday-schools, 195,623. 
 Amount contributed for the boards, $27,473; 
 whole amount of contributions, $3,731,164. 
 
 Board of Domestic Missions, Missionaries ia 
 service, 626; members of churches, 27,492 ; Sun- 
 day-schools 481, with 4269 teachers and 30,644 
 scholars. Baptisms 331 1, Receipts, $96,977 81, 
 total resources, $120,622 09. 
 
 Foreign Missions. The Board of Foreign 
 Mission report that they have missions among 
 the Jews and the Indian tribes, in this country, 
 the Chinese of California, the Roman CaWio- 
 lics in Brazil and the United States of Columbia, 
 in China. Japan, Siam, Cacdia, Liberia, Corisco 
 (Africa). Italy, France, and Belgium. Mission- 
 aries, 70; native Ministers, 20; assistajits, 174; 
 churches 44; stations, etc., 60; children in 
 schools, o'\^er 7000 ; receipts, $244,667 80. 
 
 Board of Publications, The Board of p,ablfca- 
 tion have issued 500.400 copies of publications 
 during the year, and 13,208.188 sitice its organi- 
 sation. It has sold during the year 226,623 
 volumes and 374,700 pages of tracts and ha- 
 piinted 14,697 volumes and 179,54 pages. Res 
 ceipts $145,701 52. 
 
 Disabled Ministers Fund. Receipts, $27,740 28. 
 
 Committee on Freedmen. Appropriallons 
 $40,160 97, During the year this committee 
 have had in commission 104 Missionaries, of 
 whom 47 were colored. 
 
 Theological Seminaries. The theological 
 Seminaries under the care of this Church are 
 four in number. 
 
 Board of Education. Receipts, $4,720 41- 
 Candidates passing their studies, 261. 
 
 Board of Church Extension. Receipts. $37,623 
 30. Available means for the year, $96,624 51. 
 
72 
 
 2. — ytte School Prtghytrrian Church. 
 ffyDods. Ministers. Cocamuoic'ts. 
 
 Albany 80 8,337 
 
 Uliea 81 7.573 
 
 Onondaga 88 8,919 
 
 Ceneva 101 »,657 
 
 8u?queliaDna 38 3,591 
 
 Genesee 138 13,919 
 
 Nctv Vork and K. Jersey 284 32,172 
 
 Pennsvl vania 113 16,342 
 
 West Pennsylvania 30 3,709 
 
 Michigan 116 10,472 
 
 Western Reserve 96 6,8S7 
 
 Ohio 50 4,569 
 
 Cincinnati 58 3 844 
 
 Wabash 36 3,280 
 
 Indiana 42 4,143 
 
 Illinois 87 5.764 
 
 Peoria 103 6,556 
 
 Wisconsin 44 1,640 
 
 Iowa 90 2,733 
 
 MiBuesota 34 1,668 
 
 Missouri 41 1,506 
 
 Tennessee 20 2.858 
 
 Alia California 29 1,210 
 
 23 Synods 1,870 161,538 
 
 Number of Presbyteries, 100; of Churches, 
 1560; ot Baptisms, 9,175; of persons in Sunday- 
 schools, 163,242. 
 
 Foreign jUi«6»on». Conti ibutions, $110,349. 
 The Missions are located in Western Africa, South 
 Africa, Turkey, Syria, etc., Southern and East- 
 ern Asia, Pacific Islands, and amonp t!ie North 
 American Indians. The number of Missionaries 
 is 43. 
 
 Home Missious. Receipts, $128,500 ; Mission- 
 aries, 419; Conversions 2500; Additions, 3000. 
 
 Church Erection Fund. Contributions, $18,762 
 78; total receipts, $24,298 ; Grants, $20 700. 
 
 Publication Committee. Sales, $45,190 73 ; 
 Books and Catalogues. 357; Donations received, 
 $8,128 4!»; value of books given away, $5500 95. 
 
 Edwation Committee, Receipts, $22,270 42; 
 Students assisted. 145. 
 
 Hreshyterian House. Receipts, $22,462.49. 
 
 Ministerial Rrtirf Fund. Receipts, $9647 09; 
 persons assisted, 137. 
 
 3, — United Preabytenan Church. 
 
 Synods. 
 
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 NcwTork Tl 13.546 8,819 
 
 »8t Svnod ofthe West 72 11.883 4,353 
 
 Pittsburgh 53 12.746 3.581 
 
 «hio 33 6.442 1,853 
 
 2d of the West 52 7,641 3,661 
 
 Illinois 53 6,350 3,748 
 
 Iowa 37 4,469 1.729 
 
 Missionary Presbyteries. . . 9 412 130 
 
 Total 380 63,439 27,894 
 
 Total number of Presbyteries in 1867, 54; 
 Missionary Presbyteries, 3; Congregations. 736; 
 Foreign Ifissionaries and teachers, 26; Home 
 Missionarlen, 125; Baptisms, 411 1; Contributions 
 to Church Fundi, $108, 2d5; total Contributions, 
 $631,888; average per member, $10. 
 
 Foreign Missions. Contributions, $45.7?(T, 
 Receipts including balance ai the beginning of 
 theyear, $72,8li9 75; expended $68,252 78. The 
 missions are in Trinidac], Syria, India, Egypt, 
 China, and Italy. 
 
 Contributed for Home Missions, $30,548. 
 
 Bmrd of Pitblicalton. Sales, $23 740, 
 
 Board of Education. Contributions, $32tO; 
 Appropriations, 5050 00; PeriOus assisted, 40. 
 
 Hoard of Church Extension. CoDtribotions, 
 $9,389. 
 
 iMissiona to the Freedmen. Contribations, 
 $14,252; Total resources. $22,241 71. 
 
 4. — Presbyterian Church, Southern. 
 
 The Central Preshyterian, of Richmoud, gives 
 from the "MiDUtes of the General Assembly for 
 1667," the follo\Ving siatistical exhibit of tb» 
 Southern Presbyterian Church. 
 
 General View of the Presbyterian Church during 
 the year ending November, 1866. 
 
 Synods 1^ 
 
 Presbyteries 46 
 
 Licentiates 41 
 
 Candidates for the Minrstry 40 
 
 Ministers • 82i* 
 
 Churches 1.290 
 
 Membei-s added on examination 4,674 
 
 Members ad>ied on certificate 2,094 
 
 Total number of communicants reported. 66,62^ 
 
 Adults baptized 1-637 
 
 Infants baptized 1,0?^ 
 
 Children in Sabbath-schools and Bible 
 
 Classes 21.094 
 
 Domestic Missions $14,226 
 
 Foreign Missions 4,089 
 
 Sustemation ... 8,519 
 
 Education 9.058 
 
 Publication 8.633 
 
 Commissioners and Contingent Fund. . . . 6.982 
 
 Congregational purposes 334,165 
 
 Miscellaneous 23,610 
 
 "There are." says the Central Presbyterian, 
 "340 churches, Includingfour whole presbyteries 
 from which no report of members is niade. Jf 
 all the churches had been reported there is no 
 doubt that our membership would have been 
 found to exceed 70,000, and probably to approach 
 near 80,000. 
 
 These are the first minutes since 1868, and al- 
 so since the union with the United Synod ia 
 1864, which contain statistics, compiled from 
 the Presbyterian reports. 
 
 i.— Reformed Presbyterian Church, Old Side. 
 
 This Church is compo.'»ed of 8 Presbyteries, 66 
 ministers, and 91 congregations, with a member- 
 ship of 8.324. During the year, 530 members had 
 been received on profession of their faith, and ia 
 all ways 877, the net pain being 406. The con- 
 gregations raised— for Foreign Missions, 9,107 35, 
 for Home ^fissioos. $2,478 02: for the Freedmen, 
 $5, 116 79; for Seminary endowment. $2,548 74 
 for Church erection, $23,193 02: for Pastors 
 salaries. $47,163 49; for miscellaneous jjiirposes, 
 $33,336 42; making a total of $123 097 34. or au 
 average of between fifteen and sixteen dolars pef 
 member. It has a Theological Seminary with 16 
 Students and aa Endowment Fund of $23,113 tl^ 
 
73 
 
 6, — Cumberland Presbyterian Churek. 
 This Church had. in 1860, 927 ministers, 1188 
 churches and 84, •j4i) communicants. The number 
 ol Presbyteries was 96. There are official boards 
 on publications, rais^ions and other objects. 
 Number of Educational publications, 24, weekly 
 papers were published, sn 1867, at Waynesburg, 
 Pa-, Alton, 111., and Nashville, Teon. 
 7. — Other Presbyterian Churchea iM the United 
 Stales. 
 
