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Permanent Calendar for the Century,
Explanation: The seven Calendars in the right-hand Table (numbered 1 toT) exhibit every
possible variation in the month-date of each day of the week. The numbers in the left-hand
Table indicate the proper calendar for each month of every year, from 1865 to 1900.
Year.
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1865
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4
4
7
2
5
7
3
6
1
4
6
1866
2
5
5
1
3
6
1
4
7
2
5
7
1
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
1867
3
6
6
2
4
7
2
5
1
3
6
1
15jl6
17
18
19
20
21
1808
4
7
1
4
6
2
4
7
o
5
1
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22 23
24
25
26
27
28
1869
6
2
2
5
7
o
5
1
4
6
2
4
29 30
31
1870
7
3
3
6
1
4
6
2
5
7
3
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
1871
1
4
4
7
2
5
7
3
6
1
4
6
2
7
8
9
10
11
12
18
1872
2
5
6
2
4
7
2
5
1
3
6
1
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
1873
4
7
7
3
5
1
3
6
2
4
7
o
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
1874
5
1
1
4
6
2
4
7
3
5
1
3
28
29
30
31
1875
6
2
2
5
7
3
5
1
4
6
2
4
1
2
3
4
5
1876
7
o
4
7
2
5
7
3
6
1
4
6
3
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
1877
2
5
5
1
3
6
1
4
2
5
7
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
1878
3
6
6
2
4
7
2
5
1
3
6
1
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
1879
4
7
7
3
5
1
3
6
2
4
7
2
27
28
29
30
31
1880
5
1
2
5
7
3
0
1
4
6
2
4
1
2
8
4
1881
7
3
3
6
1
4
6
2
5
7
3
5
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
1882
1
4
4
7
2
5
7
3
6
1
4
6
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
1883
2
5
5
1
3
6
1
4
7
2
5
7
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
1884
3
6
7
3
5
1
3
6
2
4
7
2
26
27
28
29
30
81
1885
5
1
1
4
6
2
4
7
3
5
1
3
1
2
3
1886
6
2
2
5
7
3
5
1
4
6
2
4
5
4
11
5
6
7
8
9
10
1887 i 7
3
3
6
1
4
6
2
5
7
3
5
12
13
14
15
16
17
1888
1
4
5
1
3
6
1
4
7
2
5
7
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
1889
3
6
6
2
4
7
2
5
1
3
6
1
25
26
27
28
29
30
81
1890
4
7
7
3
5
1
3
6
2
4
7
2
1
2
1891
5
1
1
4
6
2
4
7
3
5
1
3
6
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
1892
6
2
3
6
1
4
6
2
5
7
3
5
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
1893 1 1
4
4
7
2
5
7
3
6
1
4
6
17
18
19
20
21
22
28
1894
2
5
5
1
3
6
1
4
7
2
5
7
24
25
26
27
38
29
30
1895
3
6
6
2
4
7
2
5
1
3
6
1
31
1
1896
4
7
1
4
6
2
4
6
3
5
1
3
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
1897
6
2
2
5
7
3
5
1
4
6
2
4
7
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
1898
7
3
3
6
1
4
6
2
5
7
3
5
16 17
18
19
20
21
22
1899 !l
4
4
7
2
5
7
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6
1
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6
23 24
25
26
27
28
29
1900 1 2 5
6
2
4
7
2
5
1
8
6
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[Copyright 1870, by William R. Db Puy, and inserted in the '■ Methodist Year-Book " by special permission.
PREFATORY.
As the Church is just now stepping into the closing year of the first century of
its organized existence, it is fitting that the whole ministry and laity should be fur-
nished with the fullest information possible concerning the present condition of
Methodism in all parts of the world. It is the purpose of the present greatly en-
larged edition of the Year-Book. to supply this information. Its pages are burdened,
not with the rhetoric of words, but with the logic of figures and facts. Its records
cover every department of work, in not only tlie Methodist Episcopal Church, but
also ill other branches of the great Methodist family, and its statistical summaries
are presented to the inquiring observer as most reliable, instructive, and helpful.
In some sections of our Foreign Mission work persistent efforts have been made
to prejudice the public mind against Methodism, because it was planted in those
countries by ministers from the United States, and in some of its branches is still
largely carried forward by ministers sustained by the parent Church. An effective
answer to all such allegations will he suggested by the patriotic correspondence in-
serted on pages 315-319. Methodism points with satisfaction to the intense and
never-failing loyalty to the State which has always characterized her administration
in every country into which her ministers have extended their evangelical work.
The spirit of the hour is in sympathy with the oft-repeated sentiment, " In union
there is strength," and the tendency of the various branches of Methodism in all
parts of the world is in the direction of harmony, fraternity, and co-operative union.
The recognition of this spirit and the expression of this tendency will be gratefully
noted in the facts set forth in many of the pages of the Year-Book. The organic
union of the four Methodist bodies of Canada, and the harmonized and joyful in-
auguration of a more hopeful autonomy of Methodism in that important Dominion,
is a noteworthy and most suggestive incident of the closing months of the first Cen-
tenary of American Methodism.
Among the multitude of stirring memories which will crowd themselves into the
meditations, devotions, and exhortations of the Centenary Year, are those which
relate to the condition, methods, and plans of American Methodism at its organiza-
tion. Care has been taken, therefore, to furnish, from the pen of its most gifted
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the Churches for the approaching Centennial Observances — the whole presenting a
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suggestive and helpful outline for the use of pastors and people in the special work
of the present year.
The pioneers and founders of American Methodism were men of remarkable zeal
and devotion. As preachers and pastors, carrying forward their itinerant work
among the early settlers of the various States, they labored without cessation, and
•wisely and successfully laid the foundation of the great work in which we rejoice in
the closing months of the century. They were as truly separated for their service
as were Barnabas and Paul for their mission. They carried every-where they went
the spiritual experience, the doctrine, the mode of worship, the means of fellow-
ship, and the general Church economy which characterized the Wesleyan move-
ment in England, and wliich God has always palpably approved in every country
where they have been introduced.
Characterized to a remarkable degree by their elevation of pei-sonal experience
and by self-denial in their work, our ministers and their assistants found favor with
the people, and successfully planted churches, established missions, and opened
schools. They were among the earliest to perceive tlie inestimable value of Chris-
tian education, and to provide for it; and in suggesting and founding these educa-
tional institutions, they anticipated all the later public eflForts which have been made
in the direction of higher education. The story of their labors and successes is
inseparably interwoven with the history of American progress in government,
in science, in industrial pursuits, in general civilization, and in moral and social
improvement.
The rise of prosperous Churches in the home country naturally led to earnest
efforts to reach the people of other lands. Hence, under the blessing of God, have
grown up among all classes of people, at home and abroad, well-established and in-
fluential Churches, with their manifold agencies and enterprises, and with a far-reach-
ing and powerful ecclesiastical organization, now including in its annual numerical
reports millions of adherents, and covering in its area of evangelistic work, not
only a continent on this side the sea, but also reaching far away into the regions
beyond. The observers of to-day survey these Methodist Conferences of Churches,
with their ministers and members, their schools and teachers, and their ever-iucreaa-
ing social influence and usefulness, and note, with grateful satisfaction and increas-
ing favor, the ecclesiastical system whose doctrines and methods have been so won-
derfully blessed of God.
New Yokk, December, 1883. W. H. D.
N. B. — Special thanks are due and are hereby gratefully tendered to our Bishops,
to the Secretaries of our Connectional institutions, to the officers of various branches
of the great Methodist family, and also to those of other ecclesiastical bodies, for
numerous favors promptly and courteously granted by them in the preparation of
these pages. W. H. D.
CONTENTS.
Page.
African M. E. Church
Chronological Outline 221
Bishops 222
General Conference 222
Publication Department 222
EJucational Institutions 222
Appropriations 222
Conference Calendar 223
African M. E. Zion Church :
Missiiins 224
Booli Concern 224
Episcopal District Stewards 224
Educational Institutions 224
American Board Missions 876
American Wesleyan Methodist Church. . . 240
Anglican Communion 295
Astronomical Notes :
The Four Seasons 15
Eclipses 15, 16
Signs of the Planets 16
Morning and Evening Stars 16, 17
Planets Brightest IT
Occultation of Fixed Stars 17
Eising and Setti ng of Planets 18
Conjunction of Planets 19
Church Days 20, 21
Church Seasons 21,22
Cycles of Time 22. 23
Principal Eras 23, 24
Calendar — Explanatory Notes 24
Notes on the Year 25
Notes on Days of the Week 25
Notes. Miscellaneous 26
High Water, Times of 26, 27
Interestins Dates 27
Calendar for Months 28-50
Calendar, Permanent, for Century 8
Calendar of Events in Meth. History. .29-51
Calendar of Events in Amer. History.. 29-51
Calendar for M. E. Church for 1884 198
Standard Time 408
Australasian:
Educational Institutions 290
Wesleyan Methodist Church 292
Methodist Census 292
Methodist Union 296
Baptist Statistics 87S
Open Communion 883
Bequests, Forms for. 122
Bible Society, American :
Instituted 242
Character of 242
Eflfurts for, in U. S 242
Receipts for year 243
Work in Foreign Countries 243
Officers and Managers 24S-245
Annnal Eeceipts 245
PitOC
Bible Society, American :
Bibles and Testaments Issued 246
Bible House 246
British and Foreign 246
Bishops of the M. E. Church :
Post-office Addi-ess of 87
Support of. 87
Table 1 87
Table II 83
Foreign Missionary Tours of 89
Administration in Annual Conferences. 106
Plan of Episcopal Visitation 204
British Methodist Churches :
Wesleyan Conference 272
Wesleyan Connectional Officers 275
Wesleyan Conference Appointments.. . 276
Wesleyan Statistical Summaries 277
Wesleyan Publishing Department 278
Missionary Anniversaries 280, 231
Wesleyan Metropolitan Chapel Fund. . . 23ii
Methodist New Connection 2S3
Primitive Methodist 282
United Methodist Free Church 233
Necrology of Wesleyan Ministers 284
Wesleyan Reform tjnion 285
Proposed West India Conference 285
Wesleyan Statistics by Districts 286
Educational Institutions 287-291
Publishing Houses in England 293
Sunday-schools 293
Mission Home and Centenary Hall 294
United Free Gospel and Independent
Methodists 294
Houses of Worship . . 295
Wesleyan Thanksgiving Fund 293
Suggested Methodist Union 293
Calendar of M. E. Church, 1834 198
Canadian Methodist Union:
Joint Committee 250
Basis of. 250
Circular Letter 255
United General Conference 258-268
Annual Conference Calendar 259
Disciplinary Provisions 260
List of General Conferences 263
Centenary:
Organization of American Methodism. . . 8f>5
Historic Record 305
Action of M. E. General Conference, 1880 8i5
Paper of Ecumenical Delegates 307
Action of M. E. Bishops 3('7
First Meeting of M. E. Committee 308
Circular Letter of M. E. Bishops 3ll9
Action of M. E. Church, South 810
Meeting of Centenary Committee, M.E.
Church, South 311
Bishops' Address. Methodist Episcopal . 312
List of Committees oa Correspondence. 818
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Centenary :
Aclion of British Conference 314
Action of United Canailiiin Conference.. 314
Interesting Facts for Keinembrance 315
Chapels of M. E. Church in 17S4 161
Chartered Fund 156
Church Extension Society, M. E. Church :
Board of. 151
Officers 151
Funds 151
Historic Notes 152
Summary of 154
Loan Funds 154
Worlc Accomi)lished 154
Apportionments 155
Ttie Annuity Feature 156
Of New York city 199
Chronological Outline, General Methodist.52-76
Necrology of M. E. Minis' rv 205
General Necrological Kecord 889-394
General Chronological Outline 395-406
Colored M. E. Church of America 225
Suggested Union 375
Commissioners of Foreign Missions, Amer-
ican Board 376
Conference." :
African M. E, Church General 221
American Wesleyan General 240
British "Wesleyan 272
Canadian Methodist, List of General . , . 268
Canatlian Methodist, United General .258-268
Executive Administi-ation in the... .106, 107
First South African 303
French Wesleyan 285
General 98
General Conference "Daily Christian
Advocate " 107
General Conference Officers of M. E.
Church 104
General Conference Secretaries 106
General, of M. E. Church 98-106
Irish Wesleyan 299-302
M. E. Church, South, La«t General 218
Meth. Church of Canada General. . .268-271
Methodist New Connection 2S2
Patriotic Action of Methodist 315-319
Primitive Methodist 282
United Methodist Free Church 283
Weslevan Reform Union 285
West India 285
Congregational Methodist 241
Congregational Statistics 3S2
Courses of Study for Itinerant Ministers.. 198
for Local Preachers 211
Disciples of Christ 884
Dunkards 384
Dutch Eeformed Statistics 882
Ecumenical Conference, Second 375
Action of British Methodists 375
Education :
Board of. 172
Historical Sketch 173
Institutions 191
Plans for Centeniirv Children's Day,
1SS4 " 197
Pakb.
Evangelical Association 230-232
Seventeenth General Conference 233-i::55
General Statistics 23S
Executive Administration in Annual Con-
ferences 106
Freedmen's Aid Society, M. E. Church:
Organization 162
Oftlcers ] 62
Financial Statement ' 164
Report of Bishop Wilev and Dr. ijust'.! lf,4
Circular lo Annual Conferences 170
General Work 171
Educational Institutions 163
Friends, in Great Britain and Ireland 294
General Summaries 86, 3S4
General Conferences :
Chronological Notes 98-106
Officers Elected by i04, 105
Secretaries I(i6
'■ Daily Christian Advocate " 107
Districts 150
Heads of the Principal Nations 888
Houses of Worship in Great Britain 295
International Bible Lessons 204
Introduction 9
Ireland :
Methodism in 299
Wesleyan Conference 299
Statistics for ls83 299
Irish Connectional Otficers 299
Methodist Colleges in 300
Irish Conference Calendar 301
Standing Orders of Irish Conference... 801
Special Suggestions for 8u2
John Street Church :
Organization 200
Charter 200
Li^t of Pastors and Presiding Elders . . . 201
General Conference Action and Bishops'
Eecommotidations '203
Trustees of Tru^t Fund 203
Liberia, Semi-Centenary of Methodism in 304
Local Preachers :
National Association of 206
Of M. E. Church 2o7
Lists of Officers 207
Annual Meeting, 18S3 208
Charter of As-iociation 209
Constitution 210
Rules of Order 21 1
Courses of Study 211
Conference Examinations of 212
British Weslej'an Association 213
List of Officers 215
Places of Holding Annual Meeting 215
Lutheran Statistics 880
Methodist General rhronolog-cal Outline 62-76
Chapels in America iu 1784 161
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Methodist Episcopal Church ;
History of Organization 321
Statistics and Coiiii)arative Prosri'ess..T7-85
Methodist Episcopal Church, South :
Officers 216
Bisliops 216
Publishing Department 216
Necrology 217
Appointments other than Pastors 217
Courses of Study 217
Last General Conference 218
Missionary Department 218
Comparative Summaries 218
Educational Statistics 219
Statistical Summaries 220
Methodist Protestant Church:
Organization 287
General Conference 237
Aiinual Council 237
Publishing Department 238
Ministerial Education 233
Missions 238
Statistics 239
Methodist Union :
In Canada 250-268
In Australia 296
In New Zealand.. 297
In England 293
Of Colored Churches 875
Mexico, Remarkable Transfoi malion 319
Missionary Society, M. E. Church:
Officers 123
Geieral Committee 123
Property of, in New York 123
Receipts in 1S82, 1833 124
Appropriations and Apportionments... 125
Summaries of Foreign Missions 127
Summaries of Domestic Missions 128
Keceipts by Years from Organization.. . 129
Necrology :
Meth. Episcopal Ministry 205
British Wesleyan Ministers 284
General 889
New Zealand, Methodist Union 297
Organization of the M. E. Church:
Dr. Thomas Coke 321
His Early Life 322
He is " chimed" out of his Church 324
Joins Wesley ' 824
Importance of his Services 325
Sketch of Thomas Vasey 326
He Sacrifices a Fortune for Methodism. 326
His Services 826
Richard Whatcoat 328
Hi^ Appearance and Character 328
His Eariy History ...329
His Labors and Sufferings in Ireland . . . 882
Necessity of Wesley's Measures for
America 8^..3
Condition of American Methodism 833
Condition of rhe Protestant Episcopal
Church 334
Wesley solicits Ordinations from the
Bishop of London for America 335
Fletcher's Interest for America .385
Rankin's Interview with him .385
Wesley's Consultation with Coke 836
The Ordinations at Bristol 387
Organization of the M. E. Chnrcli :
Wesley's Opinion on Church Polity
Voyage of Coke and his Companions to
America
Their Arrival at New York ...
At Philadelphia
At Dover
At Barrett's Chapel
Coke Itinerating before the Christmas
Conference
Sketch of " Black Harry "
Scenes on the Peninsula
Black Harry's preaching
Ware's Account of Coke
The Bishop meets his English Associates,
with Asbury and Black, of Nova
Scotia, at Abingdon
They are received at Perry Hall
Coke and Black's Account of the Place..
Preparations for the Conference
The First General Conference
Lovely Lane Chapel
Wesley's Letter to the American Meth-
odists
Coke and Asbury elected Superintend-
ents or Bishops
Whatcoat's Account of the Proceedings
Coke's Sermon at the Consecration of
Asbury
Character of the Conference
Preachers present
Were their Measures in accoi-dance with
Wesley's Intentions?
Expediency of the Episcopal Title of the
New Church
Legislative Proceedings of the Confer-
ence
Its Records
Wesley's " Large Minutes "
Wesley's Prayer Book for American
Methodism
Gowns and Bands
The Articles of Religion
Wesley's continued Superintendence rec-
ognized
The " Slavery Question "
The Functions of Bishops, Elders, and
Deacons defined
Printing of the Minutes
Sa'aries, or " Allowance "
" Fees "
" The Preachers' Fund "
"The General Fund"
Baptism
The Lord's Supper and Class -Meetings.
ssg
341
ail
342
343
345
545
847
347
848
350
850
350
351
352
852
854
854
355
3.55
856
359
361
365
36.T
366
367
363
369
869
369
370
371
871
872
873
873
374
874
Patriotism of Methodist Churches 315-819
Presbyterian Statistics 381
Protestant Episcopal Statistics 879
Publishing Department, M. E. Church:
Book Agents 108
Book Committee lltS
History of Publishing Business 108-110
"The Christian Advocate" founded. 110, 111
Publishing Buildings at New York Ill
Publishing Buildings at Cincinnati .... 112
Quadrennial Sales since 1344 113
Book Concern E.xhibits, 1882 114
Financial Success of Publishing Business 114
Book and Tract Pubhcations 1 16
Subscription Book Department llii
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Publishing Department M. E. Church :
Circulation of Official Periodicals 116
List of Periodicals of Various Methodist
Churches 117
Religious Societies in England, Income... 877
South African Conference, First 803
State Capitals and Governors 387
Statistics :
Annual Conferences, M. E. Church 77
Baptist 8TS
Bishops, M. E. Church 77
Board of Education 187-195
British Wesleyan, by Districts. ... 286
British Wesleyan Summaries 27T
Churches and Parsonages 80
Comparative Progress 77
Compared witli other Denominations. . . 84
Congregational 382
Contributions and Expenses 81
Dutch Reformed. 882
Evangelical Association, General 286
General Summary of all Methodists 86
German, Scandinavian, and Colored 121
Historic Outline of Annual Coiifi^renco
Sessions, May, 1872, to January 1,
1884, facing 88
Irish Wesleyan Conference, for 1883 299
Itinerant Preachers 77
Lay Membership and Population 82
Lay Membership by Decades 82
Lay Officers 85
Losses by Death 78
Lutheran 3S0
M. E. Church Missionary Society, Ap-
propriations and Apportionments. . 125
M. E. Chureh Miss. Society, Receipts by
Years from Organization 129
M. E. Church Miss. Society, Receipts
in 1882, 1883 124
M. E. Church Miss. Society, Summaries
of Domestic Missions . .. 128
M. E. Church Miss. Society, Summaries
of Foreign Missions 127
Denominations in N. T. State 88
Methodist Episcopal Church, South. 219, 220
Methodist Protestant 289
Ministerial Service 81
Missionary Society 124-129
Numerical Growth by Quarter Centuries. 82
Presbyterian 881
Protestant Episcopal 379
Relation of Churches 85
Sunday-schools 79
United Brethren Church 229
Statistics :
United Presbyterian 888
Woman's Missionary Society 14S
Sunday-sch(jol Union, M. E. Church :
Officers 1.'57
Historic Notes 157
Time, New Standard 40S
Tract Society, M. E. Church :
Officers 159
Historical Notes 159
The Work 160
Trustees of Methodist Episcopal Church. . 156
United Brethren Church :
Organization 225
Bishops 226
Publishing Department 227
Officers 227
Colleges and Seminaries 228
Conference Calendar 228
Statistics 229
United Presbyterian Statistics 883
United States:
Executive Officers 883
Senators Elect 886
Postal Regulations 407
Wesleyan, American 240
Woman's Missionary So(;ieties :
Earliest Methodist 130
Foreign 130
Meetings of the Executive Com 184
Missionaries sent out 186
Ladies' China 13%
Of the Pacific Coast 188
Home 189
Of the M. E. Church, South 143
Foreign, of the Methodist Protestant
Church 145
Ladies' Wesleyan, of England 146
Of Diflferent Churches 148
Lutheran, Home and Foreign 149
Methodist Ejiiscopal Church, South 149
Methodist Church of Canada 149
United Bretliren Church 149
Methodist Episcopal Church of Canada. 150
African Methodist Episcopal Church.. . 150
Young Men's Christian Associations :
International Committees 247
Ol Various Countries 248
CoiTespondiug .Members 249
THE METHODIST
-^ia84.-s^-
The Four Seasons.
(Calculated by Washington Mean Time.)
H. M. D. H. M.
"Winter begins, 1883, December 21, 10 44 eve., and lasts 89 0 53
Spring " 1884, March 19, 11 37 eve., " 92 20 14
Summer " 1884, June 20, 7 51 eve., " 93 14 21
Autumn " 1884, September 22, 10 12 morn., " 89 18 13
Winter " 1884, December 21, 4 25 morn. Tropical year, 365 5 41
Eclipses.
In the year 1884 there will be five Eclipses, three of the Sun and two of the Moon.
1. A Partial Eclipse of the Sun, on the morning of March 27, invi.-ible on the
American continent.
2. A Total Eclipse of the Moon, on the morning of April 10, visible throughout
the United States.
At Charleston, in 12m. west longitude
from Washington,
April 10
At Washington, D. C,
Eclipse begins April 10
Total Eclipse begins "
Middle of Eclipse "
Total Eclipse ends "
Eclipse ends "
H. M.
. 4 44 mom.
. 5 52 morn.
, . 6 38 morn.
. . 7 25 morn.
. 8 33 morn.
At Boston, in 24m. east longitude fi-om
Washington,
Eclipse begins April 10 5 8 morn.
Total Eclipse begins " 616 morn.
Middle of Eclipse " 7 2 morn.
Total Eclipse ends " .. 7 49 morn.
Eclipse ends " 8 57 morn.
At New York, in 12m. east longitude
from Wasliington,
Eclipse begins April 10
Total Eclipse begins "
Middle of Eclipse "
Total Eclipse ends "
Eclipse ends "
. 4 56 morn.
. 6 4 morn,
. 6 50 morn,
. 7 37 morn.
Eclipse begins April 10 4 32 morn.
Total Eclipse begins " 5 4i) morn.
Middle of Eclipse " 6 26 morn.
Total Eclipse ends " 7 13 morn.
Eclipse ends " ... 8 21 morn.
At Chicago, in 42m. west longitude
from Washington,
Eclipse begins April 10 4 2 morn.
Total Eclipse begins " 5 10 morn.
Middle of Eclipse " 5 56 morn.
Total Eclijise ends " 6 43 morn.
Eclipse ends " .... 7 51 morn.
At San Francisco, Cal., in 3h. Im. west
longitude from Washington,
Eclipse begins April 10. . . 1 43 morn.
Total Eclipse begins " .... 2 51 morn.
Middle of Eclipse " 3 37 morn.
Total Eclipse ends " 4 24 morn.
8 45 morn, i Eclipse ends " 5 32 morn.
Any one may find the times of the phases of an Eclipse of the Moon by this rule :
If he is in west longitude from Washington, subtract the difi'erence of longitude,
expressed in time — four minutes for each degree — from the times of the phases given
for Washington. But if he is in east longitude from Washington, add the difference
of longitude expressed in time.
8. A Partial Eclipse of the Sun, on April 25, invisible in North America.
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4. A Total Eclipse of the Moon, on the evening of October 4, visible in Europe,
Asia, Africa, and the Atlantic Ocean : and later phases visible in the eastern part
of America, that is, those places where the Moon rises before the end of the Eclipse.
At M'ashington, D. C,
Eclipse begins October 4 3 7 eve.
Total Eclipse begins •' 4 7 eve.
Middle of Ecli])sc " 4 54 eve.
Total Eclipse euds " 5 41 eve.
Eclipse euds '• 6 41 eve.
Moon rises at Washington " 5 36 eve.
At Boston,
Eclipse begins October 4 3 81 eve.
4 31 eve.
5 18 eve.
6 5 eve.
7 5 eve.
, 5 83 eve.
At Charleston,
Eclipse begins
October 4...
. . . 2 55 eve.
Total Eclipse begins
"
. . . 4 65 eve.
Middle of Eclipse
"
Total Eclipse ends
"
. . . 5 29 eve.
Kclipse ends
"
. . . 6 29 eve.
Moon risi.^8
"
. . . 6 24 eve.
At Chicago,
Total Eclipse ends
October 4. . .
. . . 511 eve.
Eclipse ends
"
...611 eve.
Moon rises
u
. . . 6 37 eve.
At Montreal,
Eclipse begins
October 4. . .
. . 8 21 eve.
Total Eoli))se begins
"
. . . 4 21 eve.
Middle of Eclipse
"
. . . 5 8 eve.
Total Eclipse ends
"
. . . 5 55 eve.
Eclipse enda
"
. . 6 55 eve.
Moon rises
"
. . . 6 86 eve.
Total Eclipse begins
Middle of Eclipse
Total Eclipse ends
Eclipse ends
Moon rises
At New York city.
Eclipse bigins October 4 8 19 eve.
Total Eclipse begins '• 4 19 eve.
Middle of Eclipse " 5 6 eve.
Total Eclijise ends " 5 53 eve.
Eclipse ends " 6 53 eve.
Moon rises " 5 34 eve.
For other places the rule under Eclipse 2 applies.
5. A Partial Eclipse of the Sun, on October 18, the earlier, and in some places the
middle, phases being visible in the western part of the United States, near the
Pacific coast.
At Mount Hamilton, Cal.,
Eclipse begins October 18 4 25.8 eve. Maximum phase October 18 5 17.8 eve.
the maximum phase occurring very near the time of sunset, and the end of the
Eclipse after sunset.
The amount of the maximum phase will be, at this place, about 8J digits ; or a
little more than one fourth of the sun's diameter will be obscured.
At Ogden, Utah,
Eclipse begins October 18 4 59 eve.
The sun sets about a quarter of an hour after the Eclipse begins, with a small dark
patch on his north-western limb. The other phases take place after sunset.
At San Francisco, Cal.,
Eclipse begins October 18 4 20.2 eve. Maximum phase October 18 6 14.8 eve.
nearly at sunset. The amount of the obscuration at maximum phase is 3| digits, or
nearly one third of the sun's diameter. The end of the Eclipse occurs after sunset.
Signs of the Planets, etc
O The Sun. 8 Venus. U Jupiter.
® The Moon. © or ? The Earth. % Saturn.
C Mercury. S Mars. ^ Uranus.
<! Conjunction : same longitude, d Quadrature : 90 ° difference.
' Degrees.
' Minutes.
" Seconds.
8 Opposition: 180 o
Planets Eegarded as Morning and Evening Stars.
Morning Staes : Mercury, from January 20 to March 30, and from May 17 to
July 13, and from September 19 to November 4. Venus from July 11 to the end
of the year.
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Evening Stars : Mercury, until January 20, and from March 30 to May 17, and
from July 13 to September 19, and from JMovember 4 to the end of the year. Venus,
until July 11.
Planets Brightest.
Venus, June 3, and August 17.
Mars, February 1.
Jupiter, January 19.
Saturn, December 12.
Mercury is brightest, or bent seen, at the
following dates :
Jan. 4, Mercury brightest after sunset h.m.
Suu sets at Washington 4 51
Mercury sots " 6 21
Mercury sets after sun 1 80
Feb. 13, Mercury brightest before sunrise.
Mercury rises at Washington 5 24
Sun rises " 6 54
Mercury rises before the sun 1 30
April 25, Mercury brightest after sunset.
Sun sots at Washington 6 47
Mercury sets " 8 35
Mercury sets after the sun 1 43
June 12, Mercury brightest before sunrise.
Mercury rises at Washington 3 25
Sun rises " 4 34
Mercury rises before the sun 1 9
Aug. 23, Mercury brightest after sunset.
Sun sets at Washington 6 4-3
Mercury sets " 8 :)9
Mercury sets after the sun 1 56
Oct. 5. Mercury brightest before sunrise.
Mercury rises at Washington 4 83
Sun rises " 6 Co
Mercury rises before the sim 1 28
Dec. 17, Mercury brightest before sunset.
Sun sets at Washington 4 40
Mercury sets '• 6 4
Mercury sets alter the sun 121
By means of this table Mercury may be readily found observed lor nearly a week
before and after these dates, at any place in the United States.
Occultation of Fixed Stars by the Moon visible at Washington D. 0.,
and at New York Oity.
Date.
Star's Name.
■a
3
CDS
Declina-
tion.
At Washingrton, I>. C,
The Occultation.
At New York City,
The Occultation.
Begins.
Ends.
Begins.
Ends.
Jan 9
" 14
Feb.... 4
" .... 6
" 28
mTauri
16 Sextantis —
B. A.C., 1119...
127Tauri
5i
6
6
6i
5
5
6
5i
4
4
5
6
6
4
?
6
4i
0 /
18 23 xV.
6 31 N.
16 6N.
18 47 N.
17 34N.
18 22 N.
18 19 N.
15 51 N.
17 56 S.
16 32 N.
10 52 N.
12 52 N.
4 44N.
13 OS.
17 10 N.
12 6N.
12 5N.
17 48N.
7 56S.
6 46S.
7 .'56 S.
H. M.
10 38 eve.
5 49 mom.
4 57 eve.
7 19 eve.
8 50 morn.
5 41 eve.
9 34 eve.
10 14 eve.
0 18 morn.
4 17 morn.
11 25 eve.
11 45 eve.
7 30 eve.
3 48 morn.
11 17 eve.
4 29 mora.
6 13 eve.
11 9 eve.
2 49 mom.
5 17 eve.
8 23 eve.
7 56 eve.
H M.
11 30 eve.
6 54 mom.
6 17 eve.
7 54 eve.
8 56 mom.
6 .54 eve.
10 34 eve.
11 18 eve.
1 20 morn.
4 58 mom.
11 47 eve.
0 50 mom.
8 46 eve.
4 47 mem.
0 36 morn.
4 58 mom.
6 41 eve.
0 3 morn.
4 4 mom.
6 29 eve.
9 34 eve.
9 2 eve.
H. M.
11 20 eve.
6 1 mom.
5 9 eve.
7 31 eve.
5 53 eve.
9 46 eve.
10 26 eve.
0 30 morn.
4 29 mom.
11 37 eve.
11 57 eve.
7 42 eve.
4 0 mom.
11 29 eve.
4 41 morn.
6 24 eve.
11 21 eve.
3 1 mom.
5 29 eve.
8 35 eve.
8 8 eve.
H. M.
11 42 eve.
7 6 morn.
6 29 eve.
8 6 eve.
March.. 3
•' ..4
" ..4
" ..6
" ..20
AprU... 2
" ... 4
May.... 1
" ....20
June... 4
'• ..20
(53Tauri
n9Tauri
120Taurl
68 Geminorum. .
Jl Sagittaril —
A Geminorum . .
k Cancri
A Cancri
B. A. C.221
?. Virpanis
J Taurl
7 6 eve.
10 46 eve.
11 25 eve.
1 32 mora.
5 10 morn.
11 59 eve.
1 2 morn.
8 58 eve.
4 59 morn.
0 48 morn.
5 10 morn.
" ...25
Aug.... 12
Sept. ...12
Oct 1
Nov. ...25
Dec... 22
d Cancri
31 Arletis
115 Taurl
6 Aquarii
Lalande 43974..
ft Aquarii
6 53 eve.
0 15 morn.
4 16 morn.
6 41 eve.
9 46 eve.
9 14 eve.
Definition. — Occultation in astronomy is the hiding of a heavenlj' body from sight by the
Intervention of some other of the heavenly bodies. It is ar)plied especially to the eclipses of stars
and planets by the intervention of the moon, and of the eclipses by the planets and their
satellites.
The circle of perpetual occultation is a circle for any given place, at a distance from the
opposite and invisible pole of the heavens equal to the latitude of the place, within whicu all
the stars are perpetually below the boiizun.
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Eising, Soathing, and Setting of Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn at
Washington, D. 0.
Mabs.
Rises.
H. M.
OnMeridlan.
Sets.
Maks.
Rises.
OnMeridian.
Sets.
H. M
H. M.
H. M.
H. M.
II. M.
Jan... 1
7 55 eve.
2 59 morn.
10 3 mom.
July.. 9
9 50 mom.
4 9 eve.
10 28 eve.
" ...11
7 55 "
2 12 "
9 19 "
" ..13
9 40 "
3 51 "
10 2 "
" ...21
6 9"
121 "
8 33 "
" ..2S
9 .31 "
3 34 "
9 37 "
" ...31
5 9"
0 30 "
7 43 "
Aug.. 8
9 22 "
317 "
9 12 "
Feb. ..10
4 4"
11 25 eve.
6 46 "
" ..18
9 15 "
3 1 "
8 47 "
" ...20
3 9"
10 33 "
5 57 "
" ..28
9 7"
2 45 "
8 23 "
March 1
2 20 "
9 45 "
510 "
Sept.. 7
9 1 "
2 30 "
7 59 "
" 11
138 "
9 3"
4 26 "
" ..17
8 55 "
2 16 "
7 37 "
" 21
1 3 "
8 25 "
3 45 "
" . .27
8 50 "
2 3"
7 16 "
" 31
0 33 "
7 52 "
3 14 "
Oct... 7
8 46 "
151 "
6 56 "
April. 10
^' .20
0 8"
7 22 "
2 36 "
" ...17
8 42 "
140 "
6 38 "
11 44 morn.
6 55 "
2 6"
" ...27
8 .39 "
130 "
6 21 "
" .30
11 25 "
6 31 "
137 "
Nov... 6
8 37 "
122 "
6 7"
May.. 10
11 7 "
6 8"
1 9 "
" ...16
8 33 "
1 14 "
5 55 '•
" ..20
10 51 "
5 46 "
0 41 "
" ...26
8 29 "
1 7 "
5 45 "
" ..30
10 37 "
5 26 "
0 15 "
Dec... 6
8 23 "
1 1 "
5 39 "
June.. 9
10 24 "
5 6"
11 48 eve.
" ...16
8 10 "
0 55 "
5 34 "
" ..19
10 11 "
4 46 "
1121 "
" ...26
8 8"
0 49 "
5 30 "
" ..29
10 0 "
4 27 "
10 54 "
JUPITEB.
Rises.
OnMeridian.
Sets.
.Jupiter.
Rises.
OnMeridian.
Sets.
H. M.
H. -M.
11. M j
11. M.
H. M.
H. M.
Jan... 1
6 23 eve.
1 ?,0 mom.
8 49 morn.
July.. 9
6 39 mom.
1 35 eve.
8 41 eve.
" ...11
5 37 "
0 51 "
8 4"
" ..19
6 0"
1 4 "
8 8"
" ...21
4 52 "
0 7"
7 22 "
" ..29
5 31 "
0 33 "
7 35 "
" ...31
4 1 "
11 17 eve.
6 33 "
Aug . . 8
5 3"
0 3 "
7 3"
Feb... 10
3 16 "
10 33 "
5 50 "
" ..18
4 35 "
11 32 morn.
6 29 "
" ...20
2 32 "
9 50 "
5 8"
" ..28
4 3"
10 58 "
5 53 "
March 1
149 "
9 7"
4 25 "
Sept.. 7
3 38 "
10 31 "
5 24 "
" 11
17"
8 26 "
3 45 "
" ..17
3 10 "
10 0 "
4 50 "
" 21
0 25 "
7 46 "
3 5"
" ..27
2 37 "
9 25 "
4 13 "
" 31
11 49 morn.
7 8"
2 27 "
Oct... 7
2 10 "
8 56 "
3 42 "
April .10
11 13 "
6 31 "
149 "
" ...17
139 "
8 23 "
3 7"
^' .20
10 37 "
5 55 "
113 "
" ...27
1 8 "
7 50 "
2 32 "
" .30
10 3 "
5 20 "
0 37 "
Nov.. 6
0 36 "
716 "
156 "
May.. 10
9 26 "
4 42 "
11 58 eve.
" ..16
0 2"
6 41 "
120 "
" ..20
8 57 "
4 13 "
1127 "
" ..26
11 27 eve.
6 5"
0 43 "
" ..30
8 37 "
3 40 "
10 53 "
Dec... 6
10 50 "
5 28 "
0 6"
June.. 9
7 56 "
3 8"
10 20 "
" ..16
10 13 "
4 50 "
11 27 morn.
" .19
7 27 "
2 37 "
9 47 "
" ..26
9 34 ■"
411 "
10 48 "
" ..29
6 57 "
2 5"
913 "
Saturn.
Rises.
OnMeridian.
Sets.
Saturn.
Rises.
OnMeridian.
Sets.
H. M.
11. M.
H. M.
11. M.
H. M.
H. M.
Jan... 1
2 18 eve.
9 26 eve.
4 34 mom.
July.. S
2 39 morn.
9 57 mom.
5 15 eve.
" ...11
1.36 "
8 44 "
3 52 "
" ..1£
2 4"
9 22 "
4 40 "
" ...21
0 56 "
8 4"
3 12 "
" ..29
130 "
8 48 "
4 6"
" ...31
0 16 "
7 24 "
2 32 "
Aug . . g
0 54 "
8 13 "
3 42 "
Feb... 10
11 36 morn.
6 44 "
152 "
" ..IS
0 18 "
7 37 "
2 56 "
" ...20
10 57 "
6 6"
1 15 "
" . .2?
11 42 eve.
7 1 "
2 20 "
March 1
10 19 "
5 28 "
0 37 "
Sept . . 7
11 5 "
6 24 "
143 "
" 11
9 41 "
4 51 "
0 1 "
10 28 "
5 47 "
1 6 "
" 21
9 5"
4 15 "
11 25 eve.
" ..27
9 49 "
5 8"
0 27 "
" 31
8 28 "
3 39 "
10 50 "
Oct... 7
9 10 "
4 29 "
11 48 morn.
April. 10
7 52 "
3 4"
10 16 "
" ...17
8 31 "
3 50 "
11 9 "
" .20
7 17 "
2 28 "
9 41 "
" ...27
7 50 "
3 9"
10 28 "
" .30
6 42 "
155 "
9 8"
Nov... 6
7 9"
2 28 "
9 47 "
May.. 10
6 7"
120 "
8 33 "
" ...16
6 28 "
146 "
9 4"
" ..20
5 32 "
0 47 "
8 2"
" ...26
5 45 "
1 3 "
8 21 "
" ..30
4 58 "
0 13 "
7 28 "
Dec... 6
5 3"
0 21 "
7 39 "
June.. 9
4 23 "
11 32 morn.
6.55 "
" ...16
4 16 "
11 .34 eve.
6 52 "
" ..19
3 49 "
11 5 "
6 21 "
" ...26
3 33 "
10 51 "
6 9"
" ..29
3 11 "
10 28 "
5 45 "
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Oonjnnctioii of Planets, and Other Phenomena.
s
Aspect.
Washington
Mean Time.
Distance apart.
s
Aspect.
Washington
Mean Time.
Distance npait.
D. H. M. O '
D. H M
0 '
Jan.
s ^eat. elo.
4 11 m. 19 10 E.
July c5 W i
19 2 0 e.
lil 0 11 N.
6 -i m
9 2 14 m. •> 0 59 N.
*' Ic! ^ ffi
19 1 1 e.
5 3 2 N.
"
B Stationary
11 1 e.
" \6 9 ®
21 6 28 m.
9 1 11 S.
«»
sum
13 2 53 m. n 5 41 N.
" \i V m
23 6 34 m.
y. 5 21 N.
tt
8 2f ® 1 1 10 6.
" 1.5 S 9>
26 5 4 e.
3 2 5 N.
"
Inf. <5 B © '20 3 6.
" 1 <5 IJI ^ Virg. 30 e.
IJt 0 2 N.
"
<5 ? ® |30 4 16 6. 9 5 7 8.
Aug.i 9 stationary 2 11 m.
Feb.
8 t 0 1 1 6 m.
"
(5 2f © 7 1 e.
It
^ stationary 3 9 m.
it
(5 5® 16 0 44 m.
5 3 17 N.
"
« ^ ® 5 7 34 m. % 1 18 N.
"
(5 9® 17 4 37 e.
9 0 23 S.
"
6 n m 9 5 39 m.! 2( 5 45N.
"
9 great.brill. 17 e.
2f 5 8 N.
ti
B great, elo. 13 11 m.i 26 12 W.
"
6 n m :20 2 36 m.
ti
D ^ ©
22 0 e.
"
B great. elo.:23 5 e.
27 21 E.
<t
<5 S ®
29 10 m. 9 0 32S.
" \6 i ® |24 10 29 m.
3 0 10 8.
Mar.
<5 ^ ®
3 2 8 e. % 1 42 N.
Sept. s stationary 6 12 m.
>«
6 u m
7 8 16 m. n 5 54 N.
"
(5 % ®
12 9 17 m.
5 3 28 N.
"
S stationary 12 9 m.
"
(5 9®
15 1 8 e.
9 2 26 N.
"
21 stationary 20 5 m.
"
D % ®
16 10 m.
"
,5 S ® ,30 0 55 m. 9 4 31 N.
"
6 V m
16 8 30 e.
2t 4 55 N.
•'
Sup. c! 9 & © 30 3 m.
"
Inf. (5 B ®
19 10 m.
"
i i ® 30 11 57 e. ; ^ 2 4 N.
"
9 great, elo. '21 7 m.
46 6 W.
April
® eclipsed, j 9 e- vis. at Wash.
"
(5 i ® 122 6 48 m.
S 2 20 S.
i V 9 112 11 e. % 4 13S.
" B stationary 28 5 e.
>i
a n Q 114 7 e.
Oct. 1 ® eclipsed. 4 e.
vis. at Wash.
"
« great, elo. 25 9 e. 20 32E.
" B great, elo. 5 3 m.
17 58 W.
>i
,5 ^ © 27 1 56 e. ^ 2 19 N.
" 1% stationary 5 8 m.
"
(5 9® 28 2 41 e. 9 7 53 N.
" (5 9 2i
6 11 m.
9 1 15 8.
Ma^
6 U m 1 0 21 e. 2f 5 58 N.
" i <5 9 a Leonis
7 7 e.
9 0 55 S.
9 great, elo.i 2 5 m. 45 33 E.
" j(5 ^ ®
9 3 50 e.
5 3 30 N.
41
a i Q ( 5 12 e.
" 1 ,5 2f ®
14 11 57 m.
2( 4 43 N.
'•
B Stationary 5 12 e.
" t<5 9 ®
15 2 48 m.
9 3 33 N.
<t
Inf. <j B & 0 17 5 e.
"1(5 3 ®
31 6 15 m.
i 4 10 8.
"
6 ■>! ® 25 6 1 m. ^ 2 32 N.
Nov. Sup. <5 B (& ©
4 3 e.
((
<5 9 ® 27 7 54 e. 9 8 7 N.
"
(5 5®
5 10 18 e.
5 3 23 N.
"
6 V <S) 28 3 42 e. : 2i 5 49 N.
"
6 n (S)
11 0:33 m.
2f 4 26 N.
«'
B Stationary 30 3 e.
"
(5 9®
14 0 38 m.
9 3 1 N.
It
(5 «aLeoms.31 11 m. i 058N.
"
6 i 9
19 8 43 m.
5 5 26 S.
June
9 great.brill.
3 e. 1
"
ay.®
26 3 m.
"
<5 ^ 0
3 4 e. i
Dec.
(5 5®
3 5 48 m.
4 3 15 N.
tt
fi great, elo.
12 11 e. 23 19 W.
"
6 y. m
8 10 52 ra.
2f 4 10 N.
"
9 stationary
19 0 m.
"
S 5 0
12 2 m.
"
i > ®
21 10 30 e. i ^ 2 46 N.
"
(5 9® il4 4 37 m.
9 1 15 8.
"
(5 9®
24 7 23 e. 9 4 6 N.
"
B great, elo. 17 7 e.
20 12 E.
"
(5 2f ®
23 10 26 m. 2t 5 53 N.
"
(5 M ® ;18 1 35 e.
lil 1 37 N.
it
6 B •>
25 6 e. B 0 1 N.
" n stationary 21 0 m.
it
i i ®
28 2 31 m. S 4 8 N.
" 1 B stationary 25 10 m.
July
Inf. ,5 9 ©
6 S 9
11 9 e.
13 1 m. B 6 20N.
" 1 (5 % © 30 1 48 e.
5 3 16 N.
Planets. — There are nine primary planets, termed major: Mercury, Veims, the Earth,
Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus. Ncptime, and Vulcan. Uranus was discovered by W. Herschel,
March 13, 17S1; Neptune by Galle, (in consequence of the calculations of Le Verrier and
Adams.) September 23, 1846; Vulcan, (between Mercury and the Sun,) by Lescarbault, a phy-
sician, March 26, 1859. The Asteroids, or minor planets, up to November 1, 1883, numbered
about 230. Their first discovery dates 'from January 1, 1801, wben Ceres was discovered by
PiazzL
Red Spot on Jupiter. — Early in the summer of 1S79, Dr. O. Lashe, of the Physical Observ-
atory at Potsdam, discovered a "vermilion-colored spot," elliptical in shape, in the northern
hemisphere of Jupiter, and occupying relatively as large a part of that planet as Europe does of
the earth. Later observations seem to show that this strange spot is moving slowly round the
planet.
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Epiphany Jan. 6
Septuagesima Sunday. .Feb. 10
Se.vagesiina " .. " 17
Quinquagesima " . . " 24
Siirove TiK'Sday " 26
Ash Wednesday " 27
Quadragesima S unday . Mar. 2
Ohurcli Days.
Mid-Lent Mar. 23
Palm Sunday . .i-^.'. . . .Apr. 6
Good Friday <' " 11
Easter Sunday. ..:... .Apr. 13
Low " " 20
Rogation " May 18
Ascension Day " 22
Whitsunday June 1
Trinity Sunday " 8
Corpus Chrifti " 12
All Saints Day Nov. 1
All Souls " " 2
Advent Sunday " 30
Saint Andrew's Day... " 30
Epiphany, (appearance or manifestation,) a Church festival, celebrated on the
6th day of January, the twelfth day after Christmas, in commemoration of the ap-
pearance of our Saviour to the Magi, who came to adore him and bring presents.
Epiphany was instituted, as a Christian festival, probably as early as 360, and the
day variously celebrated, as, by a vigil, by preaching, by the reception of the Lord's
Supper, and by granting liberty to slaves. In Eome the Epiphany is observed by
a great exhibition, in the college of the Propaganda, young men from all countries
making addresses in their native languages, in order thus to represent the appear-
ance of Christ to all nations. In Western Churches the day was observed as a day
of baptism.
Septuagesima (Latin, seventieth) Siinday is the third Sunday before Lent, oc-
curring about seventy days before Easter.
Sexagesima, (Latin, sixtieth,) the second Sunday before Lent, and about
sixty days before Easter.
Quinquagesima (Latin, fiftieth) Sunday, the Sunday occurring about fifty
days before Easter. It is sometimes called Shrove Sunday ; the word shrove or
shrive signifying a confession, and this being the nearest Sunday to Slu-ove
Tuesday.
Shrove Tuesday, the day preceding Lent. On this day it was formerly
customary, in England, for the people to confess tlieir sins, one by one, to tlie
parish priest.
Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent, the name arising from a custom, in the
Roman Catholic Church, of sprinkling ashes on the heads of penitents admitted
that day to penance. In early times Lent began on Sunday, the four days begin-
ning with Ash Wednesday being added by Pope Felix III., in 487, in order that
the fasting-days should amount to forty.
Quadragesima (belonging to Lent) Sunday, the first Sunday in Lent.
Mid-Lent, the middle day of Lent, occurring on March 23.
Palm Sunday, the Sunday preceding Easter, so-called in commemoration of our
Saviour's triumphal entrance into Jerusalem, when the multitude strewed palm
branches in the way. Paltns were used at that time as emblematic of victory, suc-
cess, and in honor of royalty. Palm Sunday was observed as early as the 7th cent-
ury. At Rome the " procession of the palms," is among the most striking of the
picturesque ceremonies of the Holy Week.
Good Friday, (probably God's Friday,) the sixth day of the week before Easter,
on which a solemn feast has long been held in remembrance of the crucifixion of
Christ, on Friday, April 3, 33, or April 15, 29. . It was called "Long Friday" by
our Saxon forefathers, on account of the length of the offices and fastings enjoined.
It is now called " Good " Friday, in acknowledgment of the benefit derived from
the death of our Saviour. In 1884 it occurs April 11 ; 1885, April 3. In the Ro-
man Church the day is celebrated with great care. " The Mass of the Pre-sanctified "
is said, and the sacrament received only by the priest ; while in Protestant Churches
it is observed as a fast-day and by special services and prayers.
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Easter Svmday occurs the second day after Good Friday. It is held, as a
Church festival, in coniniemoration of the resurrection of our Saviour. It ia always
the first Sunday after the fourteenth day of the calendar moon, which happens upon,
or next after, March 21, the Vernal Equino.x, so that, if the fourteenth day happens
on a Sunday, Easter-cUiy comes the Sunday after.
Low Sunday, the next Sunday after Easter, so-called because it was customary
to repeat, on this day, some part of the solemnity which was used on Easter-day ;
whence it took the name Low Sunday, being celebrated as a feast, but of a lower
degree than Easter itself.
Rogation Svmday received its title from the three days following it being called
Eogation days, from the Latin, rogare, to beseech. E.xtraordiuary prayers and sup-
plications for these three days having been appointed, in the third century, as a
preparation for the observance of Ascension Day.
Ascension Day, or Holy Thursday, a festival of the Church, held in commemo-
ration of the ascension of our Lord, forty days after Easter and ten before Whitsun-
tide. It was observed in the Church as early as the third century. It is especially
observed in the Roman Catholic Church, and, with less form, in the Church of
England, which appoints special Psahns for the day.
"WMtsunday, (ft-om white and Sunday, or tide,) the seventh Sunday after
Easter, a festival held in commemoration of the descent of the Holy Spirit on the
day of Pentecost. Probably so-called from the habit of the newly baptized, of the
primitive Church, appearing at church, between Easter and Pentecost, in white
garments.
Trinity Sunday, the Sunday following Whitsunday. It was established by
Pope Benedict XL, 1305, so-called from the feast held on that day, in honor of the
Holy Trinity.
Corpus Cliristi, (Latin, body of Christ,) a Church festival occurring on the next
Thursday after Trinity Sunday, in honor of the Eucharist.
All Saints Day, a festival celebrated by the Eoman Catholic Church, on the Ist
of November, in honor of all saints and martyrs. It was established by Pope
Gregory IV., about 830.
All Sovds Day, the day succeeding " All Saints Day," and set apart by the
Roman Catholic Church for special prayer in behalf of the souls of all the faithful
dead. It was first introduced, in 998, by Odilon, abbot of Clugny. On this day
the Roman Catholic Church also say extraordinary masses for the relief of souls said
to be in purgatory.
Advent (Latin, adventus, arrival) Sunday is the Sunday nearest Saint Andrew's
Day. The advent season includes four Sundays previous to Christmas.
8t. Andrew's Day. Saint Andrew is said to have been martyred, by crucifixion,
Nov. 30, 69. This festival was instituted, about 359, in commemoration of his
death.
Miscellaneous Oliurcli Seasons.
Fast Days have been observed by most nations ft-om the remotest antiquity : by
the Jews, (2 Chron. xx, 3 ; ) by the Ninevites (Jonah iii ; see Isaiah Iviii.) A fast
was observed by the Jews on the great day of atonement, (Lev. xxiii,) 1490 B.C.
Moses fasted forty days and nights on Sinai, (Exod xxiv,) 1491 B. C. The first
Christian ministers were ordained with fasting, A. D. 45, (Acts xiii, 2.) Annual fasts,
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as that of Lent, and at other stated times, and on particular occasions to appease the
anger of God, began in the Christian Church in the second century, (138.) The
Mohammedan fast is termed Ramadan {which see.) Fast-days are appointed by the
Reformed Churelies in times of war and pestilence, as March 21, 1855, for the Eus-
sian war, and October 7, 1857, for the Indian mutiny.
Lent, (from the Saxon lencten, spring,) the forty days' fast observed in the Ro-
man Catholic Church from Ash Wednesday to Easter-day, said to have been insti-
tuted by Pope Telesphorus, 130. In early times Lent commenced on the Sunday
now called the first Sunday in Lent, and the four days beginning with Ash
Wednesday were added by Pope Felix III., in 487, in order that the fasting days
should amount to forty. Lent was first observed in England by command of Er-
combert, King of Kent, in 640 or 641. — Baker''s CTironicle. Flesh was prohibited
during Lent, but Henry VIII. permitted the use of white meats by a proclamation
of 1543, which continued in force until, by proclamation of James I., in 1619 and
1625, and by Charles I., in 1627 and 1631, flesh was again wholly forbidden.
Sabbatical Year, a Jewish institution, (1491 B. C, Exod. xxiii.) During every
seventh year the very ground had rest, and was not tilled ; and every forty-ninth
year debts were forgiven, slaves set at liberty, and estates, etc., that were before
sold or mortgaged, returned to their original families, etc.
Pentecost signifies the fiftieth, and is the solemn festival of the Jews, called also
" the feast of weeks," because it was celebrated fifty days, or seven weeks, after the
feast of the Passover, 1491 B. C, (Lev. .xxiii, 15 ; Exod. xxxiv, 22.)
Candlemas Day, February 2, is kept in the Roman Catholic and Greek Churches
in memory of the purification of the Virgin Mary, who presented the infant Jesus
in the Temple. From the number of candles lit — it is said in memory of Simeon's
song, Luke ii, 32, " a light to lighten the Gentiles," etc. — this festival was called
Candlemas, as well as the Purification. Its origin is ascribed by Bede to Pope
Gelasius in the fifth century. The practice of lighting the clmrches was forbidden
by order of council, 2 Edw. VI. , 1548 ; but is still continued in the Church of Rome.
Candlemas is a Scotch quarter-day.
Cycles of Time.
Roman Indiction 13
J ulian Period 6597
Diony sian Perioi 213
Dominical Letters P and E
Epact 3
Golden Number 4
Solar Cycle 17
Dominical Letter, designating the Lord's day, that is, Sunday. The seven days
of the week, reckoned as beginning on Jan. 1, are designated by the first seven
letters of the alphabet, A,(Jan. 1,) B, C, D, E, F, G ; and the one of these which
denotes Sunday is the Dominical Letter. If the year begin on Sunday A is the
Dominical Letter ; if on Monday, G ; on Tuesday, F ; and so on. To find the
Dominical Letter call New-year's day A, the next B, and go on thus until you come
to the first Sunday, and the letter that answers to it is the Dominical Letter ; in leap-
years count two letters. The letters for 1884 are F andE, and the letter for 1885, D.
Epact (Greek, knaKT6g, added) is the excess of the solar month above the lunar
synodical month, 1 day, 11 hours, 15 minutes, 57 seconds, the lunar month being
only 29 days, 12 hours, 44 minutes, 3 seconds ; and the excess of the solar year
above the lunar synodical year, (nearly 11 days,) the lunar year being 854 days.
The number of the Gregorian Epact for 18S0 was 18, while for 1884 it is 8. The
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nse of the Epacts is to show the days of the new moons, and, consequently, the
moon's age on any day of the year.
Golden Niunber for any year is the number of that year in the Metonic Cycle,
and as this cycle embraces 19 years, the Golden Numbers range from 1 to 19. Since
the introduction of the Gregorian calendar, the point from which the Golden Num-
bers are reckoned is 1 B. C, as in that year the new moon fell on the 1st of January ;
and as bv Meton's law tlie new moon falls on the same day (1st of January) every
19th year from that time, we obtain the following rule for finding the Golden Num-
ber for any particular year : " Add 1 to the number of years, and divide by 19, the
quotient gives the number of cycles, and the remainder gives the Golden Number
for that year ; and if there be no remainder ttien 19 is the Golden Number, and that
year Ls the last of the cycle." The Golden Number is used for determining the
Epact, and the time for holding Easter.
Solax Cycle is a period of 23 years, at the end of which time the days of the
month return to the same days of the week, the first day of the month and the first
day of the week coming tosether. The present year (18S4) is the 17th year of the
whole cycle. See list of days above.
Eoman Indiction, a term designating a chronological system including a period
of 15 years. It is not an astronomical period, but has reference to certain judicial
acts whiL'h took place, under the Greek emperors, at stated epochs. Its commence-
ment Ls referred to the year 313. To find the number of any year in this cycle, add
3 to the date, divide the sum by 15, and the remainder is the year of the indiction.
Jiilian Period, proposed by Joseph Scaliger, about 1583, is a term of years pro-
duced by the multiplication of the lunar cycle 19, solar cycle 28, and Eoman indic-
tion 15. It consists of 7980 years, and began 4713 years before our era. It has been
employed in computing time to avoid the ambiguity attendant on reckoning any
period antecedent to our era, an advantage in common with the mundane eras used
at difterent times. By subtracting 4713 from the Julian Period our era is found : if
before Christ, subtract the Julian Period from 4714.
Dionysian Period is so called from Dionysius Exiguus. who employed a method
of his owu in determininor the date of Easter Sunday. The solar cycle brings the
days of the months back to the same days of the week, and the lunar cycle restores
the new moons to the same day of the month ; hence if we multiply 28 by 19, mak-
ing 532 years, the period will contain all the variations of the new moons and the
Dominical Letters, and after which the new moons again occur on the same day
of the month and the same day of the week. This mode of calculation continued
until the Gregorian calendar was adopted.
List of Principal Eras.
Common or Christian Era began 4004 Anno MundL
Era of the Jews. 3761 B. C.
Era of CoTtgtardinople^ 550S B. C.
Era of ^'abonassar, after which the A.««trononueal observations made at Babylon
■were reckoned, began Feb. 28, 747 B. C.
Era of the Seleuci<Ue, used by the Maccabees, commenced 312 B. C.
The Olympiads belong to tlie Greeks, and date from July 1. 776 B. C. ; they sub-
sequently reckoned by indictions, the first beginning A. D. 813; these, among
cnrouologers, are still used.
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The Romans reckoned from the founding of tlicir city, A. U. C, (anno urbis eon-
ditm,) 753.
Era of Diocletian or Martyrs began August 29, 284 A. D.
The Mohannuedans began their era from the Hegira, or flight of their prophet,
frona Mecca, July 16, 622 A. D.
The Era of the Cmsars, or Spanish Era, is reckoned from Jan. 1, 38 B. C, being
the year following the conquest of Spain by Augustus. It was much used in
Africa, Spain, and the south of France; but, by a synod held in 1180, its use wa<s
abolished in all the churches dependent on Barcelona. Pedro IV., of Aragon,
abolished the use of it in his dominions in 1350. Jolin of Castile did the same in
1383. It was used in Tortugu! till 1415, if not till 1422. The months and days of
this era are identical with the Julian calendar ; and to turn the time into that of our
era, substract thirty-eight from the year ; but if before the Christian era, subtract
thirty-nine.
Mundarie Eras : that of Alexandria fixed tiie Creation at 5502 B. C. This com-
putation continued till A. D. 284, Alexandria era 5786; but in A. D. 285 ten years
were subtracted, and 5787 became 5777. This coincided with the Mundane era of
Antioch, which dated the Creation 5492 B. C.
The Calendar— Explanatory Notes.
The day, 24 hours, representing one revolution of tlie earth on its axis, and the
year, 365 days, representing about one revolution of the earth around the sun, are
the two natural divisions of time. The period of the moon's revolution around the
earth (about 29^ days) constitutes one mouth, while the week represents very nearly
one fourth ©f this. When Julius Cossar established what was called the Julian calen-
dar, about 46 B.C., there was a change made in the months ; the Roman year, of but
ten mouths, began on March 1, this was changed to January 1, and two months
added. To the 1st, 3d, 5th, 7th, 8th, 10th, and 12th months were given 31 days,
and to the rest 30 days, with the exception of February, which, on every fourth
year, received an intercalary day, whence originates " leap year." The Julian
year, however, exceeded the true solar year 11 min. 14 sec, so that the equinox, in
the course of centuries, fell back several days. Pope Gregory XIII., in order to
rectify the errors of this curreiat calendar, published a new one, in which 10 days
were omitted — October 5, 1582, becoming October 15. The new style was adopti-d
in France, Italy, Spain, Denmark, Holland, Flanders, Portugal, in 1582; iu Ger-
many in 1584; in Switzerland in 1583 and 1584; in Hungary in 1587; and in
Great Britian in 1751. In 1752 eleven days were left out of the calendar — Septem-
ber 3 being reckoned as September 14. The difference between the old and new
6tyle up to 1699 was 10 days ; after 1700, 11 days ; after 1800, 12 days. In Russia,
Greece, and throughout the East the old style is still retained.
The subdivision of the day into twenty -four equal parts has been common to the
remotest ages, although, in regard to its commencement and the distribution of tlio
hours, they have widely ditlcred. With most of the northern nations day began at
sunrise, but the Jews and the Atlicnians reckoned it from sunset. The Romans be-
gan their day at midnight, as we do at the present time. In parts of Italy the day
is reckoned from sunset to sunset, and the clocks are made to strike twenty-four
hours round. The Chinese divide their d.iy into twelve parts, of two hours each.
An astronomical day begins at noon, is twenty-four hours long, and is so reckoned
iu all nautical books.
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Notes on the Yeir.
Our word year !-•< from the Old Saxon, iar, ger, (Anglo Saxon, ffear, ger,) and is
a name given to tliat division of time wliich includes a complete course or circle of
the sea.sons, and covers the time required for a full revolution of the earth round the
8un. The exact period of this revolution is 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, and
46.04 seconds.
For convenience each year is made up of daj^s, instead of days and fractions of a
dav. As the period of 365 days is nearly a quarter of a day lesii than a full tropical
vear, one day is added every fourth year, and such lengthened year is called a
bissextile, or leap year. The word bissextile is from the Latin bissextilis, the latter
from bissextus, (bis, twice, and sexius, si.xth,) twice the sixth, or, in common par-
lance, the twelfth. As the Roman or Latin year began with March, the bissextile, or
twelfth month following, was February, the last day of which was doubled or used
twice every fourth year. The bissextile year is, therefore, the year in which one
day is doubled, or in which there is an added day. As the true year is less than
365)^ days, (by 12 minutes and 13.96 seconds,) the addition of one whole day every
four years gives an excess for the quadrennium of four times the yearly excess, or
48 minutes and 55.84 seconds. In order to compensate for this excess it has been
agreed by a.<tronomers that every 400th year (the figures of which can be divided by
400) shall not receive the added day. The next centennial quadrennial year, in
which the added day must be omitted, is 2000 A.D., for that number is a multiple
of 400, and the next omission will take place in 2400 ; the 3d in 2800 ; the 4th in
3200, etc.
Days of tlie "Week.
Week, from the old English wi/ke, is an artificial division of the days of the
month for convenience. The period of seven days was first used by the Jews, who
observed their Sabbath each seventh day. The present English names given to the
days of the week are all from the Saxon.
Sunday, the first day of the week, was so-called because the ancients dedicated
it to the Sun, or to its worship. It has long been recognized as the Lord's Day, or
Christian Sabbath.
Monday, the second day of the week, is so-called because it was the day made
6acred by the ancients to the moon. As the first day was named in honor of the
sun, so the second day was named in honor of the moon.
Tuesday, the third day of the week, is so-called from Tiwedaeg, the day of Tiw,
the old Saxon name for their god of war.
"Wednesday, the fourth day of the week, so-cal]ed from the Saxon idol Woden,
or Odin, worshiped on this day. Woden was the reputed author of magic and the
inventor of all the arts, and was tiiought to answer to the Mercury of the Greeks
and Romans.
Thursday, the fifth day of the week, is named from Thor, who as god of the
air had much in common with the Roman Jupiter, to whom this day was dedicated.
Friday, the sixth day of the week, takes its name from Friga, or Frea, the Scandi-
vian Venus, the wife of Thor, and goddess of peace, fertility, and riches, who with
Thor and Odin composed the supreme council of the gods.
Saturday, the last or seventh day of the week — the Jewish Sabbath— so-called
from an idol worshiped on this day by the Saxons ; and, according to VcrBtegan,
wafl named by them Saterne's day.
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Methodist Year-Book.
The following are the correspondhig names in English in the languages indicated :
Frekoh.
Dimanche.
Lundl.
Mardi.
Mercredi.
Jeudi.
Veiidredi.
Sainedi.
English, Saxon.
Sunday, Sun's day,
Monday, Moon's day,
Tuesday, Tiw's day,
Wednesday, Woden's day,
Thursday, Thor's day,
Friday, Friga's d;iy,
Saturday, saterne's day.
German.
Son n tag,
MontacT,
Dienstag,
Mittwoch,
Donnerstag,
Freitag,
Samstag, or Son-
nabeiid,
Latin.
Dies Solis,
Dies Lunie,
Dies Martis,
Dies Mercurii,
Dies Jovis,
Dies Veneris,
Dies Saturni,
Day of thie Sun,
Day of the Moon,
Day of Mars,
Day of Mercury,
Day of Jupiter,
Day of Venus,
Day of Saturn,
Miscellaneous Notes.
The Eq.tiinoxes. When the sun, in his progress, passes though the equator in
one of the equinoctial points, the day and night are equal all over the globe. This
occurs twice in the year: about March 21, the vernal equinox, and September 22,
aittumnal equinox. The equinoctial points move backward about 50 seconds yearly,
requiring 25,000 years to accomplish a complete revolution. This is called the preces-
sion of the equinoxes, which is said to have been observed by the ancient astronomers.
Longitude, determined by Hipparchus, at Nice, who fixed the first degree in the
Canaries, l<i2 B. C. Harrison made a time-keeper, in 1759, which, in two voyages,
was found to correct the longitude within the limits required by the Act of Parlia-
ment, 12 Anne, 1714 ; and obtained the reward. The chronometers of Arnold,
Earnshaw, and Breguet are highly esteemed. Chronometers are now received on
trial at Greenwich Observatory. The act relating to the discovery of longitude at sea
was repealed in 1828. The Bureau des Longitudes at Paris was established in 1795.
Nones, in the Koman calender, were the fifth day of each month, excepting
March, May, July, and October, when the nones fell on the seventh day.
Pole-star, or Polar Star, a star of the second magnitude, the last in the tail of
the constellation called the Little Bear. As its nearness to the North Pole causes it
never to set to those in the northern hemisphere, it is called the Seaman's Guide. Two
stars in the constellation Ursa Major, or Great Bear, are called pointers to the Polar
Star. The discovery of the Pole-star is ascribed by the Chinese to their emperor,
Hong-ti, the grandson, they allege, of Noah, who reigned and flourished 1970 B. C.
Golden Legend, "Legenda Aurea." The lives of our Lord and the saints,
written by Giacomo Varaggio, or Jacobus de Voragine, a Dominican monk, about
1260 ; first printed 1470 ; a translation printed by Caxton, 1483.
The Times of High Water.
In each of the calendars for the twelve months of 1884, inserted on following
pages, are two columns giving the hours of " high water " at the cities of New York
and Charleston for each day. The times of high water for eacli of the forty cities
named in the following table may be found very nearly by adding to or subtract-
ing from the times of high water the hours and minutes severally annexed to the
names of those cities :
« ■■ H. M.
Kastport, Me . . . add 3 1
Gloucester, Mass add 2 5T
Jaclisonville, Fla add 86
Key West, Tla add 1 23
League Island, Pa add 5 12
Marblehead, Mass add 3 4
Nantucket, Mass add 4 31
New Bedft rd. Mass add 10
Newburyport, Mass add 8 29
New Haven, Conu add 8 1
Annapolis. Md add 8 57
Atlantic City, N. J sub. 18
Baltimore, Md add 10 52
Bar Harbor, Me add 2 50
Beaufort, S. C sub. 9
Block Island, R. I sub. 63
Boston, Mass add 3 22
Bridgeport, Conn add 8 4
Bristol, K. 1 sub. 2
Capo May,N.J add 12
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New London, Conn add 1 16
Newport, E.I sub. 22
Norfolk, Va add 56
Old Point Comfort, Va add 37
Philadelphia, Pa add 5 3T
Plymouth, Mass add 3 12
Po'int Lookout, Md add 4 49
Portland, Me add 3 10
Portsmouth, N. H add 3 16
Providence, E. I add 7
Eichmond. Va add 8 47
Eockland. M.- add 2 55
Eockport, Mass. add 2 50
Salem, Mass add 8 05
Sandy Hook. N.J sub. 86
Savannah, Ga sub. 49
Vineyard Haven, Mass add 8 35
Washington, D. C. add 11 54
Watch Hill, E. I add 53
Wilmington, N. C .add 59
nivistration. — To find the time of liigli water at Key West, Fla., on the lOtli
day of March, find in tlie calendar for that day the time of higli water at New
York, namely, 7:28 A. M., and add to it 1 hour and 23 minutes, (the tabular con-
stant above,) and the total, 8 hours 51 minutas, is approximately the answer
wanted.
N. B. — To find the times of the next low water and the next high water at any
place on a given day, add 6 hours 12 minutes, and 12 hours 25 minutes, respect-
ively, and the result will be very nearly correct.
Interesting Astronomical Dates.
Lunar eclipses observed at Babylon, and recorded by Ptolemy, about B. C. 720.
Splierical form of the earth, and the true cause of the lunar eclipses, taught liy
Thales. Died 54»5 B. C.
Archimedes observes solstices, etc., 212 B. C.
Hipparchus, greatest of Greek astronomers, detennines mean motion of sun and
moon; discovers precession of equinoxes, etc., 160-125 B. C.
The precession of the equinoxes confirmed, and the places and distances of the
planets discovered by Ptolemy, A. D. 130-150.
True doctrine of the motions of the planetary bodies revived by Copernicus,
founder of modern astronomy, author of the " Almagest," published 1543.
True laws of the planetary motions anuoimced by Kepler, 1st and 2d, 1609; 3d,
1618.
Galileo constructs a telescope, 1609; and discovers Jupiter's satellites, etc.,
January 8, 1610.
Various forms of telescopes and other instruments used in astronomy invented,
1608-40.
The transit of Venus over the sun's disk first observed by Horrocks, November
24, 1639.
Greenwich Observatory founded, 1675.
Motion of the sun round its own axis proved by Halley, 1676.
Newton's "Principia" published; and the system, as now taught, demonstrated,
1687.
Catalogue of the stars made by Flamsteed, 1688.
Cassiui's chart of the full moon executed, 1692.
Satellites of Saturn, etc., discovered by Cassini, 1701.
Halley predicts the return of the comet of 1758, 1705.
Aberration of the stars clearly explained by Dr. Bradley, 1727.
Nautical almanac first published, 1767.
Uranus and satellites discovered by Herschel, March 13, 1781.
Lord Rosse's telescope constructed, 1828-1855,
The planet Neptune discovered, September 23, 1846.
Large photograph of the moon by Warren de la Rue, 1863.
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January is named from Janus, an early Roman divinity. It was added to the Roman
calendar by Numa, 713 B. C. He placed it about the winter solstice, and made it the first
j month, because Janus was supposed to preside over the beginning of all business. In 1761 [
the legal year in England was ordered to begin on January 1, instead of March 25. A feast
is said to have been instituted by Numa and dedicated to Janus on January 1, 718 B. C.
It was on this day that the Romans sacrificed to Janus a cake of new-sifted meal, with salt,
incense, and wine ; and all the mechanics began something of their art of trade ; the men
of letters did the same, as to books, poems, etc.; and the consuls, though chosen before, took
the chair and entered upon their office this day. Nonius Marcellus refers the origin of New-
Yeab's gifts among the Romans to Titus Tatius, king of the Sabines, who, having con-
sidered as a good omen a presentof some branches cut in a wood consecrated to Strenia, the ;
goddess of strength, which he received on the first day of the new year, authorized the cus-
tom afterward, and gave these gifts the name of Strense, 747 B. C. j
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Oalendar of Dates in Methodist History.— January
1. Great jubilee of Buffalo churches, announcing payment of all church debts, 1882.
2. Richard Boardman embarked for America 1774.
3. Bishop Gilbert Haven died 1880.
4. Rev. Alfred Cookman born 1838. Bishop Warren bom 1831.
i. Memorial service for Bishop Gilbert Haven, by N. Y. Preachers' Meeting, 1880.
6. Dr. Charles Elliot died 18()9.
7. Bishop Redding born 1780.
8. Richard Watson died 1833.
9. Dr. Noah Levlngs died 1849. J. H. Messmore elected President N. India Conf . 1878.
10. Dr. Silas Comfort died 1868, aged 59.
11. Rev. Jonathan Crowther, English Wesleyan minister and author, died 1856.
12. National Association of Local Preachers incorporated 1883.
13. C. W. Drees, missionary, arrived in Puebla, Mexico, 1875.
14. Bishop Kavanaugh born 1802. c. W. Judd elected President of N. India Conf. 1869.
15. Annual Meeting of New York City Church Extension and Missionary Society 1882.
16. Dr. J. H. Rigg, Ex-President English Wesleyan Conference, born 1821.
17. Bishop Foss born 1834. Martin Mission Institute opened in Frankfort, Ger., 1869.
18. Methodist Episcopal Mission School opened at Khairabad, India, 1862.
19. Dr. Abel Stevens born 1815.
20. Susannah Wesley born 1669. Bp. Klngsley presided at India Conf., flast official work,)
21. First love-feast in Brazil— 60 persons present 1883. [1870.
22. John Wesley Bond, Bishop Asbury's traveling companion, died 1819.
23. Grace Murray born 1715.
24. Rev. Samuel Dunn died 1882.
25. Dr. Joseph Benson, author of Commentary, born 1748.
26. Cokesbury College incorporated 1794.
27. Bishop Harris brought Wm. Taylor's South India work into union with M. E.Church 1873.
28. North-western University chartered 1851.
29. Bishop W. J. Richardson (Canada) born 1791. Bishop Capers died 1855.
30. Bp. Roberts, of Liberia, died 1875. Bp. Andrews closed Mexico Annual Meeting 1882.
31. Rev. John Summerfleld bora 1798. J. S. Payne, Ex-President of Liberia, died 1882.
Calendar of Events m American History.— January.
1. Quakers manumit slaves 1788 ; Liberator est. 1831 ; Galveston taken by Confederates
1863.
2. Georgia admitted 1788 ; Battle of Murfreesborough (second day) 1863.
3. Benedict Arnold b. 1740 ; Washington defeats British at Princeton 1777.
4. Treaty of Paris ratitled by Congress 1784 ; National Fast observed 1861.
5. Richmond burnt by Arnold 1781.
6. Santa Anna becomes President of Mexico 1853.
7. FUlmore born 1800; R. H. Dana, Jr., died 1882.
8. Jackson defeats British at New Orleans 1815 ; Secession of Mississippi 1861.
9. New York founded 1614 ; Conn. adm. 1788 ; Astor Library opened 1854 : Star of the
West fired on 1861.
10. Battle of Middle Creek, Ky., 18G2.
11. Alex. Hamilton bom 1757; Ala. and Fla. declared for the Confederacy 1861; Arkansas
Post surrendered to Fed. 1863.
12. Vicksburg, Miss., fortified 1861.
13. S. P. Chase born 1808 ; Gen. Taylor ordered to Rio Grande 1846.
14. Peace declared between England and U. S. 1783 ; Stanton Sec. of War 1862.
15. Endvmion(BT.) captures Presidoit 1815; Ed. Everett d. 1865; Ft. Fisher capt. 1865.
16. Lord Napier appointed Envoy to U. S. 1857.
17. Benjamin Franklin born 1706 ; Battle at the Cowpens 1781.
18. Daniel Webster born 1782 ; Robert E. Lee born 1807 ; Georgia seceded 1861.
19. Poe born 1809 ; Battle of Mill Spring. Ky.. 1862.
20. Mutiny of N. J. troops 1781 ; England recognizes U. S. Independence 1783.
21. John C. Fremont, "the Pathfinder," born 1813.
22. Battle of Frenchlown 1813.
23. Battle of Encarnacion (Mex. War) 1847.
21. Impeachment of President Johnson 1868, (commenced.)
25. Louisiana joined the Confederacy 1861 ; Smithsonian Library bumt 1865.
26. Pinzon disc. Brazil 1500 ; Mich, admitted to Union 1837; Income tax repealed 1873,
27. Audubon died 1851.
28. W. H. Prescott died 1859.
29. Kansas admitted to the Union 1861.
30. Hooker commands Army of Potomac 1863 ; U. S. Constitution amended 1865.
31. Steamer Metropolis lost 1878.
2d MONTH. J^sbrucLpy, lSS4« 2^ ^^Ys.
MOON'S PHASES.
Boston. New York. Wash'ton
Chakles'n.
Chicago.
D.
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February, (from Fehruun, an Italian divinity,) the second month of the year, has
ordinarily 38 days, but in leap-year it has an interor.Iary day. Amonj? the Romans it had
I originally 29 days in an ordinary year, but when the Senate decreed that the eighth month
: should bear the name of Augustus, a d.iy was taken from February and given to August,
1 winch had then only 30, that it might not be inferior to July. This month, with January,
was added to the year by Huma about 713 B. C. The festiv.al of the dead (Feralin) was cel-
ebr.ited by the Romans in this month. As was also theLupercalia, a festival among the an-
cient Romans, held Feb. 15 in honor of Lvpfrcun, the god of fertility. "When Home began to
I seek a Grecian origin for its religious ceremonies, Lupercus was identified with the Lycasan
Pan, .and his worship was said to have been introduced by Evander. the Arcadian. Lnper-
j cus ia believed to have toon one of the oldest pastoral deities of Italy. These rites were
i of the most primitive character, and indicate a high antiquity. Gonts and dogs were sac-
rificed ; afterward, the priests, called Luperci, cut up the skins of the victims, and twisted
them into thongs, with which they ran through the city striking every one who came in
j their way, which women used to do in hopes that the god of fertility would favor them.
Methodist Year-Book. 31
Calendar of Dates in Methodist History,— February.
1. John Wesley arrived in England from America 1738.
2. Lorenzo Dow died 1834, aged 56.
3. Bishop Pierce born 1811. Dr. B. K. Peirce born 1819. Luke H. Wiseman died 1875.
4. Eev. Daniel Smith born 1790.
5. First M. E. Church, Racine. Wis., burned 18S2.
6. Bp. Campbell, of Alrican M. E. Church, bora 1815. Bp. Bowman arrived at Ban
Fraucisco, from Japan, 1883.
7. Bisliop Keener born 1819. Wesley's first interview with Peter Boehler 1738.
8. Book Committee convened in Cincinnati 1882.
9. Bisliop Waugh died 1858.
10. Pittsburg Female College chartered 1854.
11. Asa Shinn, one of the founders of the Methodist Protestant Church, died 1853.
12. Revs. Wheeler and Lowrey secure missionary head-quarters in Peking 1870.
13. Methodist ministers formally received by Governor of Guanajuato 1876.
14. Freeborn Garrettson began missionary tour to Nova Scotia 1785, J. Wesley
Harper died 1870.
