Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1860-02-24
Interesting Statistics of the Methodist De-
nomination thraus hoHt The v Qrld.

Interesting Statistics of the Methodist De.
nomination through hoat the " erld.
The New York Christian Advocate furnishes
some very interesting statistical information
in regard to the number of communicants in
the Methodist church throughout the world.
The following are the most accurate estimates
of its members in America:
VI f.. Church NORTH. h)....................956 .956 $50
Nj T.. Church (SOUth). 7O0, ,U60
Canada Wesleyan Conference. ........... 43 .672
Eastern British America Conference. 16, ,935
VI. r. Church, Canada. da....-............... 13, ,352
American Wesleyan Church. 2I ,OOC
VI L. Church Observation-Disclosures 1O,O1S
African NJ r. Church. ch.................... 10000
African VI. =. Church. h..................... 62G3
Albright MethUdlsts ..................... 81 ,O7O
Total lay members in America SIS ,slI
Travelling preachers except Albrights.). II Ass
Total American communicates 4 $50 169
The MethOdism of Europe-except the Brit
-sh and American colonies and European mis-
=ions, included abOve-exhibits similar though
not equal yigor. The latest accessible returns
show:
Total British lay members. 500 397
Add travelling preachers. 256
Total communicates s--......-........ .672 $50
These items do not include the Welsh Cal.
vaniStic Methodists, who, according to the Sta
tiSticS Of the British Government for 1855.
preachers.
Besides these divisions, there are minor ones
whose statistics cannot be exactly ascertaiped:
an authority gives them aggregate of 10, 900
members and 200 preachers. Summarily, then.
MethOdism throughout the world comprises
. j4S, 100 lay members, and IA ,S83 travelling
preachers-an aggregate of 1858, ,O9I commu,
nicaIts If we weuld add three non-commu-
nicant members of its congregation for each
commitment, "a safe estimate for Methodist
congregations generality we have pOpula-
tiOn Of more than ten and a quarter millions
attending its miniStrations. 1t extends densely
over North America and England; it has ''con-
ferences'' in France, Germany, Africa and
Australis its missions are in Sweden, Norway,
Switzerland, Spain, Turkey, South America;
they dot the coasts of Africa, India, China, and
the isles Of the Southern Ocean. Its great mis-
siUnary organization includes more than 3. O6O
labOrerS; its educational institutions comprise
more than 130 colleges, theological schools and
boarding academies, and Tin England) nearly
$40 day schools; il has more than 2 OO0, 600 of
Sunday scholars, and 300, 900 teachers Its
IS 900 local preachers make, with its itinerants,
II ministerial force of nearly 90, 900.
The census of the United States for 1850 re.
ported the property Of the Methodist denoni-
nations churches, not parsonages,) at
Sl4 ,636,67l. The annual minutes now show
the valuation of the churches and parsonages
oI the felnouiSl EpiScOpal Cnurch (DOTth)
alone at S2l :2i9, ,S08, gain of SO :'4l ,624. or
nearly IL per cent. in two years. The churches
alone Of the two Episcopal bodies, North and
South numbered about II 900. This aggregate
gives an average of more than 100 churches
built each year since the erection of the first
(oid John stTeeD in 176S-three each week.
During the last two years the increase of
churches in tie Methodist Episcopal Church
North alone was $40, giving nine and one-third
per week, or more than one and half for each
working day of the two years. During the
same period 366 parsonages were built-about
one for every two days.