 MiDist.Comm. Collect* 
 Associate Refor «dSynod of New 
 
 York ^16 1,631 $7,102 
 
 Assoc. Ref. Pres. Ch. Soutij.. 68 
 
 Assoc. Synod of N. Amer 11 778 190 
 
 Kef. Presb. Church, Synod 63 5,821 9,484 
 
 8. — Presbyterian Churches in Great Britain, 
 The Church, of Scotland, Has 16 Synods, 84 
 Presbyteries, and 1243 congregations. The con- 
 tributions at the last 'session of the General 
 Assembly, from 838 congregations, the others 
 not having reported, wei-e: 
 
 For Home Missions £69.655 Ss 6A 
 
 Educational purposes 23,850 16 
 
 Endowments 27,000 
 
 Foreign purposes -, 17,000 17 3 
 
 Total £136,516 18a 5d 
 
 The Free Church of Scotland has 16 synods, 71 
 Presbyteries. 861 churclies, 3 theological schools, 
 with 226 students. Funds received in 1866 — 7. 
 
 BuildingFund £ 48,735 
 
 Susteatation Fund 132.337 
 
 C.ingregational Fund 12,024 
 
 Education , 20,358 
 
 College 8,797 
 
 Ml ssiona, home and foreign 36,8 1 6 
 
 Total $369,104 
 
 A decrease of £14,4€7 from previous year. 
 
 Rfformed Presbyterian Synod (Cameronians), 
 IS Presbyteries, 45 Churches, 2 professors in 
 divinity, 41 Ministers, 
 
 United Presbyterian Church. 31 Presbyteries, 
 an England and Scotland, 584 Ministers, 596 
 Churches. Also a theological hall, with 4 Pro- 
 fessors. 
 
 Presbyterian Seceders. 4 Presbyteries, 25 Con- 
 gregations. 
 
 Presbyterian Church in England. 7 Presby- 
 teries, 105 Churches. 1 theologicaJ college, with 
 3 Professors. There are also 15 Presbyterian 
 Churches in England formed into 3 Presbyteries 
 in connection with the Church of Scotland. 
 
 Presbyterian Church m Ireland. 50 Ministers 
 aO Churches. 
 
 Q.— Presbyterian* in Australasia. 
 
 The following are the Presbyterian statistics 
 of Australasia, as far as they can be obtained. 
 
 New South Wales Members 18 150 
 
 Amount received from State Funds £3,527 
 
 quee.neland. Free Presbyterians, 7 churches 
 1650 sittings. ' 
 
 United Pregbyterian Church of Sootland 1 
 Church, 200 sittings. 
 
 Bouth Australia. Free Church 
 
 rT„»"//p°"n-.- 4,137 Members. 
 
 united PresJbytenana.... 1,572 •« 
 
 Victoria. Presb. Churcli of Vict. 5,052 Memfeisra. 
 
 Church of Scotland .16,917 " 
 
 Free Church of Scotland and Free 
 
 Presbyterians 21,219 " 
 
 United Presbyterians ,.,16,734 •• 
 
 Other Presbyterians 7,181 •* 
 
 Latherana, 
 
 \,— America, 
 
 Statistical View of the Evangelical Lutherecn 
 Church in North America. 
 
 Synods connected with th« General Synod of 
 the United States. 
 
 6?oo48L 
 
 L Synod of New York 16 16 2,20a 
 
 2. Hartwick Synod, (N, Y.) 27 31 4,S(l(l 
 
 3. Franckean Synod, (N. Y.) 20 29 2i5<l(> 
 
 5. Synod of New Jersey S 10 I^5<10 
 
 5. Synod of East Pennsylvania ..56 82 giooo 
 
 6. Susquehanna Synod (Penn. J.. 14 28 sj.'iOO 
 
 7. Synod of West Pennsylvania.. 50 93 12i52(» 
 
 8. Synod of Central Penn 34 78 6 8li« 
 
 9. Alleghany Synod, (Penn.) 45 96 6 60rt 
 
 10. Synod of Maryland 35 35 8,307 
 
 11. Melanchthon Synod, (Md.) 18 46 4 300 
 
 12. Synod of Texas 10 23 2!8(itl 
 
 13. East Ohio Synod 40 60 3 7110 
 
 14. Wittenberg Synod, (Ohio).... 37 57 3,^{)g 
 
 15. Miami Synod, (Ohio) 35 44 i'500 
 
 16. Synod of North. Indiana 28 05 3'(i() 
 
 17. Olive Branch Synod, (Ind.).. 22 42 j'80!» 
 
 18. Synod of Northern Illinois 23 55 2i()o't 
 
 19. Synod of Southern Illinois 19 16 I,"2l() 
 
 20. Synod of Central Illinois 12 J7 200 1 
 
 21. Synod of Iowa 22 23 I/20U 
 
 570 944 86,933 
 Synods 0/ the "General CounciU' 
 
 1. New York Ministerium, etc. 49 47 12 009 
 
 2. Synod of Penn. etc 125 300 5o'm» 
 
 3. PiMsbui-K Synod, (P-onn.). . . 67 300 8 SOU 
 
 4. English Dist- Synod of Joint 
 
 SynodofOhio 34 53 yog,, 
 
 5. English Synod of Ohio H 26 iVfiii 
 
 6. Synod of Illinois, etc 32 40 4'<)ii(i 
 
 7. Synod of \Vi3consiB 50 90 Iljlliiu 
 
 ». bynod of Michigan 14 35 3 (Ki;-) 
 
 in 1^°°^ "Iw.""^ 52 75 r',m., 
 
 10. Synod of Minnesota 19 35 ^ 5|,j 
 
 11. Scandinavian Augustana "' 
 
 12 l/nT^'^'VV".,- *" 1^0 JO-OOf 
 
 1^ bynod of Canada....,.,...^, 24 64 1.500 
 
 258 1010 119,10(1 
 Synods connected with the (Southern) Geuerai 
 Synod of North America. 
 
 1. Synod of Virginia 30 gj 3200 
 
 2. Synod ofSouth.WestVirginii.'21 40 2.'l79 
 d. Synod of North Carolina 18 34 3710 
 
 4. Synod of South Carolina 33 44 4'8ir- 
 
 5. Synod of Georgia 6 10 ]',-m 
 
 6. Holaton Synud, (Tcna.) 12 25 g^Oua 
 
74 
 
 227 
 
 30.500 
 
 3U4 
 
 37 (lOO 
 
 2(t0 
 
 20,000 
 
 «5 
 
 5,SliO 
 
 25 
 
 2,000 
 
 20 
 
 2.210 
 
 40 
 
 5,000 
 
 10 
 
 1,800 
 
 11 
 
 2,000 
 
 Si/nodt, not connected with, any General Synods 
 or lieneral Council, 
 
 1. Joint Synod of Ohio, etc.... 109 
 
 2. Joint Synod of Missouri, etc250 
 
 3. Norwegian Syuoc'., Wis., etc. 50 
 
 4. '^enne^.>iec Synod 32 
 
 5. Eilson's Synod 9 
 
 6. Union Svnod. (Ind.) 15 
 
 7. Buinilo .-ynod, (.V. V.) 30 
 
 8. German Synod of X. Y., etc. 10 
 
 9. Synod of Mississippi 7 
 
 10. Missionary Synod of the 
 
 West 11 30 700 
 
 523 944 109,010 
 GrandTotal— 49 Synods, 1,750 Ministers, 3,112 
 Congregations, 332,155 Communicants. 
 
 Under the Piitronage of the Lutheran Church 
 are 14 literary and theolojjical schools, 19 
 colleges, 11 academies, 9 female seminaries, and 
 J5 elemosynary institutions. Other benevolent 
 institutions are: 
 
 The Parent Education Society organized 1837 
 
 Foreign Missionary Society ..... " 1837 
 
 Home Missionary Society *' 1845 
 
 Church K.\te"8ion Socie'y " 1853 
 
 Publication Society , " 1851 
 
 Historical Society " 1845 
 
 Pastors Fund 
 
 Tlie Lutheran Periodicals are 11 English (4 
 weekly, 2 ieinimonthly. 4 monthly, and 1 
 quarterly), 10 German (4 semi-mothly, 3 month- 
 ly, and 2 not defined), and Swedish and Nor- 
 wegian (1 weekly, 2 semi-monthlr. and 3 
 monthly.) 
 