15. Bishop Wightraan died 1883.
16. Dr. Joseph Benson (commentator) died 1821.
17. George Whitefleld first preached in open air.
18. Book Concern in New York consumed by fire (loss, $250,000) 1830.
19. Dr. Egerton Ryerson died in Toronto 1882, aged 78.
20. First Methodist Society in Massachusetts organized at Lynn 1791.
21. Ezekiel Cooper, second Agent in charge of Book Concern, died 1847.
22. Bishop Foster born 1820. Dr. Wilbur Fisk died 1838.
23. John Wesley preached his last sermon 1791.
24. Dr. John Wesley Etheridge, author of ten works, born 1804.
25. Bishop Clark born 1812.
26. 93d Anniversary of Forsyth Street Church, New York, celebrated 1882,
27. Dr. Waugh, Missionary to India, born 1832.
28. Fii-st M. E. Mission School opened in Foochow, China 1848.
Calendar of Events in American History.— February.
1. Texas Joined the Confederacy 1861.
8. Treaty of Peace with Mexico 1848; Great fire In Elm St., N. Y., 18(X): Charleston
capt. 1865.
8. Decatur destroyed the Philadelphia frigate 1804 ; Horace Greeley bom 1811 ; Fugitive
Slave Bill declared unconstitutional 1855.
4. Am. bishops cons, at Lambeth 1787; First Congress of Confederate States held 1861.
6. Sweden acknowledges independence of U. S. 1783 ; Fight at Hatcher's Run, Va., 1865.
6 U. S. recognized by France 1778 ; Mass. admitted 1788 ; Fort Henry captured by
Federals 1862.
7. Aaron Burr arrested 1807 ; U. S. Bank suspends a second time 1841.
8. Jeft. Davis elected Pres. of Confederacy 1861 ; Battle of Roanoke Island 1863.
9. Relief Ship Gorge GrisivoM arrives in England 1863.
10. Treaty of Paris closes French and Indian War 1763.
11. Alex. H. Stephens born 1811 ; Charleston evacuated by Hardee 1805.
12. Abraham Lincoln born 1609 ; Oregon admitted to the Union 1859.
13. Ethan Allen died 1789 ; Fernando Wood died 1881.
14. Battle of Kettle Creek (Revolutionary War) 1779.
15. John A. Sutter born 1813.
16. Missouri Comp. Act passed by House of Rep. 1830 ; Ft. Donaldson sur. to Grant 18C2.
17. Columbia, S. C, burnt 1865 ; Charleston evacuated by Confederates 1865.
18. Vermont admitted into Union 1791 ; Jeff. Davis inaug. Pres. of Confederacy 1861.
19. First National Thanksgiving 1795.
20. Battle of Olistee, Fla., 1SS4.
21. Battle of Valverde, N. M., 1861.
28. Washington born 1732 ; Ogdensburg taken by British 1813 ; Battle of Buena Vista 1847 ;
Wilmington, N. C, taken 1865.
23. John Q. Adams died 1848 ; Nashville, Tenn., captured by Federals 1862.
24. H<yrnet (Am.) captures the Peacock (Br.) 1813 ; Ter. of Arizona organized 1863.
25. Battle of Trenton 1776 ; National Bank system of U. S. organized 1863.
26. Minn, admitted 1858 ; Danl. E. Sickles acquitted of the murder of Barton Key 1859.
27. Battle of Morris Creek Bridge 1776 ; Longfellow bom 1807 ; Sheridan's Shenandoah
expedition begun 1865.
28. Black Wari-ior seized in Cuba 18.54 ; Union expedition against Fla. and Ga. 1862.
29. Third fight at Withlacooche Ford, Fla., (Seminole War,) 1836.
3d MONTH. JVIcLrch., iSS^i s^ ^^Ys.
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March, the first luonth of the Eoinan j'ear, nnd the third according to our present
calendar, consists of 81 days. It was considered as the first month of tlie year in England
until the change of style, in 1753, and the legal year was reckoned from tiie 25th of March, i
The custom of reckoning the 3-ear according to the old style is still retained in Eussia ; and |
even the financial year of Great Britain is reckoned from the Sist of March. The Anglo-S.ixons '
called it I/ly/ vionath, stormy month, and Hmed monaiJi, rugged month. There is an old j
proverb still used by the Engii.'sh and Scotch rustics, whiclj represents March as borrowing j
three days from April. The nnme of the month was from Mars, the Roman god of war. j
Dates in form like tlie following, namely, Feb. J?, 1T4S, :ire frequently met with in some his- ^
tone books. Tlie figures above the horizontal bar indicate the date according to Old Style ; ,
and the figures underneath the bar, the date according to New Style. The e.xpression
Feb if, 1743, means Feb. 16, 1T4S, Old Style, but Feb. 27, 1748, New Style.
Methodist Year-Book. 33
Calendar of Dates in Methodist History.— MarcL
1. Bishop Andrew died, 1871. John Mason, English Book-steward 37 years, died 1864.
2. John Wesley died 1791. Dr. Stephen Olin born 1797.
3. Samuel Drew, M.A., eminent writer and local preacher, born 1765.
4. Dr. John M'CIintock died 1870.
5. Bishop M'Kendree died 1835.
6. First General Conference of Methodist Prot. Church held 1834. Bp. Soule died 1867.
7. Bishop Scott opened Liberia Conference 1853.
8. John Wesley embarked for America 1738.
9. The "'six students" expelled from Dxford for Methodism 1768.
10. Dr. Alexander Clark, of Methodist Protestant Church, born 1834.
11. Re7. George G. Cookman sailed for Europe (never heard from after) 1841.
1-4. Uev. N. L. Wheeler and family arrived in Peking 1869.
13. Pres. W. F. Warren, of Boston Uuiv'y, b. 18;J3. M. E. Ch. Extension B'd incorp'd 1865.
14. Dr. Thomas E. Bond died 1856, aged 74.
15. M. E. missionary (Miss Julia Lore, M.D.) opens Medical Dispensary in India 1874.
16. Rev. F. Owen, of Nashville, died 1883, aged 79.
17. First Annual M. E. Mission opened in Germany 1852.
18. Preaching by M. E. missionaries commenced in Bareilly, India, 1859.
19. Rev. Jacob Young born 1776 ; died Sept. 15, 1859.
20. Bishop Ames born 1806. Dr. D. D. Whedon born 1808.
21. President L. C. Garland, of Vauderbilt University, born 1810.
22. Bp. Hamline d. 1856. W. F.M.Soc. of M. E. Ch. organized 1869. Bp. Thomson d. 18.~0.
23. Martin Boehm, associate of Otteroein, died 1812, aged 86.
24. Bishop Asbury preached his last sermon 1816. Lovick Pierce born 1785.
25. Rev. John H. Stockton, of the New Jersey Conference, died in Philadelphia 1377.
26. Bishop R. R. Roberts died 1843. John M. Phillips born 1830.
^7. Dr. Wm. H. Allen, President Girard CoUese, bora 1808. James Harper died 1869.
28. Dr. J. L. Read (Book Agent at Pittsburg 2i vevrs) born 1803.
29. Charles Wesley died 1788. Wesley Monument in Westminster Abbey unveiled lilo.
30. M. E. native Mexican preachers reached Guanajuato 1876.
31. Bishop Asbury died 1816, aged 70.
Calendar of Events in American History.— MaroL
1. Embargo Act repealed 1809 ; Nebraska admitted as a State 1867.
2. Federal Gov. accepted by States 1781 ; Mo. adm. 1821 ; Dak. and Nev. org. asTer. 1861.
3. Battle of Brier Creek 1779 ; Missouri Compromise finally passed 1820 ; Fla. admitted
1815 ; Wis. admitted 1848 ; Nashville, blockade-ninner, destroyed 1863.
4. New Government org. 1789 ; Ver. admitted 1791; Me. adm. 1820 ; Battle of Longwood 1814.
5. Charter of Pa. granted to Penn 1681 ; Boston massacre 1770 ; Dred Scott decision 1857.
6. Battle of Pea Ridge, Ark., 1862 ; the Peterhof sunk 1864.
7. Portuguese Royal Family arrive in Brazil 1808.
8. M&rriinac (Rebel ram) destroys Ciunbcyland and Congress 1862.
9. Amerigo Vespucci born 1451 ; Gen. Scott lands at Vera Cruz 1847 ; Action bet. Mon-
itor and Merrimac 1862.
10. M'Clellan crossed the Potomac 1862.
11. Philadelphia incorporated 1789; Benjamin West died 1820.
12. First Pa. Assem. met 1683 ; Southern Commissioners not received by Lincoln 1861 ;
Fayetteville, N. C, taken 1865.
13. Pocahontas died 1617.
14. Jackson born 1767 ; Battle of Newbern, N. C, 1862; Ft. de Russey, La., cap. 1864.
15. Battle of Guilford Court-house 1781.
16. The " Expunging Resolution "' adopted by the Senate 1837.
17. Boston evacuated by the British 1776.
IS. Stamp Act repealed 1766 ; Calhoun bom 1782.
19. Patent of Connecticut issued 1631.
20. Unde Tom's CaMn published 1852 ; Arkansas declared for the Confederacy 1861.
21. Salem trials 1692: Nev. admitted 1864; Battle of Goldsborough, N. C, 1865.
22. Attempted massacre by Indians in Va. 1618; Stamp Act passed 1765.
23. Battle of Winchester, Va., 1862 ; Treaty bet. Janan and U. S. concluded 1854.
24. Astoria, Ore., foun. 1810 ; Forrest's Raid— Union City cap. 1864 ; Longfellow d. 1882.
25. Boston Port Bill passed 1774 : Confeds. repulsed at Ft. Steadman, Va., 1865.
26. Gov. Winthrop died 1640 ; Sheridan joins Grant at City Point, Va., 1865.
27. Fla. disc, by Juan Ponce de Leon 1512; Battle of Horseshoe Bend (Creek War) 1814;
Vera Crtiz taken 1847.
28. The Essex captured by British frigates Phebe and Cherub 1814.
29. John Jacob Astor died 1848.
30. St. Alban's Raiders discharged 1865.
81, Calhoun died 1850.
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April, the fourth month of our year and first of the ancient Romans, who gave this month
the name of AprilU, from riperire, to open, because it was the season when the buds began
to open; by the Anglo-Saxons it was called Ooster, or Easter-month ; by the Dutch, Grass-
month. The custom of sending one upon a bootless errand on the first day of this month
is, perhaps, a travesty of the sending hither and thither of the Saviour from Annas to Caia-
phas, and from Pilate to Herod, because during the Middle Ages this scene in Christ's life
was made the subject of a Miracle Play at EasUT, which occurs in the month of April. It
is possible, however, that it may be a relic of some old heathen festival. The custom, what-
ever be its origin, of playing off little tricks on tliis day, whereby ridicule may be fixed upon
unguarded individuals, appears to be universal throughout Europe. In France one thus
imposed upon is called U7i poision d'Avril, (an April fish ;) in England and the United States.
an April fool; in Scotland, a gowk. The favorite jest is to send one for something grossly
nonsensical, or to make appointments which are not to be kept. It is curious that the Hin-
dus practice similar tricks on March 31, when tliey hold what is called the Hull Festival.
Methodist Year-Book. 35
Calendar of Dates in Methodist History.— ApriL
1. First M. E. Mission building in Germany dedicated in Bremen 1855.
2. M. E. Sundav-Scliool Union organized 1827.
3. Dr. Martin Ruter born 1795 ; died May 16, 1838. Hugh Bourne, founder of Primitive
Methodists, born 1773.
4. Bishop Jesse T. I'eck born 1811. John M'Lean, of U. S. Supreme Court, died 1861.
5. Parent M.E.Mission. Soc. organized 1819. Pres.H. M.Johnson, of Dickinson Col.,d. 1868.
6. Bishop Kingsley died in Syria 1870.
7. First meeting of Board of Managers of M. E. Missionary Society 1819.
8. First Farewell Missionary Meeting in Boston for Dr. Wm. Butler, who sailed next day
for India, 1857.
9. First Wesleyan chapel in Rome dedicated 1871.
10. Rev. Thomas M. Sargent, M.D., born 1776.
11. Bishop Emory born 1789.
12. Melville B. Cox prostrated with African fever (and died July 21) 1833.
13. Meeting of Denver Conference, Colorado, 1883.
14. Dr. James A. Duncan, Fraternal Delegate from M. E. Church, South, born 1830.
15. Bromfleld St. Church (Boston) corner-stone laid 1806. M. E. Tract Soc'y Incorp'd 1854.
16. Dr. Francis Hodgson died 1877.
17. Dr. T. Carlton, 20 yrs Senior Agent in N. Y. Book Concern, died 1874, aged 66.
IS. Bishop Burns died in Liberia 1863.
19. Aaron D. Sargent, of New England Conference, died 1881, aged 79.
20. First District Missionary Meeting held in France 1820.
21. Dr. Le Roy M. Lee died 1882, aged 74.
22. Dr. Samuel Wesley died 1735. Dr. Gervase Smith died 18S2. John Harper died 187S,
23. Rev. Thomas B. Wood held first Spanish service in Rosario, S. A., 1871.
24. William Roberts and J. H. Wilbur arrived in Oregon 1847.
85. Bishop Ames died 1879, aged 73.
26. Dr. Henry Slicer died 1874.
27. Dedication of " Home for the Aged," New York, 1857.
28. Dr. Lucius C. Matiack born 1816 ; died 1883.
29. Bishop Morris born 1794; died Sept. 2, 1874.
30. John Seyes and wife embark at Monrovia, Africa, for New York 1841.
Calendar of Events in American History.— April,
1. Lord Ashburtcn arrives in New York 1842 ; Battle of Five Forks, Va., 1865.
2. Ponce de Leon lands in Florida 1512 ; Thomas Jefferson born 1743.
3. Washington Irving born 17!S3 ; Capture of Petersburg and Richmond 1865.
4. President Harrison died 1841.
5. M'Clellan besieges Yorktown 1863.
6. Washington dec. first Pres. of U. S. 1789 ; Mormon Ch. estab. at Manchester, N. Y., 1830.
7. W. E. Channing born 1780 ; Capture of Island No. 10, Mississippi River 1862.
8. La. admitted 1812; Battle of Sabine Cross Roads 1864.
9. Battle of Pleasant Hill, La., 1864; Lee's surrender 1865.
10. King James issues Patents to London Company and Plymouth Company 1606,
11. Ft. Pulaski, Ga., captured 1862; Mobile evacuated by Confederates 1865.
12. Henry Clay born 1777 ; Attack on Ft. Sumter 1861 ; Ft. Pillow massacre 1864.
13. Fall of Sumter 1862 ; Raleigh, N. C, entered by Sherman 1805.
14. N. H. and Mas.s. admitted 1G41 ; Charlestown evacuated by British 1783 ; La. admitted
to Union 1812; Seward asfsaulted bv Payne and Lincoln shot 1865.
15. States asked for 75,000 men for 90 day's 1861 ; Lincoln died and Johnson Inaug. 1865.
10. Slavery abolished in District of Columbia 1863.
17. Benjamin 1 ranklin died 1790 ; Va. joined the Confederacy 1861.
18. Gov. Andros imprisoned 1689 ; Battle of Cerro Gordo 1847; Arsenal at Harper's Ferry
captured 1861.
19. Battle of Lexington 1775 ; Eighth Mass. Vols, mobbed In Baltimore 1861 ; Blockade of
Southern ports proclaimed 1861.
20. Plymouth, N. C, surrendered to Confederates 1864.
21. Norfolk Navy Yard captured 18P1.
22. James Buchanan born 1791.
23. Battle of Cane River, La., 1864.
24. First permanent newspaper issued in America— Boston News Lettei — 1704 ; Farra-
gut passes Mississippi Forts 1862.
25. Battle of Hobkirk Hill, S. C, 1781.
26. Capt. Thornton's party capt. bv Mexicans 1846 ; Wilkes Booth k. 1865 ; Johnston sur. 1865.
27. Derne cap. by Eaton 1805 ; Cap. of Toronto, Can- , 1813 ; Grant b. 1822 ; Emerson d. 1882.
28. Maryland admitted 1788 ; Farragut captures New Orleans 1862.
29. Union repulse at Grand Gulf, Miss., 1863.
80. Washington Inaugurated President 1789 ; La. purchased from the French 1803,
5th MONTH. McLy, lSS4» 31 DAYS.
^[.'lONS PHASES. I Boston. New York. j Wash'ton.i Charlks'n. Chicago
First Quarter. ..
1- all Moon
Third Quarter..
New Moon
First Quarter. . .
1 23 mom.
11 25 eve.
0 11 morn.
5 52 eve.
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1 11 m.|
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10 59 6
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Boston; New New York City; AVashington; Charleston; North
England, New Philadelphia, Con- Maryland, Vir- Carolina, Tenne.s-
y O R K S T A T E, NECTICUT, NEW JeR-GINIA, KEN-SEE, GEORGIA, ALA-
JIlCinGAN, WlS-;SE Y, PENNSY'LVANIA,ItUCKT, MISSOU- B A M A , MISSISSIPPI,
oonsin, Iowa, 'Ohio, Indiana, and ki, and Cau- and Louisiana.
AND Oregon. Illinois. fornia.
53 4 54,7
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35 4 5017
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14;4 447
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May, [Latin irain?, contrncteil from Mnghis, is from a root wng. or (Pans.) mah, to
grow ; so tliat May is just tlie season of growlli,] the fifth month of the year in our present
caloncLir, consists of 31 days. The outbrealc into new life and beauty which marks nature
at this time instinctively excites feelings of gladness and dehght; hence it is not wonderful
tliat tlie event should have at all times been celebrated. Among the Romans, the
feeling of the time found vent in their FloraVa, or Floral G.imes, which began on the 28th
of Ajiril, and lasted a few days. The first of May— May-day— was the chief festival both in
ancient and more modern limes. Among the old Celtic peoples a festival called Beltein was
also held on this day. In England, as we leain from Chaucer and other writers, it was
customary, during the Middle Ages, for all, both high and low— even the coiirt itself— to go
out on the first May morning at an early hour " to fetch the flowers fresli."
Methodist Year-Book. 37
Calendar of Datss in Methodist History.— May.
1. M. E. Church, South, organized in Louisville 1845. George Coles died 18CS.
2. J.ibu Wesley commenced " fleld-preachlng " 1739. Dr. Nathan Bangs born 1778.
3. Bishop Coke died 18U. Dr. Xiithan Bangs died 180-2.
4. first Uerman M. E. Church, Second Street, New York, dedicated 1843.
5. O. G. Hedstrom, pioneer Swedish missionary, died 1877.
G. First General Conference of Meth. Prot. Church met 18:^4. Dr. T. 0. Summers d. ISSO.
7. Centenary Board of M. E. Church, South, incorporated 1883.
8. M. E. Gen. Conf. adopted resolution declaring Cape May settlement " a finality " 1880.
9. Rev. John W. Butler arrived in City of Mexico 1874.
10. Bishop Hamline bom 1797.
11. Ex-Governor Joseph Wright, of Indiana, died 1867.
12. Corner-stone of first Wesleyan chapel laid in Bristol 1739.
13 Dr. Jabez Bunting born 1779.
14. Rev. Stephen G. Roszell died 1841, aged 71.
15. Rev. F. W. Fiocken opened day-school in Tultcha, Bulgaria, 1800.
16. Dr. Martin Ruter died 1838, aged nearly 53.
17. Third Methodist Conference held in Philadelphia 1775.
18. Dr. Walter C. Palmer proposed mission to China l&4u.
19. Rev. Thomas T. Tasker, Sen., first President Church Extension Board, born 1799.
20. Dr. George Peck died 1S?G. Rev. Erwin House died 18.5.
21. Conversion of Charles Wesley 1738. Dr. S. B. Southerland born 1817.
22. Wesley's tenth Conference at Leeds 1753.
23. Bishop Clark died I8ri.
24. Conversion of John Wesley 1738.
25. Second Methodist Conference held In Philadelphia 1774.
26. First public meeting of W. F. M. Soc, held in Bost<jn, (.Gov. Claflln presiding,) 1869.
27. BLshop Bascom bom 1796.
28. Second Conference session, held in New York 1789.
29. Address to President Washington by Bishops Coke and Asbury 1789.
30. Nicholas Snethen died, aged about 76.
31. Sepoy mutiny and massacre at Bareilly, Ludia, and escape of missionaries 1857.
Calendar of Events in American History.— May.
1. St. Tammany Societies inaugurated in Philadelphia 1784 ; Siege of Fort Meigs 1813 ;
Walker surrendered 18.")7 ; Battle of Monticello 1863.
2. Charles Sumner assaultea by Preston Brooiis 1856 ; Battle of Chancellorsville 1S63.
3. Columbus disc. Jamaica 1494 ; Cabral lands in Brazil 1500 ; Great Fire at S. Francisco 1851.
4. Ticonderoga cap. 1775 ; W. H. Prescott born 1796 ; Yorktown evac. by Conf. 1852.
5. Battle of Williamsburg, Va., 1862.
6. Tennessee seceded 1861.
7. Arkansas seceded 1861 ; Three Days' flsht in the Wilderness ended 1864.
8. Battle of Palo Alto 1846 ; Treaty of Washington concluded 1871.
9. Bat. of Resaca de la Palma 1846 ; Bat. of W. Point, Va., 1862 ; Stonewall Jackson d. 1863.
10. Cartier disc. Nev,-foundland 1534 ; Astor Place Riot 1849 ; Jeff. Davis captured 1865.
11. War. dec. against Mex. 1846 ; Minn. adm. to Uniou 1858 ; the Merrimac blown up 1862.
12. Crown Point cap. by Col. Warner 1775 ; Charleston surrendered to British 1780.
13. Jamestown, Va., settled 1G07 ; American Tariff Bill passed 1828.
14. Confederates repulsed at Jacks m. Miss., 1663.
15. Battle of Resaca, Ga., 1864; Battle of Newmarket, Va., 1864.
16. Seward b. 1801; Sea-fight bet. President and Little Belt 1811: Margaret Fuller d. 1850.
17. Great fire at St. Louis 1849 ; Japanese embassy received at Washington 186J.
18. Matamoras captured 1846.
19. Treaty between Mexico and United States ratified 1848 ; Hawthorne died 186!.
20. Death of Columbus 1.506; Act of Perpetual Union passed 1775; Lafayette died 1834.
21. California ceded to United States 1S48 ; North Carolina seceded 1861.
22. Grant's assault on Vicksburg repelled 1853.
23. Wm. Bradford, first Amer. printer, died 1752; Sag Harbor, L. L, taken by Col. Meigs
1777 ; S. C, admitted 17s8: Margaret Fuller bom ISiO.
24. Pensacola, Fla., taken by Gen. Jackson 1818; Battle of Winchester 1862; Brooklyn
Bridge opened ISSl
35. Philadelphia Convention met 1778; Fight at Dallas, Ga., 1864.
26. Cortez defeats Narvaez 1520 ; Massacre of the Pequods 1637 ; Johnson acquitted 1863.
27. Forts Erie and Georce evacuated by British 1813.
28. Battle of Great Meadows 1754; Noah Webster died 1843.
29. Patrick Henry born 173'; ; Battle of Wa.xhaw Creek 1780 ; R. L admitted 1790 ; Attack
on Sackett's Harbor 1813 ; Amnesty Proclamation 1865.
30. House of Rep. opened in Washington 1808 ; Kan. and Neb. organ, as Territories 1854.
31. Battle of Seven Pines, Va., 1862.
6th MONTH.
June, 1884.
so DAYS.
MOONS PHASES
Full Moon 8
Third Quarter.. j 16
New Moon 23
First Quarter...! 30
Boston.
3 5 eve.
9 50 morn.
0 49 morn.
1 31 morn,
NEW York. Wash'ton. Charles'n.
H. M.
2 53 eve.
9 38 morn.
0 37 morn.
1 19 morn.
2 41 eve.
9 26 morn.
0 25 morn.
1 7 morn.
2 29 eve.
9 14 mom.
0 13 morn
0 55 morn.
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3 28 4
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NECTicuT, New Jer-
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Ohio, Indiana, and
Illinois.
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Maryland.Vui-
GiNiA, Ken.
TUCKY, MlSSOU-
AND Cali-
fornia.
to
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24 7 331 2 4|4
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June, the sixth month of the year in onr calendar, but the fourth among the Romans. It
consisted originally of 26 days, to which four were added by Eomulus, one taken away by
Nuina, and the month again lengthened to 30 days by .Juhus Cffsar, since whose time no
variatidn has taken place. It is called the month of roses, and has been commonly traced to
Juno, worshiped at Eome as the queen of heaven. The connection is found in the fact that
the month of June was believed to be the most favorable time for marriage. Juno was the
great protector of the feminine sex, and was also believed to preside over all marriages. I
As May was the month for the old, so June was for the young. j
During this month the sun reaches the northern solstice, which is marked by the first |
point of the sign Cancer; from this the tropic derives its name. j
The Anglo-Saxons had sever.al names for tlie month of June, such as " the dry month.'' I
"tliii mid-summer month," and the " earlier mild month." Mid-summerday is the 24th of :
June.
Methodist Year-Book. 39
Calendar of Dates in Methodist History.— June.
1. First M. E. Church dedicated in Brooklyn 1794. Rev. Alex. M'Kain died 1858.
2. Mr. Wesley held his fifth Conference IT^S.
3. Kevs. T. Rankin and G. Shadford land in Phila. 1773, and Rankin app'd by Mr. Wes-
ley his assistant.
4. Bishop Kavanaugh born 1803. Dr. J. S. Tomlinson, educator, died 1853.
5. Dr. Alex. Means died 1883. Corner-stone of Cokesbury College laid 1785.
6. Bed. of :id M. E. Church, B'klyn 18-.!4. Rev. E. Smith, gr'd nephew Thomas Walsh, d. 18:;C.
7. Organization of German Wallace College 1864.
8. Henry Boehm born 1775. Dr. Durbin addressed German Conference at Hellbron 186C.
9. Rev. Robert W. Finley, father of Rev. J. B. Finley, born 1750.
10. First Camp-meeting, held at Erie, Pa., 1817. Dr. H. Pickard bom 1813.
11. Hon. F. H. Pierpont, of M. P. Church, elected Governor of West Virginia 1861.
12. Eighty-sixth Session of Methodist New Connection Conference 1883.
13. Rev. John Summerfleld died 1825.
14. Rev. Lemon Shell, of North Carolina Conference, died 1883.
15. Dr. John Berry M'Ferrin, Book Agent Church South, born 1807.
16. Dr. Jabez Bunting died 1858. Lady Maxwell heard Mr. Wesley preach 1764.
17. John Wesley born 1703. Lady Selina, Countess of Huntingdon died, 1791.
18. Conference Fast for church work and peace restoration in America 1775.
19. Gov. TilHn, of Ohio, b. 1776. His sister, wile of Gov. Worthington, converted same time.
20. Bishop Simpson born 1811. Dr. D. D. Lore died 1875. Bishop Roberts ordained 1866.
21. First Annual Session of Conference in Canada 1817.
23. Bishops requested by Missionary Board to appoint two missionaries to California IfriS.
23. Asbury \isits Boston 1791.
24. Charles Wesley began '• field preaching " 1739.
25. Wesley's first Conference, held in London 1744.
26. Dr. Applebee, Irish Conference, died 1882. Dr. L. M. Vernon left for Italy 1871.
27. Bishop Carman bom 1833.
28. First Methodist services held in Utah, at Ogden, 1870,
29. First separate house of worship for colored Methodists, dedicated bv Bp. Asbury 1794.
30. Bishop Simpson opened first Italian Mission Conference, at Milan 1875.
Calendar of Events in American History. — Jnne.
1. Kentucky admitted 1792 ; Tennessee admitted 1796 ; Cliesapeake captured by Shannon
1813 ; Riots in Washington 1857 ; Buchanan died 1868.
2. Battle of Cold Harbor, Va., 1864.
3. Battle at Philippi, Va., 1861 ; Lee assumes command of Confederates in Va. 1862.
4. Mexico dec. war ag. U. S. 1845; Saoannah, blockade-runner, capt. 1861 ; Fort Pillow,
5. Battle of Piedmont, Va., 1864. [Teun., capt. 1803.
6. Patrick Henry d. 1799 ; Americans def . at Burlington Heights 1813; Memphis taken 1863.
7. V. S. Bank founded 1791 ; Treaty with Canada (Lord Ek'ln's) concluded 1854.
8. Jamestown, Va., tf^mporarily abandoned by colonists 1610.
9. Georgia chartered 1732 ; Battle with Indians at Micanopy 1836.
10. Fight at Big Bethel (Major Theodore Wlnthrop killed) 1861.
11. Sherman arrives in front of Kenesaw 1864.
12. Oregon dispute settled by treaty 184(3 ; William Cullen Bryant died 1878.
13. Columbus discovers Isle of Pines 1494 ; Fugitive Slave Bill repealed 1864.
14. British Act levying duties on tea passed 1767; Gen. Pope killed 1864.
15. Washington appointed commander-in-chief 1775; Arkansas admitted 1836; Army of
Potomac crosses the James 1864.
16. John Winthrop born 1387 ; Battle of Bunker's Hill 1775.
17. Fall of Louisburg 1745 ; Charlestown, Mass., burnt 1775 ; Fremont nominated 1856 ;
Battle of Booneville, Mo., 1861.
18. British evacuate Philadelphia 1778; Greene repulsed at Fort Ninety-six 1781 ; War de-
clared with Great Britain 1812.
19. Alabama, blockade-runner, sunk by iTearsarge 1864; John A. Sutter died 1880.
20. U. S. flag adopted 1777 ; Great Seal of U. S. adopted 1782; W. Va. admitted 1863.
21. N. H. admitted 1788; Petersburg, Va., carried by assault 1864.
23. Battle of Craney Island 1813.
23. Battle of Springfield, N. J., 1780; Great Eastern arrives in New York 1860.
24. Cabot discovers Labrador 1497 ; Swanzey, Miss., attacked by King Philip 1675.
25. Gen. Custer killed 1876.
26. N.Y. and Va.adm. 1788; Mich. adm. 1837; Begln'g Seven Days' fight on Chickah'ny 1862.
27. Vera Cruz sur. 1847 ; Battle of Gaines's Mill 1863 ; Morgan starts on his raid 1863.
28. Battle of Charleston 1776; William Walker, the filibu.ster, lands at Redejo 1855; Far-
ragut mns Vicksburg blockade.
29. New Tax-bill becomes law 1767; Alex. Hamilton killed 1804; Henry Clay died 1852.
80. Montezuma died 1530 ; Battle of Fort Recovery 1794 ; Fight at Hanover Junction,
Va., 1863 ; Guiteau hung 1883.
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July, the seventh month of the year in our caleod.ir, fifth in the Roman calendar, where it
was called QuintUis, (the fifth.) Originally, it contained 36 days, but it was reduced by Rom-
ulus to 31, by Numa to 30, but was restored to 31 days by Julius Cfesar, in honor of whom it
was named July, on account of his birth having h.ippened on the 12th of this month. The
proposition for this change was made by Marc Antony. In this month are the " dog
days," so called from the star Sirius, or the dogstar, in the constellation of Ccinis Major, to
which was superstitiously attributed the extreme heat of mid-summer. Dogs were also
supposed to be more likely to run mad during these intensely hot days.
United States Independence Anniversary, July 4. The obnoxious "Stamp Act" passed
by Great Britain March 22, 1765. First American Congress held in June, 1765. The " Stamp
Act" resisted Sept 1, 1765. British Act levying duty on tea, paper, etc., June 14, 1767.
Tea destroyed Dec. 17, 17T3. Battle of Bunker Hill June IT, 1775. Declaration of Inde-
pendence adopted July 4, 1776.
Methodist Year-Book. 41
Calendar of Dates in Methodist History.— July,
1. Rev. J. B. Finley bom 1781. Rev. Robert Seney d. 1854. Rev. R. Bigelow d. 1835.
2. Rev. Wm. Cooke, three times President Methodist New Connection, born 1806.
3. David Allison. LL.D.. President M'Allison Wesleyan College, N. B., born 1836.
4. First Methodist Conference in America, held in Philadelphia 1773.
5. Bishop Whatcoat died 1806. Bishop M'Kendree born 1757.
6. First M. E. Quarterly Conference held in Madras, India, 1874.
7. Hon. Charles W. Button, Fraternal Delegate M. P. Church to Gen. Conf. "76, b. 1822.
8. Bishop Harris, Dr. Waugh. and partv, arrive at Yokohama, Japan, 1873.
9. Jesse Lee visits Boston 1790. Hon. G. P. Disosway died 1808.
10. Dr. Charles Collins, President of Dickinson College, died 1875.
11. Jesse Lee preached under Elm-tree, Boston Common, 1790.
12. German M. E. Conference at Basle 1804.
13. Bishop Scott died at Odessa, Del., 1882, aged 80.
14. First Annual Conference, held in St. George's Church, Philadelphia, 1773.
15. Bishop Bowman born 1817.
16. Dr. D. W. Thomas opened India Training School for natives at Barellly 1868.
17. Rev. H. H. Workman, of M. P. Chm-ch, died 1881.
18. Conference fast for Church work and peace restoration in America 1775.
19. TVesleyan Methodist Conference begins in Liverpool 1881.
20. First Session of Genesee Conference, at Lyons, N. T., 1810.
21. Rev. Melville B. Co.x died 18-33. Howell Harris died 1773.
SB. Rev. Joseph A. Merrill died 1849.
23. Susannah, mother of the Wesleys, died 1742.
24. Dr. Humphrey baptized first native Hindu convert 1859.
25. Rev. W. D. R. Trotter, first editor Central Christian Advocate, died 1880.
26. Orange Judd, publisher, and benefactor to Wesleyan University, born 1828.
27. Great revival among Mohawk Indians 18;?3.
28. Bishop M'Tyeire born 1824. D. H. T. Sellers born 1790.
29. Dr. Robert Emory, educator and author, born 1814. Fletcher Harper died 1877.
30. Bishop Baker born 1817. Rev. I. H. Correll and wife arrive in Japan 1873.
31. Rev. Orange Scott died 1847. Rev. E. R. Harrison died 1883.
Calendar of Events in American History.— July.
1. Bat. of Malvern Hill 1862 ; Bat. of Gettysburg begun 1863 ; Dom. of Canada Inaug. 1867.
2. President Garfield shot 1881.
3. Quebec founded 1608 ; Mass. of Wyoming 1778 ; Ft. Erie capt. from British 1814 ; S. A.
Douglas d. 1801.
4. Declaration of Ind. 1776 ; Hawthorne bom 1804 ; Adams and Jefferson d. 1826 ; Sur-
render of Vicksburg 1863 ; Fire at Portland, Me., 1866 ; Col. admitted 1876.
5. Ticonderoga capt. by British 1777 ; Fairagut bom 1801 ; Early invades Md 1864.
C. Battle of Carthage, Mo., 1801.
7. Battle of Hubbardton 1777 ; Com. Perry died 1855; Mrs. Surratt executed 1865.
8. Charter of Rhode Island re-issued 1663 ; Abercrombie defeated at Ticonderoga 1758.
9. Braddock's defeat 1755 ; Gen. Taylor died 1850 ; Great Fire in Philadelphia 1850 ; Bat-
tle of Monocacy, Md., 1864.
10. Columbus born 1447; Millard Fillmore inaug. 1850; Morris Island captured 1863.
11. John Q. Adams born 1707 ; Battle of Rich Mountain, Va., 1861.
12. Gen. Hull invades Canada 1812: Orange riot in New York 1871.
13. Nantucket burnt 1846; Bufus ChoHte died 1&58; Draft riots begun in New York 1863.
14. CjTstal Palace opened in New York 1856 ; Battle of Carrickford, Va., 1861 ; Second
great fire at Chicago 1874.
15. Stony Point captured 1779 ; Mrs. Lincoln died 1S82.
16. Battle of Point au Play 1814.
17. Fort Mackinaw captured by British 1813.
18. Close of assaults on Fort Wagner, S. C, 1803.
19. Great fire in New York 1845.
20. Confederate Congress meets at Richmond, Va., 1861.
21. First Battle of Bull Run 1861.
22. Battle of Decatur 1864 ; M'Pherson killed 1864 ; Railroad riots at Pittsburg 1877.
23. Fight with Indians at Caloosahatchie 1839.
24. Van Buren died 1862.
25. Battle of Lundy's Lane 1814.
26. Ticonderoga taken 17.59.
27. Louisburg capt. by Amherst 1758 ; State Dep'ts estab. 17S9 ; Morgan taken 1863.
28. Fighting before Atlanta ends 1864.
29. Southern prisoners released on parole 1865.
30. Va. House of Burgesses org. 1619; Bat. of Rocky Mount 1780; Chambersburg, Pa.,
burnt 1864.
31. Columbus disc. Trinidad 1498; Bat. of Montmorenci 1759; Lafayette commissioned 1777.
8th MONTH. ^"llgllSt, ISS4. ^1 ^^YS.
MOON'S PHASES. Boston. New York.
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August received its present name in honor of Augustus Osesar, in the year 8 B. C,
because in this month he was created consul, had thrice triumphed in Rome, added Egypt
to the Eoman Empire, and made an end to the civil wars. He added one day to the month,
mailing it 31 days. It had previously been called Sextilis, as it was the sixth from Marcli.
The appearance of shooting-stars on the 10th of August was observed in the Middle Ages,
when they were termed " Saint Lawrence's tears." Their periodicity was noticed by Mr.
Foster early in the present century.
iVote. — The addition to the month was decreed by the obsequious Roman Senate, always
ready to flatter the vanity of the sovereign. The added day was taken from February,
which at that date was the last month of the year. The plea made in the Snnate in behalf
of tlie measure was that as 31 days had been given to July, (named In honor of Julius
Csesar,) an equal honor should be awarded to Augustus.
Methodist Year-Book. 43
Calendar of Dates in Methodist History.— August.
1. Bishop Soule born 1781.
2. Bishop Robert R. Roberts born 1778.
4. J. D. Collins and M. €. White, first M. E. missionaries to China, arrive at Macao 1S47.
5. Dr. Erastus Wentvvorth, of Troy Conference, born 1813.
6. Dr. Alfred Bronson died 1882, aged about 89.
7. Bishop Andrews born 1835. Canada Conf. united with British Wesleyan Conf. 1P33.
8. Wesley's last night at the Foundry 1779. Bp. Harris organized Japan Mission 1873.
9. Wesley's first visit to Dublin 1747. Thomas Morrell died 1838, aged 91.
10. Philip Embury arrived in New York 1760.
11. Corner-stone of Forsyth Street M. E. Church laid 1789. Dr. Thomas Sewell died 1870.
12. Jesse Lee died 1810, aged 58.
13. Mrs. Janes, wife of Bishop Janes, died 1876.
14. Rev. John Fletcher died 1785.
15. Dr. Stephen Olin died 1851. Freeborn Garrettson born 1785.
16. Wesley held his twenty-fifth Conference in Bristol 1768.
17. Bishop Hurst born 1834. First session of Norway Conference held 1876.
18. Wesley's twenty-fourth Conference, held in London 1767.
19. First room dedicated to Methodist worship in Boston 1793.
20. Bishop Asbury bom at Handsworth, England, 1745.
21. First Annual Miasion Meeting opened in India 1859.
22. Freeborn Garrettson visits Shelburne, Canada, 1780.
23. Bishop George died 1S28, aged 60.
24. Bishop Morris organized Central German Conference 1864.
25. First Canada Annual Conference organized 1824.
26. Dr. Adam Clarke died 1832. Bishop Foster embarked for Bulgaria and India 1882.
27. Rev. Wm. Case born 1780. Dr. L. Swormsted d. 1863. Dr. C. H. Doehrlng b. 1811.
28. Corner-stone of First Church, Boston, laid by Jesse Lee 1795.
29. First Annual Conference held in Readfleld, Maine, 1798.
30. Dr. George Smith, author of "Sacred Annals," etc., died 1872.
SI. Dr. WUbur Fisk born 1793. Dr. William Winans died 1857.
Calendar of Events in American History.— August,
1. Columbus landed on American mainland 1498.
2. Bat. of Sandusky 1813 ; Reciprocity treaty between U. S. and Canada concluded 1854.
3. Columbus sailed from Palos 1-19J.
4. Battle of Brownstown 1812 ; Iowa admitted as a State 1846.
5. Mobile forts attacked 1864.
6. Bat. of Orlskany 1777 ; Bat. of Hanging Rock 1780 ; Conf. ram Tennessee cap. 1864.
7. Great fire at Criiger's wharf. New York, 1778.
8. Battle of Mackinaw 1814 ; Fort Gaines captured 1864.
9. Fort William Henry taken by French 1757; General Bankrupt Law passed by Congress
18-11 ; Battle of Cedar Mountain, Va., 1862.
10. Remains of Andre removed to England 1821 ; Mo. adm. 1821 ; Tariff Bill passed 1842.
11. Frobisher's Straits discovered 1576 ; Davis's Straits discovered 1585.
12. Stonington, Conn., attacked by Hardy 1814; New York rioters convicted 1863.
13. Fort Erie bombarded 1814.
14. Oswego taken by French 1756 ; Am. Sloop Argus cap. by Pelican 1813 ; Bat. of
Bladensburg 1814.
15. Assault on Fort Erie repulsed 1814 ; Lafayette revisits the United States 1824.
16. Bat. of Bennington 1777 ; Gates def . at Camden 1780 ; Detroit sur. to British 1812.
17. Franklin established Keiv England Omravt 1721.
18. Virginia Dare (first English child born in Amer.) b. 1586 . Bat. of Fishing Creek 1780.
19. Paulus Hook, N. J., capt. 1779; Constihdion capt. Gnerriere 1812; Wilkes's Ex-
pedition sailed 1838.
20. Battle of Maumee Rapids 1794 ; Battle of Contreras 1847.
21. Fort Detroit captured 1812; Lawrence. Kan., burned by Quantrell 1863.
22. Yacht America wins Cowes Regatta 1851.
23. New Mexico annexed to U. S. 1846 ; Foit Morgan, Mobile, captured 1864.
24. New York confirmed to Eng. by Peace of Breda 1667 ; Washington taken by British 1314.
25. British squadron arrives in Chesapeake 1777 ; Ocean Monarch burnt 1848.
26. Stamp Act riot in Boston 1768.
27. Fort Frontenac taken by British 1758 ; Battle of Long Island 1776.
28. Hudson ancliored in Del. Bay 1609 ; Krst message received over Atlantic Cable 1858.
29. Battle of Quaker Hill, R. I., 1778; Capture of Hatteras forts 1861.
30. Peun died 1718 ; Fight In Kansas— Brown def. by pro-slavery men— 1846 ; 2d Bat. of
Bull Run 1862.
31. Battle of Jonesboro, Ga., 1864.
9th MONTH, ^eptembep, ISS4. ^° ^^^^-
MOONS PHASES.
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New Moon 19
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4 53 morn. 4 41 morn.
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September (Lat. Kpptem, seven) was the seventh month of the Roman calendar bnt Is
the ninth according to our reckoning, though we preserve the original name. Various
Eoman emperors, following the example of Augustus, who changed " Sextilis," the sixth
month of the Roman calendar, into "Augustus," (August,) attempted to substitute other
names for this month, but the ancient appellation continued to hold its ground. It has
always contained 30 days. In the most productive areas of the globe it is the "harvest
month," and in Switzerland is called Herhsitmonnt. The full moon nearest the autumnal
equinox (Sept. 21) is the harvest-moon, so calU-d because in England and Northern Europe the
moon rises near sunset severiil successive evenings, giving the harvesters additional hours
to work. This phenomenon is less marked in the United States, because of difference in
latitude. During this month tlie Equinoctial Storm, so called, occurs, but there is no
degree of certainly as to its date.
Methodist Year-Book. 45
Oalen-'ar of Dates in Methodist History.— September.
1. Richard Whatcoat and Thomas Vasey ordained Deacons by Mr. Wesley 1794.
2. Whatcoat and Vasey ordained Elders 1T84. Bishop Morris died 1874.
3. Rev. R. A. Aylworth, of East Ohio Conference, died 1880, aged 88.
4. Date of the earliest existing " Love-feast " tickets 1739.
5. General Conference of Methodist Church met 1883.
6. William Black, " Apostle of Methodism," died in Halifax 1834.
7. Ecumenical Conference met in London 1881.
8. Bishop J. W. Roberts born 1812. Bishop Bascom died 1850.
9. First number " The Christian Advocate " issued 1826.
10. Bishop G. Haven born 1821. Bishop Harris held Italian Conference 1874.
11. Canadian Methodist Union Committee met iu Hamilton 1882,
12. Jesse Lee died 1816, aged 58. Dr. R. S. Rust bom 1815.
13. Anthony Bewley, of Arkansas M. E. Conference, hanged by a mob 1860.
14. Thomas Cooper, first class-leader and steward in Pittsburg, Pa., died 1850.
15. Rev. Jacob Young died 1859. First sermon in Bath, Maine 1793.
16. Bishop Merrill born 1825. Hon. J. Black born 1823.
17. Bishop Hargrave born 1829.
13. Bishop Janes died, in New York 1876, aged 69.
19. Ordination of John Wesley 1725. First session of New England Conference 1797.
20. Corner-stone of Seney M. E. Hospital laid in Brooklyn 1882.
21. Bishop Wayman born 1821.
22. Dr. J. M. Trimble celdebrated his golden wedding 1883.
23. Date of Wesley's famous words," Who can say the time for field preaching is over?" 1759.
24. Charles Wesley's first visit to Boston 1736.
25. Dr. Peter Cartwright died 1872.
26. Robert Williams, one of the first Methodist preachers, died 1775.
27. Westminster Training College established iu England 1849.
29. Mrs. Melinda Hamline, wife of Bishop Haraline, born 1800.
30. First session of New York Conference 1788. George Whitefleld died 1770.
Calendar of Events in American History.— September.
1. Gen. Lopez garroted 1851 ; Public rejoicings at completion of Atlantic Cable 1858.
2. Melendez landed in Florida 1565 ; Atlanta evacuated by Hood 1804.
3. Treaty of Paris signed 1783.
4. Defense of Fort Harrison, Ind., begun 1812 ; Gen. Morgan killed 1864.
5. Continental Congress met at Philadelphia 1774 ; First play performed In America at
Vicksburg, Va., 1753.
6. Maytloiver sailed from Plymouth, England, 1620.
7. Brazil declares its independence 1823 ; Quarantine. New York harbor, burnt 1857.
8. Montreal surrendered by French 1760; Battle of Eutaw Springs 1781 ; Avon sunk by
the Wasp 1814 ; Battle of El Mollno del Rey 1847.
9. U. S. of America so styled by Congress 1776 ; Cal. admitted as a State 1850.
10. Hudson River discovered by Hendrick Hudson 1609 ; Treaty of Ryswick signed 1697 ;
Perry's victory on Lake Erie 1813.
11. Defeat of Washington at Brandy wine 1777 ; Battle of Plattsburg 1814.
12. Bat. of North Point, Baltimore, 1814 ; Bat. of Chapultepec 1847 ; Walker shot 1860.
13. First Comm. at Yale Coll. 1702 ; Bat. of Quebec 1759 ; Bombardment of Ft. M'Henry 1814.
14. New York evacuated by Patriots 177b ; Fulton's first steam-boat, the Clermont, on the
Hudson 1807 ; Battle of South Mountain 1863.
15. James Fenimore Cooper b. 1789 ; Harper's Ferry cap. by Confederates (2d time) 1862.
16. Battle of Harlem Plains 1776 ; Siege of Pueblo 1847.
17. United States Constitution signed 1787 ; Gen. Washington resigns 1787 ; James Feni-
more Cooper died 1851 ; Battle of Antietam 1862.
18. Surrender of Quebec 1759 ; Fugitive Slave Bill signed 1850.
19. Bat. at Saratoga, "Bemis's Heights," 1777; Bat. of Winchester, Va., 1864; Pres. Gar-
field died im.
20. Mass. at Paoli 1777; Princeof Wales arrives in Detroit 1860; Cap.of Lexington, Mo., 1861.
21. Great fire in New York 1776 ; Major Andr^ cap. 1780 ; Bat. of Monterey 1846.
23. Battle of Fisher's Hill, Va., 1864.
23. Paul Jones captures Serapis 1779 ; Patriot attack on Savannah repulsed 1779.
24. Monterey surrendered 1846.
25. First Am. newspaper, Puhlick Occurrences, issued at Boston 1690 ; Bat. of Montreal
1775.
26. Philadelphia captured by British 1777.
27. Samuel Adams born 1722 ; Steamer Arctic lost 1854.
28. Fort Harrison, Va., captured by Federals 1864.
29. Draft of 40,000 men ordered In New York State 1862.
30. Treaty of Peace with France 1800.
oth MONTH. October, I004. si days.
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October was the eighth month of thn so-called "year of Romulus," but became the
tenth when (according to tradition) Nuina changed the commencement of tlie year to the
first of January, though It retained its original name. It has since maintained its jMJSition
as the 10th month of the year, and has 31 days.
A strong effort was made by some person at the Rom.in court to change the name to
F'lustinns, in honor of Faustina, wife of the Emperor Antonius, and in furtherance of
this effort the Roman Senate issued a decree authorizing such change of name ; but the
masses of the citizens in various parts of the empire refused their assent to the change.
Efforts were also made to name it Invictus, and Domitianus, but without success. The
people were resolutely set in favor of the old name, and successfully resisted all suggestions
for substitution.
Methodist Year-Book. 47
Calendar of Dates in Methodist History.— October.
1. Dr. J. W. Waucrli opens M. E. Mission In Shahjehanpore, India, 1859.
2. First Canada Conference organized 178(5. Bishop Andrews in Bulgaria 1876.
8. Bishop Clinton, of African M. E. Church, born 18:33.
4. Rev. Richard Boardman, sent by Mr. Wesley to America, died 178:2.
5. Bishop D. "Witschuiann, of Moravian Church, fellow-passenger with the Wesleys to
Georgia, died 1773.
6. First AVesleyan Missionary Meeting held in Leeds 1813.
7. Wesley's last sermon out-doors 1790. Asbury and Wright arrive in America 1771.
8. Bishop Beverlv Waugh born 1789.
9. Dr. T. H. Stockton, of Methodist Protestant Church, died 186S.
10. First Provisional Conference in Nova Scotia opened 1786.
11. Dr. T. 0. Summers bom 1812. Dr. Luckey died 1869. Chaplain M'Cabe bom 1836.
12. Bishop Edward Thomson born 1813.
13. First Methodist sermon in Hallowell, Maine, by Jesse Lee 1793.
14. John and Charles Wesley embarked for Georgia 1735.
15. John Wesley's nrst visit to Wales 1739. Dr. Aaron Wood bom 1802.
16. Rev. James O'Kelly died 1826. Dedicated first M. E. Church, Wilmington, Del., 1789.
17. First donation to Philip Embury 1769. Dr. J. V. Watson died 1856.
18. Dr. Durbin died 1876. Dr. W. Hunter, poet editor, died 1877.
19. Rev. Wm. Case died 1876. S. K. Jennings M.D., prominent in M. P. Church, died 1854.
20. Bishop Paine died 1882. Dr. Jaroby sailed for Germany 1849.
21. Dr. Ludwig S. Jacoby born in Germany 1813.
22. Dr. Schuyler Seager, distinguished teacher, died 1875.
23. Revs. Davis and Pilcher spend their first night in Peking 1870.
24. Joseph Pilmoor and Richard Boardman arrive in Philadelphia 1769.
25. Rev. George Bro\%Ti, one of the founders of the M. P. Church, died 1871.
26. Thomas Cuthbertson, eminent local preacher and associate of Samuel Dunn, d. 1875.
2». Date of Dr. Coke's letter, (1796,) pledging entire service as assistant to Asbury.
28. Dr. Isaac Dillon, eight years editor of Pacific Christian Advocate, bom 1823.
29. Hon. and Rev. J. F. Dravo, U. S. Collector at Pittsburg, born 1819.
30. Old John Street Church dedicated, sermon by Philip Embury, 1768.
31 . Rev. J. T. Gracey organized Mission Society in Seetapore, India, 1861.
Calendar of Events in American History.— October.
1. British trooDS arrive at Boston 1768 ; Rufus Choate born 1799.
2. Andr^ executed 1780 ; Samuel Adams died 1803 ; Channing died 1843.
3. Blackhawk died 1^38.
4. Burgoyne's victory at Germantown 1777 ; Battle of Corinth, Miss., 1862 ; First Chicago
fire "1872.
5. Tecumseh killed at Bat. of Thames 1813 ; V. S. ports re-opened to British vessels 1830.
6. Forts Clinton and Montgomery captured by British 1777.
7. Penn landed 1682; First Col. Cong, at New York 1765; Bat. of Kings Mountain 1780;
Poe died 1849.
8. Attack on Santa Rosa Island 1861 ; Battle of Perryrille, Ky., 1862.
9. Yale Colles-e founded 1701.
10. Benjamin West bom 1738 ; Chesapeake and Ohio Canal opened 18.50.
11. Prince of Wales arrived in New York 1860.
12. Columbus landed on San Salvador 1492 ; Gen. Robt. E. Lee died 1870.
13. Bat. of Queenstown Heights 1812 ; Granada. Nlcaraugua, cap. by Walker 1855.
14. William Penn born 1544 : Banks in United States suspend cash payments 1839.
15. Skirmish at Chippewa Plains 1814.
16. First newspaper in N. Y., New York Gazette, issued 1725 : Insurrection at Harper's
Ferry 1859.
17. Burgoyne surrendered at Saratoga 1777.
18. British sloop Frolic captured by American sloop Wasp 1812.
19. John Adams born 1735 ; Surrender of Cornwallis 1781 ; Bat. of Cedar Creek 1864 ; St.
Alban's raid 18M.
20. Flo)-ida, blockade-ranner, captured by Wacfiiisett 1864.
21. William Lloyd Garrison mobbed in Boston 1835; Battle of Ball's Bluff 1861.
22. Battle of Fort Mercer, British repulsed, 1777.
23. Battle of St. Regis 1812.
24. Florida ceded to United States 1820; Daniel Webster died 1852.
25. American frigate Un ited States captures British frigate Macedonian 1812.
26. Fight near Chautauqua 1813.
27. Three Quakers executed at Boston 1659; the ram Aihemarle destroyed 1864.
28. Columbus discovered Cuba 1492 ; Harvard College founded 1636.
29. Battle of White Plains 1776.
80. Joint mediation in American Conflict proposed to England and Russia 1862.
81. Nevada admitted as a State 1864 ; Plymouth, N. C, retaken by Federals 1864.
oth MONTH. ]\[oYeinber, 12S4.
so DAYS.
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November, (novem, nine,) anciently the ninth month of the year. When Numa added
.January and February, in 713 B. C, it became the eleventh as now. The Roman senators
wished to name this mouth, in which Tiberius was born, by his name, in imitation of .Tulins
Caesar and Aug:ustU8 ; but the emperor refused, s.aying, •' What will you do, conscript fa-
thers, if you have thirteen Cassars?" It was one of the most important months in con-
nection with the religious ritual of the Romans, and continues in the same position, though
for other reasons, in the Roman Catholic ritual. It was linown among the Saxons as Blot-
monath, "blood-month," on .account of the general slaughter of cattle, at this time, for
winter provision and for sacriflce. This custom was not confined to the Saxons, but pre-
vaile<l in north Germany, and even as far south as Si)ain.
This month is also specially notable In portions of the United States for the observance of
the festival of Thanksgiving, wliich originated among our Pilgrim ancestors in New En-
gland. Formerly its observance was limited chiefly to the Northern States, bat it is now
recognized by Presidential proclamation for the whole nstion.
Methodist Year-Book. 49
Calendar of Dates in Methodist History.— November.
1. city Road Chapel opened 1773. First General Conference in Baltimore 1793.
2. Date of lease of lot to build Wesley Chapel, in New York, 1770.
3. Dr. Coke landed in New York 1784.
4. Bishop W. L. Harris born 1817.
5. Bishop John Early died 1873.
6. Rev. Samuel Wesley died 1739.
7. Dr. B. Craven, Trinitv College, N. C, died 1882. Ex-President Waddy died 1876.
8. Dedication of Forsvtli M. E. Church, New York, 1789.
9. South India Conference organized by Bishop Andrews 1876. Rev. M. B. Cox b. 1799.
10. Rev. Lemuel W. Bates born 1819.
11. Foundry, Wesley's first preaching-place, opened In London 17-39.
12. General Convention of M. P. Church reformers 1828. Bishop Paine born 1799.
13. Asbury preached his great sermon in New York 1771.
14. Rev. Lowrey reported receiving 37 Chinese probationers 1868.
15. Rev. N. Sne'then born 1769. First number " Pittsburg Conference Journal " 1833.
16. M. E. Missionary Society referred to Board opening Missions in Italy and Mexico
1869.
17. Bishops' letter to Rev. J. Seys permittina; him to defer sailing to Africa 1831.
18. Dr. D. H. Wheeler, late editor of " The Methodist," bom 1829.
19. Dr. Atticus G. Haygood born 1839.
20. William Taylor arrived in Bombay 1870.
21. Hon. Jacob Sleeper born 1802. First issue "Christian Guardian," 1829.
22. James T. Kincaid, Esq., fifty years official member in Pittsburg, born 180O.
Zi. Eliza Garrett, founder of Garrett Biblical Institute, died 18.55.
24. Dr. Hiram Mattison died 1868. Dr. N. E. Cobleigh born 1814.
25. Dr. J. B. M'Ferrin entered the itineracy 1823.
26. Dr. D. Curry born 1809. Robert Marvin died 1877.
27. Philip Embury married 1758.
28. Dr. J. Dempster died 1863. Canada Methodist Union Committee held 1852.
29. Mark Firth, wealthy and generous laymen of Methodist New Connection, died 1880.
30. Dr. Luther Lee, veteran antislavery preacher, bom 1800.
Calendar of Events in American History.— November.
1. stamp Act resisted 1765 ; Battle of French Creek 1813.
2. Portobello discovered by Columbus 1502 ; Erie Canal finished 1825.
3. Columbus discovered Dominica 1493 ; William CuUen Bryant born 1794 ; Battle at
Talladega 1813.
4. Declaration of Rights by Philadelphia Congress 1774 ; First boat on Erie Canal arrived
at New York 1825.
5. Grant elected President (2d time) 1872.
6. Lincoln elected President 1860.
7. Bat. of Tippecanoe 1811 ; Pensacola, Fla., cap. from Spaniards 1814; Alton, 111., Abo-
lition riots 1837.
8. Cortez enters City of Mexico 1519 ; Seizure of Mason and Slidell on Ti-ent 1861.
9. Mmjfloivcr anchored off Cape Cod 1620; Great Fire at Boston 1872.
10. Columbus discovers Antigua 1493; Dutch rule in New York ended 1674.
Jl. Battle of Chrysler's Field, Canada, 1813.
12. Conscription Act declared unconstitutional 1863.
13. Montreal captured by Americans 1775.
14. Port Royal, N- S., founded 1605 ; Sherman's March to the Sea begins 1864.
15. Great fife at New York, 650 houses burnt, §20,000,000 lost, 1835.
16. Fort Washington, N. Y., captured 1776 ; Fort Mifflin captured 1777.
17. President Davis threatens reprisals 1863.
18. Battle at Fish Dam Ford, S. C, 1780.
19. James A. Garfield b. 1831.
20. Battle of BeUe Isle 1759; Fort Lee occupied by British 1776.
21. N. C admitted 1789; Fort Niagara bombarded 1812.
22. Fight at Ponce Passu 1812 ; Thurlow Weed died 1882.
Zi. Bragg defeated at Chattanooga 1863.
24. Commercial Treaty cone, with China 1859 ; Battle of Lookout Mountain 1863 ; Hurnn
lost 1878.
25. British evac. New York 1783 ; Filibuster Walker burnt Granada, Nic, 1856.
26. Battle of Missionary Ridge, Ga., 1863.
27. Hoosac Tunnel opened 1873.
28. Washington Irving died 18.59.
29. Wendell Phillips born 1811 ; Longstreet rep. at Knoxville, Ky., 1863 ; Greeley d. 1872.
80. Revolutionary War ended— provisional articles of peace signed at Paris 1782; Ohio ad-
mitted 1803; Battle of Franklin, Tcnn., 1854.
12th MONTH. December, ISS4. ^i days.
MOON'S PHASES.
Boston.
New York.
Wash'ton.
Chaeles'n.
CHICAGO.
D.
H. M.
H. M.
H. M.
H. M.
H. M.
Full Moon
2
2 15 eve.
2 3 eve.
1 51 eve.
1 89 eve.
1 9 eve
Third Quarter..
9
6 46 morn.
6 34 morn.
6 22 mom.
6 10 morn.
5 40 morn.
New Moon
17
8 40 morn.
8 28 morn.
8 16 morn.
8 4 morn.
7 34 morn.
First Quarter...
25
8 37 morn.
8 25 morn.
8 13 morn.
8 1 morn.
7 31 morn.
Full moon
31
12 42 eve.
12 30 eve.
12 18 eve.
12 6 eve.
11 36 eve.
I Perigee at
, ad. 9. 5h
Wash.,
M..nu's
Wash.,
led.n.lh
Perigee at
31d.l0.8h.ni.
Boston j New
Englakb, New
y ok k state;
Michigan, Wis-
consin, Iowa,
AND Oregon.
New York City ;
Philadelphia, Con
NECTicuT, New Jer-
s E y, Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Indiana, and
Illinois.
Washington ;
Maryland, Vir-
ginia, Ken-
tucky, Missou-
ri, and Cali-
fornia.
Charleston; North
Carolina, Tennes-
see, Georgia, Ala-
bama, Mississippi,
AND Louisiana.
December, (from decern^ ten,) the tenth month of the year of Enmulus, commencing
in March. In 713 B. C. Nuina introduced January and February before March, and thence-
forward December became the 12th of the year. In the reign of Commodus, A. D. 181-192,
December was called, by way of flattery, Amazonins. Tlie English commenced their year
on the 25th of December, until the reign of William I. Our Saxon ancestors called it " Mid-
winter month," and Yule month.
The Siixons also called December wm/«7i-»io«a', or winter month, and Iieliffh-monot,
holy month, because it included the Christmas festival. Martial applied to December the
adjective oanus, (hoary.) Ovid styled it gilidic% {fro-ity.) and fumnsu% (smoky.) The
winter solstice (when the sun reaches the tropic of Capricorn) occurs December 22.
Methodist Year-Book. 51
Calendar of Dates in Methcdist History,— December.
1. Revs. V. C. Hart and E. S. Todd bearan occupancy of Kiukiang 1867.
2. Cbiis. Wesley arrived on English coast after visiting America"^lT36.
3. Welcome meeting to Bishop Foss and family at Minneapolis 1880.
4. Dr. Charles F. Deems, editor, author, and pastor, born l&X).
5. Bishop Bums born, 1809. Bishop Cranberry born 1S39.
6. Bishop Wiley arrives at Foochow, China, 1877.
7. Dr. H. A. Biittz elected President of Drew Theological Seminary 1880.
8. Rev. G. Pickering died 1S43. India Conference organized by Bishop Thomson 1S64.
9. First Methodist sermon preached in Hartford, Conn., by Jesse Lee 1789.
10. Rev. Charles B. Dunn, East Maine Conference, born 1815.
11. Bishop Andrews attended village-meeting in Rohllcund, 57 persons baptized 1876.
12. First number of " Africa's Luminarv " issued l&iS.
13. Rev. John Mann, ex-President U. M. Free Churches, d. 1872. Dr. R. Nelson, b. 1818.
14. Rev. M. C. Harris and wife, missionaries, arrived at Yokohama, Japan, 1873.
15. Jesse Lee preached first Methodist sermon in Lynn, Mass., 1790.
19. Bishop Emory died 1835.
17. Charles Wesley bom 1708.
18. Mrs. Phebe Palmer born 1807.
19. Rev. Thomas Ware, member of Christmas Conference, born 1758.
20. Captain Thomas Webb, one of the first local preachers, died 1796.
21. Bishop Thomson embarked at Calcutta for Hong Kong 18&4.
22. Ocean Grove M. E. Association organized 1869.
23. First sermon by Dr. Jacoby in Bremen 1849.
24. First Conference of M. E. Church in Baltimore 1784.
25. St. Paul's M. E. Church in Rome dedicated 1875. Dr. B. T. Tanner bora 1835.
26. Francis Asbury ordained Elder 17S4.
27. Francis Asbury ordained Bishop 1784.
28. Rev. Philip Gatch, pioneer Western preacher, died 1835.
29. Rev. Henry Boehm, died 1875, aged 100 vears, 6 months, and 22 days.
30. First Fellowship Band formed bv W. Taylor at Bombay 1871.
31. First Watch-night in London 1742-3. Dr. A. Winchell born 1824.
Calendar of Events in American History.— December.
1. Colossal statue of Washington unveiled in the National Capitol 1841.
2. John Brown executed 1859.
3. Illinois admitted to the Union 1818.
4. Alabama admitted 1818 ; Longstreet retires from before Knoxville 1863.
5. Van Buren bom 1782 ; Everglade Expedition, Seminole War, 1S40.
6. John Carver landed in New England 1620.
7. Delaware admitted 1787; Confederates defeated at Prairie Grove, Ark.. 1862.
8. Washington crossed Delaware 1776; Gen. Howe \-ictorious at Rhode Island 1776.
9. Battle of Great Bridge, Va., 1795; American ports closed to British 1808; Buffalo
burnt by British 1813.
10. Mississippi admitted to Union 1817.
11. Pilgrims landed at Plymouth. Mass., 1620; Indiana admitted 1816; " Atherton Gas
Rule " passed by House of Representatives 18.38.
12. Pa- admitted 1787; The Eesuhde presented to England 1856.
13. Battle of Fredericksburg, Va., 1862; Fort M'Allister, Ga., captured 1864.
14. Washington died at Mount Vernon 1709; Alabama admitted 1819.
15. Hartford Convention assembled 1814 ; Battle of Nashville, Tenn., 1864.
16. "Boston Tea Partv" 1773; Park Theater, N. T., bumt 1848.
17. Gen. Bolivar died 1^30.
18. N. J. admitted 1787 ; Duel between Mr. Soule and M. Turgot 1853.
19. Massacre of the Narragansetts 1675.
20. Gov. Andros landed at Boston 1685 ; South Carolina seceded 1860.
21. Boston Gazette begun 1719 ; Savannah captured by Sherman 1864.
22. Embargo on American ships promulgated 1807.
23. Washington resisned his command 1783 ; Battle near New Orleans 1814.
24. Treaty of Ghent signed 1814; Fort Fisher stormed 1864.
2.'5. Hessians siu^endered to Washington 1776 ; Battle of Bracito, Mexico, 1846.
26. Great Fire in New York 1853 ; Major Anderson occupied Fort Sumter 1860.
27. Sherman repulsed at Chickasaw Bayou, Miss., 1862.
25. Dade's massacre bv Seminole Indians 18.35 ; Iowa admitted 1846.
29. Constitution captures Java 1812; Tex. adm. 1845 ; Bat. of Holly Springs, Miss., 186S.
30. Kossuth arrives in Washington 1851 ; N. M. purchased 185:5 ; S. C. delegates not re-
ceived by President 1860.
31. Montgomerv killed at Quebec 1775; the 3/onifo)- foundered 1862; Battle of Stone
River, Tenn., 1863 ; West Va. admitted 1863.
52 Methodist Year-Book.
General Methodist Chronological Outline for the Tear.*
November 1, 1882, to November 18, 1883.
[In the following record, when the particular days on which the events named took place
could not be determined from the published announcements, care has been taken to give, as
far as possible, the order of such events in the several months indicated.]
1882 — Nov. 1. Public announcement, by the Corresponding Secretaries of the
Methodist Episcopal Board of Church E.xtension, that the Loan Fund of that
Board has reached $500,000. Hon. W. C. De Fauw, of New Albany, Ind., a
well-known and devoted lay office-bearer, and a member of the General Con-
ferences of 1872, 1876, and 1880, renewed his pledge, Oct. 15, to pay the last
$25,000. Subsequently, at Nor walk, 0., wliere the Church Extension Board
had an earnest advocate in the person of the Eev. Joseph Jones, a superannuate
minister of the North Ohio Conference, who had given $10,000 to the Loan Fund
himself, Calvin Whitney, Esq., gave $10,000, and Mrs. Eosetta E. Kuyce,
widow of a late member of the North Ohio Conference, gave $12,500 more,
making $32,500 from Norwalk alone. These suras completed the whoie half
million, dollars.
Nov. 1. The thirteenth annual meeting of the General Executive Committee of
the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
assembled in Wesley Hall, Philadelphia. Mrs. Bishop Simpson welcomed tlie
delegates, which was responded to by Mrs. J. F. Willing, of Chicago. The
following officers were elected : President, Mrs. Dr. W. F. Warren, Boston ;
Secretary, Mrs. J. T. Gracey, of Eochester, N. Y. ; Assistant Secretary, Mrs.
Chubb, of Philadelphia.
Nov. 1. Mount Union College, Ohio, Dr. 0. N. Hartshorn, President, at a special
gathering of alumni, students, and friends, Hon. Lewis Miller, President of the
Trustees, in the chair, provision was made for the full payment of its debt.
Nov. 1. Eev. Dr. D. Copeland resigned the principalship of Wyoming Seminary,
because of ill-health, and Prof L. L. Sprague elected his successor.
Nov. 2. A memorial window in Brixton-hill Chapel, England, to Dr. Punshon
unveiled.
Nov. 2. Eev. Philip Barker, Chairman of Jamaica District of Wesleyan Missions,
died at Hayti of yeUow fever. He began official work on the district Oct. 8.
* Supplemental Foreign Methodist Clironological Notes for October, 1882.
[In consequence of the delay in reception of the reports, the foreign chronological outline
for October was not received in time for the Teae-Book of 18S3. They are inserted here.]
1882— Oct. 1. An effective Wesleyan camp-meeting was held at Sittingboume, England,
conducted by Rev. W. Hamar. Ministers of other denominations assisted.
Oct. 8. A great Methodist missionary demonstration took place at Leeds, England, occu-
pying three days, the President of the British Conference and other distinguished
ministers and laymen participating.
Oct. 8. Mr. Robert Carmichael, of the Methodist Church in Paris, France, has been
made by President Gr^vy a Knight of the Legion of Honor.
Oct. 21. Tills day was observed as Children's Sunday in the Connection.
Oct. — . The Irish Conference appointed a committee to raise $1,750, to erect a suitable
monument over the remains of Dr. Applebe, and found a theological scholarship in
the Methodist College, Belfast, to be called " The Applebe Scholarship."
Oct. 22. The anniversary of the Paris Chapel took place. Rev. J. Baker, M.A., of Liver-
pool, preaching the sermon. The next day the twentieth anniversary (proper) exer-
cises took place, Rev. W. Gibson reading the report, followed by several interesting
Oct. 23. Completion of the 1500,000 Loan Fund by the Church Extension Society at Nor-
walk, O.
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Nov. 2. Annual Banquet of the Philiidelpliia Conference Historical Society, at St.
George's Hall ; over 400 present. Bishops Simpson, Bowman, Merrill, An-
drews, and Hurst, nearly all the members of the General Church Extension
Committee, and representatives of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Societj',
were present. Rev. J. S. J. M'Counell, President, in the chair.
Nov. 2. The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Washington Street M. E. Church, Brook-
lyn, L. I., was celebrated ; a supplemental service was also held on Sujiday,
the 5th. Contributed, $1,500.
Nov. 2-4. Annual Meeting of the Church Extension Committee of M. E. Church
in Philadelphia.
Nov. 3. S. D. Waddy, Q.C., M.P., Wesleyan layman, elected Member of Brit-
ish Parliament for Edinburgh, Scotland.
Nov. 4. The corner-stone of the New Wesleyan Church at Eandwick, New South
Wales, was laid by Mrs. Wm. Clarke. Addresses were delivered by President
Martin, Dr. W. Kelynack, and others. Eev. H. H. Gand, who spent 42 years
as a Wesleyan minister in the Australasian Colonies, and was President of the
New South Wales Conference in 1867, died at Parramatta, aged 72.
Nov. 4. Eev. J. H. Gill, of North India Conference, sailed from New York, to
continue his work in India.
Nov. 5. Kev, Joseph March, of the New England Southern Conference, now 87
years of age, who, 54 years ago, organized the first class, and, one year later,
built the first church of Episcopal Methodism in Jersey City, at Trinity, the
mother church, delivered an interesting address of forty minutes.
Nov. 5. The Centenary of the Cherry Street Wesleyan Chapel in Birmingham,
England, celebrated ; the first sermon, one hundred years before, being preached
by Mr. Wesley, then in his 80th year. The celebration continued for three
days. Mr. G. T. Ealston, M.D., elected Mayor of Davenport, England. For
five successive terms the Mayor of Davenport has been a Methodist.
Nov. 6. Eev. Thomas B. Wood, Superintendent of the South American Missions
of the M. E. Church, by special invitation, addressed the New York Preachei-s'
Meeting, concerning our work in that country.
Nov. 6-11. Annual Meeting of the General Parent Missionary Society of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, held in New York city.
Ocr. 24. The Wesleyan annual meeting for the Maltland District opened at West Mait-
land, Australia, President Olden in the chair. Rev. A. Parsons was elected Secre-
tary. Over $13,000 had been expended for the erection and Improvement of Church
property. The annual session of the Sydney District Meeting began at Sydney, New
South Wales, Australia, the Rev. G. Martin, presiding, Rev. R. Caldwell, Secretary.
It was announced that ten young ministers from England would soon unite with the
Conference.
Oct. 25. President Charles Garrett was entertained with a grand breakfast in Lamb's
Hotel, Dundee, Scotland, by Provost Moncus, one hundred and fifty being present,
and partook of the sumptuous meal.
Oct. 28. The second annual cmiversazinne of the Manchester District Union of Wesleyan
Methodist Mutual Improvement and Literary Societies was held in Manchester,
Ensrland. The Union embraces 34 societies and over 1,600 members.
Oct. 30. Died, at 112 Cannonbury Road, Islington, John Wesley, aged 27, grandson of
Samuel Wesley, Esq., the eminent musical composer and organist, and great grandson
of the Rev. Charles Wesley, the poet of Methodism. He died very happy, trusting
only In Jesus, and was interred at Highgate Cemetery. He possessed the facial type
of the Wesley family in a remarkable degree, especially resembling the Rev. John
Wesley, father of the rector of Epworth, who died 200 years ago.
Oct. 31. The first annual meeting of the Ladies' Auxiliary to the Foreign Missionary
Society was held at Centenary Hall, London, Mr. George Lidgett, presiding. Ad-
dresses by the chairman, Revs. Wm. Arthur, Dr. G. W. Giver, S. Langdon, C. H.
Hocken, and E. E. Jenkins.
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Nov. 7. Kobert Pattison, son of the late Eev. Eobert Pattison, of the Phila-
delphia Conference, and Comptroller of Philadelphia, and an official member
of tlie M. E. Church, was elected Governor of Pennsylvania.
Nov. 7. Eev. F. W. Briggs, of the British Wesleyan Conference, after sojourning
two months in this country, sailed, by the Servia, to Liverpool.
Nov. 9. Alderman Pechey, a Wesleyan, elected Mayor of Thetford, Norfolk, for
the fourth time. Alderman J. Ainsworth, a local preacher, elected Mayor of
Crewe, England. Mr. James Wood, LL.D., Wesleyan Methodist, elected
Mayor of Southport, England. John Wright Wayman, Esq., J.P., a popular
local preacher, elected Mayor of Sunderland, England.
Nov. 10. A Conference of the ministers and lay members of the First London
District, held in the Morning Chapel, City Eoad Chapel, to consider the best
methods for evangelistic work.
Nov. 12. Alderman Wadsworth, J.P., re-elected Mayor of Macclesfield, Eng.,
and attended the Wesleyan Chapel with his official insignia and accompanied
by members of the Corporation. Mr. Charles Moody, a Wesleyan local
preacher, elected Mayor of Salisbury, England.
Nov. 13. Eev. Dr. J. W. Waugh, of the North India Conference, who had spent
24 years in India, after a sojourn in this country, left for Liverpool, e?! route
to India.
Nov. 13. Corner-stone of the Park Avenue Church, New York, laid by Bishop
Harris. A. J. Palmer, pastor. The beam of wood of the old John Street
Church — the first erected in America — was placed under the kneeling-board of
this church.
Nov. 14. The annual meeting of the Board of Education of the Methodist Episco-
pal Church was held in New York. Present, Bishop Simpson, Drs. Lindsay,
Holmes, Ninde, and Kidder, and Messrs. 0. Hoyt, J. Elliott, and C. C. North.
The sum of $10,000 was appropriated for 1883. (See Board of Education.)
Nov. 14. The annual meeting of the National Camp-meeting Association was held
in Philadelphia, and it was decided to hold camp-meetings at Lancaster, Ohio,
Pitman Grove, N. J., and Old Orchard, Maine.
Nov. 15. The annual meeting for tlie Promotion of Holiness was held, and Eev.
T. T. Tasker, Sen., Hon. W. C. De Pauw, Mr. J. F. Larkin, Eev. J. E. Searles,
Hon. Eobert Turner, Mr. G. M. Burbaker, Eev. A. M'Lean, Eev. W. L. Gray,
and Eev. J. S. Inskip, wore elected Directors ; T. T. Tasker, Sen., President;
and Eev. J. S. Inskip, Editor and Publisher of the Christian Standard.
Nov. 15. The corner-stone of a Mission Chapel of M. E. Church was laid at
Eochester, N. Y. Address by Dr. C. W. Gushing. The M. E. Class-leaders'
Convention of Herkimer District Conference met at Eome, N. Y. E. E. Ben-
nett, President ; J. Hepworth, Corresponding Secretary. It closed on the 16th.
Interesting addi'esses and discussions occupied the several sessions.
Nov. 17. Alderuian Wm. M'Arthur, M.P. for London, and Lord Mayor during
the Ecumenical Conference, was Knighted by Queen Victoria (a Knight Com-
mander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George.)
Nov. 19. Bishop Foster arrived in Bombay.
Nov. 19. A debt of $6,000 on the Central Church, Philadelphia, was extinguished,
E. I. D. Pepper, pastor.
Nov. 19. The sixty-fourth anniversary of the Philadelphia Local Preachers' As-
sociation was held in that city. Sermons were delivered, morning and evening,
by J. Field and Prof. W. L. Boswell, and in the afternoon a love-feast
was held.
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Nov. 21, 23. Class-meeting Aasociation held at Pittston, Pa. Eev. A. Griffin
tlec'tcd President, and C. Pugh, Secretary.
Nov. 23. Eev. I. 11. Correll, of Pluladelphia C(;nfercnce, missionary from Japan,
started ou liis return trip to Japan.
Nov. 23. Eev. Herbert "Wilson's death announced, connectetl with the Wesleyan
Central African Mission, aged 25 years.
Nov, 36. Bishop Foster preached in Grant Eoad Church, Bombay, India.
Nov. 29. Tlie First M. E. Church, of Kansas City, of that part located on the
Kansas side — a beautiful structure modeled after an Englisli Wesleyan chapel,
the gift of Mr. George Fowler, of the firm of Fowler & Brothers, costing
about $G,000 — was dedicated by Bishop Hurst.
Nov. 29. The golden-wedding anniversary of Eev. J. L. Gilder, of the New York
East Conference, and his wife, was observed at tlie residence of tueir son-in-
law, Mr. H. 1. Hull, Brooklyn ; about 250 per.*ons present.
Nov. — . Mrs. Sarah E. Atkinson, of Memphis, deceased, bequeathed §1,000 to the
Leath Orphan Asylum of Memphis, |1,000 to the "Woman's Christian Associ-
ation of Memphis, $1,000 to the Woman's Missionary Society of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, South. "All the rest and residue" of the estate is he-
queatlied and devised to Bishops M'Tyeire, Pame, Pierce, Kavanaugh, Keener,
Granbery, Hargrove, Wilson, and Parker, in trust " for the use and benefit of
the Theological Department of "Vanderbilt University."
Nov. — • Eev. Dr. A. G. Haygood, President of Emory College, was appointed
and accepted the General Secretaryship of the Slater Fund of $1,000,000 for the
education of colored people in the South.
Nov. — . A meeting of the General Committee, to arrange for the Centennial Cel-
ebration of the organization of the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1784, was
held at the Book Eooms, and organized.
Dec. 1. The Council of Bishops of the African Methodist Episcopal Church an-
nounce a form of Constitution, adopted at their annual meeting at Cape May,
Aug. 9-14, 1882, for a Connectional Sunday-School Union of that Church.
Dec. 3. Joseph Weber, for many years editor and publisher of the j\'ovthej'ti
Christian Advocate, died suddenly, while in attendance at a prayer-meetiiig in
the Methodist Episcopal Church, Manchester, N. H.
Dec. 3. Dr. J. H. "Vincent preached two sermons before the faculty and student*}
of Cornell University, at Ithaca, N. Y.
