Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1875-02-19
THE GAZETTE.
FRIDAY EVENG., FEBRUARY 10.
THE METHODIST CONFERENCES.


The Baltimore Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, which meets 10 Winchester,
Va, March 8, 1875, over which Rev. Bishop
Jesse T. Peck, D. d., is to preside, numbers
1914 travelling ministers. According to the
Journal there are 4,259 probationers 21,9so
members, 200 local preachers, 359 churches
valued at 50, It's, 400, and Is parsonages, val
ued at sos, 200; there has been raised Tor re-
cent improvements in churches and parson-
ages, $lO5,9 1892, and indebtedness 90 the
same is s305,S The collections for benevo-
lent purposes are as follows: Conference claim
ants. s.. 1869 10; missions, by churches, SILL
1875 is; by Sunday schools 1915. g. aud IN
all S29,472 so; Wom.nS Foreign Missionary
Society, $3.50. SO; church extension, 81, $780,
O3; tract cause, $685. Sc; Sunday School Unlon,
$6ll.53; Freedmeu's Aid Society, $46S As;
education, $685. support of bishops, ST.
O69 SO; Home Sunday school expenses, $le,-
93S,6l, and for support OF ministers Slo4,oVo
The total amount OF money raised, S5O4' oyi.
l2,au average Tor each member OF SlO. Sif. Inc
averrge support of each minister 10 the work Is
1924. l6s. This is certainly very encouraging
state of the church within the bounds OF this
conference in financial sense.
The Baltimore Annual Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church South will also
hold it's twentieth session in Washington com.
mencinp on the 81 of March, Bishop David
DogSett, D. D., is the presiding bishop. The
number of preachers 10 the conference, includ-
ing elders. deacons, supernumerarles, superan-
ated, &c., is lS6; local preachers, lO5; mem
beers, "a, 1872 white, Is coioredi churches, 324;
value of churches, s709,l l9; parsonages 54,
probable value $S4 100; Sunday Schools, 377;
superiutendents 459; teachers, 1871, scholars,
%, l79; conversions ! ,2l5 volumes IN libraries,
81, lOl; expenses, S,660.75; paid for minis
terial support, $50, 1878; paid for missions,
SIS, 1872. ST, education 81 ,449 49, Bible, $37l a;
bishops fund, 81, 367.77; superanuated fund,
$4,000 IS.
Tho Annual Conference of the Methodist
Protestant Church convenes 10 the Starr
church, on Poppletou street below Lombard,
in this city, on the 10th of March; Rev. David
Wilson, president The conference includes
within its bounds the States of Mary land
and Delaware and the District of Columbia
There are in it 1914 churches and l03 minis.
tiers. Each of these ministers Is accompanied
By a lay delegate and the conference will there
fore be constituted of 206 members,
There are in the conference over twelve
thousand church members value OF church
property, s76S,000 number OF Sunday school
teachers, one thousand eight hundred and
eighty; Sunday school scholars, eleven thouS-
and five hundred and ninety. There are eight
churches in Baltimore, four in Washington,
and two in Georgetown. There are churches
in every county on the Eastern Shore of Mary
land. The Western Maryland College, at
Westminster, Nd, costing S4O,o 900, and having
one hundred students, male and female, is un-
der the patronage of the conference. The con-
ference superannuated fund amounts to $40
900, and from it sixty per cent. of the whole
amount required for the superannuated list IS
taken. The terms of the ministers extend to
four years, as in the Methodist Episcopal
Church South, and there are about the same
number of changes each year. Fraternal mes
sengers will attend the conference from differ
ent sections of the country. -BaL San