 2. Europe. 
 
 1. Germany. — In Prussia and a number of 
 other States the Lutheran and the Reformed 
 churches have been fused into the "United 
 Evangelical Cliurch". This new denomination 
 is viewed l)y surae as an entirely new denomina- 
 tion, absorbing Lutheran and Reformed Church- 
 es, while others consider it merely as a confed- 
 eration, which leaves the Lutheran or Reformed 
 character of the several congregations unim- 
 paired. By far the larger portion of the United 
 EvaTgelical Church were formerly Lutherans, 
 and many of these desire the repeal of the union 
 and the reconstruction of a strictly Lutheran 
 church. In those states where the United Evan- 
 gelical Church legally exists, it is impossible 
 to ascertain the number of the persons who still 
 regard themselves as Lutherans. We give, on 
 Dial account, for the several German States, the 
 ht:iii,-.iics of the Lutheran, Reformed, and United 
 Evangeliial churches together. 
 
 A number of the German State Churches 
 are clearly, more or less, under the influence of 
 the Liberal (•' Rationalistic ") party, which lays 
 no claim to the name or character of a distinctly 
 .Lutheran, Refi>rmed, or United Evangelical 
 Church, and considers itself bound to no stand- 
 ard of faith. These olmrches, on the whole, 
 would sympathiie mostwith iheUnitarianChurch 
 in the United States. The Literal party is at pre- 
 sent in the ascendancy in Badeu, Hesse-D.irm- 
 jadt, Hamburg. Saxe-Weimar, Saxe-Coburg- 
 G.itha. Saxe-M<-inIngen, and is largely repre- 
 sented in a number of other states. 
 
 From all these reasons, it is extremely diflB- 
 cnlt even to estimate the number ot Lutherans 
 in Germany. 
 
 As far as they can be .ascertained, the 'sta- 
 tisUca of the Lutheran, Baf ormed, aad Uuited 
 
 Evangelical churches of Germany are as fbl* 
 lows : 
 
 Prutxia Proper (that is, without the state* 
 annexed in ISfib), had a "Prott-stant" or "Evan- 
 gelical" p.pulation of 11,592,451. Of the«e. 
 about 40,001) are " Independent Lutherans," 
 who have refused to be incorporated with the 
 United Evangelical Church, aud have obtained 
 permission to form an independent oigauiaa- 
 tion. There is a so a considerable number of 
 " Reformed " congregations which have not 
 joined the Union, but the independent Luther- 
 ans and Reformed count together a population, 
 less than lOn, 000 souls, leaving all the remain-' 
 der nominally connected with the "United 
 Evangelical Church." The numerical propor* 
 tion of the Lutherans and the Reformed element 
 in the United Evangelical (Jliurc'a, may be seen 
 from the fact that in 181i', a year before the 
 union, there were 5,873,146 Lutherans, and only 
 391,114 Reformed. 
 
 The ecclesiastical statistics of the countries 
 annexed, in 18t)6, to Prussia, were as follows ; 
 
 iianower— Total population, 1,923,492 ; Luther- 
 ans 1,581 767, Reformed 98,010. 
 
 Hesse Crissel — Total population, 745,063 ; Pro- 
 testants about 618,000. Most of the Lutherans 
 iud Reformed now belong to the United Evan- 
 gelical Chuich. Before the iiitroduclion of the 
 Union, the number of Lutherans was 144,000. 
 
 iVa.-sau— Total population, ,.408,311 ; Uuited 
 Evangelical 241,354. 
 
 Fr'i)il./ort— Total population, 91,074 ; Luther- 
 ans about 48,000, Evangelical 1,600, German 
 Beforiajd j,000, Calvinists 700. 
 
 Sc/i.'dsiiw^-rtotoei-,— Total population, gW, 392; 
 nearly all LuUierans. 
 
 The ecclesiastical statistics of the other 
 German States are as follows (the total popul*- 
 tion, if not otherwise stated, being that given 
 in the official census of 1804) : 
 
 Anlialt—Toti\ population, 193,046 ; nearly all 
 United Evangelical ; before the Union a majori- 
 ty was Reformed. 
 
 fia(i««— Total population, 1,429,199; United 
 Evangelical Church 472,258. 
 
 Bavaria — Total population. 4,774,454 ; Protest- 
 ant population about 1,3(10.000, of whom 980.000 
 are Lutherans, 5,000 Reformed, and 316,000 Uni- 
 ted Evangelicals. 
 
 BremtH— Total population, 104,091 ; Luther- 
 ans 50,000, Reformed 45.000. 
 
 Brunswic/i— Tola] population, 293.388; Lur 
 therans 285,934, Reformed 1.676. 
 
 Hamlfurg— Tot &l population, in 1866, about 
 251,000 ; about 220,000 Lutherans, 7.000 
 Reformed. 
 
 HessC' Darmstadt— Tota\ population, 816,902; 
 Protestants 568.559. Before the union there 
 were about 40o.OO0J-utherans and 170,600 Re- 
 formed Most of both now belong to the United 
 Evangelical Church. 
 
 Lippe-DftmolU — Total population, 111,336; 
 Lutherans 8,000 ; Reformed 100.000. 
 
 Lubeck—T(,t%\ population, in 1862, 50,614 ; Lu- 
 therans 49,000, Reformed 500. 
 
 M ecklenburg-Hchwerni Total population, 
 
 552,612 : Lutherans 448.457, Reformed 184. 
 
 Mecklenburg-Slrelitz Total population, in 
 
 186r, 99.060 ; almost all Lutherans. 
 
 Otdetihurg l'o;al population, 314.416; Lu- 
 therans 198.122, Reformed 1,196, United Evan- 
 gelical 26.029. 
 
 Riuss-areitz—Totai population, 43,924 ; neair* 
 . ly all Luthenms. 
 
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 Revss-Srkleiz — Total population, 88,472 ; 
 nearly ail Lutherans. 
 
 Haxouy—VoivA poi>ulation, 2,343,994 ; Reform- 
 ed 5. i3'i. 
 
 S.ixe- W, Jwfr— Totiil population, 280,201 ; Pro- 
 te-itauts 2r>9,0l)7, of whum about 260,l;UU are Lu- 
 therans, antl 9,000 Rtifovuied. 
 
 Saxe-Mtinin^eii.— \Qt%\ population. 178,065; 
 Prstestants 175,083 ; all Lutherans, with the ex- 
 ceptiou of aliout 40(1 Re-formed. 
 
 Saxe.- AiUnbiiTg — Total population. 141,839; 
 Lutherans 141, •212, Reformed 79, United Evan- 
 gelical 218. 
 
 Saxe-Voliurg Gotha — Total population, 164, > 
 527; Lutherans about 145,000. 3, 00 Reformed. 
 
 Schnimiiurii-Lipp — Total pupulation, 31,3b'2; 
 Lutherans 20,000. Reformed 5,000. 
 
 Sclnuarzhurg-Rud'ilstiidt — Total population, 
 73,752 ; Lutherans 73,457; Reformed 28. 
 
 Hckwarzhiirg-^oiidershausen Total popula- 
 tion, 66,189 ; Protestants 65,914 ; nearly all Lu- 
 therans. 
 
 Wa deck-(\n 1867 united for a term of 10 years, 
 with Prussia) total population, 59. 143 ; Evangel- 
 ical 57,036; nearly all Lutherans before the 
 uuinn. 
 
 WarUmbe.rg Total population, 1,748,328; 
 
 Protestants 1.V00.363, almo~tall Lutherans. 
 
 2. — The Lutheran Church is the State 
 Church in all the Scandinavian Siates — Swe- 
 den, Norway, and Denmark. In Sweden, the 
 Church has 1 Archbishop, II Bishops, 3,200 pas 
 tors. The population, which, in 1865, amounted 
 to 4,114,141. was all Lutheran, with the excep- 
 tion of about 10,06U. iN'orway has 5 Bishops, 
 336 pastors; population, in 1865. 1,701,478: 
 with a still smaller number of non-Lutherans 
 than Sweden. Denmarx has 10 Bishops, 69 
 :Rrovost-!, 1,100 parishes, and 1.2IJ0 pastors ; the 
 population (l,6!i8,095, and in the dependencies 
 124,020) are Lutherans, with the exception of 
 12,907 members of other creeds. 
 
 3. — Austria has 1,218,750 Lutherans. 
 4. — France, has 44 consistories, 232 parishes, 
 199 annexes, 392 temples, 658 schools, 263 offi- 
 cial pastors, 40 vicars, and in Algeria the 
 Reformed and Lutheran (mixed) consistory of 
 Algiers has 12 jiarishes, 59 annexes, 71 places 
 of worship, 12 achools, 16 official pastors. The 
 Lutheran population is about 500,000, mostly in 
 the Alsace. 
 