Dec. 3. The Metropolitan M. E. Church, the new edifice of the old Orchard Street
congregation, Baltimore, the largest society of our colored friends, was dedi-
cated. Cost $37,000.
Dec. 4. The Preachers' (M. E. Church) Meetings in New York and Cincinnati
took action, calling upon the authorities of both cities to enforce the Sunday
laws.
Dec. 4. Bishop Foster lectured on " Mind in Cosmos," in the Franijee Cowa-sjee
Institute, Bombay, to a large and appreciative audience.
Dec. 5. BLshop Merrill presided at a Judicial Conference, composed of Triers of
Appeals from the Iowa, Upper Iowa, and Des Moines Conferences, at Burling-
ton, Iowa.
Dec. 5. Jacob Sleeper Hall, the new and beautiful edifice for the ase of the Col-
lege of Liberal Arts and School of Theology of Boston University, located on
Somerset Street, just at the head of Pembei'ton Square, between the State
House and City Hall, Boston, Mass., was dedicated with impressive and inter-
esting e.xercises. Cost $85,000.
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Dec. 6. Circular Letter on Methodist Union in Canada, issued and signed by the
Presidents of the Methodist Church of Canada, the Primitive Methodists, the
Bible Chi-istians, and the Bishop of the M. E. Church in Canada.
Dec. 7. The memorial stones were laid of the Welsh Wesleyan Methodist Chapel
in the City Eoad, opposite Bunhill-fields Cemetery, London, Eng.
Dec. 7. Calvin Whitney, President of the Chase Organ Company, Norwalk, Ohio,
it is announced, gave Chaplain M'Cabe $10,000 toward the (Jhurch Extension
Loan Fund.
Dec. 7. Hannah G. Russell, of Boston, left legacies to the Woman's Foreign Mis-
sionary Society of the M. E. Church, New York city, of $1,000; to the same
society of Boston, |2,000 ; and to Boston University, $2,000, to clothe worthy
theoloffical students.
Dec. 7. Dr. David Copeland, late Principal of Wyoming Seminary, died at I'oy-
alton, Vt., aged 50 years.
Dec. 8. A Conference of Christian workers for the First London (Eng.) District,
held in City Eoad Chapel, at the call of Eev. E. E. Jenkins, who presided.
Several papers were read and discussed.
Dec. 9. The Valedictory Address to the Students of Soutlilands and Westminster
Training Colleges, England, took place. Sir VVm. M' Arthur presiding. Presi-
dent Gan-ett delivered the principal address.
Dec. 9-11. Anniversary of the Methodist Episcopal Sunday-school Union and
Tract Society at New Haven, Conn Bishop Harris, Eevs. Vincent, M'Cabe,
Freeman, D. H. Wheeler, Mandevillo, Mallalieu, and Eev. J. H. llargis par-
ticipated in the exercises.
Dec. 13. Eev. John Nicholson, Wesleyan Minister in the Lincoln (Wesley) Cir-
cuit, died at Eosen Lane, England, in the 79th year of his age and 53d of his
ministry.
Dec. 15. Annual dinner of the Alumni of Wesleyan University, held in New
York.
Dec. 16. The first quarterly meeting of the Western Branch of the Woman's
Foreign Missionary Society of M. E. Church for the year, held in Des Moines,
la.. President Mrs. Mary C. Ninde in the chair.
Dec. 17. $5,000 of the debt on the Pittsfield (Mass.) M. E. Church was paid.
A new parsonage, valued at $5,000, was presented to the Society by C. E.
Parker, Esq.
Dec. 17. Bennett Memorial M. E. Church, Baltimore, a handsome granite struct-
ure, with marble trimmings, modern Gothic style, with seating for 800 persons,
was dedicated. The ground and edifice cost $15,000, and was the gift of Mr.
Benjamin F. Bennett, as a memorial of his son, Allan Bennett, an estimable
young Christian, who died some two years ago.
Dec. 17. C. E. Parker, Esq., presented the M. E. Church in Pittsfield, Mass.,
with a beautiful parsonage, worth $5,000.
Dec. 23. Theodore F. Andrews, a brother of Bishop Andrews, for ten years the
official reporter of the House of Eepresentatives, died in Syracuse, N. Y.
Dec. 21. Bishop Foster opened the South Lidia Conference in Calcutta. 15th
Anniversary of the Frecdmen's Aid Society, held in Cincinnati, O., Bishop
Wiley presided ; addressed by Drs. Eust and Hartzell and Eev. Bidwell Lane.
Eeport showed that $110,745 66 had been expended during the year.
Dec. 25. The Decennial Christian Conference for South Lidia, held in the M. E.
Church, Calcutta. Bishop Foster, Dr. J. M. Eeid, and Dr. J. M. Thoburn,
pastor, were among those present.
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Dec. 25. Miss Tobias, daughter of the late Kev. James Tobias, of Dublin, sailed
from Queenstown, to engage in missionary teaching at a ladies' collegiate
school, South Africa.
Dec. 25. A unique Christmas celebration occurred at Sands Street M. E. Church,
Brooklyn, L. I., by which, through numerous ingenious devices, the voluntary
offerings resulted in gifts amounting to $2,000.
Dec. 28. Mr. Benjamin Ealph, late of Methodist College, Belfast, Ireland, and
Principal of Dunhered College, Launceston, I'eceived the degree of LL.D.
from Trinity College, Dublin.
Dec. 39. The 17th Annual Meeting of the N. Y. City Church Extension and
Missionary Society of M. E. Church, President J. B. Cornell, E^q., in the
chair. Bishop Harris conducted the opening exercises.
Dec. 30. Winthrop Street Church, Boston, Mass., paid its entire debt, ($22,500,)
Kev. V. Cooper, pastor.
Dec. 30. Mr. John Bramwell, son of the celebrated Eev. Wm. Bramwell, the
Eecorder of Framwellgate, Durham, England, died aged 88. President Garrett
issued a call for a contribution to erect a new chapel, school, and manse at
Epworth, in memory of John and Charles Wesley, the whole to cost $35,000.
Dec. — . Dr. S. H. Nesbitt, twelve years editor of thenUsburg Chrisiian Advocate,
and for four years a supernumerary, took the place of Dr. L. H. Bugbee, who
had resigned the Presidency of Allegheny College, and was appointed pastor of
Monongahela City M. E. Church, which he relinquished because of ill-healtli.
Dec. — . Mr. William M'Cracken, Jr., book-keeeper of the Methodist Protestant
Book Depository, in Pittsburg, was appointed Book Agent, in the room of
Eev. James Eobinson, resigned.
Dec. — . Col. J. D. Taylor, of Cambridge, Ohio, who was a lay delegate to the
General Conference of 1880, was elected member of Congress, in place of Dr.
Updegraff, who died just after his election Nov. 7.
1883— Jan. 1. Old John Street Church, New York, the " Cradle of Methodism,"
observed Watch-night Sei'vices ; the attendance was large.
Jan. 2. Wm. Courtis, a veteran English Wesleyan local preacher, who was well
acquainted with William Carvosso, died at Claremont Villas, Mumbles, Swan-
sea, England, aged 83 ; for 63 years a local preacher.
Jan. 3. S. D. Waddy, Q.C., a Wesleyan Methodist layman and local preacher
of London, elected to represent Edinburgh, Scotland, in the British Parliament.
Jan. 3. Eev. Mark Guy Pearse, author of "Dan'l Quorm," has published a
new book, entitled " Simon Jasper," in its way quite as good as the first-
named.
Jan. 3. Bourne Quarterly Meeting promoted fifteen local preachers, who had
been on trial, to the position of fully accredited preachers, and six brethren
were received on trial. (Local preachers are first placed on trial, and then, if
acceptable, are credited as full local preachers.)
Jan. 3. Mrs. Hewitt, widow of the Eev. Thomas Hewitt, the oldest member of
Driffield Circuit, England, (her first ticket bearing date 1811,) gave an elaborate
dinner to the stewards of the circuit.
Jan. 3. Cottage services instituted by the local preachers of Windsor Circuit.
(This form of evangelism is very successful in connection with the regular
chapel services.)
Jan. 3. Fourth Annual Conference of the South American Evangelical Confer-
ence held at Santiago, Chili. Eev. Wm. Taylor, D.D., the founder of the
movement, presided at all the sessions. There were 22 members present.
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Jan. 3. Mrs. Rev. Henry Wheeler, of Philadelpliia Conference, was elected Pres-
ident of the Philadelphia branch of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, in
place of Mrs. James Long, resigned.
Jan. 3. Hon. Godlove S. Orth, of Indiana, a member of Congress, and for yeara
Minister to Austria, died. He was a devoted layman of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church. When dying he said to his daughter, in a whisper, " MoUie,
happy ! happy ! "
Jan. 3. Florida Conference held in Jacksonville, Fla., Bishop Merrill presiding.
The Florida Conference of the Church South was in session at the same time,
and friendly greetings were exchanged between both bodies.
Jan. 4. Mrs. Prudence Lakin, mother of Rev. A. S. Lakin, of the Alabama Con-
ference, died at Pease Eddy, Delaware Co., N. Y., aged 108 years 6 months
and 3 days.
Jan. 4. Class-leaders' Convention, held at St. Paul's M. E. Church, Jersey City,
Bishop Harris, president. Addresses by Dr. J. M. Buckley, Robert R. Doherty,
(now Assistant Editor of " The Christian Advocate,") and others.
Jan. 5. A new work, " Memorable Women of Irish Methodism in the last Cent-
ury," appears from the Conference ottice in London.
Jan. 6. S. O. Knapp, a leading Methodist layman, died suddenly in Jackson, Mich.
Jan. 7. A letter, addressed to Dr. J. M. Buckley, signed " A. B. and Wife,"
from the West, ofl'ers to give $1,000, to aid in opening mission work in Corea,
on condition that the Mission authorities of the M. E. Church make a begin-
ning in 1883, by establishing at least one station.
Jan. 7. Dr. T. T. Everett, pastor of St. Stephen's M. E. Church, Germantown,
Pa., resigned his charge, to accept the position of private secretary of Gov. R.
E. Pattison, of Penn.sylvania.
Jan. 7. Chapel of Madison Ave. M. E. Church, New York city, opened for serv-
ice. Services by Dr. C. H. Fowler, Rev. Dr. Chapin, of the Presbyterian
Church, and Dr. J. M. Buckley, and communion administered by Bishop W.
L. Harris.
Jan. 7. A singing band of 100 was engaged to sing at the evangelistic services on
Bramley Circuit, near Leeds, Eng., by Mr. Riley, Wesleyan district evangelist.
Sir William M' Arthur, ex-Lord Mayor, presided at a meeting of the Evan-
gelical Alliance.
Jan. 8. A Convention of Wesleyan ministers and other workers in York Dis-
trict, held at York, England, ex-President M'Aulay presiding. Papers were
read on the " Ideal Methodist," " The Class-meeting," and " Attendance on
Religious Worship." Addresses, discussions, and devotional exercises filled
up the day.
Jan. 9. Adjourned session of the M. E. General Conference at Napanee, Canada,
Bishop Carman presiding.
Jan. 10. Mr. John Harding elected General Secretary of the Wesleyan Method-
ist Local Preachers' Mutual Aid Association, in place of Mr. G. Sims, a vet-
eran local preacher, deceased ; there were forty-four candidates for tlie office.
Jan. 10. Bishop Foster held North India Conference at Lucknow, India, Dr. J.
M. Reid being in attendance. A great Sunday-school procession was postponed
on account of small-pox, which was causing 250 deaths per week.
Jan. 12. A life-size marble bust of the late Sir Franeis Lycett, an eminent
Methodist lay office bearer and contributor, was placed m the City Liberal
Club, Wolbrook, England, by members of that body. Sir Francis was the
first chairman, and held the position for six years until his death, in 1880.
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Jan. 12. The National Association of Local Preachers of the Methodibt Episcopal
Church secured a liberal charter under the laws of Maryland. The incorpo-
rators are the Rev. Isaac P. Cook, Edward Heffner, W. K. Monroe, W. M.
Barnes, F. E. Marine, A. Jameson, and L. H. Colo, of Baltimore ; the Rev. C.
C. Leigh, of Brooklyn, N. Y. ; the Rev. T. T. Tasker, Sr., of Philadelphia;
the Rev. G. W. Evans, of Ocean Grove, N. J. ; the Rev. W. H. Kincaid, of
Pittsburg ; and Rev. N. U. Walker, of Wellsville, Ohio.
Jan. 16. The Annual Meeting of the Australian Wesleyan Book Committee took
place.
Jan. 16. Cyrus Clarke, Jun., cashier of Tradesman National Bank, of Pittsburjr,
Pa., son-in-law of the late Bishop Kingsley, and an active worker in Christ M.
E. Church of that city, died of typhoid fever.
Jan. 17. The tenth Annual Conference ot the South Australian Wesleyan
Church met at Adelaide, Rev. J. Bickford presiding, Rev. R. M. Hunter,
Secretary. The Conference includes 224 churches, 59 preacherr?, 213 Sunday-
schools, 2,311 teachers, 17,811 scholars, 365 local preachers, 403 class-leaders,
417 catechumens, and 43,901 attendants on public worship, not embracing
Western Australia.
Jan. 17. The Wesleyan Methodist Orphanage in Dublin has under its care 16
pupils ; the Orphan Society has 150 orphans to care for, at an e.xpense yearly
of nearly §4,000. The first number of the " Irish Christian Advocate " ap-
peared.
Jan. 17. Rev. H. J. Piggott, Superintendent of Italian Wesleyan Missions,
elected President of the " Circolo Aonio Paleorio," for the observance of the
Sabbath.
Jan. 18. Contract signed for pulling down Oldham Street Wesleyan Chapel, Man-
chester, England, originally built and opened March 20, 1781, the first chapel
in that city, and dedicated by John Wesley. There were 1,600 communicants
the first year of the chapel's existence. The new chapel to be erected is to
cost $90,000. The first sermon was preached by the founder of Methodism ;
the last by President Garrett.
Jan. 18. It is announced that the Catskill Mountain National Camp-meeting
Association has purchased 160 acres of land at Hunter, Greene Co., N. Y., lo-
cated 2,000 feet above tide-water.
Jan. 18. The sixth annual meeting of the Methodist Episcopal Mexico Mission,
held in the City of Mexico, closing the 22d, C. W. Drees, Superintendent, pre-
sidinsj.
Jan. 21 . At the jubilee services at Greenwich .M. E. Church, Conn., the mortgage
of Hanford Lockwood, Esq., of |12,000 on the property, the congregation hav-
ing complied with his conditions of securing a sufficient sum to put the Church
property in splendid repair, including chm-eh, cliapel, and parsonage, at a cost
of ^3,000, he canceled the mortgage ; and Bisliop Harris preached an able ser-
mon on the jubilee occasion.
Jan. 21. W. T. Hemenway, of Brooklyn, died, aged 76, leaving over $50,000 to
objects within the Methodist Episcopal Church: New York Conference,
$20,000 ; New York East, |20,000 ; M. E. Church Home of New York city,
§5,000.
Jan. 21. Grace Church, Brooklyn, costing S75,000, dedicated; $35,000 had been
paid, and $20,000 additional was raised during the day.
Jan. 23. The New South Wales and Queensland Conference opened at Sydney,
New South Wales. The Rev. W. Moore was chosen President, and the Eev.
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Geo. Lane, Secretary. There were 6,322 members, 803 probationers, and
18,646 Sunday-school scholars. At the annual session of the Victoria and Tas-
mania Annual Conference, the Kev. E. I. Watkin was chosen President. Ee-
ceipts for the Home Missionary Fund aggregated about $11,000. The sum of
130,000 was contributed to the College Fund. The capital of the Building and
Loan Fund of the Tasmania Church Extension Society had reached $170,296.
Jan. 23. The tenth Annual Conference of the New Zealand Wesleyan Method-
ist Church opened in Auckland, Kev. J. Taylor presiding. Eev. R. Bavin
was elected President, and the Eev. H. Bull, Secretary. Six were received into
full connection. The Mixed Conference was held January 30.
Jan. 23. Decease of the Rev. George W. Patchell, M.A., of the Australian Wes-
leyan Church.
Jan. 24. Anniversary of the Australasian Missionary Society at Sydney, New
South Wales. Sir George Wigram Allen presided, and addresses were made
by the President, Rev. J. D. Hennessey, J. H. Fletcher, L Eooney, and W.
Davies, Esq.
Jan. 24. A representative body from 50 churches, comprising 150 delegates, met
in Wesley Hall, Philadelphia, and organized the " Philadelphia City Home
Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church," to provide preaching
and Sunday-schools in destitute portions of the city.
Jan. 27. A remarkable revival broke out in Ohio Wesleyan University, being
the '' day of prayer for colleges," resulting in the conversion of 100 of the
600 students.
Jan. 28. Tablet to the memory of L. S. Weed, D.D., (who died suddenly in
Brooklyn,] unveiled in John Street Church, New York, of which he was for-
merly pastor. Anniversary of the New York City Church Extension and Mis-
sionary Society of M. K. Cliurch held in St. James Church, J. B. Cornel',
Esq., President, in the chair. Rev. Dr. A. D. Vail, Corresponding Secretary,
reported 21 churches and chapels ; amount of money raised and expended,
$.57,316 02, exclusive of $36,000 to $40,000 for new church enterprises. Address-
es were delivered by Drs. J. M. Kuig and A. K. Sanford, and Rev. S. Merritt.
Jan* 30. Bishop Foss read a paper at the St. Paul's (Minn.) Preachers' Meeting
on the " Philosophy of Christian Perfection."
Jan. 31. Anniversary of the Wesleyan Church Sustentation and Extension Soci-
ety at Sidney, New South Wales, Mr. E. Vickery presiding, and Rev. G.
Woolnough, Secretary.
Jan. — . Boston Wesleyan Association found the affairs of " Zion's Herald " in a
flourishing condition; elected a Board of Directoi-s, and Dr. B. K. Peirce,
Editor, and A. S. Weed, Publishing Agent.
Jan. — . The widow of the late John Evans, of South Meriden, Conn., gave
$2,000 to Wesleyan University, to found the John Evans Scholarship, open to
candidates for the ministry.
Jan. — . Prof. Benjamin Mason, son of the late Eev. T. Mason, one of the former
M. E. Book Agents, in New York, lost his life by the burning of the Newhall
House, Milwaukee, where he was boarding, being a professor in an institution
in that city.
Jan. — . Hon. Sumner Howard, a prominent Methodist, elected Speaker of the
Michigan House of Representatives.
Feb. 6. Wesleyan Conference Temperance Society at Sidney, New South Wales.
Eev. W. Clarke presided, and addi-esses were made by Eev. J. A. Nolan, Eev.
J. W. Brown, and others.
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Feb. 7. Haniline University's chief building, University Hall, was destroyed by
fire. The building, with its heating apparatus, cost about $60,000 ; insured
for $25,000.
Feb* 8. Letter from Eustchuk reports the destruction of the M. E. Church Mis-
sion in Bulgaria. Native missionaries Revs. Thomoff and Economoff were
beaten and thrown into prison ; American-born missionaries suifered no per-
sonal violence; but the school was locked up and sealed. The government
states it will not allow a Protestant propaganda in Bulgaria.
Feb. 14. Annual meeting of the General Book Committee of tlie Methodist
Episcopal Church held at 805 Broadway, New York ; all the members present,
except Dr. J. D. Hanmiond, because of the great distance, and Edward Sar-
gent, Esq., detained by the flood at Cincinnati. Adjourned the 15th.
Feb. 14. Mr. and Mrs. George M'Kibbin, of St. Luke's M. E. Church, New
York, celebrated their golden wedding. Congratulations and testimonials re-
ceived from 300 of their friends.
Feb. 14. The new Wesleyan Chapel at Granville, New South Wales, was dedi-
cated. Sermon by ex-President Rev. G. Martin.
Feb. 17. Prof. James Strong, S.T.D., of Drew Theological Seminary, sailed for
Europe.
Feb. 18. Dedication of a new brick Primitive Methodist church at Crawfords,
Canada. Sermons by Rev. J. MUner and Rev. W. M'Donald.
Feb. 18. Trinity M. E. Church, New Haven, Conn., Dr. D. A. Goodsell, pastor,
dedicated. The finest Methodist church in the State, and unsurpassed by any
church in the city. Cost, $70,000 ; unpaid, $20,000.
Feb. 20. Dr. J. H. Vincent lectured in Shaftesbury Hall, Toronto, Canada.
Feb. 20. Holiness Convention at Peterborough. Addresses by Rev. J. Stephen-
son and others.
Feb. 21. Bishop Simpson lectured to the students of Drew Theological Seminary
on " Some Variable Elements in the Christian Ministiy."
Feb. 21. District Meeting of the Primitive Methodists at Kooringa, Australia.
Rev. S. Welling presided, and Rev. A. Wellington was chosen Secretary. S93
members were reported, ministers, 9 ; local preachers, 65 ; clas-leaders, 36 ;
chapels, 35 ; other places, 9 ; Sunday -schools, 32 ; teachers, 317 ; scholars, 2,013.
Value of Church property, £18,090. The next District Meeting will be lield
at Yongola in February, 1884.
Feb. 22. £110 on the debt of the Higher Openshaw, (Eng.,) School Chapel
paid.
Feb. 22. Dedication of the new Wesleyan Church at Stanmore ; W. Kelynack,
D.D., preached. Cost of the edifice £5,500.
Feb. 22. Rev. C. M. Griffin announced as having retired from the editorship of
the "Independent Methodist," Baltimore, and Rev. W. M. M'Allister succeeds
him.
Feb. 23. The two M. E. Churches, South, of San Francisco consolidate.
Feb. 26. Commencement exercises of Medical Department of Vanderbilt Univer-
sity. Nearly 100 graduate?.
Feb. — . Mrs. Martha Peck, of Lexington, Mich., made a donation of $1,000 to the
Preachers' Aid Society of the Detroit Conference.
March 1. A statement of Mrs. Mary D. James, the poet-author, reports that the
distinguished Christian philanthropist. William E. Dodge, of New York,
recently deceased, was converted in a Methodist prayer-meeting, when a boy,
in the State of Connecticut.
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March 1. Kev. David Terry, the veteran Eecording Secretary of the Methodist
Episcopal Parent Missionary Board, confined to his room by sinking health,
honored, on his 75th birth anniversary, with a beautiful floral gift, by several
hundred children of Cornell Memorial Sunday-School. He died a few days
afterward.
9Iarcli 1. Kev. William Wood, a prominent, wealthy, and liberal local preacher,
and a former President of the National Local Preachers' Association, died at
Trenton, N. J., in his 76th year.
March 1 • Great revival at Ohio Wesleyan University reported. More than 200
students converted.
March 3. Hon. Thomas W. Palmer, of Detroit, who gave $10,000 to the Super-
annuate Fund of the Detroit Conference as a tribute and in honor of his moth-
er, an old Methodist, elected United States Senator from Michigan, to succeed
Senator Ferry.
March 4. Eighteenth Street Church, Brooklyn, dedicated, Bishop Bowman
preaching in the morning, and Dr. Upham, of Drew Seminary, in the evening.
Cost of church, $27,000, of which $18,000 remained unpaid. The entire amount,
together with $500 surplus, was raised durhig the tlay.
March 4. Washington Square M. E. Church, New York, contributed the sum of
$4,165 79 to the Missionary cause.
March 4. The ninety-third anniversary of Forsyth Street M. E. Church, New
York, observed with interesting and impressive exercises. Bishop Bowman,
Dr. A. S. Hunt, General C. B. Fisk, and others, participated.
March 4. Hanson Place M. E. Church, Brooklyn, has a membership, including
probationers, of 1,500.
March 4. Maryland Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church held at West-
minster, Md., with a membership of 120 clerical and 100 lay delegates.
March 5. Ee-opening of the Black Staff Eoad Church ; preacliing by Rev. H_
Woodcock.
March 7. The annual meeting of the Wesleyan Metropolitan Lay Mission was
held in City Eoad Chapel, London, Eng., W. S. Allen, M. P., presided. Eeport
read by Eev. John Bond, Secretary, showed a reduction of £500 on debt, leav-
ing an indelitedness of £150. Much good has been accomplished by this
organization.
March 8. President Charles Garrett, of British Wesleyan Conference, honored
with a breakfast at Newcastle-on-Tyne by various representative bodies in the
city, in recognition of his long, earnest, and self-denying labors in the cause of
temperance.
March 8. President A. A. Smith, of the North-west College, under the patron-
age of the Evangelical Association, resigned after twenty-one years of faithful
service, and, though nearly 80 years old, was hj -elected as a teacher in the same
institution.
March 9. Preliminary steps taken to establish a Methodist Home for the Aged in
Brooklyn.
March 9. A convention of Wesleyan Methodist young men held in Centenary
ILall, London, ex-President M'Auley in the chair.
3Iarch 9. The S9th annual meeting of the Wesleyan Seamen's Mission was held
in the Wesleyan Seamen's Chapel, London, Eng., Mr. G. J. Scales presiding.
March 9. Eev. David Terry, who was appointed an assistant to Dr. John P.
Durbin in the Missionary Society work in April, 1850, died, worn out in the
Bervice ; aged 75 years.
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Alarch 10. The annual meeting of the Wesleyan Sunday-School Union of Man-
chester, Eng., was held, the Mayor, Aldemon Hopkinson, presiding. A choir
of 600 voices rendered the music. The report showed in the Union 118 schools,
with 15,000 scholars, and 2,000 officers and teachers. There were 500 prizes
and certificates disti'ibuted.
March 11, Sixty-first Street M. E. Church, New York, contributed $32,500,
which paid its entire debt.
March 11. Dr. Ebeu Tourgee, the Methodist musical author, founder of the New
England Conservatory of Music, Boston, has presented the institution to the
Board of Trustees, to be conducted by them liereatter.
March 11. Epworth Independent Methodist Church, Baltimore, dedicated by
Dr. C. F. Deems, free of debt ; cost, $45,000.
March 1 8 . The Paris Chapel Missionary Anniversary sermon was preached in
Paris, France, by Rev. M. C. Osborn, Missionary Secretary, on Sunday, this
date, and the annual Missionary Meeting took place the next day. Rev. W.
Gibson, Superintendent, read the report. Chief addresses by Eev. M. C. Os-
born, Rev. Mr. Hart, and Pastor Lelievre in French.
March 18. Gilbert Potter, aged 69 years, and long an official member of St.
John's M. E. Church, Brooklyn, £. D., died after a brief illness. He was
chairman of the Building Committee of the church, one of the chief contribu-
tors, and president of its Board of Trustees from the beginning.
March 18. Mr. J. C. Latimer and wife suiTcndered their claims on Tioga Center
M. E. Church, Eev. J. K. Peek, pastor, and gave to the society the house of
worship, lot, and parsonage lot and furniture, the whole amounting to $10,000.
The debt was originally owed to Col. Wm. Ransom, and was inherited by Mrs.
Latimer, his niece and adopted daughter.
March 19. George F. Kettell, D.D., presiding elder of the Brooklyn District,
New York East Conference, died suddenly of heart disease. In 1866 he was
appointed U. S. Consul to the Grand Duchy of Baden, and resided in that ca-
pacity at Carlsruhe three years. Beyond this his life-work lay in the itinerancy
of the M. E. Church.
March 23. The annual festival of the CalvLnistic Methodists in London, Eng.,
occupied four days, including the Sabbath. According to reports there were
raised by the Welsh Churches £3,400 ; membership, 1,704, an increase of 130.
The Sunday-school numbers 1,282.
March 23. Corner-stone of St. Leonard (New South Wales) Wesleyan Church
enlargement laid by Mrs. Schofield, with addresses by Dr. Kelynaek, Eev. G.
Hurst, and others.
March 25. The fiftieth anniversary of the dedication of Wesley Chapel cele-
brated.
March 25. Dedication of the new Cornell Memorial Church in New York. Ser-
mon by Bishop Warren. Bishop Foss, D. C. S. Harrower, and General C. B.
Fisk also took part. Entire cost of church, $45,600. The entire amount was
raised, and the church dedicated by Bishop Simpson free of debt.
March 27. Bishop Warren welcomed with a public reception at the Riggs House,
Washington city.
March 30. Eev. Howard Henderson, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South,
received into the Newark Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and
stationed at Simpson Church, Jersey City, N. J.
March 30. A draft of legislation has been prepared for organizing Annual Con-
ferences and a General Conference in Australia, which is being discussed by
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the District Muetings in that country. There is a divergence of views in regard
to some ieatures, and it may be some time before the niatier will be fully con-
BUinmated.
March — . Eev. S. L. Bowman, S.T.D., of the Newark Conference, assumed the
duties of the Chair of Theology in Indiana Asbury University, to which he
was elected previously.
April 1. Dr. J. M. Buckley, Editor of the Christian Advocate^ preached a sermon
in commemoration of the twenty-fifth amiiversary of his entrance into the itin-
erant ministry at Summei-fleld Methodist Episcopal Churcli, Brooklyn. Mil-
burn Memorial Methodist Episcopal Chapel, built at a cost of $8,000, at South
Bend, lud., by Mrs. Clem. Studebaker, as a memorial to her father, Hon.
Geo. Milburn, and presented to the Church, dedicated witli appropriate services.
April 3. Rev. Ingham Sutliffe, one of the fathers of Canadian Methodism, died
from apoplexy, after 50 yeare' labor in Canada.
April 4-10. Eighty-fourth session of the New England Conference held in Brom-
field Street M. E. Church, Boston, Bishop Bowman presiding.
April 5. The great revival at Findlay, Ohio, Eev. W. A. Yingling, who was as-
sisted by Eev. J. H. Weber, resulted vafive hundred and thirty conversions.
April 6. Eev. Frederick Uphara, after eflective ministerial service (perhaps un-
equaled before) of 62 years, was placed, by the New England Southern Confer-
ence on the retired list.
April 6. Dr. Eales 11. Newhall, a gifted commentator and author, died, after a
brief illness.
April 8. Eev. Dr. B. F. Cocker, Professor in the University of Michigan, a dis-
tinguished Methodist author, died at Ann Arbor, Mich.
April 9. The King of Bavaria, by royal edict, permits the Methodist Episcopal
Church ministera to enjoy all the rights of worship of a Church society in that
kingdom.
April 9. The top-stone of a fine new Welsh Wesleyan Chapel was laid within a
few yards of the " Cathedral of Methodism," in City Eoad, London, which will
cost £10,000.
April 10. The first South African Methodist Conference organized with 184 itin-
erant ministers and a total lay membership of 26,676.
April 11. Connectional petition of 80,000 names, of United Methodist Free
Churches, in favor of Sunday-closing, presented to the House of Commons by
Mr. J. C. Stevenson.
April 11. Tlie Italy Conference of the M. E. Church met in Turin, Italy, Bishop
Foster presiding.
April 12. Dr. David H. Wheeler, formerly editor of "The Methodist," elected
President of Allegheny College, Meadville, Pa.
April 13. The General Primitive Methodist Missionary Committee held a meet-
ing in London, and reported the receipts of the Home Districts. The liabilities
of the fund were £2,047 less than they wei-e a year ago. The present net debt
amounts to £5,529 12s. ^d.
April 14. Dr. J. M. Reid, Senior Corresponding Secretary of the Missionary So-
ciety, and wife, arrived in New York, after a long tour to mission stations in
foreign countries.
April 15. Dr. Henry Bannister, Senior Professor in Garrett Biblical Institute, died
at Evanston, 111., in the 71st year of his age. The thirteenth anniversary of the
M'Clintoek Association celebrated in Old John Street M. E. Church, New
York, Gen. C. B. Fisk presiding.
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April 17, Tlie twenty-ninth annual meeting of the Wesleyan Methodist Eiluea-
tion Society held in Exeter Hall, James S. Sutcliffe, Esq., presiding. Ecport
by Eev. D. J. Waller, Secretary, showed that the number of Wesleyan day-
schools had been maintained, and that the number of scholars had increased by
2,128, and was now larger than it has been at any previous history of Wesleyan
Methodist education. The number of inmates of the Children's Home and
Orphanage, as reported to the recent Conference, was 577. In addition to these,
about 400 children, who are in situations in England or in Canada, receive reg-
ular oversight. Since the institution was established, 1,322 children have been
received into it for shelter and training. Systematic aid and training is afforded
to 400 other children in the East End of London. Interesting addresses were
then delivered by the Chairman, Eev. F. "W. Greeves, Mr. E. W. Perks, Eev.
Samuel Lees, Eev. Dr. J. H. Eigg, and Mr. John Beauchamp.
April 19. Sermons were preached on behalf of the Primitive Methodist Metro-
politan Chapel Building Fund, in the City Temple, by the Eev. Dr. J. Parker,
and on the following Sunday in Lower Clapton by the Eev. G. S. Eeaney, and
in London Fields and Hackney Eoad Chapels by the Eev. T. Penrose.
April 19. Laying of the top-.stone of the Wesleyan Church tower, at Norwood,
by the Hon. Alfred Catt. Addresses by Eev. Dr. Kelynack and others.
April 19. B. C. Bowman, Esq., of Williamsport, Pa., announced as pledging the
sum of $25,000 of the second $500,000 for the Loan Fund of the Board of Ex-
tension of the MetJiodist Episcopal Church.
April 22. The fifty-third anniversary of the Baltimore Local Preachers' Associ-
ation held in Harford Avenue Church.
April 23. Eev. Thomas Wakefield, of East Africa Missions, has been presented,
by the Eoynl Geographical Society, with the " Murchison Grant" for the year,
for his services to geography. He is now engaged in translating the Scriptures.
April 23. Sixteenth anniversary of the Wesleyan .Metropolitan Chapel Fund
took place in the City Temple. The report showed that aid had been given to
6 chapels. During the last 18 years the fund has assisted 63 places of worship.
The income, including the balance on hand at the beginning of the year,
amounted to £359 14."!. 6d. ; tlie disbursements to £185 Is. lid. ; leaving a bal-
ance of £174 12s. 2fZ. Until 1865 there were only 24 Connectional Chapels in
London, but during the last 18 years 55 chapels and schools had been erected.
The membership within the metropolitan area in 1864 was under 3,000 ; now
it is considerably above 5,000.
April 26. Tlie petition of the United Methodists to Parliament, in England, in
favor of the closing of public houses on Sundays, was presented to the House
of Commons by Sir William M' Arthur. It contained 500,000 signatures, cover-
ing paper 5^ miles in length, was 386 pounds in weight, and measured 12 feet
round when closely packed.
April 26. David Bensley, of Boston, Tioga Co., N. Y., who has willed a large
portion of his property to the Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, died at the advanced age of 85.
April 28. Eev. T. B. Wood, Superintendent of our South American Missions,
left New York, via England, for his work.
April 28. The corner-stone of the Buttei-field Memorial Chapel at Bridgehouse,
Haworth, England, was laid ; the chapel is to be erected by Frederick Butter-
field, Esq., of New York, in memory of his late brother, Eichard S. Butter-
field, Esq., Woodlands, Haw'orth, and at his expense, and on its completion
is to be presented to the Wesleyan Methodist Conference, the site and build-
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ings thereon being conveyed to trustees, to hold in the trusts of the " Wesleyan
Chapel Model Deed."
April — • Rev. John Watson reported in the "Primitive Methodist" that the
membership of the Chui'ch in South Africa was 264, an increase of 30 for the
year.
May 1 . English Primitive Methodist Missionary Anniversary opened in London.
May 2. Dedication of the new Wesleyan church, Eandwich, New South Wales.
Sermon by Eev. J. H. Fletcher.
May 2. Annual meeting of British Wesleyan Metropolitan Chapel Fund in City
Eoad Chapel, London.
May 3. Quarterly meeting of the Primitive Methodist General Missionary Com-
mittee at Toronto, Eev. J. Goodman, Chairman.
May 4. A farewell meeting held in Washington Square M. E. Clmrch, New
York, for Dr. William Butler, wife, and daughter, on the eve of their visit to
India, after 25 years' absence. Bishop Harris presiding.
May 6. Dedication of Trinity M. E. Chapel and Sunday-school building in Phila-
delphia. Total cost, including lot, $84,510, which is provided for. Bishop
Simpson preached, and Chaplain IM'Cabe managed the financial department.
May 6. The first Wesleyan Bengali Sunday-school in Calcutta, if not hi Bengal,
was opened this day.
May 8. Memorial stones were laid of a new chapel by the Primitive Methodists
in Epworth, the birthplace of Mr. Wesley, with appropriate services.
May 8. British Wesleyan Home Missions annual meeting held in City Eoad
Chapel, London.
May 8. Sir Wm. M'Arthur, K.C.M.G., M.P., presided at a great meeting of the
Society for the Propagation of the Gospel among the Jews, held in Exeter Hall.
May 8, Annual District Meetings of the Primitive Methodist Church in Canada.
May 9. Annual District Meetings of Bible Christian Church in Canada.
May 9. The Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church held their semi-annual
meeting in Pittsburg, closing Saturday, and on Sunday preached, with groat
favor, to the people. Mrs. Clarissa Hodges, deceased in Shelby, Ohio, at the
age of 90 years, was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church for more
than eighty yeai"s, the longest continuous member, perhaps, in the history of
American Methodism. The Philadelphia Annual Conference of the African
M. E. Church commenced at Bethel Church, Philadelphia. Bishop Simpson
re-elected President of the Pennsylvania Bible Society, head-quarters at Phil-
adelphia.
May 9. Eev. John Smith, with his family, left England for South Africa, to
labor in that field.
May 9. The Yorkshire reunion of the " Old Boys " of Kingswood and Wood-
house Grove took place at Bradford, England, J. T. Slugg, F.E.S.A., in tho
chair. The chairman, Eev. T. S. Gregory, Dr. Sykes, and others spoke, and
in the evening the time was spent in reminiscences of school-boy days, hu-
morous and pathetic.
May 9. Ex-Presideni E. E. Jenkins, M.A., delivered a very able sermon at the
City Temple, London, on behalf of the London Missionary Society.
May 10. The Baltimore Conference of the African M. E. Church began its sixty-
sixth annual session at Hagerstown, Md., Bishop Payne presiding.
May lie Mrs. Jesse E. Grant, motlier of General Grant, an old-time Methodist,
died at Jersey City, aged 84 years, and was buried at Spring Grove Cemetery,
Cincinnati, Ohio.
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May 12. The corner-stone of the new hall for Gammon Theological Institute
Clark University, at Atlanta, Ga., laid with appropriate ceremonies.
May 13* A meeting of ministers and laymen held in Wesley HiJl, Philadelphia,
to take measures for the proper entertainment of the General Conference, in
May, 18S4.
May 13. Commencement exercises opened at Drew Theological Seminary, closing
the 17th.
May 15. Mr. Henry H. Fowler, M.P., a distinguished "Wesleyan layman, was
elected a member of the Executive Council of the Association of Chamber of
Commerce, London.
May 16. Denmark Mission Conference met at Svendborg, Denmark, Bishop Fos-
ter presiding.
May 17. Bishop Jesse T. Peck died at Syracuse, N. Y., aged 72. Joined the
Oneida Conference, 1832 ; Principal of Troy Conference Academy, 1841 ;
President of Dickinson College, 1848; re-entered the pastorate, 1852; elected
Bishop, 1872.
May 19. Corner-stone of the School Hall at St. Leonard, New South Wales,
laid by E. M. Sayres, Esq. Addresses by Eev. J. Gardiner and others.
May 20. Mr. Silas Vail, a well-known composer of Sunday-school music, and
author of " Gates Ajar," " Scatter Seeds of Kincbiess," " Nothing but Leaves,"
died in Brooklyn, aged 64 years.
May 21. The spire of St. Luke's M. E. Church, Long Branch, struck by lightning,
and completely demolished; loss, $12,000.
May 24. Sweden Conference convened at NorrkOping, Sweden, Bishop Foster
presiding.
May 25. Primitive Methodist Annual Conference at Toronto, Canada ; Eev. W.
Herridge, President ; Eev. E. Cade, Secretary. Sermon by the retiring Pres-
ident, Eev. J. Goodman. Eeceipts for missions, $1,732 03 ; Superannuation
Fund, $60 49 ; Conference Fund, $83 10 ; Extension, $70 92 ; Jubilee, $318 84 ;
" Christian Journal," $220 93 ; Conference subscription, $1,205 09 ; Friendly
Society, $207 ; Book Eoom, total balance, $754 07.
May 26. Eev. Dr. John Ker, of the Irish Wesleyan Conference, after a successful
mission in securing aid for Connectional objects, sailed from New York. Chatta-
nooga, Tenn., selected, by the joint committee of six contiguous Conferences,
as the place to locate the proposed university in the South.
May 28. Col. J. A. Wright, a leading layman of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
read before the Philadelphia Pieachers' Meeting an extended paper on " Higher
Education in the Methodist Episcopal Church."
May 29. President Garrett and wife, of the British Wesleyan Conference, acted
as host and hostess at a gathering of ministers of the Wesleyan, New Cormec-
tion. United Methodist Free Churches, Primitive Methodist Churches, in
Liverpool, England, at a Breakfast Meeting at Trinity Chapel. There were
about fifty miiiistei-s present of these Methodist bodies.
May — . Mrs. Waite, widow of a Wesleyan missionary in Africa, has taken the
degree of Doctor in Medicine in the Faculty of Paris.
May — . Rev. Eobinson Cheesman, the efficient Secretary of the General Com-
mittee, and Deputy Missionary Treasurer of the Primitive Methodists, in con-
Bcquence of ill-health, was forced to resign his responsible offices, to the regret
of the Connection at large.
May — . A new collection of hymns, called the "Primitive Methodist Eevival
Hymn Book," has just been published and on sale. It is suitable for prayer-
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meetings, camp-met;tings, revival missions, street processions, and other evan-
gelistic services. The new companion Tune Book is thought necessary.
June 1 . Commencement of Centenary Biblical Institute, Baltimore ; si.\ graduates.
June 3. Walton Methodist Episcopal Church, south side of Pittsburg, dedicated,
costing $43,000.
June 3. Chapel of Park Avenue M. E. Church, New York city, opened. The
new chapel edifice extends 104 feet on Park Avenue, running back 107 feet on
Eighty-sixth Street. Cost of building, $180,000 ; of land, $52,000. Bishop
Harris presided. A. J. Palmer, pastor.
June 3. The Anniversary of Evangelistic work in France was held in the Wes-
leyan Eue Eoqtiepine Chapel, Paris, sermons being preached by Eev. D. A. de
Monilpied and by Eev. W. Gibson, B.A. Anniversary Meeting was held June
4, Mr. F. Lowe presiding ; add)-esses by W. Gibson and other ministej-s.
Meetings were held for three other successive days, thereby strengthening the
hands of those engaged in the good cause.
June 5. The first contribution from private sources to the capital of the "Neces-
sitous Local Preachers' Fund," established by a grant from the Tlianksgiving
Fund, was made by John Whitehead, Esq., of Guernsey, a lay representative
of the Channel Islands District, for the sum of £25, which is acknowledged
by the Treasurer, John Beauchamp, Esq.
June 6. Twenty-ninth Annual Bible Christian Conference at Exeter, Ontario,
Canada; Eev. E. Eoberts, President; Eev. T. Harris, Secretary. Annual ser-
mon by Eev. H. J. Nott. Editor of " The Observer."
June 6. Norway Conference met at Arendal, Norway, Bishop Foster presiding,
June 7. Eev. W. Cutts, the General Missionary Secretary, on his election to the
Presidency of the Primitive Methodist Conference, was presented with an
elegant gold watch, and his wife with a tea and coflee service, in recognition of
his valuable services to that society.
June 8. Dr. Eliphalet Clark, an eminent physician, died at Portland, Maine,
who, in connection with the late Dr. Asa Gray, of New York city, founded the
American Institute of Homeopathy. He left a large bequest to objects of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, of which he was an honored member for many
years.
June 10. Eev. W. J. Davis, a venerable and much-esteemed pioneer missionary
to South Africa, who was first appointed to Kaflirland in 1831, died during a
brief visit (after his retiring from active work and residence in England) to
Grahamstown, South Africa, and was buried in the Wesleyan cemetery. He
was called by the Kaffirs their " Moses and Joshua."
June 10. Children's Day observed, with appropriate services, by the Sunday-
schools of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and a collection taken to aid the
Sunday-School Fund of the Board of Education.
June 13. Commencement oration of Philadelphia School of Oratory delivered by
Dr. J. M. Buckley, at the Academy of Music in that city, to an audience of
3,000 people.
June 12. The Eighteenth Meeting of the Wesleyan Ministers' Children and
Grandchildren was held at the Wesleyan Centenary Hall, Bishopsgate Street,
London. Mr. and Mrs. Eobert W. Perks provided for the tea- meeting.
President Garrett occupied the chair.
June 13. Eev. Thomes Southern was elected Vice-President of the Primitive Con-
ference held at Shields, England, who failed, by a vote of two, to reach tlie
presidential chair.
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June 13, Eighty-sixth Annual Piimitive Methodist Conference held in South
Shields, England.
Jane 14. Anniversary of Old People's Methodist Home, Philadelphia; nearly
8,000 people present. Proceeds, about $5,000.
June 15. The new Eevival Hymn Book issued by the British Wesleyan Book
Room contains many of the hymns sung in tlie early days of the Connection,
such as " Christ now sits on Zion's hill," " Come, 0 come, thou vilest sin-
ner, "The voice of free grace cries, ' Escape to the mountain,' " " The Gospel
ship is homeward sailing," etc.
June 16. Eev. Carl Weiss, for many years editor of the Methodist papers in
Germany, died at the Methodist Mission House, Frankfurt.
June 18. Monument erected in Cypress Hills Cemetery, near Brooklyn, N. Y.,
to the memory of James H. Perry, D.D., of the N. Y. East Conference of M.
E. Church, (formerly Col. 48th Eegt., N.Y.S.V.,) was unveiled. The cost was
mostly provided for by Hanson Place M. E. Church, Brooklyn, N. Y.
June 20. Hon. Thomas L. Tulloch, Postmaster at Washington city, an old
Methodist of 42 years' standing, died at Atlantic City.
June 20. Germany and Switzerland Conference convened at Heilbronn, Germany,
Bishop Foster in the chair.
June 24. Eev. Peter D. Day, of the Newark Conference, preached his semi-
centennial sermon at his native place. New Providence, N. J. The re-union of
the Day family took place, the mother of which was nearly 100 years old, and
three of her living sons are Methodist ministers. Centennial commencement
of Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa., continuing four days. Dr. Lucius C. Mat-
lack, a distinguished minister and writer of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
died suddenly of heart disease at Cambridge, Md., aged 67 years. Quarter-
centennial services of St. Mark's Methodist Episcopal Church at Buffalo, N. Y.
Dr. Sandford Hunt, of the New York Book Concern, preached in the morning ;
and Dr. W. H. De Puy, pastor of the church when it was dedicated 25 years
ago, gave the historical address in the afternoon, and preached in the evening ;
Eev. T. E. Bell, pastor.
June 25. Annual Home Missionary Meeting at Sidney, New South Wales. The
Hon. John Colton, M.P., presided. The income of the society is £1,330.
June — . The $200, 000 debt of the North-western University paid, Wm. Dear-
ing of Evanston, 111., giving $75,000, and ex-Governor Evans, of Colorado,
$50,000, the remainder being subscribed in lesser sums. This leaves more
than $1,500,000 assets, chiefly in real estate, which has a large prospective value.
Jnly 3. New auditorium at Ocean Grove, N. J., opened for service. Eev. J. H.
Vincent, D.D., preached the opening sermon.
July 6. Stella, eldest daughter of Prof. James Strong, of Drew Seminary, while
the family were making a tour of Europe, died at Vemayaz, Switzerland, and
Wiis buried in Montreux, on Lake Geneva.
July 7. Comer-stone of the new School Eoom at Burwood, New South Wales,
laid by Mrs. Schofield. Addresses by Dr. Kelynack and others.
July 8. Rev. W. T. Carter, Wesleyan minister, commenced a series of Work-
ing-men's Weekly Meetings on Saturday nights at Port Pirie, consisting of a
lecture, songs, and recitations, which promises great good, and tends to check
dissipation among working-men.
July 9. The corner-stone of the Unley Wesleyan lecture-room was laid by Mrs.
Colton. Addresses by President J. Bickford and others.
July 12. Eev. Wm. Griffith died at Derby, England, aged 77. He was one of
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the " triumvirate " of 1849, heading the secession from the Wesleyan Church,
England ; identified with United Free Methodist Churches ; member of Ecu-
menical Conference in 1881.
July 13. Fourteenth Anniversary of the Founding of Ocean Grove, New Jersey.
Dr. E. H. Stokes President since its organization.
July 14. Notice of death, at Auckland, of Eev. John Hobbs, the oldest "Wes-
leyan missionary of New Zealand or the Australasian group, aged 84. He
was a contemporary in the New Zealand mission-field with Samuel Marsden,
Bishops Williams and Selwyn, and others.
Jul y 14. The Primitive Conference of 1882 decided to present the venerable Thos.
Bateman, of Chorley, with a token of its appreciation ; and at this date he and
his wife were presented with portraits in oil with appropriate ceremonies.
July 15. Eu-opening of the Wesleyan School Boom after enlargement. Ser-
mons by Eev. T. B. Stephenson and others.
July 16. Memorial stones of a new Primitive Methodist Sunday-school were laid
at North Ferriby, Eng. Address by Eev. C. Spivey.
July 17. Eev. M. Y. Bovard, of the South India Conference, with his wife, ar-
rived in New York.
July 18. The elegant new Wyoming Methodist Episcopal Church, erected at a
cost of $30,000 by Mr. Pettebone, and deeded to the Church, was dedicated.
July 18. A farewell meeting was tendered, at Adelaide, to Eev. Thomas Lloyd,
a veteran Wesleyan minister, on his departure to England, for his health and
rest, Eev. J. Bickford, President of the Conference, presiding. An address
and a purse of 250 sovereigns were presented to him by the Methodists of the
colony, as a token of their respect.
July 18. Memorial stones of a new chapel laid at HoUoway, Canada. Addresses
by Eev. Dr. Antlifl' and others.
July 18. The custom amounting to law among the Primitive Methodists allows
the preacher to leave his station just before the sitting of Conference, (the 6th,)
but requires those to report that have been changed to new stations on the 18th,
or at least the Sunday following, the intervening time being regarded as the
minister's holiday.
July 19. Japan Mission Conference opened at Yokahama, Bishop Merrill presidinsj.
July 20. Mr. T. B. Smithies, the founder of " The British Workman " and " The
Band of Hope Eeview," a distinguished Wesleyan layman and public philan-
thropist, died in his 68th year, and was buried at Abney Park Cemetery, Lon-
don, N. He gave princely to the Wesleyan Church, and did immense good by
his pen and his means otherwise.
July 30. Eev. John Osborne, pastor of the York Street Wesleyan Church, in
Sydney, New South Wales, was tried by a general District Meeting for heresy,
and, after a careful examination of the charges, was acquitted.
July 22. Opening of Mrs. Hampson's Gospel Mission at Adelaide.
July 23. Eev. Edward Spratt, a missionary at Duncans, Jamaica, was killed by a
fall from his horse. He had labored 26 years in the West Indies.
July 23. The Governors of the Theological Institute of the United Methodist
Free Churches met, and were greeted by the Principal, who reported the insti-
tution as prosperous.
July 26. William Bunn, an influential VYesleyan local preacher, class-leader,
steward, and trustee for over 40 years, died in Ledbury, Eng., aged 76.
July 26. Four young men, sent out by the General Missionary Committee, sailed
for Queensland, South Africa.
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Ju!y 28. The London Daily "Times" hsis an editorial highly appreciative of the
British Wesleyan Conference.
July 28. Corner-stone of a new Sunday-school chapel laid at Tfalifax, N. S., by-
Edward Crossley. Estimated cost of land and structure, £4,000.
July 28. Dr. Lucius H. Bugbee, late President of Alleghany College, died at
Geneva, N. Y.
July 29. Ee-opening of the Wesleyan Church at St. Leonard, New South
Wales, after its enlargement. Sermons by Eev. Dr. Kelynack and others.
July 30. Semi-annual meeting of the New South Wales Bush Missionary So-
ciety, Mr. John Roseby piesiding. Secretary Palmer submitted the report,
and addresses were made by tliree missionaries employed by the organization.
July 31. The Annual Assembly of the United Methodist Free Churches opened
in Eochdate, Eng.
July 31. Eev. Jeremiah Millard, P.E. of the Newburg District, New York
Conference, buried at Newburg. There was a large attendance of ministers.
July 31. Edward Eidley, a prominent merchant of New York city, and useful
member and local preacher of the Methodist Episcopal Church, died sud-
denly, 67 years of age.
July — • Gen. Jesse H. Moore, U. S. Consul at Callao, died of yellow fever. He
was a member of the Illinois Conference, and was an officer in the Civil War,
and member of Congress in 18(58-70.
July — • Dr. Waugh, at liis own request, retires from the Presidency of Wesley Col-
lege, Victoria, at the close of the Conference year ; and Eev. E. I. Watkin, Pres-
ident of the Conference, has been nominated by tlie committee to succeed him.
July — . An edict by the Governor will severely embarrass the Primitive Methodist
mission schools in Fernando Po, requiring all children to attend government
schools who cannot satisfy him that they are well acquainted with the Spanish
language. Unless the edict is modified, it pi-actically closes the mission schools.
It is possible that the Jesuits are behind this extraordinary and uncalled-for
action.
July — • An unknown friend of Primitive Methodism has signified his intention to
give, subject to the payment of small annuities on two lives, the sum of £5,000
to the Missionary Fund. Sometime previously this anonymous donor presented
18 houses and 3 acres of land, of the value of £.3,000, to the Bloxvvioh and Car-
mock Circuit ; more recently he has given £1,000 toward the reduction upon the
chapels in the Darlaston Station ; and at the Conference which has just closed
he gave £1,000 for the employment of a missionary in the town of Walsall and
for other Connectional purposes.
Jnly _, Mr. Arthur S. Peake, son of Eev. S. Peake, of Peaton Strand, Eng., has
been elected to a scholai-ship in St. John's College, Oxford, of the annual value
of £100, and tenable for five years. This is the highest honor won by any
Primitive Methodist.
Jnly — . The memorial stone of a new chapel was laid at Englishhatch, near Bath,
on ground leased by the Prince of Wales on merely nominal terms.
July — • A series of Holiness Conventions were decided upon to be held in vari-
ous points in the Hull (Eng.) District.
July—. Eev. W. B. Pope, D.D., of Didsbury Wesleyan Methodist College,
England, has been asked by the Bishop of Gloucester, who is editing " The
Old Testament Commentary, " to write " Ezra" and " Nehemiah."
Ausr. 1. Manitoba Methodist Conference, Canada, organized at Winnipeg; Dr.
Geo. Young, President ; Eev. J. Semmcns, Secretai-y.
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Aug. 1* Caaadian Bible Christian Holiness Camp- meeting at Grimsby.
Aug. 1. Meeting held in Wesleyau Chapel, Hull, Eng., for the recognition of re-
turned missionaries, representing India, China, Africa, etc. Kev, John Kilner,
Senior Missionary Secretary, presided.
Au". 4. The foundation of a new Wesleyan M. E. Church laid at Lahore, India.
Aug. 4. Eev. Dr. J. M. Freeman, Assistant Editor in the Sunday-school Depart-
ment of the Methodist Episcopal Church, arrived in New York after a visit
of several months in Europe.
Aug. 6. Eev. W. Arthur, M. A., being unable to read his great (Femley) lecture
because of the condition of his voice, Dr. Stephenson read it. Subject, " The
Difference between Physical and Moral Laws."
Aug. T. Opening of Chautauqua Assembly, Dr. J. H. Vincent, Superintendent.
Aug. 7, A meeting was held at Waltham Chapel, Hull, on behalf of Methodist
Missions in France, Alderman H. J. Atkinson, J. P., presiding.
Aug. 7. Ee-union of Wesleyan missionaries (Indian) at the Hull Conference made
the occasion of meeting Eev. E. E. Jenkins, M.A., at dinner at the Station
Hotel, Hull.
Aug. 7. The corner-stone of the Jesse Lee Memorial Methodist Episcopal
Church, Eidgefleld, Conn., laid by Bishop Harris. Eev. George Lansing
Taylor, D.D., pastor,
Aug. 8. Twelfth annual Camp-meeting at Mountain Grove, Pa., Central Penn-
sylvania Conference, held to the 15th.
Aug. 9. Opening of the National Educational Assembly at Ocean Grove.
Aug. 10. Eev. L. Filson, M.A., of Wesleyan Training Institution, Naonla, Fiji,
elected a member of the Anthropological Society of Washington, U. S., a
society to which only one person is admitted annually.
Aug. 10. Frances Holden died at the Methodist Episcopal Home, New York, in
the 101st year of her age.
Aug. 12. Sunday-school prayer-meeting in the Methodist Episcopal Church at
Allahabad, India.
Aug. 13-19. Week of Prayer, M. E. Church, South.
Aug. 13. Anniversary of the Freedmen's Aid Society of the M. E. Church, held
at Ocean Grove.
Aug. 14. The Woman's Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal
Church was held at Ocean Grove, N. J., Bishop Harris presiding in the ab-
sence of Mrs. Rutherford B. Hayes, President of the society.
Aug. 14. Eev. A. Ilalmhuber, who has been residing in Japan, has written a
book on that interesting country and people, and the Book Committee of the
Evangelical Association has recommended its publication.
Aug. 16. Methodist Sunday-School Parliament at Brockville, Canada.
Aug. 16. An educational meeting of the United Brethren in Christ was
held at M'Pherson, Kansas, with a view to establishing a college for
the denomination in that State. The people of the place offered grounds
and to erect a building for college purposes, worth in cash value $25,000
or more, provided the Church will raise an equal amount for an endow-
ment fund. This proposition was to be submitted to the four Annual Con-
ferences in Kansas.
Aug. 16. Bishop N. Castle, in his Episcopal tour in Washington Territory, reports
his visit to a Chinese school oj^ened at Seattle, under the auspices of the
Woman's Missionary Society of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ;
Mrs. Sickafoose, tcaclier ; 40 scholars enrolled.
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Aug. 19. Coiiunenceineiit of Mt. Uniou College, Ohio ; 14 graduates.
Aug. 21. The Wotnau's Uuiou Holiness Camp-meeting held at Mount Tabor,
N. J., continued one week.
Aug. 21. A large tent for holding union evangelistic services formally opened at
Napanee, Cauaila.
Aug. 22. Semi- centennial celebration in Monrovia, Liberia, of the introduction of
Metliodism into that country by the arrival of Melville B. Cox.
Aug. 25. Camp -meeting announced to be held at Lucknow, India, to becin Sun-
day, Oct. 7, and close on Thursday, the 11th.
Aug. 25. New edition of the Methodist Hindustani Hymn Book announced in
press at Lucknow, India, under the direction of Eevs. Waugh, Messmore, and
Fieldbrave.
Aug. 29. The adjourned session of the General Conference of the Methodist
Church of Canada opened in Metropolitan Church, Toronto.
Aug. 26. Sunday-school Parliament of great interest held on the St. Lawrence
Central Camp-ground, A. L. Morden, Esq., President.
Aug. 28. An Outline History of the Evangelical Association is now being pub-
lished by the "Evangelical Messenger," in a series of papers prepared by Rev.
P. W. Eaidabaugh, of the Central Pennsylvania Conference.
Aug. 29. Adjourned Conference of Bible Christian Church, Canada, held at
Exeter ; Eev. E. Eoberts, President ; J. Harris, Secretary.
Aug. 29. The adjourned General Conference of the Methodist Church of Canada
met in Belleville, Ont.
Aug. 29. The Michigan Conference of the United Brethren in Christ took action
requiring applicants for license to preach and candidates for orders to be exam-
ined by written questions and answers, combined with an oral examination.
Aug. 29. The Trustees of Dickinson College elected Kev. Aaron Eittenhouse,
D.D., of Philadelphia, Professor of English Literature, and Prof Durell, of
Pennington, Adjutant Professor of Mathematics.
Aug. — . The Eochester (Minn.) Methodist Episcopal Church destroyed by a
cyclone. The church cost $15,000.
Aug. — . Heinrich Schneider, of Bismarck, Iowa, father of Eev. Charles Schneider,
of Wisconsin Conference, left a bequest of over $1,000 to be used for Church
purposes in the Evangelical Association.
Sept. 1. Eev. F. C. Klein, the first male missionary to foreign countries of
Methodist Protestant Church, with his wife, sailed from San Francisco for Japan.
Sept. 3. The General Conference of the Methodist Church of Canada adopted the
" Union Basis " by a vote of 123 to 38 — more than the " three fourths vote "
required.
Sept. — . North China Mission Conference held at Peking, China, Bishop Merrill
presiding.
Sept. 5. The semi-centennial of the Pittsburg Methodist Protestant Conference,
lit its session in Pittsburg, celebrated with appropriate exercises.
Sept. 7. Eev. Cyrus Brooks, of the Minnesota Conference, preached his semi-
oenti-nnial sermon, by request of that body.
Sept. 12. The corner-stone of a new chapel at The Groves, York (New Street)
Circuit, England, laid. It will be Italian style, and cost £6,000. The Lord-
Mayor of York presided on this occasion. In the historical address it was
stated that it was 124 years since England's greatest apostle, John Wesley,
built his first preaching-house in York to carry on the work begun some yeait?
before by Joh:i Nelson, the heroic Yorkshire stone-mason.
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Sept* 12. At a meeting of the General Board of Evangelical Associatioa of the
Ebenezer Orphan Asylum the assets were reported at $71,530. There are at
present in the Home 63 children — il boys and 22 girls.
Sept* 13. In 80 years the Evangelical Association grew from 40 members to
about 120,000, The total increase of members during the quudrennium, 1875-
1879,was 14,520, and during the past quadrermium, 1879-1883, the increase is
reported at 9,985, or 4,535 less than during the precedmg period.
Sept. 13. Amsterdam Methodist Episcopal Church, New York— an elegant
church — was dedicated by Bishop Andrews. Chaplain M'Cabe preached in
the evening. Cost of building and lot, $43,000.
Sept. 14. Camp-meetings, under the auspices of the united branches of Method-
ism, were opened at Ellesmere and Scarborough, Canada, both largely attended.
Sept. 16. The Missionary Anniversaries open on Chatham District, to continue
until January 20.
Sept. 16. The General Committee of Management of the Irish Methodist Con-
ference met in Dublin, Dr. Wm. Crook presiding. Kevs. Ker and M'Cutcheon
report receipts from American Methodists to date, £3,194 — nearly $16,000.
Sept. 17. Eev. and Mrs. A. Schlenk, of the Evangelical Association, appointed
to the Mission at Portland, Oregon, have arrived there.
Sept. 18. Francis Murphy, who arrived a few days previously from Europe, after
an absence of two years, laboring in the temperance cause, honored with a
grand public reception at Cooper Institute; Chief-Justice Noah Davis making
the address of welcome.
Sept. 18. General Conference of the Evangelical Association opened in Allen-
town, Pa.
Sept. 19. General Conference of the United Methodist Church voted to expunge
the vC'ord " obey" from the ritual marriage service.
Sept. 30. Drew Theological Seminary opened its seventeenth year with a large
list of students and an unusually hopeful outlook.
Sept. 20. The Calvinistic Methodist missionaries in the Cassia Hills, in India,
have just completed tlieir translation of the first five books of the Old Testa-
ment.
Sept. 20-22. Annual Meeting of the Missionary Board of the Methodist Church
of Canada.
Sept. 21. Eev. W. S. Sage and wife have been appointed missionaries to the
African Mission of the United Brethren Church. Mr. Sage was ordained by
Bishop Glosbrenner, and Mrs. Sage was consecrated by laying-on of hands by
the Bishop, and prayer and a charge.
Sept. 21. Mr. Thomas Watson, a veteran Free Methodist, died in Darlington,
England, at an advanced age.
Sept. 23. Canton Methodist Episcopal Church, an elegant stone edifice erected on
the site of the one destroyed by fire a year before, of massive stone, dedicated
by Bishop Foss. Dr. J. Lanahan preached in the evening. Cost estimated at
$130,000, of which $119,000 has been paid, and $4,000 promised on day of
dedication.
Sept. 23. Dr. James Wright, formerly Secretary of State for Iowa, and a life-long
Methodist, died at Bloomfield, Iowa, aged 65 years.
Sept. 24. A fraternal Convention of Methodists, representing the different
branches of Methodism, met at the Methodist Book Depository, Baltimore, to
take measures to invite the holding of the Centennial of Americiin Methodism
in that city in 1884
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Sept. 36. Ceutral China Mission Conference assembled at Kiukiang, China, Bish-
op Merrill presiding.
Sept. 26. " The Keligious Telescope," organ of United Brethren Church, en-
tered upon its fiftieth year.
Sept. 36. Rev. T. G. Clewell, formerly assistant Editor of the " Evangelical Mes-
senger," deUvered the oration at the re-opening of Union Seminary, New Ber-
lin, Pa.
Sept. 37. Suckley Memorial Chapel, on Mount Rutsen Farm, the Super-
annuated Preachers' Home of the New York Conference, built by Tliomas
H. Suckley, Esq., and presented free of debt to the Conference, dedicated
with appropriate services. A large company of ministers were present on the
occasion.
Sept. 38. Zion's Church, West Ringgold, Iowa, was dedicated, after two powerful
sermons, by Bishop R. Dubs.
Sept. 88. The first number of the new series of the "London Quarterly Re-
view" (Wesleyan) appeared from the Wesleyan Conference Ofiice, London,
England.
Sept. 39. Rev. S. G. J. Worthington, of the Central Illinois Conference, father of
the Hon. W. C. Worthington, M. C, died, aged 75 years. He was transferred
from the Pittsburg Conference to the West thirty years ago.
Oct. 1. Jersey City District Missionary Convention held at Jersey City.
Oct. 3. Rev. Nathan Hubbell, of the New York East Conference, delivered the
Annual Address before the New York Eclectic Medical College.
Oct. 3. President Beardshear reports in " Religious Telescope," organ of United
Brethren Church, an increase of students in Wesleyan College, at Toledo, Iowa,
and $16,000 of the $-40,000 to be raised for the institution.
Oct. 3. The Central Ohio Conference of American Wesleyan Church requires
preachers to be recommended for Elder's Orders before they are allowed to
vote, while the Miami Conference gives that privilege as soon as the name is
placed on the stationed list.
Oct. 4. Mrs. Mary D. James, poet and writer, and author of " The Soul-Winner,"
died suddenly, while sitting in her chair, at Mrs. Dr. W. C. Palmer's.
Oct. 7. The Missionary Anniversaries open on Pembroke District, to continue
until January 20.
Oct. 10» New York Branch of Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the M. E.
Church held at Albany, N. Y. ; 100 delegates present ; Mrs. Gov. J. A Wright,
President.
Oct. 13. Twenty-sixth annual meeting of the National Association of Local
Preachers of the Methodist Episcopal Church held at Nazareth Church, Phila-
delphia.
Oct. 15. W. K. Boyle, Esq., father of the Editor of the "Episcopal Methodist,"
Baltimore, died, at an advanced age. He was a Methodist for over fifty
years.
Oct. 16. Rev. Erasmus Q. Fuller, for several years Editor of the "Methodist
Advocate," an official paper of the Methodist Episcopal Church publislied at
Atlanta, Ga., (ceased to be published about a year ago, by order of the Book
Committee,) and for some time pastor of the Marietta Street M. E. Church, of
that city, fell dead on the street from apoplexy.
Oct. 17. The eleventh Quadrennial Session of the General Conference of the
Wesleyan Methodist Connection of America convened in the Wesleyan Church
in Syracuse, N. Y.
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Oct. 15. Pliilip Phillips and family arrived at New York, after a four months' en-
gagement of Christian song in Amsterdam, Holland, during tlie International
Exposition in that city. On leaving Amsterdam he was made the recipient of
valuable appreciative remembrances.
Oct. 17. Baltinaore Branch of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society held its
annual meeting at First M. E. Church, Baltimore. Addresses by Miss Spencer,
from Japan ; Mrs. Dr. M'Grew, from India, and others. Eeceipts for the year,
$6,160 78.
Oct. 18. Donation Day at the M. E. Orphanage, Philadelphia, Mrs. B shop
Simpson presiding. Gifts largely in excess of previous years.
Oct. 18. Drew Theological Seminary annual public opeuing-day. Semi-annual
meeting of Trustees.
Oct. 31. A reunion took place of the former pastors of Twenty-fourth Street
Methodist Episcopal Church, New York city.
Oct. 35. Philander Smith College, at Little Kock, Arkansas, dedicated by Bishop
Wiley. The edifice has been erected under the auspices of the Freedmen's Aid
Society of the M. E. Church. Mrs. Philander Smith gave $10,000 to the enter-
prise, which now bears tlie name of her deceased husband.
Oct. 38. Trinity M. E. Church, 118th Street, New York, Thomas H. Burcli, pas-
tor, built at a cost of $103,000, dedicated. Bishop Foss presided in the morning ;
Bishop Harris in the afternoon. Kevs. W. C. Steele and John Johns and
Gen. Clinton B. Fisk delivered addresses in the afternoon; and Dr. C. H.
Fowler preached in the evening. At the close of the evening sermon Bishop
Harris conducted the dedicatory service.
Oct. 38. One hundred and seventeenth anniversary of old John Street M. E.
Church, the " Cradle of Methodism," New York, observed with impressive and
interesting services. Love-fea.st at 9 A. M., conducted by Eev. Dr. A. K. San-
ford. Bishop Harris presided at 10:30 service. Bishop Foster preaching ser-
mon. Platform-meeting at 2:30 P. M., Dr. J. M. Keid presiding. Addresses
by Eevs. O. H. Tiffany, D.D., B. M. Adams, and W. V. Kelley, D.D. Prayer-
meeting at 6:30, James Wright, conductor. Evening service, 7:30 P. M., the
pastor, Eev. A. B. Sanford, presiding ; sermon by Dr. A. J. Kynett.
Oct. 31. Annual meeting of the Board of Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal
Church held in the Connectional buildings, 805 Broadway, New York, to ar-
range the plan of Episcopal Visitation of the Spring Conferences. All the
Bishops present, except Bishop Merrill, in China, on an official tour of the Mis-
sions in that country.
Oct. — . Foochow Conference, China, Bishop Merrill presiding.
Nov. 3. The tenth annual meeting of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of
the Methodist Episcopal Church was held in Des Moines, Iowa. (For report,
see subsequent pages.)
Nov. 18. The new Madison Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, admirably
located at the corner of East Sixty-first Street, New York, and costing with its
site $262,770, was dedicated by Bishop Harris, assisted by Bishops Simpson
and Foss, the pastor, Dr. O. H. Tiffany, and others. Bishop Simpson preached
in the morning and Bishop Foss in the evening. The contributions during
the day reached the largest collection ever taken thus far by any American
Church, reaching the sum of $112,770— a sum sufficient to meet the entire debt.
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Statistical Summaries— Comparative Progress of the Methodist Episcopal
Church.
The Annual Confekences.— In 1784 all the preachers were included in one
Conference. The present number is 99, exclusive of the 15 Mission Districts, the
latter having a total lay membership larger than the whole Church in 1784. In
1857 there were 47 Conferences; in 1867 there were 68; and 91 in 1877. The
number has doubled in 25 years.
Bishops. — The year 1883 closes with 10 Bishops. Whole number elected and
consecrated is 35. Of tlie 25 who have passed from labor to reward, 2 were elected
in 1784; 1 in 1800; 1 in 1808; 2 in 1816; 2 in 1824; 2 in 1832; 2 in 1836; 2 in
1844; 3 in 1852 ; 1 in 1858; 3 in 1864 ; 1 in 1866; 2 in 1872, and 1 in 1880. If the
present number survive until the General Conference in May next, (1884,) 3 of them
will have served 4 years; 6 of them 12 years, and 1, Bishop Simpson, 32 years.
In 1784 the numerical returns showed 83 itinerant preachers, and 14,986 lay mem-
bers. The Episcopal ratio, omitting fractions, was 1 Bishop to 41 preachers and to
7,493 lay members. Beginning with 1787, the third year after the election, and
reckonings, for convenience, by decades, and omitting fractions in each case, the
variations of the Episcopal ratio for the different periods will be indicated by the
following table ;
PreaL-tiera.
Members.
No. of Bishops.
No.ofConferenoai.
17S7 one Bishop to 66
12,921
2
3
1797
131
29,331
8
6
1807
" 258
72,295
2
7
1817 "
238
74,951
3
9
1827
" 325
127,332
5
17
1837 "
" 449
94,081
7
1847 "
" 738
127,294
5
24
1857
876
177,217
7
47
1867
800
114,608
10
68
1877
1,024
151,964
11
88
1882
1,103
174,802
10
9d
In each case in these calculations the members on probation are very properly
counted with the members in full connection. (For additional information concern-
ing the Bishops, see Tables, pp. 87, 88.)
Itinerant Preachers.* — The number of Itinerant preachers reported in the Gen-
eral Minutes of 1882 was 11,028, a loss of 194 during the year. Of the whole number
8,675 were in full connection, and besides these there were 1,337 on trial, that is, they
had not yet completed the constitutional term required for admission to full mem-
bership in Conference. The following numerical changes are shown for the year:
received on trial, 656 ; by re-admission, 27 ; from other ecclesiastical bodies, 41 ;
admitted into fuU connection, 432 ; located, 116 , returned withdrawn, 41 ; expelled,
20 ; died, 171 ; probationers discontinued, 87. + The first three items show tlio
aggregate of admissions to the Itinerancy, viz., 724; and the last five show the
aggregate loss for the year, viz., 435. The diflerence between the two (289) gives
the net gain for the year.
The following table, carefully compiled from the many volumes of Annual Min-
utes, shows the totals in the items named (so far as reported) from the organization
of the Church until Jan. 1, 1883:
* For summaries of Local preachers see pages 85 and 213.
+ The General Minutes do not recoi-d the number of preachers discontinued, bat that number
has been otherwise obtained for the year.
/
ly
78 Methodist Year-Book.
To and in- For Dec- For Dec- For 5 yeare Grand
Itinsraht Pbeachkrs. eluding ade end- »de end- endini.' Dec. 81, Tn».i
1S57. ing ls.67. ing 1877. 1882. *°""'
Received on trial 15,146 4,695 6,4.38 2,991 29,270
Admitted Into fuU connection 10,606 3,256 4,962 2,154 20,978
I^ocated 4,201 1,039 1.002 527 6,769
Withdrawn 222 257 244 212 935
Expelled 8" 86 118 77 458
Died 1,277 736 1,079 728 8,820
A comparison of the first two items shows an apparent loss of 8,292 ministerial
" probationers." In accounting for this falling out, it should be noted : 1. That of
this number 1,065 were still " on trial," their term of probation not having expired,
or had been extended. 2. That during the 104 years covered by these summaries a
very large number fell out of the Itinerant ranks by personal or family sickness or
some other disability, or by death, during their two or more yeare of probationary
service. 3. Tliat in the earlier years of our Church history a very large number of
persons entered the Itinerancy as a temporary arrangement, in order to aid the
Churcli in meeting at once the imperative demand for preachers in the rapidly de-
veloping work. 4. That the severities of the Itinerancy were then incomparably
greater than now, in respect of fatiguing journeys, long absences from families, inade-
quate salaries, lack of privileges of education, and of preparation for the ministry.
6. That of the number (6,769) who located after their admission into '■'■full connec-
tion,^^ a large proportion did so within a comparatively brief period from the date of
their admission. The same " causes " would be more powerfully operative before
admission as full Itinerants than afterward.
Losses by Death. — No deaths of preachers were reported in our General Minutes
until 1784, a period of eleven years. For the next forty years the number per year
ranged from one to ten, the yearly average being only four; from 1824 to 1857, a
period of thirty-two years, the average was S3, with a total of 1,053. Beginning
with the year 1857, when the deaths of lay members were first officially reported,
we have the following record :
Y Deaths of Deaths of
'^'^* Preachers. Members.
1857 46 8,462
1858 52 9,214
1859 53 9,845
1860 66 9,835
1861 64 10,375
1862 73 10,662
1863 91 13,269
1864 88 13,448
1865 86 13,116
1866 80 12,214
1867 83 12,575
1868 84 12,7('2
1869 82 13,554
In order to approximate the number of deaths in the lay membership previous to
1857, a calculation may be made for each previous period of twenty -six years back
to 1793, based upon the ratio of the yearly average of members to the yearly average
of deaths, during the last' period of twenty-six years. For the remaining double
decade from 1773 (the first Conference) a small allowance must also be added. Com-
bining the several numerical items thus obtained with the total of the official sum-
maries in the table above, we have a grand total of 712,090.
The ratio of increase in the ministerial death list for the last period of twenty-six
years is 2711%, and in that of lay members, l^i^A. The total deaths of itinerant
ministers as reported up to January 1, 1883, was 3,820. Adding to this the num-
1870.
1871.
1872.
1873.
1874.
1875.
1876.
1877.
1878.
1879.
1880.
1881.
Deaths of
Deaths of
Preachers.
Members.
92
14,344
84
15,682
101
17,048
136
18,900
104
18,105
135
19,591
143
19,010
118
19,816
111
19,080
135
21,138
143
21,294
168
22,752
171
22,322
Methodist Year-Book.
79
ber of deaths of lay members, we have a grand total of 715,910. These figures
w ill indicate to the reader the large influx of new ministers and members required
to meet tli« numerical waste from the single item of " deaths." Last year the
average weekly mortality in the membership of the Methodist Episcopal Church
■was four hundred and twenty-nine, and an average daily mortality of sixty -one.'
OcE German Work.— The German work in the Methodist Episcopal Church
began in Cincinnati in 1835, when Dr. William Nast collected together a half-dozen
Germans in a small hired house in that city. The class there formed was the "lit-
tle one which became a thousand." At the session of the Ohio Conference, held at
Springfield, Ohio, August 19, 1835, William Nast was received on trial, and
appointed German missionary for Cincinnati. In 1838 he was appointed German
editor of the " Christian Apologist." The first German Conference was organized
in the autumn, and reported in the Minutes of that year 22 members. The first
German Methodist Episcopal Church was built in Wheeling, West Va., in 1840. In
1844 the work was separated into German Districts, and in 1864 the first German
Conference was formed. The mission work in Germany opened in Bremen uud»r
the late Dr. L. S. Jacoby, December 23, 1849. Our German work in Europe was
organized into a Mission Conference in 1856, with a membership of nine itinerant
preachers, seven local preachers, and 527 lay memhere. The present strength of
our German work is indicated by the summaries given on page 121.
Our Colored Wore. — The Methodist Episcopal Church has from the beginning
welcomed colored persons into its membership. The first class in the old John-
street Society had one colored member, and the historic fact is well attested that
there has never been a time since when the membership of that Church did not in-
clude one or more colored pei-sons. Other " white " Churches in the North have
colored members, and some of the " colored " charges in the South have white
members. In the spring of 1864 the Philadelphia Conference reported, in a total
membership of 59,498, colored members to the number of 6,894. Most of these
were organized with others during the same year into the Delaware Conference.
In the South, and in the " Border States," the white and the colored work has
been, to a large extent, arranged into separate Conferences. Those Annual Confer-
ences which are either wholly or chiefly "colored" are the following: Liberia, Del-
aware, Washington, North Carolina, South Carolina, Savannah, Florida, Central
Alabama, Lexington, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, West Texas, and
Little Eock.
By carefully collating the statistics of those Conferences exclusively colored, with
the statistics of the colored district in Missouri Conference, we have the summaries
given in the table on page 121.
StJio) AT -Schools. — The record of our progress in Sunday-school work for the
last quarter of a century is also most encouraging. The following are the numerical
returns for each year, beginning with the year in which the otficial reports M'ere ia-
Berted in the General Minutes :
Year.
Sunday.
Schools.
Officers and
Teataera
Scholars.
Year.
Snnday-
Schcols.
OfBcers and
Tearhel-3.
Schools.
1857..
. 10,766
114,791
.591,468
1863...
. 13,008
146,967
834,176
1858..
. 11,490
129,368
677,217
1864...
. 13,153
148,475
859,700
1859..
. 11,755
139,299
732,592
1865...
. 13,948
153,699
931,724
1860. .
. 13,343
146,130
793,131
1868. . .
. 14,045
162,191
980,622
1861..
. 13,a36
146,910
800.266
1867...
. 15,341
174,945
1,081,891
1862..
. 13,183
146,379
805,050
1868. . .
. 15,885
181,666
1,145,167
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Methodist Year-Book.
Offic
Scholnra.
/
'^''" khoo... ...........
