The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1868-01-24
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STATISTICS OF THE CHURCH,

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STATISTICS OF THE CHURCH. |
Henry u. SMITH i the author ofthc
following ,tatemcnt-:-
MEruoDisrs.
Foremost in numbers and lcU is the
Methodist Episcopal Church. Last year
it celebrated the centenary of it intro
duction into this country. Proposing
to raise a thank-oflcring Of two mil
lions, its receipts have actually come
near to four millions n large part
of which is TO he devoted to the in
tcrcsts Of education. Tho Northern
Churcn reports 81 annual confercn-
ccs; 13,172 preachers; 1882, Isl church
members an increase during the year
/ of O2,92jl; S2,925 haptisms of adults
and children; 10, l62 church building,
Of the value of thirty millions of dol
lars; - colleges and thcU.og ,cal schools;
Book COHcvrn, with capital of $780,
| OuO; and jG official periodicals, with q
| circulation Of one million month. The
Methodist Church, South, separated in
| 1874. with 1910 ministers, l95, ,2S2 mem
hers, and now has about 100000 c0mnu-
uicants. Other branches are: MCtho-
| list Protestants, 100000; African Meth
odists, about ll2ooO; The Evangelical
Association lAllbright's,J 5G,734 Wes-
Ieyan McthodistS, 2jG7O; Free Metho-
tists lsincc 1901 1890; Primitive
Methodists, l,s05. The total Methodist
Church membership is over two mill
ions. In Canada there are $1,000. All
this is the growth Of Il century; in 1926
here were 800, 500 mcmbors. No church
in the country is moving onward with
Il more definite aim or larger plans.
Among the German population it has
j3i preachers and $4,000 church mcm-
1ers. I'm Germany, ii has 81 preachers
md 1870 members in France, ll9
preachers and ,sjS members. Its ap-
preparations for foreign and domestic
missions, for 1867, amount to 81 l,O3O,97s.
some of the subdivisions may soon be
reunited with the main branch Of this
church; but the southern churches still
stand aloof,
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Next in number are the Baptj-tS,
Their total church membership is given
at l,Geo, sol, with l7,220 churches, name
y: Regular Eaptist~, l,Ol0,3O3; Camp
uclltc, )Di,ciplc-,l 100000; lroc-Wilj
Baptist-, 56,2jS; Sevcnlh-Dly Blp.iats,
,,Gll; ,Iix-Principle Baptist. Heb g.
l-3', 5000 ;sWin, brcnnarians Church O
,;udI, 23,sO1; Auti-Mis-ion Blptsts,
10000; Christians lUuiiarian7l, lOS,o0O;
bankers lTunkcrs', 2o,ulo. The North
orn and southern Buptists act indepcn'
IDENTIFY; the Southern number Gl5,5jl
the denomination has 23 colleges, II
theological schools, anl p periodicals
lHr Northern Baptist Home Mission
society, 1867, reports it, rc,pipt,at SIG,
$50 s7O,OOO larger than last year the
Njs.ionury Union, si9l,7ll; the Publ
cation Society, Sl09727; The Bible $50
ci,ty, Sil, ,i11, The southern Baptist
report, 1867, 1000 for domestic mis-
-ions; So. GOO for foreign missions, Will
lt missionaries nh Baptists have ;
number of cbur,hp. of Germans, an,
yoo missionaries in Germany and Sean
b dinuvia. LARGO -ub.criptious, amount
inc to more than million Of dollars
have bpcn recently made for their col
Ioocs and tbeolo,ic,l .omiuarios. TIT
ATcnnouites. numbering ls5sJ II
churches and 86 $50 mombers: the r,
,ormcd NIennonites. 4 600 members, an,
,hc Hooker lAmish NIeunonites, ar
also Raptists Anotipmpt TO unite tn
yamnbcllitc, with the REGULAR Souther
napti,ts has called. In Canada and III
West Indies. the Bapti,t, number Y!
churches and 195o7 members.
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.,,.,,ttnn,,ism has thn vruund in
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