 5. Riissia.-The Lutheran Church is the pre- 
 dominant church in the Baltic provinces and in 
 Finland, It has, in liussia Prujier, 8 consisto- 
 ries, 431 churches, 566 ministers. The Luther- 
 an population of Poland is 382,000, and of Fin- 
 land 1,787,000. 
 
 6. — In Holland there are two organizations 
 ef Lutherans ; the one, the ''Evangelical Lu- 
 theran," is supposed to be under the influence 
 of the Liberal (Rationalistic) party, and has 
 a populaiion of about 66,000 souls ; the other, 
 the •' Reformed Lutheran, " adheres to the svm» 
 bolical books, ami numbers about 10.000 ■^ouls. 
 
 7. — In tiie Other Countries of Europe there 
 are but few Lutherans. 
 
 3. Asia, Africa, and Australia. 
 
 The L'ltlierans sustain missions in India 
 China, and several parts of Africa, for which 
 we refer to the table of the Foreign Mission So- 
 cieties. 
 
 There are about 10.000 Lutherans and Ger- 
 man Protest-u t3 in Victoria, and a number in ; 
 the other Australian Colonies. 
 
 Reformed Churches. i 
 
 I.— The statisUcs of the (Dutch) Ri-formetl 
 Cicifc/i and ihe Gi-rnian R'/ormed Church of the 
 Unite iStafes have been given before. 
 
 2.— Herman 0. The R'lform/d Ciiurc/ies nf fSer- 
 maiiy have mostly been absorbed by the Unitetl 
 Evangelic:il Church. For their sijitistios as far 
 as they can be ascertained see Lutheran Church. 
 
 3. — France. The Rf>rmed Church nf France 
 had in 1860. 105 consistories, about 1045 congre- 
 salions, b26 church-buildings, 11.39 schoolj ; a 
 theological faculty at .Vlmitaubiin. A large num- 
 ber of the iniuisterd are "Liberals" (Rationalists) 
 in theology. 
 
 i.— Holland. The Reformed State Church of 
 Hidland had in 1860. '1,800 000 members, 1272 
 con)»i e^'ations. 151 1 clertrymen.thenverwlielming 
 majority of whom are "Liberals" ("Ratioiialisis"). 
 The number of classes 43, foriuiug 10 provincial 
 synods. The General Synod meets annually. 
 There are theolov'ical schools at Leyden, Utrecht, 
 Grouiugen, beside the Atheueumsat Deveuter 
 and Auiiterdam. 
 
 The Free Re(i>rm.ed Chnrch has 28 classes, from 
 50 to 70,000 inemljers, and a theological school 
 at Kampen. 
 
 b.— I'tUium. Before the union of Belgium 
 with Holland, Belgium had only 4 Reformed Con- 
 siegations. The number incieased during the 
 Dutch rule. In lb38, all the Protestant Congre- 
 gations which receive support from the state, 
 formed the ■•Protestiint Union", which united 
 under one Directory several evangelical denom- 
 inations. The majority of the Congregations ara 
 Reformed Total number in 1859, 16. 
 
 6. — HwUzerland hud in 1860, a Protestant 
 population of 1,417.754, who with the exceptions 
 of a few thousand Lutherans, and Mennonites and 
 Independents, are members of the Reformed 
 Church. In some cantons, especially in Geneva 
 and Vaud there are Free Refurined Churches be- 
 side the National Reformed Churches. 
 
 7. — Russia. The Ketormed Church has a popu- 
 lation of about ■.;00,(I00 souls, about one-half of 
 whom live in Lithuania, where they are divided 
 into 4 districts. 
 
 8. — Austria. The Reformed Church of Austria 
 or as it is there called the CImrcli of the Helvetic 
 Confession numbered according to the la-t 
 o'ticial census, a total population of 1,869,546 of 
 wliom 1,453,009 were in Hungary and 297,419 in 
 Transylvania. 
 
 9.— Africa. The Dutch Reformed Church has 
 a consiilerable numb>-r of congreg iti.ms in the 
 cimntries of South Africa, (Cape Colonv, Trans- 
 vaal Ke|iublic, Orange Free State etc.)^The Dutch 
 R.?formed Synod of the Cape Colony has for years 
 been considerably disturbed by the Rationalistic 
 Controversy. 
 
 i 
 
 United Evangelical Church. " 
 
 1. — Germany. The statistics of the United 
 Evangelical Cnurch have been given, together 
 with those of the Lutheran Churches, under the 
 head of Lutheran Church. 
 
 2.-UiiiUdSt tes .f Anurica. The CAurcA Union 
 nf the West (Kircnaiverein d-s Westens) is a 
 branch of the United Evangelical Church of 
 Germany. It has about 4000 members. 
 
 Anglican Church. 
 
 The main branches of this church are: 1. The 
 Protestant Episuopal Church of ihe United States. 
 
7« 
 
 2. Th« Established Church of England and Ire- 
 land. 3. I'he c^cotcb Episcopal Cliurcb. 
 1. — Prottstant Epis-opul Churr.k of tke United 
 atatet. — General Statistics. 
 
 Dioccsen. 
 
 Clerpy. Pariahes. Commc't» 
 
 44 
 
 1.98E 
 
 33 
 
 
 133 
 
 J 5 022 
 
 27 
 
 1,347 
 
 12 
 
 512 
 
 27 
 
 2,2.4 
 
 e-i 
 
 3,9rt0 
 
 29 
 
 1.832 
 
 48 
 
 1,460 
 
 15 
 
 
 35 
 
 2 796 
 
 48 
 
 1.864 
 
 19 
 
 1,527 
 
 136 
 
 11,120 
 
 fi! 
 
 10,^ 27 
 
 73 
 
 4,890 
 
 26 
 
 1,720 
 
 44 
 
 982 
 
 29 
 
 1,856 
 
 23 
 
 1.224 
 
 110 
 
 8.846 
 
 328 
 
 33.790 
 
 t)8 
 
 2.832 
 
 101 
 
 7,686 
 
 179 
 
 18,180 
 
 45 
 
 2,629 
 
 35 
 
 4,2^0 
 
 72 
 
 2.710 
 
 24 
 
 1,996 
 
 29 
 
 950 
 
 37 
 
 2,260 
 
 172 
 
 6,522 
 
 161 
 
 14,855 
 
 44 
 
 3.823 
 
 Alnnanm ,. 34 
 
 California (1866) 30 
 
 ConnecUcut 147 
 
 Delaware 22 
 
 Florida 10 
 
 r.eor>;ia 31 
 
 Illinois 90 
 
 Indiana 31 
 
 Iowa . 36 
 
 Kansas (1866) 12 
 
 Kentncky 38 
 
 l/ouisiana 42 
 
 llaine 16 
 
 ilaryland 157 
 
 JU.'ssachusetls 120 
 
 Michigan 63 
 
 Minnesota 37 
 
 Mississippi 28 
 
 Missouri 28 
 
 Xew Ham))shire 26 
 
 Kew-Jer.*ey 115 
 
 Kew York (1866) 407 
 
 Korth Carolina 50 
 
 Ohio 1(13 
 
 Pennsylvania .219 
 
 Pittsbnifrh 44 
 
 Rhode Island 39 
 
 South Carolina 62 
 
 Tennessee 35 
 
 Texas (1666) 21 
 
 Termont 24 
 
 Vii^ima 112 
 
 ■Western New York 169 
 
 "Wisconsin 63 
 
 Total 2,600 2,370 178 102 
 
 The number of Baptisms was 34,436, and of 
 Gonfirmations, 19,616 Ihe Increase of Com- 
 municants in 23 dioceses is 10,244. There are 
 19.897 Sunday-school teacher.s, and 180.1.J2 
 scholars. The total of contributions for mission- 
 ary and church purposes was $3,859,296 02. The 
 Bii-sinnary dioceses are in Arkansas, Oregon 
 and Washinpton, Nebraska, Da^'otah, Colorado 
 and New Mexico, Nevada and Arizona. Montana, 
 Vtah and Idnho, Western Africa, Cliina, and 
 Japan, and there is a mission at Gieece. Some 
 f ireign congregations, at Paris, Rome, Port au 
 Prince. Hayti, and St. Croix, in the West Indies, 
 *re under the care of this church. 
 
 Cencrnl histitutiont.—Gsnrral Thenlosical 
 Srmtnary, A'ew York. Whole number of stU'ients 
 from the foundation, 908; DimfSticanU Vorni;n 
 Missionary Socuty. In the Domestic Depart- 
 nient: 4;mi.ssionaiy bisliops and 213 missionaries. 
 In the Koreicn Department: 2 missionary bishops 
 18 missionaries, and 34 assistants. 
 