18G9.... 16,393 184,596 1,179,984
1870.... 16,912 1«9,412 1,221,393
1871.... 17,555 193,979 1,267,742
1872 ... 17,471 193,691 1,278,559
1873.... 18,031 197,180 1,318,603
1874.. . 18,628 200,402 l,-363,876
1875.... 19,287 207,182 1,406,168
Net Increase for 25 years 10,386
Year.
1876 .
18i7..
1878. .
1879..
1880. .
1881 . .
1882..
19,691
19.868
19,931
20,359
21,093
20,643
21,152
Officers and
TeHcbers.
208,966
216,902
213,119
217,967
222,374
223,913
226,702
81,911
1,453,038
1,493,718
1.531,097
1,549,315
1,602,334
1,591,173
1,638,895
,047,427
Tlie net gum pe?' cent, in the Suuday-scliool numerical returns. for the quarter
century closing with 1882 is as follow.^ : Gain in number of Sunday-schools, 96i%o
■per cent. ; number of Sunday-school teachers, b^f^^per cent. ; number of scholars,
IVTioo per cent.
The Sunday-school Statistics for each year, as returned to the officers of the
Sunday-School Union in New York, furnish other interesting figures. Among the
summaries for 1882 are the following :
Number of Scholars over 15 years of age 550,776
Number under 15 years, except in Infant Clas.scs 506,275
Number in Infant "Classes 327,962
Average attendance 1,044,753
Volumes in Library 1 ,797,778
Expenses of Schools this year $;627,662
Ofticers and Teachers in Church Membersliip 185,178
Scholars who are Church Members 289,333
Conversions during Year 75,821
Churches and Parsonages. — The number of chapels and churches (liouses of
worship) owned and occupied by the Methodist Episcopal Church at its organiza-
tion is not known. Over 60 were reported at the close of the year following the
Christmas Conference. Neither the list nor number is to be found in the Confer-
ence Minutes, but Lednum, in his historic notes of those early times, gives their
names and locations.*
The General Minutes do not furnish a yearly record of the number of churches
and parsonages, with their estimated value, until 1857. By collating the return sin^-e
that date we have the following lucid and gratifying exhibit :
Year.
1857
1858
1859
1860
1861
1862
1863
1864
1865
1866
1867
1868
1869
Churches
8,335
9,063
9,305
9,754
9,922
9,860
9,4.30
10.015
10,041
10,462
11,121
11,692
12,048
V.ilue. 1
$15,781,310
17,560,494
18,822,640
19,552,054
20,069,580
20,605.981
20.8;30,554
23.781,510
26.7.50,.502
29,59 1,(X)4
35,885,439
41,693,932
47,253.067
2,174
2,407
2,540
2,674
2,763
2,793
2,853
2,948
3,143
3,314
3,570
.3,810
3.968
a. Value.
$3,126,874
2,350,993
2,427,168
2,663,318
2,669,907
2,681,790
2,790,150
.3,101,566
4,396,731
4,420,9.58
5,.361,295
6,276,,579
6,862,230
Increase during last 25 years
Year.
1870
1871
1872
1873
1874
1875
1876
1877
1878
1879
1880
1881
1883
Churches
13,37'3
1.3,440
14,008
14,490
15,010
15,633
1.5,816
16,200
16,648
16,915
17,561
17,896
18,1.52
. 7,817
Vahie.
$52,614,591
56,911,900
63,393,237
66,3.32,580
69,288,815
71,.35.3,234
71,760,771
70,239,441
68,776,473
62,520,417
64,1-30,306
66,212,701
65.467,082
49,685,773
Parsonage:
4,179
4,809
4,484
4,677
4,893
5,017
5,215
5,355
5,514
5,689
5,814
6,103
6,224
4,050
I. Valu^.
5;7,293,5l3
7,786.804
8,575,877
8,442,5.54
9,604,230
9,731.628
9.503,900
9,175,480
8.911,934
8.4;35,192
8,750,513
8,901,425
9,250,288
7,123,414
The above figures show a net gain per cent, during 25 years as follows : In church
edifices, li'm^ per cent. ; in value of church edifices, S16j^^ per cent. ; in parsonnge.s,
ISG^esper cent. ; and in value of parsonages, SSS^y,, per cent.
* Daring- the last few years there has been a general marking down of estimated values, po
as to conform them to the changed market for real estate. The real value has, however, largely
increased every year.
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CoNTRiBUTioirs AXD EXPENSES. — After exiimiuing the official returns for the sum-
maries of the various Conference collections reported up to November 1, and care-
fully estimating for other items, basing such estimates upon exact reports from a
larcre number of Churches, and from reports in the local minutes of Annual Con-
ferences, the following list is presented as an approximation of the amounts con-
tributed by the Methodist Episcopal Church for the year 18S3. These estimates
are under, rather than over, the true amounts. For fuller and specific reports, see
exhibits of the various departments in th,e present Year-Book.
The expenses for salaries of ministers include the amounts paid for the support
of Bishops, Presiding Elders, and Pastors. The total is considerably larger than
that given in the Conference summaries m the Minutes, because the latter omitd
the returns of churches which failed to send in an official report.
General Conference collections Sl,448,M7 25
Miscellaneous collections 338,560 00
Expenses for Sunday-schools 627,662 41
Expenses for new churches and improvements 3,305,641 00*
Expenses for local mission work 287,400 00»
Ex pease for salary of ministers 8,'a7,000 00
Local Church expenses 2,722,800 00
Total $16,968.010 66
The General Conference collections in the above table embrace the following
items :
Parent >fisslonary Society $751,469 90
Woman's Foreign Missionary Society 124,823 38
Woman's Home Mlssiouary Society (estimated) — 25,000 00
Board of Church Extension 199,496 25*
Sunday-School Union and Tract Society 32,311 00
Freedinen's Aid Society 12.3,153 72
Board of Education 25,000 00*
Conference Claimants 167,693 00
Total §1,448,947 25
MnnsTEEiAL Service. — The subjoined table gives classified lists of the official
appointments of the itinerant preachers for the years indicated. They are suggestive
of the general range of similar classifications for other years :
Official ApporsTstES-Ts. 1867. I 187L | 1877. j 1881. i 1882.
Presiding Elders Of Districts I 337| 419| 429J 4451 446
Presiding Elders who are also Stationed Pastors i 21: 7| 26 — —
Agents of Book Coneems and Depositories I 5] 6i 5 12| 10
Presidents and Principals of Educational Institutions... 1 95 8^ &4i 110 106
Professors of Colleges and Seminaries. . . — I 72 59 99. 90| 102
Supermiendents of other Institutions I 4! 4 5| 18| 9
Chaplains by appointment of United States Government 81 6; 10] 12 11
Other Chaplains ! 21! 231 251 24l 22
Missionary and other Church Secretaries 9! Id 18| 13. 17
Editors bv Episcopal Appointment 17i 20 24 221 23
Agents of Educational Institutions i 22j ^4; 21j 28, 27
Secretaries and Agents of Bible Societies j 24
Secretaries and Agents of Temperance Societies I 8
Other Agents H
Conference and City Missionaries and Evangelists • 3
Itinerants appointed to Foreign Missions 17i — i 71] — ] .^j.
Supernumeraries 461 548 719 &o4 982
Superannuated 854 971 1,193 1,369 1,432
Itinerant Stationed Pastors 6,036 7,452 9,440 9,308 9,204
* The New York City Church Extension and Missionary Society reported (ls52) receipts for
local purposes amounting to over |50,000, exclusive of the sums raised for new church enter-
prises, for wlilch see page 199.
4*
27' 18 13] 11
8i 11 7 10
201 27 26; 20
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Methodist Year-Book.
In addition to the itinerant stationed pastors named in the last item above, there
■were 1,335 preachers (chiefly local preachers) appointed by Presiding Elders and
Bishops to pastoral charges left at the Conference sessions " to be supplied." For
interesting summaries relating to local preachers, see pages 213, 214.
Numerical Growth by Quarter Centuries. — Beginning with the close of
1784, the date of the organization of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and reckon-
ing by periods of twenty-five years, we have the following tabular exhibit:
Year.
Total at Church organization, in 1784 —
Total at close of first quarter century, in 1809 —
Total at close of second quar. century, in 1834 —
Total at close of third quar. century, in 1859 —
Total at close of 23 years, or in 1882 —
During the third quarter century (namely, in 1845) the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South, was organized, and hence the apparent increase was not so great
during that period.
Lay Membership by Decades. — The first Methodist Society (composed of —
members) was fonned in the autumn of 1766. The first decade closed with 1777.
The numerical summaries for the several full decades since that period give the
following figures :
Itinerant
Lay
Increase in
Increase In
Preacht-ra.
Members.
Preachers.
Membe^'B.
83
14,988
597
163,038
514
148,050
2,265
638,784
1,668
475,746
6,877
974,.345
4,612
335,561
12,365
1,742,031
5,488
767,676
Year.
Travelino
Preachers.
Increase
OF Preachers.
Members.
I\CREa8B
OF Meubers.
1766
"24
117
293
452
695
1,406
2,928
3,582
5,8T7
7,576
11,361
"24
93
176
159
243
711
1,522
654
2,295
1,699
3,785
' 4',92i
20,689
56,664
130,570
214,235
360,800
650,103
644,229
870,827
1,032,184
1,613,560
1776
4,921
1786
15,768
1796
33,975
1806
1816
73,906
a3,665
1826
146,565
1836
289,303
1846
dec. 5,874
1856
156,098
1866
1876
231,857
581,376
During the decade 1836-1846 (in 1845) the separation of the Methodist Episco-
pal Church, South, took place. That Church embraced in 1845, the date of its
separate organization, a total of 462,428 members.
Growth of Lay Membership compared with Population, instituting a com-
parison by taking the decades corresponding with those of the United States Censuft
reports, we have the following table :
1790.
1800.
1810.
1820.
1830.
1840.
1850.
1860.
1870.
3,929,214
5,308,483
7,239,881
9,633,822
12,866,020
17,069,453
23,191,876
31,443,321
38,558,371
50,152,866
1,379.269
35.10
1,931,398
26..38
2,393,941
33.06
3,232,198
32.51
4,203,4a3
33.52
6,122,423
35.83
8,251,445
35.11
7,115,050
22.65
11,594,495
.30.06
12.60
168.96
48.87
83.21
68.38
*
44.20
37.47
27.4»
Strength of the Methodist Episcopal Church by States. — As that part-
of the United States Census of 1880 relating to the various religious denomina-
* The figures are omitted here because during the decade then closing the loss by separatidii
of the Methodist Episcopal Ohurch, South, took place.
Methodist Year-Book.
83
tions has not yet been completed, but will probably be published early in 1834, it
would be presumptuous to jmnounce in these pages early advance figures — however
nearly they might approxiuiate the official returns— for which the whole country
lias long been waiting. The latest State count yet given to the public is tiiat of the ^
New York State Census of 1875. The following table has been compiled from the iX
figures officially reported in that census, and is here inserted as the fair average
indication of a class of facts which would, by carefully calculated statistics, repre-
sent many of the States :
DENOHIKATIONa IH STATE,
Methodist Episcopal .,,..
African M. E
African M. E. Zion
Calvinistic Methodist
Evangelical Association..
Independent Methodist. .
Methodist Protestant
Primitive Methodist
Reformed Methodist
United Brethren in Christ
Free Methodist
Wesleyan Methodist
Total Methodist.
Baptist
Freewill Baptist
Seventh-Day Baptist.
Total Baptist
Presbyterian
United Presbyterian . . . .
Reformed Presbyterian .
Total Presbyterian . . .
Friends, Hicksite.
Orthodox
Not specified . .
Total Friends.
Protestant Episcopal ....
Con-^regational
Refo"ed(Dut.)Ch. inU.S,
Evantrelical Lutlieran ....
Union
Uni versalist
Christian Connection
Campbellites
Second Adventists
United Evangelical Ch'ch
Reformed Church in U.S.
Unitirian
Mnnivian
True Reformed Dutch Ch.
New .lerusalem Church. .
Shakers
Independent
Seventh-Day Adventists.
Mennonites
Advent Chris. Association
Roman Catholic
Jewish
1,7S5
48
5
17
60
1
15
2
5
4
89
52
2,088
823
109
26
95S
716
55
23
Edi-
fices.
Sitting!.
1,766
619,382
47
14,065
5
2,075
1/
4.975
60
17,595
1
175
15
8,531
2
900
5
1,250
4
870
85
22.685
52
13,175
Member-
ship.
Annaal
lo'nt Paid
lor Snlariei
of Clergy.
561
258
237
201
147
115
102
26
14
18
11
10
10
7
7
8
2
2
2
1
613
46
552
257
285
200
147
113
100
26
13
13
11
16
10
7
6
8
2
2
2
1
609
43
700,678
813.653
29.350
8,305
851,808
838442
24,970
9,250
372,662
10.650
6.750
11,705
29,105
226,092
107,847
109,815
77,731
43,515
41,978
23,555
8,340
2,992
5,970
4.610
8.560
2.5 1.^
2.1 '20
1..=.75
2.0110
880
8.-0
801)
80n
387,226
25,446
109,972
111.660
9,015
8,023
123,698
1,583
987
2,394
4,904
78,515
30.922
8o,S97
84.439
7.747
9.651
6.270
2,350
609
8,699
1..821
2.477
663
244
2110
826
84
61
518.714
5,775
$635,950
21,616.7.50
8,210.300
5,770.298
2,ni 0.000
682.100
1,413.400
217.920
1 1 1.700
28.1.'iO
68.300
8.5.0110
817.000
1C3.400
73..500
158.800
8.5.000
40.0110
5,600
700
4.500
18,301.590
8,536,500
$30,450
2,984.620
402.700
2,168.325
453.360
20.9.511
8.S.300
26, .500
700
8.42.5
6..i00
18,900
20 2.50
2.000
5.000
4,3b6.49!l
65,500
810.872
265.045
8111.240
136.6.5S
87.796
96.280
34.991
15.265
8.2.50
8.425
9.300
46,1 HU»
5,300
8,900
8,100
2,966
6 0
467.814
79,590
Grand total in New York 6,320 6,243 2,537,470 1,177,4701 $101,105.765 $16,491.885 $15,808.231
* The Roman Catholic Church counts in its memb<Tsuip ttie whole populution.
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Methodist Year-Book.
A glance at the preceding table will show that in the State of New York the
y Methodist Episcopal Church led, in 1875, all the other denominations in all tho
items given in the census except that of Church property.
Comparison with other Religious Denominations.— Owing to the non-appear-
ance, up to this date, (December 1, 1883,) of that portion of tlie United States
Census of 1880, we are compelled now, as for several years past, to go back to the
Census of 1870 for the latest reliable figures giving, in the items named, the com-
parative statistical summaries ;
Denominations.
Organi-
zations.
Edifices
Sittings.
Propektt.
14,474
12,857
3,997,116
$39,229,221
1,355
1,105
363,019
2,378,977
3,578
2,822
865,602
6,425,137
2,887
2,715
1,117,212
25,009,698
2,835
2,601
991,051
36,514,549
815
641
193,796
2,301.650
692
662
224,664
3,939,560
189
152
73,265
5,155,234
3,032
2,776
977,332
14,917,747
25,278
31,337
6,.528,209
69,8.54,121
27
17
6,935
135,650
67
25,700
709,100
189
171
87,a38
656,750
90
61
18,755
869,700
6,r62
5,683
2,198,900
47.828.733
1,562
1,388
499,344
5,436,524
471
468
227,228
10,3.59,255
1,250
1,145
431,700
5,775.215
4,127
3,806
1,990,514
60,985,566
225
140
34,555
306,240
38
18
8,850
86,900
P5
22
6,970
100,150
331
310
155,471
6,282,675
1,445
937
265,025
1,819,810
wg
602
210,884
5,692,325
£6
27
11,925
687,800
4C9
552
153,202
965,395
72.459
03.082
31,665,002
$3.54,483,581
Baptist, (regular)
Baptist, (other)
Cliiistlati
Congregational
Episcopal, (Protestant)
Evangelical Association
Friends
Jewish
Lutheran
Methodist
Miscellaneous
Moravian, (Uuitas Fratrum)
Mormon
New Jerusalem, (Swedenborgian)
Presbyterian, (regular)
Presbyterian, (other)
Reformed Church in America, (late Dutch Ref'd)
Reformed Church in U. S., (late German Ref'd)
Roman Catholic
Second Advent
Shaker
Spiritualist
I'nitarian
United Brethren in Christ
Universahst
Unknown, (Local Missions)
Unknown, (Union)
All Denominations
Collatnig from the above table the figures relating to the six leading denomina-
tions, we have the following exhibit for that year :
Denominations.
Org.\ni-
ZATIONS.
Sittings.
Pkoperty.
Total Methodists
Total Baptists, (all kinds).
Total Presbyterians
Total Congregationalists . .
Total Protestant Episcopal
Total Roman Catholic —
27,538
15,829
7,824
2,887
2,835
4,127
22,915
13,962
7,071
2,715
2,601
3,800
7,455,937
4,360,135
2,698,244
1,117,212
991,051
1,900,514
$73,975,581
41,608.198
53,265,256
25,009,698
36,514,549
60,985,566
Eelative Numerical Strength in 1883. — The Eoman Catholics claim a total
of about 5,000 bishops and priests ; 7,000 churches, chapels, and stations ; a total
■population of about 7,000,000 ; and this entire population is incorrectly counted in
the membership ! The number of Eoman Catholic communicant.s has not been
reported.*
* The editor of the Teak-Book made application to two of the best informed and most influ-
ential Roman CathoUc clergymen in this country for information concerning' the numerical
statistics of that Chuich, and though courteously received and supplied wit;li other items of
interest, he was assured that the statistics of the lay membership had not been reported.
Methodist Year-Book.
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The statistical summary of the Protestant denominations, inserted on pages SVS
884, are tubulated chiefly from the latest published oliicial reports of the several
Churches named.
The figures which go to make up the Baptist total in this table are in many
cases largely " estimated ; " (see " Baptist Year-Book ; ") but assuming them to be
correct, we are confronted with the fact that in obtaining them the returns are
taken of all "Baptist" congregations, ^cithout respect of ecclesiastical or denomina-
tional ({filiations. Over half of the ministers and over two thirds of the churches
and menibei-s are in the South, and there is no connectional bond between them
and those in the North. They are as widely separated in any denominational fel-
louship as are the Northern and Southern Presbyterians, or tlie difierent braiichea
of the Methodist family.
In any fiiir comparison, therefore, with the Baptists, similar totals mztst be taken
from the other denoininations.
In the first of the following tables the Presbyterian total embraces those reported
by the General Assemblies, North and South ; the Methodist totals those reported
by the branches which bear the name of Methodist Episcopal; and the Protestant
Episcopal those which are reported by the Protestant Episcopal and Reformed Epis-
copal, North and South.
In the second table there are grouped together by families official returns of all
Methodist, all Baptist, all Presbyterian, all Congregationalist, all Protestant Epis-
copal, and all Lutherans, iu the United States :
First Table.
Ministers. Members.
M. E. Churches In U. S. 21,6«9* 3,.526,436
Baptists, N. and S 17,090 2,394,742
Presbyterians, N. and S. 6,288 727,712
Congregat'nalists,N.&S. 3,723 387,619
Lutherans, N. and S.... 3,550 800,189
Protestant Epis., N. & S. 3,513 306,408
Disciples of Christ .... 3,488 563,928
Secoi^d Table.
Ministers. Members.
Total Methodists 25.839+ 3,993,724
" Baptists 19,246 2,552,129
" Presbyterians.... 8,898 1,002,944
" Congregat'nallsts. 3,723 387,619
" Lutherans 3,5.50 800,189
" Protestant Epis.. 3,a30 313.889
" Disciples of Christ 3,488 £63,928
The grouping in the second table includes as Baptists, the Baptists', ("rcL'ular,")
Anti-mission Baptists, Free-will Baptists, Setenth-day Baptists, and Six-principle
Baptists ; ahso the Presbyterian, Southern Presbyterian, Cumberland Presbyterian,
Eeformed Presbyterian, United Presbyterian, and EeformedClmrches. For a com-
plete li.st of Methodist Churches, whose statistics are included, see page 8.5. Iu
the total of Methodist ministers the Local preachers are not included, although many
of them are ordained, and are now engaged in pastoral work.
Lay Officers.— The number of these in tlie Methodist Episcopal Church on
July 1, 1SS3, was carefully estimated, as follows :
Number of Trustees of Churches.
Number of Stewards of Societies
Nujnher of Ciass-leaders
Number of SuTiday- school Superintendents
Number of Sunday-school Teachers and Officers other than Superintendents. .
11.5,360
99,416
87,401
31,728
194,784
In this list the number of class-leaders is estimated on the basis of twenty mem-
bers for each class. In the English Wesleyan Church the official returns show
one leader for everv fifteen memljers.
7/
• Exclusive of 31,439 local preachers.
+ Exclusive of 34,714 local preachers.
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Methodist Year-Book.
General Summary of Methodists.
The following summaries have been compiled from tbe latest oflBcIal statistics reported
by the several branches of the great Wesleyan Methodist family. Those of the Methodist
Episcopal Church are to January 1, 1883, and include the official numerical returns of the
Fall Conferences of 1882 and the Spring Conferences of 1883. Those of the Jleth-
odist Episcopal Church, South, are for 1882. Those of the Canadian, British, and affili-
ating Conferences are for 1883. In two or three of the Churches the numbers of local
preachers are "estimated;" but in each of those by distinguished members of large
observation In the respective denominations.
I. Episcopal Methodists in United States. «>„"f/-» j.,f^ts. MemLr,.
Methodist Episcopal Church 12,654 12,337 1,799,593
Methodist Episcopal Church, South 4,045 5,869 877,299
African Methodist Episcopal Church* 1,832 9,760 391 ,044
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church 2,000 2,750 300,000
Colored Methodist Episcopal Church* 1,046 683 155,000
Evangelical Association 953 599 119,758
United Brethren* 1,257 963 159,547
Union American Methodist Episcopal Church 112 40 3,500
Total Episcopal Methodists in United States 23,899 33,001 3,805,741
II. IVon-Episcopal Methodists in United States.
Methodist Protestant Church 1,358 1,010 123,054
American Weslevan Church 267 215 23,590
Free Methodist Church 263 326 12,719
Primitive Methodist Church 27 162 3,716
Independent Methodist Church 25 27 .5,000
Congregational Methodists .. 23 20,000
Total Non-Episcopal Methodists In United States 1 ,940 1 ,763 188,079
III. Methodists in Canada.
The Methodist Church of Canada 1,216 1 ,261+ 128,644
Methodist Episcopal Church of Canada 259 255 2.5,671
Primitive Methodist Church 89 246 8,090
Bible Christian Church 79 197 7,398
British Methodist Episcopal Church (Colored) 45 20 2,100
Total Methodists In Canada 1,688 1,979 171,903
IV. Methodists in Great Britain and Missions.
British Wesleyan Methodists in (ireat Britain 1,917 14,183 441 .484
Missions 385 .... 70,747
Primitive Methodists 1.147 15,982 196,480
New Connection Methodists 183 1,271 29,299
Wesleyan Reform Union .551 8,663
United Free Methodists 391 3,417 84,152
Bible Christians (including Australia) 228 1,909 28,624
Total Methodists In Great Britain and Missions 4,807 36,762 859,449
V. Wesleyan Afliliating Conferences.
Irish Wesleyan Conference ■ 2.39 .... 25,050
French Weslevan Conference 196 ... 2,024
Australasian Conferences 449 4,480 60,392
South African 167 ... 26,038
Total In Wesleyan Affiliating Conferences 1 .051 4,480 126,504
Grand Total oi' Ministers and Lay Members.
Methodists in Churches of United States 25,a39 34,714 3,993,830
" Dominion of Canada 1,688 1,979 171,903
" Great Britain and Missions 4.807 36,762 a59.449
" Affiliating Conferences 1,051 4,480 69,.392
Grand total of Methodists and Missions in 18&3 33,385 77,935 5,094,564
Note.— Total Methodist population, (estimated,) 25,472,370.
• The latest returns. Exclusive of local preachers In New Brunswick Confei
Methodist Year-Book.
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Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church.— Table L
Names.
5o
17S4jT!ioinas C»ke
1784 Francis Asbury
1800 Eicliard Wliatcoat . . .
ISOslWiUiam M'Keiulree..
1S16 Enocti George
ISie! llobert R. Roberts . . .
]S24|'^oshua Soule
lS24'Elijali Hedding.
1S82! James O. Andrew
1832! John Emory
lR86|Beverly Waugli
ISSeJTliomas A. Morris
1644]Leonldas L. Ham'.ine.
1S44 Edmund S. Janes
ISSSiLevi Scott
1852 Matthew Simpson
1852 " ~ ~ "
1852
185S
1864
1864
1864
Osnion C. Baker.
Edward E. Ames
Francis Burns
Davis WaS]?att Clark.
Edward Thomson . . . .
Calvin Kinssley
18ii6'John W. Roberts
1872, Thomas Bowman.. . .
1872! William L. Harris.. .
1872 Randolph S. Foster. . .
1S72 Isaac W. Wiley
1872 Stephen M. Merrill. . .
1872 Edward G. Andrews..
1872 Gilbert Haven
1872 Jesse T. Peck
18801 Henry W. Warren
1880Cyrufl D. Foss
ISSo John F. Hurst
1880 Erastus O. Haven ....
Sept. 9, 1747
Aug.20, 1745
Feb. 23, 1786
July .'>, 1757
176S
Aug. 2, 1778
Aug. 1, 1781
Jan. 7, 1780
1794
Apr. 11. 1789
Oct. 8, 1789
Apr. 29, 1794
May 10, 1797
Apr. 27, 1807
Oct 11, 1802
June20,1811
July SO, 1813
Mar. 20,1806
Dec. 5, 1809
Feb. 25, 1812
Oct. 12, 1810
Oct. 11,1812
Sept. 8, 1812
July 15, 1817
Nov. 4, 1817
Feb. 22, 1820
Mar.29, 18-->.:
Sep. 16, 1825
Aug. 7, 1825
Sep. 10, 1821
April 4, 1811
Jan. 4, 1881
Jan.l7,l&34
Aug.17,1834
Nov. 1, 1S20|
Ent'd Ministry:
Conference. Ifsa"".
Remibks.
Brit. Wes.
Brit. Wes,
Brit. Wes.
M. E. Ch
M. E Ch
Baltimore
NewYork
Newark.
S. Carora
Phila
Baltimore
Ohio
Ohio ....
Phila....
Phila ....
Pittsburg.
N. Hanip.
Illinois. ..
Liberia. . .
NewYork
Ohio
Erie
Liberia. . .
Baltimore
Michigan.
Ohio
PhUa
Ohio
Oneida...
N. Eng'd.
Oneida . . .
N. Eng'd.
New York j
Newark. .
NewYork'
1778 Died at sea, May 3, 1S14, aged 67.
1766 Died in Va., March 31, 1816. aged 71.
1769 Died in Del., July 5, 1806, aged 71.
17S8 Died in Tenii.. March 5, 1885^ aged 78.
1790 Died in Va., August 28. 1S28, aged 60.
1802 Died in Ind., March 28, 184.3. aged 65.
1799 Bish. M. E. Ch., South, '46. d. Mar. 6. '67.
ISOl Died in Po'keepsie, Apr. 9,]s52, aged 73.
1812 Bish. M. E. Ch.. Soutli.'46,d. Mnr. 1, 71.
1810 Died in Md., Dec. 16, 1885, aged 47.
1S09 Died in Md., Feb. 9. 1858, a-ed 69.
1816 Died in Springfleld. O..Sopt. 2,'74.ajr.S0.
1833 Resig'd 1852; died in Iowa, Mar. 22.'65.
1880 Died in N. Y. citv, Sei>l. IS, '76, aged 69.
1826 Died in Odessa, Del., July 13, '82, ag. 80.
1833 Residence, Philadelphia.
1839 Died in Conc'd, N. H., Dec. 20,'ri ag. 59.
1S80 Died in Ballimnre. April 2.5, '79, ag. 73.
1838 Died in Baltimore, April 18, '63, asr. 54.
1843 Died in Cincinnati, Mav23, 1871, ag. 59.
1825 Died in Wheeling, W. Vs., Mar. 22, '70.
1841 Died in Beyroot, Syria, April 6, 1870.
1838 Died in Liberia, Jan. 30, 1S75, age<l 6&
1839 Residence, St. Louis.
1837 Residence, New York.
1837 1 Residence, Boston.
1849 1 Residence, Cincinnati
18461 Residence, Chicago.
1848, Residence, Washi'igton, D. C.
185l|Died in Maiden, Mass., Jan. 8, 1880.
1832 D'd in Syracuse,N.Y.,May 17, '83,ag. 72
1855, Residence, Atlanta, Ga.
1857 Residence, Minneapolis, Minn.
1859 Residence, Des Moines, Iowa.
1848' Died in Salem, Ore., Aug. 2, '81, ag. 61.
Post-Office Address of the Bishops, November 1, 1883.
Rev. Bishop Matthew Simpson, D.D., LL.D.. 13.34 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
Rev. Bishop Thomas Bowman, DD., LL.D., 3029 Washington Avenue, Saint Lonf.'?, Mo.
Eev. Bishop William L Harris, D.D., LL.D., 25 East Eighty-first Street, New York.
Rev. Bishop Randolph S. Foster, D.D., LL.D.. 69 Rutland Street. Boston. Maes.
Rev. Bishop Isaac W. Wiley, D.D.. LL.D., 190 West 4th Street, Cincinnati, O.
Rev. Bishop Stephen M. Merrill, D.D.. 57 Washington Street. Cliioigo. 111.
Eev. Bishop Edward G. Andrews, D.D.. 1115 Rhode Island Ave., N. W., Washington, D. O.
Eev. Bishop Henry W. Warren. D.D., 110 Whitehall Street. Atlanta, Ga.
Eev. Bishop Cyrus D. Foss, D.D., LL.D., 1115 Nicollet Avenue, Minneapolis, Minn.
Eev. Bishop John F. Hurst, D.D., LL.D., Des Moines, Iowa.
Support of the Bishops.
The official residences of the Bishops are fixed by the General Conference. The salaries
of the effective Bishops, and the amount, if any, necessary to the comfortable mainte-
nance of the non-eftective Bishops, and the amount necessary to assist the widows and
children of deceased Bishops, and the amount needed for the traveling expenses of the
Bishops, are to be estimated by the Book Committee, and apportioned by that Committee
among the Annual Conferences. It is made the duty of Annual Conferences to divide
severally the amounts assigned them among the districts, and to see that the amounts
apportioned to the several charges are raised and forwarded quarterly, when practicable,
to the Treasurer of the Episcopal Fund. Sandford Hunt, D.D., 805 Broadway, New York,
Is Treasurer, and Wm. P. Stowe, D.D., Chicago, is Assistant Treasurer of the Fund.
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Methodist Year-Book.
Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church.— Table IE.
Names.
z
»! S .•
(s 3 £
Previous Official Appointment.
S * g Ykap.s a Bi.-i:op.
^2W 1
Thomas Coke
Francis Asbury
Richard Whatcoat. . .
William M ' Kendree .
Enoch George
Robert R. Roberts. . .
Joshua Soiile
Elijah Heddlng
James 0. Andrew...
36
38
64
50
48
37
43
44
38
43
47
43
47
37
49
40
38
46
48
52
53
51
54
54
52
47
46
46
50
61
49
46
46
60
Supt. Methodist Churches in America. .
General Ass't of Mr. Wesley in America
6 SO yrs., . . mos.
18 31 '• 11 "
31 16 " .. "
Presiding Elder, Cumberland District.
Presiding Elder, Baltimore Conference
Presiding Elder, Philadelphia
-0 26 " 10 '*
26 12 " 3 "
14 26 " 10 "
25 42 " 10 "
Presiding Elder, Boston District
Presiding Elder, Souih Carolina Conf .
23
19
23
27
20
11
14
26
18
13
22
20 ■
21
31
23
24
33
35
So
23
26
24
21
40
25
23
21
32
27 '• 11 "
38 " 10 "
3 '• 7 "
Beverly Waush
Thomas Morris
Leonidas L. Hamllne
Edmund L. Janes —
21 " 9 "
Editor Western Christian Advocate, Cin.
Editor Ladies' Repository, Cincinnati..
Financial Sec'y of Amer. Bible Society.
^ r •■ "
32 " '4 '•
30 *' 2 "
Matthew Simpson...
Osmon C. Baker
Edward R. Ames —
Francis Burns
Davis W. Clark
Edward Thonson...
Calvin Kingsley
John W. Roberts
Thomas Bowman . . .
William L. Harris...
Randolph S. Foster..
Isaac W. Wiley
Stephen M. Merrill..
Edward G. Andrews.
Gilbert Haven
Jesse T. Peck
Henry W. Warren. . .
Cyrus D. Foss
John F. Hurst
Erastus 0. Haven . . .
Editor Western Christian Advocate, Cin.
Prof. Biblical Institute, Concord, N. H.
Presiding Elder
Presiding Elder, Liberia Conference. . .
Editor Ladies' Repository, Cincinnati . .
Editor Christian Advocate, New York.
Editor Western Christian Advocate, Cin.
32 " .. "
19 " 7 "
26 " 11 "
4 •' 11 "
7 " .. "
5 " 10 "
5 " 10 "
8 " 7 "
President Indiana Asbury University..
Corresponding Sec'y Missionary Society
President Drew Theological Seminary. .
Editor Ladies' Repository, Cincinnati..
Editor Western Christian Advocate, Cin.
Pastor Seventh Ave. Ch..Brookrn, N, Y.
Editor of Zion's Herald, Boston, Mass..
Pastor University Ave. Ch., Syracuse...
Pastor Arch Street Ch., Philadelphia,Pa.
President Wesley an University
President Drew Theological Seminary .
Chancellor of Syracuse University
12 " .. "
12 " .. "
12 " .. "
12 " .. "
12 " .. "
12 " .. "
12 " .. "
11 " .. "
3 " 7 "
3 '• 7 "
3 " 7 "
1 " 2 "
The first five Bishops spent their whole ministi-y, previous to their election as Bishops, in the
pastoral work, as did also Bishops Bedding, Andrew, Burns, and Roberts. The other Ei.shops
served in ofllcial I'elatious other than that of the pastorate, for the number of years indicated
below.
Bishop Soule, Book Agent, and Editor " Methodist Mag-anine," 4 years.
_..«-„ „ , . i „ ._j T>.- .1 — „• 1, Book Agent, 8 years— at New York.
years.
, and of "Western Christian Advocate,"
Bishop Janes, '^gent for Dickinson College, 2 years; Financial Sec'y Am. Bible Society, i years.
Bishop Scott, Principal Dickinson Grammar School, Syears, and Book Agent at New York, 4 years.
Bishop Simpson, Professor and Vice President of Dickinson College, 2 years ; President of Indi-
ana Asbury, 9 ; and Editor of " Ladies Repository," 4. j^, . „ .T.., ,. >T ».
Bishop Baker, teacher in Newberry Seminary, 10 years, and Professor in General Bibhcal Insti-
tute, Concord, N. H., 5.
Bishop Ames, Missionary Secretary, 4 years.
Bishop Harris, iVincipal of Bald\viu Institute, 3 years; Professor in Ohio AVesleyan Univei-slty,
U ; Missionary Secretary, 12. „„ jx^.j^..^,,^
Bishop Foster, President North Western University, 3 years ; Professor and President of Drew
Theological Seminary, 5. „..,,.„j.^o, xtt.
Bishop Wiley, Medical Missionary to China, 4 years ; Principal of Pennington Semlnai-y, N. J., 5 ;
Editor of " Ladies' Repository," 8.
Bishop Merrill, Editor " Western Christian Advocate," 4 years.
President Dickinson College, 4 , Agent of Tract Society. 2.
Eisliop Warren, Prof, in Amenia Seminary, 1 year ; and Wilbraham Academy, 2.
Bishop Foss, Prof, and Principal of Amenia Seminary, 4 years ; Pres't Wesleyaii University, 5.
Bishop Hurst, Prof. In Martin Mission Institute, Germany, 5 years ; Prof, and President Drew
aisliw^E. d.' Haven', Pres't Michigan University, 9 years; Pres't N. W. University, S; Editor
" Zion's Herald," 7 ; Secy. Board of Education, 2 ; ChanceUor of Syracuse University, 6.
Historic Outline of the Annual Conference Sessions cf the Met ]
Bishop Harris, since his election. In May, 1872, lias kept complete tabulated memoranda of all the i 1
granted, tlie Editor of tbe Yiiau-Book bus had free access to the Bfshop's manuscript book, and as a n I
formed sluce May, 1872. and what Bishop presided at its organizaiioo ; the name of the first Confere I
presided since that date ; the dale of every new Conference, and the date on which the name of any of t
the Annual Conference sessions held during the period named.
Bt Episcopal Church, from May, 1872, to January 1, 1884.
jual Conference sessions held by himself and his episcopal colleagues. By his favor, very kindly
It the followins records are given. They show at a glance the name of every Annual Conference
by any of the Bishops elect, and the last session over which any of our deceased Bishons
[he old Conferences bas faUen out of the Hat ; ami also the places, dates, and lengths severally of all
Central Ciilnt
1673.
Haven, Oct. 2
, Oct. ZllScott, Oct. 1
1877
■jHarris. Oct.!
1878.
-Wiley, Nov. SI..
Janes, Sep. 10.
v.Auff.S)
;r, July 2i
!,' July'25 '.
Aiidi-ews, Sep.
Siiiipsiin, Se
Andrews, July 30
i'lley, Sep. 3
Vi'k. Mar. 20
^'lU'V, .Mayl:
Kansas.'.'."^
Keutucky .
tlichigan
-" — TSOtf
Minnesota....
N. Carolina. .
North India..
Nui'th Indiana
N. W. Gwedisi
Norway
OSiio
Oregon
Philadelphia,
Pittaburg....
Bowman, July 30 il-i
''lilMcrriH', Auff.30.|Ha'
Simpson, Jul>' %
Harris, Aug. 29.
Haven, Sep. 0. . .
Simpson. Sep. 2.
Janes, Mfir. 19..
uly i.-a .
Jaiic.-f, July ii2 ...Ijaiii-:!, ,1m! v.'ii
Simpson |.Andz-e\^ -, Si-;., l
Merrill, Octfi ...iFn'^tLi-. s,|,. ■.."<
HaiTis, Sep. 1 Aim-s, Au^:. :iii .
i, Sep. 20.;
Scott,"Oct.''
I, Oct. l....|Andrt
laven,Sep. 35...|MernlJ,
Mar.'ia
Mar.'so
1 ■ ■■ *vs April
■1. -ij, Feb.'ii!_
Jan. 27
Sill) psoQ, Mays.
JWiley, Sep. 10. . . . Simpson, Sep. 9,
lMernU,Oct.l....|Ame3.Sep. &...
I Janes, Jan. 22. ... ' Merrill, Jan. 21 ,
Bowman, Mar, 13 Ajidrews, Har. 18
Andrews, Apr. lK|Bowinan,Oct,
AprU 3
Feb. 28
"ApriVio
AprU 10
'ApriVio
Wiley, April 3 . .
Scott, M£
•. 19.. IWiley, April 1
Janes, April 8..
I, Mar.
Simpson, .-Vpril 2 Peok. April 8...
" — ill, Apiil 2..|Wilty, April 8..
), Jan. 8 Haven, Jan. 7. . .
Harris, Aup. 30..
Peck, April 18... 'Foster, April 29.
Jan, IG Harris, Jan. 7...
Ill, April 17. jFosler, April 1..
III. s M. :r.!!!;Foster, Sep. 2...
' IK a'l.'Ames, Oct. 1
i. 10. Wiley, Sep. 9 ...
>. ^1 Haven, Sept 2i .
Wiley, Jan. 28 . .
Bowman, Oct. 1
Simpson, July a
Bowman, Sep. 2
Ames, Sep. 29...
Foster, Sep. 15..
5IerrUl, Sep. 15 .
Simpson, June 3
Foster,' Mar.' 17 1
Foster, idar. Vo .
Simpson
Scott, Sep. 8....,
Wiley, Sep. IS.
Foster, Jan. 20.
MeiTiU, April 7
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Foreign Missionary Tours of the Bishops. *
I. Tour of Bishop Scott, 1852-53. — Bishop Scott was the first Bishop
sent to Afiica. He sailed from Baltimore November, 1852. He visited all the
stations on the West African coast, except Marshall, and preached twice at each,
also Bexley, on the St. John's, and Louisiana and Lexington, on the Sinoii. At
Cape Palmas he spent two weeks, and, altogether, about three weeks at Monrovia.
He was blessed with good health while on the coast, gave the closest scrutiny to
every feature of the mission work, and finally, with hi^s work well done, sailed for
the United States, March 17, 1853.
II. Tour of Bishop Simpson, 1857. — Bishop Simpson was sent by the
General Conference of 1856 as delegate to the Irish and British Conference of 1857 ;
he was also a delegate to the Evangelical Alliance held in Berlin, Germany, the
same year. Although in delicate health during a greater part of the time spent
abroad, he attended to all of his official work, giving great satisfaction to the Church.
He attended the session of the French Conference, and thence extended his tour
to Germany and Switzerland, visiting the missions and presiding over the Mission
Conferences in those countries. He also visited the missions in Scandinavia. He
also journeyed to Constantinople and held a Conference with our missionaries to
Bulgaria. He was in Syria during the early part of November, but was so ill in
Beyroot that he remained there while his companion, Dr. W. F. Warren, traveled
farther east. Li January, 1858, he was in Naples, but still not strong enough for
much additional ofBcial service. On his return to London, the last of January, he
gave an able and eloquent address before the Wesleyau Normal School. He arrived
home on the 6th of March, still in delicate health, having only preached two ser-
mons m four months, one in Constantinople, and one on board ship returning home.
Puring the Bishop's stay in Berlin, he, with other members of the Alliance, visited
the king, (now Emperor William of Germany,) who received them with words of
cordial welcome. On Sunday, September 13, 1857, he preached in the " Parochial
Church," Berlin, being the only foreigner who was admitted into one of the na-
tional pulpits, his audience including over a thousand ministers.
III. Tour of Bishop Janes, 1861. — Bishop Janes, by request of the Gen-
eral Conference, visited the mission stations in Northern Europe. He sailed from
New York June 5, 1861, anJ presided over the Germany and Switzerland Confer-
ence, held in Bremen, June 20-24. From Bremen he went to Norway, and or-
dained several missionaries, and met all the Scandinavian missionaries at Copen-
hagen, the center of operations for missions in that country. Then he journeyed
to Berlin, ari'iving July 1. On July 30 he addressed the British Wesleyan Confer-
ence. He returned to New York, in time to report his work to the Missionary
Board, August 21. His report expressed the highest satisfaction at the progress of
the mission work in Germany and Saxony, in Heilbronn, Frederickstadt, Lud-
wigsburg, Frankfort-on-the-Main, Basle, Berne, and Zurich.
IV. Tour of Bishop Thomson, 1864-65.— Bishop Thomson embarked
from New Y'ork August 24, 1864, on an Episcopal tour to the entire missionary field
of the Orient. He landed at Liverpool September 4, and journeyed thence to Cal-
cutta, by way of London, Marseilles, Alexandria, the Eed Sea, Ceylon, and Madras.
From Calcutta he visited the North-west Provinces, and, under authority given by
the General Conference, he organized the India Conference at Lucknow, Dec. 8.
He then returned to Calcutta, proceeded to Hong-Kong, and thence to Foochow,
* See closing paragraph on page 97.
90 Methodist TTear-Book.
China. Eeturning, via India, he visited the Bulgarian Mission at Constantinople,
the Conference of Germany and Switzerland, and reached New York on May 16,
1865, having made the whole tour in nine months and twenty-three days.
v. Second Tour of Bishop Janes, 1863. — Bishop Janes made a second
tour to the German and Scandinavian missions. He had heen appointed by the
General Conference of 1864 a delegate to the British Wesleyan Conference, and also
^o visit these missions. He sailed from New York April 26, and on May 11, in com-
pany with Dr. Jacohy, left Bremen for a tour to the Swiss and German missions.
He presided at tlie session of the German and Swiss Mission Conference, held in Bre-
men June 8. He next attended the annual session of the French Wesleyau Confer-
ence in Paris, the Irish Wesleyan Conference in Cork, and the British Wesleyan Con-
ference, the last opening July 28. He left Liverpool on August 5 for home, arriv-
ing in New York August 17, after an absence of three months and twenty-one days.
VI. Tour of Bishop Kingsley, 18G9-70.— -Bishop Kingsley left Cincinnati,
Ohio, May 10, 1869, on an Episcopal tour to " all the foreign missions under the
care of the Methodist Episcopal Church." On his route across the continent he
presided in succession over the Colorado, Oregon, Nevada, and California Confer-
ences, and embarked at San Francisco September 8. He proceeded to Japan,
thence to China, visiting Shanghai, Peking, and other northern cities, then hasten-
ing to Foochow, where he opened the Annual Meeting of the China Mission Novem-
ber 16. November SO he sailed to Calcutta, stopping on the way at Ceylon; then
he journeyed to Lucknow, arriving there December 29, and, on the day following
he opened the India Mission Conference. After this he began his journey home-
ward. His subsequent letters bore date : From the Arabian Sea, February 10,
1870 ; Gulf of Aden, February 20 ; Eed Sea, February 23 ; and Cairo, March 1. To
complete his official tour he was to visit our missions in Bulgaria, Germany,
Switzerland, Norway, Denmark, and Sweden. As he had time, however, to visit
the Holy Land before the dates of their annual meetings, he took passage from
Alexandria to Joppa, and thence to Jerusalem. Thence he came to Beyroot,
where he arrived April 4. Two days later, namely, on April 6, he suddenly died of
heart disease, leaving the latter part of his mission tour unfinished.
VII. Second Tour of Bishop Simpson, 1870.— In 1870, at the death of
Bishop Kingsley, Bishop Simpson undertook the completion of the missionary
work of the foiuner and accomplished the task. He also attended the English Con-
ference again as a fraternal delegate from the Methodist Episcopal Church in the
United States.
Vlir. Tour of Bishop Harris round the World, 18T3-73.— In 1872
Bishop Harris was designated, by the Bishops, to visit the missions of the Method-
ist Episcopal Church in Europe and Asia— a duty involving a journey around the
globe. Ho left New York May 6, 1873, for California, where he embarked June
16 for Yokohama, arriving in that city July 9. August 8 he organized the Japan
Mission, and laid out tlie work for the ensuing year. August 9 he sailed for China,
arriving at Shanghai August 17. Spending a few days there, he proceeded through
the Yellow Sea and the Gulf of Pechili, and up the Peiho Eiver, to Tientsin, by
steamer, and thence by Chinese house-boat toTungchow, one hundred and twenty
miles farther up the river ; thence to the city of Peking, the central station of the
North China Mission. He arrived August 29, and opened the Annual Meeting of
the Mission August 30. He left Peking for Shanghai September 10, arriving
September 19 ; and thence proceeding to Kiukiang, reaching that city on the day
(September 24) appointed for the Annual Meeting of the Central China Mission, at
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which he was to preside. Tlie first session of the Annunl Meeting at Foochow,
over wliich he presided, occurred on October 11. He left Foochow October
25, and proceeded by way of Arnoy, Swatow, and Hong-Kong to Canton.
Keturning to Hong-Kong, Novembur 6, he departed for Ceylon. The steamer
touched at Saigon, a French colony in Cocliin China, and at Singapore, at tho
extreme point of the Malay peninsula ; thence sailing across the Indian Ocean,
he arrived in Ceylon November 19. Here he spent two weeks, and on Decemiier 4
sailed up the Bay of Bengal, calling at Pondicherry and Mailras, and reaching Cal-
cutta December 11. He remained in India till the following February, during
which time he visited Calcutta, Benares, Allahabad, Cawnpore, Bareilly, Nynee-
Tal, Moradabad, Budaon, Shahjehanpoor, Delhi, Agra, Lucknow, Bombay, and
other important centers. He presided over the India Conference in Lucknow, Jan-
uary 7, 1874. February 1 he left Bombay, and sailed across tlie Sea of Arabia,
through the Gulf of Aden and the Straits of Babelmandeband the Eed Sea, to Suez,
thence to Cairo and Alexandria by railway. From Egypt he sailed for Joppa,
Palestine ; thence he journeyed, on horseback, to Jerusalem, the Dead Sea, the Jor-
dan, Shechem, Sea of Galilee, Nazareth, Tyre, Sidon, and Beyroot, where he em-
barked for Italy, arrriving in Eome March 31. He spent the month of April with
the missions in Italy, preparatory to the Annual Meeting ; and early in May left
for Bulgaria, by way of Vienna. He went first to Basiasch, two hundred miles below
Vienna, and therce, by steamer, to Eustchuk, in Bulgaria. During the last days of
May he was in Constantinople, and presided at the Annual Meeting, held near the
Turkish capital. At its close he left Turkey, by way of the Piraeus and Athens, to
attend the Irish Conference in Belfast ; but, at Geneva, Switzerland, he was pros-
trated by sickness, and was unable to do so. After recovering ho went to Frank-
fort-on-the-Main, and thence to Zurich, where he presided at the Germany and
Switzerland Conference, in Sohaifhausen. This Conference continued in session
for a week, and at its close the Bishop went to England, as a delegate from the Gen-
eral Conference to the British Wesleyan Conference. After attending the British
Conference, he proceeded to Goteborg, Sweden, and opened the Annual Meeting
of the Swedish Mission August 13, 1874, in Stockholm. At the close of this meet-
ing he went to Wisby, on the island of Gotland, in the Baltic, to visit the church in
that place. From Wisby he returned to Stockholm, and went thence, by railway,
to Christiania, Norway, where, on August 23, he dedicated a beautiful new church.
On August 25 he presided at the Annual Meeting of the Norway Mission, held at
Frederiokshald. Proceeding southward to Copenhagen, he presided at the Annual
Meeting of the Denmark Mission, held August 29-31, His work now being com-
pleted in Northern Europe he went to Berlin to meet a committee of the German
Conference. From Berlin he proceeded to Leipsic, Munich, Innsbruck, up the val-
ley of the Tyrol, and over the Alps, by the Brenner Pass, to Verona, and thence
to Bologna, in Italy, where he held the first Annual Meeting of the Italian Mission,
September 10. At the close of the session he returned northward, and, after
spending a few days in Paris and London, sailed from Liverpool for New York
October 8, arriving October 19, safe and well, after completing the first Episcopal ,
tuur around the world. f^jU ./|^«. -.
York May 24, 1873, on a tour of visitation to the missions in Europe and in South
America. He landed at Bremen, and thence proceeded direct to Norway and
Sweden,' where he spent three weeks. He then went to Culm, Germany, and
presided over the Germany and Switzerland Conference, which opened July 2.
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Thence he journeyed through France, Spain, and Portugal, sailing from Lisbon
for South America. He visited Montevideo, Eosario, Buenos Ayres, and other
mission centers of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He returned from South Amer-
ica by way of England, reaching that country just in time to step on board the
steamer for New York, thus being forty-tliree consecutive days on shipboard. He
reached New York November 27, 1873. In his six months' absence he traveled
27,000 miles, his journey including eighty-seven days of ocean travel and four
trips across the Atlantic.
X. Third Tour of Bishop Simpson, 1874.— Bishop Simpson left New-
York on the 5th of January, 1874, for an official tour to the missions in Mexico.
He reached New Orleans on the 14th, and left for Havana on the 17th, arrivintr at
Vera Cruz January 26, en route for the City of Mexico. In the following week he
started, with Dr. Butler, Superintendent of the Methodist Episcopal Missions
in tliat country, on a visit to the several missionary stations. He expressed great
satisfaction at the condition of missionary affairs. During this visit a public recep-
tion was given to Bishop Simpson and Bishop Keener, of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South, by United States Minister Foster. It was said to be a most brilliant
affair. The Bishop returning, reached Philadelphia about the 23th of March.
XI. Fourth Tour of Bishop Simpson, 1875. — Bishop Simpson made a
third European tour in 1875. He sailed from Philadelphia June 10, proceeding
immediately to Italy to preside over the Italian Annual Mission Meeting, which
convened in Milan June 30 ; thence he went to Heilbronn, Wurtemburg, to preside
over the Germany and Switzerland Conference, which opened in that city July 8.
After completing his work in Germany, the Bishop visited the British Wesleyan
Conference at Sheffield, England, and then proceeded eastward on an official visit
to the Methodist Episcopal Missions in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. He
arrived at Guttenberg August 5, proceeded on the evening of the 6th to Christiania,
Norway, and met the Norwegian brethren on the 7th. On August 10 he started
for Stockholm, and thence proceeded to Wisby, the seat of the Swedish Conference,
where he arrived in time for the opening session, August 11. On the 16tli the
Bishop was again at Stockholm and laid the corner-stone for a new Methodisl Epis-
copal church in that capital of the kingdom. On August 17 he was at Upsala,
the seat of the University, and dedicated a new Methodist Episcopal church there.
Taking a train at 4 P.M. of the same day, he pushed forward to Copenhagen, to meet
the Danish missionaries on the 19th. He sailed from Liverpool for home October
12, arriving in New York on the 22d. During his absence he made a thorough ex-
amination of all the Methodist Episcopal mission work in Europe. In every part
of the world he was most cordially greeted and his official visit most gratefully ap-
preciated. His Sabbath addresses at Milan and Heilbronn were noted for their
remarkable inspiration, beauty, and power.
XII. Tour of Bishop Haven, 1876-77.— Bishop Gilbert Haven left New
York, on an Episcopal mission visit to Africa, November 1, 1876, and reached
Monrovia December 16. The Conference convened at Monrovia December 18,
Bishop Haven presiding. The President and Vice-President and other officers of
state were in frequent attendance upon the sessions of Conference. Bishop Haven
visited the principal stations of the Conference, ascending all i-ivers but the Junk ;
he did not remain on shore at night, and thus only reached as far inland as Clay
Ashland, on the St. Paul's Eiver, and Bexley, on the St. John's. After full in-
spection of the work at Monrovia and up the St. Paul's, at Buchanan, Edina, Bex-
ley, Sinou, Cape Palmas, Tubmantown, and other localities, he took steamer for
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the Canary Islands, and thence through Spain, visiting Cadiz, Seville, Cordova,
Granada, Madrid, and other points. He then proceedea to Paris, reaching that city
March 5, and thence to England. He arrived in the United States May 24, 1877.
XIII. Tour of Bishop Andrews, 1876-77,— Bisliop Andrews, immedi-
ately after tlie General Conl'crenee of 1876, was selected to visit the missions in
Europe and India. He sailed from Philadelphia June 20, landed at Antwerp July 4,
and, after having visited the churches in Frankfort, Hcilbronn, Culm, and Pforz-
heim, reached Zurich, the seat of the Germany and Switzerland Conference, on
July 19, and presided over the annual session. At Upsala, Sweden, he organized
the Sweden Conference August 2-7, and subsequently visited the churches at
Stockholm, Wisby, Kalmar, Karlskrona, and Goteborg. At Christiauia Le or-
ganized the Norway Conference, August 17-21, and then visited the churches at
Arendal, Porsgrund, Laurvig, and Horten, and dedicated a church at Moss on the
27th. He met the Denmark Mission at Svendborg on the 30th, visiting also the
churches at Copenhagen, Langeland, and Veile. On September 30 he reached
Kustchuk, in Bulgaria, and met the Mission in October. On October 20 he sailed
from Suez, and landed in Bombay November 3. On November 9 the South India
Conference was organized. Proceeding to our native work in North India, he
visited churches, schools, orphanages, dispensaries, the native villages, (Christian,)
etc. At a large village meeting, held in Rohilcund, under a mango grove, he bap-
tized lifty-three natives, mostly adults. On December 15 he dedicated the new
Theological Hall at Bareilly, and on the 16th attended the District Conference of
Eohilcund District, at which at least si.xty native preachers were present. On Jan-
uary 1, 1877, he witnessed the imposing ceremony of the proclamation of Victoria
as Empress of India at Delhi. On the 3d the North India Conference met at
Moradabad. Visiting Calcutta, Madras, and many other stations of the South India
Conference, he completed, on February 1, a visit of ninety days in the mission field,
traveling more than seven thousand miles, making forty-five formal public ad-
dresses, holding ten Conferences, and making a general inspection of the mission
work. On his return he reached Eome February 27, and attended the meeting of the
Italy Mission March 7-9. In subsequent montlis he revisited the missions in Ger-
many and Scandinavia, making extensive tours among the churches, and holding
the Conferences. He landed, on his return, in New York August 15, after an ab-
sence of nearly fourteen months.
XIV. Tour of Bishop Wiley, 1877-78.— Bishop Wiley sailed from San
Francisco, on an official visit to foreign missions, September 12, 1877. After a stormy
passage he landed at Yokohama October 3. Thence he took steamer to Shanghai,
arriving October 13, en route for Peking, but the steamer running aground near
Tientsin, he was obliged to perform the rest of the journey to Peking by cart, don-
key, or on horseback, reaching the imperial city October 27. He presided at the An-
nual Meeting of the Mission, held Oct. 30-Nov. 4. On November 13 he left the
Peking Mission for Kiukiang, arriving there November 23, and, on the following
day, held the Central China Annual Mission Meeting in that city. On the 25th he
preached to a large congregation of foreigners. He proceeded ne.xt to the city of
Foochow, landing there December 6. After holding meetings there until the 12th,
he started, with two companions, on a trip up the river to Ku-Cheng, the distance
being seventy miles by river and thirty miles inland by chair. The trip and mis-
sion visit occupied a week, after which they returned to Foochow, to attend the Con-
ference, opening on December 19. February 7, 1878, he arrived in Yokohama
Trom Hong-Kong, China. On the 8th he embarked for Hakodati, arriving there
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February 11. Here he ypent ten clays, and dedicated a new church edifice which
had been recently coinpletea. He left Hakodati February 22, and arrived in Yoko-
hama on the 25th. March 2 he took passage for Nagasaki, reaching that city March
6, and remaining ten days. He returned to Yokohama March 21, and proceeded
to Tokio, stopping eight days. On April 6 he left Yokohama for San Francisco,
where he arrived April 24, 1878. During his torn", extending through about
seven and a half months, he traveled nearly twenty-one thousand miles.
XV. Tour of Bishop Merrill, 1877-78.— Bishop Merrill, accompanied by
Dr. Dashiell, sailed from New York December 29, 1877, on an Episcopal tour to
the Methodist Episcopal Missions in the Kepublic of Mexico. They reached Ha-
vana January 4, 1878, and Vera Cruz January 10. They were at Pachuca on the
17ch and Guanajuato on the 23d, returning to the City of Mexico February 1. On
February 3 they went to Miraiiores, where the Bishop dedicated a new church. The
Annual Meeting of the Mission was also held at this place on February 6, Bishop
Merrill presiding. March 11 the Bishop arrived again in New York city, after
having accomplished, with satisfaction, the entire work intended.
XVI. Tour of Bishop Bowman, 1878-79.— Bishop Bowman sailed from
Philadelphia May 13, 1878, on an Episcopal tour to the foreign missions. He pre-
sided at the Germany and Switzerland Conference, June 14-20 ; over the Denmark
(Copenhagen) Conference, June 24; over the Sweden Conference, at Goteborg,
July 4-11 ; and the Norway Conference, held at Christiania, July 16-18. On
August 5 he addressed the British Conference, which he visited as fraternal del-
egate from the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. October 4,
1878, he was at Frankfort-on-the-Main. October 9 he left there to fill appoint-
ments at Carlsruhe and Zurich, and thence, by way of Italy, to India. He
presided over the South India Conference, at Madras, December 5-8, 1878, and over
the North India Conference, held at Lucknow, January 9-14, 1879. En route for
home he attended the Annual Mission Meeting in Italy, held at Ferni, March 9-12.
Leaving Eome about March 19, he arrived in London April 4, and embarked for
home about April 27, landing in New York city May 8, 1879. During his absence
of nearly a year he spent nearly a month in Paris, preaching and attending mission
services whenever practicable, and eighty days in India. In Bombay, at one of
his lectures, the audience numbered over a thousand persons. He preached nine
times in England, once in Belgium, six times in Paris, ten times in Scandinavia,
fifteen times in Germany and Switzerland, sixteen times in Italy, and fifty times in
India. All his sermons in Scandinavia, Germany, and Italy were delivered through
an interpreter.
XVII. Second Tour of Bishop Wiley, 1879.— Bishop Wiley left; New
York June 10, 1879, by German steamship Main, direct for Bremen, and arrived
there June 20. He held the Germany and Switzerland Conference in that city
June 26-July 3. At its close he went immediately to Copenhagen, Denmark, and
held the Annual Mission Meeting there July 5-7. Thence he went to Stockholm,
and held the Swedish Conference July 10-15. He tlien visited Goteborg, in Sweden,
and Christiania, in Norway, and, later, sailed around the southern coast of Norway
to Stavanger, on the west coast, where he held the Norway Conference July 24-28.
He then sailed across to Denmark, and visited our work in several points of that
country. Eeturning to Germany he held special services in the cities of Hamburg,
Berlin, Frankfort, and Carlsruhe. Thence he ■went into Switzerland, holding serv-
ices in Schafi'hausen, Zurich, Lausanne, Geneva, Berne, Biel, and Basle. On
leaving Basle, he journeyed through France and England to Liverpool, where he
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einbarkeil for home, arriving October 10, after an absence of four months, and
after making a journey of about nine thousand miles.
XVIII. Second Tour of Bishop Harris, 1880.— On the '26th of January,
1880, Bishop Harris sailed fi'om New Orleans for Mexico, arriving at Vera Cruz
February 1. At midninght of the same day he left, via Puebla, for the City of
Mexico, arriving in the latter city on the evening of the 3d. The next day he
started, by diligence, northward, arriving at Guanajuato on the 6th. February 9
he purchased a valuable property for our mission in that city. February 12 he
visited Leon, the second largest city in the Kupublic ; on the 13th he returned to
Guanajuato. He spent the Sabbath, the 15th, at Queretaro, aniving in the City of
Mexico on the evening of the 17th. He presided in the Annual Meeting of the Mis-
sion, which began February 18, and closed on the 23d. At this meeting the first
ordination in our Mexican Mission, that of Hennaun Lueders, occurred. On the
25th and 26th he visited Vincente, Miraflores, Ameca Meca, and lyapango. On
Friday, the 27th, he left the City of Mexico, and that night dedicttted a church at
Tezontepec, built and paid for by the native church of that place. He went thence
to Pachuca, Eeal del Monte, Omitlan, Oinetusco, Puebla, Orizaba, and Cordova, ar-
riving at Vera Cruz March 9, and sailing the next day, by way of Yucatan and Cuba,
arrived in New York March 21, 1880.
XIX. Third Tour of Bishop Harris, 1881-82.— Bishop Harris, having
been designated by the Bishops to visit the Metliodist missionary work on both tlie
west and the east coasts of South America, and also to hold the Conferences in
Europe, he sailed from New York November 10, 1881, and landed at Aspinwall
(or Colon) the 19th of the same month. The next day he preached in Aspinwall,
and the day following crossed the Isthmus to Panama. He sailed thence, on the
24th, for Valparaiso, Chili ; spent the 29th at Guayaquil, Ecuador ; arrived
at Callao, Peru, December 3, and visited Lima ; was at Cobija, in Bolivia, De-
cember 9 ; amved at Caldera, Chili, December 11, went on shore, preached to
a small congregation of English-speaking people, and ordained Lucius C. Smith,
our missionary at Copiapo, an elder; arrived at Coquimbo December 12, and
ordained James W. Higgins and John W. Collyer elders; landed in Valparaiso
December 13, and went the .same day, by railway, to Santiago, the capital
of Chili. December 17 he ordained William A. Wright, John H. Shiveley,
and Oscar B. Krauser deacons. December 18 he preached to a congregation of
English-speaking people, and ordained Ira H. LaFetra, and the before-mentioned
deacons, to elder's orders. He went from Santiago to Valparaiso December 24,
and the next day, Christmas, preached for Dr. Trumbull. He left Valparaiso, by
eea, for Talcahuano December 29, arriving in the afternoon of the 80th, and the
same day he went to Coucepcion, by railway. December 31 he ordained A. T. Jef-
frey a deacon, and Henry Hofiman both deacon and elder. On Sunday, January 1,
1882, he preached to a dozen persons who could understand English, and ordiiined
A. T. Jeffrey an elder. On January 5 he left Concepcion, and sailed from Talca-
huano for Montevideo, on the Atlantic coast. He spent January 6 at Lota ; Jan-
uary 11 he passed through the Straits of Magellan, arriving at Montevideo January
16, at noou. He presided over the Annual Meeting of the South American Mission,
which began in Montevideo February 3, and closed the 6th. In the afternoon of
the same day he started for Buenos Ayres, arriving there the next day, at noon.
The same afternoon he left for Rosario, arriving the next morning. The next day
he returned to Buenos Ayres ; January 12 he preached to a large congregation in
that city, and ordained Andrew M. Milne and William Tallon deacons. After the
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ordination the Holy Communion was administered to a iarg^e number of commu-
nicants. He returned to Montevideo February 13, and on tlie 15th sailed for Europe.
He spent Sunday, February 19, in Rio Janeiro, Brazil ; February 23 in Bahia; and
February 25 in Pernambuco. March 3 he arrived at St. Vincent, one of the Cape
de Verde Islands, off the west coast of Africa. March 7 he was at Teneriffe, one of
the Canary Islands. Arrived at Lisbon, in Portugal, March 10 ; and at Bordeaux,
in France, March 13; at Marseilles March 14; and at Rome March 15. He went
to Naples March 27 ; returned to Rome April 1 ; went to Florence April 3 ; re-
turned to Naples April 10, and presided at the Italy Conference, whicli began April
13, and closed on the 22d. He returned to Rome April 24; left Rome April 27, ar-
riving in London on tlie 29th. May 1 he spoke in Exeter Hall, at the Anniversary
of the Wesleyan Missionary Society. May 3 he attended the Anniversary of the
British and Foreign Bible Society, as a delegate from the Anjerican Bible Society.
He left London the morning of May 12, and arrived in Dresden the evening of the
next day. He left Dresden for Florence May 23, to dedicate a church in that city.
Sunday, May 28, was " Pentecost," a great day in Italy. At 10 A. M. a large con-
gregation met for the dedication. The Bishop preached a sermon, which was in-
terpreted by Dr. Vernon, after which the church was dedicated according to the
ritual of our Church. May 29 he left Florence for Frankfort, arriving in the latter
city June 2. He presided at the Germany and Switzerland Conference, which
began in Frankfort June 7, and closed the 12th. He left the same evening for our
Scandinavian missions, arriving in Odense, in Denmark, June 15 ; and on the
16th he opened the Annual Meeting of the Denmark Mission ; visited Svendborg
on the 17th ; preached in Odense on the 18th, and closed the Annual Meeting.
Monday, the 19th, he left for Sweden, landing in Goteborg the next evening. The
Sweden Conference began in that city June 22, and closed on the 27th. June 30
he left Sweden for Norway, arriving in Christiania the next day. He went, by rail-
way, to Laurvig July 5, and opened the Norway Conference in that city the fol-
lowing morning. Conference closed on the 9th, and the 11th he left for Germany,
via Copenhagen and Stralsund, arriving in Dresden the evening of the 13th. The
next day he left for Naples, to give testimony in the trial of Dr. Vernon, who had
been cited to appear before the penal courts of Italy to answer a charge of "defa-
mation," because he had administered the discipline of the Church resulting in the
expulsion of one of our preachers charged with immorality. He readied Naples
July 17, and the trial began on the 18th. Having testified in the court two days
concerning the facts in the case, and also concerning the rules and usages of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, he returned to Dresden, arriving in that city July 23.
The next morning he received a telegram announcing the acquittal of Dr. Vernon,
the condemnation of his accuser, and the complete vindication of our right to ad-
minister Church discipline in Italy. Bishop Harris left Dresden, for London and
Liverpool, August 7, and sailed from the latter city in the Servia, of the Cunard
line, arriving in New York August 21, 1882; having been absent nine months and
eleven days, and having traveled, by sea and land, about thirty-five thousand miles.
XX. Second Tour of Bishop Bowman, 1881-82.— At the meet-
ing of the Board of Bishops, held in Syracuse, N. Y., May, 1881, Bishop Bowman
was assigned to the presidency of the mission work in China and Japan. He
preached at St. Louis, before leaving home, June 26. June SO-July 4 he presided
over the New Mexico District Conference at Socorra, and July 7-10, at the Ari-
zona Mission Conference at Tucson, sailing from San Francisco July 23 for Yoko-
hama. He arrived in Tokio August 22, and presided over the Annual Meeting
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of the Japan Mission, held In that city, August 25-28. On September 3 he left
Yokohama for China, by way of Nagasaki. He held the North China Mission Con-
ference September 29, and dedicated the Isabella Li Hospital at Teiuton October 15.
He was at Shanghai on October 19, and presided at the Central China Mission
Meeting October 26-30, and the Foochow Conference Session November 18-24.
Returning homeward he arrived at San Francisco about February 7, remaining until
February 13, and reached his home, in St. Louis. February 25, 1882. On this tour
he preached fourteen times in Japan and twenty-seven times in China, about one
fourth of the sermons being delivered through an interpreter. On both tours,
and especially in India, China, and Japan, he visited many missions outside of our
own work, and carefully observed their methods and successes.
XXI. Second Tour of Bishop Andrews, 1881-83.— On December 29,
1881, Bishop Andrews sailed from New York for Mexico, and reached Vera Cruz
on the 9th of January, 1882. In company with Brother Drees, Superintendent of
the Mexico Mission, he visited all the chief stations of the Mission, preaching in
each. The Meeting of the Mission was held in Mexico City on the 20th of Febru-
ary. The condition of the Mission was found to be most encouraging. Eeturning
by way of New Orleans, Bishop Andrews reached his home in Washington, D. C,
on March 5.
XXII. Second Tour of Bishop Foster, 1882-83.— Bishop Foster sailed
from New York for India August 26, 1882. On his way he attended the meeting of
the Bulgarian Mission, at Sistof, on the Danube, October 13. Thence, by way of Con-
stantinople, Alexandria, Cairo, and Suez, he reached the Red Sea, lingering only a
few days at each place. By way of the Red Sea and Arabian Sea, he reached Bombay
late in November. From Bombay he went by rail to Madras, stopping at Poona,
Bangalore, and other points. From Madras he went to Calcutta, by steamer, up the
Bay of Bengal. At Calcutta he met the South India Conference, December 26, and
was present at the December Mission Conference of all the missionaries of India.
He proceeded up the Ganges valley to Lucknow, where he met the North India
Conference. He visited all the principal cities of India during his tour of nearly
three months, returning to Bombay in February, 1883. On his homeward trip he
passed through Syria and Greece, reaching Naples early in April. He met the
Italy Mission in May, and, passing through Italy, France, and Germany, met the
Swedish and Norwegian Conferences in June, and the Denmark Mission and Ger-
many and Switzerland Conference in July, returning to America September 1,
1883, after an absence of over one year.
Bishop Merrill at this writing, (December, 1883,) is absent on his second tour of
Foreign Missionary visitalion. He sailed from San Francisco in June last for an
extensive tour among our missions in Japan and China, the record of which cannot
be completed in time for the present edition of the Year-Book.
The foregoing records refer only to such missionary visitations as have been
made since the organization of our foreign work. For records of the earliest mis-
sionary visit made by any of our Bishops, and the appointment of the first Meth-
odist Episcopal foreign missionary, and also the first collection ever made in the
Methodist Episcopal Church, see page 315.
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Chronological Notes— The General Conferences.
1766. First Methodist Society in America (of five members) organized In October in
New York by Philip Embury, a local preacher.
1768. First church edifice, (John-street Church, first called Wesley Chapel,) dedicated
by Philip Embury Oct. 30.
1769. First itinerant preachers appointed by Mr. Wesley for America, Richard Board-
man and Joseph Pilmoor, the former stationed as pastor of John-street Church, New
York, and the latter as pastor in Philadelphia.
1773. First Annual Conference held in Philadelphia. Ten preachers were present.
Thomas Eankin presided, he being designated by Mr. Wesley as "General Assistant."
The whole number of lay members was 1,160.
1784. The " Methodist Episcopal Church" was formally organized at a Conference of
the Methodist ministers called by Thomas Coke, LL.D., an assistant of Mr. Wesley in
England, and sent over by the latter for the purpose of consummating such orgauization.
The first Bishops, Coke and Asbury, were elected. This Conference (called the " Christmas
Conference") met in Philadelphia, Dec. 25, and continued its session until Jan. 2, 1785.
1787. A General Conference was called at Baltimore in May, by Dr. Coke, at the
request of Mr. Wesley, but as the Annual Conferences had not been consulted, and hence
had not authorized it, many of the ministers did not attend, and no official record of its
doings was preserved. Some additions, however, were made to the Discipline, and the
word "Bishop" was substituted for "Superintendent," as applied to Bishops Coke and
Asbury. It is believed also that the term "Presiding Elder" was then first applied to
superintendents of districts.
1789. In order to supply a central authority long felt to be needed, the several
Annual Conferences concurred in the formation of a " Council," to be composed of
the Bishops and Presiding Elders, who should recommend such changes as they should
unanimously agree upon, but which before becoming binding upon the Church should be
adopted by the several Annual Conferences.
1790. The "Council," referred to in the previous paragraph, was composed of the
Bishop and of elders elected from each district. This had been done in order to meet
objections made to their appointment to the Council by the Bishops. The Council, how-
ever, being without power except as advisory, was unpopular, and was substituted by a
General Conference of the preachers of all the Conferences.
1792. First General Conference.— Beld in Baltimore, November 1. This Conference
directed that the next General Conference should meet after an interval of four years.
Though embodying, as its members believed, the full ecclesiastical authority of the
Church, the Conference bound itself by special enactment not to change any recognized
rule of Methodism except by a two-third vote. The Presiding Elder's term of office in
any one district was limited to four years. The Book Concern (previously opened at
Pliiladelphia by authority of the " Council ") was ' formally established by General Con-
ference action.
1796. Second General Conference.— 'EelA in Baltimore, commencing Oct. 20, com-
posed of 120 members. Bishop Asbury presided. "Chartered Fund" instituted and
incorporated by Legislature of Pennsylvania. The Annual Conference boundaries first
determined by General Conference action. Number then designated, six, but the Bishops
were authorized to add a seventh.
1800. Third General Conference.— B.e\d in Baltimore, May 6-20. The previous one
had been held In the fall, but owing to the prevalence of yellow fever in 1799 the Annual
Conferences had authorized Bishop Asbury to change the time to May. Richard What-
coat was elected Bishop. His competitor for the office was Jesse Lee. The second bal-
lot was a tie, but on tlte next Whatcoat was elected. The Book Concern was removed to
New York. [John Dicklns, the Book Agent, bad died of yellow fever the year previous.]
Bishop Asbury, in consequence of physical debility, sought to resign his episcopal office.
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but was induced by the earnest request of the Conference to continue in the offlce. The
Bishops were authorized to ordain colored preachers. [Richard Allen, of Philadelphia,
was the first colored preacher ordained under the rule.]
1804. Fourth General Conference.— Held in Baltimore, May 7-23. Members 107.
The pastoral term was limited to two consecutive years on any one charge. Previously
there had been no limit to the episcopal prerogative, except In the case of Presiding
Elders. A motion to change the General Conference into a delegated body was voted
down, but the matter was left for the Bishops to consult the Annual Conferences during
the quadrennium.
1805. Fifth General. Conference. — Held in Baltimore, May 6-26. Members 129.
William M'Kendree elected Bishop. Bishop Coke was granted permission to reside in En-
gland, but not to exercise while there his episcopal functions. Delegated General Con-
ference first provided for, the ratio of representation to be oiie member for each fvoe of
the traveling ministers. The "Restrictive Rules" first adopted. No one of these rules
was to be changed without a concurrence of a majority of all the members of the Annual
Conferences, (present and voting at the Annual Conference sessions,) with a two thirds
vote of the General Conference. This requirement continued untU 1828, when the word
" majority" was substituted by the word " thixe fourths."
1813. Sixth General Conference.— Ueld in New York city. May 1-22. This was the
first delegated Conference. Members 88. Bishop M'Kendree presented a written Epis-
copal Address, the first presented to the General Conference. Local Deacons made eli-
gible to Elders' orders. Ordered that stewards' nominations be referred by preachers to
Quarterly Conference for confirmation or rejection; preachers had hitherto appointed
the stewards.
1816. Seventh General Conference.— Ue\i in Baltimore, May 1-24. 103 members.
Rev. Messrs. Black and Bennett were present as fraternal delegates from British Confer-
ence. "Course of Study" for ministers provided for. Enoch George and Robert Rich-
ford Roberts elected Bishops. Number of Couferences increased to 11, and Bishops
authorized to organize another. Monthly Methodist Magazine. Ratio of Annual Con-
ference representation changed from '■'■jive" to ^'seveyi."
1820. Eighth General Conference. — YiQld at Baltimore, May 1-27. Members 89.
John Kmory appointed delegate to British Conference. Improved edition of Hymn Book
ordered. Missionary Society, previously organized in New York city, was approved.
Bishop M'Kendree was relieved from effective labor. Bishop Soule was elected Bishop,
but declined to be ordained, and resigned the offlce, because the Conference had adopted,
as a compromised measure, a resolution authorizing the Annual Conferences to elect
Presiding Elders. The application of the resolution was suspended for four years, until
the question should be submitted to the Annual Conferences.
1834. Ninth General Conference.— Held at Baltimore, May 1-29. Members 126.
Joshua Soule and Elijah Hedding elected Bishops. Revs. Richard Reece and John Han-
nah delegates from England. The Annual Conferences having voted against the change
of rule so as to permit the election of Presiding Elders, the provision for such election,
previously adopted, was declared null and void.
1828. Tenth General Conference.— Beld at Pittsburgh, May 1-24. Members 176.
Connection with the Canada Conference substantially dissolved. William Capers elected
delegate to England.
1832. Eleventh General Conference.— Keld at Philadelphia, May 1-28. Members 200
James Osgood Andrew and John Emory elected Bishops. Provision consummated for
altering " Restrictive Rules " by the concurrence of three fourths of those voting on the
change In the Annual Conferences, and two thirds of those voting tn General Conference.
Publication of Western Christian Advocate authorized.
1836. Twelfth General Con/erence.— Held at Cincinnati, May 1-27. Members 158.
Bishops Roberts, Soule, Hedding and Andrew presided, (Bishops M'Kendree and Emory had
died,) Dr. Wilbur Fisk appointed fraternal delegate to British Conference. Separate Bible
Society dissolved, and a resolution of co-operation with American Bible Society adopted.
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Llbena Conference organized, A " resident Corresponding Secretaryship " established.
Beverly Waugh, Wilbur Fisk, and Thomas A. Morris elected Bishops. Dr. Fisk, who waa
absent in Europe at the time, declined the office, in order to remain at the Wesleyan
University, of which he was President. Authority given to Annual Conferences to locate
ministers for unacceptability.
1 MIO. Tliirteeiith General Conference.— Ke\d at Baltimore, May 1-June 3. Members
14'2. Rev. Robert Nevrton fraternal representative from British Conference. Bishop
Soule appointed representative to British Conference, vplth Rev. Thomas B. Sargent as
traveling companion ; Bishop Hedding requested to attend the Canada Wesleyan Confer-
ence. The Sunday-School Union reorganized.
1844. Fourteenth General Conference.— HelA at New York, May 1-June 10. Mem-
bers 193. "Plan of Separation" with the South adopted. Edmund S. Janes and Leoui-
das L. Hamline elected Bishops.
1848. Fifteenth General Conference.— Held at Pittsburgh, May 1-June 1. Members
151. Dr. Dixon present as fraternal delegate from England. " Plan of Separation " de-
clared null and void. Bishop Hedding appointed delegate to England.
IS.'iS. Sixteenth General Conference. — Held at Boston, May 1-June 1. Members 179.
Bishop Hamline resigned his Episcopal office because of impaired health. National
Magazine and Corresponding Secretaryship of Tract Society established ; Abel Stevens
elected Editor and Secretary. The publication of a German Commentary authoriz^.'d.
Levi Scott, Matthew Simpson, Osmon C. Baker, and Edward R. Ames elected Bishops.
1856. Seventeenth General Conference. — Held in Indianapolis, May 1. Members 217.
The establishment of a Theological Institution at Evanston, 111., authorized. The elec-
tion of Missionary Bishop authorized, and subsequently Bishop Burns, of Liberia, was
ordained the first colored Bijshop in the M. E. Church.
