The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-11-09
METHODIST MISSIONS.
APPROPRIATIONS AND ASSESSMENTS FOB THE

APPROPRIATIONS AND ASSESSMENTS FOB THE
COMING YEAR.
The General Missionary Committee completed its
laeors yesterday aud adjourned sine die The foot
ing up Of their appointments OF moneys to DO
raised by the Church at large shows S7I9. l0v and
their appropriations OF moneys to be disbursed by
the Board OF Managers during the year $780, S679 S3
including Sol .000 TO thoir debt The appor-
tonments arc follows. by conferences Liberia
Africa. 500; South America. 5000; Foochow.
China. $500; KiuAiang. Central China $50: Picking.
North China $50; Germany and Switzerland, 81 500:
Denmark. $500; Norway. $1,000; Sweden. sl75o;
North India. 5000; South India $685. Bulgaria $50;
Italy. 5000; Mexico. $500; Japan. $50. Foreign
mission territories in the United States ARIZONA.
$3.50; New Mexico, 5000; Northwest Swedish Confer
cnce. $4,000; Central German. So 900; Chicago Ger
man. $1,000; East German. $1,000; Louisiana Ger
man, $3.50; Northwest German. SO. 200; Southern
German. 81. $50; st. Louis German. 1850; Western
German. $1,000. Notwithstanding conferences
Alabama. 5000; Arkansas. $3.50; Austin $500; Bal
boma, $500; Central Illinois. $4,000 Central
New York, $1,000; Central Ohio, $4,000 Cen
trail Pennsylvania 2ooc0; Central Tennessee. $500;
Cincinnati, S2l .OUU; Colorado, 81 800: Columbia
River Conference. $1,000 Delaware. $1,000; Dcs
Moines. $1,000; Detroit, $4,000; East Name. $500:
East Ohio 500 100; Erie Conference, $l OO0 Florida.
5000; Genesee. S2i.000 Georgia. $3.50; Holston.
5000; Illinois. S2O,O00 Indiana. Sl1.o00; Iowa,
$4,000: Kansas. s2.loo; Kentucky, $1,000; Lexing-
ton $500; Little Rock, 5000; Louisiana $500; Maine,
s5.O0O Michigan. $4,000; Minnesota. 900; Missis-
sippi. $780, Missouri Conference. $4,000; Montana.
$3.50; Nebraska ST. $50; Nevada $4O0 Newark 600;
New England $4,000; New Hampshire, 81. 200;
New Jersey. $4,000; New York. S43. GOO New York.
East. s4o.50o North Carolina. 5000 Northern New
YORK. $4,000; North Indiana $4,000; North Ohio,
Sl 900; Northwestern Indinaa, IS 500 Northwestern
Iowa. 81 .lO0 Ohio, s17.500 Oregon, 1000; Phila-
delphia S4l.00o; Pittsburg Conference $4,000;
Providence, $4,000; Rock River Conference SIT 900;
81. Louis. $4,000; Savannah. $500; South Carolina,
$2.6oo; Southeastern Indiana. $4,000; Southern Cal
itornia $1,000 Southern Illinois, $1,000; Southern
Kansas. 1900; Tennessee. $3.50; Texas $500; Troy,
$4,000; Upper Iowa. $4,000; Utah. $780, Vermont.
$4,000; Virginia. $1,000; Washington Conference.
81. 500; West Texas. $500; West Virginia. 5000;
West Wisconsin,. $4,000. subcommittee OF five
was appointed to report tho action of
the Missionary Committed during the past four
years to the General Conference. by whom two
thirds Of its members chosen directly. III dis
sum of money Mr.. j. b. Cornell stated that for the
years preceding 1866 the advance in the mis-
s ssnny contributions OF the Church had been
vance was 1.780. OO0 whereas during the just
closed there decline of 0OO0 and last year
was the worst OF the Bishop Merrill, Secre-
tary Dashiell. Oliver Hoyt and others spoke the
subject. They believed that the country and the
Church are in the beginning Of better times than
either has ever known.
REHABILITATION.
recapitulaton Of the work OF the General Com
priations to foreign missions. $279516; to mis-
sions Territories of the United States,
States. 14,45O to German missions here, S40l 90;
to Chinese missions in America $l3,5l6: to
American Indian missions. $3.50; English speak
ing missions within the bounds OF annual confer
ences SIN 2OO to miscellaneous objects. $73 900.
aud for the liquidation OF the debt $64 OO0 Grand
total. S679e32. Amount to be raised by the Church
vt large, $4,000.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL VISITATION.
The Methodist bishops in their session last week
adopted the following plan of visitation to the