 Sund'iy srhool Union and Church Book Sociity. 
 Jlistiricul Siicieiy. Socuty for the Promotum 
 of Evangelical Knowledge, Hocitty for the in- 
 crease III the Ministry. Amirican Church 
 Missio'inry .'•nnuti/. Christian Unity Society, 
 Univertity of the Houtli, Htwanee, Tmii, 
 2.— The E.-tnbli hod Church of England and Ire- 
 land ami the Hcutck Kpiscnpal C/iurch. 
 
 S(alistics. Bishops. Clergv. 
 F.nghuiil (incl. 2 Archbishops).. :;8 about 17, (i()0 
 I'eleanU " " ..12 '• 2.2(U) 
 
 Sootlaud 6 " ]G2 
 
 ' The Coloni«3 (incl. India, JfeJan- 
 esl« and iJandwicb Islands.) . .51 " 2,009 
 
 America 44 " 2,538 
 
 Retired Bishops .6 
 
 Total 149 23 9110* 
 
 In England there are 5.764.513 Church-sittings; 
 in Scotland, 165 churches, and 94 schools. 
 
 ZlaBtern Churches. 
 
 \.—The Creek Church. 
 ThefJreekChurch cons'stsof lOdiirerentgroapi 
 which in point of administration are independent 
 of each other, namely : 
 
 1.— The Patri'trchate of Jerusalem; it has 
 13 Sees, (Sletropolitical and I .■Vrchiepiscopal) 
 2. Autioch, 6 Meiropoiitical Sees. 3. Alex- 
 andria, 4 Metropolitical Sees. 4, Constantinople, 
 135 Sees (90 Metropolitical and 4 Arch epis- 
 copal). 5. Russia, 65 Sees (5 .\I troi>olitical. 25 
 Archiepiicopal). 6. Cyprus, 4 .Sees (of which 1 
 is Archiepiscopal), 7. Austria, 11 Sees (2 
 M-Jtropjlitical). 8. Mount Sinai, 1 See. 9. 
 Montenegro. 1 Metropolitical See. 10. Greece, 
 24 Sees. (The Archbishop of Athens is ex officio 
 President of the Holy Synod. 
 
 Tlie l)ng struggle between the Government of 
 Roumania (the united Danubian i)rincii)alities 
 of Moldavia and Wallachia) and the Greek .Synod 
 of Constantinople, terminated, in 181)6. in the 
 formal recognition of the entire independence of 
 the church in the principalities, by the Patiiarch 
 of Constantinople and his Synod. This would 
 tlierelore be an 11 th Independent Group of the 
 Greek Church. There are 4 Bislioi)s iu Walla- 
 chia, and 3 in Moldavia. Tlie people ofServia 
 and those of Bulgavia desire for their bishops 
 a similiar indepen<lence of Constantinople. 
 
 Since the annexation of ihe lonuin Islands 
 to the kingdom of Greece, the G 'vernment of 
 Greece has naturally been desirous to unite, the 7 
 bishops of the islands who formerly were under 
 the jurisdiction of the Patriaich of Constanti- 
 nople, with the Holy Synod of (Greece. Tlie 
 Church of the Ionian Islands showed itself how- 
 ever opposed to such a union. 
 
 The .statistics of the Greek Church, reported ia 
 1867, were os follows : 
 Russia, (in Europe 51,000,0!)00 ; in 
 Siberia 2,6;i(l,()00; Caucasus, i total 
 pojiulatioa 4.257.000) not rc[)orted 
 
 total about 55,000,000 
 
 Tarkiy. (Incl. of the Dependencies 
 
 in Europe and Egypt) about 11,500,000 
 
 Austria 2,9JI,0iO 
 
 Greece. (Incl. of Ionian Islands). . . 1,22U,UU0 
 United States of im'rirn. (Chieny 
 in the territory [urciiased in le67 
 
 from Russia) 50.000 
 
 Prussia 1 ,5i)0 
 
 China 200 
 
 Total 69,692,700 
 
 2. — The Armrninn Church. 
 The total number of Armenians scattered all 
 over the world ig .nccording to Dr. Pe!ermruin 
 about 2.5(10,000. Of the.-e about 100,000 are con- 
 nected with Rome United y\riiie ;aiisi, 15,(KJ0 
 iireEvangelical Armenians, :ind all theotliers be- 
 long to the National (or Gregc iaii) Ariiieniaa 
 Church. Russia, aoooniing to .sn ofiieial rejiort 
 of the Ministry of Popular Knlighteiiment, had. 
 in 1651 22,253 Catholiu (united) Armenians, and 
 
77 
 
 172.535, "Gregorian" [(non-united) Armenians. 
 The Armenian population of Turlcey is estimated 
 at 2,000.000. Persia has about 30,000 Armenians. 
 The highest bishop of the Armenian Church re- 
 sides at Etchmiatsin (in Asiatic Russia). The 
 bishops of Sis and Aghthamar have also the 
 title of Catholicos. 
 
 3.— The Nestoriann. 
 
 They have a patriarch at Diz (Mosul), in 
 Turkey, and 18 bishops. In 1833, their number 
 was reported as 10,054 families, or 70,000 souls. 
 Other statements give higher figures. The num- 
 ber of Nestorians in Persia is estimated at 25.000. 
 
 Since 1833 the American Missionaries have 
 labored among the Nestorians, and formed a 
 cumber of Evangelical Congregations. Those 
 Nestorians who have united with Rome, are 
 generally called Chaldeans. They have a patri- 
 arch, bearing the title of Patriarch of Babylon 
 
 Asiatic Turkey, 10; Spanish possessions fn As!»j 
 1; Portuguese do., 1; Africa, 2. Tiere are ia 
 the world 692 bishops. 
 
 3. — Monastic ouitrs. — The following are the 
 statistics of some of the Monastic orders: Male: 
 Franciscans. 50,000; School Brethren, 16,000; 
 .Jesuits, 8000; Congregations for nursing the siclc, 
 6000 ; Benedictines. 5000 ; Dominicans, 4000; 
 Carmelites. 4000. Trai)pists, 4000; l.azarists, 
 2000: Piarisis. 2000; Redemptorists. 2000. There 
 are aljout 190.000 merabe s in Female orders, of 
 wliom 162,000 are in Europe, 20,000 in America, 
 and the rest in the otlier parts of tlie world. 
 4. — Romati Cittliolict in the U^iiled States.— 
 There are 7 provinces in the United States, 
 comprising 44 dioceses and 3 vicariates apostolic, 
 as follows : Province of Baltimore comprises the 
 Dioceses of Baltimore, Charleston, Erie, Phila- 
 delphia, Pittsburg, Richmond, Savannah, and 
 Wheeling, with the Vicariate Apostolic of East 
 and residing at Baigdad, archbishops at Amadia I Florida, and extends over the District of 
 
 and Seleucia, in Asiatic Turkey, four bishops in 
 Turkey and 2 in Persia. 
 
 In India, the Nestorians are commonly known 
 under the name of Christians of St Thorn is of 
 whom there are about 70,001). About 150.000 are 
 united with the Church of Rome. 
 
 4. — The Jacobites, 
 They have a patriarch, with the title, Patriarch 
 of Antioch at Caramit (Diabekir). a maphrian 
 (head of the Eastern Jacobites), in a convent 
 near Mosul. Besides, there are said to be 21 
 bishops in Asiatic Turkey. The number of 
 families in Turkey is variously estimated from 
 10,400 to 34,000. It is said that there are about 
 200,000 Jacobitesliving in East India (in Malabar 
 and Travancore. Of late, the Roman Catholic 
 Church has made progress among the Jacobites 
 in Syria. 
 
 5. — The Copts and Abyssinians. 
 
 The Copts in Egypt.— A patriarch of Alexandria 
 residing at Cairo, and the head of the entire 
 church, with jurisdiction also extending over 
 Nubia and Abyssinia, and the right of consecrat- 
 ing the Abuna (patriarch) of the latter country; 
 16 bishops, churches and convents 146. Popu- 
 lation variously estimated from 150,000 to 
 250,000, of whom about 10.000 in Cairo. Of the 
 Copts about 13,000 have united with the Roman 
 Catliolic Church 'United Copts.) The Abyssinians 
 number about 3,000,000. 
 
 Roman Catholic Church. 
 