1860. Eighteenth General Conference.— Held in Buffalo, May 1-June 4. Members
232. Chapter on Slavery altered so as to declare very strongly against it. A resolution
was adopted favoring lay delegation whenever a majority of preachers and members
desired it. The subsequent vote in the Conferences and among the laity was against the
measure.
1864. Nineteenth General Conference.— Beld in Philadelphia, May 1-27. Members
216. Bishops Clark, Thomson, and Kingsley elected. The limit of the pastoral terra was
changed from two to three years. A plan for the organization of the Board of Church
Extension, Vi'ith its central office in Philadelphia, was adopted. Provision was made for
holding Centenary services in 1866. The organization of Annual Conferences in the
South was authorized. A patriotic address to the President of the United States in sup-
port of the Union was adopted, and forwarded to him by a special committee. In "his
responsive address President Lincoln said : —
Nobly sustained as the Government has been by all the Churches, I would utter nothing
which might in the least appear invMious against any ; yet, without this, it may fairly be said
that the Methodist Episcopal Church, not less devoted Ihnn the best, is by its numbers the
most important of all. It is no fault in others that the Methodist Episcopal Church sends more
soldiers into the field, more nurses into the hospitals, and more prayers to heaven tlian any
other. God bless the Methodist Churches I God bless all the Churches I Blessed be God who,
in this our great trial, giveth us the Churches I
1 868. Twentieth General Conference. — Held in Chicago, May l-June 2. Members 343.
Delegates from Mission Conference admitted. A resolution reaffirming a willingness to
admit lay delegation when the Church should approve it was adopted. A plan for sub-
mitting the question to the Churches and the Annual Conferences severally was also
adopted. A commission was appointed, with authority to purchase or erect a new Pub-
lishing and Mission building in New York.
1872. Twenty-first General Con/erence.— Held in Brooklyn, May 1-June 4. Members
421 .* The Churches and Conferences having approved of lay delegation in the General Con-
ference by the requisite majorities, lay delegates were admitted. Important changes were
authorized In the constitutions of various benevolent societies, so as to secure the election
* 292 ministers and 129 laymen.
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of the Boards of Managers by the General Conference. Incipient action was taken toward
fraternal relations with the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Bishops Bowman,
Harris, Foster, Wiley, Merrill, Andrews, Haven, and Peck were elected. Residences for
the several Bishops were designated. The woi-d "assistant," as applied to Book Agents
and Missionary Secretary, was stricken out of the Discipline.
1876. Twenty-second General Conference.— Re\d in Baltimore. May 1-31. Members
855.* Fraternal messengers were received from the Methodist Episcopal Church, South,
and a Joint Committee on Fraternity with that Church was provided for and subse-
quently appointed. A committee was appointed with authority to prepare a new Hymnal
for the Church. A plan for the election of Presiding Elders was voted down. Incipient
provision was made favoring the holding of an Ecumenical Conference-
1880. Twenty-third General Conference.— Beld in Cincinnati, May 1-28. Composed of
151 lay delegates, making a total of 399. All the Bishops were present, namely : Bishops
Scott, Simpson, Bowman, Harris, Foster, Wiley, Merrill, Andrews, Peck, Warren, Foss,
Hurst, and Haven. The Bishops presided at the several sessions In the order of seniority
In office, except that Bishop Scott, owing to feeble health, was able to preside only at the
opening exercises and at the consecration of the Bishops, and that the last four Bishops,
not having been inducted into the oCace until May 19, did not occupy the presidential chair
until after that date.
Eev. George W. Woodruff, D.D., was elected Secretary, and Revs. David S. Monroe,
Isaac S. Bingham, George Mather, James N. FitzG«rald, Lew E. Harrow, and Henry B.
Heacock, and James P. Magee, Esq., Assistant Secretaries.
Fraternal delegates were received from other Churches as follows :
From British Wesleyan Confeience, Rev. Wm. Arthur, A.M., and Rev. Fred'k W. Macdonald,
Irish We>leyan Conference, Rev. Wallace M'Mullen.
Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Rev. Atticus G. Haygood, D.D., and Prof. James H. Car-
lisle, LL.D.
Methodist Church of Canada, Rev. E. B. Ryckman, D.D.
Methodist Episcnpal Church in Canada, Rev. Prof. Bid well Lane. M.A.
African Methodist Episcopal Church, Rev. John G. Mitchell, M.A., Rev. Robert A. Johnson,
Rev. Benj;imin F. Lee, B.D.
Methodist Protestant Church, Rev. J. Smith, D.D., Rev. D._ Wilson, D.D., Hon. F. H. Pierpont.
Evangelical Association of North America, Rev. Elias L. Kiplinger.
United Brethren in Christ, Rev. AV. J. Shuey.
Reformed Kpiscopal Church, Bishop Samuel Fallows, D.D.,and Bishop W. R. Nicholson, D.D.*
National Council of Congregational Churches of the United States, Rev. Robert G. Hutchins
and J. E. Twichell.
A resolution was adopted recommending to the General Conference of 1884 that the
reception of Fraternal Delegates begin with the evening of the fifth day of the session.
It was ordered that the number of Fraternal Delegates to be sent to other bodies be
limited as follows : One delegate shall be sent to the English Wesleyan and Irish Wes-
leyan Conferences, one to the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, one to the Methodist
Church of Canada, and one to the Methodist Episcopal Church of Canada. To all other
bodies " letters " shall be sent.
Special services were held May 18, In memory of the Bishops and General Conference
officers who had died during the last quadrennium, namely : Bishops Edmund S. Janes,
Edward R. Ames. Gilbert Haven ; Rev. Reuben Nelson, D.D., Book Agent at New
York ; and Rev. R. L. Dashiell, D.D., Corresponding Secretary of the Missionary Society,
On the same date resolutions of sympathy were adopted for Bishops Scott and Bowman,
whose wives had died during the last quadrennium.
The administration of the Bishops during the last four years was approved. The vener-
able Bishop Scott was returned on the list as " non-effective," and the following resolution
was unanimously adopted :
Whereas, Bishop Levi Scott is compelled by feebleness and age to retire from the effective
labor of the superintendency ; therefore,
* Bishop Nicholson was prevented from being present at the public reception services.
102 Methodist Year-Book.
Rpsi'lved, 1. That we hereby express our appreciation of his eminent services to the Church
as an executive ofiScer, a preacher of the Gospel, and a Christian minister.
Besolverl, 2. That we will continue our prayers for his health and prosperity, and that his
life in retirement may be crowned by the constant fiivor of God.
The election of Bishops Warren, Foss, Hurst, and Haven, took place on Wednesday,
May 12 ; their consecration services were held on Wednesday, May 19, Bishop Scott pre-
siding, assisted by the other Bishops and several elders. The other elections began on
May 13, and continued on subsequent days until completed.
A report was adopted recommending that no Annual Conference other than th jse in
foreign mlssi m fields be organized with less than fifteen effective members.
The Freedmen's Aid Society was recommended to give such aid to schools among the
white people of the South as can be done without embarrassment to the schools among
the Freedmen.
The expenses of the delegates of the General Conference amounted to $24,948 50. The
receipts from the Annual Conference collections taken up to meet these expenses ag-
gregated $20,717 74 ; the deficiency, $4,225 50, was paid by draft on Book Concern.
It was ordered that " the pronouns he, his, and him, when used in the Discipline with
reference to stewards, class- leaders, Sunday-school superintendents, shall not be so con-
strued as to exclude women from such offices."
It was also ordered that " the Sunday-school Board shall consist of the preacher In
charge, (who shall be ex-officio chairman,) the superintendent, the assistant superintend-
ent, the secretary, the treasurer, the librarians, and the teachers of the school."
A revised form for reporting the annual statistics was adopted. (See (general Confer-
ence Journal, 1880, pp. 350, 351. )
it was ordered that among the questions put to candidates for admission Into the An-
nual Conference should be the following : '* Will you wholly abstain from the use of
tobacco."
The mission work of the Church, except that part of it which is emhraced in the An-
nual Conferences, was divided as follows : that part of it in the United States and Ter-
ritories was divided into eight Mission Districts, namely, Arizona, Black Hills, Dakota,
Indian, Montana, New Mexico, Utah, and West Nebraska ; and that part of it In the for-
eign field was divided into nine Mission Districts, namely : Bulgaria, Central America
and Western South America, Central China, Denmark, Italy, Japan, Mexico, North
China, and South America. (For the boundaries of these Mission Districts, see Discipline
of 1880, pp. 261-264.)
Each Annual Conference was empowered to have a copy of its Journal printed, sub-
stantially bound, and duly certified by the Secietary to be correct, and such copy shall be
considered the official Journal of said Annual Conference, and a copy thereof shall be for-
warded to the General Conference.
The work of the Ladles and Pastors' Christian Union was approved, and the contin-
uance of the Society recommended.
A resolution was unanimously adopted, by a rising vote, urging upon Congress "the
adoption of such statutes or amendments as shall secure, or aid in securing, the extirpa-
tion of polygamy and these other named crimes, and as shall make the laws of the United
States supreme in Utah as elsewhere In our nation."
An important report from the Committee on the Ecclesiastical Code, and involving nu-
merous chans'f's in the pro\isions for the administration of Discipline, was adopted. (For
full text of report see General Conference Journal, 1880, pp. 321-.324.)
The General Conference approved the ruling of Bishop Andrews at the session of the
New England Conference, in which he decided as follows : " In my judgment the law of
the Chiu-ch does not authorize the ordination of women ; I, therefore, am not at liberty
to submit to the vote of the Conference the vote to elect women to orders."
The ruling of Bishop Andrews at the session of the New York Conference, In the fol-
lowing words : " The Discipline of the Church does not provide for, nor contemplate,
the licensing of women as local preachers, and that, therefore, the action of said Confer-
ence,* and of its president, was without authority of law," was also approved.
* Poufrhkeepsie District Conference, at which a woman was licensed as local preacher.
Methodist Year-Book. 103
The ruling of the Bishop at a session of the New England Conference, that " it is the
right of any member of a Conference to give notice of withdrawal from the Conference
through the proper officer, when there are no charges against him ; but the withdrawal is
not complete until the Conference with which he is connected taies action upon it," was
approved.
Concerning the treatment of the Chinese immigrants to this country, the following re-
port was adopted :
Whereas, The treaties between the governments of the United States and China pro-
vide for the free immigration of citizens or subjects from either country to the other, and
for their protection when they have so emigrated ; and
Wliereas, The Chinese government acknowledges Its obligations in this respect, and
affords protection to our missionaries and merchants in their respective callings ; and
^VT^cr^as, The attitude of some sections of our country toward Chinese immigrants has
become the occasion of much regret on our part and distress on theirs, all of which we
believe might be relieved by a Jiist administration of the treaty existing between the two
countries ; therefore,
Resolved, 1. That it is the duty of our government to enforce all the rights guaranteed
by treaty to the Chinese upon oiir shores, and to afford them the protection which is ac-
corded to our citizens now residing within the bounds of the Cliinese Empire.
Resolved, 2. That our official papers should speak boldly and explicitly upon this sub-
ject, and demand that the rights guaranteed to Chinese immigrants by solemn treaty
stipulations shall be sacredly observed.
Resolved, 3. That we earnestly advise our people to exercise that charity which is due
them as children of a common Father and subjects of a common redemption ; and seek,
so far as possible, to allay the hostility which has been stirred up against them.
Resolved, 4. That we express our cordial sympathy with our brother. Rev. Otis Gibson,
D.D., superintendent of our Chinese Mission in California, in the difficulties and dangers
he has encountered in his faithful and unflinching adherence to duty in protecting the
Chinese immigrants from persecution.
The following minute was unanimously adopted :
Wliereas, The purity and exalted character of the family and social life at the White
House, Washington, is not surpassed In the history of oiu" country ; therefore.
Resolved, That we, the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, as-
sembled in Ohio, the State of the nativity of the President, Rutherford B. Hayes, and Mrs.
Hayes, hereby express our high appreciation of the personal worth and noble example of
the President and his wife, and commend to all the women of America, the heroic conduct
of Mrs. Hayes in regard to temperance, and specially the beautiful simplicity of her
Christian life.
Resolutions were adopted directing that the publication of the " National Repository "
and the " Golden Hours " be suspended at close of 1880.
On the subject of celebrating the approaching semi-centennial of our Foreign Slissions,
the following was adopted :
As the year 1882 is the jubilee year of the Foreign Missions of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, it is fitting that we should acknowledge in some suitable way the good hand of
our God upon us during the half century now closing ; we therefore recommend,
1. That suitable services be held in all" our churches and Sunday-schools at such time as
shall be selected by the several Annual Conferences within their bounds, between the
first day of May and the second Sunday in November, 1882.
2. That such services shall consist in part of sermons and addresses, which shall review
the history of our missions.
3. That our Missionary Secretaries be instructed to prepare a historical exercise for use
in our Sunday-schools during these services, and our Book Agents be instructed to print
the same.
4. That a special effort be made to bring up the missionary contributions of the Church
during the jubUee to $1,000,000.
5. That our Bishops be Instructed to bring this subject before the Annual Conferences
of 1881, and request them to take proper measures for the observance of the jubilee in
1833.
The Disciplinary provisions with regard to the limitation of the pastoral term were so
modlfled as to permit a pastor, in case the term of three years shall expire in the interim
of an Annual Conference, to remain until the next session, provided the time shall not be
more than six months.
An important report on Temperance was adopted, providing the appointment of a
104 Methodist Year-Book.
Committee by each Quarterly Conference, to meet the pastor at least once every three
months for consultation as to the best means for promoting the temperance cause.
A Quarterly Manual of the Methodist Episcopal Church, to include departments for
Education, Missions, Church Extt-nsiou, Freedmeu's Aid, Sunday-schools, Tracts, and
Publications, was ordered, the first number to be issued not later than December 1, 18S0.
The boundaries of several of the Annual Conferences were changed, and enabling acts
were passed providing for the division of several of the Conferences during the ensuing
four years. (See General Conference Journal, and also the Discipline, of 1880.)
The whole matter of observing the year 1884 as the Centennial of the organization of
the Methodist Episcopal Church was referred to the Bishops to devise a plan for the same,
and report it to the Church as early as convenient.*
The Quadrennial Address of the Bishops was read by Bishop Simpson, May 3. (For the
full text of the Address, see General Conference Journal for 1880, pp. 401-419.)
The series of Disciplinary questions for the Minutes of the Annual Conferences was re-
vised and several changes made. (For full list, see General Conference Journal for 1880,
p. 370.)
Bishop Harris was appointed to edit the Discipline of 1880. The General Conference
Secretary, Dr. Woodruff, was appointed to edit the "Journal " of the General Conference
of 1880.
Officers Elected by the General Conferences.
The following is a list of the officers elected by the General Conferences of the Meth-
odist Episcopal Church at the dates given :
BooU Agents at New York.— 1789, John Dicliins. 1799, Ezckiel Cooper. 1894, E.
Cooper, John Wilson. 1808, J. Wilson, Daniel Kitt. 1812, D. Hitt, Thoma.s V»'are. 1810,
Joshua Soule, Thomas Mason. 18-3C, Nathan Bangs, T. Mason. 1824, N. Bangs, John
Emory. 1828, J. Emory, Beverly Waugh. 18:32, B. Waugh, T. Mason. 183G, T. Mason,
Geo. Lane. 1840, T. Mason, G. Lane. 1844, G. Lane, C. B. Tippett 1848, G. Lane, Levi
Scott. 1853, Thomas Carlton, Zebulon Phillips. 1856, J. Carlton, James Porter. 18C0, T.
Carlton, J. Porter. 1804, T. Carlton, J. Porter. 18G8, T. Carlton, John Lanahan, Eleazer
Thomas. 1872, Reuben Nelson, John M. Phillips. 1876, R. Nelson, J. M. Phillips. Dr.
Nelson died February 20, 1879, and the vacancy was flOed by the election by the Book
Committee of Sandford Hunt, March 3, 1879. 1880, J. M. Phillips, S. Hunt.
Bock Agrnts at Cincinnati.— 1820, Martin Ruter. 1824, M. Ruter. 1828, Charles
Ho'liday. 1812, C. IToIIir^ay, John F. Wright. 1836, J. F. Wright, L; roy Swormstedt.
1S40, J. F. Wright, L. Swormstedt. 18-14, L. Swormstedt, John T. Mitchell. 1848, L.
Swormstedt, John E. Power. 18.52, L. Swonnstedt, Adam Poe. 1856, L, Swormstedt, A.
Poe. 1860, A. Poe, Luke Hitchcock. 1864, A. Poe, L. Hitchcock. 1868, L. Hitchcock, J,
M. Waldeu. 1872, L. Hitchcock, J. M. Walden. 1876, L. Hitchcock, J. M. Wa'den. 1880,
J. M. Walden, W. P. Stowe.
Missionary Secretaries.— 1810, Thomas Mason. 1826, John Emory. 1828, John J.
Matthais. 1829, Samuel Luckey. 1832, Beverly AVaugh. 1833, John P. Durbin. 18:36, N.
Bangs.i- 1840, Charles Pitman, W. Capers, E. R. Ames, 1844, C. Pittman. 1850, John P.
Durbin. 1856. J. P. Durbin. 1860, J. P. Durbin, W. L. Harris. 1864, J. P. Durbin, W. L.
Harris, J. T. Trimble. 1868, J. P. Durbin, W. L. Harris. 1872, Robert L. Dashiell, Thomas
M. Eddy John M. Reid. Dr. Eddy died Oct. 7, 1874 ; no successor was appointed. 1876,
R. L. Dashiell, J. M. Reid. 1830, J. M. Reid, C. H. Fowler.
Editors of Metliodist Quarterly Review and Editors of Books of General Catn-
Icgua.— The new and enlarged series of the "Review" was recommended by the Gen-
* For action on Ecumenical Conference, see pace 266.
+ Dr. Bangs was the first secretary elected by the General Conference. Previous secretaries
had been chosen by the Board of Managers.
Methodist Year-Book. 105
eral Conference of 1&40. Previously the editorship was generally attached to that of " The
Christian Advocate" at New York. 1840, George Peck. 1&44, G. Peck. 1848, John
M'Clintock. 1852, J. M'Clintock. 1856, D. D. Whedon. 1860, D. D. Whedon. 1864, D.
D. Whedon. 1868, D. D. Whedon. 1872, D. D. Whedon. 1876, U. D. Whedon. 1880, D.
D. Whedon.
Editors of The Christian Advocate, IVew York.— 1828, Nathan Bangs. ia33, J. P.
Durbin. 1836, S. Luckey, John A. Collins. 1840, Thos. E. Bond, Geo. Coles. 1844. T. E.
Bond. 1848, (Abel Stevens declined,) Geo. Peck. 1852, T. E. Bond. 1856, Abel Stevens.
1860, Edward Thomson. 1864, Daniel Curry. 1868, D. Curry. 1872, D. Curry. 1876,
Charles H. Fowler. 1880, James M. Buckley.
Editors of Sunday-school and Tract Publications, and l^orresponding Secrptariea
of S. S, Union and Tract Society.— 1844, Daniel P. Kidder. 1848, D. P, Kidder, 1&52.
D. P. Kidder. 1856, Daniel Wise. 1860, D. Wise. 1864, D. Wise. 1868, D. Wise. 1872,
John H. Vincent. 1876, J. H. Vincent. 1880, J. H. Vincent.
Editors of Ladies' Repository.— 1840, Leonidas L. Hamline. 1844, Edward Thomson.
1848, Benj. J. Tefft. 1852, WiUiam C. Larrabee. 1856, Davis W. Clark. 1860, D. W. Clark.
1864, Isaac W. Wiley. 1868, 1. W. Wiley. 1872, Erastus Wentworth. 1876, Daniel Curry,
and the name of the magazine changed to " National Magazine." Discontinued in 1880.
Editors of Western Christian Advocate.— 1840, Charles Elliott, Wm. Phillips. 1844^
C. Elliott, Leonidas L. Hamline. 1848, Matthew Simpson. 1852, C. ElUott. 1856, Calvin
Kingsley. 1860, c. Kingsley. 1864, John M. Reid. 1868, S. M. Merrill. 1872, Francis S.
Hoyt. 1876, F. S. Hoyt. 1880, F. S. Hoyt.
Editors of Xorth-western Christian Advocate.— 1852, J. V. Watson. 1856, J. V. Wat-
son. 1860, Thomas M. Eddy. 1864, T. M. Eddy. 1868, John M. Reid. 1872, Arthur Ed-
wards. 1876, A. Edwards. 1880, A. Edwards.
Editors of Northern Christian Advocate.— 1844, Nelson Rounds, 1848, Wm. Hosmer.
1852, Freeborn G. Hibbard. 1856, F. G. Hibbard. 1860, Isaac S. Bingham. 1864, (Jesse
T. Peck declined,) Dallas D. Lore. 1868, D. D. Lore. 1872, D. D. Lore. Dr. Lore died,
and O. H. Warren was appointed acting Editor. 1876, 0. H. Warren. 1880, 0. H. Warren.
Editors of California Christian Advocate.— 1852, S. D. Simonds. 1856, Eleazer
Thomas. 1860, E. Thomas. 1804, E. Thomas. 1868, Henry C. Benson. 1872, H. C. Ben-
son. 1876, H. C. Benson. 1880, Benjamin F. Crary.
Editors of Pittsburg Christian Advocate.— 1814, William Hunter. 1S18, W. Hunter.
1852, Henry J. Clarke. 1856, Isaac N. Baird. 1860, S. H. Nesbitt. 1864, S. H. Nesbitt.
1868, S. H. Nesbitt. 1872, W. Hunter. 1876, Alfred Wheeler. 1880, A. Wheeler.
Editors of Pacific Christian Advocate.— 1860, Thomas H. Peame. 1864, (S. D. Brown
declined,) Henry C. Benson. 1868, Isaac S. Dillon. 1872, I. s. Dillon. 1876, John H.
Acton.
Editors of Central Christian Advocate.— 1856, Joseph Brooks. 1860, Charles Elliott.
1864, Benj. F. Crary, 1868, B. F. Crary. 1872, Benjamin St. James Fry. 1876, B. St. J.
Fry. 1880, B. St. J. Fry.
Editor of Methodist Advocate, Atlanta.— 1872, E. Q. Fuller. 1876, E. Q. Fuller.
Editor ot South-western Advocate, New Orleans. — 1872, J. C. Hartzell, D.D.
Treasurers of the Missionary Society.— Until 1876 the Treasurer of the Missionary
Society was elected by the Board of Managers. In 1876 the General Conference elected
Reuben Nelson, and after his death John M. Phillips was elected Treasurer.
Corresponding Secretary of the Board of Church Extension.— 1864, Alpheus J.
Kynett. 1868, A. J. Kynett. 1872, A. J. Kynett. 1876, A. J. Kyuett. 1880, A. J. Kynett.
Corresponding Secretary of Freedmeu's Aid Society.— 1868, R. S. Rust. 1872, R. S.
Rust. 1876, R. S. Rust. 1880, R. S. Rust.
5*
106 Methodist Year-Book.
General Conference Secretaries.
The names of the Conference Secretaries were not recorded previous to the year 1800.
1800. Nicholas Snethen, of Baltimore Conference, Pastor.
1804. John Wilson, of New York Conference, Editor and Assist. Book Agent at N. Y.
1808. William Penn Chandler, of Philadelphia Conference, Presiding Elder.
1812. Daniel Hitt, of New York Conference, Editor and Book Agent.
1816. Louis E. Fechtig, of Baltimore Conference, Pastor.
1820. Alexander M'Caine, of New York Conference, Pastor.
1824. John Emory, of New York Conference, Book Agent at New York.
1828. Martin Ruter, of Ohio Conference, Book Agent at Cincinnati.
1832. Thomas L. Douglass, of Tennessee Conference, Supernumerary, Nashville.
1836. Thomas L. Douglass, of Tennessee Conference, Presiding Elder, Nashville Dlst.
1840. John A. Collins, of Baltimore Conference, Presiding Elder.
1844. Thomas B. Sargent, D.D., of Baltimore Conf., Presiding Elder, Potomac Dist.
1848. Joseph M. Trimble, D.D., of Ohio Conference, Presiding Elder.
1852. Joseph M. Trimble, DD., of Ohio Conference, Presiding Elder.
18.>6. William L. Harris, D.D., of North Ohio Conference, Professor in College.
I860. William L. Harris, D.D., of Central Ohio Conference, Professor in College.
1 864. William L. Harris, D.D., of Central Ohio Conference, Cor. Sec. of Miss. Soc.
1868. William L. Harris, D.D., of Central Ohio Conference, Cor. Sec. of Miss. Soc.
1872. William L. Harris, D.D., LL.D., until May 33, after which
George W. Woodruff, D.D., of New York East Conference, Pastor.
1876. George W. Woodruff, D.D., of New York East Conference, Pastor.
1880. George W. Woodruff, D.D., of New York East Conference, Pastor.
Executive Administration in the Conferences.
The rules and regulations of the Methodist Episcopal Church are embodied in
the latest edition of her Book of Discipline, a copy of which is accessible to every
family connected with her congregations.
The administration of the Bishops in the Annual Conferences on the questions
involved, is in harmony with the subjoined statements :
For convenience of administration the Conferences are divided into two classes, viz. :
the Spring and Fall Conferences. The former includes such as hold their sessions during
the first half of the calendar year, and the latter those whose sessions are held in the
second half of the year.
Each Annual Conference designates the place of its meeting, but the Bishops appoint
the time, selecting, as far as possible, such season for the session as shall harmonize, as
far as practicable, with the wishes of the Conference.
The dates of the Spring Conferences are determined by the Bishops at their annual
meeting, held usually about the first of November, and the dates of the Fall Conferences
at the Bishops' semi-annual meeting, usually held during the month of May.
When any change of date for holding a Conference session becomes important after
the announcement in the " Episcopal Plan," such change can only be made by the Bishop
to whom it has been assigned.
The jurisdiction of a Bishop in any Annual Conference begins with its assignment to
him as its president for the next ensuing session, and continues until it shall be assigned
to his successor. The assignments bear date with their public announcement in what is
called " The Episcopal Plan."
Concerning the appointment of Presiding Elders, the Bishops do not continue them in
oflQce after they have served four years on the same district, unless in their judgment
their re-appointment will subserve the best interests of the work. The administration of
the Bishops in this respect was formally indorsed by the General Conference of 1880.
In preparing their lists of appointments for the General Minutes the Bishops will follow
strictly the alphabetical order in the arrangement of the appointments in each district ;
Methodist Year-Book. 107
and when the name of a town or city occurs in which there are two or more appoint-
ments, then these appointments are arranged alphabetically within the town or city.
No transfer of a minister is made by a Bishop to any Conference, without having first
obtained the formal consent of the Bishop in charge of the Conference to which the pro-
posed transfer is to be made.
When a minister is received into our Church from any Church which has only a single
ordination to the ministry, the Discipline authorizes hi*s reception to our Church as being
in Elder's Orders.
In all cases of the admission of preachers to our Coulerences on credentials from other
Churches, they are required to answer the same questions as those propounded to candi-
dates for admission into full connection.
The Quarterly Conferences can receive ministers coming from Churches agreeing with
us in doctrine and discipline as local Deacons or Elders, and the Annual Conferences can
receive them as traveling Deacons or Elders, according to their credentials.
The stewards of a station or circuit have no right to fix the claims of the Presiding
Elder on that charge. Those claims, under the provisions of Discipline, can only be fixed
by the District Stewards at their annual meeting.
If the claims of the Pastor and Presiding Elder on any charge are not fully met, it is the
duty of the stewards to pro rata the receipts. Both claims are of equal authority.
It is contrary to the Discipline for one preacher or exhorter to go into the pastoral charge
of another preacher to appoint and hold meetings therein. In case a question arise
between two preachers as to which pastoral charge includes any locality, the question
shall be determined by the Presiding Elder.
Women are not eligible for ordination, nor for license to preach.
A preacher has no right to license a probationer to exhort.
When a local preacher applies for ordination under the rule, at the end of his first year
on trial in the Conference he must pass an examination on the course of study prescribed
for local preachers who are candidates for Deacon's Orders.
When a local Deacon is admitted into an Annual Conference, at the close of his third
year as a local Deacon, he may be elected and ordained to Elder's Orders as a locaj
preacher at the end of his first year on trial ; but in order to his election he must pass a
satisfactory examination on the course of study prescribed for candidates for local Elder's
Orders, and be duly recommended by a Quarterly or District Conference as a proper person
to be so elected and ordained.
When a local Deacon is admitted on trial at the end of his second year as Deacon, he
may be elected and ordained an Elder, as a local preacher, at the time of his admission
into full connection in the Conference, if, in addition to his other studies, he pass a satis-
factory examination on the course of study prescribed for local Elder's Orders, and has
been duly recommended for orders by a District or Quarterly Conference ; but his elec-
tion to orders must precede his admission into full connection, and his class relations as
an under-graduate in the Conference must continue till he has accomplished the entire
four years' course of study.
General Conference Daily Oliristian Advocate.
The first "Daily Christian Advocate" was commenced at the General Conference
of 1848, Rev. William Hunter, D.D., Editor. In 1852, at Boston, Eev. Abel Stevens,
D.D., LL.D., was Editor, assisted by Rev. E. Otheman. At Indianapolis, in
1856, Eev. Charles Elliott, D.D., was "Editor. In 1860, at Buffalo, N. Y., it was
edited by W. H. De Puy, D.D. In 1864, at Philadelphia, it was under the edito-
rial supervision of Eev. E. Thomson, D.D., ami Rev. C. Kingsley, D.D., (both of
whom were elected Bishops during the Conference session,) assisted by Eev. J.
M. Walden, D.D. In 1868, at Chicago, it was edited by Eev. Arthur "Edwards,
D.D. At Brooklyn, in 1872, Rev. W. H. De Puy, D.D., was Editor; Rev. W. H.
Kincaid A. M., Assistant Editor. At Baltimore, in 1876, Rev.W. H. De Puy, D.D.,
was Editor, and Eev. W. H. Kincaid, A.M., Assistant Editor. At Cincinnati, O.,
in 1880, Eev. W. H. Daniels, A.M., was Editor; Eev. W. H. Kincaid, A.M.,
Assistant Editor.
108 Methodist Year-Book.
Publishing Department of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
Book Concern at New York, 805 Broadway. Present Book Agents: John M.
Phillips, Esq., elected in 1872, and re-elected in 1876 and 1880, and Sandford
Hunt, D.D., elected (to fill vacancy caused by the death of Dr. Nelson) by the
Book Committee and Bishops-, 1879, and re-elected by the General Conference
in 1880.
Western Book Concern, 190 West Fourth Street, Cincinnati. Present Book
Agents: John M. Walden, D.D., LL.D., elected in 1868, and re-elected in 1872,
1876, and 1880; and William P. Stowe, D.D., elected in 1880.
Depositories of New York Book Concern : At Boston, J. P. Magee, Agent ; at
Buffalo, H. H. Otis, Agent; at Pittsburg, J. Ilorner, D.D., Agent; at San Fran-
cisco, Kev. B. Hill, Agent.
Depositories of Western Book Concern : At Chicago, St. Louis, and Atlanta.
The Book Concern is the property of the General Conference, and subject entirely
to its control. By direction of the General Conference the Book Agents " have
authority to regulate the publications and all other parts of the business of the
Concern, except what belongs to the editoi-ial departments, as the state of the finances
and the demand may require."
General Book Committee, 1880-84.
The General Book Committee of the Methodist Episcopal Church consists of one
member from each of the twelve General Conference Districts, and of three mem-
bers from New York and vicinity, and three from Cincinnati or vicinity. The
Conunittee, during the intervals of the General Conference, has general supervision
of the publishing interests of the Church, fixing the salaries of the Bishops, Book
Agents, and connectional Editors ; and has power (see specific provisions of Dis-
cipline of 1880, H 324) to suspend for cause an Agent or Editor.
District. Member. Conference.
I. Charles A. Clark ... Maine.
11. Homer Eaton Troy.
III. Isaac S. Bingham.. .NorthernNew York.
IV. WilliamJ.Piixson.. Philadelphia.
V. Leroy A. Belt Central Ohio.
VI. Charles O. Fisher. .. Savannah.
District. Member. Conference.
VII. Clement Stuclebaker. . .N.-W. Indiana.
VIII. Philip G. Gillett .. ..Illinois.
IX. David C. John Minnesota.
X. Francis S. Begofs St. Louis.
XI. John D. Hammond Nevada.
XII. William Schreiner N. W.German.
Local Committee at New York.— John B. Cornell, Clinton B. Fisk, and Wm. Hoyt.*
Local Committee at Cincinnati.— Amos Shinkle, Rudolph A. W. Brilhl, and Edward
Sargent.
Local Committee of "California Christian Advocate."— T. H. Sinex, F. F.
Jewell, A. M. Hough, R. Bently, R. G. Davisson, R. M'Elroy, and J. F. Lamden.
Local Committee of "Pittsburg Christian Advocate."— Erie Conference, John
Graham and Joseph Leslie ; Pittsburg Conference, T. N. Boyle, J. W. Baker, and H. L.
Chapin; Ea.st Ohio Conference, J. H. Conkle and A. H. Dorner ; West Virginia Confer-
ence, Thomas B. Hughes and James L. Clark.
Initial History of the Publishing Business.
One of the distinguishing features of Methodism from the beginning has been its
wisely directed effort to give the largest possible information to its people. Its
founder availed himself of the press to a remarkable extent. Next to a powerful
Christian experience and a holj'' life, his ministers were pledged to circulate his
tracts and books. His publications were the most numerous and the widest in
variety of any religious teacher of history, sweeping over the whole field of thought
♦ Jamps II. Taft, of Brooklyn, was elected by the General Conference a member of the Book
Committee, but resigned iu 1882, and William Hoyt, of Stamford, Cunn., was appoimed in his
place.
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embodied in his wonderfully comprehensive scheme of usefulness, and his plan of
evangelistic work required their immediate and most extensive circulation. " Feed
our people with helpful reading," was the burden of an ever-recurring charge to his
co-laborers. It has been well said that all his preachers were colporteurs ; and their
examination as his assistants included the inquiry concerning their faithfulness in
this work. "Take care," were his earnest words to them, " that every society is
supplied with books. O why is not this regarded ! " To Eichard Eodda, one of
his faithful helpers, he wrote approvingly as follows : " You are found to be re-
markably diligent in spreading the books ; let no man rob you of this glory. If
you can spread the " Magazine," it will do good; the letters therein are the maiTOW
of the Gospel." In order that his motives might not be misunderstood he pledged
in advance all the profits of his publications to the benefit of the Church, and this
pledge was faithfully observed to the last ; and in dying he entailed the same obli-
gations upon his successor and heir, the British Conference.
The Methodist ministers in America began their work in the same spirit, and
with the same general methods. In their early work they introduced the Wesleyan
publications wherever they went. But the separation of the American colonies
from the mother country, and the delays and embarrassments of transportation
necessitated the establishment of a publishing house at home. At first several books
were issued under individual responsibility, but, as an important safeguard in in-
suring the future unity of the Church, a conuectioual publishing house was estab-
lished. The Conference of 1789, held five years after the organization of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, elected Rev. John Dickins editor and agent under
the title of "Book Steward," the name given to the Wesleyan publishing manager
in the British Conference. Mr. Dickins was also stationed as pastor in Philadelphia
in the only Methodist church in that city at that date.
The establishment of a Book Concern was one of faith as well as one of wise and
prudent forethought. There was no appropriation made for its capital, for there
was no fund from which such a grant could be made. Mr. Dickins began his
publishing work by loaning the Concern $600 of his money. His first work, issued
in 1789, was the republication of Mr. Wesley's edition of " Thomas a Kempis," a
manual of piety widely known, and still much called for among Christians irre-
spective of denomination. " The Methodist Discipline," " Saint's Everlasting Ee.st,"
and the first volume of the " Arminian Magazine " were also issued the same year.
A part of " Fletcher's Checks " and the second volume of the " Magazine" followed
in 1790. He continued in this good work as sole editor and manager, as well as
pastor of a congregation, enjoying the increasing confidence of the whole Church,
until September 27, 1798, when he passed from labor to reward.*
Immediately after the death of Mr. Dickins the Eev. Ezekiel Cooper was appointed
to fill the vacancy. Under his skillful management the business continued to pros-
per. In 1814 it was removed to the city of New York, and Eev. John Wilson was
appointed Assistant Editor and Book Steward. Four years later Mr. Cooper resigned,
leaving the Concern worth about $45,000, the net earnings of nineteen years.* Mi'.
* John Dickins was .appointed to Philadelphia, and designated as the " Book Steward," and
Philip Cox was left without a circuit as " Book Steward " at large. The diffusion of religions
literature had evidently become an important consideration with the Conference. We have
peen it gradually approximate tliis conclusion. Philip Cox's itinerant laltors in the good work
have also been mentioned. lie died in it after more than three years' service, which, say the
Minutes, " ivere great in circulating so many hundred books of religious instruction." He
seems to have been practically a coljjorteur — the first example of that useful othce in the
United St-ates. Thougli he was appointed to tlie boi^k stewardship as early as Dickins, the
latter is considered the founder of the "Book Concern." — Stevens.
110 Methodist Year-Book.
Wilson succeeded Mr. Cooper, with Eev. Daniel Hitt as Assistant. Tliis year the
Agents were first released from the responsibilities of the pastorate, and left to give
their entire attention to the business, preaching only as they might feel disposed.
Mr. Wilson is .said to have been a faithful minister and skillful Agent, t He was
succeeded by Eev. Daniel Hitt. (For complete list of Book Agents, with dates of
service, see subsequent pages.)
Publishing Head-quaeters Established.
The Book Concern occupied leased premises until 1822, and during the last two
years of such tenantry occupied the basement of the Wesleyan Seminary, in Crosby
Street; and while there the Agents — Bangs and Mason — began to do their own bind-
ing. In 1824 the Agents, then Bangs and Emory, purchased the Seminary building
and began to do their own printing. They also abolished the system of sending
out books to be sold on commission. These changes, especially the latter, brought
great relief to the business. During this quadrenuium Clarke's " Commentary " was
brought out. In 1828 Dr. Bangs was transferred to the editorship of " The Christian
Advocate," and Dr. Emory was elected Book Agent, with Beverly Waugh (after-
ward Bishop) as his Associate. During this quadrennium Wesley's and Fletcher's
" Works" were published, and the Magazine issued as the " Methodist Magazine and
Quarterly Eeview." The business increased to such an extent that more room was
needed, and five lots, with a total frontage of 100 feet, were bought on Mulberry
Street, as a site for a new and commodious building. The latter was completed and
the whole business removed to it in September, 1833.
The Book Concern prospered until February 18, 183(5, when the buildings and
stock were consumed by fire, involving a loss of $250,000. The loss was very
severe, and the more so because only a small part of the insurance could be collected,
owing to the recent bankruptcy of the companies which liad issued the policies.
In all directions, however, practical sympathy was manifested, and contributions
were sent to the Agents to the amount of $89,994 98. To this sum was added the
amounts received from insurance and from debts due the Concern, making a total
capital of $281,650 74, with which the business was resumed and a new building
erected on the Mulberry Street lots. TJie building then erected is still retained by
the Book Agents for their manufacturing purposes.
"The Christiak Advocate" Founded.
The first number of " The Christian Advocate," now the oldest Methodist weekly
in America, was issued September 9, 1826. An edition of 5,000 copies was printed,
and immediately put into circulation.! The paper first bore the name " Christian
* Ezekiel Cooper, who became Bonk A<rent after the death of .Tohn Dicluns, in 1778, was
one of the representative men of the Methodist Church. He was born in Caroline County, Md.,
in 1768. coin iiienced his itinerant ministry in 1785, contiiiuiu;? therein until he became editor
and fjeneral Book Agent. Dr. Stevens says of hiin : '• His lar™'!' and accurate information was
only surpassed by the range and soundness of his judgment. He sustained a pre-eminent posi-
tion in tlie Church during must of its history. He became one of the most able pulpit orators
of the day. At times an irresistible pathos accompanied his preaching, and, in tlie forest wor-
ship, audiences of ten thous.and would be enchanted by his disi'ourses. He fell in his Master's
service and entered upon his reward, aged eighty-four years, in tlie sixty-second year of his
ministry. On the 21st of February, 1847, the weary wheel of Ufe stood still at last, and he
swet'tly fell asleep in Jesus."
+ John Wilson was an Englishman, and was for several years a preacher in his own country
before coming to America. He became Book Agent in 1804. "He was an able divine, convers-
ant with Greek and R iman cla-ssics. powerful in the pulpit, and a great preacher of sanctifica-
tion." He died very suddenly in the year 1810. ^
J There are now (Nov. 15, iSsS) two persons in New York city who aided in printins it,
namely, Mr. Addison Jayne, now in the office of Messrs. J. B. & J. M. Cornell, then a compos-
itor at the Book Concern, and Mr. Joseph Sandfoi-d, a pressman, who Is still employed in the
Methodist Year-Book. Ill
Advocate." Two local Methodist papers antedated it in publication — " Zion's Her-
ald " at Boston, under the management of the trustees of the Wesleyan Academy at
Wilbraham, and the " Wesleyan Journal" at Charleston, S. C, under the super-
vision of a publishing committee. The latter, which was started September 30,
1825, was purchased by the Book Agents, March S, 1827, and merged in " The
Christian Advocate," which thenceforward bore the name, " Christian Advocate
and Journal." "Zion's Herald," which was started in 1823, after continuing for
five years and eight months, was sold, (August, 3828,) by the managers, to the pub-
lishers of the " Christian Advocate and Journal," to be merged in the latter, which
for several years aftei'ward bore the name of " Christian Advocate and Journal and
Zion's Herald." The money received for the paper, (" Zion's Herald,") " a con-
siderable sum," was appropriated to the benefit of the Wesleyan Academy. Years
afterward some of the Methodists in New England, believing that they needed a
paper nearer home, organized a new Publishing Association, and started a new
paper at Boston, bearing, however, the old name, " Zion's Herald," and it has since
continued with a prosperous and useful history. At the commencement of the
seventh volume of "The Christian Advocate" the added words, "and Zion's Her-
ald," were dropped out of the name for the sake of brevity, and, for the same
reason, the other added words, " and Journal," were dropped off in the initial num-
ber for 1870.
The first editor of " The Christian Advocate," Barber Badger, was a layman,
described as about five and a half feet high, stocky, with round, pleasant face,
quiet, of marked suavity of manners, American-born, and about thirty-five years
old. He assisted in the establishment of the first " Zion's Herald," and was its
first editor, continuing as such until he came to the oflSce in New York. He re-
mained sole editor until May, 1828, when, on the election of Dr. Bangs as senior
editor, he became associate editor. June 10, 1831, he resigned the office, and, in
the next number of the paper. Dr. Bungs gave a lengthy and exceedingly tender
and appreciative editorial on "The Kesiguation of the Assistant Editor."
The Pkesent Publishing and Mission Buildings at New York.
The General Conference of 1868 adopted the following resolutions, moved by Dr.
D. Curry, to wit:
Resolved. 1. That it is the opinion of this General Conference that it is highly
desirable that more commodious quarters should be provided for the use of the Book
Concern, Missionary Society, and other Connectional institutions in the city of New
York, and that, if practicable, all these should be in the same building.
Resolved, 2. That be, and they are hereby appointed, a Commission,
with full powers to purchase grounds, and erect thereon suitable buildings for the
above-named and referred-to institutions, in the city of New York, as soon as they
sliall find it practicable to do so, at a cost not to exceed one million of dollars, the
same to be the property of the Methodist Book Concern ; and for this purpose they
are authorized to raise money by loans or otherwise.
The Bishops nominated, and the General Conference confirmed the nominations
press-room fit 200 Mulberry Street. The latter came to this city with his father, Eev. P. P.
Sandford, the veteran presiding elder, in 1820, and became a student in the first Wesleyan Sem-
inary, then located at what is now the corner of Canal and Eldridge Street.s, but subsequently
transferred to a new edifice, erected for the purpose, at No. 14 Crosby Street. This edifice is
the one mentioned above as afterward sold to the Book Agents, and used by them as their
publishing head-quartern. In il the first number of "The Christian Advocate" was printed.
'I'he press used was a "double-pull Washington hand-press," which could work off about two
hundred intprcssions per hour. This was in noteworthy contrast with the great four cyl-
inder press now In use for the paper, and which will strike off the present immense editions
In much less time than was then required for the small edition of the fli-st number.
112 Methodist Year-Book.
for the Conmiission above named, as follows : Hon. Enoch L. Fancher, Esq., Rev.
Thomas Carlton, D.D., Eev. J. P. Durbin, D.D., W. W. Cornell, Esq., Rev. D.
Curry, D.D., Eev. W. L. Harris, D.D., A. V. Stout, Esq., Rev. John M'Clintock,
D.D., George I. Seney, Esq., Daniel Drew, Esq., Oliver Hoyt, Esq., C. Walsh,
Esq., H. Dolner, Esq. The Commission met and appointed Dr. Carlton and Messrs.
Coi-nell and Stout an Executive Committee.
The Commission purchased, in April, 1869, the new and elegant buildings now
occupied by the Book Concern, located on the corner of Broadway and Eleventh
Street. The location is one of the most desirable in the city. The lot has a front
on Broadway of 76 feet 1 inches ; on Eleventh Street of 221 feet 9 inches ; the rear,
or west side, is 103 feet 3 inches. A massive edifice, five stories above the base-
ment, with iron fronts, and of superior architectural design, covers the entire lot.
The ceilings are lofty, so much so that the edifice is nearly an entire story higher
than the surrounding five-story buildings. The extensive area of each floor is
without interior walls, the ceilings being supported by numerous iron columns.
This renders it convenient to erect partitions at pleasure. The basement room ex-
tends 19 feet under Broadway, and 14 feet 11 inches under Eleventh Street. This
contains an area of 20,114 square feet ; the first two floors above, 15,665 square feet
each, and remaining three floors, 10,959 square feet each, making a total area of
84,421 square feet, a space nearly equal to two acres. The basement floor covers
nearly one half acre. The building was entirely new, and constructed in the most
substantial manner. The various business and editorial offices in connection with
the Book and Missson Rooms at the Book Concern in New York city were trans-
ferred to the new building in August, 1869.
The cost of the structure, including the expenSfe of fitting up and furnishing for
the uses of the Book Concern and the various Conneetional offices, was $950,000.
The property is owned — the undivided three fourths by the Book Concern, and the
undivided one fourth by the Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Publishing Buildings at Cincinnati.
The Western Methodist Book Concern was established in Cincinnati by direction
of the General Conference of 1820. It was managed first by one Book Agent and
then by two, but did not have a corporate existence separate from the New York
Book Concern until that relation was fixed by the General Conference of 1840. The
business was transacted for a time in a room of the house in which Dr. Martin
Ruter, the first Agent, resided. Even prior to 1830 it was found advantageous to ship
books from New York in the sheets, and bind them in Cincinnati. Little printing
was done there until the " Western Christian Advocate" was first issued, begin-
ning with 1833, of which Rev. T. A. Morris (afterward Bishop) was the first editor.
The " Christian Apologist," Rev. William Nast editor, was begun in 1839, and
" The Ladies' Repository," Rev. L. L. Hamline (afterward Bishop) editor, in 1842.
The first land bought for this Book Concern was a lot, 106 by 190 feet, on the corner
of Main and Eighth Streets, on wliich a large building for the time was erected.
In 1869 the present site on Fourth Street was secured to provide larger facilities.
It comprises a leasehold lot, 32 by 108, on Fourth Street, on which is a new four-
story stone front building, the property of the Concern, and a lot held in fee-simple,
fronting 50 feet on Plum Street and running through 190 feet to House Street, with
a frontage of 141 feet on this street. This one lot is much larger than the old
property. A five-story brick building, with a well-lighted basement, was built on
this lot in 1869, in which the printing-office, electrotype foundry, and bindery are
located. The book-store occupies the first story of the Fourth Street building ; the
Methodist Year-Book.
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tusiness office and counting-room are on tlie second floor ; there are also a Bishops'
room, the several editors' offices, and the office of the Freedmen's ^.id Society in
this buihling.
The " Western Christian Advocate " and a western edition of the " Sunday-School
Advocate," "Classmate," " Picture Lesson Paper," "Sunday- School Journal,"
the three styles of " Berean Leaves," the " Christian Apologist," (German,) " House
and Hearth," (German,) and the " Sunday-School Bell" and " Lesson Helps," (Ger-
man,) are all published here, besides a number of "General Catalogue" and other
books. Sixteen large presses and two small ones are constantly employed in turning
out the aboved-named work. The money value of the business done — nearly all at
the wholesale rates — is given below.
A Depository was established in Chicago by order of the General Conference of
1852; the publication also of the "North-western Christian Advocate" was pro-
vided for at the same time. The property of the Depository was entirely destroyed
by fire in 1871, the actual loss being above $100,000. New property has been pur-
chased ; the Depository is on Washington Street, in a building SO by 165 feet, four
stories high. The parts of the building not required by the store, editorial rooms,
and printing-office are rented to good advantage. A Swedish weekly paper and a
Swedish Sunday-school paper are published there. The periodical and book sales
in 1882 of this Depository amounted to $190,505 46.
A Depository and the " Central Christian Advocate " were established in St. Louis
by the General Conference of 1856. A property on Sixth Street, 75 by 120 feet, was
purchased some years ago, and the buildings changed to suit the business ; but on
account of the subsequent location of the Custom House and post-office, it was found
profitable to rent this property and secure another location. The store and editorial
offices are now on the corner of Pine and Eleventh Streets — an eligible site. The
business of this Depository is growing. The periodical and book sales for 1882
amounted to $123,719 65.
The net capital of the Western Methodist Book Concern, November, 30, 1882,
was $369,081 90.
Quadrennial Sales since 1844.
The quadrennial sales of the Book Concerns at New York and Cincinnati, as
officially reported to the General Conferences, severally, since 1844, (the date of
the separation of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South,) have been as follows :
Book Concern
Western
Total.
AT New Yokk,
Book Concern.
Quadrennial Report,
May, 1848
$487,222 04
$125,413 65
$612,635 69
" 1852
653,190 78
200,829 53
854.020 31
it u
" 1856
1,000,734 18
877,214 68
1,877,948 86
" "
" 1860
1,175,867 29
1,127,851 00
2,303,718 29
" "
" 1864
1,507,873 18
1,287,694 36
2,795,367 54
" 1808
2,535,199 77
2.399,508 43
4,934,708 20
" "
" 1872
2,426,840 42
2,801,677 16
5,228,517 58
" "
" 1876
3,215,612 57
2,830,096 67
6,045.709 24
" "
" 1880
3,415,016 75
2,675,125 82
6,090,142 57
For Tear 1880
867,667 16
709,116 83
1,576,783 99
1,566,739 98
1881
852,719 96
714,020 02
" 1882
881,078 99
743,750 17
1,624,829 16
Total
$19,019,023 09
$16,492,298 32
$35,511,321 41
It will be seen by the above that, during the last nine and three fourths quad-
renniums, (thirty-nine years,) the sales fi-om books and periodicals have reached the
large sum of more than thirty-Jive and a half millions of dollars.
114 Methodist Year-Book.
Book Concern Exhibits for 1882.
The Annual Eeport of the Book Committee, bearing date February 16, 1883,
(the latest issued before the completion of the Year-Book for 1884:,) gives the sum-
mary of assets and liabilities for the two branches of the Book Concern as follows :
Westkhn Book Conceen.*
Methodist Book Concern, New Yobk.
Assets— Real Estate $682,250 00
Merchandise, etc 601,316 27
Not*;s and Accounts 441,511 37
Cash 46,495 04
Total Assets $1,777,57S68
Liabilities— Bonds $261,100 00
Notes 1 69,140 98
Accounts 104,529 98
Liabilities, per Ledger 623,770 96
Capital, per Ledger $1,253,801 72
Less amount to fill contract
with subscribers $47,675 74
Less twenty per cent. on Notes
and Accounts for prob-
able losses 80,702 26
128,378 00
Net Capital of Book Concern at
New York $1,1 25,423 72
Profits for the year $63,063 07
Assets— Real Estate $299,000 00
Merchandise, etc 1 54,098 60
Machinery and Stock 183,669 12
Furniture and Fixtures 13,170 00
Notes and Accounts 157,928 85
Cash 27,182 25
Total Assets $835,048 12
Liabilities— Bonds $104,200 00
Interest due on Bonds nut
called for 3,207 00
Notes and Accounts 335,397 13
Total Liabilities 442,804 13
Capital, as per Ledger $392,244 59
Less twenty per cent, on Notes and Ac-
counts for possible losses 31,685 77
Capital, Nov. 30, 1882 $360,658 82
Assets at Atlanta, Nov. 30, l»b2 8,423 08
Net Capital of Western Book Concern $369,0;
" ~ , for '
Profit for the year $38,987 64
Total net capital, $1,494,505 62. Total profit of the two Book Concerns for the year, $102,050 71.
Financial Success of the Publishing Business.
An inventory of the property taken immediately after the tire showed a total
capital of $191,655 16. By adding to this sum the amount of the contributions
made toward the new building, and subtracting their sura from the present net
capital of the Eastern and Western Book Concerns, the total net gain in capital
arising from the profits of the business is obtained. These figures stand thus :
Capital in 1836, (Exhibit March 31, 1836) $191,6.55 76
Contributions toward rebuilding, (see Exhibit dated Jan. 1, 1840) — 89,994 98
Total $281,G.'J0 74
Present net capital, (Exhibit 1883) 1,494,505 63
Gain in capital In forty-six years 11,212,854 88
The records of the Book Concerns at New York and Cincinnati show that they
have paid for objects outside of their own business, by order of the General Con-
ference, the large sum of $1,664,223 41.1 This amount is made up of the sum paid
to the Church South, the sum paid for Bishops' salaries and traveling expenses, in
dividends to Annual Conferences, and the sum paid to meet deficiencies in the
expenses of delegates to General Conference, and other bills ordered by that body.
The figures are stated thus : %
Paid dividends to Annual Conferences, and salaries and traveling
expenses of Bishops $1,120,662 19
General Conference expenses, and on order of General Conference- . 167,092 41
Paid Church South, principal and interest on costs 376,468 81
Total paid by Book Concerns outside of their own business $1,664,223 41
Less amount paid prior to 1836 148,000 00
Total paid outside of business since ia36 $1,516,223 41
* The Annual Exhibit of the Book Concern at New York bears date .Tune 80, and that of
the Western Booli Concern November 30. in making up these summaries the Exhibits of
1SS2 have been used.
tThis sum is exclusive of the amount (ei'timated at about ,$180,000) paid out for the purchase
and reUef of local papers, which value does not enter into the as.sets of the Book Concern.
$ In making these summaries no account has been taken of relative losses in profits arising
Methodist Year-Book. 115
In order to determine the profits of the business the above sum should be added
to the increase of net capital. The following are the figures :
Net gain in capital since 1836, exclusive of building contributions,
recorded above $1,212,854 88
Paid outside of business by General Conference order since 1836 — 1,516,223 41
Total profits in forty-six years $2,729,078 29
It should be remembered that, aside from the contributions named above toward
the rebuilding of the Book Concern at New York after the great fire of 1836, (and
which are excluded from the profits in the figures here given,) not a dollar has ever
been given to the Book Concern by legacies, subscriptions, collections, or other
donations. From its regular and legitimate business alone, under the careful man-
agement of ofiicers selected by the General Conference of the Church, it shows for
the last forty-six years a clear profit of over two and a half millions of dollars — an
average annual frojit of over jifty-nine thousand dollars! The achievement is
without a parallel in the history of religious, benevolent, and ecclesiastical publish-
ing establishnrents, reflecting great credit upon the fidelity, skill, and business tact
of the Book Agents, and upon the general Connectional publishing system adopted
by the Church.
Book and Tkact Pcblications.
Books of the General Catalogue 1,416
Books of the Sunday-school Libraries 1,314
Sunday-school Requisites 295
Number of Tract publications not included above 1,036
Total Book and Tract publications 4,061
The Books vary in size from the great quarto Pronouncing Bible, and Clarke's
Commentary, of six volumes, super-royal octavo, 5,485 pages, down to 72mo
volumes. The unbound Tracts vary from sixty-six pages to two pages each. The
Book Concern at New York issued Books and Tracts as follows during the year
ending Jane 30, 1883 :
No. of Vols. No. of Pages.
Number of volumes of Books Issued during the year .... 732,.398 230,172,396
Number of Tracts issued during the year ■ 504,900 4,94 .,350
Total Books and Tracts during the year 1,237,298 235,119,746
Average number of Books issued daily 2,378
Average number of Tracts issued daily ^.i'ofo
Average number of pages of Books issued daily ic'So
Average number of pages of Tracts issued daily rn, o
Average number of Books and Tracts issued dally r-eo oiS
Average number of pages of Books and Tracts issued daily ( d3,3. 6
No. of Vols. No. of Pages.
Total number of Books issued for fourteen years 7,970,019 1,817,8]|^2,239
Total number of Tracts issued for fourteen years 20,734,250 92,3(3,230
These summaries do not include those of the Western Book Concern, which show
correspondingly large figures, nor of any of the periodicals published.
from the yearly subtraction of large sums which, in other business houses, would have been
added to the capital, or of the saving, in case such subtractions had not i.een jnade, of over two
hundred thousand dollars which the two houses have been oblisred to pay since 1S36 on bor-
rowed money. Nor has any account been taken of the fact that the capital stock was overesti-
mated in 188"6, nor of the fact that in former years a considerable amount paid to the Bishops
was charged to current-expense account, and hence is not included in the " outside" account
above named.
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Methodist Year-Book.
Subscription Book Departmekt.
This department of the Methodist Book Concern was opened August 5, 1875.
Thus far nine books have been issued in the department, namely :
" New Illustrated Devotional and Practical family Bible," pp. 1,400. Six styles.
" Lights and Shadows." Two styles.
" The Great Men of God." Two styles. •
" The Lord's Land." Two styles.
" The Temperance Eeform, and its Great Keformers." Two styles.
" History of the United States." Three styles.
" Moody : His Words — Work— and Workers." Two styles.
" Illustrated History of Methodism." Two styles.
'' The People's Cyclopedia of Universal Knowledge."
" Life and Work of General Gai-fleld."
"Lives of the Deceased Bishops of the Methodist Church."
Since the organization of this department over 500,000 volumes have been sold.
Circulation of Official Periodicals, 1883.
Circulation.
Total Copies
FOR THB VeaR.
The Christian Advocate
Quarterly Review
Sunday-School Journal, (average)
Sunday-School Advocate, "
Sunday-School Classmate, "
The Senior Leaf,* "
The Berean Leaf,* "
The Beginner's Leaf,* "
Picture Lesson Paper, "
The Study
Northern Christian Advocate
South-western Christian Advocate
Leaf Cluster
Manual of the Methodist Episcopal Church (quarterly).
Western Christian Advocate
Christian Apologist (German)
North-western Christian Advocate
Sandebudet (Swedish)
Central Christian Advocate
Methodist Advocate
Hearth and Home (German) ♦
Sunday-School Bell "
New Bell "
Bible Lessons "
Sunday-School Banneret, (Swedish)
55,600
5,S60
113,791
179,875
79,520
40,000
655,375
66,250
818,209
2,000
13,320
3,400
2,-500
10,500
24,000
17,044
18,642
2,883
17,200
2,307
7,133
24,750
7,000
28,625
2,443
2,891,000
21,040
1,365,492
4,317,060
1,908,480
160,000
2,621,500
265,006
11,346,868
8,000
692,640
176,800
10,000
42,000
1,248,000
886,288
969,384
894,000
119,964
85,596
594,000
The annexed list will indicate the periodicals authorized directly by the General
Conference. There are many other papers published in the interest of tiie Methodist
Episcopal Church, some of them strongly sustained by specific Annual Conference
action. A nearly complete list of Methodist papers, giving also the names of the
Editors and of the branch denominations in whose interest they are severally issued,
may also be found in the annexed list. The total number of periodicals in the
Methodist Episcopal Church is 72 ; aggregate in various branches of Methodism, 164 :
Authorized by the General Conference
Other Periodicals of the Methodist Episcopal Church
Periodicals of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, (partial list). . . .
British Wesleyan Methodist Church
Other Methodist Churches not included above
The numerous district and local educational journals are not included.
19
53
23
18
51
' Those figures are the number of the Peri(jdicals printed iu New York alone.
Methodist Year-Book. 117
Periodicals of the M. E. Church Authorized by the General Conference.
[The figures in parentheses indicate the number of the volumes commencing Jan. 1, 1881.]
"Methodist Quarterly Keview," (66th,) D. D. Whedon, D.D., LL.D, Editor;
"The Christian Advocate," (59th,) New York, J. M. Buckley, D.D., LL.D., Ed-
itor, K. R. Doherty, Assistant Editor; "Western Christian Advocate," (5lKt,)
Cincinnati, F. S. Iloyt, D.D., Editor, J. J. Hight, D.D., Assistant Editor; " North-
ern Christian Advocate," (44th,) Syracuse, N. Y., 0. H. Warren, D.D., Editor;
"Pittsburg Christian Advocate," (51st,) A. Wheeler, D.D., Editor; " Nortli-
western Christian Advocate," (32d,) Chicago, Arthur Edwards, D.D., Editor;
"Central Christian Advocate," (28th,) St. Louis, B. St. James Fry, D.D., Editor;
"California Christian Advocate," San Francisco, B. F. Crary,D.D., Editor; "South-
western Christian Advocate," New Orleans, Eev. L. P. Cushman, Editor ; " Chris-
tian Apologist," (46th,) in German, Cincinnati, W. Nast, D.D., Editor; " Haus
und Herd," and German Sunday- school and Tract Publications, Cincinnati, H.
Leibhart, D.D., Editor; "Sunday-School Advocate," (43d, Oct. 1, 188-3,) and
"Sunday-School Journal," (18th, Oct. 1, 1883,) "Sunday-School Classmate,"
" Picture Lesson Paper," "Berean Quarterly," and "Berean Lesson Leaf," J. H.
Vincent, D.D., Editor, J. M. Freeman, D.D., Assistant Editor; "The Sande-
budet," Scandinavian, (22d,) George W. Henschen, Ph.D., Editor; "Manual of
the Methodist Episcopal Church," (quarterly,) J. M. Freeman, D.D., Editor, first
number issued October, 1880.
List of Other Methodist Periodicals throughout the World.
Methodist Episcopal Chubch. — This list does not include the periodicals (about
twenty, chiefly monthlies) issued by our educational institutions.
"Zion's Herald," (weekly,) Boston, B. K. Peirce, D.D., Editor.
"Vermont Christian Messenger," (weekly,) Montpelier, Vt., Eev. W. D. Mal-
com, Editor.
"Buffalo Christian Advocate," (weekly,) Buffalo, N. Y., Eev. S. Morse, Editor,
A. P. Eipley, D.D., Associate Editor.
"Michigan Christian Advocate," (weekly,) Detroit, Mich.
" The Christian Statesman," (weekly,) Milwaukee, Eev. J. L. Hauser, Editor.
" Iowa Methodist," (monthly.)
" Kansas Methodist," (weekly,) Topeka.
" Eocky Mountain Christian Advocate," (monthly,) Salt Lake City, Eev. G. M.
Pierce, Editor.
" Christian Standard and Home Journal," (weekly,) Philadelphia, Eev. J. S.
Inskip, Editor,
" Guide to Holiness," (monthly,) New York, Eev. G. Hughes and Mrs. Dr.
Palmer, Editors.
" Christian Witness and Advocate of Bible Holiness," (monthly,) Boston, Eev.
W. M'Donald, Editor, Eev. Joshua Gill, Associate Editor.
" Pacific Christian Advocate," (weekly,) Oregon, H. K. Hines, Editor.
" Ocean Grove Eecord," (weekly,) Eev. A. Wallace, Editor.
"The Philadelphia Methodist," J. B. M'Cullough, D.D., Editor and Publisher.
"Conference News," (monthly,) Harrisburg, Pa., Eev. E. Hinkle, Editor.
" Heathen Women's Friend," (monthly,) Boston, Mass., Mrs. W. F. Warren,
Editor.
" The Woman's Missionary Advocate," Nashville, Mrs. F. A. Butler, Editor.
1 1 8 Methodist Year-Book.
"Sunday-School Bell," (German,) H. Liebhart, D.D., Editor.
" The Christian Standard," (weekly,) New Orleans, Eev. C. Hunt, Editor.
" Den Christlege Talsmand," (weekly,) Chicago, Eev. C. O. Treider Editor.
" Hyrdestemmen," (monthly,) Chicago, Eev. C. 0. Treider, Editor.
" Morgonstjerman," (semi-monthly,) Chicago, Miss Emma Witting, Editor.
"The Methodist Eecord," (monthly,) Baltimore, Eev. J. W. Cornelius, Editor.
" Methodist Advocate," Chattanooga, Tenn., Eev. T. C. Carter, A.M., Editor.
" El Abogado Cliristiano Illustrado," (weekly, Spanish,) Mexico, Juan W.
Butler, Editor.
" ElEvangelista," (weekly, Spanish,) Montevideo, S. A., Eev.T. B. Wood, Editor.
"De Evangelist," (weekly,) Bremen, Germany.
" Der Kinderfreund," (monthly,) Bremen, Germany.
" Lilla Sandebudet, (semi-monthly,) Gottenburg, Sweden, Eev. J. M. Erics-
son, Editor.
" Sondags Skol Klockan," (monthly,) Gottenburg, Sweden, Eev. J. M. Ericsson,
Editor.
" Evangelisk Kirke Tidende," (monthly,) Christiania, Norway, Eev. S. A.
Steenson, Editor.
" Bomewennen," (semi-monthly,) Christiania, Norway, Eev. S. A. Steenson,
Editor.
" Tidende for den Danske Biskoplige Methodist Kirke," (monthly,) Copen-
hagen, Denmark, Eev. Karl Schou, Editor.
" Sondags Spolen," (weekly,) Copenhagen, Denmark, Eev. Karl Schou, Editor.
" Indian Witness," (weekly,) Calcutta, India, Eev. J. M. Thobum, Editor.
" Kauk-i-Hind," (weekly,) Lucknow, India.
"Khair Khwah-i-Attal," Lucknow, India.
" Bal Hit Karak," Lucknow, India.
"Too Kien Hwoi P6," or "The Fokien Church Gazette," (monthly,) Foochow,
China, Eev. N. J. Plumb, Editor.
"Hok Ing Sing P6," or " Gospel News," (monthly, for children,) Foochow,
China, Messrs. B. and S. H. Woolston, Editors.
"The Cheerful Guest," Phillipsburg, Pa., H. C. Pardoe, Editor.
"The Voice of Truth," (weekly,) Marengo, 111., D. Murphy, Editor.
"Helping Hand," Cumberland, M. E. Church, Pa.
" The Baltimore Methodist," (weekly,) Baltimore.
" Alabama Christian Advocate," (weekly,) Birmingham, J. W. Eush, Editor.
" La CivUta Evangelica," Naples.
"Maine Christian Advocate," (weekly,) Portland, Eev. W. W. Baldwin, Editor.
" Memphis Methodist," Memphis, Tenn., Warner Moore, Editor.
" Montana Cliristian Advocate," Butte City, J. J. Garvin, B.D., Editor.
"Methodist Advance," (weekly,) Goldsboro, N. C, W, M. Eobey, Editor.
" Methodist Eecord," Eeid Lake and Troy, A. C. Eose, Editor.
" Methodist Witness," (monthly,) Huntington, W. Va., Eev. S. B. D. Prickitt,
Editor.
" South- Western Methodist," (weekly,) St. Louis, J. E. Godbery, Editor.
" Texas Methodist Advocate, (monthly,) Fort Worth, Texas, Eev. A. A. John-
son, Editor.
" The India Methodist Watchman," (independent monthly,) C. B. Ward, Editor.
M. E. Chueoh, South.— " Christian Advocate," (weekly,) Nashville, Tenn.,
0. P. Fitzgerald, D.D., Editor.
Methodist Year-Book. 119
"St. Louis Christian Advocate," (weekly,) D. E. M' Anally, D.D., and E. M.
Bounds, Editors.
"Western Methodist," (weekly,) Rev. W. C. Johnson, D.D., Editor.
"Texas Christian Advocate," (weekly,) Rev. I. G-. John, D.D., Editor.
"Southern Christian Advocate," (weekly,) Rev. S. A. Weber, Editor.
" Wesleyan Christian Advocate," (weekly,) Rev. W. H. Porter, D.D., Editor.
" New Orleans Christian Advocate," (weekly,) J. H. Galloway, D.D., Eclitor.
" Pacific Methodist," (weekly,) Rev. W. B. Parsons, Editor.
" Southern Quarterly Review," (quarterly,) J. W. Hinton, D.D., Editor.
"Richmond Christian Advocate," (weekly,) Eev. J. J. Lafferty, Editor.
"Baltimore Episcopal Methodist," (weekly,) Baltunore, R. K. Boyle, D.D., Editor.
"Holston Methodist," (weekly,) Bristol, Tenn., Frank Richardson, Editor.
" Central Methodist," (weekly,) Catlettsbur^, Ky., Rev. Z. Meek and Rev. S.
Noland, Editors.
"Christian Neighbor," (weekly,) Columbia, S. C, Rev. S. H. Browne, Editor.
" Southern Methodist," (weekly,) Rev. W. Baker, Editor.
"Raleigh Christian Advocate," (weekly,) Raleigh, N. C, Wm. S. Black, D.D.,
and Frank Reid, D.D., Editors.
" Quarterly Conference Journal," St. Louis, Mo., L. Dameron, Agent.
" Sunday-School Magazine," (monthly,) Nashville, Tenn., W. G. E. Cunnyng-
ham, D.D., Editor.
" Our Little People," (weekly,) Nashville, Term., W. G. E. Cunnyngham, D.D.,
Editor.
" Sunday-School Visitor," (weekly,) Nashville, Tenn., W. G. E. Cunnyngham,
D.D., Editor.
" Familienfreund " and " Kinderfreimd," (German,) Eev. B. Ahrens, D.D., and
Rev. J. A. G. Rabe, Editors.
Methodist Protestant. — " Methodist Protestant," (weekly,) Baltimore, Rev. J.
Drinkhouse, Editor ; " Methodist Recorder," (weekly,) Pittsburg, J. Scott, D.D.,
Editor; " Our Morning Star," (Sunday-school weekly,) Pittsburg ; "The Cen-
tral Protestant," (weekly,) Greensborough,_N. C, J. L. Micoux, Editor.
Evangelical Association. — "Evangelical Messenger," (weekly,) Rev. IL B.
Hartzler, Editor; " Christliche Botschafter," (weekly;) "Living Epistle," "Evan-
gelical Sunday-School Teacher," and " Sunday-School Messenger," P. W. Raida-
baugh. Editor; " Evangelische Magazin" and " Christliche Kinderfreund," C. A.
Thomas, Editor ; "Evangelische Botschafter" and " Evangelische Kinderfreund,"
G. Fuessle, Editor, (published in Germany.) All others in Cleveland, Ohio.
United Bketheen. — "Religious Telescope," (weekly,) Revs. J. W. Hott, D.D.,
and M. R. Drury, Editors ; " Children's Friend," (semi-monthly ;) " Our Bible
Teacher," (monthly,) Rev. D. Berger, Editor; "Missionary Visitor," Rev. D. K.
Flickinger, Editor; " Fraehliche Botschafter" (weekly) and "Youth's Pilgrim,"
(semi-monthly, German,) Rev. W. Mittendorf, Editor. All at Dayton, Ohio.
Wesleyan Methodist. — "American Wesleyan," (weekly,) Syracuse, N. Y., Rev.
N. L. Wardener, Editor; "Children's Banner," (semi-monthly,) Syracuse; "The
Bible Standard," (monthly,) magazine.
Feee Methodist. — "Earnest Christian," (monthly,) Rochester, N. Y., B. T.
Roberts, Editor; "Free Methodist," (weekly,) Sycamore, 111., Eev. D. P. Baker,
Editor ; " The Pearl" and " The Lily," (Sunday-school monthlies,) Sycamore, 111.,
Rev. T. B, Arnold, Editor ; " The Christian Pilgrim," Sycamore, HI., D. P. Baker,
Editor.
120 Methodist Year-Book.
African M. E. ('hurch. — " The Christian Eecorder," (weekly,) Philadelphia,
B. T. Tanner, D.D., Editor.
African M. E. Zion Church. — " Star of Zion," (monthly,) Newbern, N. C,
J. A. Tyler, Editor.
Colored M. E. Church of America. — " Tlie Christian Index," Memphis, Tenn.
Independent Methodist. — " The Independent Methodist," Baltimore, Eev. W.
M' A Ulster, Editor,
Methodist Church of Canada. — " The Christian Guardian," (weekly,) Toronto,
Eev. E. H. Dewart, Editor; "The Wesleyan," (weekly,) Halifax, N. S., Eev. T.
W. Smitli, Editor ; " Canadian Methodist Magazine," (monthly,) Toronto, W. H.
Withrow, D.D., Editor.
M. E. Church of Canada. — " Canada Christian Advocate," * (weekly,) Ham-
ilton, Ontario, Eev. 8. G. Stone, Editor.
Canadian Primitive Methodist. — "Christian Journal,"* (weekly,) Toronto,
J. C. Antlitf, Editor.
Canadian Bible Christian. —" Observer," * (weekly,) Eev. W. Paseve, Editor.
French Wesleyan. — " Evangeliste," J. W. Leiievre, Editor.
Irish Wesleyan. — " Irish Evangelist," (monthly,) Belfast, Wm. Crook, D.D.,
Editor, James Turner, Business Manager; "Irish Christian Advocate," Belfast,
Jas. L. Allen, Manager.
British Wesleyan Methodist. — " The Wesleyan Methodist Mayazine,"
(monthly,) commenced in Jan., 1777, Eev. B. Gregory, Official Editor at Wesleyan
Book Eooms; " The City Eoad Magazine," (monthly ;) " Christian Miscellany and
Family Visitor ; " " Wesleyan Sunday-School Magazine ; " " Early Days ; " " Mag-
azine and Journal of Education," (monthly;) "Missionary Notices," (monthly;)
" The Juvenile Offering;" " Quarterly Papers," (on Mission work;) " The Chil-
dren's Advocate and Christian at Work;" "Methodist Temperance Magazine;"
"The Methodist Family;" "The King's Highway;" "The Lay Preacher;"
"London Quarterly Eeview;" "The Watchman," (weekly;) "The Methodist
Eecorder," (weekly;) "The Methodist," (weekly;) "Our Boys and Girls,"
(monthly.) Most of these are published at Wesleyan Book Eooms, Castle Eoad,
London.
British Primitive Methodist Church. — " Primitive Methodist," (weekly,) Lon-
don, F. H. Hurd, Editor: " Primitive Methodist Large Magazine," (monthly,) Lon-
don; "Primitive Methodist Juvenile Magazine," (monthly;) " The Teacher's Assist-
ant," (monthly,) London; " Primitive Wesleyan Magazine," (monthly,) Dublin.
Methodist New Connection. — "Methodist New Connection Magazine,"
(monthly,) Liverpool, J. Hudston, Editor ; " United Methodist Free Church Mag-
azine," (monthly,) London, Eev. Marmaduke Miller, Editor ; " Bible Christian
Magazine," (monthly,) London, Rev. F. W. Bourne, Editor.
United Methodist Free Church. — " Large Magazine," (monthly,) Eev. R.
Abercrombie, Editor; "The Hive," Eev. E. Gray, Editor; "Welcome Words,"
Eev. E. Brewin, Editor. All in London.
Australasian Methodist. — " Spectator and Methodist Chronicle," (monthly,)
Melbourne, Australia, John C. Eeeve, Publisher ; " The Methodist Journal,"
(weekly,) Adelaide, South Australia, E. Nicholson, Publisher. " The Weekly Ad-
vocate," (weekly,) Sydney, New South Wales ; " The Christian Messenger," Queens-
land, J. D. Hennessey, Publisher; "New Zealand Wesleyan," Eev. J. Crump,
Editor; *' Tonga Times," (monthly,) Nukualofa, Tonga, Tahu.
* To be merged in " The Christian Guardian " July 8, 1884.
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122 Methodist Year-Book.
Porms for Bequests to Benevolent Institutions.*
Bequest to Missionary Society.—" I give and bequeath to The Missionary Societv
OF THE Methodist Episcopal Church, incorporated by the Legislature of the State of
New York, the sum of [.here insert amounW] and the receipt of the Treasurer thereof
shall be a sufficient discharge to my executors for the same." If it be a devise of land
the following form should be observed : " I give and devise to The Missionary Society
OF THE Methodist Episcopal Church, incorporated by the Legislature of the State of
New York, the following lands and premises, that is to say : ibricf description here,'] to
have and to hold the same with the appurtenances to the said Society, its successors and
assigns forever."
Bequest to Church Extension Board.—" I give and bequeath to The Board op
Church Extension of the Methodist Episcopal Church, incorporated by the Legis-
lature of the State of Pennsylvania, the sum of [/lere insert amount,^ and the receipt of
the Treasurer thereof shall be a sufficient discharge to my executors for the same."
Form of a Devise of land to said Board: "I give and bequeath to The Board of
Church Extension of the Methodist Episcopal Church, incorporated by the Legis-
lature of the State of Pennsylvania, the following land and premises, that is to say : [rie-
scribe pivperty here,'] to have and to hold the same, with the appurtenances, to the said
Board, its successors and assigns forever."
Bequest to Woman's Foreign Missionary Society.— (Personal Estate.) " I give and
bequeath to the Trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church, incorporated under the
General Laws of the State of Ohio, the sum of [here insert amount,'] in trust, to be held
for the benefit and applied according to the directions of the Woman's Foreign Mission-
ary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church." (Real Estate.) " I give and de-
vise to the Trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church, incorporated under the General
Laws of the State of Ohio, all that certain V'cre insert a sliort dcseription of the land,
hoiise, or other real estate,] with the appurtenances, in fee simple, in trust, the same to
be held for the benefit and applied according to the directions of the Woman's Foreign
Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church."
Bequest to Freedmen's Aid Society .—"I give and bequeath to the Freedmen's Aid
Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, incorporated under the General Laws of
the State of Ohio, the sum of [here insert amount,] for the purposes of said Society."
Bequest to Sunday-School Union.—" I give unto the Sunday-School Union of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, establiihed in the city of New York in the year of our
Lord 1840, the sum of [here insert amount,] for the purposes of said Society, and for
which the receipt of the Treasurer thereof shall be a sufficient discharge."
Bequest to Tract Society.— "I give unto The Tract Society op the Methodist
Episcopal Church, incorporated by an Act of the Legislature of the State of New York,
passed April 15, 1854, the sum of [here insert amount,] for the purposes of said Society,
and for which the receipt of the Treasurer thereof shall be a sufficient discharge."
Bequest to American Bible Society.—" I give and bequeath to the American Bible
Society, formed in New York, in the year 1816, the sum of [here insert amount,] to be
applied to the charitable uses and purposes of said Society."
The Will should be attested by three witnesses [in some States three are required— in
other States only two] who should write against their names their places of residence, Lif
in cities, their street and number.] The following form of attestation will answer for
every State in the Union : " Signed, sealed, published, and declared by the said [A. B.] as
his last Will and Testament, in presence of us, who, at the request of the said [A. B.] and
in his presence, and in the presence of each other, have hereunto subscribed our names
as witnesses." Some States require the Will to be made at least two months before death.
Note.— Bequests mny be made to anv other Societv not mentioned above by using the tliird
form given above, and subslitutinu for the name of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society the
name of the Society intended. The Trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church (see page l56)are
authorized to receive and administer such trusts.
* For Bequest of Board of Educali 'n see p. 1"2.
Methodist Year-Book. 123
Missionary Society of the Mettodist Episcopal Churcli.
Organized April 5, 1S19. Head-quarters, 805 Broadway, New York.
Executive Officers. — F/-esiJe7it, Bishop Simpson, D.D., LL.D. Vice-Presi-
dents ex officio — tlie other Bishops ; elect, Hon. Enoch L. Fancher, LL.D., Kev. M.
D'C. Crawford, D.D., James H. Taft, Esq., Hon. Oliver Hoyt, Eev. D. Curry,
D.D., LL.D., Eev. D. Wise, D.D., H. M. Forrester, Esq., Hon. George J. Ferry.
Vorreitpondincj Stcretaries, John M. Euid, D.D., Charles H. Fowler, D.D., LL.D.
Treasurer, J. M. Phillips, Esq. Assistant Treasurer, John M. Walden, D.D.,
LL.D. Recording Secretary, Eev. J. N. FitzGeiald, D.D.
