Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-01-29
THE METHODIST CHURCH.
Hts Power I'm England.

A London letter to the New York World
gives the following Interesting statistics
Great Britain and throughout the world:
There are in Great Britain 35s,7T2 MEM
bers, and z ,6i2 on trial for membership;
23,IGI class leaders, and 1871 lay preachers;
5,9H chapels connectionally settled, LEO
other preaching places, and ], 73l, 5S2 sittings
The number OF adherents OF MethodIsm
throughout the world is estimated at
Il 600 coo. The basis of circulation appears
to be this: There are7 ,30i, 1893 member these
are multiplied by four, which appears to be
Inc proper multiple IN order to get the num-
The number OF ministers is stated to be
q ,76. 1t may be observed that the number
OF members just given does not include those
on trial. In connection or affiliation with
English Methodism stands Ireland and the
Irish missions, foreign missions, French
eonlerence, Canadian conference, and
ter are New South Wales and Queens
land Victoria and Tasmania, South Aus
dian conference was organi1ea In ,s IaG 6v
union of the Wesleyan and New Con-
neXion Conferences of Eastern British Ame-
RIGA In addition to the Wesleyans there are
720 members and 1,010 ministers; New Con-
nexion, 2, 5f7 members and $50 ministers;
bers and 354 ministers; Wesleyan Reform
Union, S,fH members and Is ministers; Bible
Christians, q ,76S members aud 276 ministers
In the United States of America the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church North and Methodist
Episcopal Church South have almost 3, 600 900
mem bers, the Methodist Episcopal Church
In Canada 81 103 members, and the NOE-Epis-
copal Methodist Churches 14S, 900. The weak
est Conference is that of France, which has
only BIB attendants on worship. the con-
tributions in England and Scotland for the
various wesleyan Connexi0nal funds were
Tor last year as follows: Kingswood School,
etc. fs,4I7; chapel fund, f9 500; expenditure,
Il ,293; Theological Institution mot inciud-
Ing ministers subscriptiOns), Elm; worn.
out ministers fund, fl0, ole; home missions
f26,i19i foreign missions, f110,2i1. Tuese
statistics have 10 do only with Great Britain
and the state of the work as represented by
these may be seen more clearly iE the forty
three pages on the four several departments of
Methodism-The Aggressive Movements of
the Body, the Educational System, Metho-
dist Literature, and Sustentation Funds for
Retired Ministers and Ministers Widows.
Nineteen pages are occupied with the Edu-
caiional Section. In connection with agrees
sive movements are the Foreign Mis- sionary
Society. the income for which for last wear
was ETA 039; Home Mission work with the
polltan Lay Mission, Manchester and Sal
ford Lay Mission and Seamens Mission:
general chapel building work, in connection
with which EFT ,65i was expended last year,
and In the last twenty years Including dona-
tons towards paying off the debt), &c 9l5, 2iS;
Metropolitan Chapel building fund, which
was established In 1861, and Wesleyan
Methodist Trust Assurance Company. One
OF the most interesting parts of the work is
found In the seventeen pages on the several
courts OF Methodism, and the duties of CIR
cult, society, poor, and chapel stewards. The
islative body in the connection is the An
nual Conference, constituted In accordance
with Mr.. Wesley's deed OF declaration, bear
Ing date Feb. %, $50, where IL ID termei 81 The
odists." This assembly consists OF 100
| members, All Of whom must be ministers
Inc second ecclesiastical courts Of Meth