 1.— Pope and Cardinals. — The Pope, Pius IS., 
 formerly Giovanni Maria di Mastai Ferretti, was 
 born at Sinigaglia on the 13 h of May 1792; 
 elected Pope on the death of Gregory XV'I, in 
 I«46, and crowned on the 21st of June of that 
 year. 
 
 There are 59 Cardinals, of whom 6 are Car- 
 dinal Bishops, 44 Cardinal Priests, and 9 Car- 
 dinal Deacons. Thirty-nine are Italians by birth, 
 8 French, 4 Spanish. 4 Germans, 1 Croatian, 1 
 Belgian, 1 PorMiguese, and 1 Irish. 
 
 2. — Archbishops and Bishops. — The number of 
 Archbishops in authority was, in 1667, as follows: 
 In the United States 7; British North America, S; 
 Mexico, West Indies. Central and South America, 
 Turkey, 4 ; Ireland, 4 ; Portugal, 2 : Prussia, 
 12; Italy, 47; Austria, 16; France, 17 ; Spain, 9; 
 Bavaria, Russia, Greece, 2 each; Belgium, Hoi. 
 land, England, Badeii, Poland, Malta, leach - 
 
 Columbia, and the States of Maryland, Pennsyl- 
 vania. Delaware, Virginia, North and South 
 Carolina, Georgia, and the eastern section of 
 Florida. Proviyire of Cinoi nati embraces the 
 dioceses of Cincinntiti, Cleveland, Covington, 
 Detnjit, Fort Wa.ine, Louisville. JIm' qiiette and 
 Vincennes, including the States of Ohio, Indiana, 
 Michigan, and Kentucky. Prounce uf New 
 Orleans, La., comprises the dioceses of New 
 Orleans, Galveston. Little Rock, Mobile, Nat- 
 chez, and Natchitoches, and includes the States 
 of Louisiana. Alabama, .Misslssiiipi, Texas, and 
 Arkansas Province of New York includes the 
 dioceses of New York, Albany .Boston, Brooklyn, 
 Buffalo, Burlington, Hartford, Newark, and 
 Portland, and includes New England, New 
 York, and New Jersey. Frnvince of Oregon City 
 includes the dioceses of Oregon City, Nesqualy, 
 Vancouver Islan.l, and the vicariate of British 
 Columbia. Province of St Louis comprises the 
 dioceses of St. Louis, Alton, Chicago, Dubuque, 
 Milwaukee, Nashville, Santa Fe, St. Paul, the 
 vicariates apostolic of Kansa-i, and the Indian 
 Territory, and Nebraska, and embraces Missouri, 
 Tennessee, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa. Kansas, 
 .S'ebraska, Minnesota, Daootah, New Mexico, 
 Colorado, Arizona, and the Indian Territory. 
 Pr viiiceof Snn Francisco c 'mprises the dioceses 
 of San Francisco, that of Monterey and Los An- 
 gelos, and thevica'iate a])nstolic of .Marysville, 
 and embraces the States of California and Ne- 
 vada, and all the territory east to the Ris 
 Colorado. 
 
 These have in all about 4000 churches, chapels 
 and stations, 2700 jinests, 74jheological S--minar- 
 ics and colleges, over 1400 academies and schools 
 with over 30,000 pupils, and upwards of 1511 cui- 
 ventsand monasteries. The total Catholic popu- 
 lation of the Uniteil States is estimated at froto 
 4.000,000 to 5,000.l;00. 
 
 b.— Roman Cathilis in Brit sh America. — &i^ 
 There aae three provinces in British .iraenco *'^' 
 (Quebec, Halifax, and (Jregon). with 18 dioceses 
 and 2 vicariates apostolic, with nearly 1000 
 priests, and a catholic population of ab^iut 
 300,000. 
 
 6. — Roman Cathdirs in. Great Britain. Th« 
 
 Roman Catholics hsve in England, 1415 priests- 
 1014 churches, chapels and stations, 63 male 
 communities, 204 convents, -and llcolle;;es. Iq 
 Scotland there are 4 bl^hops, 193 prie>ta, as 
 many churches, 16 convents, and 2 seiiiiuaries. 
 There are 26 Rom^in Cailiolio peeig. The num- 
 ber of bisljops in England is 16. The number 
 
■rt 
 
 of Roman Catholics in Fnjlpnd and Scotland is 
 fioin 1 5(10,(100 to 2,000,000. In Irt-Uiod are 4 pro- 
 vitKe>, 31 arclibisliops and bishops, 1070 parishes, 
 3120 priests of all kinds, fi7 male and 189 female 
 communities, and 4,4il0.583. 
 
 7._li\,r statistics of lloman Catholicism in 
 other countries, see tables of ecclesiastical statist- 
 ics of America, Kurope, Australasia, and creeds 
 of the world. 
 
 IJiiitarians. 
 
 1. — America. 
 
 The Unitarian Yearbook for 1867 gives the 
 following statistics of American Unitarianism. 
 Number of societies about 294, numbei of minis- 
 ters about 359, 
 
 Tkc National Conference of Unitarmn. ani 
 other Christian Churches, (organized 1865) is 
 composed of such delegates, elected once in two 
 years not to exceed three from any one Church, 
 including the minister, who shall oflScially be one 
 as any of the churches may accredit to it by a 
 certificate of their appointment. The "American 
 Unitarian Association" ofBoston, the "Conference 
 of the Western Churches," and other Unitarian 
 organizations, are also entitled to representation 
 in it. 
 
 They support a mission in India, under the 
 charge of Mr. Dall, who superintends five schools 
 — a school for useful arts, a vernacular school, 
 a native girl's school, the Mary Carpenter or rag- 
 ged school, and another separate school— and the 
 Kev. Mr. Roberts, who is laboring at Madras. 
 There are also schools at Salem and Secunder- 
 abad, receiving assistance from the Unitarian 
 Asociation and from Mr. Dall. 
 
 No statistics of members are given. They havo 
 been variously estimated from 13,000 to 30,000. 
 
 2. — Europe. 
 In England there are about 300 Unitarian 
 ministers who have charge of Congregations 
 In Ireland there are three Presbyterian bodies, 
 which in point of doctrine are regarded as Unit- 
 arians, namely : the Presbyterian Synod of 
 Antrim, the Remonstrant .Synod of UUter, and 
 the Synod of Mescucter. To(.ether they form the 
 "Non-Subcsribing Presbyterian Association of 
 Ireland," which meets annually. In the English 
 Colonies the Unitarians have chapels. On the 
 Continent of Europe the Unitarians exist as a 
 separate denomination only in the Austrian 
 Province of Transylvania, where they number 
 a population of over 50,000, 
 
 Universalista. 
 
 The Vnivarsalist Register in 1868 gives the 
 following statistics: 
 Conventions. Associa'nsSociel's. Minis'rs 
 
 Maine 6 88 39 
 
 New Hampshire 3 35 15 
 
 Vermont 5 46 35 
 
 Massachusetts 6 115 115 
 
 Rhode Islands 6 5 
 
 Connecticut 3 14 14 
 
 New York 16 168 112 
 
 New Jersey 5 2 
 
 Pennsylvania 6 18 2(. 
 
 Ohio 13 95 52 
 
 Michigan 4 24 It* 
 
 Indiana 4 33 15 
 
 Ulinois fl 36 37 
 
 Wisconsin 3 23 18 
 
 Minnesota 13 9 
 
 Iowa 4 24 15 
 
 In most sta'cs, there are annual "State Con- 
 ventions". A "General Convention of the United 
 Status" meets annually. 
 
 There are also a few societies and ministers in 
 the o<her States. 
 
 There are 11 LiteraryIn3titutions,colleges, and 
 Theological Seminaries under the care of denomi- ' 
 nation. Periodicals are published, in ilaine, I, 
 Vermont. 1, Massachusetts, 4, .\ewYork, 2, Ohio, 
 1, Illinois, 2, Alabama, 1, Missouri, 1. 
 
 Nova .Scotia, 2 ministers, 2 societies, 2 meeting 
 houses ; New Brunswick, 2 societies. I minister ; 
 Canada iV-st, (Ontario) 3 societies, 3 meeting 
 houses, 2 ministers; Canada East, 2 ministers. 
 
 The Universalists, in 1860, had only three Con- 
 gregations in England. But their distinctive 
 view of universal salvation has a number ol 
 adherents among the members of the Protestant 
 Churches of Great Britain, Germany and othei 
 countries. 
 
 Christians, (Christian Connection.) 
 