Managers. — Ministers : Daniel Wise, James M. Tuttle, M. D'C. Crawford, Daniel
Curry, A. S. Hunt, Lewis E. Dunn, A D. Vail, A. K. Sauford, John Miley, John B.
Merwin, C. F. Grimm, E. Vanhorne, S. W. Thomas, A. L. Brice, J. M. Buckley,
D. A. Goodsell, J. W. Beach, 0. H. Tiffany, A. Eittenhouse, G. G. Sa.xe, Sandford
Hunt, J. B. Graw, M. S. Terry, C. S. Colt, J. M. King, H. A. Buttz, S. F. Upham,
W. P. Eyder, J. A. M. Chapman, W. L. Philips, Thos. H. Burch, H. Griggs.
Laymen: John Falconer, E. L. Fancher, J. H. Taft, T. A. Howe, H. M.Forrester,
J. S. M'Lean, John French, Oliver Hoyt, C. C. North, Gilbert Oakley, Isaac Odell,
O. H. P. Archer, G. J. Ferry, John Stephenson, J. M. Fuller, G. I. Seney, G. G.
Eeynolds, C. B. Fisk, S. Barker, J. M. Phillips, J. H. Bentley, Harrold Dollner,
Lcnmel Skidmore, J. B. Cornell, John D. Slayback, W. C. Hamilton, William J.
H utchiuson, Anderson Fowler, Ezra B. Tuttle, Charles Scott, Aldeu Spear, Peter
A. Welch.
General Missionary Committee. — The Bishops, ea- officio, the Corresponding
Secretaries, Treasurer, and Assistant Treasuier; by General Conference appoint-
ment. Representatives of the Twelve Mission Districts; and also Twelve Ecpre-
sentatives annually appointed by the Board of Managers. The " Committee shall
determine what fields shall be occupied as foreign missions, the number of persons
to be employed on said missions, and the amount necessary for the support of each
mission, and it shall also determine the amount for which each Bishop may draw
for the domestic missions of the Conferences over which he shall preside, and the
Bishops shall not draw on the Treasurers for more than said amount. Nevertheless,
in the intervals between the meetings of the General Missionary Committee, the
Board of Managers may provide for any unforeseen emergency that may arise in any
of our missions, and, to meet such demands, may e.xpend any additional amount
not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars."
Mission Property in New York. — The M issionary Society owns one undivided
fourth of the Publishing and Mission Buildings, 805 Broadway, New York. The
first payments toward the purchase were made from moneys specially contributed
" for a Mission House," and not a dollar of the missionary collections has ever been
used in such pm'chase. Certain sums donated to the Society, on which interest is
to be paid during the life of the donors, were also paid from time to time on ac-
count of tliis building, and the interest for which we were obligated paid from its
rentals. In this way the debt for tlie purchase of the building was entirely liqui-
dated on January 1, 1877. Since that date there has been paid into the General
Missionary Treasury up to October 31, 1883, as net rentals, the sum of $47,165 55.
Besides this, the Society has its own offices free of rent.
Eemittances and Correspondence. — All remittances should be made either to
J. M. Philips, Treasurer, 805 Broadway, New York city ; or to Eev. J. M. Walden,
124
Methodist Year-Book.
Assistant Treasurer, Cincinnati. All correspondence should be directed to the
"Corresponding Secretaries of the Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, Mission Eooms, 805 Broadway, New Yoark."
Eeceipts from Annual Conferences for the tears 1882 and 1883.
CONFEKENCES.
Alabama
Arizona*
Arkansas
Austin
Baltimore
Black Hills*
Blue Ridge
Bulgaria and Turk'y*
California
Central Alabama . .
Central China*
Central Gferman
Central Ilhnois
Central New York. .
Central Ohio
Central Pennsylv'nia
Central Tennessee.
Chicago German..
Cincinnati
Colorado
Columbia River. . .
Dakota*
Delaware
Denmark'
Des Moines
Detroit
East German
East Maine
East Ohio
East Tennessee —
Erie
Florida
Foochow
Genesee
Georgia
Germany and Switz'd
Holston
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Japan
Kansas
Kentucky
Lexington
Liberia
Little Rock
Louisiana
Maine
Mexico*
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana*
Nebraska
Nevada
Newark
Kro.m
Nov. 1, 1881,
$146 20
Sa) 55
206 00
413 85
26,580 63
' 65 15
41 93
2,689 93
53 25
7 33
7,938 24
11,621 20
14,382 36
13,369 65
23,126 18
4,002 58
17,935 27
2,471 4'
960 65
288 3;
720 56
428 80
8.569 54
9,945 99
4,368 12
2,834 95
16,893 83
132 84
8,668 16
560 99
173 50
11,784 98
285 81
1,185 40
664 65
17,016 13
7,001 83
6,579 22
75 95
2,477 06
2,089 62
321 e"
8 25
86 60
583 80
2,558 42
24 33
9,200 03
5,379 85
279 70
2,169 15
1.570 60
379 60
17,630 14
From
Nov. 1, 1882,
$97 75
"191 18
490 50
26,161 76
21 50
118 00
41 5'
5,433 79
89 90
36 00
8,357 11
11,847 52
13,807 90
13,783 2;i
25,581 70
403 89
3,730 97
18,702 93
2,532 23
1,101 85
309 04
1,285 78
7',3i6 05
10,180 93
4,974 93
1,710 22
16,749 82
131 38
9,074 87
374 91
150 66
11,532 8!)
266 45
1,332 00
595 42
17,037 50
6,886 19
6,703 74
108 00
2,568 34
2,255 04
377 31
'198 65
662 45
3,505 96
143 05
9,366 70
5,292 73
239 45
2,178 56
464 71
1,964 20
364 41
19,615 09
New England
N. England South'n.
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New York
New York East
North Carolina
Northern New York
North China*
North India
North Indiana
North Nebraska —
North Ohio
N. W. German
N. W. Indiana
N.W.Iowa
N. W. Kansas
N. W. Norwegian . .
N. W. Swedish
Norway
Ohio
Oregon
Philadelphia
Pittsburg
Rock River
Saint Louis
Saint Louis German
Savannah
South Carolina..
Southern California
Southern German
S. E. Indiana
Southern Illinois .
South Kansas
South-West Kansas.
Sweden
Tennessee
Texas
Troy
Upper Iowa
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
West German...
West Nebraska..
West Texas
West Virginia. . .
West Wisconsin —
Wilmington
Wisconsin
Wyoming
Legacies
Sundries
Fkom
Nov. 1, 1881,
TO
Oct. 31, 188i.
$14,072 43
8,94;^ 43
4,452 73
18,240 53
32,659 50
32,518 21
96 .36
9,986 15
99 12
240 00
8,102 32
4f)0 35
9,121 82
3,450 14
6,169 00
1,365 46
IJSSO 66
2,573 79
16,758 74
39 05
46,500 00
13,375 07
21,099 17
3,690 .30
5,327 35
366 40
2,470 33
20 00
1,638 60
4,980 98
7,301 50
2,768 80
95 50
2,284 6o
414 43
801 30
12,422 26
8,.540 48
131 95
5,109 58
803 28
3,081 80'
2,970 95
212 67
»47 00
3,287 66
3,236 88
12,835 13
5,3.33 42
10,550 73
48,605 09
21,679 84
Total $091,666 01 $751,469 90
Nov.], 1 882,
TO
Oct. 31 , 18-i3.
$1.5,4.57 16
9,099 66
4,410 76
20,02:3 84
31,048 68
31,865 99
178 53
10,289 61
62 72
396 00
8,045 83
513 31
8,433 32
3,438 95
6,018 64
2,031 35
591 84
1,928 03
3,004 77
832 67
17,201 00
2,616 75
49,000 00
13,946 13
20,402 71
3,756 89
5,323 55
390 68
3,283 93
2,385 80
2,055 65
5,312 35
7,.341 85
1,891 13
1,559 63
3,126 79
557 35
412 50
1.3,143 82
9,508 49
137 56
5,042 79
784 35
2,397 21
3,115 90
305 50
480 25
3,672 34
3,463 34
13,657 06
5,556 70
12,443 63
78,091 32
t22,606 04
* Mission Districts.
t Of this amount f 6,301 13 is income from New Mission Building, and |S,333 84 from Lapsed Annuities.
Methodist Year-Book.
125
Missionary Appropriations and Apportionments for 18S4.
I. Foreign Missions.
\, Africa:
(1.) Liberia: at the
posal of the Board
for work
(2.) At the disposal of
the Board, for send
ing out a Mission'
ary to take charge
of the work...
9. South America,..,
1. China :
(1.) Foochow ,
(2.) Central Chini
(Kiukiang.)
(3.) North i:hina (Fe
kiDK)
(4.) West China : con
ditioned
4. Germanv and
Smtzeriaim :
For the work....
For intereston Berlin
debt
To be administered
by Board for debt:
5. Scandinavia :
(i.) Denmark....
(2.) Norway
(3.) Sweden
6. India:
(I.) North India.
(•2.) South India..
7, Bulg'a and Turkey
8. /^a^y*
For property in
Naples
9, Mexico*,
10. Japan.
II. Missions in the
United States
NOT IN AnnUAI
CONFEKENCE S,
TO BE AOMINI
TERED A3 FOR-
EIGN Missions,
3
Collections
FOR 1883.
la
•SI
$2,500
$5 45
.0-02
$100
1,50(1
$4,000
$22,78)
125
$15,030
150 66
.09-4
300
30,916
36 00
.64-3
50
25,244
62 72
.26-1
ISO
10,800
$Sl,i)90
$21,000
1,332 00
.13-6
600
2,400
$24,000
2,000
$10,000
14,.-i45
22,082
83)"67
3,126 79
.27-7
.41-3
575
1,250
2,500
$46,421
$65,320
1,000
$66,820
396 00
.19-9
600
600
$15,482
27,750
41 57
1.18-7
100
12,000
$39,750
$34,000
143 05
.40-1
250
$35,648
108 00
.15-2
150
$370,898
$8,000
3,6"0
13,r,i>5
'21 '56
309 04
.15-2
.21-5
300
190
350
4. ludi.in Territory..
5. Montana
6. New Me.xico
At the disposal of tlie
Board for schools.
7. Utah
'' Scandinavian
worl5
'* For schools..
8. West Nebraska. . . .
Total
III. Domestic M'n3,
9. Seandlnav^n iVns:
California : Swedish
Mission
Norwegian Mission.
N. Y. East (Swedish.)
N. Y. E. (Norwegian)
New Eug., (Swedish)
New Eng. Southern
Swedish
N. W.Norwegian....
N.W. SwedisTi
Oregon, (Norwegian).
Wilmington Swedish.
Total
3. Gerti}an Missions:
California German...
Central German
Chicago German
Columbia River, Ger-
man
East German
North-west German.
Oregon German
Southern German ....
Saint Louis German. .
Southern California..
Western German
Total
4. Frettch Missions:
Central Illinois
5. Chinese Missions;
California
At the disposal oi
the Bo.irrl, for sup-
port of a Bible read-
New York East. !.!. .
Oregon
California, for Portu-
guese
Total
6. American Indiai
Central New York.
Columbia River.,..
$1,000
10,000
12,900
1,000
6,000
2,800
3,825
5,840
$68,490
$200
$J,500
700
1,600
2,000
2,200
1,000
6,500
7,500
2,000
300
$25,300
4,601.
3,500
800
6,000
5,500
1,500
7,000
4,000
1,5110
6,000
1^3,100
1,000
$9,000
8,S57 11
3,730 97
4,974 93
3,438 95
2,05S 65
5,323 55
3,115 90
2,000
2,800
300
9,000
4,500
4,000
2,000
5,760
•Spring, 1883.
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Methodist Year-Book.
Missionary Appropriations and Apportionments for 1884 — Contimied.
Detroit
Genesee
Michigan
Montana
Northern New York.
Oregon
Wisconsin
Total
1, English-apeahing:
Alabama
Arkansas
Austin
Baltimore
Blue Ridge
California
Central Alabama.,..
(entral Illinois
Central New York..
Central Ohio
Central Pennsylvania
Central Tennessee. . .
Cincinnati
Colorado
" Swedish
Columbia River
Delaware
Des Moines
Detroit
East Maine
East Ohio
Esist Tennessee
Erie
Florlla
Genesee
Georgia
Holston
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas ($500 colored)
Kentucky
Le.\ington
Little Rock
Louisiana
Maine
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Nebraska
Nevada
Newark
New England
New Eng. Southern
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New York
New York East
North Carolina
North Indiana
North Nebraska
Northern New York.
North Ohio
$700
300
800
2,600
R50
550
200
$6,700
f2,250
4,500
7,600
3,000
3,600
2,600
3,500
B,400
500
6,500
1,600
4,600
1,000
2,000
" SJMO
2,700
3,000
6,500
3,600
10,000
8,600
3,000
a,3oii
3,000
$97 75
191 18
490 50
26,161 76
118 00
B,433 79
89 90
11,847 5'2
13,807 90
12,782 23
25,581 70
403 89
18,702 93
2,532 "
1,101 35
1,285 78
7,310 05
10,180 93
1,710 22
16,749 82
131 38
9,074 87
874 91
11,532 89
266 45
595 42
17,027 56
6,886 19
6,702 74
2,568 34
2,255 04
377 31
198 65
662 45
3,505 96
9,366 70
6,292 73
239 45
2,178 56
1,964 20
364 41
19,815 09
16.467 16
9,099 66
4,410 76
20,623 84
31,648 68
31,865 99
178 5;
8,046 82
613 31
10,289 61
8,433 32
.01-9
.06-3
.60-3
.79-7
.02'
.63-6
.01-3
.45-2
.46-7
.49.8
.62-4
.40-0
.09-1
.32-2
.39-9
.19-1
.37-8
.05-4
.31-6
.13-9
.42-8
.09-1
.03-3
.47-0
.23-0
.36-3
.20-3
.12-4
.05-3
.08-2
.06-5
.32-3
.31-
.38-3
.01 0
.12-6
.22-9
.61-8
500
35,000
200
5,000
325
15,000
20,000
14,000
24,000
600
24,000
2,700
l',256
1,200
10,000
12,000
3,000
24,000
210
13,000
760
17,500
360
2,400
22,500
13,000
9,000
2,000
3,500
400
250
1,000
5,000
12,000
7,600
2,000
3,000
2,000
600
23,500
22,500
13,250
7,<i00
23,000
60,000
60,000
500
12,000
700
North-west Indiana..
North-west Iowa
North-west Kansas..
Ohic
Oregon
Philadelphia ...
Pittsburg
Rock River.,..
Saint Louis,...
Savannah
South Carolina
S. E. Indiana..
Southern California..
Southern Illinois
South Kansas...
South-west Kansas...
Tennessee
Texas
Troy
Upper Iowa
Vennont
Virginia
M^ashington ,.,.
West Texas
West Virginia.,
West Wisconsin
Wilmington ....
W -
Wyoming
Total for American
Domestic Missions,
Grand total of ap-
propriation s to
Foreign Missions,
Missions in the
United States, and
Domestic Missions.
rV. Miscellaneous
1. Contingent
2. Incidental Expen's.
3. Office Expenses. . . .
4. For Disseminaling
Miss'y Information.
Total
Recapitulation.
I. Foreign Missions.
tl. Missions in the
United States, etc. .
III. Domestic Miss'ns;
Welsh Missions. . . .
Scandinavian Misa.
German Missions..
Freucli Missions...
Chinese Missions..
Portuguese
American Indian..
English-Speaking . .
IV. Miscellaneous
Liquid'n of Debt....
Grand Total
$3,000
3,700
4,000
3,150
6,000
4,000
2,600
3,500
2,700
4,000
1,000
5,500
2,300
4,000
3,000
2,600
' bjooo
Collections
FOE 1883.
h<J
16,018 64
2,031 36
691 84
17,201 00
2,616 76
49,000 00
13,946 13
20,402 71
3,756 89
390 68
3,283 93
5,3U 35
2,386 80
7,341 86
1,891 13
1,669 63
667 35
412 60
13,143 82
9,608 49
6,042 79
784 36
2,;'.97 21
480 26
3,672 34
3,463 34
13,657 06
6,666 70
l-.'.443 63
.38-9
.60-2
1.10-0
.42-8
.83-6
.23-7
.03-6
.10-9
.21-2
1.17'7
.29-7
.15-8
.22-1
.08-0
.04-7
.42-1
.45.1
.3i-S
.n-i
.10-6
.07-4
.117
•31-6
.51-3
.45-0
.45-'.'
?172,000
$700,188
$25,000
32,500
21,000
$86,000
$381,898
68,490
200
25,300
43,100
1,000
12,000
600
6,700
172,000
85,000
48,000
$844,188
Methodist Year-Book.
127
Summaries of Foreign Missions.
Missions.
1
<
o i
1
■g 2:
0 J
►J
1
1
i
1
ii
J
i
i
3
i
4
0
i
.a
Averafre Attend-
ance'11 Sunday
Worsbip.
Adults Baptized.
a.
p
0
a
2
11
28
7
6
'i
307
14
1
'9
13
0
1
.a
1
.0
to
Africa
1
4
4
4
6
"
is
3
h
6
'7
17
2
236
5
10
14
17
2
18
'2
73
26
49
4
19
7
4
13
7
5
10
38
1
3
10
is
3
80
3
'e
8
7
53
6
52
3
6
48
20
78
2
6
28
2
'9
4
i4
19
6
4
'_[
i
352
34
1
78
12
16
"i
1
7
130
i
1
63
's
£7
19
1,964
224
1,600
66
239
9,760
2,898
6,924
678
l,8t6
1,253
35
70S
516
356
186
274
836
50
160
2,369
477
2,308
120
1,589
726
15
311
113
471
.. . 46
1,690' 12
2,119,192
62
106
111
1
20
324
182
229
31
374
144
3
20
16
84
49
635
342
129
54
"35
9,734
600
22
614
679
31
3
3
7
6
3
21
14
9
3
■2
6
6
2
1
15
14
4
1
12
8
16
H4
186
346
16,070
6,130
23,530
1,966
1
35
'2
2
4
Germany and Switzerland
384
37
137
16
6.186 440
33!)
3,147
140
872
1,220
1,139
41
107
8
46
5
Italy*
11
25
14
103
99
7fi
70
46
39
291
199
246
218
190
227
317
226
5'21
5-27
28
n
in
u
280
144
29,095
28,127
9,984
8,782
62,740
RS3
1,697
1,505
39S
331
12,693
11,161
1,161
Last Year
55,9311706
1,004
Missions,
0?
s
.a
g
1
^1
I
3
H
'6
2
7
37
6
2
3i
4
a
Ph
1
1
a.
0
i
.a
s
0
Estimated
value of
Churches.
S a.
1*
a S
Estimated
Value of
Parsonag's.
Value of
Schools,
Hospitals,
and other
property.
Africa
1,620
889
1,440
84
292
19,637
3,127
7,195
774
14,631
2,624
73
242
908
661
'3
1
2
6
1
"6
2
85
42
72
429
78
17
288
72
'5
'4
2
i
"2
2
2
■3
1
io
ie
11
's
26
4
9
ii
6
'a
4
612
'4
45
23
3
?-8
4
I3
69
22
57
7
32
22
1
2
10
10
$26,802 00
65,000 00
12,510 00
6,000 00
14,800 00
a49,976 66
79,392 32
143,548 21
83,066 60
123,967 00
131,725 00
2,500 00
26,600 00
7,150 00
60,500 00
3
12
69
6
3
440
173
60
31
7
5
15
43
15
2
1
37
4
16
26
2
10
3
69
9
2
2
12
11
$340 00
16,000 00
4,465 00
12,500 00
33,725 00
60,400 40
5,338 66
2,700 00
74,330 60
16,475 00
500 00
6,600 00
27,800 00
39,400 00
$16,000 00
64,200 00
2,500 00
18,200 00
72,040 93
Germany and Switzerland
144,255 00
6,417 50
Italy*
31,200 00
20,125 00
64,097
48,516
22
12
94
39
1,083
663
10
8
22
18
100
79
673
303
271i
$1,123,436 79
1,068,775 05
871
852
196
203
$300,473 96
240,971 57
$362,938 43
296,007 78
Last Year
Debt on
Churches,
Parson'ges,
and other
Property.
Mission'r
Society.
Collected
for other
Benevolent
Societies.
Collected
for Self-
support.
Collected
forChurch
Building
and
Repair'g.
Collected
for other
Local
Purposes.
Volum'5
Printed
during
the
Year.J
Printed
during
the
Year.t
Africa
South America*
Foochow
Central China
North China
Germany and Switzerland
Norway
Sweden ,
Denmark
North India
South India*
Bulgaria ,
Italy*
Japan
Mexico
$300 00
B.597 77
1,000 00
222,986 24
22,868 97
56,520 49
7,229 30
16,400 00
27,050 00
$83 00
278 00
170 71
40 00
161 80
1,157 63
643 86
2,373 32
459 87
383 20
"39 63
$10 00
15,862 1
1,263
1,111
!,000 00
i,817 00
675 28
15 13
70 10
1,585 16
i,000 35
),990 67
1,066 65
1,360 87
1,579 00
16 59
216 00
00
10 00
9,911 91
4,486 85
4,716 36
638 67
2,811 00
13,861 00
49 70
5,767 49
3,797 32
'968 42
23,796 50
1,643 45
160,000
26,500
4
415,006
"i
4,700
1,500,000
385
632,600
4,500,000
1,252 77 $rt,151 62 §$20,213 57 $80,745 11 $39,712 97l$36,173 18
6,176 16 6,668 70 1179,674 4l| 44,305 Ss!
*The Btatisttcs of previous year.
t The column of self-support represents purely contributions to the pastor* s salary and current expenses of the
Church. It will be seen that there are five columns representing the aggregate of contributions on the field, or
** self-support " in a general sense.
t These columns are imperfectly reported and with difference of signification ; therefore no totals are given,
§ Tl»e sum in this column reported from Switzerland includes current expenses.
( Included the culumu of "Other Local Purposes,"
128
Methodist Year-Book.
Summaries of the Domestic Missions.
Missions.
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9
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20
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73*
4
8
7
44
14
9
9
29
1,936*
2
'4
6
1
1,367
124
"94
150
161
2,104
442
474
141
1,609
1,326
300
'142
950
780
i',o66
893
415
1,230
90
'295t
755
457
1,230
753
918
518
2,535
19
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2
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Black Hills
5
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Montana
9
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4,400 .
22',56o '.
12,650 .
45,600 .
44,800 .
39,000 .
62,800 .
30,780 .
$4,000
3l",600
7,000
2,000
7,000
3,700
8,30i
760
2,750
$250
io',666
$2',956
1,060
8,933
3,800
2,812
8,615
4,145
$314 00
39 OOt
"156 60
200 00
20 20
135 67
171 71
ISO 00
141 95
207 73
$318 25
'233 63
201 90
5 00
53 70
261 78
*816 78
1,436 00
'452 36
1,700 00
2,666 00
7,037 00
4,210 37
2,544 00
1,120 85
7,564 33
$635 00
2,io6 66
6,100 00
7,740 00
5,282 42
3,979 00
987 00
12,024 SO
Welsh
Scandinavian . .
$795 50
Black Hills
1,474 00
2,077 00
Utah
783 00
"West Nebraska
English Speaking
Total Missionaries, Home and Foreign, January 1, 1883
Total Assistant Missionaries, Home and Foreign, January 1, 1883.
Native Ordained Preachers
Native Unordained Preachers
Native Local Preachers
Other Local Preachers
Native Teachers
Other Teachers
Woman's Foreign Missionary Workers •.
Other Helpers
2,485
82
252
193
317
83
531
47
337
291
Total Missionary Workers, Home and Foreign.
4,e06
Total Members In Full Connection, Home and Foreign 35,701
Total Members on Probation, Home and Foreign 11,1S4
Total Members and Probationers, Home and Foreign 46,945
Total Sunday-schools under supervision of Missionary Society, Home and
Foreign 1,337
Total Scholars in Mission Sunday-schools 63,878
Total Churches and other Houses of Worship 1,281
Estimated Value of Houses of Worship $1,404,106
Number of Parsonages 344
Estimated Value of Parsonages $367,573
Total Value of Churches and Parsonages $1,771,7'39
Collected by Missions for Self-support $110,140
Collected by Missions for Missionary Society, ' $7,718
* For other summary ilems of stations aitlod by the Missionary Society in the German, Scandinavi;
Ens^lish speakinj; Conferences, see tlie General Minutes for ls82.
t Includes other benevolences. % Average attoi.danc^, § Mission buildings.
Methodist Tear-Book.
129
KrcKiPTS OF Society from the Beginning.
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" 1870, to Oct. 81. 18701
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Contributions
by Coufereuces.
Totals to Oct. 31,1883 14.379,670 27
$138,284 44
298,473 39
211,962 01
204,464 86
199,996 59
247,753 13
220,987 64
243,863 44
236,269 21
222,709 28
241,247 29
388,109 18
497,867 17
587.569 41
641,450 32
558,520 85
575,624 90
576.397 48
576,774 10
603,421 70
627,641 60
647,103 76
618,004 99
613,927 12
533,594 45
566,765 66
477,166 15
480.428 80
500.182 46
570,965 77
621,381 08
650,772 54
Legacies.
$2,804 68
21,262 03
4,930 74
6,924 17
7,784 81
8,544 96
8,813 55
8,824 64
10,109 97
10,051 44
12.874 78
16,941 24
22,172 93
12,765 76
18,636 79
28.532 17
11,909 36
27,618 21
12,194 45
11,456 41
10.864 16
15.817 88
47,603 87
85,123 15
51,838 09
39,616 74
41,652 12
88.818 55
84,710 27
88.865 2ff
48.605 09
78,091 32
735,753 59
$9,898 38
16.232 97
6.529 30
6,815 01
29,660 52
12.592 89
25.428 42
12,479 11
10,343 59
13-364 21
ll,0si6 64
11,743 83
29,953 16
81,405 50
27,293 19
20,468 44
10,627 43
14.210 92
.5.775 22
8,581 14
8,250 84
17,915 50
9,471 96
18,435 62
9.255 84
22.594 86
82.546 78
82;6ll 95
22,478 41
20,a32 86
21.679 84
22,606 04
1823 04
2,828 76
2,547 39
5,427 14
8,589 92
4,140 16
4,964 11
6,812 49
6,245 17
14,1 6 11
18.128 63
9,950 57
11,379 66
17,097 05
85,700 15
80.492 21
59.517 16
57,096 05
96,087 36
132,480 29
136,410 87
189.925 76
139,473 25
144,770 80
146.578 78
94.562 27
89.528 26
78.932 73
81,600 34
84,045 15
104.579 54
126,471 31
150.482 48
835,968 89
223,412 05
218,204 04
237.441 92
268,890 48
255,224 61
265,167 19
256,722 77
246,124 93
266,148 71
416,793 75
549,993 26
631,740 67
682.380 80
607,520 96
598,161 69
618.226 61
594,743 77
623,469 25
661,056 60
680,886 64
676,080 82
662.485 89
594.188 38
628,977 25
551,865 05
551.859 80
557,371 14
625,668 89
691,666 01
751,469 90
Bible
Suoitity.
_542,599 36 1 17,558,690 OS 19.5,95339
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1,000 00
500 00
1,500 00
2,100 00
8,000 00
1,100 00
1,000 OO
8.300 00
3,000 00
5,500 00
6,000 00
4,250 00
7,875 00
12,975 00
9,000 00
11,000 00
4,noo 00
5,500 00
8,500 00
16,477 50
8.207 50
6.462 50
5.270 00
9,680 00
12.641) 00
10 536 00
6.500 00
8,709 00
6.000 00
1,300 00
2,000 00
4,300 00
4,100 00
6*
^ Not embraced in totals of preceding column.
130
Methodist Year-Book.
Earliest Methodist Pemale Missionary Society.
The earliest female missionary society in the Cliristiau Church was that of the
Female Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, organized in 1819.
On the fifth of July, of that year, a number of devoted Christian women, acting
under the advice of Dr. Nathan Bangs, met m the Wesleyan Seminary, in Forsyth
Street, New York city, for the purpose of forming an auxiliary to the Missionary
Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, which had been organized the previous
April, At a subsequent meeting a Constitution was reported and adopted, and the
following officers and managers were elected :
Mrs. Thomas Mason, First Directress.
" John Vanderpool, Second Directress.
" Doctor Seaman, Treasurer.
'* Caroline M. Thayer, Secretary,
" Thomas Carpenter, Manager.
" WUliam Myers,
" A. Shatwell,
" J. Ketch um,
" J. Westneld,
" Peter Badeau,
" Dr. Gregory,
" WiUiam Duvall,
" Ezeklel Halsted,
*• William B. Young,
Mrs. J. B. Gascolgne, Manager.
Miss Rebecca Burling, "
" M. I. Morgan, "
" Susan Lamplin, "
" Susan Brewer, "
" Eliza Higgins, "
" Maria Arcularius, "
" Eliza Seaman, "
" Eliza A. Anderson, "
" Anna WlUiams, "
" S. Boyce, "
" Clarissa T. Nicols, "
" I. A, Low, "
" Harriet Donalson, "
The members immediately and earnestly began their work of raising funds and
boxes of clothing and other supplies for the missionaries among the Indian tribes in
our own country and Canada. Sometimes the missionaries visited the city, ac-
companied by native chiefs, also children from their schools, which latter the ladies
of the Female Missionary Society took under their care, entertained them in their
families, and sent them back laden with gifts. Later this society gave valuable aid
to the Parent Board in its foreign work, by taking especial charge of the female
helpers, fitting them out comfortably for the tedious voyages, which, in those days,
were made in sailing vessels. Voluminous correspondence between the officers
of the society and devoted laborers in South America, Africa, Germany, India,
and China has been preserved.
The funds raised by the society were paid over to the Parent Missionary Society,
and disbursed by the latter, generally for objects specified by the former.
In 1861 the society closed its labors as a separate organization, after an efficient
and honorable record of forty years. During its history, in addition to its extended
and helpful correspondence, and its good work in providing clothing, bedding
furniture, books, etc., for the use and disbursement by the home and foreign mis-
flionaries, it paid over about $20,000 in cash to the Parent Board.
Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Ep'scopal Church.
This society was organized in Boston March, 22, 1869, by nine Christian women,
viz: Mrs. Rev. E. W. Parker, (recently returned from the mission work of tlie Par-
ent Missionary Board in India,) Mrs. Dr. William Butler, (formerly of tiie India
Mission work,) Mrs. L. H. Daggett, Mrs. T. A. Rich, Mrs. Lewis Flanders, Mrs,
Albert Ellis, Mrs. Thomas Kingsbury, Mrs. W. B. Merrill, and Mrs. O. T,
Taylor. Officers elected : Mrs. Bishop Baker, of Concord, N. H., President ,' Mrs. B.
J, Pope, Recording Secretary ; Mrs. T. A. Eich, Treasurer ; Mrs. R. W. Thayer,
of Newtonville, Mass., Corresponding Secretary. Mrs. Thayer was unable to serve
because of ill health, and at an adjourned meeting, held March 29, 1869, Mrs. Dr.
Methodist Year-Book. 131
W. F. Warren, of Cambridge, Mass. ; Mrs. Jennie Fowler Willing', of Koekford,
111. ; and Mrs. Kev. E. W. Parker, were appointed to conduct the correspondence of
the society.
At a meeting held in Boston, May 7, 1869, Eev. Dr. Patten, of New England
Conference, presiding, the objects, aims, and organization of the society were form-
ally approved by Eev. Drs. Durbm and Harris, then the Corresponding Secreta-
ries of the Parent Missionary Society.
Tlie society was formally recognized by the General Conference, held in Brooklyn,
in May, 1872, by the adpotion of the following resolutions :
Resolved, That we hereby recognize the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society as an efficient
agency in the spi-ead of the Gospel, and that we encourage our sisters to prosecute their work
with no other restrictions than at present, and that they be permitted to T)ublish their report in
connection with the report of the Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Et'solvcd, That we recommend that pastors report the amount raised in their several charges
by the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, and that such report be published in the Gen-
eral Minutes.
Resolved, That we recommend that all real estate in foreign lands, belonging to this society,
be held for it by the Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Ohurcli, as trustees in
trust.
The first public meeting was held in Bromfield Sti'cet Church, Boston, May 26,
1869, Governor William Claflin presiding, with addresses by Di-. Warren, Mrs. Dr.
Butler, and Mrs. Eev. E. W. Parl^er. At a meeting held l\y the society at the close of
the public exercises, a resolution was adopted appointing Miss Isabella Thoburn, of
Bellaire, 0., (sister of Eev. Dr. Thoburn, in the mission work in India, and who had
been selected for the mission work by the Parent Board,) as missionary to India.
September 9, 1869, Miss Clara A. Swain, of Castile, N. Y., was appointed a " Med-
ical missionary to India." This was the initial movement in the inauguration of
Female Medical Mission work in any country. Miss. Thoburn and Miss Swain
sailed from New York for India Nov. 23, 1869, and were the pioneer missionaries
of the society.
The first money paid by the society was paid over at the close of the meeting on
May 7. It was the gift of a Christian lady in the name of her daughter, who, a
little before her translation to the excellent glory, said : " If I should not get well,
I would like to have papa give as much money to the missionaries every year as it
costs to take care of me." The money was paid over to Dr. Harris (now Bishop)
for the support of a Bible woman in Moradabad, India.
The first number of the Heathen Womaii'a Friend^ an eight page missionary
paper, published under the auspices of the society, was issued on the first of June,
1869.
The following plan of work was early adopted : The country was districted into
ten co-ordinate brandies, each having its own head-quarters. These branches were
composed of all the auxiliary societies in their respective sections. The aim was to
form an auxiliary in every church. Each branch was to have its definitely as-
signed work in the foreign field. The central, controlling, legislative power of the
whole society was vested in a General Executive Committee, to meet annually, com-
posed of the Corresponding Secretary and two delegates from each branch.
Missionary work was commenced by the society in 1874, in Eosario, South
America, and later it was extended to Montevideo.
In 1874 missionaries were sent to Mexico and Japan. The society now reports in
the city of Mexico, Pachuca, Pueblo, Guanajuato, and Ameca Mecca ; in Japan, in
Tokio, Yokohama, Hakodati.
In 1877 the society began the support of native Bible women in Italy, and later
some initiatory mission work was done in Africa. '
132 Methodist Year-Book.
The first Medical missionary in India has been followed by four others to tliat
country, and five have been appointed to India. This department of work ls re-
garded as most prosperous.
In 1878 was begun a new, special, and most encouraging movement among the
native English-speaking people, more especially among the Eurasians. The chief
centers of this work thus fur are in Calcutta and Cawnpore, India.
In 1879 work was opened at Nagasaki, Japan, the seat of government of the island
of Kiusiu, once the stronghold of Jesuitical domination, and, since the overthrow
of that, specially intrenched in prejudice and bigotry, and specially given to liatred
and persecution of the Christian faith. There, Dec. 2, 1879, Misses Kussell and
Gheer opened a school, which has steadily grown in numbers and influence.
During this year Miss Dr. Bushnell and Miiss Delia Howe went to Kiukiang,
China.
In 1880 Mrs. Clemens and Miss Goodenough were sent to uplift the work in
Rosario, South America, which the Misses Demiing and Cliapin were compelled by
physical prostration to drop. Miss Woodworth went to Hakodati to take up the
work which Miss Triest had so heroically carried forward imtil her health broke
down, and slie was compelled to return.
The North India Mission was re-enforced by the Misses Kelly and Nickerson.
Miss Budden, a lady of English birth, having ch.arge of the society's Home for
Friendless Women at Pithoragarh, was also recognized as a regular missionary.
Misses Yates and Sears were added to the North China Mission.
The first annual meeting of the General Executive Committee was held at tho
residence of Mrs. Thomas Rich, Boston, April 20, 1870. Mrs. Dr. Wairen, Mrs.
Parker, and Mrs. Willing were to arrange for the publication of the Heathen Worrv-
an?s Friend, (previously published under the auspicious of several ladies who became
personally responsible to meet all the expenses of the publication,) and Mrs. Dr.
Warren was appointed e(litor-in-chief, with a corps of corresponding editors.
During the session the support of the Bareilly Orphanage, heretofore under tho
charge of the Parent Missionary Society, was assumed by tlie society, and an ap-
propriation of $3,000 made for that purpose. Miss Fannie J. Sparkes was appointed
missionary to India, and subsequently took charge of tlie Orphanage. Initiatory
steps were taken for extending the work into China and Bulgaria.
The second meeting of the General Executive Committee was held in Chicago,
May, 1871. At this meeting the "Ladies' China Missionary Society" of Baltimore
(organized in April, 1848) made over its list of members and its missionary assets,
including the support of the boarding-school at Foochow and of the Misses Wool-
ston, who had been teacliers therein for twelve years. Arrangements were made
for a thorough inauguration of woman's work in Peking ; also for sending several
additional missionaries to India.
Tlie third meeting of the General Committee was held in the city of New York,
in May, 1872. Appropriations were made for sending two ladies to Kiukiang.
Thus three missionary centers were opened in China, viz., Foochow, Peking, and
Kiukiang.
[For a full list of the annual meetings of the General Executive Committee, witli
lists of the presiding officers and the delegates, see pages 115, 116.]
In 1881 Miss Dr. Gilchrist sailed for Kiukiang, Miss Hampton for Hakodati,
and Mrs. Van Petten for Tokio, Japan ; Misses Thoburn and Blackmar for India,
after a brief rest at home, accompanied by Miss Kerr, to aid Miss Sparkes at Ba-
reilly ; Miss Hoy, to assist Miss Easton at Cawnpore; Miss Knowles, for English
work at Naini Tal ; and Miss Warner, to establish a self-supporting school at Ran-
Methodist Year-Book. 1 3 3
goon. The latter, -within six months after her arrival, received from the governor
nine building lots, valued at $8,000, $5,000 in cash for a building, and $450 for
furniture.
During the year the Parent Society entering the extreme -western province of
China under the direction of Mr. Wheeler, his daughter -was appointed missionary
by our society, and specially charged -with the work among the women.
In 1882 Miss Dr. Akers was sent to the relief of Miss Dr. Howard, -who had so
long waited for assistance at Tientsin, China; Miss Benton, to take up the work at
Yokohama, which had been earned on by ladies of the Parent Society since the
death of Miss Higgins ; and Miss Atkinson to Tokio, Japan. Mrs. Turney went to
take charge of the Home at Eosario, South America ; Miss DeVine to Moradabad,
India ; Miss Hogaboom to Mexico ; and the Misses Chapin and Denning, having
regained health, returned to their work at Eosario.
A summary from the reports, presented at the meeting of the General Executive
Committee, held in Philadelphia in November, 1882, was as follows : Auxiliaries,
3,234; annual members, 79,055; life members, 4,108 ; honorary life managers, 194 ;
honorary life patrons, 38 ; in foreign fields— missionaries, teachers, and assistants —
103; Bible-readers, 134; schools, 161 ; orphans and scholarsliips, 603.
The Heathen WonimUs Friend has gained a wide circulation. At the close of
1882 its subscription list exceeded 21,000. Its financial success has also been most
gratifying, it having paid all its own expenses from the beginning, and made a net
profit of over $5,000.
During the four years reaching up to 1883 a million and a half pages of instruct-
■ ive and stimulating leaflets had been prepared and circulated.
The value of real estate owned by the society, in the various mission fields was
estimated, in 1881, at $114,936. Since that time it has been largely increased by
building and purchase.
Up to January 1, 1883, the aggregate amount raised by the society since its or-
ganization was $878,615 37.
Several valuable contributions to missionary literature have been made. Mrs.
J. T. Gracey, by request of the society, prepared a comprehensive history of its
medical missions, and dedicated her book to the cause ; also, " Historical Shetches
of Woman's Foreign Missionary/ Societies in America and England^'' edited and
published by Mrs. L. H. Daggett, of Boston, with an introduction by Miss Isabel
Hart, of Baltimore.
Special gifts are also among the interesting items reported, namely, $5,000 by a
friend in Baltimore to erect the Isabella Fisher Hospital, at Tientsin, China, where
the work had so wonderfully opened under our Dr. Leonora Howard ; $3,000 from
Mrs. Bertha Siglcr, Iowa, to build the Sigler Memorial School, in response to a great
need in Budaon, India ; $1,800 from sale of the handiwork of Mrs. Wright, of New
York, at a parlor fair, for the erection of the Caroline Wright Hall at Hakodati,
Japan, in memory of her daughters ; the gift of a property in Chicago, wortli
$5,000, for the general work of the society ; and of $1,000 for the same purpose by a
lady of Michigan.
■ ♦
"Heathen Woman's Friend." — Tliis periodical, organ of the Woman's Foreign
Missionary Soci<^ty, has been edited from the bog-inning by Mrs. Warren, wife of
Eev. Dr. Wm. F. Warren, President of Boston University. The present Publish-
ing Agent (1883) is Miss P. J. Walden, 38 Bromfield Street, Boston, Mass. From
the beginning of the paper, and until the present year, Mrs. L. H. Daggett was the
Publish ins; Asrent.
134
Methodist Year-Book.
Meetings of the General Executive Committee of W. F. M. Society of the
Methodist Episcopal Chlbch. 1870-1879.
Boston, April 20-21, 1870.
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Western.
DELEGATES AND OFFICEES,
Pi-esident.— Mrs. Rev. Dr. Pritlen.
Secretary.— '' Kev. Dr. Warren.
!. Rev. Dr. Warren, Cambridgeport, Mass.
Rev. Dr. Patten, Boston, Mass.
Lewis Flanders, Boston, Mass.
Rev. Dr. Butler, Passaic, N. J.
William B. Skidmore, New York city.
J. M. Olin, New York city.
Dr. Eastlacke, Philadelphia, Pa.
Rev. J. T. Gracey, Philadelphia, Pa.
Rev. E. W. Parker, India.
J. F. Willing, Rockford, 111.
Fernando Jones, Chicago, HI.
Lucy E. Prescott, St. Louis, Mo.
CiiiClNNATi— Continued,
DELEGATES ANI> OFFICKRS.
Isabel Hart, Baltimore, Md.
John Linville, WashingUm, D. C.
J. S. Berry, Baltimore, Md.
Dr. Doughtj', Cincinnati, O.
Delia A. Lathrop, Cincinnati, O.
A. S. Classon, Delaware, O.
J. F. Willing, Joliet, 111.
Dr. F. A. Seymour, Jeffersonville, Ind.
I. R. Hitt, Evanstun, 111.
Lucy E. Prescott, St. Louis, Mo.
Angle F. Newman, Lincoln, Neb.
Miss Phebe Elliott, Mt. Pleasant, Iowa.
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Chicago, May 16-19, 1871.
I Kingsley.
)r. Warren.
Mrs. Rev. Dr. Warren, Cambridgeport, Mass.
L. H. Daggett, Charlestown, Masd.
Rev. Dr. Patten, Boston, Mass.
Rev. Dr. Butler, Passaic, N. J.
William B. Skidmore, New York city.
Rev. Dr. Lore, Auburn, N. Y.
Dr. Eastlacke, Philadelphia, Pa.
Bishop Kingsley, Pittsburg, Pa.
J. F. Keen, Philadelphia, Pa.
F. A. Crook, Baltimore, Md.
Rev. Charles Ferguson, Urbana, O.
Rev. Dr. M'Cabe, Delaware, 0.
J. F. Willing, Rockford, 111.
Rev. Dr. Kidder. Evanston, 111.
Miss S. A. Rulison, Flint Mich.
i. Lucy K. Prescott, Winona, Minn.
Western. -i " W. A. Jones, St. Louis, Mo.
Belle Leonard, Iowa.
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President.— Tilrs. Bishop Clark.
Secretaries. — " Rev. Dr. Warren,
Miss Isabel Hart.
Mrs. Rev. Dr. Warren, Cambridgeport, Mass-
Edward F. Porter, Boston, Mass.
Thomas A. Rich, Bostfm, Mass.
Rev. Dr. Butler, Passaic, N. J.
Rev. Dr. Kidder, Madison, N. J.
Jacob Chace, Brookljm, N. Y.
J. F. Keen, Philadelphia, Pa.
J. Wilson, Wilmington, Del.
Bishop Kingsley, Pittsburg, Pa.
Isabel Hart, Baltimore, Md.
F. A. Crook, Baltimore, Md.
C. C. Brooks, lialtimore, Md.
Rev. R. R. Meredith, Cincinnati, O.
Bishop Clark, Cincinnati. O.
W. A. Ingham, Cleveland, O.
J. F. Willing, Rockford, III.
Rev. C. H. Fowler, Chicago, 111.
S. A. Rulison, Flint, Mich.
Lucy E. Prescott, St. Louis, Mo,
Rev. Dr. George, St. Louis, Mo.
MaryC. Nind, Winona, Minn.
Rev. J. H. Knowles, Atlanta, Ga.
Cincinnati, May 14 19, 1873.
President.— Mrs, Rev. Dr. M'Cabe.
Rev. R. R. Mt-reditli.
Dr. Warren, Cambridgeport, Maps.
Lindsay, LjTin, Mass.
r, Latimer, Aubumdale, Mass.
William B. Skidmore, New York city.
Rev. J. H. Knowles, Atlanta, Ga.
Joseph HiUman, Troy, N. Y.
J. F. Keen, Philadelphia, Pa.
E. A. Johnson, Pittsburg, Pa.
E. B. Stevens, Wilmington, Del.
( Mrs. Rev. D
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Philadelphia, May 6-13, 1874.
President. — Mrs. Rev. Dr. Hibbard.
Secretaries. — *' Rev. J, H. Knowles.
" Rev. E. B. Stevens.
( MiB. Rev. Dr. Latimer, Aubumdale, Mass.
3.... -J •• Rev. C. P. Taplin, Randolph, Vt.
( " Rev. O. W. Scott, New Market, N. H.
• William B. Skidmore, New York city.
Joseph Wriglit, New York city.
Dr. Hibbard, Clift(.n Springs, N. Y.
3. F. Keen, Philadelphia, Pa.
E. A. Johnson, Pittsburg, Pa.
A. W. Rand, Philadelphia, Pa.
( Miss Isabel Hart, Baltimore, Md.
.-(Mrs. B. R. Cowen, Washington, D. C.
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M. G. Hamilton, lialtimore, Md.
Dr. Doughty, Cincumati, O.
L. A. Hagans, Wheeling, W. Va.
H. M. inglmin, Cleveland, O.
J. F. Willing, Bloomington, III.
R. F. Queal, Evanston, 111.
Kev. Dr. Steele, Appleton, Wis.
Lucy E. Prescott, St, Louis, Mo.
U. li. Wilson, >t. Louis, Mo.
iM, C, Mnd, Winona, Minn.
Baltimore, May 5-13, 1875.
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Bait J^ Mre.
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Western. .{ **
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President.— Mrs. F. A. Crook.
Secretaries.— " R. R. Battee.
*' Dr. Lowrey.
rs. Rev. C. P. Taplin, Randolph, Vt.
L, H. Daggett, Boston, Miiss.
J. Kendrick, Providence, R. I,
William B. Skidmore, New York city.
Rev. H. Wheeler, Oneonta, N. Y.
L. E. Rose, Newark, N. J.
J. F. Keen, Philadelphia, Pa.
t. B. Stevens, Wilmington, Del.
J. F. Long, Pliiladelphia, Pa.
Isabel Hart, Baltimore, Md.
M. C. Fisher, Pikesville, M. D.
J. E. Somers, Washingtf.n, D. C.
William B. Davis, Cincinnati, O.
Bishop Cl.irk, Cincinnati, O.
W. A. Ingham, Cleveland, 0.
J. F. Willing, Bloomington, 111.
Rev. r. L. Hauser, Milwaukee, Wi».
M. T. Lathrop, Jackson, Mich.
Lucy E. Prescott, Winona, Minn.
Bishop Andrews, Des Moines, Iowa.
Phebe Elliott, Mt. Pleasant, Iowa.
Washington, D, C, May 10-19, 1876.
Dr. Hibbard.
Rev. Dr. Warren.
Rev. J. T. Gracey.
J, L. Beveridge.
( Mrs. C. P. Taplin, Randolph, Vt.
N. E....-J
Phila. ....j "
B. J. Pope, Bo
Joseph Cummings, Middletown, Conn.
William K. Skid'n.ore, New York city.
Joseph llillman, Troy, N. Y.
J. F. Keen, Philadelphia, Pa.
P. L. Bennett, Wilkes-Ba-re, Pa.
E. J. Ecklos, Towiiville, Pa.
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WASHINGTON, D. C.—Conlhiaed.
AND OFFICERS.
( Miss Isabel Hart, Baltimore, Md.
Bait \ Mrs. J. P. Newman, VVasliingtim, D. C.
( " J. T. Murray, Bullnnore, Md.
( " W. A. Ingham, Cleveland, O.
Ciun < " D. W. Clark, Cincinnati, O.
( " A. S. Clason, Delaware, O.
1 " J. F. Willing, Chicago, 111.
N. W....( " R. F. Queal, Evauston, 111.
( " A. Wood, Ind.
( ** L. E. Presoott, Des Moinee, Iowa.
Weatem.-< " E. K. Stanley, Des Moines, Iowa.
( " J. F. Blake, Rochester, Minn.
Minneapolis, Minn., May 10-21, 1877.
President. — Mrs. C. G. Goodrich.
BeCTetaries.— " W. G. Williama.
** R. Hoskins,
Miss Alice Guernsey,
•V R- (Mrs. C. P. Taplin, Grotm, Vt.
•"^••••■J " Mrs. D. Richards, Webster, Mass.
^ „ ( " A. C. Tralton. Strong, Me.
W. X....| ti William B. stidmore, New York city.
( " D. D. Lore, Auburn, N. Y.
Phila....-^ " J. F. Keen, Philadelphia, Pa.
( Miss Matilda A. Spencer, Phiiadelphin, Pa.
( ** Isabel Hart, Baltimore, Md.
Bait \ Mrs. J. P. Newman, Washington, D. C.
, Leitcli, Baltimore, Md.
W. A. Ingham, Cleveland, O.
W. G. Williams, Delaware, O.
G. S. Savage, Covington, Ky.
J. F. Willing, Chicago, 111.
E. A. Hoag, Mich.
J. H. Bayliss, Indianapolis, Ind.
L. E. Prescott, Winona, Minn.
Angle F, Newman, Lincoln, Neb.
Mary 0. Nind, Winona, Minn.
Cinn..
N. W
Western,
t ** Isabel Ha
A Mrs. 3. P. Ne
( " W. B. Le
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Boston, May 9-21, 1878.
President.— Mrs. Rev. Dr. Warren.
Secretaries.— '* Rev. J. T. Gracey,
" Rev. Dr. Lore.
(Mrs. C. P. Tnplin, Oroton, Vt.
N. E ■< " M. P. Aldernian, Hyde Park, Mass.
( " J. W. Guernsey, Franklin, Vt.
f " William B. Skidmore, New York city.
N. Y. . . . .; " J. E. Snvre, Brooklyn, N. Y.
( " J. H. Knowles, Orange, N. J.
( " .T. F. Keen, Philadelphia, Pa.
Phila i " E. B. Stevens, Wilmington, Del.
( " R. Hinkle, Harrisburg, Pa.
( Miss Isabel Hart, Baltimore, Md.
Bait •< Mrs. K. Chandler, Baltimore, Md.
( " R. A. Gillinghain, Baltimore, Md.
( " B. R. Cowen, Bellicire, O.
Cinn 1, " P. S. Donelson, Toledo, O.
{ " M.J.
Clark, Cincinnati, 6.
( " J. F. Willing, (hicago, 111.
N. W....? " M. T. Lnthrop, Jackson, Mich.
( " E. H. Miller, Evanston, 111.
( " L. E. Prescott "'"■
i Miss Jennie Beek, 1
( Mrs. M. C. Nind, ^
L. E. Prescott, Winona, M
Western. .{ Miss Jennie Beek, KirkviUe, lowi
Winona, Minn
Chicago, May 23-31, 1879.
Presideni.— 'Mrs. Rev. Dr. Steele.
Secretary. — " L. H. Daggett.
Mrs. M. P. Alderman, Hyde Piirk, Mass.
(Mrs. M. P. Alderman, Hyde P:irl
N. E.....J " I. N. Bullens, Chic.pee, Ma
( " G. J. Judkins, Bristol, N. H
( " William B. Skidmore, New Yc
N. Y... .{ " J. T. Gracey, Dansville, N. Y.
I " 0. H. Tiffanv, New York city.
( " J. F. Keen, Philadelphia, Pa.
Phila .^ " C. Clark, Newcaslle, Pft
( " J. P. Hanna, Pittsburg, Pa.
( Miss Isabel Hart, Baltimore, Md.
Bait J. Mrs. M. G. Hamilton, Baltimoie, Md.
( ** L. H. Pearce, Alexandria, Vt.
( " B.- ~
Cinn i " H.
( " F.
B. R. Cowen, Delaware, i).
. Benton, Cleveland, O.
. S. Hoyt, Cincinnati, O.
CHICAGO— Continued.
DELEGATES AND OFFICERS,
( Mrs. J. F. Willing, Chicago, 111.
N. W....J " G. M. Steele, Appleton, Wis
( " J. P. i.arly. La Purte, Ind.
( " L. E. Prescott, Minneapolis, Minn.
Western..; " E. K. Stanley, Des Moines, Iowa.
( " M. J. Shelley, Tecumseh, Neb.
Columbus, Ohio, May 7, 1880.
Presideiit.—Mre. Dr. W. F. Warren.
Secretari/.— " Rev. J. T. Gracey.
Mrs. M. P. Alderman.
N. E.....; " E. S. Richards.
G. F. Martin.
W. B. Skidmore.
N. Y.....( " A. Lowrey.
J. P. Newman.
Keen,
Phila ■{ " E. B. Stevens.
, Buoy.
I. Havt.
Bait .; " L.Kelley.
C. Linville.
E. T. Cowen.
Cin .; " M. E. Bing.
igeley.
jMn
( " J. F.
..< " E. B.
( " C. W
( Miss I. r-
..\ " L.
( Mrs. G.
( " E. T.
..-< " M. E
( " E. H
( " J. F. Willing.
N. W....} " \. R. Hitt
( " M. S. Pilcher.
( " L. E. -
Western \ '■ M. C.
( " A. L.
L. E. Prescott,
Nind.
Morrow.
Buffalo, N. Y.,Mayl2, 1881.
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Preaident.—Mrs. Dr. F. G. Hibbard.
Secretary.— " Mary C. Nind.
Mrs. M. F. Scranton,
" M. P. Alderman,
" Joseph Cummings.
" W. B. Skidmore.
" J. A. W'iglit.
" George Goodier.
" J. F. Keen,
" Alfred Wheeler.
" A. V. Culver,
" J. F. Willing.
" T. P. Haughey.
" J. E. Irish.
" L. H. Prescott.
" H. M. Shattuck.
" M. W. Porter, M.D.
" B. R. Cowen.
" J. H. Creighton.
" H. Benton.
'* Isabel Hart.
" S. H. Hartsock.
" H. t, Tudor,
Philadelphia, Nov. 1-5, 1882.
Preaideiit.—Mrs. Wm. P, Warren.
Secretary.— " J. T. Gracey.
( Mrs. M. P. Alderman.
N. E.....; " S.J. Steele,
( " D. Steele.
( « W. B. Skidmore, 230 W, 69th Street.
N. Y....-^ " J. H. Knowles.
I " S. H. Robinson.
( " J. F. Keene.
Phila.....! " G. B. Culp.
( " J. L. Tompkinson,
( " J. F. Wilting.
\. W...-< " Mary T. Lflthrop,
( " T. A. Hill.
( " B. R. Cowen,
Cin ^ " W. B. Davis,
I " A. S. Clason.
( " L. E. Prescott,
Western. K Miss M. M. Hammcnd.
( " E. Pearson.
( " I. Hart.
Bait / Mrs. E. G. Andrews.
( " E. H. Fowler.
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MissioNAEiES Sent Oct by the W. F. M. Society.
Namk.
HOMU,
Left.
Whkrb Stationed.
By what Bkanih
supportld.
St. Clairsville, 0
Castile, N. Y
Binghamton, N. Y
Trenton, N. J
1869
1870
I87I
1872
1873
1874
1875
1876
1877
1878
1879
1880
188r
Lucknow, India
Bareilly, India
Foochow, China —
Moradabad, India .
Pekin, China
Lucknow, India
Kiukiang, China
Lucknow, India
Moradabad, India..
Peking, China
Gondah, India
Moradabad, India..
Puebla, Mexico
Pachuca, Mexico....
Kosario, S. A
Foochow. China!....
Tokio, Japan
Kiukiang, China —
Moradaba<I, India .
Peking, China
Mexico City, Mexico
Bareilly, India
Tokio, Japan
Bareilly, India
Peking, China
Mexico City, Mexico
Foochow, China
Yokohama, Japan..
Moradabad, India..
Cawnpore, India —
Tokio, Japan
Lucknow, India
Calcutta. Ind
Hakodati, Japan
Mexico City, Mexico
Peking, China
Nagasaki, Japan....
Kiukiang, China
Rosario, S. A '.'.'.
Monrovia, Liberia..
Mexico City, Mexico
Rosario, S. A
Hakiidati, Japan....
Peking, China
Lucknow, India
Allahabad, India ..
Moradabad, India..
West China
Kiukiang, China
Hakodati, Japan ...
Tnkin, Japan
Rangoon, Burniah .
N;MMiTjil. Tnrlia
** Clara A. Swain, M.D
'• Fannie J. Sparkes
New England.
New York.
Baltimore.
North-western.
" Carrie M'Millan*
*• Mary Q. Porterf
Gettysburg, Pa
Davenport, Iowa
New York.
Western
New Kngland.
Indianapolis, Ind
North-western.
" Gertruile Howe
"
Milan. Mich
"
" Lou. E. Blackmar.
" L. M. Pultzll
" L. L. Combs, M. D.I....
" Nancy Monelle, M. D.**..
" Sarali P. Leminglj
" Susan M. Warner
West Springfield, Pa..
Windsor, N. Y
Cazenovia, N. Y
Poughkeepsie, N. Y. . .
ClermoNt, Co.,0
New Orleans, La
Blanford, Mass
Chicopee, Mass
Western.
New York.
Philadelphia.
New York.
Cincinnati
New York.
" Jennie M. Chapin
" Lou. B. Denning
" Sigourney Trask, M. D. . .
" Dora Schoommakertt. • ■
" Letitia Mason, M D.ll
" Anna Julia Lore, M.D. ft
" Letitia A. Canipbell§§....
" Nettie C Ogdenlj
New England.
North-western.
Spring Creek, Pa
Morris, 111
New York.
North western.
Cincinnati.
New York.
Cambridge. Mass
Springfield, 0
New England.
Cincinnati.
" Mary F. • :ary||||
Mrs. Olive Whiting ...
Miss L. H. Green, M.D.ITIT ...
" Leonora Howard, M.D...
FishkilUN. Y
Philadelphia.
New York.
Pennington, N. J
Grand Rapids, Mich. .
New Brighton, Pa
Ann Arbor, Mich
New England.
North-western.
Baltimore.
" Julia A. Sparr, M.D
" Susan B. Higgins***
" H. B. Woolston, M.D.I...
" S. A Easton
North-western.
New England.
Vincentown, N. J
Washington, D. 0
Germantown, Pa
Baltimore, Md
Philadelphia.
Self-supporting
" Matilda A. Spencer
"MA Holbrook
Philadelphia.
" Eugenia GibsonJ
Albany, N. Y
Wilmington, Del'.
Auburn, N. Y.
f^ew York.
Self-supporting.
" M A. Priestll
New York.
Camden, N. J
Fisherville, N. H
Keyser, W. Va
" Clara M. Cushman
" Elizabeth Russell
New England.
Cincinn.ati.
Mrs. E. J. Clemensll
Miss Emma Michenerftt
Metropolis, III
Philadelphia, Pa
Flint, Mich ... .".....
North-western.
Philadelphia.
Philadelphia.
" Elizabeth U. Yates
Round Pond, Me
Clyde, 0
New England.
" Mattie B. Spencettt
" Luella Kelly
New Albany, Ind
Baltimore, Md
Fonddu Lac, Wis
Chicago, 111
Self-supporting.
" Francis I. Wheeler
" Ella Gilchrist, M D.||
North-westem.
" Minnie Hampton
Grand Rapids, Mich .
New York.
Berea, 0
Self-supi)orting.
" Harriet M. Kerr
Ann Arbor, Mich
" IBareilly, India
" Cawnpore, India
1882 Tientsin. China
Philadelphia.
" Ellen I. Hoy
" K. E. Akers, M D
Bath, Me
New England.
" Annie P. Atkinson
Cazenovia, N. Y
Norwich, Conn
, Mich
Marietta. 0
Bradford, Pa
Tokio, Japan
YnknhaniH, Japan..
Rosario, S. A
Moradabad, India..
Mexico City, Mexico
New York.
New England.
Mrs. Turney
Miss Esther De Vine
" Marion Hogaboom
Western.
Cincinnati.
Philadelphia.
»Mra. Rev. P. M. Buck.
5 Mv8. Rev. G. W. Waiigh.
•*Mrs. Ri'V. Henry Miinsell.
§§Died M:iy 18, 1873.
•»*Dicd Julys, 1819.
fMrs. F. D. Gamewell. t Mra. Rev. G. R. Davis.
1] Returned on account of ill-health. 1 Mrs. Rev. J. Strittninttcr.
++Mvs. Soper. tt^rs. Rev. G. H. M'Grew.
nil Mrs. F. G. Davis. n Died Sept. 30, 187'.t.
tttD'ed Dec. 10, 1B81. tttMrs. .
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137
Keceipts by the several Branches of the Woman's Foreign Missionary
Society feoii the Date of its Organization to Febkuarv, 1883.
Keceipts by
Bi-anches.
New Eng.
Bi-ancli.
New York
Branch.
Phila.
Blanch.
Bait. Cineln'i
Branch. Branch.
North-w.
Branch.
Western
Branch.
Totals.
Total from Mar.
»4,M6 8«
24,485 04
44,044 57
50,856 52
59,008 00
63,675 U
74,727 17
66,682 01
63,932 74
60,938 01
75,658 39
102,671 63
11.3,053 48
l-24,8'23 33
$3,691 23
6,729 53
10,667 77
10,928 83
10,178 75
11,927 04
11,521 96
10,979 96
10,685 53
11,775 15
14,3-25 53
15,025 87
lS,64'i 06
$12,029 i.5
10.226 32
11,580 12
12,713 71
13,957 07
17,094 33
12,681 83
11,303 08
12,848 14
14,119 46
18,443 82
24,040 92
24,568 -3
$1,855 22
2,-238 26
4,716 68
5,065 .'!5
6,371 08
0,930 28
6,583 14
6,685 10
6,512 19
7.940 07
10,712 49
11,010 65
13,310 21
$2,844 08
8,423 29
10,290 33
9.647 64
10,440 54
10,797 18
9,881 03
10,174 80
6,160 98
11,099 63
14,901 50
15,044 16
2iJ,D61 45
$3,069 56
10,495 59
11,796 71
12,456 00
12,279 50
14,.')47 09
14,080 35
13,287 12
13,232 97
15,180 94
20,920 76
26,012 80
515,391 40
mh 80
2,729 93
4.160 85
8,943 07
5,900 44
7,272 37
8,033 18
7,032 05
7,560 56
10,335 42
17,850 36
16,050 59
16,B8S 70
1871 to 1872
1872 to 1873
1873 to 1874
1874 to 1875
1875 to 1876
1876 to 1877
1877 to 1878
1878 to 1879
1879 to 1880
1880 to 1881
1881 to 1882
1882 to 1883
»3,26i 05
3,644 06
4,-2.53 40
4,. 541 70
C.1.58 88
3,900 52
4,470 03
3,937 64
5,-207 72
5,517 17
5,270 49
13,160 18
Totals
$141,079 21
$196,606 68
$89,930 12
$56,264 10
ftiaOIT! 61
$192,-50 79 $128,266 72
$935,102 89
241 74
»935,344 B3
Grand total...
Fourteenth Annual Meeting, Des Moines, Iowa.
The report of this meeting of the General Executive Committee, held November
2-9, 1883, reached the Editor of the Year-Eook too late to be inserted in its proper
place in the foregoing pages. Eoom is made for a few items of special interest, in-
cluding the summaries of receipts for 1883, which are inserted in the table above :
President. — Mrs. L. C. Murphy, of Grinnell, Iowa.
Secretarxj. — Mrs. Eev. J. T. Gracey, of Eochester, N. Y,
Assistant Secretai'ies. — Mrs. I. L. Hauser, of Evauston, 111. ; Miss Mary
Gatch, of Des Moines, Iowa.
The Annual Eeport gave the following summary of the home work : Auxiliaries,
3,853 ; members, 36,653 — an increase of 7,598 ; and 4,056 life members. Eleven
thousand and forty-eight mite boxes had been distributed. The following mission-
aries had been gent out during the year : Miss Watson, to Yokohama, Japan ; Miss
Dr. Hyde and Miss DeVinne, to India; Miss Ilogoboom, to Mexico; Mrs. Jewell,
to China ; Miss M'Kesson, to Bunnah ; Misses Chapiii and Denning, returned to
South America. Six others were under appointment.
A memorial from the Western Branch, asking that it be divided into three Branches,
was adopted. The division is to be as follows: 1. Minnesota and Dakota, with
Minneapolis as head-quarters. 2. Iowa and Missouri, with Des Moines as head-
quarters. 3. Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, and Wyoming, with Topeka as center.
The report of the " Heathen Woman's Friend " gave a subscription list of 19,571.
The management of the " Friend " was wannly commended.
A preamble and resolutions were adopted recommending that during the present
Centennial year of Methodism $25,000 be raised, over and above the regular mis-
sionary operations, for the purpose of printing an Illustrated Zenana Periodical
adapted to the wants of women and cliildren, and that the Woman's Foreign Mis-
sionary Society request Eev. Thomas Craven to take charge of the publication tlie
coming year, the first issue to be in January, 1884, or as soon thereafter as possible,
the cost for the first year to be defrayed from the surplus arising from the publica-
tion of the " Heathen Woman's Friend."
It was decided that the next annual meeting of the General Executive Committco
should be held in Baltimore.
138 Methodist Year-Book.
Ladies' Ohina Missionary Society, Baltimore.
In 1846 Kev. Judson D. Collins wrote to the officers of the Parent Missionary
Society stating his earnest convictions in the direction of missionary work in the
Chinese Empire. On receiving their response that the Board had no funds for or-
ganizing a Chinese mission he wrote Bishop Janes : " Engage me a passage before
the mast, my own strong arm shall pull me through, and support me anywhere."
The heroic Christian utterance moved the Board to venture upon the work, and, in
1847, Mr. Collins and Rev. M. C. Collins and wife were sent to China.
A year later, viz., in April, 1848, for the purpose of aiding in the support of this
mission, the Ladies' China Missionary Society was organized. The first anniversary
service was held in January, 1849, in the old Laiglit Street Church, Bishop Janes
presiding, and the address delivered by Dr. Stephen Olin, who had lirst suggested the
organization of the society. At this meeting, on motion of Dr. Thomas Sewall, a res-
olution was adopted determining to raise funds to send another missionary to China.
For ten years the society continued to pay $300 each year toward the support of
the mission. In 1858, prompted thereto by pressing appeals from Dr. E. Went-
worth, of the Troy Conference, then in charge of the mission work in China, the
society took a new departure. Dr. Wcntworth plead for $5,000 with which to open
and support a Female School in Foochow, and the society pledged its good faith to
raise and pay over to the Parent Board for that purpose the whole sum needed, one
half of it to be paid "by Jan. 1, 1860, and the balance as soon as practicable."
The Parent Missionary Board, at New York, accepted this pledge, and advanced
the $5,000 needed, and Dr. Durbin, then Corresponding Secretary of the Board,
thus wrote to the officers of the society at Baltimore : " Let this school be the
honor and light-house of Baltimore in the midst of more than 400,000,000 people that
give to death more than half their female children." October 4, 1858, Miss Potter
and the Misses S. and B. Woolston sailed, with the subsequent superintendent of
the mission, Eev. Dr. S. L. Baldwin, and wife, for China.
Tills China society continued its good work until March 2, 1871, when, at the
earnest solicitation of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist
Ef/iscopal Cliuich, it merged all its interests in the latter society, and became the
Baltimore Branch of that society.
"Woman's Missionary Society of tlie Pacific Coast.
This society was organized by ladies of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in
August, 1870, in order '" to elevate and save" the Cliineseand other foreign heathen
■women 'on the I'acific coast. Its head-quarters are in San Francisco, where rooms
were fitted up, in the Chinese Mission House of the Parent Missionary Society of
the Methodist Episcopal. Church, as a place for helpless Chinese women who de-
sired to reform, and a school for Chinese girls.
The society desired to become auxiliary to the Woman's Foreign Missionary
Society but was prevented by the vforA foreign in the Constitution of the latter. It
is auxiliary to the Parent Missionary Society.
The first of a list of beneficiaries of the same class was a women of eighteen years
of age who had wearied of her sad life of shame, and, while attempting to drown
herself had been rescued by the police, and induced to accept the protection and
help of this Christian home. In about eighteen months from her admission she
•was baptized, and soon after was married to a Christian Chinese man, lived a con-
sistent Christian life, and seven years from the date of her rescue died in the faith.
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Mi-ts. Gibson, wife of Dr. Otis Gibson, superintendent of Methodist Episcopal
missions on the Pacific coast, in her last report of the good worlv of the society,
says: "In January, 1873, we opened a boarding-school, with tliree scholars. Tlie
school steadily increased until, for some years, we have had all our rooms could ac-
commodate, the number varying from twenty-four to thirty. At first these women
were received into the school for a longer or shorter time as they might choose ;
hut we were iinally led to adopt the present rule, by which none are received for
less than a year, during which time we try to teach them something of the religion
of Christ, which is our first and chief aim. Then, unless they wish to return to
China, we keep them until they are married. The man who marries one of these
women pays her board for a year, at the rate of $5 a month. We have another
class of scliolare in the school from which we expect greater results. I refer to the
iittle slave girls, whose servitude and beatings, under hard task-masters, become un-
endurable, and who flee to the school for protection. Their ages vary from eight to
fifteen years. We obtain the legal guardianship of tliese young girls, and keep
them until they are of age, when they marry Christian men. Of these Christian
families tliere have been thirteen. Ten writs of habeas corpus have been served
upon us by their masters to recover the girls, but they have been returned to the
keeping of our society. All the older girls clothe themselves by the proceeds of
work done out of school hours. A few of the girls are supported by ladies who pay
$60 a year. They are taught English five hours daily. Some of the older girls
study history, geography, arithmetic, etc. They read the Scriptures in Chinese a
half hour eveiy morning, and receiving instruction from a Chinese teacher. Tuesday
afternoon a prayer-meeting, led by the teacher, Mrs. Walker, is held, in which all the
girls take part. Wednesday evening we have an hour of praise-service in connection
with tlie boys' school. Sunday morning, at half past ten o'clock, the girls have a
prayer-meeting, led by one of their own number ; preacJiing, at half past twelve
o'clock, Sunday-school at half past one o'clock, and a mixed Sunday-scliool at
six o'clock in the evening. There are generally about forty women and girls in
the Sunday congregation. One of their number, formerly in the school, is employed
as Bible-reader, and visits twice a week from house to house among the former in-
mates of the mission, reading the Scriptures and praying with them. At our last
quarterly meeting one of these women was baptized and united with the Churcli.
A weekly prayer-meeting is held every Thursday in the house of one of the women.
During the last ten years 34 women and girls have been baptized and united with
the Church ; 3 have been expelled for returning to idolatry ; and 5 have died
Christians. 140 women have spent a longer or shorter time in the Mission."
Woman's Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
The society was organized in Cincinnati, July 6, 1880, by Christian lailies of
that city and vicinity.
Organization. — The administration of its affaii-s is vested in a Board of Managers
which consists of an Executive Board, and the Corresponding Secretary and one
delegate from each Conference. The Board of Managers meets annually and elects
the Executive Board. The organization includes Conference auxiliaries in each
Conference, which are co-ordinate societies.
Executive Board.
President. — Mrs. Eutherford B. Hayes.
Vice-Presidents. — Mrs. John Davis, 323 Elm Street, Cincinnati, O.; Mrs. F. S. Hoyt,
155 York Street, Cincinnati, O. ; Mrs. Bishop Clark, 310 Elm Street, Cincinnati, O.;
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Mrs. Amos Sliinkle, Covington, Ky. ; Mrs. J. M. Walden, Walnut Hills, Cincin-
nati, 0.
Corresponding Secretary. — Mrs. E. S. Eust, 339 West Fourth Street, Cincinnati, O.
Recording Secretary. — Mrs. James Dale, 434 Broadway, Cincinnati, O.
Treasurer. — Mrs. A. E. Clark, 169 York Street, Cincinnati, O.
Resident Managers. — Mrs. Bishop Wiley, Fairmount, Cincinnati, O. ; Mrs, E. Dy-
mond, 506 West Sixth Street, Cincinnati, 0. ; Mrs. J. L. Whetstone, Mt. Auburn,
Cincinnati, O. ; Mrs. C. G. Comegys, 298 Seventh Street, Cincinnati, O. ; Mrs. J. M.
Bailis, Walnut Hills, Cincinnati, 0. ; Mrs. William F. Thorne, 508 Sixth Street, Cin-
cinnati, O. ; Mrs. Mary Haven, Thirkield, Cincinnati, O. ; Mrs. Charles Coffin,
Fairmount, Cincinnati, O. ; Mrs. A. Wessel, Walnut Hills, Cincinnati, O. ; Mrs. E,
House, Mt. Auburn, Cincinnati, O. ; Mrs. William Ampt, 412 Baymiller Street,
Cinciimati, 0. ; Mrs. John Simpkinson, Walnut Hills, Cincinnati, 0.
The Society.
Its Object. — It aims to enlist and organize the efforts of Christian women to co-
operate with the other societies and agencies of the Church in behalf of women and
children in our country who are in need of Christian help.
Its Field. — In the South and in the West there are multitudes of ignorant and
degiaded women in cabins and wigwams and adobe houses and Mormon harems
and liuts of frontiersmen and Chinese quarters, whose pitiable condition urgently
appeals to all enlightened women, since women alone can render them the help they
need, and guide them in the path of purity and Christian civilization.
Its Plan of Operation. — This society aims to organize auxiliaries among the
■women all over the Church for the pui-pose of diffusing intelligence and awakening
a deeper interest on the subject of missions. It will set forth the wants of mission
work in our country, and the importance of raising funds to prepare and send teachers
and missionaries to destitute sections of our own land. The missionaries will visit
from house to house and gather the women and children into industrial scliools,
where they will be taught sewing, household economy, and the laws of health and
temperance, and given moral and religious instruction.
Its Funds. — These are obtained from membersliip fees and other donations.
There are nearly a million of women connected with the Methodist Episcopal Churcli,
and it is earnestly hoped tliat their hearts will be moved in behalf of the unenlight-
ened women of our own land. All moneys for the society should be forwarded to
the treasurer, and other communications to the corresponding secretary.
Twenty-six Conferences have organized Conferences societies, or liave appointed
corresponding secretaries who are engaged in tlie work of fornung auxiliaries and
collecting money and materials to sustain its work.
Missionaries have been sustained by the society in New Orleans, Atlanta, Cliat-
tanooga, Nashville, Greenville District, S. C, Savannah, Ga.; and in Ogdenand Salt
Lake City, teachers have been sustained in the schools established by the Mission-
ary Society.
Beneficiaries. — Promising young girls, white and colored, have been aided in
several of the schools in the South.
Utah.—lhQ society has appealed to the Church for $5,000, the sum required to
build a home and boardmg department for Salt Lake Seminary, Salt Lake City.
When §2,500 were secured the building was contracted for.
Relation to Other Societies. — Teachers are sustained in the schools of the Mis-
sionary Society in the West ; and it is providing for the schools in the South indus-
trial departments, where girls may be taught housekeeping and the industries
easential to the home.
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FiKST Annual Meeting — Cincinnati, Oct. 30-Nov. 1, 1882.
Mrs. Lucy Hayes, wife of Rutherford B. Hayes, ex-Governor of the State of
Ohio, and ex-Presidcnt of the United States, presided. Mrs. Mary Haven Thir-
kield, of Cincinnati, was elected Secretary, and Miss Anna E. Fisk, of Meadvillo,
Pa., Assistant Secretary.
In answer to the roll-call of the Board of Managers the following persons re-
sponded: the General Executive Board, (see page 120,) and the several Conference
delegates :
Central Ohio Vonferenxx. — ^Mrs. Wm. G. "Williams, Mrs. L. A. Belt.
Cincinnati Conference. — Mrs. C. L. Williams, Mrs. L. D. M'Cabe.
East Ohio Conference. — Mrs. J. B. Cory, Mrs. W. A. Ingham.
North Ohio Conference. —Mrs. E. A. Underwood, Mrs. W. E. Santley.
Michigan Conference. — Mrs. E. C. Wright, Mrs. E. A. Campbell.
Erie Conference.— Mrs. C. V. Culver, Mrs. J. M. Dawson.
Bock Eiver Conference. — Mrs. Oliver Marcy .
South Carolina Conference. — Mrs. L. M. Dunton.
South-east Indiana Conference. — Mrs. J. G. Chafee, Mrs. L. M. Moore.
Upper Iowa Conference.— Mrs. Col. Springer.
In addition to these delegates many visitors from the various Conferences were
present. Several Conference auxiliaries, whose delegates could not be present, sent
reports by mail.
The report of Mrs. Eust, Corresponding Secretary, showed that up to that date
the society had been approved, by formal action, in 43 Annual Conferences, and in
11 Conferences Conference organization had been effected. In addition to the
Annual Conference organizations 49 local auxiliaries had been formed. Conference
secretaries had been appointed in 14 other Conferences.
Several missionary teachers had been employed — Miss Josephine Cowgill had
been two years, and Miss Becken, Mrs. Bentley , and Mrs. Williams each one year,
in New Orleans ; Miss James, one year in Chattanooga and one year in Atlanta ;
Mrs. Bristol, one and one half, and Miss Kimball and Miss Abbott each one year, in
Atlanta; Miss Lampton, one season in Nashville; Mrs. Dunton, two years in Green-
ville District, South Carolina; Mrs. Bristol and Mrs. Lewis, since December, 1881,
in Savannah, Georgia ; in Utah, Miss Bardwell has been one year in Salt Lake, and
Miss Smith and Miss Daily each one year in Ogden. Others had labored without
salary in destitute places for shorter periods of time.
The society had organized a plan for aiding deserving beneficiaries in schools.
The report stated that there are thousands of promising young girls in the South
and West who have not the means to attend school. A comparatively small sura,
judiciously appropriated to their use, will enable these young persons to remain in
school long enough to fit themselves for usefulness. The schools established by the
Church ofier to students an opportunity to meet a part of their expenses by service ;
fifty dollai-s, and often twenty-five dollars, will enable a girl, with what she and her
friends can provide, to remain in school a year. Such assistance has been rendered
to pupils in Central Tennessee College ; the Ladies' Seminary, Augusta, Ky. ; Clark
University, Atlanta, Ga. ; East Tennessee University, Athens, Tenn. ; Claflin Uni-
versity, Orangeburg, S. C. ; and Cookman Institute, Jacksonville, Fla. Appeals
for aid have come to us from Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico,
Mission bands, or juvenile societies, auxiliary to the Women's Home Missionary
Society, had been organized in many places. The work of supporting beneficiaries
was particularly calculated to interest young persons.
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The society had no paid agents or officers to organize the woi-k, and the burden
had fallen heavily on a few women who had done what they could in organizing
auxiliaries, and collecting funds in such localities as they could reach.
Eeoeipts and Expenditures to Oct. 31, 1882.
Receipts.
General Fund $3,534 49
Deficit 910 68
$4,445 17
Utah Fund 1,024 98
Beneficiary Fund 584 50
Extension Fund 325 50
Furnishing Fund 388 35
Bequest 1,165 75
$7,934 25
Expenditures.
General Fund $4,445 17
Beneficiary Fund 510 00
Extension Fund 325 50
Furnisliiug Fund 388 35
Balance to Next Year,
Utah Fund 1,024 98
Beneficiary Fund 74 50
Bequest 1,165 75
$7,934 25
Appropriations for Year from Nov. 1, 1882, to Oct. 31, 1883.
