The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-10-28

le,12s, ISL $l71,l53,4s
'oial so. 900

Total. ........... 80 800 1928 Isl Sill, 153 432
Thus II will be that the church edi1ces OF the
Mcthodist according to United States authority arc
onethird of tic entire number OF church edccs In this
country The ministers and members of this denomna-
ton also compose one-third Of the whole number; q
good showing certainly for the first hundred years
Of effort especially when we consider that The other
leading denominations had pre0ccupied the country
from one hundred TO one hundred and fifty years before
Mcthodsm introduced The increase OF Methodists
6603 Baptist increase, $40; Catholics, 40; Epsco
paaps GS5; Presbyterans, 231. The incfoase OF Me-
,bodst churches Is 2 400 moro than The four dcnomna-
lions above named.
The Sunday School effort OF the denomination wss
Commenced in 1885, by Francis Asbury in the house OF
Thomas CrcnsLaw, Hanover county, Virginia The OH
ccr teachers and schoars now number 42j These
are Sustained a, an annual cost or $3.50. 600 These
schoars raise $40 900 annually for schools in destitute
localities.
Missionary efforts also during The century have been
prosecuted with visor So much that tho church Is
called the Pioneer Church, and It's min sicfs 'Crcu
Rders." In this country il has missions among the
Welsh French, Scandinavian Indians and the English
speaking population in destitute regions. Altogether
there la00 missionaries sustained, At an animal
cost OF x2j000o In the foreign field IL has missionaries
in LIBERIA China, India. Germany, Bulgaria and South
America. During the late wal missionary was called
home for want OF means 10 support him. There are 30
missionaries the foreign eid sustained al annual
cost or 100000 This year, we learn 900 900 are to
be raised for home and foreign missions.
Tne publishing operations Of the church also
nense The sales Hast year OF the two houses zone IN
New York and the other in cincinnstD amounted 10
81 0Oo and the profits 10 600 The capital stock
OF the two L. si,2I3,327 Each year q million
bound volumes scattered The length and breadth
of the country from these establishments Besides this
AZ journals published weekly, which have an aggre
gate monthly circulation OF 1850 6t copies Its sun.
day School Journal closed It's last year with circula
don OF 30 O00the largest circulation Of any paper In
the world
In respect 10 Literary Institutions toe Methodists at
present not behind other denominations or colleges
theological Summaries and academies, the number H.
2, and the aggregate number o. students 1905 The
value Of the real estate apparatus aud endowments con-
neced Herewith IL estimated ~ o., 100 00O In Sunday
schools mission efforts, publishing operations, literary
institutions indeed Ia any department Of Christian effort
this denomination IL second other AT tho close OF
its frat century In round numbers finds ITSELF Ia all OF
its branches, with membership Of 2 600 900; sunday
school force OF 600 collecting annually SO 900 900
Tor the spread OF the gospel printing annually GOO
Of bound volumes and 2o00,000 VI tract volumes so
periodicals. which scattered weekly aud monthly all
the country, aud with 20 900 church edinces which
accommodate 1000 600 persons about onenth the on
tire population. With such history, such resources
and such responsibility the Methodist church begins ia
second centennial period