 The statements concerning the statistics ol 
 this denomination greatly vary. Belcher, in his 
 work on The Reiigious Denominations in tnt 
 United States (1854). gives to them 607 organized 
 churches, 489 ministers, and 34,000 communic- 
 ants. In 1839 they claimed 1500 churches and 
 lOUO ministers, and 150,000 communicants. lu 
 the lata slave states they number about 100 
 ministers, 14(1 Churches, and about 10 000 mem- 
 bers. The denomination has spread in England 
 and the English possessions. Their institutions 
 of learning are Christian Union College, at 
 Merom, Ind.; Graham Collet'e, in NorthTJarolina; 
 and academies at Wolfborough, N. H,, and 
 Starkey, N. Y. They are to commence a Biblical 
 School, and have fixed its location at Newark, 
 N. Y. More than sixty Conferences have been 
 organized in the United States and Canada, 
 which meet annually. The General Conference 
 meets every fourth year. At the last, held in 
 1866, 40 annual Conferences were represented. 
 
 Jews. 
 
 The statistics of Juduaism in 1867, according 
 to the best authorities were about as follows: 
 Portugal, 3000; Russia (European), 1,300,000; 
 France. 80,000 ; Great Britain and Ireland, 36,000; 
 Austria, 853.000; Prussia, 250,000; Other German 
 States, 192,176; Netherlands, 70,000; Belgium, 
 l,33ti; Denmark, 4,143; Sweden and Norway, 
 845; Swi'zerland, 3.000; Italy, 40,000 ; Greece, 
 8,000 ; Turkey (European), 70,000 ; Syria and 
 A-iatic Turkey, 52,000; Morocco and North 
 Africa, 610,000; East Asia, 500.800; America, 
 400.000. The total number of Jews is from 6 to 7 
 millions. 
 
 Evangelical Association. 
 
 (The Almanac published by this denomination 
 did not reach us in time, to put the latest denom- 
 inational statistics in its proper place among the 
 ■itatislics of American Methoilism.) 
 
 According to the Almanac of the Evangelical 
 Association for 1868", there are 13 Annual Con- 
 
ferencps 11 ia the United States, 1 in Canada, 1 
 in tifrm.iny), with 478 pre:tchei-9, 382 loc;il 
 preachers aud 60.241 commuulcants. (an increase, 
 over 18fiG, 5 preacliers, 2r local preachers and 
 33U4 members ) 
 
 The number of Sunday schools is 800. of schooj- 
 ars, 40.b55, and of officers and teaclie.rs, 82ii0. 
 Tlie contributions for the Sabbath school and 
 teachers union were $1676 70, and the total re- 
 ceipts for mission purposes were $42,104 16. 
 
 Free-Will Baptist. 
 
 (The "Free-Will Baptist Register for 1866" not 
 having reached us in time, we have to give the 
 statistics i>f the denomination out of their people 
 place under the head of Baptist.) 
 
 This denomination, in 1867,29 yearly meetings, 
 148 quarterly meetings, 1276 Churches. 1100 or- 
 dained preachers 59,211 communicants. The 
 "Free-Will Printing Establishment at Dover, N. 
 H,., publishes a quarterly Review, 1 weeltly 
 paper, and a Sunday-school paper. Another 
 weekly was established in 1867, in Chicago. 
 
 The educational institutions are a Biblical 
 School at Nem Hfoipton. N. H., 3 colleges and 
 10 seminaries and academies. The '"Free-Will 
 Baptist Foreign Mission Society" supports a 
 mission at Orissa, in India. 
 
 The Friends. 
 
 1. — In the United States, the Friends number 
 100,000. belonging to 8 yearly meetings. A year- 
 ly meetings has also recsntly been organized in 
 Canada. Two weelily papers are published in 
 Philadelphia. 
 
 The separate organization of the "Hicksite" 
 (Libe.ral) Friends numbers about 10 members in 
 6 yearly meetings. They have a weekly paper 
 in Philadelphia. 
 
 pThe most important of the yearly meetings of 
 "Progressive Friends" is that at Longwood, 
 Chester Co., Pennsylvania. Thire are others, 
 (or were some years ago) at Waterloo, N. Y., 
 North Collins, N. Y., Wabash, Ind. 
 
 2. — The Friends in E:ig1aud numbered in 1867. 
 13,786 members, an increase of 11 over the pre- 
 ceeUing year. 
 
 The New Jemsalem Church. 
 
 The "General Convention of the Kew Jeru- 
 salem Church in the Uni'ed States" is composed 
 of 9 Associations (Illinois, Maine, and New Hamp- 
 shire, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan and 
 Northern Indiana, New York, Oliio. Pennsyl- 
 vania) 9 isolated Societies, and Members by 
 Eelection. The total number of organized So- 
 cieties in the United States, is 67. 
 
 In England. Scotland and Ireland, 56 Societies 
 are in connection with the ''General Conference" 
 and 10 Societies not in full connection. 
 
 In Germany, there are 12 places where there 
 are known to be "receivers," in Switzerland 
 4 places, in France 4 places, in Italy 2 places, in 
 Australia 8 places. 
 
 Other Denominatious in the United 
 
 States. 
 
 The Shakers have IS Societies with about 4500 
 members. 
 
 The Adventists have about 30,000 members and 
 publish papers in Boston, New York, and Battle 
 Creek, Mich. 
 
 The River Brethren have an Annual Confer- 
 ence in Pennsylvania and another in Canada. 
 Ministers from 50 to 60. 
 
 The '■'Bible Christians" have 1 Congregation in 
 Philadelphia. 
 
 The Irvmgites (Catholic Apostolic Church) 
 have Congregations in New York, PhiUdelphia, 
 Potsdam, N. Y., and perhaps a few others. They 
 have also a few Congregations in England, 
 Germany and other countries. 
 
 The Mormons number about 60,000 in the 
 United States; 20,000 in Europe, and a small 
 number in several other countries. 
 
 The Oneida Communists had in December 
 1667, communities at Oneida (210 members) Wall- 
 ingford (45 members) New Haven, New Ycrk. 
 
80 
 
 ALPHABETICAL INDEX. 
 
 Page 
 ;thyff'ininn Chnrch sec Eastern Churches. 
 
 Africa, Kcclcsiasticil Statistics 6'^ 
 
 , Alliance, K van, _'e1ical 15—16 
 
 America, Ecclesiastical Statistics of 61 
 
 ' Anglican Church. 
 
 Pan- Anglican Synod 17 
 
 His.ory 42-44 
 
 Statistics 75—76 
 
 Anneuian Church, see Eastern Churches. 
 
 Australasia, Ecclesiastical statistics 63 
 
 Baptists. 
 
 History 41-42 
 
 Statistics 64—65 
 
 Bible Societies • 19—20 
 
 Chaldeans, see Eastern Churches. 
 
 Christian Church in 1867 15 
 
 Clir is tiaii Connection 78 
 
 Church and State-Progress of Religious 
 
 Uberty 30—31 
 
 Congregationalists. 
 
 History 48—49 
 
 Statistics 70 
 
 Coptic Church, see Eastera Churches, 
 
 Creeds oUhe World 61 
 
 Disciples ^4 
 
 Pntch Ref. Church, see Reformed Churches. 
 Eastern Churches. 
 
 History 46—17 
 
 Statistics 76—77 
 
 Fvangelical Association 79 
 
 Europe, Eccl. Statistics 62 
 
 Free Congregations 56 
 
 Free Religious Association 56 
 
 Friends 54. 79 
 
 German Reformed Church, see Ref. Churches. 
 Greeic Church, see Eastern Churches. 
 Jacohites, see Eastern Churches. 
 
 Jews ^ 54—56. 78 
 
 Lutherans. 
 
 The Luthern "Oeneral Council" 60 
 
 History 49-50 
 
 Statistics 73—75 
 
 Me Jsiah, Church of the 56 
 
 Methodists. 
 
 Centenary of American Methodism. ... 20 
 
 History 51—53 
 
 Statistics 65—09 
 
 MUsioTis. Foreign. 
 
 List of the P otcstant Mi^s'ry Soc 34— 3.i 
 
 Slatiatics of the u).;re ioiporla-it Soc. ..35—37 
 
 Page 
 
 Protestant Mission Houses 3s 
 
 Moravians. 
 
 History '. 50 
 
 Stat istics 89—70 
 
 Mormons 79 
 
 Nestorians, see Eastern Cliurches. 
 
 New Jerusalem Church 54 — 79 
 
 Oneida C'lmmunities 54 
 
 Positivism 56 
 
 Presbyterians. 
 
 The National Presbyterian Union 
 Convention. 
 
 History 47—49. 60 
 
 Statistics 71—73 
 
 Protestantism. 
 