At the annual meeting, Oct. 31, 1882, it was resolved that "the Woman's Home
Missionary Society appeal to the Church for $20,000, which is the least amount
that will enable the society to meet the urgent demands for aid in our own country,"
and that " $10,000 be appropriated, as follows : "
For work among the Indian tribes. $500
For Mormon work 2,000
For New Mexico 1,000
For New Orleans 1,000
For Savannah 1,200
For South Carolina 400
For Atlanta $800
For Naslwille 600
For Holly Springs 800
For Northern Michigan 100
For Texas 600
For Alaska 1,000
The above amounts, and all additional moneys raised for the enlargement of the
work, were to be expended under the direction of the Executive Board.
Chronological Memoranda.
The first contribution was received in September 1880, and the first mission-
ary under its care was sent out in October. The following dates mark additional
points of progress in its history :
First auxiliary organized in St. Paul's Church, Delaware, O., July 27, 1880.
Second auxiliary organized at Eeno, Pa., Aug. 1, 1880.
First Conference (Erie) auxiliary society organized in Corry, Pa., Sept. 27, 1880.
First juvenile auxiliary society organized in Fairmount, Cincinnati, under name
of "The Lucy Hayes Mission Band," Sept. 17, 1880.
First annual meeting of the society held in Cincinnati, Oct. 30-Nov. 1, 1883.
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Woman's Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
This society was organized in Atlanta, Ga., in May, 1878. It was the outc^rowth
of two local Female Missionary Societies of the Methodist Church, organized, one in
Trinity Church, (South,) Baltimore, by Mrs. JuUana Hayes, President, in 1872 ;
and the other organized in Nashville by Mrs. M. L. Kelley, in November, 1873.
Its Constitution, given by the General Conference then in session at Atlanta, pre-
scribed that " the operations of the society should be conducted in connection with
tlie Board of Missions, and subject to its advice and approval."
In its plan of operations the work was divided into three departments, each bear-
ing a close relation to the other. The General Executive Association, to be com-
posed of its oflBcers and delegates from the Conference societies, to have the super-
vision of the whole, and to be the source of all methods and plans ; Conference
societies to embrace the territory in each Annual Conference, and to have charge of
all the operations in such bounds ; auxiliaries to be formed in evei'y church, repre-
sentatives from these to form the Conference societies.
At tlie General Conference of 1882 a new Constitution was given the society, stat-
ing more definitely the object and methods of work, including the education of
children, both male and female, in its provisions, and changing the name " General
Executive Association" to "Woman's Board of Missions of Methodist Eidscopal
Church, South."
In February, 1879, the Woman's Missionary Society was regularly incorporated
by the authorities of the State of Tennessee.
The first annual meeting of tl^ General Executive Association was held in Louis-
ville, Kj., May, 1879, at which twenty-four delegates were present, representing
twelve Conference societies. The receipts for the year amounted to $4,471 69.
A girls' boarding-school in Shanghai, China, imder the care of the Parent Board
of Missions, but chiefly supported by special contributions, was turned over to the
Woman's Society. Miss Lochie Kankin was sent to China, October, 1878.
The following autumn Miss Dora Rankin joined her sister at Shanghai. A girls'
boarding-school had been projected, and the buildings put up at Neziang, a flour-
ishing inland town. The Misses Eankin were sent there, and a good work es-
tablished imder their supervision.
At the second annual meeting, held in Nashville, May, 1880, the Woman's Mis-
sionary Advocate — a neat sixteen-page paper, Mrs. F. A. Butler, editor — was pro-
jected, as the organ of the society, and a month later the first number was issued.
It was published by the Southern Methodist Publishing House. At the close of its
second year (May 31, 1882) it reported a list of 8,500 subsribers, and, after paying
the entire cost of publication, had put over $1,500 into the treasury.
At the annual meeting held in Nashville, May, 1882, the close of its first quad-
rennium, the society reported the issue and distribution, up to that date, of 349,872
pages of missionary reading, in the form of tracts, leaflets, and cards. 500 copies of
a " Manual for Missionary Candidates" had also been printed, and 15,000 annual
reports had been sent out. 12 missionaries were employed by the society; 3 board-
ing-schools for girls and 10 day-schools had been established, and 6 Bible women
were supported by the society.
Women's medical work had not been overlooked. Miss Mildred Philips was ac-
cepted in 1880, and is now entering upon the tliird year of her course in the Wom-
an's Medical College of Pennsylvania, at Philadelpliia. Grounds had been pur-
chased for hospital and dispensary purposes, and buildings were erected and ready
for her use.
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Missionaries Employed.
Name. iAppointed.
Eesidbnce when
Appointed.
Mission Station.
1878
1879
1881
1881
1881
1881
1882
1882
1882
1882
1882
1882
Milan, Tenn
Neziang, China.
Neziang, China.
Piracicabo, Brazil.
Piracicabo, Bi'azil.
" Dora Rankin
Milan, Tenn
" MattieH. Watts
" Mary Newman
" Annie E. Williams. .
" Rebecca Toland
Mrs. Sarah Burford
Miss Anna J. Muse
Louisville, Ky
Georgetown, Texas. . .
Chapel Hill, Te.xas...
Deanville, Texas
Atlanta, Ga
Laredo, Texas.
Laredo, Texas.
Laredo, Texas.
Shanghai, China.
" Blanche Gilbert
Winchester, Vt
— , Miss
Mexico City, Mexico.
Shanghai, China.
Miss Nora Larabuth
Mrs. A. P. Parker*
Shanghai, China
Shanghai, China.
Receipts and Disbursements for Each Year.
Rkcripts.
Disbursements.
May, 1878, to May, 1879
$4,014 27
13,775 97
19,362 10
25,609 44
20,874 91
$1,323 30
May, 1879, to May, 1880..*
7,886 34
May, 1880, to May, 1881
10,156 63
May, 1881 to May, 1882
29,794 08
May, 1882, to January, 1883
26,010 88
Total
$83,636 69
$75,171 21
Balance in treasury, January 1, 1883
$8,465 48
In the home work 31 Conference societies had been organized, 1,112 auxiliaries,
and 26,556 members enrolled.
Outline of Foreign Work— January 1, 1883.
Neziang^ China. — Boarding-school, accommodating 50 girls, in charge of the
Misses Rankin. Here is located " Louise Home," for resident missionaries, donated
by Miss Wilkins, of Baltimore. Day-schools, 2.
Shanghai^ Gliina. — Cloptou boarding-school, accommodating 30 pupils, Mrs. M.
J. Lambuth and Miss Nora Lambuth in charge. Missionary residence on same com-
pound. Day-schools, 6 ; Bible women, 5. Miss Annie Muse went out in October,
1882.
Su Ohow, China. — Boarding-school, accommodating 30 pupils, Mi-s. A, P. Parker
in charge. Premises for hospital, Bible-woman's Institute, and missionary resi-
dence on same compound. Day-schools, 3.
Piracicabo, Brazil. — Boarding-school, accommodating 25 pupils. Miss Watts in
charge.
Mo de Janeiro, Brazil. — Orphanage projected ; not yet ofjened.
Mexican Border, at Loredo. — Boarding-school, accommodating 30 pupils. Miss
Anne Williams and Mrs. Burford in charge. Miss Rebecca Toland teaching day-
school in same place.
Central Mexico. — Miss Blanche Gilbert went out in December, 1882.
Indian Mission. — Supporting teachers in Seminole Academy.
* Not supported by the Woman's Missionary Society.
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Statistical Summary — Janlauy 1, 1883.
Number of auxiliary societies 1 ,189
Number ot' members iu these societies 30,785
Money raised from 1879 to Jaiiuaryjl883 $83,636 69
Missionaries and assistants, in foreign work 12
Eoardiiig-schools, " " " 5
Day-schools, " " " 10
Bible women, " " " 6
Board of Officers, 1883.
Pre&ident. — Mrs. Juliana Hayes, Baltimore, Md.
Carrespondiiuj Secretary. — Mrs. D. II. M'Gavock, Nashville, Teun.
Treasurer. — Mrs. James Whitwoeth, Nashville, Tenn.
Becording Secretary. — Miss Maria L. Gibson, Loukville, Ky.
Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Protestant Church,
The women of the Methodist Protestant CJhurclies of Pittsburg and vicinity were
invited to meet iu the First Church, Pittsburg, on February 14, 1879, to consider the
propriety of organizing a Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, that would unite
the women of the Church, North, South, East, and West, for the purpose of carry-
ing out the foreign mission work more effectively than was being done hy
separate organizations. Previously the money raised by local societies had been
sent to the foreign field through other boards, the Woman's Union Missionary So-
ciety, of New York, having disbursed the larger part of the funds for about ten
years. The Methodist Protestant Board of Missions had also used the same society
as a channel for the disbursement of its funds, and at that time was supporting a
number of girls in tlie Union Home at Yokohama. Japan.
In the winter of 1879 Miss Lizzie M. Guthrie, one of the missionaries of that so-
ciety, was home for rest ; and, while attending a meeting of the Woman's Christian
Association in Pittsburg, was introduced to one of the Methodist Protestant ladies,
Mrs. N. B. O'Neil, and described the good work that was being done by the Church
in educating the girls in the Home in Japan. Her words were an inspiration to
Mrs. O'Neil, and prompted the call for a meeting to interest the women of the
whole Church more largely ; and, as the result of that call, the Woman's Foreign
Missionary Society was organized. A Constitution was adopted, and the society
entered upon the work of organizing auxiliary societies.
The following year the Constitution was revised. The country was districted
into branches, each branch embracing all the auxiliary societies within the limits of
its respective Conferences. It was the purpose to form an auxiliary in every church.
The administration of the affairs of the whole society is vested in a general Execu-
tive Board, representing all the branches, and meeting annually, the whole plan of
organization being in harmony with the government of the Church.
The approval of the General Conference was given at its session held in Pitts-
burg, in May, 1880, and the society was acknowledged as one of the pemianent
agencies of the Church.
During the first year Miss Guthrie met frequently with the society, and aided in
organizing auxiliaries. Her health having improved she expressed her willingness
to go to Japan and establish the work of the society. Satisfactory arrangements
were made between the Church Board of Missions and the society for the support
of Miss Guthrie, and soon she was on her way to the place chosen for her future
laboi-s in Japan.
While waiting on our western shores for the vessel which was to bear her to her
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appointed field of labor the Master called her from labor to reivard. The loss was
keenly felt by the society, but relief soon came in the person of Miss H. G. Brittan,
a true and tried missionary of twenty years' service, and she was appointed to the
work. The following year Miss Anna M' Cully went out to assist Miss Brittan,
who had established a school in Yokohama, and was meeting with much success.
The school numbered, in January, 1883, about 50 pupils.
The society, while not auxiliary to the Church Board of Missions, co-operates
with it, and assists in establishing the work it has already commenced.
The society was incorporated in 1881. A building fund, for the purchase of prop-
erty suitable for the work, is now being raised. The corresponding secretary, Mrs.
M. A. Miller, reported, in January, 1883 : " We have now about $2,000 for this pur-
pose. At present an annual rent of $720 is being paid for the property occupied as
a Home. Besides assisting in the furnishing of the Home we pay the salaries of the
missionaries, whicli amount to $1,100 a year. We have 8 branch societies, 80 aux-
iliaries, 7 mission bauds, and have raised about $7,000. Our ne.xt work is to send
two ladies to Japan, to learn the language, and otherwise prepare themselves for the
duty of missionaries. At no distant day we expect to have a publication of our
own, but at present we occupy a few columns of one of our official Church organs."
Ladies' Wesleyan Missionary Society, England,
The " Ladies' Auxiliary of the Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society " was or-
ganized in 1859. The management was vested in a committee of twenty -five ladies,
resident in London or vicinity, and of the following executive officers : Treasurer,
Mrs . Farmer ; Foreign, Secretary, Mrs. Hoole ; Home Secretary, Miss Farmer ; Min-
ute Secretary, Miss S. M. Wood.
According to report maile by Mrs. Everett Green, one of the secretaries, and
dated June 4, 1883, the committee, at that date, consisted of 30 "acting" and 10
honorary members, with the following officers : Treasurer, Mrs. P. Bramer Hall ;
Agents' Secretary, Mrs. H. J. Atkinson ; Cash Secretary, Mrs. Lidgett ; Foreign
Secretary, Mrs. Wisemann ; Minute and Home Secretary, Mrs. Everett Green.
The head-quarters of the society are at the Wesleyan Mission House, Bishopsgate
Street Within, London, England.
The funds of the society had risen gradually from £319 lis. Id. (about $1,500)
in 1859, to £2,345 7s. 2d. (about $11,729) in 1881.
The society had 11 English and 7 native agents at work in South Africa, Ceylon,
and India. It assisted or supported schools as follows :
Italy 2
South Ceylon 8
North " 31
Spain 2
Madras, India 14
Lucknow, " 3
South Africa 3 Mysore, " 23
There were also 70 orphans supported, who had been adopted by their P^nglish
patrons, bearing their names and receiving from them kindly encouragement.
During the last year 52 bo.xes had been sent out to mission stations, being contri-
butions from friends and from 29 working parties in different parts of the country.
We have also lately adopted the plan of gathering the children into "Busy Bee
Classes," which were at work making prizes for schools and adopted orphans.
It is the object of the society not only to initiate work, but to consolidate work al-
ready begun by the missionaries of the General Wesleyan Missionary Society or
their wives. Its sphere of action is confined to women and children. When
boarding-schools can be successfully established in foreign stations it sends out a
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qualified agent to Buperintend the school and the native assistant teachers employed.
Wliei'C only day-schools are I'equired the society pays part of the expenses, the re-
mainder being discharged by government grants, fees, or local subscriptions. Aid
is also sent to schools, in boxes of prizes, for distribution among the children.
The society attbrds help to orphans in boarding-schools in Ceylon, and also ia
the famine orphanages in India, where hundreds of children still remain dependent,
although their number is yearly diminishing.
Another important sphere of action is the visitation of zenanas, numbers of which
have been opened to educational influence, even though Scripture teaching is in-
cluded. For this work native as well as English agents are employed.
It is also part of the work of the ladies of the society to cheer the hearts of the
missionaries' wives by sending out boxes of elothing^warm garments for the frozen
natives of Hudson Bay, and lighter clothing for tropical climates. Those noble
women, all of them unpaid, are often most zealous and eticctive workers in the mis-
sion schools ; and there are numerous ways in which a ladies' committee can sustain
and help them by practical sympathy and help.
Employed by Ladies' Wesleyan Association, 1858-1881,
Name.
Date of Sail-
INQ.
Susannah G. Beal. Oct. 17, 1859
Mary Scott jMarch 1, I860. . .
Hannah Wildish. . March 1, l&iO. . .
S. R. Churchward. Oct. 3, 1860
Miss Tonkey ' Dec., 1860
Eliza Smith Jan. 11, 18iil . . . .
Eleanor Lamb Keb. 11, 1861 —
Isabel Vere Eacott July 3, 1861
Sarah Parker !oct. 3. 186!
Caroline P. Ward. Dec. 17, 1861....
E. A. Basley Feb. 4. 1862
Mary Gunson iMarch 5, 1862. . .
Margaret Evans.. . | March 7, 1862. . .
Marg t Cameron. . . j June, 1862
M. A. Clayton Jan. 5. 1863
.Aliss rJrafton Dec, 186:3
Eliz'h Broxholme Dec. 9, l«6o
Sarah A. Howitt. . . : Jan. 11, 1864. . . .
Annie Hay March, 1864
Sarah Tobias Sept., 1S64
Eliz'h Rowbothani Ort., 1864
Mar.v Ann Blake. . App'd 1864
Jane Radcliffe i^evt. 8, 1866
Mary Henry May 10,1877....
Mary E. Tregnning July 1, 1867
Miss Smart App'd in 1868...
Statios.
Remarks.
A. M. Beauchamp Sept. 14, 1868 . .
Marianne Davis..
Kate Scott
C. E. Beauchamp.
Maria Cartwriglit.
Marg't Wakeford.
M. E. Simpson
Sarah Jane Rowe.
Annie Taylor
Rebecca Still
Ellen Eastwood...
Mary Ann Hardy..
Fanny Barnley
Elizabeth Penney.
Sarah E.Smith....
Alice Page Payne.
Ellen Hardy
Agnes Sargent
Jessie Hay
Harriet Mason
App'd Feb. 1869.
App'd 1869
July 22, 1869.
'July 27, 1869
App'd 1869
'Oct. 10, 1872
Oct. 21, 1873
Nov.. 1874
Jan. 18, 1875
April 8, 1876
Jan. 2:4, 1877
Aug. 9,1878
Aug. 9, 1878
Ang. 9. 1«78
July, 1879
App'd Nov., 1879
Feb 21, 1S.SI)
March 31,1880...
AprU8,1880
Belize, Honduras ' Died July 12, 1860.
Negapatara Married Rev. R. Stephenson, 1860.
Bangalore Married, l«ii3.
Toomkoor Married Rev. \V. Armlstead, 1862.
Fiji .Married, l-;64.
Belize Married Rev. E. D. Webb, 1861.
Verulam, Natal ] Returned in ill health, 1868.
l-'lfe.^BangXVel -iMarried Rev. A. Levell, 1864.
.Madras Married Rev. H. J. Sykes, 1863.
Belize Returned in ill health, 1868.
Buntingville IRecalled, 1863.
Canton I Died May 18, 1863.
Negapatam ; Resigned, 1865.
D'Urban .Married, 1870.
)"tl1'^rth^f.'.^".'.1 Ma'-"ed R- W. S. Davis, 1868.
Married Rev. T. W. S. Jones, 1864.
Jtarried Rev. J. Gibson. 1S68.
Resigned, 1871.
Married Signor Zocco, 1872.
Married Rev. J. Hudson, 1867.
Married Rev. C. Roberts, 1867.
Resigned on account of ill health, 1868.
Married, l'-78.
Married, 1870.
Married Rev. A. Fentiman, 1869.
Milan
Canton
I Pietermaritzbuig
I Milan; 1866, Padua...
■Bangalore
[Edendale
Madras
Canton
Edt-ndale
Bangalore
Verulam
(Banalore; 1876, Bat-
< ticaloa ; 1881, Point
( Pedro
Graham's Town Resigned, 1874.
Colpetty
(Palraerton ; 1874,
< Umzimkulu; 1878,
( Emfundisweni.
Jaffna; 1879, Edendale
South Africa School dosed, 1880,
r<o,,*nr, I ) Returned 1879, for want of a suit
^*°'°° i I able residence.
Canton 'Left the society. 1876.
Canton jMarried Rev. G. Piercy, 1877.
Bangalore i Dismissed, 1877.
Galle, Ceylon Married Rev. J. O. Rhodes, 1877.
Annshaw j Resigned, 1880.
Shawbury 1
Jaffna I
I,agos, West Africa. . .Returned on account of ill health.
Kandy, Ceylon Married, 1880
Cape Town.
Batticaloa..
Kandy
Shawbury . .
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Lutheran "Woman's Home and Poreign Missionary Society.
Organized at Canton, 0., June 9, 1879, with 117 ck-legntes present. Mrs. J. S.
Detweiler, President, Louisville, Ky. ; Mrs. A. V. Hanuna, Treasurer, Baltimore,
Aid. ; Miss May 11. Morris, Corresponding Secretary, 106 North Green Street, .
Statistics reported in May, 1883 : Auxiliary Societies, 237 ; Synodieal Societies,
18; uiembers, 6,394; life-members, 31; contributions for year, $11,822. Total
for two years, 18,889. Foreign missionaries, 12 ; home missionaries, 2 ; boxes sent
to home missions, $2,755.
Supplemental Notes on "Woman's Missionary Societies.
The Methodist Cuuech of Canada.
A Woman's Missionary Society was organized June 7, 1880, by a few ladies of
Hamilton, in connection with the Church there.
At anotlier meeting, held in the same city Nov. 8, 1881, arrangements were made
for the formation of the wider organization of the Woman's Missionary Society of
the Methodist Church of Canada. Since then 16 other branches liave been formed,
and the Ladies' French Missionary Society of Montreal has become affiliated. The
ladies thus associated have already given material aid to the Crosby Girls' Home,
at Port Simpson, and to the M'Dougall Orphanage and Training-school, at Morley,
besides the assistance given as before by the Montreal Branch to the French and
Indian work in the province of Quebec. The society has also in contemplation the
equipment of a Woman's Mission to Japan, to strengthen the mission of the Gen-
eral Society there.
The United Beethken Chukch.
The Woman's Missionary Association was formed in 1877, and has since organ-
ized two others — one in Germany, and the other in Africa. Ileiid-quarters, Dayton,
O. Collections in 1882, from 32 of the 51 Annual Conferences, $4,948 84, an in-
crease over those of the preceding year of $1,246 43.
The following are the officers for 1883 : Mrs. S. Haywood, Westerville, 0.,
President. Mrs. W. O. Tobey, Chambersburg, Pa. ; Mrs. L. K. Miller, Seven
Mile, 0., and Mrs. M. A. Billheimer, Vice-Presidents. Mrs. L. E. Keistor, Day-
ton, O., Corresponding Secretary and Editor. Mi-s. Benjamin M;irot, Da\ ton, O.,
Kecording Secretary. Mi's. L. D. Eike, Dayton, O., Treasurer.
Methodist Episcopal CHrRcn, South.
The General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, at its session
held in Nashville May 3-25, 1882, approved a new Constitution for the Woman's
Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, which includes the
following among its articles :
Art. II. The objects of this society shall be to enlist and unite the efforts of
women and children in sending the Gospel to women and children in heathen lands,
through the agency of female missionaries, teachers, physicians, and Bible-readers.
Art. III. The work shall be accomplished by organizing societies in each charge,
and Conference societies in each Conference, and shall be controlled by an execu-
tive body, to be known as the " Woman's Board of Missions ;" all "these to be
constituted as directed hereafter.
Art. IV. The operations of this Woman's Board shall be conducted in connection
with the Parent Board of Missions, and subject to its advice and approval. When
150 Methodist Year-Book.
appropriations are made, tbe funds shall be sent through the Treasurer of the
Parent Board to missions under iti? charge, to be used for no other purposes than
those designated by the Woman's Board.
The Methodist Episcopal Church of Canada.
The General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Canada, at its
quadrennial session, held in the city of Ontario Aug. 23-Sept. 5, 1882, adopted
the following as a part of its report on Missions :
That this General Conference is pleased to know that the Woman's Foreign
Missionary Society is still pursuing its efiurts to aid in the blessed work, and trust
that the women of the Church may be inspired to greater activity in this depart-
ment of service.
The African Methodist Episcopal ('huech.
The General Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, in May,
1880, approved a Constitution for the Woman's Missionary Society of that Church,
one article of which is as follows :
Art. II. Its object shall be to aid the missionary work, especially in foreign
fields, subject to and controlled by the Paient Home and Foreign Missionary So-
ciety of the African Methodist Ei'iiscupal Cliurch; and fortius purpose it shall
receive and disburse all money which shall be contributed to the society, subject
to the action of the above-mentioned Paient Home and Mis.sionary Societ}'.
General Conference Districts of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
First District: East Maine, Maine, New England, Nesv England Southern, New Hamp-
shire, and Vermont Conferences.
Second District : Foochow, Newark, New Jersey, New York, New York East, and Troy
Confei'ences.
Third District : Central New Y^ork, Genesee, Northern New York, North India, South
India, and Wyoming Conferences.
Fourth D'Mrict : Central Pennsylvania, Delaware, East Ohio, Eiie, Norway, Phila-
delphia and Pittsburg, Conferences.
Fifth District : Central Ohio, Cincinnati, Kentucky, North Ohio, Ohio, and West Vir-
ginia Conferenr-es.
Sixth District : Alabama, Baltimore, Blue Ridge, Central Alabama, Florida, Georgia,
Liberia, North (^arolina, Savannah, South Carolina, Virginia, Washington, and Wilming-
ton Conferences.
Seventh District: Central Tennessee, Holston, Indiana, Lexington, North Indiana,
North-west Indiana, South east Indiana, Southern Illinois, and Tennessee Conferences.
Eighth District : Central Illinois, Detroit, Illinois, Michigan, Rock River, Sweden, and
Wisconsin Conferences.
Ninth District : Des Moines. Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, North-west Iowa, North-west
Norwegian, North-west Swedish, Upper Iowa, and West Wisconsin Conferences.
Tenth District: Arkansas, Austin, Kansas, Little Rock, Louisiana, Mississippi, Mis-
souri, Saint Louis, South Kansas, Texas, and West Texas Conferences.
Eleventh District: California, Columbia River, Nevada, Oregon, and Southern Califor-
nia Conferences.
Twelfth District: Central German, Chicago German, East German, Germany and
Switzerland, North-west German, Saint Louis German, Southern German, and Western
German Conferences.
Methodist Year-Book. 151
The Board of Ohurcli Extension.
The proper name is " The Board of Church Extension of the Methodist Epis-
copal CHnRCH." Under this title it is incorporated by act of the Legishiture of
Pennsylvania. Head-quarters, 1026 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pa. The regular
meetings of the Board are held on tlie second Wednesday of each month, and the
annual meetings of the General Committee in the month of November, the day to
be determined by the Corresponding Secretary.
President — Bishop Matthew Simpson, D.D., LL.D.
Corresponding Secretary — A. J. Kynett, D.D.
Assistant Cor. Secretai-y—G. C. M'Cabe, D.D.
Recording Seo'etai'y — William J. Paxson, D.D.
Treasurer — James Long, Esq.
The organization includes three departments :
1. The Board of Church Extension, sometimes distinguished as the Parent
Board.
2. The Conference Board of Church Extension, within each Annual Conference.
3. The General Committee of Church Extension.
The duties of each department are clearly defined in the Discipline ; those of the
Parent Board, in Paragraphs 283 to 294; those of the Conference Board, in Para-
graphs 295 to 299 ; and those of the General Committee, in Paragraphs 300 to 304.
(See Edition of 1880.)
The General Committee is representative of the whole Church. Comprising tlie
Bishops and representatives of the General Conference Districts, and meeting an-
nually, it is well calculated to secure equity in the distribution of the burdens and
benefits of Church Extension. It determines annually : 1. How much each Con-
ference shall be asked to raise by collections ; and, 2. How much may be donated and
loaned within each, on application made as prescribed; and, 3. How mucli may be
appropriated to Missions outside of Conferences, and to current expenses, etc. It
also counsels and directs the Board in its general administration, and in so doing
has among other things directed that the Board shall not grant donations to churches
costing over $10,000, nor to pay old debts except to avert imminent and otherwise
inevitable disaster in the loss of Church property.
The Conference Board is auxiliary to the Parent Board, and, under its direction,
has charge of the work within the Conference. It is to aid in both collections and
disbursements — on the one hand to secure the full amount asked, and on the other
to disburse wisely the amount authorized — and only that amount. The Presiding
Elders are ex-officio members of the Conference Boards, and a Standing Committee
to apportion amounts asked for collection.
The Piirent Board is the central body, the legal corporation, the trustees in trust
for the whole Church. It gives careful attention to every part of its work through
appropriate committees, and determines finally all applications for aid, in accordance
with the facts submitted and the laws of the Church. It is bound to observe the
provisions of Discipline, the orders of the General Conference, and of the General
Committee
The Corresponding Secretary is the executive officer of the Board, elected by
the General Conference, and charged with the duty of seeing that the provisions
of the Discipline concerning Church Extension, the By-Laws, and orders of the
General Committee and of the Board ai-e strictly observed.
The Assistant Corresponding Secretary is elected by the General Committee on
the nomination of tlie Bishops, and is the general advocate of the cause in the field
at large.
The Fcnds are divided into two general parts :
I. The Getieral funds derived from collections in the churches, personal gifts,
interest on loans, bequests, etc., etc., not otherwise directed. A definite amount is
annually asked of each Conference, district, and pastoral charge, and the Discipline
requires each pastor to present the cause, and try to secure at least the amount asked,
152 Methodist Year-Book.
and to report the result at Conference. The General funds are available for dona-
tions to Churches and for the general purposes of the Board.
II. The Loan Fund derived from special subscriptions, gifts, (sometimes subject
to Life Annuity,) bequests, etc., etc. ^ specially directed to the Loan Fund. This
fund is subdivided into various named funds, memorial and otherwise. It is avail-
able only for loans in accordance with resolutions providing for its creation adopted
first in Upper Iowa as a Centenary offering in 1866, and afterward by the Parent
Board in July, 1867. In both cases the plan was proposed by Dr. Kynett, and, in
the latter, was as follows :
Whe7'eas, The demands made upon us for means to carry forward the work of
Church Extension are largely in excess of our receipts from annual collections, and
Whereas, A large proportion of the work we are called upon to do may be accom-
plished by temporary loans, and
Whereas, The fields are white already to the harvest, and the present is our golden
opportunity : therefore,
Mesolved, 1. That we most earnestly invite special contributions from all our peo-
ple to establish in our treasury a Loan Fund, to be controlled by the Board of
Church Extension under the following restrctions :
First. No part of said Fund shall ever be donated for any purpose, or used for
cun'eiit expenses, but shall be preserved without diminution, a pekpetual fund.
Second. Said Fund may be loaned to any Church or Society without interest, in
small sums, in no ease exceeding $5,000 ; or with interest, as oecnsion may require,
and the Board shall from time to time determine, in aid of the objects of the Board
of Church Extension.
Resolved, 2. That sums of $5,000 and upward, contributed by any one person,
Church, or Conference, may be named by the contributor, and shall constitute a
separate Loan Fund, and the Corresponding Secretary shall report annually the in-
vestment thereof, and the work accomplished thereby.*
Historic Notes.
The initiative action in the organization was taken in 1864, at the General Con-
ference in that year, held in Philadelphia. Eev. A. J. Kynett, D.D., the present
Corresponding Secretary, was present as a delegate from Upper Iowa Conference.
Having realized the necessity for such an agency in the West, he prepared the reso-
lutions and reports concerning it, and the Constitution as adopted, and followed
every measure through with unremitting diligence until the final favorable action on
the last night of the session. A committee consisting of Bishop Simpson, Joseph
Castle, D.D., and D. "W. Bartine, D.D., were appointed to designate the first Board
of Managers, who were instructed to become incorporated, and the Bishops were
authorized, when the Board should become incorporated, to appoint a Corresponding
Secretary.
The committee met and appointed the managers January 3, 1865, consisting of 25
ministers and 25 laymen. The first officers were Thomas T. Tasker, Sr., Presi-
dent; Joseph Castle, D.D., Amos Phillips, Esq., and William Divine, Vice-Presi-
dents ; Eobert H. Pattison, D.D., Eecording Secretary, and Colson Heiskell, Esq.,
Treasurer. An Act of Incorporation was procured from the Legislature, approved
March 13, 1865. The Bishops, at their semi-annual meeting in June following,
appointed Eev. Sanmel Y. Munroe, D.D., of New Jersey Conference, Correspond-
ing Secretary, and he entered upon his duties in July, 1865. In November
following, the first session of the General Committee was held, and $200,000
were asked and appropriated for the ensuing year. The first money received by
the treasurer was October 19, 1865, and the first grant to aid a Church was paid
March 5, 1866.
* See also Discipline, paragraph 281.
Methodist Year-Book. 153
The Constitution being modeled after that of the Missionary Society, similar
methods were adopted in this work. The General Committee appropriated definite
sums, yet to be collected, to Conferences severally, and the Presiding Elders, acting
as a Committee on Chm-ch Extension, divided the amount among Churches selected
as beneficiiu'ies, and the Bishops drew the drafts for the amounts, payable quarterly,
supposing that the funds would be received in time to meet them. "When the Gen-
eral Committee met in November, 1866, it was found that less than $60,000 had
been received on the call for $200,000. It was thought that if the Conferences, sev-
erally, were permitted to use half of the collection within their own bounds more
could be raised. This plan was adopted, and a call was made for an aggregate of
$255,400, and definite appropriations to (/onferences were largely reduced. Earnest
appeals for liberal collections were issued, and Dr. Munroe labored night and day
to secure the funds needed to pay incoming drafts, but all were unavailing ; the
drafts came in more rapidly than the money, and the excess were returned without
payment. Dr. Munroe struggled long and earnestly to avert this calamity. Weary,
disheartened, sick, sleepless, from long protracted anxiety and toil, he started Sat-
urday, February 9, 1867, from his home in Camden, to plead his cause next day in
one of the churches in Brooklyn. As the train was passing through the Eocky Cut
of Bergen Heights, by some accident, still veiled in mystery, he fell from the car,
unseen by human eyes, and ceased at once to work and live.
The duties of the office were temporarily devolved upon the Recording Secretary,
Eev. Eobert H. Pattison, D.D., father of the present Governor of Pennsylvania,
until, at their semi-annual meeting in May following, the Bishops appointed the
present incumbent, Eev. Alpha J. Kynett, D.D., who entered upon his duties July
1, 1867, and has been re-elected by each succeeding General Conference. Up to
that date less than $20,000 had been received in response to the call for $255,400
for the second year's work — less than $80,000 in all of the $455,400 asked, and
which the Conferences had been led to hope might be realized for Church Extension.
It was quite evident that the methods thus far adopted were unsuited to this new
form of work, and a thorough change was made. Funds were borrowed to redeem
outstanding drafts on which moneys had been advanced, and the plans were revised
so that appropriations should be made directly by the Board to Churches to be aided,
and drafts be issued only when the moneys were in the treasury to pay them, and
at the next meiiting of the General Committee, in November, 1867, the work of the
future was projected on the more moderate scale which experience had suggested.
In July, 1868, at the request of the Corresponding Secretary, the Board secured
the services of Eev. C. C. M'Cabe, D.D., and he entered upon his duties Novem-
ber 15 following, first as Agent, and then as Assistant Corresponding Secretary, to
which position he has been re-elected every four years.
The General Conference of 1868 made some needful changes in the Constitution,
and corresponding changes were made in the Charter by act of the Legislature of
Pennsylvania, approved March 11, 1869. The experience of the next four years
suggested the wisdom of still further and more important changes, and the present
provisions of the Discipline were carefully prepared, and adopted by the General
Conference of 1872. The Society v/ss superseded by "The Board of Church Ex-
tension," the election of the management being transferred from the Annual Meet-
ing of the so-called Society to the General Conference — the representative body and
highest council of the whole Church, and corresponding changes were again made in
the Charter by act of the Legislature of Pennsylvania, approved Febi-uary 26, 1873.
The Loan Funi). — The first subscription to the Loan Fund was in 1866, a Cen-
tenary offering to the Upper Iowa Fund of $1,000 by Hon. Hiram Price, then of
7*
154
Methodist Year-Book.
First Church, Davenport, and a Member of Congress from Iowa, now Commis-
sioner of Indian Affairs. The first gift to the fund, after tlie adoption of tlie plan
by the Parent Board, was by Bishop Morris and wife, March 1, 1868, $100; and
the first large subscription was by David M' Williams, of D wight. 111., in September
following, namely, $10,000, payable in installments of $1,000 per annum.
Summary of Named Funds up to Octobee SI, 1883.
NAME.
Upper Iowa*
M' Williams
Perkinsf
Tasker
A. V. Stout
Colgate
Drakely
Patton
Monroe
Bedford Street
Remington
Freeborn Garrettson.
Joel Marmiag
Gurley
Drummond
Lyman Bennett %
Joseph Jones §
Rev. Jobn Stewart. ..
Frontier
Furber
Hiram Royce II
Marion Whitney t...
DePauw
General**
1866-82
1869-83
1869-83
1869-78
1869-81
1869-R3
1870-76
1870-71
1868-81
1869-81
1871
1871
1873-83
1873-83
1873-76
1873
1875-83
1877-82
1880
1880-83
1882-83
1883
1883
1869-83
$10,606 50
7,000 00
13,231 66
18,000 00
6,500 00
6,750 00
5,600 00
5,400 00
4,855 00
5,064 59
30,000 00
20,000 00
7,000 00
14,500 00
11,000 00
5,000 00
6,508 33
10,000 00
10,000 00
6,980 00
5,478 45
5,000 00
29,000 00
189,047 26
$20,601 00
15,000 00
17,375 00
46,945 00
12,900 00
15,754 00
13,540 00
10,500 00
9,012 00
12,170 00
72,650 00
41,390 00
10,500 00
22,950 00
22,300 00
12,000 00
9,160 00
13,125 00
12,700 00
8,600 00
5,900 OO
5,000 00
4,000 00
236,500 90
$179,650 00
116,350 00
102,100 00
402,275 00
168,850 00
136,935 00
107,420 00
109,880 00
73,680 00
103,600 00
463,975 00
291,725 00
65,880 00
169,140 00
195,150 00
109,755 00
61,015 00
90,200 00
75,700 00
58,135 00
40,995 00
34,750 00
23,050 00
1,990,000 00
40
43
38
106
41
54
36
36
81
57
81
62
24
59
66
40
28
52
42
25
20
14
10
193
11,925
11,600
10,100
30,850
10,500
15,200
8,550
]0,.500
9,150
13,075
24,750
19,350
6,625
16,475
17,325
9,975
7,575
14,375
9,550
5,925
4,800
3,800
2,675
75,000
Property not in use.
32,521 79
75,0*1 10
$050,572 90 $5,170,205 00 1,198
—See loot notes.
349,650
Total amount in Loan Fund .
$507,605 89
Work Accomplished.
From the first organization of this work to October 31, 1883, the receipts have
been:
1. On General Fund.
October 19, 1865, to November 30, 1882 $1,374,662 90
December 1, 1882, to October 31, 1883 139,007 34
$1,513,670 24
2. On Loan Fund.
October, 1866, to November 30, 1882 $447,116 98
December 1, 1882, to October 31, 1883 60,488 91
Loans Returned.
October, 1869, to November 30, 1882 $258,549 25
December 1, 1882, to October 31, 1883 44,268 58
507.605 89
302,817 83
Total used in Church Extension $2,324,093 96
The total number of churches aided by donations and loans are as follows :
March 5, 1886, to November 30, 1882 3,912
December 1, 1882, to October 31, 1883 442
Total 4,354
• Property additional-balance of estimated value, »8,000. t Ibid., »26,608 34. X Ibid., |5,000.
t Ibid., 14,861 II Ibid., $4,021 55. H Ibid., »5,000. •* J27,690 81.
Methodist Year-Book.
155
Appoktionments.
The following are the apportionments to be raised by the Annual Conferences
and Missions for 18S4, and the amounts authorized to be expended in the Confer-
ences and Missions for the year ;
Alabama
Arizona Mission
Arkansas
Austin
Baltimore
Black Hills Mission —
Blue Ridgce
California
Central Alabama
Central German
Central Illinois
Central New York
Central Ohio
Central Pennsylvania..
Central Tenne.ssee
Chicago Grerman
Cincinnati
Colorado
Columbia River
Dakota Mission
Delaware
Des Moines
Detroit
East German
East Maine
East Obio
East Tennessee
Erie
Florida
Genesee
Georgia
Holston
Illinois
Indiana
Indian Mission
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Lexington
Little Rock
Louisiana
Maine
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
ilissouri . . .
Montana Mission
Nebraska
Nevada
Newark
New England
New England Southern
$50
150
50
200
3,600
150
50
1,000
50
6,000
3,000
3,500
5,500
3,500
50
4,000
4,000
700
250
500
200
1,500
2,500
2,000
500
4,000
100
3,000
100
3,500
100
500
3,000
2,000
2,666
1,000
1,000
200
100
500
800
2,4001
2,000
200:
8001
300;
700,
200:
8,500|
3,.'500
2,.500'
Amount
Author-
ized.
$1,000
1,200
1,500
2,500
1,200
2,000
1,000
1,500
1,000
6,000
1,000
1,000
5,000
1,000
800
4,000
1,000
' 1,500
1,500:
2,500 i
1,000 >
2,000'
2.2.50,
2,000 i
giX)
1,000
1,200
1,000
2,500
»X)
1,000
3,5IX)
500
500 1
i',666!
1,750
1,500
800 1
1,000,
1,500
400
1,800
3,750 i
800'
1.500
1,400
1,750
800
80O
1,000
500
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico Mission. . .
New York
New York East
North Carolina
North Indiana
Northern New York . . .
North Nebraska
North Ohio
North-west German
North-west Indiana
North-west Iowa
North-west Kansas
North-west Norwegian.
North-west Swedish
Ohio
Oregon
Philadelphia
Pittsburg
Rock River
Saint Louis
Saint Louis German. . . .
Savannah
Southern California —
South Carolina
Southern German
Southern Illinois
South-east Indiana —
South Kansas .
South-west Kansas
Tennessee
Texas
Troy
Upper Iowa
Utah Mission.
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
West German
West Nebraska Mission.
West Texas
West Virginia
West Wisconsin
Wilmington
Wisconsin
Wyoming
Contingent Fund
Office E.xpenses
Redemption of Bonds..
Total $159,550 $159,550
1,000
3,000
200
7,000
7,000
50
2,000
2,500
300
2,500
2,500
2,000
800
300
4001
6001
3,000
500
10,000
3,000'
4,.500
1,000'
2,500
150
300
300
500
1,500
1..500[
1,0001
200l
200;
200'
3,000:
2,0(X)'
200
750|
200i
.5001
],.500
100
2-no!
800
800
2.000
000
000
800
1,000
1,200
1,200
1,200
750
.500
1,00J
1,250
.500
2,500
500
2,200
1,500
1,500
1,.500
500
1,500
3,500
1,000
1,500
2,200
2,500
1.000
1,500
1,500
1,750
1,250
500
1,200
1,200
1,500
1,000
1,000
800
1,000
.500
800
1.500
L.'^OO
1,750
1,000
1.000
1,200
800
800
800
5.800
15,000
The following resolutions passed by the General Committee, as they modify the
appropriations, are added for the information of all whom it may concern :
1. That the Board be authorized to make appropriations within each Conference
in proportion to the response of the Conference by its collections to the call made
upon U.
156 Methodist Year-Book.
The amounts authorized will be still further modified by the following :
2. That the amounts authorized to Conferences are to be furnished, as far as prac-
ticable, hj pro rata division of the collections. The Board may supplement, as far
as practicable, the balance of the appropriations authorized, by loans Irom the
Loan Fund.
3. That moneys received in response to the appeal of C. C. M'Cabe, for a Special
Fund of $100,000, be appropriated within the frontier Conferences and Missions,
and administered by the Board without reference to the amounts authorized for the
Conferences severally, and in accordance with the e.xpressed wishes of the donors.
4. That no application for a donation from any church costing over 810,000 shall
be entertained, unless such church shall have consulted the Board of Church Ex-
tension before commencing to build.
The Anxuity Featdhe.
The following section of the Eovised Charter defines the powers of the Board in
reference to annuities, and the limitations under which this feature is adminis-
tered :
It shall be lawful for the said Board of Church Extension to accept contribu-
tions to the funds of the said Board from any person or persons capable of making
the same, subject to an annuity, payable to the order of the persons making such
donations. Provided, however, That all amounts so received shall be loaned by
said Board on adequate securities. And provided further, That the aggregate
amount of annuities that the said Board shall ussume to pay, shall never be allowed
to exceed the annual interest receivable on the loans made by the said Board.
The Chartered Fund of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
[Office, PhiladelpMa.]
President, C. Hieskell ; Treamrer, J. Whitman ; Secretary, A. M. Burton.
The Chartered Fund was organized in 1796, and incorporated in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, 1797. Its purpose was " for the relief and support of the itinerant,
superannuated, «nd worn-out ministers and preachers of the Methodist Episcopal
Church in the United States of America, their wives and children, widows and
orphans." The interest of the Fund is divided annually among the Annual Con-
ferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church for the relief of the beneficiaries in-
cluded in the classes specified. The highest dividend ever made from the Fund
to the Conferences severally was in 1873, when the amount for each Conference
was ^40. The annual dividend to each Annual Conference during the last four
years was 830. At the date of the last quadrennial report, in 1880, the Fund em-
braced a total of 845,311 66.
Trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Term expires in 1888 : Ministers— Bishop "Wiley, Joseph M. Trimble, D.D., Fer-
nando C. Holliday, D.D. Laymen— Edward Sargent, Esq., John Cochenour, Esq.,
Amos Shinkle, Esq. Term expires in 1884: Ministers— Luke Hitchcock, D.D.,
John M. Walden, D.D., LL.D., Eev. Charles W. Ketcham. Laymen— P. M. Big-
ney, Esq., Hon. Marcellus B. Hagans, Hon. Will Cumback. President, Rev. J.
M. Trimble, D.D. ; Secretary, Hon. M. B. Hagans, Cincinnati; Treasurer, Eev, J.
M. Walden, D.D., LL.D., Cincinnati.
Methodist Year-Book. 157
Simday-Scliool TTnion of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Office, 805 Broadway, N. Y.
Pi'esident^ Bishop Simpson ; Vice- Presidents, the remainini^ Bishops, and Joseph
Longkiiia: and II. D. Eolph ; Corresponding Seeretarij, J. 11. Vincent, D.D. ; As-
sistant Corrcspondinff Secretar//, J. M. Freeman, D.D. ; Eecordi7i,g Secretary, W. H.
De Pay, D.D. ; Treasurer, D. Deiihain, Jr. ; Agent for the wcyrk in the South and
West, Eev. A. H. Gillett, Kalamazoo, Mich.
The Board of Managers meets on the fourth Wednesday in March, June, and
September, and on the third Wednesday in December. It is composed of thirty-
two minL-iters and thirty-two laymen elected by the General Conference. The
Union was reorganized and recognized by the General Conference in 1840.
The statistics in the last Year-Book presented the following summaries: Whole
number of Sunday-schools, 21,152; officers and teachers, 223,912; scholars,
1,638,895. Increase during the last General Conference quadrennium: in schools,
1,234; in officers and teachers, 19,754; in scholars, 139,580. Increase in twelve
years : in schools, 5,04S ; in officers and teachers, 54,672 ; in scholars, 454,786.
During the quadrennium ending with the last General Conference 352,908 pro-
fessed conversions were reported — an increai^e over the previous quadrennium of
72,043, Number of professed convei-sions for twelve years, 815,010.
The receipts of the Union for the quadrennium amount to $73,796 31. (For cir-
culation of Sunday-school books and periodicals see page — .)
All communications respecting statistics and the general business of the Sunday-
School Union of the Metliodist Episcopal Church should be addressed to the Cor-
responding Secretary, Kev. J. H. Vincent, D.D., 805 Broadway, New York.
Funds should be remitted to the Treasurer, Daniel Denham, Jr., at the same
place; to J. M. Walden, D.D., Methodist Book Eooms, Cincinnati; to J. P.
Magee, Boston; to W. M. Dandy, Chicago; to Eev. J. Horner, D.D., Pittsburc;
to H. H. Otis, Buffalo; to Samuel H. Pye, St. Louis; to William Abbott, San
Francisco; to Eev. D. H. Carroll, Baltimore; or to Eev. J. B. M'Cullouo-h, Phil-
adelphia, Pa.
Applications for aid in behalf of Sunday-schools should be addressed, free of post-
age, to the Corresponding Secretary at New York ; to J. M. Walden, D.D., at Cin-
cinnati ; to J. P. Magee, at Boston ; to W. M. Dandy, at Chicago ; to Eev. J.
Horner, D.D., at Pittsburg; to H. H. Otis, at Buffalo'; to Samuel H. Pye, at St
Louis ; to Eev. J. B. Hill, at San Francisco ; to Eev. D. H. Carroll, at Baltimore ;
or to F. B. Clegg, at Philadelphia.
No application can be considered unless the school for which aid is asked is con-
nected with the Methodist Episcopal Church. The Pastor or Presiding Elder must
further certify that, in his judgment, the school is needy ; as it is not the design of
the Union to afford aid to schools that are able to sustain themselves.
Historic Notes.
April 2, 1827, there was organized, in the city of New York, the " Sunday-School
Union of the Metliodist Episcopal Church." In an address issued by the managers,
soon after the organization, they assign as " one principal reason for locating the
parent society in New York," " the facili^ies afforded by our Book Concern for
printing and circulating books." Its object-, as stated in the Constitution, were as
follows :
The objects of this society shall be to promote the formation and to concentrate
158 Methodist Year-Book.
the efforts of Sabbath-schools connected with the congregations of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, and all others that may become auxiliary ; to aid in the instruc-
tion of the rising generation, particularly in the knowledge of the Holy Scriptures,
and in the service and worship of God.
This society flourished until 1833, when it was merged into the " Bilile, Sunday-
School, and Tract Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church." This threefold
organization was dissolved in 1836.
As the General Conference of 1840 approached efforts were made by men protn-
incnt in the Sunday-school work of our Church in the city of New York to efffct
another organization. They accordingly met and formed an association, with the
old title, and asked for recognition from the General Conference which met in Balti-
more. This was readily granted, and the Conference adopted a Constitution for
the government of the " Sunday-School Union of the Methodist Episcopal Church."
June 3, 1840, is the birthday of the present organization.
February 4, 1852, the Union was incorporated by the Legislature of the State of
New York. The General Conference of the same year changed tlie Discipline so
that thenceforwai'd the Corresponding Secretary of the Union should be appointed by
the General Conference, and also till the office of Editor of Sunday-school Publi-
cations. These two offices had, in fact, been filled by the same person ever since
1844, when the General Conference elected for its first Editor of Sunday-school
Publications the Eev. D. P. Kidder, D.D. This official relation iias continued to
the present time. Dr. Kidder remained in the office of Con-esponding Secretary
until 1856, when he was succeeded by the Eev. Daniel Wise, D.D., who, in 1868,
was followed by the Kev. J. H. Vincent, D.D., the present incumbent.
In 1872 the General Conference readjusted the relation to itself of the different
benevolent societies of the Church, so that the Boards of Managers, instead of being
elected by persons paying a specified annual sum, should be appointed by the
Church through its representative body, the General Conference. Tliis necessitat-
ing a change in the charter, a new charter was obtained from the New York Legis-
lature April 11, 1874.
The work of the Union is classified in three departments :
1. Th^ Department of Instruction. — The object of this department is twofold :
1) To aid the scholars in our Sunday-schools in studying their lessons. 2) To aid
the teachers in their work of preparation and of teaching. To accomplish this two-
fold object question books, lesson papers, and explanatory notes are prepared for
the scholars ; and practical helps of various kinds are furnished for the teachers.
There is also a well-defined system of Normal instruction, designed for teachers and
for older scholars who may become such. This system comprises the use of text-
books, prepared especially for this purpose, and tlie holding of Normal Classes, In-
stitutes, Assemblies, and other meetings for recitation and instruction.
2. Tne Department of Publication. — By the Constitution the Board of Managers
is authorized " to offer such advice and suggestions as they may deem suitable to
the Book Agents and Editors regarding Sunday-school publications."
3. The Department of Benevolence. — This department has been a prominent ob-
ject of the Union from its organization. The design is to furnish books and requi-
sites for Sunday-schools in places where the people are unable to pay for them.
Our Union seeks to follow the emigrant to newly-settled parts of the country.
When our itinerant system sends its circuit-riders among the cabins and clearings
of new settlements, our Union sends with them the means of oriranizing Sunday-
schools. These often form centers, around wliieh Churches gather, and, in a few
years, becoming self-supporting, send collections to our treasury to help in other
Methodist Year-Book. 159
parts of the land. In older portions of the country there are many places where
destitution prevails, and missionary work becomes a necessity. In all such places,
whether in the slums and alleys of the cities, or amid the mountains and forests of
the country, we seek to organize and sustain Sunday-schools in connection with
our Church.
In the South we have a vast and important field, especially among the colored
population, many of whom are freedmen, though many others cannot properly be
called so, inasmuch as the rising generation were born free. For all these our
Union has for years made special efforts. We have had since 1876 an agent who
gives his whole time to our work in the South, among both white and colored.
This agency was established at the urgent request of the delegates representing the
Southern work in the General Conference of 1876.
Before the year 1846 there was no report made of the number of conversions in
our Sunday-schools. Since 1846, however, ove?' a million of conversions have been
so reported.
In the Department of Benevolence the figures show an aggregate of results that
ought to commend the work of the Sunday-school Union to the continual liberality
of the Church. In forty years 40,000 schools have been helped, at an expense of
about $450,000.
The Union began its foreign work in 1847. Since that time it has aided in
Sunday-school work in connection with our foreign missions in the following
countries: China, South America, Liberia, Germany, Bulgaria, India, Denmark,
Norway, Sweden, and Mexico. About $30,000 in all have been appropriated to
these foreign fields.
Tract Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Office, 805 Broadway, N. T.
President, Bishop Simpson ; Vice-Presidents, the remaining Bishops, and "W. H.
Dikeman and William Truslow; Corresponding Secretary, d. H.Vincent D.D. •
Recording Secretary, J. M. Freeman, D.D. ; Treasurer, S. Hunt D.D.
The principal agents are the Presiding Elders, Pastors, TraJt Committees, and
Sunday-school Officers and Teachers. To secure the aid of these voluntary labor-
ers, the society offers to give three dollars' worth of Tracts to the Pastor or Tract
Committee of every mission that will apply for them.
To every self-supporting appointment the society will give a supplv of tracts to
the value of one half the last collection taken in the charge for the Tract Society,
the balance of the collection to be used for the general purposes of the society
Applications for tracts should be made to the same persons as for grants by Sun-
day-School Union.
The statistical summaries. May 1, 1880, as reported to the General Conference,
showed that the number of tract pages circulated during the last quadrennium was
about 111,311,000. The receipts for the four years closing January 1, 1880, aggre-
gated $56,115 17. (For additional Tract Statistics, see Church Statistics.)
Historical Notes.
In the General Conference of 1808, Bishop Asbury presiding, it was " Moved
from the chair, that $1 ,000 be appropriated from the Book Concern to the printing
of religious tracts, to be given away. Carried."
In 1817 a Tract Society was founded by some members of the Methodist Epis-
160 Methodist Year-Book.
cop:;l Church in the city of New York, " with a view of furnishing the poorer
clas.-^es of the community with religious reading." Its resources, however, were
limited, and, after a few years, the work of publishing tracts was transferred to the
Book Concern, and the society was disbanded.
In 1828, at tlie suggestion of the Rev. John Emory, at that time senior Book
Agent, the " Publishing Fund " was instituted. Its object was to reduce the
price of Bibles, Sunday-school books, and tracts, so that the Book Concern might
compete with the great publishing societies which had charity funds at their
command.
On the 20th of March, 1833, in tlie city of New York, an organization was ef-
fected by which, in one society, there should be the management of three benevo-
lent enterprises. It was called " The Bible, Sunday-School, and Tract Society of
the Methodist Episcopal Church." Into tliis society were merged our Sunday-
School Union, organized in 1827, and our Bible Society, organized in 1828. To
these were added tlie work of traet publication and distribution.
In 1836 the General Conference recommended the dissolution of our Bible So-
ciety, and directeil the efforts of the Church toward the American Bible Society.
Tlie Book Concern, however, continued to issue tracts among its regular publi-
cations, and when, in 1844, the General Conference appointed an editor for Sun-
day-school books, the editing of tracts was made a part of his official work. At
the suggestion of Dr. Kidder, then Sunday-school editor, the Bishops, in 1845,
issued a circular to the Churches which brought the subject of tract distribution
before the people, and gave a new impulse to the work.
Dr. Kidder continued to have charge of the tract publications until 1852, when
tlie General Conference recommended the organization of the " Tract Society of
the Methodist Episcopal Church," and provided for it a constitution. Dr. Abel
Stevens was elected its Coi'responding Secretary, and under his direction the so-
ciety was formally organized in the city of New York in November, 1852. An
Act of Incorporation was obtained from the Legislature of the State of New York,
April 15, 1854.
Dr. Stevens filled the office of Corresponding Secretary until 1854, when he was
followed by the Eev. Jesse T. Peck, D.D. In 1856, the Eev. James Floy, D.D.,
■was elected ; in 1S60, tlie Eev. Daniel Wise, D.D. ; and in 1872, the Eev. J. H.
Vincent, D.D., the present incumbent.
In 1872 tlie General Conference took action which brought all the benevolent socie-
ties of the Church into organic union with the Church, instead of being under the
uncertain control of members, made such by voluntary contributions. This action
making new cliarters necessary for all these societies, the Tract Society obtained
one from the New York Legislature April 20, 1874.
The Woek of the Society.
The charter declares that " the object of said corporation shall be to diffuse the
blessings of education, civilization, and Christianity thoughout the United States
and elsewhere by tlie publication and distribution of tracts, cheap publications, and
books."
As it is a denominational society, the constitution limits the character of the pub-
lications as follows :
" Its object shall be to diffuse religious knowledge by the circulation of the pub-
lications of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in the English and other languages,
in our own and foreign countries."
In carrying out this work the society, instead of taking the financial risk of pub-
Methodist Year-Book. 161
lisbing tracts, purchases from the Methodist Book Concern whatever is necessary
for the grants made.
The Discipline provides that the work shall be done by a Tract Committee in
each Quarterly Conference, " whose duty it shall be to devise and execute plans
for local tract distribution."
By order of the Board of Managers one half of the collection taken for the so-
ciety can be returned in tracts for local distribution.
During a period of twenty-seven years the amount contributed for all purposes
of the society was about $300,000. The total number of pages of tracts issued
during the same time is over 600,000,000.
For the foreign population in our own land Ave have ti'acts in German, French,
Spanish, Italian, Swedish, and Danish. For the freedmen we issue, in connection
with the Sunday-School Union of our Church, a beautiful little weekly paper,
called " Good Tidings." During the ten years ending with 1879 this society ex-
pended for Southern work about $20,000.
In the foreign mission tiekl we have made use of the printing-press in different
countries. This important part of the work was begun when the society was in
its iafancy. In 1854 the first grant was made to Germany ; in 1858, to France ; in
1859, to China; in 1860, to India; in 1861, to Bulgaria; in 1866, to Norway; in
1870, to Sweden ; in 1873 to Italy, and also to Mexico ; in 1874, to Japan. To
most of these countries repeated grants have been made since the dates above
given.
The aggregate amount expended in the foreign field since 1854 is very nearly
$50,000. This, it must be confessed, is quite a small sum compared to the de-
mands of the work ; yet it is all the society has been able to expend with the lim-
ited resources at its command.
American Methodist Chapels in 1784.
The list of Methodist Chapels at the organization of the Methodist Episcopal
Church numbered over GO. Lednum, in his early history, (p. 417,) gives their
names as follows : They had founded a number of chapels, such as Wesley
Chapel in New York ; 1 in New Jersey, in 1773, supposed to be Bethel, in Glouces-
ter County — the new Mill's House ; 1 in Trenton, and a fourth in Salem. In Pennsyl-
vania, they had bought St. George's, were using Betliel, in Montgomery; also
Old Forest, in Berks ; had erected Benson's, and the Valley or Grove, iu Chester
County. In Delaware, Forest or Thomas's, Barratt's, White's Chapel, Bethel, and
Moore's, in Sussex County. Cloud's, Blackiston's, Friendship, in Thoroughfare
Neck, and Wesley Chapel, in Dover. In Maryland, the Pipe or Sam's Creek,
Bush Forest, Gunpowder, Black Eiver Neck, Middle Kiver Neck, Tell's Point,
1 in Baltimoretown, Kent Meeting-house, Mountain Meeting-house, Bennett's,
Hunt's, Deer Creek, Dudley's, Tuckahoe, Quantico, Annamessex Chapel, and 1
still lower, in Somerset County, Lime Chapel, Bolingbroke Chapel, Newtown-
Chester or Chestertown Chapel, and Werton Chapel. In Virginia, Yeargin's,
Lane's, Boisseau's, Mabi7's, Men-itt's, Easlin's, White's, Stony Hill, Mumpin's,
Eose Creek, Adam's, Ellis's, Mason's, Howell's, Nansemond, and some sort of
houses in Norfolk and Portsmouth. In North Carolina, Nut-Bush, Cypress,
Pope's, Taylor's, Henley's, Lee's, Watson's, Parish's, and Jones's. Here were more
than 60 houses of worship claimed and occuiVied by the Methodists. True, they
were humble temples — none of them were stuccoed or frescoed ; and yet the m>/s-
tic shekinah, the glory ^ was manifested in them.
162 Methodist Year-Book.
Preedmen's Aid Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Organization and First Officers.
The organization of tlie society was completed August 7, 1866. This was done
in the West, where, from the first, Methodism took part in the support of the un-
denominational Freedmen's Aid Commissions. A number of Methodists had place
in their management, and were thereby in position to survey the whole field.
They saw the advantage of the school to the Mission, but they adhered to the gen-
eral work until after several large denominations liad turned their support from it
to denominational agencies. Bisiiop D. W. Clark and Dr. J. M. Walden were the
first to move in the organization of a Methodist Society. Bishop Clark gave special
service to the Southern work of the Church in the Mississippi valley. Dr. "Walden
was Corresponding Secretary of the combined Freedmen's Aid Commissions in the
West. They studied the same field from their respective oflScial positions, and
consulted with each other, and with the other Methodists holding official relations
to the freedmen's work, the result of which was a meeting, in Cincinnati, Ohio,
August 7 and 8, 1366.
There were present at this meeting Bishop D. W. Clark, Adam Poe, D.D., T. M.
Eddy, D.D., Luke Hitchcock, D.D., E. S. Eust, D.D., J. M. Eeid, D.D., B. F.
Crary, D.D., Eobert Allyn, D.D., J. M. Walden, D.D., Hon. Grant Goodrich,
and J. F. Larkin, Esq. During the meeting letters were received from Bishop
Morris, F. C. Holliday, D.D., Gen. Clinton B. Fisk, and Walter S. Carter, Esq.,
each favoring tlie organization of a Methodist Society.
The following, from the first official paper, embodies the chief facts :
Tills society was organized by a convention of ministers and laymen, held In Cincinnati,
Ohio, August 7 and 8, 1866. It is designed for the relief and education of the freed-
men— to operate in connection with the Missionary and Church Extension Societies of the
Methodist Episcopal Church.
Our Church has aided the efforts of the undenominational Freedmen's Aid Commissions
of the country, from their organization. It is believed, after a prayerful consideration of
all the facts bearing upon the matter, that the time has come for the separate worlj now
projected. The more important reasons for this are the following, namely :
1. The progress of the missionary work of the Methodist Episcopal Church In the South
has developed inviting openings for schools among the freedmen, and demonstrated that
such schools are essential to Its highest usefulness among that people.
2. The Aid Commissions, with their own schools to maintain, have not the means to
support others thus required by our missionary work, and, If they had the means, it would
not be compatible, with their undenominational character, to appropriate their funds to
the mission schools of our Church.
3. The Missionary and Church Extension Societies of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
having before them specific work recognized by, and the direction of, their Boards of
Managers, do not meet this special educational want of the freedmen of the South.
4. The membership of our Church will be appealed to in behalf of the freedmen by some
association, and will respond to the appeal. The amount thus contributed would, If con-
trolled by a Methodist society, accomplish, in connection with our missions, more for the
freedmen than If applied through other agencies, and would also, without further burden
to our Church, and without diminishing any of Its other general benevolent contributions,
maintain the schools, for which there is a constant and pressing demand. In this most
important and promising department of our missionary work.
J. M. Walden, Secretary. D. W. Clark, President.
After the adoption of the Constitution the first Board of Officers were elected as
follows :
President, Bishop D. W. Clark, D.D. ; Vice-Presidents, Gen. C. B. Fisk, Hon.
Grant Goodrich, Eev. I. W. Wiley, D.D. ; Co7'responding Secretary, Eev. J. M.
Walden, D.D. ; General Field Superintendent, Eev. E. S. Eust, D.D. ; Recording
Secretary, Eev. J. M. Eeid, D.D. ; Treasurer, Adam Poe, D.D.
April 25, 1868, the Board, by resolution, placed the society at the disposal of the
General Conference to be held in May. The latter sanctioned its organization, ap-
proved its objects, and commended it to the liberal support and co-operation of all
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our ministers and people. This recognition gave n, fresh impulse to the work. Dr.
Eust was cho.sen Corresponding Secretary, and at once took charge of its chief ex-
ecutive operations. The General Conference of 1872 adopted the society as its own,
and gave it a place by the side of the other great benevolent institutions in tha
Church.
Head-Quarters and Present Officers.
Head-quarters are at Western Methodist Book Concern, Cincinnati, Ohio,
President, Bishop Isaac W. Wiley, D.D., LL.D. ; Corresponding Secretary, Eioh-
nrd S. Kust, D.D., LL.D. ; Assistant, J. C. Hartzell, D.D. : Recording Secretary,
J. J. Eight, D.D. ; Treasurers, John M. Walden, D.D., LL.D., Cincinnati, Ohio;
J. M. Phillips, Esq., New York.
C 11 ARTE RED INSTITUTIONS.
Central Tennessee College, Nashville, Tenn.
Clark University, Atlanta, Ga.
Claflin University, Orangeburg, S. C.
New Orleans University, New Orleans, La.
Philander Smith College, Little Rock, Ark.
Rust University, Holly Springs, Miss.
Wiley University, Marshall, Texas. — 7.
Theological Schools.
Centenary Biblical Institute, Baltimore, Md.
Baker Institute, Orangeburg, S. C.
Haven Scliool of Theology, New Orleans, La.
Gammon Theological Seminary, Atlanta, Ga. — 4.
Medical College.
Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tcnn. — 1.
Institutions Not Chartered.
Bennett Seminary, Greensburg, N.C.
Cookman Institute, Jacksonville, Fla.
Haven Normal School, Waynesborough, Ga,
Lagrange Seminary, Lagrange, Ga.
Meridian Academy, Meridian, Miss.
Morristown Seminary, Morristown, Ga.
Normal School, Huntsville, Ala.
West Texas Conference Seminary, Austin, Te.xas.
West Tennessee Seminary, Mason, Tenn.
Houston Seminary, Texas. — 10.
Total number of institutions — 22.
In these institutions the number of pupils taught during the year is classified as
follows : Biblical, 400 ; law, 15 ; medical, 70 ; collegiate, 225 ; academic, 485 ; nor-
mal, 1,470; intermediate, 414; primary, 582. Total, 3,461.
Number of institutions, 22; number of teachers employed, 100; number of
pupils taught this year in these institutions, 3,461 ; number of pupils taught in six-
teen yeare, over 75,000 ; number taught by our pupils, more than three fourths of a
million.
By action of the last General Conference, the Society was instructed to extend its
work among the whites in the South.
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The following institutions comprise a list of these schools :
Chabtered Institutions.
Andre-ws Collegiate Institute, Andrews, Ala.
East Tennessee Wesleyan University, Athens, Tenn.
Little Rock University, Little Eock, Ark.
Texas Wesleyan College, Fort Worth, Texas. — 4.
Institutions Not Chartered.
Baldwin Seminary, Baldwin, La.
Chandler College, Asheville, N. C.
Dickson Seminary, Dickson, Tenn.
Ellijay Seminary, Ellijay, Ga.
Kingsley Seminary, Arcadia, Tenn.
Powell Valley Seminary, Wells' Spring, Tenn. — 6.
Total number of schools — 10.
Financial Statement.
Receipts for this year $123,153 72
Receipts last year 99,392 58
Increase in currrent receipts $23,761 14
This increase in current receipts is from the following sources :
Conference collections $13,944 89
Individual donations 6,681 17
Tuition and room rent from students 3,135 08
Total $23,761 14
Expended in school property $66 375 00
Last year 26,257 70
Increase $40,117 30
Endowments this year $36,100 00
Total disbursements this year 142,539 60
Total receipts this year $178,639 60
Disbursed during sixteen years $1,276,680 24
The Society's Schools in the South.
At a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Freedraen's Aid Society, held
in Cincinnati January 3, 1883, a resolution was adopted requesting Bishop Wiley,
President of the Society, and Dr. Rust, the Corresponding Secretary, to visit the
society's schools in the South, and furnish the Committee with a detailed written
report of the condition of those institutions. This was done, and the report was
submitted at the meeting of the Committee, March 2, 1883. After slight abridge-
ment, the report is here inserted in order to indicate to the whole Christian public
the methods and conditions of this branch of the Society's work.
Bishop Wiley and Dr. Rust's Report.
Central Tennessee College. — At Nashville we have six buildings: a dwelling-
house, occupied by the president, and largely used lor the purposes of the school ;
a commodious chapel, capable of seating 350, over which are dormitories for
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students; a boarding-hall and dormitories, with capacity of diuing-hall for 100
stiiclents; a large four story building for recitation rooms on two floors and dor-
mitories on the'two upper stories. These are all substantially built brick buildings,
and are kept in a good state of repair. On a lot opposite these buildings has been
recently erected a one-story fiame building for the model school.
The college had enrolled 197 students, and about 50 in the model school. We
attended rcL-itations in classes ranging from the primary grade in the model school
to the higher matiiematics and advanced Greek and Latin, and were gratitied with
the character of tiie teaching and the evident industry and attainments of the
students. The students were about equally divided between males and females,
many of them well advanced in age and development. A number of the young
men were looking to the ministry ; a larger number were preparing for teachers,
and a consideralile number of the females were contemplating teaching.
Meharri/ Jfeilical College. — In the same city, crowning an adjoining hill, a
short distance south of the Central College, we have a fine brick building, three
stories hi^h, with large lecture-room, ample accommodations for the dean's
family, and all necessary appurtenances of a complete medical school. A frame
■ builduig on the same premises furnislies good accommodations for anatomical pur-
Eoses. This is pronounced by competent judges to be one of the most complete
uildings for medical purposes in the South.
This is the oul}' thoroughly organized medical school in the Mississippi Valley,
south of tlie Ohio Kiver, where colored persons can pursue this study, and when it
is remembered that, in this same territory, there are about four millions of colored
people, there is great reason that this school should be rendered most efiicient
by liljeral endowment and thorough equipment for its important work.
Twenty-six promising vouu'j: men we tound attending regular instructions in the
medical school. We were nmch pleased with the evidences of thoroughness in the
course and the instructions given in the medical department ; a full three years' cour.se
is required, and recitations i-egularly in all the departments ai'e exacted. The medical
education will compare well with the best medical S'^hools of the land, and in view
of the constant recitations and examinations the graduates will take a high place
among medical students in the exactness and thoroughness of tlieir knowledge.
It has graduated 2-3, who are engaged in the practice of medicine, and are meeting
with encouraging success. The title of the property is vested in the Freedmen's
Aid Society. They have in all their departments a force of 10 teachers.
Bust Cnivefsif I/.— Located at Holly Springs, Miss. Here we found a large and
beautiful tract of land, containing about 15 acres, in a commanding position over-
looking the town. On this ground we have a pleasant frame building, occupied by
the president and his family, and the old college building, being a two-story brick,
70x40 feet, the lower floor divided into recitation rooms, the entire floor above used
for eliapel and recitations.
While we were visiting this institution, there was a unanimous vote requesting that
this building should hereafter be called M'Donald Hall, in honor of Rev. A. C.
M' Donald, who devoted years of earnest thought and labor to the interests of this
school, and who died in the forefront of the battle.
The new building is a large and commanding brick edifice, 100 feet long and 40
feet deep, with a projecting T for chapel and other purposes, and is four storii-s
high, with slate roof finish. It has ample accommodations for both boarding ami
school purposes for l.oO resident students, with excellent rooms for the faculty, a
large cliapel, dining-room, kitciien, laundry, etc. The whole building is admirably
arranged for its purposes, and is an edifice creditable in every way to our society.
It cost about $20,000, and is a model of cheapness for the style and character
of the building. It is supposed to be one of the best school buildings in the
State. The whole property of this institution is held by the Freedmen's Aid
Society.
There were enrolled 160 students, of whom 40 were out engaged in teaching
during the winter months. About 400 have gone out from this scliool, and are now
engaged in teaching. Many of the best men in the Mississippi Conference have
received more or less education in this institution. A large proportion of the
present students are looking to a life in the ministry, or in teaching. There are
six teachers employed.
Philunder Smith College. — Here (at Little Eock, Ark.) we found two institu-
tions. The college is for colored students, and at present is held in the audience-
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room of tlie cliurch. About 90 students are on the roll. The place for hold-
ing the school was very inconvenient, and yet we found good work in instruc-
tion by two instractors. The branches taught were those of a good English educa-
tion. We so far felt the necessity for better accommodations for this school that
we were on the verge of ordering" the Adams Brothers to go on at once witli both
buildings. Just then we saw a providential opening in tlie offer made by the heirs
of Philander Smith of $10,000 for the erection of a building, and we iinmediately
ordered the contractors to go forward with the new edifice. This lifts us over a
delicate and seiious embarrassment. For the future purposes of tlie school we
liave a tract in the city, embi'acing half a square, and in a most desirable situation,
on elevated ground, in the midst of the population whom we wish to reach, and
near to the new church which they are about completing. A building, very neat
and very excellently designed, to cost $10,500, is to be at once erected, and will be
ready for occupancy at the opening of the next school year.
Little Bock JJniversitij. — On a very eligible site in this enterprising place,
commanding a fine view of the city and its surroundings, we have a tract of land,
containing about fourteen acres, on which is an elegant building, formerly tlie^
residence of Governor Clayton, and which is well adapted as a residence for tlie
president and a part of the faculty of our university. A building of large pro-
portions is being erected to be devoted to college purposes and a residence for one
of the professors. It will cost $30,000. This is an enterprise which we have
undertaKcn under the dii'ections given to us by the late General Conference, to
enter, as far as we might be able, into educational Avork among the whites. The
building is to be completed in time for the opening of the next school j'ear. The
citizens are taking great interest in this institution, and have already contributed
toward this building $8,000, and [iromise to make it $15,000.
The first session of the school has opened in the "Methodist Block" in the city,
making use of three rooms in this building, and nearly 100 students are enrolled,
representing various academic and collegiate classes. Under the inspiration of tliis
new movement a preparatory school has been established at Texarkana, where 200
students are in attendance, some of them preparing for the university, and others
for teaching and the duties of life.
Wiley University. — This institution is located at Marshall, Texas. We have
here a fine site, overlooking tlie village, and about 20 acres of ground, on which
there is a frame house, occupied by the president ; a small cottage, occupied by one
of the professors ; and a two-story building, for boarding and dormitory purfioses ;
and two brick buildings, two stories liigh, eacli about 50x40 feet. They are sub-
stantial buildings, but somewhat out of repair, and defective in the construction of
their roofs, for which some remedy must be found at an early day. After carefully-
investigating tlie condition of the buildings, and ascertaining the absolute necessity
of additional accommodations for the students, we suggest that a mansard roof be
placed upon each of these buildings, which will protect our property and obviate
tlie necessity of any additional expensive buildings for years to come. There are
125 students in the" institutions, gathered from various portions of fTie South-west.
There is also a primary school of nearly 100 children. Tliere are 4 teachers here,
and additional force is needed. This property belongs to the Freedmen's Aid
Society.
Houston Seminary. — Located in Houston, Texas. Here we have a new enter-
prise, opened the present year, for the accommodation of which we have purchased
a valuable property in a central part of tlie city, costing $7,500, and have opened
the school witli 80 pupils. This school is more than 300 miles distant from our
university at Marsliall, and is in the midst of a dense population of colored people,
and meets a necessity of another great region of this vast State. The grounds are
high, and are sufficient for the erection of such additional buildings as may become
essential to make this a first-class seminary. The deed for this property is held by
the Freedmen's Aid Society.
Bahlwin. Seminary.— Located at La Teche, La. We have here a beautiful
property of twenty acres, donated liy the venerable John Baldwin, on which is a
convenient building occupied by the principal, and a pleasant cottage occupied by
Brother Baldwin during his pleasure. We have also on this ground a two-story
brick building for school purposes, the lower story being divided into four recita-
tion rooms, and the upper being used for school and church purposes. There is
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also a substantial new frame buildina' erected for a boardings department. This
property is pleasantly situated on the Bayou, and the campus is mostly covered by
a beautiful ffrove. The school at present is small, but the surroundings are prom-
ising, and tJiere will probably develop here an important center for the education
of white students. It is expected that this enterprise will become largely sell-sus-
taining.
New Orleans University. — Our school property is centrally located, on the
corner of Camp and Race Streets, fronting a pleasant park. It consists of two
frame buildings, two stories high, and of sufficient capacity to meet the immediate
necessities of the school ; but the time will soon come when these somewhat dilain-
dated houses must give place to a building adequate to the growing wants of this
institution. We ordered certain i-epairs to be made, the buildings to be painted,
and encouraged the teachers to toil on in patience and hope. The school is in
every respect in good condition, and excellent work is being done by teachers and
students. The college has already graduated several classes of good scholars and
useful workers. 270 pupils are in attendance, and the number migiit soon be
doubled if we could otter suitable accommodations. 5 teachers are employed.
Clark University. — Located in Atlanta, Ga. Here we have one of our largest
and most flourishing enterprises. We have 450 acres of ground — about 20 of which
are inclosed for college pui'poses. A large portion of the land is wooded, and the
whole of it well adapted for fanning purposes ; and this use should be made of it.
We have here a large, commodious, substantial brick building, of three stories and
basement, which cost $30,000. It is our best building, is admirably adapted to all the
wants of the school and boarding department, and is one of the best school edifices
in the South. There is also a very pleasant and commodious house for the residence
of the president. A neat cottage furnishes a home for one of the pn)fessors. A
blacksmith shop and carpenter simp give employment and opportunity to students
to learn useful trades. A model home is being built for the purpose of giving the
girls lessons in home-making and housekeeping. All these buildings, except the
college, are of wood, and have been mainly built by the students, thus giving
them employment, and furnishing us the buildings at a comparatively moderate
expense.
There are in the university 100 students, nearly all of whom are from abroad,
and are boarders in the institution, the property being too far distant from the city
for the accommodation of local day students. The school is well governed ; the
instruction is careful and thorough: the students are industrious and in earnest;
the order is excellent ; the boarding department is neat and clean. The Church and
our Society have good reason to be thankful that we are in possession of so excellent
an educational institution, and one which promises so much for the future. There
are 7 teachers in the college proper, and 1 professor in charge of the industrial
department, and a matron for the b(jarding department.
Oammon Theological Institution. — Under the sanction of our committee a
beautiful knoll of 9 acres adjoining our own grounds in Atlanta had been pur-
chased for the Theological Institute. We found a space cleared away for the build-
ing, and were shown by the contractor- the plans for the structure." It will be an
imposing building, to cost about $22,000, for which the funds have been nearly
raised by Bishop Warren, one third of which is donated by Mr. Gammon. The
contract is made and the work is begun, and it is to be completed by the com-
mencement of the next year. Mr. Gammon also secures to it an endowment of
$20,000, which is to be available as soon as the school opens. When this edifice
shall Ije completed, we shall have on our property at Atlanta a combination of
buildings and educational facilities unsurpassed by any thing in the whole South,
except the Vanderbilt University.
Claflin University. — Located at Orangeburg, S. C. We have here an excellent
property, with ample grounds, and eligibly located. The main building is a large,
four-story brick edifice, used for chapel, school-rooms, and dormitories. A frame
cottage, used for boarding-house, and several buildings for grammar school, scien-
tific department, and primary school, are located on the grounds. The South
Carolina Agricultural College is located here, in connection with our university.
It has a large farm, which furnishes students an opportunity to aid in their ex-
penses, and the State appropriates $6,000 each year toward the support of the
school, under the direction of the president of the university. This aids in giviiig
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Ptability and efficiency to the institution. A carpenter shop also gives opportunity
ti) students to learn a useful trade. Exclusive of the primary school, which is run
as the public school of the city, there are 170 studants in the college. The whole
presents the appearance of a busy hive of workers, and every thing looks like
health and etliciency. Tlie management is admirable and thorough. Instruction
is given in all grades. A promising class is ready for graduation at the close of the
year. The university here will take first rank among the best of our colleges.
There are 8 instructors in the school. The property is held by the Freedmen's
Aid Society.
Cookman Institute. — Finding that a trip to Florida would consume a whole
week, and involve large expense in visiting a single institution, we abandoned a
visit to Cookman Institute.
Bennett Seminary. — One of our best schools we found at Greensborough, N. C.
We have a good three-story brick building, well adajjted for academy or seminary
purposes, it is well conducted, and instruction is given in preparatory and aca-
demic studies. The president and teachers are enthusiastic, and the students are
earnest. It is a good institution, doing first-rate work. There are 100 students.
The grounds contain about 25 acres, and are excellently located, and are held by
the Freedmen's Aid Society.
Morristown Seminary. — Our trip from Greensborough to Athens took us through
Morristown and New Market, Tenn. We have a good seminary in Morristown,
well managed, and for which a building, costing $2,500, is nearly finished. There
are about 128 students here, 3 teachers, and the property is deeded to our Society.
Our school at New Market is for whites. The academy is small and needs re-
pairs. We are rendering aid to this school by paying the salary of one of the
teachers.
East Tennessee Wesleyan University/. — We visited next the institution for
white students at Athens. There are in the college grounds about 10 acres, on
which is located a three-story brick building, which is used for chapel, recitation,
and college purposes. They have commenced a brick church on the college
grounds, and have laid the foundation, and are waiting for funds to complete ft.