 Progress of Protestantism in Roman 
 
 Catholic Countries 57 — 59 
 
 Reformed Churches. 
 
 History 49 
 
 Statistics 70-71.75 
 
 Religious Societies of the United States and 
 
 Great Britain -.^ ..-, 23 
 
 Roman Catholics. 
 
 Roman Catholic Council at Rome 21 
 
 History . .-. 44 
 
 Statistics 77—78 
 
 Sabbath Committee 27 
 
 Sandemanians 54 
 
 Secret Societies 33 
 
 Slavery Question and Freedmen 31 — 33 
 
 State Christian Conventions in the United 
 
 States 67 
 
 gunday-schools 28 — 39 
 
 Swedeiiborpians, see New Jerusalem Church. 
 
 Temperance 25—27 
 
 Theological Publications 38—40 
 
 Thomas St., Christians of, see E.istern Churches. 
 
 Tract Societies 27—28 
 
 Union Movements 22-23 
 
 Unitarians. 
 
 History 53—54 
 
 Statistics 78 
 
 United Brethren in Christ 69 
 
 United Evangelical Church. 
 
 History 50—51 
 
 Statistics :.. 75 
 
 Universal ists. 
 
 History 53-54 
 
 Statistics 78 
 
 YouniT Men's Christian Associations .... 20 
 
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 years past, an unparalleled reputation and sale. But notwithstanding the excellence of thi 
 Machine, we now have to announce that it ha-< been supersi'ded by mr | 
 
 Whieh has been over two years in preparation, and which has been broui;ht to perfection regaril- 
 less of TIME, LABOR, Or EXPENSE, and is now confidently presented to the public as incomparably 
 
 tlie BEST SEWINO MACHINE IN EXISTENCE. 
 
 Tlie machine in question is simple, COmpact, durabla, and boiutiful. It is quiet, Iljrlit run- 
 ning, and capibls of performirg a range aod variety of work never before attempied upon 
 a single Macuiue, — usiuj; either Silk, 2'wist, Line-, or Cuttn'i Tli ea'. and sewing with equal faci- 
 lity the very finest a d coarsest materials, and anything l)etween the two extremes, in the most 
 beautiful and substa' tial manner. Its attachments for Hfmming, Rrai itig, C'lTding, Tucking. 
 QiiiUtng. F'Ui7is . Trinimiiig, Binding, etc., are l^ovel and Practical, and have been invented and 
 adjusted especially fur this Machine. 
 
 New designs of the Unique. Use/'il, and Popular Foldiyig Tops and Cabinet Onset, peculiar to the 
 Machines manu;actiired by this Company, have been prepared for enclosing the new Macliine. 
 
 A faint idea, however, can at best be conveyed throuiih the medium of a (necessarily) limited 
 advertisement ; and we therefore urge every person in quest of a Sewing M.iChine by all means to 
 examine and test, if tliey can possibly do so, all the leading rival Machine's before making a pur- 
 chase. A selection can be made thrre understandingly. Branches or agencies for .-upplying he 
 "Sn^'er" Macliines will be found in nearly eve y city and town through 'Ut the civiiii;eil world, 
 where Machines will be cheerfully exhibited, and any information promptly furnished. Or com- 
 munications may be a<l(iressed for Circulars or otherwise, to 
 
 THE SINGER MANUFACTURING COMPANY. 
 
 458 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. 
 AS" Circulars desCribingi and illustrating the MANUKA CTURIXG MACniNES made by this 
 Company, as also the truly wonderful and only practical BUTTON HOLE MACHINE ever yet 
 devised, will be sent post Iree on application. 
 
 PRINCIPAL DOMESTIC BRANCHES. 
 
 Boston. 69 Hanover St. 
 Philadelphia, 610 Chestnut St. 
 Ballmore, 159 Baltimore St. 
 Chlcag.., 50 Clark St 
 St. Kouis, 312 N Fourth St. 
 Cincinnati, cor. Fourth and 
 Race Sts. 
 Fam. 15 
 
 Indianapolis 48 E Wa-^hington St. Troy, 4)j Eranklin Square. 
 
 Detroit, 60 Woodward Av 
 Milwaukee, 17 Newhall House, 
 St. Paul, 250 Ihird St. 
 Newark, 27"? Hrnad St 
 Brooklyn. 3J6 Kulton St. 
 Albany, 6()4 Broadway. 
 
 Rochester. 31 Buffalo St 
 Buffalo. 2.'>3 vain St. 
 New Haven, 219 Chajiel St. 
 San Francisco, 130 Montgomery 
 
 .•<trr<?t. 
 New Orleans, 7 Camp St. 
 
WILL BE GIVEN TO ^ 
 
 ON 
 
 AT 
 
 Oor. of Canal 
 
 AND— 
 
 wmm sT,/'BcddiBg, 
 
 NEWYOBK. ^ pj[j^ 
 
 eiEOOM ilTS, 
 
 &c., &c., &c. 
 
 FANCY DYEING ESTABLISHMENT. 
 
 1 NOS. 5 & 7 JOHN f^TREET, NEW YORK. 
 
 (748 hEOAOWAY, NEW YORK. 
 Branch Offices, 269 FULT > STR >■ ET. BKOOKLYN. 
 
 ( 47 NORTH EIGHTH STt-iEi-T, PHILADELPHIA. 
 All kinds of Dress Goods dyed, ia the piece or in fjarments. 
 
 Ladies' Dressts, Clo!.k3, etc., cleaned, aud Gentlemen's Coats, Overcoats, Pants, Vests, etc. 
 dyed or cleiined without ripping. 
 
 Kid Gloves and Feathers dyi-d or cleaned. 
 Goods receiv,ed and relumed by Expres. 
 
 BARRETT, NEPHEWS & CO , 
 
 Nos. 5 & 7 John Street, New York. 
 
 BOOKS FOR OlEfiOYMESJ. 
 
 BOOKS FOK SUNDAY SCHOOLS, embracing Selections from all Unecceptionable 
 Sources, 
 
 BOOKS FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTHS, in great variety. 
 Particular attention paid to the selection of Libraries, for the Parish and Sundny School. 
 All American Publiciitions, sent by Mail prepaid on the receipt of the price ; and CalalogufS 
 of publishers seot on application. 
 
EXPOSITION UNIVERSAL. 
 
 Pabi«. 1867. 
 The Howe Machine Co..— Elias Howe, Jr.,— 699 Broadway, Xew York, awarded, OVER 
 EIGUTV-TWO COMl'KTirORS, the 
 
 Only Grand Cross of (lie Ije^ion of 53onor, 
 
 AND GOLD MEDAL, 
 
 given to American Sewing Machines, as per Imperial Decree, published in the " llouileux Uni- 
 verael" (Official Jourual of tlje French Empire), Tuesday, 2d Julv, 1857, 
 
 EYERT 
 
 TH3E: C^JEi.y^ j3k.T X=* DFl. X SQ :E3 : 
 
 THE ONLY 
 
 Grand Cross of the Les^ion of Honor and Gold Medal, 
 
 Awarded to AMKKICAN SEWING MACHINES at the Paris Exposition of 1R67. was friven to us 
 IS per Imperial Decree, publislipd in the '• Moniteur Uuiversel" (Official Journal of the French 
 Empire.; Tuesday, July 2d, 1867. 
 
 " SewiBg 
 
 MANUFACTURED BY 
 
 THE HOWE MACHINE CO., 
 
 ELIAS HOWE, Jr., Presidect, 
 
 699 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. 
 
 FOR FAMILIES AND MANUFACTURERS. 
 
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 They are celebrated for doing the best work, using a much smaller needle for the same thread 
 than any other machine. ^^„^ 
 
 Tlie New Improved Family Machine is without a rival, and cannot be surpassed, — a Hem- 
 mer, Feller. Braider. Qailter and Guide go with each Family Machine free of charge. 
 
 Kvf 1/ Machinn is as near per/eclinn as the h'st machinery in the world can make it. 
 
 Tliey are adapted to all kinds of Family Sewing, and Manufacturing of every description, 
 making a beiuiiful and perfect Stitch, aliite on both sides of the articles sewed, and will neither 
 riji nor ravel. 
 
 The luri.-ibein^ exar.tly alike, if any part needs to be revlaccd, the operator can replace it 
 
 Ijoss of time and expense of sending to a machine shop rarely occurs. 
 
 The best Machines In ihe Wo.rld. . Send for Circular. 
 
 THE Rowi.; MACHINE CO.. Manu.acturers and Sole Proprietors of THE HOWE SEWING 
 MACIIINR, »i99 3r..,i,|wrav. N. Y. 
 
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