There are about 200 very promising students gathered from all parts of that section
of the South. We have rarely met a better appearing body of students ; they are
from the middle class of society, and are industriously laboring to prepare them-
selves for usefulness. There are 6 professors, industrious, and doing good work.
This institution is of great value to our work in that section of the country, and it
has sent forth a large number students qualified for teachers and preachers.
Huntsville Normal School. — We have a normal school, with 67 students in
attendance, under the instruction of 2 teachers. We have nearly an acre of ground,
and upon it a two-story brick building, with two recitation-rooms on the first floor,
and a school-room on the second. The State has established a Normal School in
the place, which interferes somewhat with the prosperity of our school. It has no
accommodations for boarding students from abroad, and its patronage is mainly
confined to the children of the town, and does not meet the object we nave in view
of educating youth for teachers and preachers. This object cannot_ be reached
without securing a boarding-house and a large increase of expense, which, in view
of the nearness of Nashville and Atlanta, where we have first-class institutions,
we do not think it justifible to make at present. The probability is, that at some
future day we shall oe compelled to do something more toward educational work in
Alabama, and then it will be necessary to seek a more central and available
location.
Thus we have ^nsited our schools of the higher ^rade, and have not deemed it
best to take the time and incur the expense of visiting several of our seminaries at
places distant from our regular route. The Biblical Institute at Baltimore is one t>f
the best of the institutions in our Southern work, but did not lie within the range
of our present visitation. It has recently increased its faculty, and has entered
upon a new era of interest in training young men for the ministry.
We spent two days at Chattanooga, and looked at several sites which were
pointed out as eligible locations for a university. We found the citizens iiitensely
interested in this educational enterprise ; they would welcome it, and aid liberally
in its establishment. The Locating Committee was called to meet at Chattanooga,
the 28th inst., to act upon this question of location.
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Impressions.
1. We take pleasure in recording our satisfaction with the places selected for tlie
location of our institutions. Each one of them is so located as to meet the wants
of a laro-e territory, and they are so related to each other that their lines of influence
so meet' as to form a net-work of educational agencies over a very large portion of
the South. Even with tlie experience of the present hour, it would hardly be pos-
sible to locate these institutions more favorably. "With the exception of Alabama,
we have one of our higher institutions in each of the Southern States. In the se-
lection of Little Eock, Ark., for the location of one of our universities, " to aid the
education of the white population," we have a position that commands the whole
Soutli-west, and when the location of our university for the South-east shall he
determined, we shall be able to meet all the wants for higher education in this part
of our Southern work for years to come.
2. We supposed, when we started on this tour, that we should be able to see our
way clear to recommend the reduction of the course of study in some of our colleges
to a lower grade, and to concentrate the course of collegiate instruction within two
or three of our leading institutions. But our observation has convinced us that this
is not practicable. Our schools are far apart, and have been so located with ref-
erence to future needs that it will be our wisest policy to develop one of these in-
stitutions in each State into a college proper. ^Ve do, liovvever, think that in the
present condition of this people, and in their present practical needs, they should
not be urged to seek a complete classical education, but rather to become thorough
in those practical Englisli studies which will meet their immediate necessities. We
should contemplate the establishment of no more colleges, with, perhaps, the ex-
ception of one in Alabama at some future day.
3. We were much gratified by wliat we saw, at Atlanta and Orangeburg, of the
movement inaugurated to give the students an opportunity of becoming acquainted
with some kind of manual labor, by which they can obtain an honest livelihood
without being entirely dependent upon their mental education. We believe this
to be a wise movement, and, under the peculiar necessities of this people, should
be encouraged in our schools.
4. We were disappointed in some of our institutions in not finding a larger num-
ber of students preparing for teaching and preaching, believing this to be the most
important work to be accomplished in tlie schools in the present condition of our
people. We therefore recouimend that increased attention be given to sucli an edu-
cation as will enable, as soon as possible, young men to go out into the work of the
ministry, and otliers to enter the wide field of teaching their own people.
5. We were gratified to find in all our institutions a prevalent high tone of re-
liction and morality, and that instruction was given in morals and g-ood manners.
We were impressed with the evidences of good order, politeness, cleanliness, and
general good bearing among the students. Nearly all the schools have enjoyed
revivals of religion during the year, and these are ahnost of annual occurrence.
6. We carefully examined the financial working of each of our institutions, and
were impressed with the care and accuracy with which the accounts are kept, the
carefulness and economy with whicli the expenditures are made, and the oDvious
concern of the oflicers to manage the interests intrusted to them as economically as
possible. It is a matter of great congratulation tliat we have been enabled to es-
tablish and conduct so extensive an educational system on so small an expenditure
of means.
7. It is a matter of devout thankfulness that the Church has been able in so
short a time to establish so many schools of a high grade, erect so many excellent
and valuable buildings, to inaugurate so extensive a circle of educational forces, to
educate so many youth, to accomplish so much in the elevation of a needy and op-
pressed people, and to disseminate so many and so great influences toward the im-
provement and advancement of so large a portion of our country.
8. We liave been so deeply impressed with the great good accomplished by our
schools in the South, and the imperative necessity for the permanence of this
work, that we earnestly commend this Society to the liberality of our people, urge
the pastors to raise large collections for it, and our men of wealth to endow profes-
sorships in these collctres, or to erect buildings for the schools suffering for accom-
modations, believing that no work in our land is more urgently demanded, and
that none will render a richer or earlier harvest. 1. W. Wilet,
a E. S. Rust.
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The Centennial and our Southern Educational Work.
[Circular to the Annual Conferences issued by the office of the Freedmeu's Aid Society
under date of July IS, 18S3.]
Dear Fathers and Brethren : The year 1884 completes the first Century of
American Methodism. In order to recognize duly this important fact, the General
Conference of 1880 recommended that the Centennial of the Church be celebrated,
and directed " that the matter be referred to the Bishops to devise a plan for the
Centennial year, and report to the Church as early as convenient." In accordance
with these mstructiims, the Bishops submitted for the proposed celebration of its
organization the following :
" TTie chief object of Connectional offerings should he the caime of Education.
The future of the Church will, under <Tod''s blessing, largely depend on the cultni'e
given to the youth. We commend to the liberality of the Church, first, the Board of
'Education; second, the Freedmen^s Aid_ Society/ third, theological schools; ancl,
fourth, such se7ninaries, colleges, and universities as shall be selected by the several
Annual Conferences.^'
Through its constitution, as interpreted by the last General Conference, the
Freedmen's Aid Society is responsible for our ^\hole educational work in the
Southern States, which now include nearly one fourth of our entire membership.
These States have a population of 18,500,000, (about one third of the nation,) and
of this number 6,500,000 are of African descent, being twelve thirteenths of the
entire colored population. Nearly eighty per cent, of these cannot write, and a
vast number of them are without the Gospel, and a large majority have not as yet
been reached with educational advantages.
Of the twelve millions and more of white people in the South, multitudes are
as needy in these respects as the negroes. Our over four hundred thousand com'
municants in the Soutliern Conferences are about equally divided between thesii
races, and represent nearly two millions of people, a large proportion of them
ignorant and needy, who look 4o us for Cln-istian guidance and culture. Every
impulse of patriotism, philanthropy, and Christianity urged our Zion to enter the
South as God opened the way.
Tlie growth of our Church in the South is one of the marvels of modern eccle-
siastical history. Here there has been a net increase since 1864 of fully three hun-
dred tliousand communicants, and of three thousand three hundred and eighty-five
church buildings, valued at over six millions of dollars. Every argument which
tnoved tlie Church to engage in the Southern work, urges, with increased intensity,
its vigorous prosecution.
It is greatly to the credit of our Church that she, through her Freedmen's Aid Soci-
ety, is prosecuting with so much efficiency her educational work among the igno-
rant masses in the South, while the nation is discussing the dangerous illiteracy of
this section, and yet hesitates to pass a bill to secure relief for educating the people.
The work of our Society has now reached a noint where the demand for greatly
increased financial aid becomes imperative. Tlie days of Church primary schools
in cabins are past. The public-school system is undertaking, as it ought, this
part of the work. The demand every-where is for thoroughly-educated preachers,
well-trained teachers, and for commodious and well-furnished buildings. We have
tour thousand pulpits in the Southern States, more than one half of which are
necessarily occupied by men whose illiteracy renders them ineffective as ministers.
Besides educating preachers, the Church must train teachers, and lift her young men
:md women into other educated professions, and give a wholesome direction to indus-
trial pursuits. Our Society cannot furnish schools for the vast number of ilUterate
youth in the South ; it can only aid in the establishment of a few institutions of
learning of a high grade for the preparation of preachers, teachers, and physicians,
who, as leaders and educators, can give tone to public sentiment and aid in the
dissemination of intelligence and religious tnUh. Our Church has never faced a
graver responsibility than this, and only by a greatly enlarged outpouring of money
can she meet this manifest call of God.
In locating our institutions, we have kept in view three things' : First, the recom-
mendations of the Discipline as to number and grade ; second, the population to
be reached, and, third, local sympathy and support. Our institutions are centrally
located with reference to their respective patronizing Conferences. Daring this
Centennial celebration, each Conference and congregation in the South will be
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encouraged to contribute as largely as possible to its local institutions. Already
this spirit of self-helpfulness is apparent in several of the Conferences.
The Society has expended |350,000 in permanent school property. And yet
every term hundreds of students are turned away from our schools for the want of
accommodations. Our greatest need is new buildings at several important centers.
One of these is New Orleans, where for years our school has suffered because of
this want. In that commercial metropolis of the South, where Catholicism is so
strongly intrenched, we have a Church membership and following of fully fifteen
thousand, and within easy reach of this school are more than half a million ne-
groes. Another point is ChattanooM, where, following the recommendation of the
patronizing Conferences, we have located our university for the central South.
The citizens have pledged $15,000 toward the enterprise, and an eligible site has
been purchased. With such a building as we need, we could have an institution
of commanding influence and largely self-supporting. Marshall, Austin, and
Houston, Texas, and Orangeburg, South Carolina, and Nashville, Tennessee, are
other points at which buildings must be had, or the work will suffer greatly. We
ought at least to have $100,000 for new buildings during 1884:.
Our next great need is endowments for professorships. Twenty thousand dol-
lars will endow a chair. The salary of the presidentof each of our colleges should
be secured by endowment. We also appeal for aid in educating young men and
women. One thousand dollars will endow a perpetual scholarsliip, by which the
donor could every year aid a worthy but poor young man or woman in obtaining
an education.
Dear Brethren, — In view of the vastness of this work, and of the responsibility
of the whole Church to prepare preachers and teachers to aid in elevating and saving
these illiterate masses, we appeal to you for your hearty co-operation. We appeal
to the Church for a Centennial offering of at least $250,000 in 1884. This would
enable us to put one hundred thousand dollars into buildinm, another hundred
thousand into the endowment of professorships, and still enable us to support our
schools without embarrassment. We respecttuUy suggest:
1. That you heartily indorse, by special mention, our Soutliern educational work
in your Centennial appeal to the people, and urge our wealthy friends to remember
this work in their Centennial offerings.
2. We specially request every pastor, as early in the year as practicable, to de-
liver an address or sermon upon this subject, at which time the regular annual
collection may be taken. Is it asking too much to request every pastor throushnut
our wide-spread Connection to give, at least, one prominent service on the Sabbath
to this cause, and that every congregation should be asked for a collection and
every member for a donation ?
3. In addition to our regular collections in the congregations, our hope is largely
in securing individual donations. Persons making donations can name the fund
or the particular school to which they desire to contribute. We ask the pastors to
call the attention of the benevolent and wealthy to this work, its large possibilities,
and its pressing demands. Impress them with the fact that the Centennial gifts
to this cause will_ strengthen and establish the permanent agencies for the educa-
tion and evangelization of those who have a peculiar claim upon the Church as
well as the nation. In behalf of the Society, yours in Christian fellowship,
I. W. Wiley, Prmdent. J. C. IIartzell, Af>sH Secretary.
E. S. Rust, Cor. Secretary. J. M. Waluen, Treasurer.
General Work of the Society.
1. It has aided in the introduction of the free school in the South.
2. It has prepared tens of thousands of teachei-s for the free schools.
3. It has prepared a large number of young men for our ministry.
4. It has graduated about one hundred young men for the practice of medicine.
5. It has done much in preventing the freedmen from becoming Romanists.
6. Our schools have awakened an interest for improvement among white people.
7. They have greatly improved the character of piety among the freedmen.
8. The Society has established departments for industrial training. It has
schools of carpentry, blacksmithing, farming, etc.
9. Schools of domestic economj' have been prepared for the instruction of girls
in the various duties of housekeeping.
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Board of Education of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Office, 805 Bi-oadway, N. Y.
President^ Bishop Simpson, D.D., LL.D. ; Recordhig Secretary, J.W.Lindsay,
D.D. ; Treasurer, Oliver Hoyt, Esq. ; Corresponding Secretanj, D. P. Kidder, D.D.
Members of the Board.— Term expires in 1884: Bishop Foss, Eev. Charles A.
Holmes, D.D. ; William (naflin, Newton, Mass. ; F. H. Koot, Esq., Buffalo, N. Y.
Term expires in 1888, Bishop Matthew Simpson; Eev. D. P. Kidder, D.D. ; C. C.
North, Esq., N. Y. ; J. Long, Esq., Philadelphia. Term expires 1892: Eev. John
W. Lindsay, D.D. ; Eev. W. X. Ninde, D.D. ; John Elliott, New York ; Oliver
Hoyt, Esq., Stamford, Conn.
Committee on Appropriations. — Oliver Hoyt, Charles C. North, Eev. J. W.
Lindsay, Eev. W. X. Ninde ; the Corresponding Secretary, ex officio.
The CoiTesponding Secretary has charge of all the cirrespondence and execulive
business of the Board. His official address is 805 Broadway, New York.
The Treasurer receives from the Corresponding Secretary and the several B"ok
Agents all remittances, and holds all funds of the Board, subject to the approval of
the Finance Committee. As the Treasurer's counting-house is in another part of
the city, it is for his convenience to have the details of accounts kept at the office
of tlie Corresponding Secretary.
The available funds of the Board are the proceeds, 1, of tlie General Educational
Fund of the Church; 2, of the Children's Fund, both supplemented by annual col-
lections made in the churches, and specially by those of Children's Day ; also by
special donations.
The disbursements are made in loans to candidates for the ministry or other
Christian work, to aid them in secm-ing a thorough education. Preference is always
given to grown-up Sunday-school scholars, and also to Conferences that send their
educational collections to thfe Boards.
To secure loans application must be made in a form prescribed by the Board, and
furnished to all who desire it. The demand for loans from worthy applicants is at
this time very great and very urgent. In nearly all parts of the country there are
promising youth of botli sexes anxious to devote their lives to Christian work, but
who are unable to secure the advantages of our schools without a little help. Help
furnished in the form of loans encourages their self-respect, stimulates their efforts,
enables them to accomplish their object, and, us a rule, returns in due time to aid
others. Hence the claims of the Board for co-operation on the part of those who
desire to do good are very great.
The plan of the Church is to give all, even the children of the Sunday-sclionl,
an opportunity to co-operate in promoting and securing a higher education. In tliis
manner the attention of the young is roused to their own responsibilities and priv-
ileges, and many are started in a career of self-development who otherwise would
not think a thorough education possible. Nine tenths of all who are now recei\ ing
aid from the funds of the Board are grown-up Sunday-school scholars. The chil-
dren of the present day and of the future will receive similar aid in their turn.
Donations and legacies are solicited for these objects. Persons making devises of
real estate to the Board by will are requested to observe the following form :
I give and devise to " The Board of Education of the Methodist Episcopal
Church," incorporated by the Legislature of the State of New York, the following
lands and premises, that is to say,
To Imve and to hold the same, with the appurtenances, to the said society, its suc-
cessors and assigns forever.
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Bequests of money should be made in similar form.
Persons making Bequests or Devises to the Board, or knowing that they have
been made, are requested to notify the Corresponding Seeretary, at 805 Bioadway,
New York, and, if practieable, to inclose a copy of the clause in the will, that the
wishes of the testator may be fully known.
Historical Sketch of Education in the Methodist Episcopal Church.
No person can form a just appreciation of the design, the important work, and
the ]iossibilities of our Board of Education, who has not traced the historic steps
whicli led to its origin and development. The object of the present sketch is to in-
ilicate those steps in tlieir proper order and relations to the growth of the Church
itself, and its other benevolent enterprises.
With reference to the history of education in the Methodist Episcopal Church,
the century now closing muy be divided into three periods. The first is a period
of thirty-sL\ years, extending from the date of organization, in 1784, to 1820. This
may be denominated the period of initial effort and severe trial. The second
period extends fmm 1820 to 1866, embracing forty -six years of permanent success
and gradual growth. The third is a period of eighteen years of enlarging success
and more stable growth, extending fi-om the centenary of American Methodism to
the present time. At the close of the second period initial steps were taken which
led to the creation of the Board of Education. That Board has had an active ex-
istence during only about half of the third period. Altliough still in its novitiate,
it will come to the first century of the Churcli's organization with demonstrated
power for good, and full promise for the future.
First Period of Educational Effort. — 1784-1820.
After all that has been written on the early history of Methodism, it may be
questioned whether full justice has been done to the educational wisdom and spirit
of the early fathers f>f our Church. They have been highly eulogized for their
evangelical zeal and self-sacrificing toils in planting the Church as such. An im-
partial reconsideration of their educational plans and efforts will show tliat we are
scarcely less indebted to them for their zeal in the cause of Christian learning.
Such a reconsideration is eminently appropriate at the present period as a matter of
historic justice. Besides, we may learn from it that our advanced and advancing
success in the cause of education is, in proportion to our increased means, no more
than a legitimate outcome of the measures inaugurated by our Church leaders a
hundred years ago. From it, moreover, we may see that we shall but poorly profit
either from their example or their mistakes, if we fail to pursue this branch of our
Church work with an ever-increasing zeal and devotion.
Initial Enterprise.
John Wesley, in England, at the very beginning of the great Christian movement
historically known as Methodism, founded a literary institution, the Kmgswood
school. Prompted by John Dickins, the first official Book Agent, Bishops Asbury
and Coke, in America, projected the Cokosbury College simultaneously with the
organization of the Methodist Episcopal Chureh and their own election to office.
The foundations of that institution were laid in 1785 at Abingdon, Maryland,
twenty-five miles north-east of Baltimore. During the earlier years of his episco-
pacy Bishop Asbury devoted much of his time and zeal to preaching on the proper
relations between religion and education, and making collections for the college.
Bishop Coke was equally diligent and zealous for the same object.
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Through their joint efforts a noble bricli building was erected on a most beautiful
site cominanding an unrivaled view of the Chesapeake Bay at the confluence of the
Susquehanna Eiver. So anxious were the Methodists of that day and region for the
actual beginning of the work of instruction that a preliminary school was commenced
in a part of the building before its entire completion. Cokesbury Colli.'ge was form-
ally opened in Decc-mber, 1787, witli appropriate dedicatory services extending
through three days, on each of which a sermon was preached by Bishop Asbury.
The close identification of that first educational enterprise with the work and plans
of the Churcii at the period of its organization, may be justly inferred from the fact
that a large space was allotted in the Discipline of 1789 and the seven following years
to a statement of tlie " Plan for the College " as " intended to advance religion in
America." A few extracts from the " plan" deserve to be held in perpetual re-
membrance, as showing the breadth of view and the grandeur of Christian purpose
which characterized this initial educational movement of the Methodist Episcopal
Cliurch:
Objects.
It is to receive, for education and board, the sons of the elders and preachers of
the Methodist Church, poor orphans, and the sons of subscribers and of other friends.
. . . The institution is also intended for the benefit of our young men who are called
to preach, that they may receive a measure of that improvement wliich is highly
expedient as a preparative for public service.
In view of tliese objects it was pronounced " one of the noblest charities in the
world."
LiTEKAET Scope and Eelioious Design.
The students will be instructed in English, Latin, Greek, logic, rhetoric, history,
geography, natural philosophy, and astronomy. To these languages and sciences
shall be added, when the finances of the college will admit of it, the Hebrew, French,
and German languages. But our first object shall be to answer the design of Chris-
tian education by forming the minds oi^^ the youth, through divine aid, to wisdom
and lioliness by instilling into their tender minds the principles of true religion,
speculative, experlmentalj and practical, and training them in the ancient way that
they may be rational scriptural Christians. For this purpose we shall expect and
enjoin it, not only upon tlie president and tutors, but also upon our elders, deacons,
and preachers, to embrace every opportunity of instructing the students in the great
branches of the Christian religion.
As auxiliary to the above specified objects of the college, it was planned that "a
choice and universal library shall be provided for the use of the students."
Incorpohation with Chuboh Woek.
The college will be under the presidentship of the Bishops of our Church for the time
being, and is to be supported by yearly collections throughout our circuits, and any
endowments which our friends may think proper to give and bequeath.
Anticipations.
In view of the designs specified and the measures inaugurated, it certainly
was not unreasonable to indulge the high expectations stated in the following
paragraph :
We trust that our college will in time send forth men that will be blessings to
their country in every laudable ottice and employment in life, thereby uniting the
two greatest ornaments of intelligent beings, which are too often separated, deep
learning and genuine religion.
The incorporation of the college with Church work was further illustrated by the
plan published in the Discipline of 17^7, to dsvote a portion of the profits derived
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from the printing and circulation of books toward meeting the expenses of the in-
stitution. That plan was defined in the following question and answer :
Qubst. 5, How much shall be annually allowed out of the book fund for Cokes-
bury College till the next General Conference ?
Ans. Eight hundred dolla'-s for the ensuing year; and one tliousand, sixty -six
dollars ana two thirds for each of the remaining three years.
That the anticipation set forth in the plan began to be realized at an early day is
incidentally, but very strikingly, illustrated in the Journal of Dr. Coke, and also in
a letter written by Asbury to Coke in 1791. The two Bishops had made a joint
visit to the college in May, 1789, in which they had examined the classes and had
long conversations with the teachers. As a result of personal observation, Bishop
Coke recorded his great satisfaction witli the progress and [irospeets of the students.
Two years later, having returned to England on the occasion of Mr. Wesley's
death, he was encouraged by a letter from Bishop Asbury informing him of the
general progress of the work of God, and also of the rising prospects of the college,
notwithstanding all obstacles. The following extract shows how near Asbury'a
heart the intei'csts of the college lay :
If it were not for the suspicion of some and the pride and ignorance of others
I am of opinion that I could make provision by collections, profits on books, and
donations in land to take two thousand children under the best plan of education
ever known in this country. The Lord begins to smile on our Kingswood school.
One promising young man has gone forth, another is ready, and several have been
under awakening. None so healthy and orderly as our children ; and some
promise great talents for learning. The obstinate and ignorant oppose, among
preachers and people, while the judicious, for good sense and piety in Church and
State, admire and applaud.
Enlarged Plans.
With all his attachment to Cokesbury College, as the first and leading educational
enterprise of the newly organized Church, Bishop Asbury was too wise a man to
unagine that it alone could meet the wants of the extending denomination. We
accordingly find that, under his presidency, a Conference held in Lexington, Ken-
tucky, in 1790, devised a plan for what was called a district (or Conference) .school.
Three hundred dollars in land and money were subscribed on the spot for its estab-
lishment. The school subsequently went into operation, though, like many other
good enterprises, it did not permanently succeed.
In 1793 an efibrt was made for tlie establishment of other schools under the same
title in difl'erent sections of the country. Dr. Bangs, in his history, says that
several such were commenced soon after, though for various reasons they did not
long continue.
Subsequent experience having shown what amounts of money and w^hat a concen-
tration of talent, patronage, and influence are essential to the permanent establisji-
ment of a good seminary of learning, we have no occasion to wonder that these early
etforts in new and sparsely settled regions were not permanently successful. The
country itself had but just emerged from the exhaustive War of Independence, and
as yet the Church in question liad its chief representation in the Southern States,
where educational liberalit3' and t!ie educational spirit have never been pre-eminent.
Nevertheless, what was done by Asbury and his coadjutors deserves all the greater
admiration for the bravery with which tliey confronted obstacles almost insuperable.
It should never be forgotten that about one third of Bishop As^ury's episcopal life,
and that the most active and energetic portion of it, was de^'oted to personal efforts
to promote the cause of Christian education in direct connection with his exhausting
ecclesiastical duties.
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Ceushing Disappointment.
After eight years of successful action and growing prosperity, Cokesbury College
was accidentally burned to the .<;round. That Bishop Asbury should have keenly
felt the blow by which his educational hopes were suddenly blasted was inevitable.
Nor can we wonder at the melancholy tone of the entry made in his Journal on
receiving news of the fire. That entry was in these words :
We have now a second and cunfirmed account that Cokesbury College is con-
sumed to ashes — a saeritice of £10,000 in about ten years! The foundation was
laid in 1785, and it was burned December 7, 1795. Its enemies may rejoice, and its
friends need not mourn. Would any man give me £10,000 a year to do and sufler
again what I have done for that house, I would not do it.
He was at that time burdened with the increasing cares and exhausting labors of
his ever-extending itinerancy. Churches and Conferences were multiplying in all
directions, needing his active aid, but only to be reached by long and fatiguing
journeys on horseback. That the calamity appeared to him, in these circumstances,
irretrievable is not surprising. All the more so from its sudden extinction of his
cherished anticipations of its future. Five years after its openinjj it had secured au
attendance of seventy students. It was already attracting young men from the
Southern States to take its course of study, and its friends in Maryland were pro-
posing to secure for it a charter giving power to confer scholastic degrees. But
greafer, in Asbury's thought, than all this, was the boon conferred tlirougli it upon
the Church by successive revivals of religion among its studenis.
From what source this calamity arose could never be asceitaiiU'd. In the appre-
hension that the fire miglit have been caused by design, the Governor of the State
ottered a reward of one thousand doUai-s for the detection of possible incendiaries,
but without result. However caused, the destruction was complete, including the
building, library, and philosophical apparatus.
Reconstruction.
As was natural, the inhabitants of the vicinity desired the reconstruction of the
college. But the Methodists of Baltimore, under the lead of Bishop Coke, were
more practical in their sympathy. Seventeen enterprising individuals promptly
subscril)ed one thousand and twenty pounds for the erection of a new college
which they determined to locate in the city. For this purpose, they purchased a
fine site of sufficient size, not only for the college, but for a church. Additional
funds were raised and pledged so that a large building on the site was modeled
lor college purposes and church reared by its side.
Second Burning.
The new institution soon flourished to an extent exceeding that of the original
college. But unfortunately a similar fate awaited it. In the early part of 1797
a conflagration was started through the imprudence of some boys playing witli
shavings in an adjoining house, which soon reduced to ashes both the church
and the college, together with several other adjacent buildmgs.
No further attempt was made to reconstruct Cokesbury College. Indeed, it can
neitlier be denied nor thought sui-prising that these disastrous and successive
tires greatly discouraged further immediate efforts in the cause of education in the
Methodist Episcopal Church. It has been repeatedly alleged that Asbury first
and Coke afterward accepted these disasters as a providential indication that the
present mission of the Church lay in the direction of soul saving and church
building, rather than of educational effort. Nevertheless, educational efforts con-
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tinued to be made from time to lime, but not with any marked or permanent suc-
cess, during the twenty-three years that followed.
Second Period. — 1820-1866. — Local and Conference Action.
The next great educational movement of the Methodist Episcopal Church was
inaugurated by the action of the General Conference of 1820. It grew out of a
conviction that tho prevailing inactivity of the Church in educational matters had
been injuriously prolonged. This conviction first began to manifest itself in New
England, then in New York. Beginning witli the ministers and people, it first
secured Annual Conference action, and then sought the sanction and direction of
the General Conference.
In 1S17 an academy was established at Newmarket, New Hampshiie, under the
patronage of the New England Conference. In 1819 another was opened in the
city of New York, under the patronage of the New York Conference. Both those
Conferences were then nmch larger in tenitory, though feebler m means and
members, than at the present time.
The friends of the institutions named presented to the General Conference of 1820
their respective constitutions and plans as suggestions for more general adoption.
They also asked and obtained action authorizing the Bishops to appoint presidents,
principals, and teachers to seminaries of learning for a longer period than two years.
After full consideration of the subject in committee and a free discussion on
the floor of the Conference the following important resolutions were passed :
1. Fesolved, By the delegates of the Annual Conferences in General Conference
assembled, that it be, and iSj hereby recommended to all the Annual Conferences
to establish, as soon as practicable, literary institutions under their own control in
Buch way and manner as they may think proper.
2. That it be the especial duty of the Bishops to use their influence to caiTy the
above resohition into effect by recommending the subject in all the Annual
Ci.ufcrciices.
To further the object proposed, it was ordered that a copy of the entire report be
recorded on the Journals of the several Annual Conferences and requested that the
constitutions of the existing seminary and academy be forwarded to each of the
Conferences.
This action was most appropriately taken in Baltimore where, thirty-six years be-
fore, the educational plans of Coke and Asbury had been initiated. Even at that
period the Annual Conferences were only eleven in number, embracing 812 preachers
and 240,924 Church members scattered over the entire country. In the nature of
things the germ thus replanted required time for development. It was, ne\ erthu-
lesa, good seed which has not yet ceased to grow and bear fruit.
The General Conference of 1824 strongly re-affirmed the resolution of 1820,
recommending that each Annual Conference should establish a literary institution
■within its own boundaries. It also reported that three or four seminaries had
already been established, in conformity with the resolution. From that" time
forward the increase in the number and strength of these institutions became
steady and constant, and the subje;t of education was made a standard topic of con-
sideration and discussion in all Annual and Genei-al Conferences.
Colleges and Theological Schools.
From the foundation of academies and classical seminaries, the Church soon ad-
vanced to the establishment and endowment of colleges and universities. In some
of the latter, departments for theological instruction were adopted. In 184T the
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first separate theological school of the Clmreh was opened at Concord, New Hamp-
shire, under the title of the General Biblical Institute.
In 1856 a second theoloi^ical school, entitled the Garrett Biblical Institute, was
founded at Evauston, Illinois. The proposition of an excellent Christian lady,
Mrs. Eliza Garrett, of Chicago, to endow that institution with a munificent gift of
property, gave occasion to the General Conference of 1856 to declare its approval of
institutional theological instruction under appropriate guards and sanctions. By
this act the system of Church educational institutions was completed.
Centenary of American Methodism.
At the end of another decade the time arrived for celebrating the first Centenary
of American Methodism by commemorating its introduction into the city of New
York in 1766. That period, eighty-two years after the organization of the Method-
ist Episcopal Church, was deemed a fit occasion for enlarged plans of Church
action. That such plans, in their wisest form, might be devised for action during
the proposed Centenary celebration, a large and influential conmiittee, ordered by
the General Conference of 1864, assembled in Cleveland, Ohio, in February, 1865.
The committee was composed of the Bishops of the Church and twelve representa-
tive ministers, and a.s many laymen from various sections of the Church. Full
deliberation on the part of that committee resulted in a unanimous conclusion
to make a new and forward movement in the cause of Christian education the
leading object of Centenary action.
The Educational Situation in 1865.
At that time it was found that there were, at least, one hundred and two literary
institutions in the ownership, and under the patronage, of the Church. This
number represented the founding of more than two institutions every year sub-
sequent to 1820.
The history of many of these institutions had not only shown the most desirable
educational results, but also the action of religions influences of the most en-
couraging character. Vast numbers of youth, drai.\n together within their walls
in the pursuit of knowledge, had found, what was even more precious, the pearl of
great price.
Genuine and sweeping revivals of religion had been, for years, a part of the
annual history of many of the literary institutions, especially of the Conference
seminaries. By this means, not only the children of our Church members in
multitudes, but hundreds of yoimg persons who had entered the schools from
associations wholly secular and only prompted by worldly views, had become truly
converted. A large proportion of both these classes had connected themselves
with the Church. Not a few of them had entered her ministry as well as the other
learned professions. Indeed, in various ways and in great numbers, the students
of our seminaries and colleges had, after graduation, joined their life influences
with those of the men who, by toil and sacrifice, had founded and sustained those
institutions, thus bringing to realization, on a grand scale, the original anticipations
of Asbury and Coke and their contemporaries.
Parallel with the founding and development of our literary institutions, the great
Sunday-school enterprise of modern times had taken practical form and produced
similar results of the most cheering kind. That enterprise had been first introduced
into America by Asbury himself in 1786 ; but, in the face of many obstacles, it had,
like the cause of general education, languished for many years, so that it had not,
till after 1820, become generally intioduced. But, from about that time onward,
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its prngress was rapid and its success uninteiTupted, so that, in 1865, notwithstand-
ing the withdrawal of the Church Soutii, our number of Sunday-schools had
reached about fourteen thousand. In these schools were enrolled nearly a million
of scholars and teachers. Most of the one hundred and fifty thousand teachers
had risen from the classes which they had entered as scholars, and not a few of
them were aspiring to an advanced education in the schools and colleges of the
Church. It was foreseen that increasing numbers might be expected to follow in
similar progressive courses.
Out of this state of things arose the important query whether it was not possible
to institute a practical bond of connection between our Sunday-schools and our
institutions for advanced literary, scientific, and theological instruction. Might
not some agency be devised and put into action by means of which great numbers
of Sunday-school scholars and teachers might have opened up before them a door of
hope for higher education, which hitherto had been effectually closed ?
A survey of the condition and prospects of our educational institutions was
adapted to suggest similar queries from that point of view. Of their existing
number seveuty-three were academies, classical seminaries, and female colleges ;
twenty-three were colleges and universities, and two were biblical institutes. In
those institutions were employed seven hundred and fourteen teachers giving in-
structions to 23,106 students ; a number quite below the capacity of the teachers to
instruct and of the institutions to accommodate, while the Church had large and
increasing numbers of youtli that ought to be in her schools. How to increase the
number of students, and especially from a large class of worthy candidates whose
means were limited, had become a subject of anxious inquiry among some of the
best minds in the Church.
The General Conference of 1S60, whUe noting the various causes for encourage-
ment in our educational status, had also set forth several causes of regi-et. Among
the latter was this :
The neglect of young men of piety and promising talents who are without the
necessary'means for securing a thorough intellectual training. To extend aid to
such a-s a pure charity is of doubtful expediency ; but to furnish them with means
to meet, at least in part, their expenses while acquiring an education, that shall
relieve them fi-om anxiety, is undoubtedly one of the noblest of benefactions.
Several of the Annual Conferences are doing somethin.L' for this class of young
men, and with encouraging success. Something also has been done by individual
liberality, but much more needs to be done. Many noble minds aie annually lost
to the Church from discouragement or overexertion that might be saved by a little
sympathy and pecuniiiry aid.
That Conference had also appointed a committee to prepare and present to the
next General Conference a plan for the organization of a permanent Board of
Education in accordance with a suggestion of the Bishops in their quadrennial
address.
The General Conference of 1864, in pursuance of the same ideas, while noit
seeing its way clear to the creation, at that time, of a Board of Education, incor-
porated in the Discipline of the Church the following as the fourth item of its
answer to the question, How shall the Church provide for the higher education of
her youth ?
Ans. 4. It is advised that educational societies for the aid of poor j'oung men
be established in connection with each of our colleges and biblical institutes, or
Annual Conferences.
That advice was practically based on successful experiments already made in
connection with the two Biblical Institutes, which, even more than the colleges,
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had developed the imperative necessity of providing judicious aid for Trorthy
students.
This state of things was brought to the attention of the General Centenary Com-
mittee by practical educators.
Action of the Centenary Committee.
According to an account prepared by Dr. M'Clintock :
At the time appointed the committee met at Cleveland. All the Bishops were
I'resent except Bishop Thomson, then in India. The ministers and laynien of the
committee were gathered from every part of tlie Church — tlie East, the center, the
West, and the racitic Slope — were all fairly in jiresence of each other in delibera-
tion. It is believed that tlie Methodist Episcopal Church was thoroughly, as a
whole, re|iresented at Cleveland.
The spirit of the conunittee was admirable. The utmost freedom of speech pre-
vailed ; every Bishop, every minister, and every laym;in on the committee took part
in the discussions at some period of its protracted session. All opinions were com-
pared, all interests were weighed, and all proposed plans were discussed. The great
aim was so to provide for the connectional interests of the Church and for such a con-
nectional demonstration of devotion to lier welfare, as not only not to interfere with
local wants, but also, and to a large extent, to pi'ovide for them.
An adjourned meeting of the committee was held in New York, on the 8th of No-
vember, 1865. The result of such a body of men, animated by such a spirit, is set
foith in the final resolutions of this connnittee, as follows :
Eesolved, Tliat it is the sense of this committee that the Centenary Educational
Fund ought to be placed before our people as the prominent object for connectional
contributions.
Resolved^ That if any contributors desire to specify the precise objects of their
Centenary subscriptions, in whole or in part it shall be open to them to name the
following objects, namely :
1. The Centenary Educational Fund.
(Note. — The sole reason for omitting other objects specified in this connection is
to preserve the unity of the present article.)
Resolved^ That all the vmspecifted funds raised throughout the Church, and all
sums contributed for the s])ecific objects above-mentioned, over and above the
amounts named, and also all the sums specifically contributed for the " Centenary
Educational Fund," be placed in the hands of a board, to be appointed a.s
jirovided in a subsequent resolution, to be called the Centenary Connectional Educa-
tional Board of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Resolved^ That a Sunday-school Children's Fund be established for the following
purposes and under the following conditions : (1.) The fund to be vested in and ad-
ministered by the Board of Trustees already authorized, but to be kept as a separate
fund. (2.) The interest of it is to be approiiriated to assist meritorious Sunday-
school scholars, of either sex, who may need help in obtaining a more advanced
education. (3.) Each Conference to share in the annual proceeds of this fnnd pro-
Eortionally to the number of Sunday-school children under its care. (4.) The
eneficiaries within the bounds of each Annual Conference to be selected in such a
inanner as each Conference shall direct.
The Committee's Comment on the Above Action.
The objects named for contributions by the committee are, as will have
been seen, all of a connectional character. The first place is given to ed-
ucation.
The c^j^/ object presented to the Church, for connectional contributions, is the
foundation ofa permanent fund, to be called "The Centenary Educational Fund," the
interest only of which is to be employed in aiding our institutions of learning, and in
helping poor young men to prepare themselves tor the ministry at home, or for the
missionary work abroad. A n.ore pra.'tical or more sublime design is iiardly possi-
ble to the denomination. Our more ihoughtful and far-seeing contribut(jrs will,
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doubtless, give to this object more largely tlian to any of the others named.
It is the one object to which every niember of tlio Church, it is hoped, will
contribute sometliing, inasmuch lus it is, of all the olijects named, the most
thorouirhly coi)mcti"nal and. the most clearly mnnmn' ntal. A permanent fund
of a million of dollars, or more, will be a monumental insiitulion, more lasting than
brass, to carry down to posterity the gratitude of the Methodists of 1866. as testified
by the Centenary gifts. It will form, at the same time, our most beneficent legacy
of the Centenary year to the century that is to follow. The rapid march of the cen-
sus of America'u population outstrips all calculation. By the year lyOO there will
be teeming millions in regions just now opened to settlement and to enterprise.
Moreover, the whole South is just re-opened liy the extinction of the great rebellion.
For all this vast populaiion our iierinanent fund will afford a steady assistance and
stimulus to ettbrt tor the great work of Christian education. Let us make this fund
a grand and worthy Centenary monument. If there be failure in any part of our
plan, let there be none in this.
One of the most simple and obvious ways of showing our Connectional spirit will
be to contribute to the Centenary Educational Permanent Fund, and to the other
connectional objects name<l by the General Cunferenoe and it.s committees. As we
have said, the whole Church, arid at the feame time every locality within its bounds,
is interested in these objects.
Local objects will, doubtless, be urged, ■with earnestness and pertinacity, by those
interested in them. We do not wish to overshadow these objects so as to hinder
their success. At the same time, let us remember that these objects are always with
us, always at our doors, and, thei-efore, always likely to be taken care of. But our
permanent fund is to be the great mark and proof of our Connectional feeling
as demonstrated hy our Centenary gifts. Let the Centenary year be our Sal>bath of
Church fellowship ; one year, at least, out of the centurj', in which we shall
rise above all local and sectional thoughts, feelings, and interests into the higher
atmosphere of om* unity in the Church, and in Chiist the Head of the Church.
The proposition to found a Children's Educational Fund, as a branch of the gen-
eral fund, to be largely endowed by the offerings of children themselves, who might,
in turn, receive its benefits, was unique in the history of Christendom. That
its feasibility and importance were well foreseen and argued by its projectors
is proved by the following extract from an ''Address to Sunday-school Super-
intendents by the Central Centenary Committee:"
Thus [referring to the last-quoted resolution of the General Committee] you see
that the entire contribution of the Sunday-school children will redound to their own
benefit. It is believed that when they comprehend the relations between their
offerings and the educational privileges flowing from them, they will be stimulated
to an eflfbrt resulting in a Centenary gift so laige as to excite the admiration
of all Christendom. We have, in round nuniliers, a million of Sunday-school
scholars. Is it too high a mark to suppose that by proper effort they will raise
an average of a dollar each ? May not a million of children contribute and collect a
million of dollars ?
At six per cent, this sum will produce annually sixty thousand dollars. If one
hundred dollars each are allotted to bright but indigent boys and girls, we may en-
joy the spectacle of six hundred children helped to a " more advanced education"
through the offerings of their fellow-scholars.
Besides, will the fund stop here ? May it not be indefinitely increased by dona-
tions and bequests from the friends of Sunday-schools, until its influence shall be so
wide-spread as to reach each school in the entire Church, and eventually afford
a channel through which evei'y scholar who desires it may attain a higher
education ?
It must have occurred to you that there now exists no link binding academies and
colleges to our Sunday schools. Many of our institutions of learning are unknown
to our scholars. May not the plan proposed be the providential one to connect the
religious and intellectual systems of education in our Church '. And, further, do we
not find just here an answer to the question so often raised in Sunday-school con-
ventions, " What shall be done to .save our older scholars to the Church V Let it
be understood that facilities are afforded for a higher education than can be attained
in common schools, and the driftage of our larger scholars into common pursuits
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and vulvar associations will, in part, be arrested and turned into channels of
enlightened usefulness.
It" is true this fund may be large enough to assist a few onlj^ in comparison with
the multitude ; but will not the example of these beneficiaries lead to a greater
interest in advanced education on the part of the children of the Church, so that
with each beneficiary a score of others will have their thoughts turned in the direc-
tion of our academies and colleges, who would otherwise be content to remain in ob-
scurity ?
Now, brethren, to the work. The honor of Methodism is in your keeping. Speak
the word, and little hands and hearts .shall be all employed in the great Centenary
ofi'ering. Inscribe on your banner, "A dollar for every child — a million for
the children's monument."
By many similar statements and appeals the subject was commended to the
liberality of the public, together with nine other objects of a Connectional character.
Of the latter six were specifically educational, namely :
2. The Garrett Biblical Institute at Evanston.
3. The Methodist General Biblical lustilute at Concord — to be removed to the
vicinity of Boston.
4. A Biblical Institute in the Eastern Middle States.
5. A Biblical Institute in Cincinnati or vicinity.
6. A Biblical Institute on the Pacific coast.
10. The Biblical School in Germany.
But the General Conference, in 1864, in providing for the Centenary celebration,
had, with wise and comprehensive views, ordered that two departments of Christian
enterprise should be placed before the Church as objects of liberal giving. The one
was to be "connectional, central, and monumental," the other "local and distribu-
tive." The latter was to embrace the cause of education, as well as that of Church
extension.
The local Centenary enterprises were committed to the special care and suppoit
of the several Annual Conferences. In this manner our whole list of literary insti-
tutions, both collegiate and academic, were brought within the sphere of Centenary
contributions. Many of them were embarrassed with debts, and all needed new
and improved buildings, as well as endowments of unlimited extent. Besides,
indifferent sections of the Church, new institutions were commenced, and a consid-
erable number of them with the special design of commemorating the Centenary
period. Each one of these enterprises came to the front in its home field with an
earnestness of advocacy and an energy of purpose worthy of a good cause and
of a grand success.
Thus the cause of Christian education was put before the members and friends of
the Methodist Episcopal Church with an urgency of claim and a breadth of view
worthy of its high importance.
Eespokse of the Church.
In the outcome of the Centenary efforts of 1866, it was found that $9,155 32 had
been contributed to the General Educational Fund, and $56, GH 40 to the Children's
Fund, making a total of $65,829 72. Donations, amounting to $50,000 each, had been
made to the Garrett Biblical Institute and the Boston School of Theology, while the
Drew Theological Seminary, for the Middle States, had been provided for by a gift
of $600,000 from Mr. Daniel Drew, and the Biblical Institute in Germany by a gift
of $25,000 from Mr. John T. Martin. Thus five out of the seven Connectional ob-
jects proposed by the Centenary Committee had received gifts amounting to more
than three quarters of a million of dollars.
As to the local educational offerings, so vast was the field over which they extend-
ed, 80 varied were the forms in which they wei'e recorded, and so incomplete were
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some of the returns made, that it was not found possible to reach a definite or en-
tirely satisfactory aggregate. The reports sent to the Central Committee, from fifty-
two Annual Conferences, made it certain that the aggregate of Centenary ofierino-s
made for all ol jects, reached the sum of about $9,000,000. The Centenary Commit-
tee of the General Conference recorded the opinion that a completed report would
pwell the aggregate to $10,000,000. Of that amount it is reasonable to infer that
more than $3,000,000 were consecrated to the cause of Christian education'.
Close of the Second Period.
Thus the second period of our educational history formed a brilliant contrast with
that of the first period. That had ended in a faint dawn of hope, following long years
of discouragement. The end of the second period was reached in the" midst of a
grand impulse in favor of objects contemplated at the very organization of the
Church, but not then i-ossible of attainment. Faintly outlined and toilfully strug-
gled afler at the beginning, those objects were at length being realized on a scale of
grandeur impossible to have been foreseen eighty years before.
It must not for a moment be supposed that the educational influence of the Cen-
tenary celebration of 1866 can be fully measured by the mere amount of pecuniary
ofierings secured. The true value of that Centenary campaign can onlybe estimated in
the light of its seed-sowing and germ-planting character. Throughout its continu-
ance the dissemination of ideas, always and every- where, preceded the appeal
for funds. The sermons preached, the addresses made, the prayers offered, and the
eacriflces resolved upon, all pointed bejond present possibilities to a coming future
of still greater realizations.
Thied Period.— 1866-1884.
This period properly opens with the General Conference of 1868. On that body
it devolved to review the action of the Centenary Committees of 1 865, and the results
of the Centenary efforts of 1866.
As a means of comprehending the situation at that time, and the action then
taken, the following extracts are made (1) from the report presented to the
General Conference by the Central Centenary Committee, (2) from the report of
the General Conference Committee on the Centenary, and (3) from the report of the
Committee on Education, adopted by the General Conference.
The Central Centenary Committee, having referred to their previously published
appeal in behalf of the Centenary Educational Fund, said:
Notwithstanding this earnest desire to raise a " monumental fund," some of our
leading brethren and our college corporations, and the patronizing Conferences of
these colleges, deemed it wiser to make their contributions directly to the treasurers
of these institutions, giving to them at once the control of the fund raised for their
enlargement and further endowment. The money, therefore, which it was supposed
would go into a general fund, the interest of which would be applied to all of these
colleges, has gone directly to them, and is merged in the aoove reports from
the Conferences.
The Connectional Educational Fund was the favorite scheme of the General
Committee, and the Central Committee was directed to place it clearly before
the Church. The local strain, already mentioned, together with positive opposition
in some quarters, has prevented this part of the Centenary plan from being a
complete success. Nevertheless, enough has been paid in to form the nucleus of a
large fund. Indeed, there are subscriptions of large amount awaiting the final ac-
tion of the General Conference. The arguments which induced the General
Committee to fiivorthis fund are still in force. We honestly believe a fund looking
to the support of public institutions of learning, and, more especially, to the equip-
ment of young men for the ministry, is precisely an element of harmony and power
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indispensable to the Church. It is well known to your body that the recruits to
the ministry are gathered chiefly from the poorer classes ; that the cost of support
in these altered times must of necessity restrain the aspirations of many for such
an advanced education as would lit them for the ministry at home or abroad ; and
that consequently a fund sufficient to encourage them to industry and self-denial in
the attainment of knowledge would give the Church a vast addition to her labor-
ers, which the open fields of the world so urgently demand. To provide for the
permanence and enlargement of this fund will be, we trust, a subject for your care-
ful deliberation.
The Vhildreii's Fv/nd we commend to your special consideration. The same in-
iluences that obstructed the other Connectional funds hindered the full success of
this. It bid fair at the outset to reach a noble sum, in our judgment a quarter of a
million of dollars; and still, amid all manner of antagonisms, it has reached a
greater amount than has flowed into any Connectional tund during the history of
the Church.
We suggest not only that it remain intact, in accordance with the original plan,
subject, perhaps, to slight modifications, but, further, that provision be made fur
its enlargement. This can be done by donations from the living and bequests from
the dying. So soon as the fund becomes permanent and its fruits are seen, it will
becon\e a favorite object for the liberality of the great number of our Church mem-
bers who feel under special obligations to the Sunday-school. A feasible plan
would be for a collection to be taken in all our Sunday-schools once a year on a
given day. It would not, perhaps, be unreasonable to calculate upon an increase of
twenty thousand dollars per annum, which in five additional years would double
the amount just named, thus placing one hundred and forty children on the high-
way of knowledge. It is not improbable that tliei'e are members of your noble
body who will live to see one thousand recruits to the ministry through this fund.
Eesults.
The Centenary Committee of the General Conference of 1868 said :
The report of the Central Committee contains matter for devout thanksgiving to
the great Head of the Church. The General Conference of 1864, with some hesi-
tancy, asked of the Church two millions of dollars at least. The response of the
Church, as reported by the Central Committee, was more than fourfold greater,
the grand total being $8,527,561, with several large Conferences yet to report. The
statement of this fact is its suflficient comment.
Local Funds.
The contributions to local objects, educational and others, have been much
greater tliau the Connectional. This was to be expected, and is no cause of soitow.
Nay, it is matter for rejoicing before God that so many heavy burdens have been
lifted from institutions of learning, that such generous additions have been made
to endowments, and that, in so many ways. Christian beneficence has been stimu-
lated to healthful activity. It is, however, quite evident, that serious irregularity
exists in the returns of local funds.
Having shown wherein many of the returns were defective, the committee ex-
pressed the belief that a complete supplemental report would swell the aggregate to
$10,000,000.
Connectional Funds.
The statement of the Central Committee shows that while Connectional subscrip-
tions were not in all respects equal to the anticipations of the Church, they never-
theless exhibit a cheering aggregate. More than a million of dollars are thus re-
ported, and the movement which leaves the Church, Drew Theological Seminary,
and Heck Hall, does not entirely fail of being " monumental."
The moneys contributed to the "Connectional Educational Fund" and to the
"Children's Fund" are referred to your consideration by the Central Committee.
The former, though not realizing the wishes and anticipations of the General
Committee, is, nevertheless, a basis for what may be a great fund in time. . . .
Your committee had a conference with a subcommittee from the Committee on
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Education, and I'oin wilh that comniittee in recommending the creation of a " Board
of Education," duly cliartered, wliicli sliall be the custodian of these funds. In our
judgment we cannot, in good faith, divert them from the i)urpose contemplated by
their donors. For details of the organization of tliis Board, we refer you to the
report of the Committee on Education. We further reconmiend that efforts be
made through the Sabbath-schools of the Church to augment the Children's Fund.
We recommend tliat the second Sabbath in the mouth of June annually be observed
as the Children's l)ay, and that in each Sabbath-school we attempt the collection of
an average of five cents for eacli child enrolled. Thus easily, silently, almost un-
consciously, can thia fund be made even more than its ardent projectors dared to
hope.
The final report of the General Conference Committee on Education proposed in
detail the official action by which the Board of Education and the Metliodist Epis-
copal Church was called into formal and legal existence. It also expressed the be-
lief that "this Board will furnish the educational center so long desired and
specially asked for." The details of the action of the General Conference of 1868,
ordering the incorporation and prescribing the functions of the Board of Education,
was embodied in its charter and constitution, which have not only been often pub-
lished, but will be published again for still wider circulation in its report to the
Conferences of 1884.
Initial History of the Board.
The trustees appointed by the General Conference of 1868 secured, in April,
1869, a liberal act of incoi-poration from the Legislature of the State of New York.
The charter thus obtained provided amply for the various objects contemplated by
the General Conference. It conferred upon the Board of Education of the Method-
ist Episcopal Church, (a) the privilege of perpetual succession ; (b) power to re-
ceive, hold, invest, and convey property ; (c) power to receive and administer
trusts ; (d) it also enjoined on said Board the accomplishment of the following ob-
jects by means of the interest only of its vested funds, and also by means of funds
contributed for such purposes, namely :
1. To aid young men preparing for foreign missionary work.
2. To aid young men preparing for the ministry. Preference in both these cases
is to be given to those who have been meritorious Sunday-school scholars. Aa
among meritorious Sunday-school scholars, young women of promise desiring to
quality themselves as Christian workei-s in foreign or home fields may be aided to
obtain an advanced education.
3. To aid biblical or theological schools.
4. To aid universities, colleges, and academies.
5. To serve as a general agency of the Church in behalf of ministerial and general
education.
6. To recognize Conference and other auxiliary societies.
7. To increase its permanent and current funds by educational collections and
the offerings of Children's Day.
8. To collect and publish educational statistics.
9. To report quadrennially to the General Conference.
Not until thus incorporated was the Board prepared to receive the educational
funds which it was ordered to conserve and augment. Meantime both funds had
increased by the accumulation of interest. As the Board was without an executive
officer, it was resolved to let the aggregate fund accumulate to $100,000 before com-
mencing any distribution of its proceeds. That point was not fully reached until
1874. Meantime the General Conference of 1872 had sanctioned the proposed
policy, and elected Eev. E. O. Haven, D.D., as Corresponding Secretary of the
Board. Time was required for Dr. Haven to be able to fully enter upon the task
assigned him. When he did so, a great amount of preliminary work was found
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necessary to be do»ie. Thus, some six years following the General Conference of
1868 went by before the Board fully entered upon its appointed work. The very
year that it did so, (1S74,) its Corresponding Secretary decided to accept another
office which required his removal from the official center of the Church, and ab-
sorbed the greater portion of his time and strength up to the period of his resigna-
tion of the office in November, 1880. During the six preceding years he had, as
stated by himself, only been able to attend to " the most pressing duties of the of-
fice," which he held without salary.
By these successive events much valuable time was lost to the Board, during
which, notwithstanding the good work it was able to do in some departments, its
claims upon the interested and continued support of the Church were too generally
and to too great an extent lost sight of. The present is an age of active competi-
tion even in works of benevolence, so that, however good a cause may be, unless
it is kept constantly before the people, it is sure to lag behind. Without dwelling
on lost opportunities, it will be more pleasant to consider briefly
The Work Done and the Kesults Accomplished by the Boaed.
A. — department of aid.
As a Church, we have been providentially led to the practical solution of a prob-
lem that has greatly embarrassed some other Churches, namely : How to aid needy
students, and yet cultivate in them a high sense of manhood, and those qualities
of efficiency which are essential to success in tlie ministerial calling.
The General Conference of 1868, which ordered the creation of the Board of
Education, defined its general policy of action in the following terms:
In administering aid the Board shall aim to foster rather than diminish habits of
personal exertion and economy, and as a rule shall render aid in the form of loans.
This policy is in harmony with the best sentiment of our Church, and also with
the preference of her best young men, who wish to cultivate the feeling of pei-sonal
independence and not to be considered objects of charity. "While they do not wish
to become or to be called beneficiaries, they highly prize the privilege of being en-
titled to credit, when necessaiy, on the basis of character.
Our system offers them such a credit on the most liberal terms. It comes to
them when they would find it impossible to secure similar aid on a commercial or
business basis, and yet at a period when the time and opportunities of study, by
which it enables them to profit, are worth far more to them than money. It does
not furnish to tlieni amounts sufficient to render unnecessary either economy or
exertion, but just sufficient to stimulate both, by increasing the prospect of success
and hastening the time when they can occupy self-supporting positions of useful-
ness. Judicious loans, in such circumstances, strengthen rather than effeminate
character, and become a bond of increasing attachment to the interests and service
of a Church which extends to her young people such a pledge of solicitude in their
behalf.
This policy, as a golden mean between doing nothing for ministerial candidates
who have to struggle with poverty and other embarrassments, and doing too much
for them, also enables the Board to respond to a greater number of applications,
and at the same time creates a strong ground of appeal for the increase of its re-
sources in proportion to the ever-increasing claims made upon it.
"When donors toward an educational fund know that the proceeds of their be-
nevolence will only aid a few individuals, being permanently absorbed by each
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recipient, thej' have far less motive for grand and cheerful effort than when they
can be assured that the income from whatever they may give will have perpetual
succession, by the process of returning to the treasury and being disbursed over
and over again during the unmeasured future.
Under this policy the Board has made the foUowi
DISBURSEMENTS IN LOANS TO STUDENTS:
1879 $8,217 00
1880 8,000 00
1881 8,000 00
1882 11,037 00
1883 12,000 00
1873 $300 00
1874 4,477 00
1875 10,095 00
1876 8,554 56
1877 7,U26 50
1878 7,786 14
Total $86,093 20
By these loans 1,000 different students have been aided, and through them some
eighty institutions of the Church have received corresponding benefits. Institu-
tions can only accomplisli important ends by having the right kind of students.
In most, if not all, cases, the students who have been aided by the Board have
been recommended by their teachers as among the very best, and also such as
would have had to discontinue their studies if not aided. Many of them have
not yet finished their courses of study. Hence the time has not come when any
adequate judgment can be formed of the benefits conferred botb upon them and
the Church by means of the loans furnished. Yet it is safe to say that 200
(one fifth) of the number have already entered some sixty of our Annual Con-
ferences as traveling preachers ; twenty - five or more have become foreign
missionaries in Bulgaria, India, Japan, Mexico, and South America ; while on
our lists remain a considerable number of choice candidates for the foreign mission-
ary work. The correspondence of the Board bears strong testimony to the advan-
tages these faithful sons and daughters of the Church liave received through a little
aid from our funds in the hour of need, which has often proved to be the crisal
hour of their lives. It is also to be borne in mind that the aid rendered to such
students, and the successes brought out by them, exert a most beneficial influence
by way of example upon many thousands of youth in our Sunday-schools and
families. Such influences are greatly needed in the present materializing age.
B. — DEPARTMENT OF FUNDS AND COLLECTIONS.
Without entering into minute details, or pausing to discriminate accurately be-
tween the General Educational Fund and the Children's Fund, it may be summarily
said that both are in an excellent condition. Starting in ISfiS from the Centenary
gift of $65,829 72, they have more than doubled in amount, being represented at
the present time by f 136,000 of interest-bearing securities. Besides attaining this
handsome growth, they have paid all expenses and enabled the Board to disburse
more than $86,000 in loans, or about $20,000 in excess of tlieir whole amount at the
beginning. If the history of Christian benevolences can make any better showing
than that we should rejoice to see it. At the same time it is to be stated that some
valuable properties bestowed by liberal-minded donors and one deposit of $5,000 on
annuity are held by the Board, and not yet classed with its interest-bearing assets.
"While it is to be hoped that the General Fund will continue to grow by means of
such gifts and legacies, the great reliance of the Children's Fund must ever be on
the annual collections it is appointed to receive from the churches and Sunday-
schools. That this reliance is one of the most hopeful character may be seen from
the growing success of those collections in proportion to the better acquaintance of
the clmrclies with their design and elements of promise.
188 Methodist Year-Book.
AlfNUAL RECEIPTS OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION.
From church and Sunday-school collections, legacies, special donations, and the
repayment of loans :
1879 $2,491 59
1880 2,079 -^i
1881 9,250 8(5
1883 18,020 :.()
1883 33,718 43
1873 Sl,490 68
1874 4,630 90
1875 (net) 2,141 38
1876 887 26
1877 1,994 57
1878 565 30
Testimony is rapidly accumulating (See the Church " Manual," and recent Ec-
ports of the Board of Education) to show that the t'hildren's-D.iy collections, whece-
ever properly introduced and conducted, are not oidy popular in the best sense and
constantly growing in favor, but are also actually the occasion of invaluable good
influences botli of an educational and religious character. It is sincerely to be hoped
that this important characteristic may continue and increase. To this end no efl'ort
will be spared on the part ot the Board.
It is particularly to be hoped that on the occasion of our Centenary of 1884 an
extraordinary benefit may be given to Ijoth our General and Children's Educational
Funds, carrying them up to some just approxinuition of the amount originally asked
for them by their projectors. This result is sjiecially solicited as a means of enabling
the Board to meet the accumulating claims that are made upon it.
The increased educational interest in all parts of the Church growing out of the
observance of Children's Day, and the publication of the designs and provisions
of the Board, has had the efl'ect to greatly increase the number of youth seeking to
enter our schools and needing help that they may do so. In this the Church should
rejoice, not only as a most hopeful sign of progress, but as an extraordinary call and
opportunity for enlarged liberality.
AUXILIARY SOCIETIES.
Our educational system, as stated in the Church Discipline, 1 254, §§ 1-6, contem-
plates two great classes of objects: 1. The founding, building, and endowment of
institutions of learning. 2. The encouragement of our people to patronize those
institutions, and the aiding, when necessary, of candidates for the Christian minis-
try in obtaining a suitable education.
It is to the latter object that the educational collections provided for in §§ 4 and 5
specLtically relate. The language of § 4 is this :
It shall be the duty of the preacher in charge of a circuit or station to take one
public collection annually in each society in aid of the work of education. The
money so received shall be paid over to such auxiliary of the Board of Education as
the Annual Conference may direct, or, in tlie absence of Annual Conference direc-
tions, to the Treasurer of the Parent Board.
This implies that the proceeds of this collection are not to be used for general or
miscellaneous educational objects, but for the specific objects stated in the charter of
this Board, and by the previous action of the General Conference creating it.
Kevertheless, it gives full power to the Conference to direct whether they shall be
so applied through an auxiliary society of the Board of Education, or through the
Parent Board itself, or through both. When a Conference is in circumstances that
require special etforts to build or endow an institution, it needs no society to pass
over the funds for such object. While, at the beginning, such efforts are essential,
Methodist Year-Book.
189
they are in their nature preliminary and temporary ; wliereas the work of encour-
aging and aiding students to profit by the existence of tliose institutions is perpetuaL
Besides, experience has proved that the former object is only to be accomplished
successfully by subscriptions, donations, and bequests of larger amounts than are
attainable by Church collections. T)ie latter object, however, is quite within the
compass of the smaller offerings of the masses of the people, whose sympathy it is
certain to secure when properly stated.
As fast as the several Conference Educational Societies enlist in the proper work
of auxiliaries, and report on the same, the Board incorporates tlieir statistics with
those of the Church at large in such showings as that which follows :
Exhibit of the Work of the Board of Education of the Methodist Episcopal
Church and its Auxiliaries up to September, 1883.
Abridged Titles.
Board of Education
Conference Auxiliaries
Central German *
Central Pennsylvania*
Chicago German *
East Ohio*
Erie (Centenary Fund) * . . .
Genesee
Holston
Kentucky
Ministerial Ed. Soc. of Chicago |
New England
Newark
New Jersey
New York
North Ohio*
Oregon
Philadelphia
Troy
Southern Illinois *
Upper Iowa *
West Virginia*
Wilmington
1873, 250
1870]
1876
18701
1879
1872!
1874
1869
11872
1858
1855
1860
1863
1863
1868
1879
1871
1870
1869
1861
1852
1872
Total.
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$12,000 1,000
50
350
150
110
65
648
32
31
800
1,515
750
350
516
250
75
1,750
527
317
978
550
100
231
244
57
35
63
10
2
59
i5
30
12
14
14
374 821,914 1,924 $273,233
Officers Reporting.
D. P. Kidder, Cor. Sec.
950 J. G. Schaal, Sec.
,374 H. R. Mosser, Treas.
459 F. Gottshall, Sec.
110!m. J. Slutz, Sec.
,115JA. B. Hyde, Treas.
,108 Daniel Clark, Treas.
734 J. S. Petty, Treas.
262 J. A. Boatman, Sec
,800 W. X. Ninde, Sec.
,500 N. T. Whitaker, Sec
,694'A. Craig. Sec.
182 S. E. Post, Treas.
100 \v. H. Mickle, Sec. and Treas.
,288 P. F. Graham, Sec
75 J. N. Denison, Sec.
,705 W. J. Paxson, Sec.
,059 J. W. Eaton, Treas.
027 D. W. Phillips, Sec
,000 J. B. Allirook, Sec.
,000 J. L. Clark, Treas.
,598|W. H. Hutchin, Sec.
From the above summary, it is certain that the Board of Education and its aux-
iliaries have, during tiie past year, aided S74 students, to an amount exceeding
twenty thousand dollars, and from the beginning of their action, 1,924 students, to
the amount of more than two hundred and seventy-tliree thousand dollars. These
amounts fall short of the reality owing to the lack of recent and full reports. Nev-
ertheless, they indicate the progress of the work in this department of Church ac-
tivity. It must, however, be confessed that the progress is so slow as to suggest
grave queries as to whether in many localities Conference educational societies can
be maintained with satisfaction and efficiency. Repeated experiments have proved
that their efficient action is greatly embarrassed by the distance from each other of
* Statistics of ISSl.
190 Methodist Year-Bo ok.
the officers and managers, as well as by the frequent changes of residence incident
to the itineracy. The business of an educational society cannot be thoroughly
transacted without a laborious correspondence, which often has to yield to the press-
ing duties of the pastoral office. For these and kindred reasons, some Conferences
find it more convenient and equally advantageous to transfer their business in trust
to the Parent Board, as suggested in Articles IV and IX of the Constitution of an
auxiliary. With increasing experience and enlarged facilities, the Board is now
prepared to administer the trusts of any number of auxiliaries, and to any extent
for which the means may be supplied.
In all cases of separate action it is important that Conference auxiliaries conform
their modes of administration as nearly as possible to the policy and methods of
the Parent Board, so as to secure the greatest degree of unity and efficiency possible
to our system as a whole. Di vergent methods and policies tend alike to weakness and
confusion, whereas unity of aun and cordiality of co-operation are promotive of the
grandest and best results. Certain it is that without interested and watchful guard-
ianship, interests of this kind are in danger of being deflected from their specific
design by temporary expedients, or of being allowed to lapse into comparative
neglect.
C. DEPARTMENT OF STATISTICS AND EDUCATIONAL PKOGEESS.
Prior to the origin of the Board of Education, our Church had founded more than
one hundred institutions of learning of various grades, and through them accom-
plished great good. But, contrary to our policy in other entei-prises, we had no
recognized center of unity for the promotion of harmonious and co-operative action.
A Connectional atrency was, therefore, wanted that should hold a common relation
to all existing institutions, and be prepared to exercise a wholesome advisory influ-
ence upon any that might be founded thereafter. To this central agency all should
report, and from it a motive power should be exercised which should stimulate and
focalize our educational eneri^ies in behalf of the highest interests of the Church.
To the important objects indicated in the above paragraph, the first Correspond-
ing Secretary of the Board devoted no little time and attention. The greatest diffi-
culties had previously embarrassed all efforts to secure, in a reliable form, the edu-
cational statistics of the Church. Strenuous efforts had been made to secure them
for the General Conferences of 1860 and 1864. The respective results were published
in the General Conference Journal of 1860, and in Stevens's " Centenary of American
Methodism" in 1865. In 1874 Dr. Haven published in a Eeport of this Board a
more complete exhibit of similar statistics than had been previously secured. From
1882, forward, a full tabulation of the educational statistics of the Church, as officially
reported, has been printed as an important part of each Annual Eeport of this Board.
That herewith given will be published with additions and corrections in the Eeport
of the Board to the Centennial General Conference of 1884. Although its showings
are below the actual facts, they will serve for an instructive comparison designed
to show the educational progress of the Church during the last 18 years, together
with many other important objects of reference and consideration.
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2
9
7
102
144
43
714
1,319
605
23,106
26,483
3,377
S3,055,000
$7,4:32,800
407,781
$4,377,8tJO
It is especially interesting to notice the growing extension of our educational in-
stitutions in foreign lands, where they are found to be indispensable auxiliaries to
missionary effort on any large and promising scale. Many of these institutions are
yet young and small, but who can forecast the extent of their future influence, or
estimate their promise for good ?
Space is not allowed to remark upon the numerous topics for tliought and study
suggested by the figures given. It is, however, to be hoped that they will be
thoroughly elaborated in many educational essays and addresses, both by ministers
and teachers. It is specially to be hoped that their perusal and consideration by
tlie teachers of all grades in our church schools, will conduce to broader views of
tlie great enteiTDrise in which they are engaged, and to a higher esprit du corps in a
body now numbering over eleven hundred educated persons. At the same time,
the figures given may be every-where accepted as strong appeals for greater liberal-
ity in behalf of an enterprise so grandly commenced, so far-reaching in its
influence, but as yet only in its beginnings.
As a specimen of the progress and results to be expected in the history of all our
successful educational institutions, a few facts are here given from the history of
one of them :
The Wesleyan University, of Middletown, Conn., was organized in 1831 with a
faculty of five members, forty -eight students, nine hundred volumes in library, and
a small but unestimated amount of property and resources. In 1881, fifty years
later, it had a faculty of twenty members, one hundred and eighty-four students,
thirty-one thousand volumes in library, $650,430 in property and resources, and an
income for the year of |47,030. At the latter period its graduates numbered 1,291,
of whom 633 had been ministers, 48 college presidents, 674 professors and teachers,
249 lawyers, 73 physicians, 71 editors, and 164 authors, besides many engaged in
secular pursuits. The institution also numbered 935 non-gi-aduate alumni, who
were distributed in about the same proportions as to engagements in life. The
statisticians of the University estimated that the 633 ministers among the graduates
had spent 8,540 years preaching.
While careful attention to statistics is recommended to all our institutions, to be
published in due time, it is obvious that the Board of Education can only record
summaries and grand aggregates. It is gratifying, however, to observe that this
branch of its duties is so thorouglily systematized, that little difficulty need be ex-
pected hereafter in publishing reliable statistics from year to year. All deviations
from that result will be directly chargeable to the neglect of such heads of institu-
tions as fail to make the annual report to the Board which the Church has ordered,
and the reports, from year to year, will indicate who the delinquents are.
Unfortunately this is a matter in which a single omission or delinquency damages
the aggregate showing of the whole Church. But we are unwilling to believe that
196 Methodist Year-Book.
a single officer of an institution, founded or maintained in the interest of the
Church, would designedly withhold the reports solicited; however, we are convinced
that the act or habit of procrastination has heretofore, in some instances, contrib-
uted to an equivalent result.
But, whether reported properly or not, we rejoice in the belief that the work of
each institution will go on increasing in power and usefulness, until the records of
future Centennials shall show results of a grandeur that it is now impossible to
anticipate.
Plans for Educational Effort in 1884.
It is an interesting fact in the history of our Church that when the manner of
commemorating the one hundredth year from our organization was under considera-
tion by the General Conference of 1880 only two classes of opinions were expressed.
The one, as represented by the Committee on Education, proposed concentrated
and exclusive efforts in behalf of education. The other, as represented by the
Committee on the Centenary, proposed primary and leading efforts in behalf
of education, but also the recognition of other suitable objects for pecuniary
offerings.
The Bishops, to whom the whole matter was referred, taking into view the sub-
stantial unanimity of the General Conference on the first point, as well, doubtless,
as following their own judgment, appointed that " the cMef object of Connectional
ofi'erings should be the cause of education." In so doing, they commended "to
the liberality of the Church : 1. The Board of Education; 2. The Freedmen's Aid
Society ; 3. Theological schools ; 4. Such seminaries, colleges, and universities as
shall be selected by the several Annual Conferences."
Under the action quoted it is left to each society and institution included in the
recommendation to adopt its own method of presenting its claims to the Church.
That such presentation will, in every instance, be ably and faithfully made in all
hopeful forms may be taken for granted. It is, consequently, reasonable to expect
that most interesting results will follow. It is not ditiicult to foresee that, in the
expected presentation, each local institution will have peculiar advantages in the
section it specially represents, and it is greatly to be hoped that their several
claims will be duly appreciated and honored with the largest liberality. Should
that be the case, many troublesome debts will be canceled, many much-
needed buildings will be erected, and large sums of money will be consecrated to
endowments.
But, with aU this, there will be both room and necessity for effort and liberality
in behalf of the broad and Connectional interests specially represented by the
Board of Education. Those interests appeal to the Church, its members, and its
children in every section. They are, in fact, greatly enhanced by all local im-
provements and increased facilities for instruction in the several institutions, inas-
much as their object is to enable even the poorest of our Christian youth to enter
those institutions of every grade and profit by their advantages. But owing to the
multiplicity of otlier benevolences, there is only a single day in the year in which,
the claims of the Children's Educational Fund can be made prominent. That,
however, is Children's Day, now happily established as the red-letter day of the
Sunday-school and children's year. It is, therefore, to be hoped that our Centenary
Children's Day will be every-where observed with increased interest and greatly
enlarged liberality. To facilitate that result, the Board of Education will adopt,
with improvements, tlie plans so successfully followed in 1883. They may be
briefly stated as follows :
Methodist Year-Book. 197
Plans for the Centenary Children's Day, 1884.
1. As iu the published Eeport of tlie Board of Education, tlie collections will be
classified under the heads of the several districts of each Conference, a circular will
be sent to each Presiding Elder asking his co-operation and influence toward se-
curing a good Children's Day celebration in every charge under his supervision,
and that with special reference to the inaugui'ation of the Centennial services of
the year.
2. To each pastor will be sent an explanatory circular addressed jointly to him
and his Sunday-school superintendent for immediate and careful consideration.
This circular wiU be accompanied with two copies of the Board of Eduoation's
Eeport on Childrefa's Day, 1883 ; also with a specimen Order of Service for Chil-
dren's Day, 1884 ; and a Letter to the Children and youth of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church, relating to Children's Day and its objects.
3. An offer will be made in the circular to pastors and superintendents of a suit-
able number of Orders of Service and Children's Letters to be gratuitously sent to
each school pledging the Children's Day collection, and ordering them in a speci-
fied way and in proper time. The proper time is so as to reach New York before
or within the month of April. So far as practicable, the circulars will be sent out
in February.
4. To comply with the wishes of many, a " Manual of Hints and Helps " for the
observance of Children's Day wiU be published and offered for sale at all the Book
Depositories of the Church.
5. As from early ages it has been customary to commemorate great events by the
coinage of medals to be handed down to coming generations, so the Board of Edu-
cation proposes, on this occasion, to strike a historic medal, which shall be
jointly commemorative of the organization of the Methodist Episcopal Church in
1784 and of the celebration of its fii-st Centenary in 1884. While the Centenary
medal will have a special charm and value for the young, it is known in advance
tliat it will also be wanted by great numbers of adult persons. It will, therefore, be
furnished during the whole year to all persons, young or old, who will send one
dollar each to the Children's Educational Fund. Nevertheless, as the chief oppor-
tunity for children and young persons to obtain it will be in connection with the
Children's Day offerings, definite plans for that object will be published in the
circulars above referred to.
It is hoped and believed that, in the various ways and by the various means pro-
posed, the closing year of our first century of Church organization and action will
not only be marked by the richest of religious influences, but also by grand and
far-reaching results in behalf of Christian education. There is an inspiration in the
very thought tliat a Church which had no organized existence one hundred years
ago — there then being no Sunday-schools in the land — will be able in 1884 to put
into line, under the banner of the cross and of Christian education, some two
millions of Sunday school scholars and teachers, supported by two millions more
of interested parents and friends. The interest of the Centennial Children's Day
will also be greatly enhanced by the fact that its observance will not only extend
all over our own country, but also to the foreign countries in which our missions
have been planted around the world.
198 Methodist Year-Book.
Courses of Study for Itmerant Ministers of the Methodist Episcopal
Church.
AH the Annual Conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church have four years'
thorough courses of theological study prescribed by the Discipline * of the Church,
and no preacher (whether a graduate of the Theological Seminaries or not) is al-
lowed to graduate into the full ministry of the Church until he has passed an exami-
nation in these courses of study before the officially-appointed Examining Com-
mittees. The following summaries, carefully collated from the General Minutes,
and from the Local Minutes of the Annual Conferences for the year ending July 1,
1883, will indicate the number of Examining Committees and students embraced in
these courses ot Conference Theological Studies for the year;
Total number of Conference Committees of Examination 896
Total number of Examiners appointed on these Committees 1,264
Number of Preachers in classes for Admission on Trial 354
students in classes of First Year's Course 620
Students in classes of Second Year's Course 633
Students in classes of Third Year's Course 583
Students in classes of Fourth Year's Course 360
Total number of Preachers in Conference Courses of Theological Study 2,550
In these Conference Courses of Theological Study the Examining Committees for
the several classes are selected by the presiding BSshop and council of Presiding
Elders, and announced at the Conference session. The names of the persons thus
selected, with the names of the students in the several classes, are published in the
Local Conference Minutes, and the examinations usually take place at the ensuing
Annual Conference session. The name of each student is called in open Confer-
ence, and the result of his examination announced by the Examining Committee.
Methodist Episcopal Church Calendar for 1884.
Semi-ajstnttal meeting of Bishops in Detroit — May.
Annual meeting of the Book Committee — Second Wednesday in February. Each
section to have meetings at such times as it may elect.
Montlily meeting of Missionary Board — Third Tuesday in each month.
Annual meeting of Gciaeral Missionary Committee, in month of November. Sec-
retaries and Treasurers fix date of the meeting.
Annual meeting of Woman's Foreign Missionary Society — November, 1884.
Annual meeting of Woman's Home Missionary Society.
Quarterly meeting of the Sunday-School Union — Fourth Wednesdays of March,
June, September, and December.
Quarterly meeting of the Tract Board — Second Wednesday of March, June, Sep-
tember and December.
Ainiiversaries of Sunday-School Union and Tract Society are fixed by the Boards
of Managers.
Annual election of Officers of the Board of Church Extension — January of each
year.
* For Courses of Study now required, see Methodist Discipline of 1880, pp. 365-3CS.
Methodist Year-Book. 199
Animal meeting of General Committee of Church Extension — November, day
fixed by Board.
Amiual meeting of the Board of Education — Time fixed by Board of Managers.
" Cliildren's Day," (see Discipline, 1850, p. 161,) second Sunday in June.
Annual meeting of the Freedmen's Aid Society. The Board of Managers fix the
date.
The one hundred and sixteenth anniversary of the organization of the John-street
Church — the first Methodist Ciimxh in America — will be observed on the last Suu-
diiy in October, 1884.
Monthly meeting of the Board of Managers of the American Bible Society, third
Thursday of each month.
New York City Oimrch Extension and Missionary Society of the Meth-
odst Episcopal Church.
President, John B. Cornell ; First Vice-President, Rev. Bishop W. L. Harris, D.D. ;
Vice-Prefiidcnts, Rev. M. S. Terry, D.D., Rev. Thomas H. Burch, Rev. WilUam T. Hill,
Gen. Clinton B. Flsk, Bowles Colgate, Anderson Fowler; Correspoudiiiri Secretary, Rev.
A. D. Vail, D.D. ; Recording Secretary, James A. Seaman ; Assistant Recording Secre-
tarjj, George N. Compton; Disbursing Treasurer, William H. Falconer; Receiving
Treasurer, Thomas Crocker.
This is one of the many local Home Missionary Societies which are to be found
in a considerable number of important centers of Methodist Church work. It was
incorporated April 14, 1866, and has steadily grown in its work and usefulness
until now, wlien it reports 21 churches and chapels under its care. It has nurtured
into self-support at least a dozen influential Churches. The subjoined statistical
talkie, taken from its Annual Eeport for 1882, gives the numerical summaries for
that year.
Number of churches and chapels under the supervision of the society 21
Pastors and assistants 23
Full members 2,974
Kumber on probation 338
Total membership 3,312
Average weekly attendance at morning preaching 2,249
" " " evening " 3,032
" " " prayer-meeting 1,083
Sermons preached in 1882 — 1,811
Missionarv and pastoral visits 15,839
Visits to the sick 3,0G4
Pages of tracts distributed 30,308
Temperances pledges obtained 194
Conversions (including those In Sunday-schools) 583
Weekly attendance at class 936
Number of officers and teachers in Sunday-schools 482
Average attendance of officers and teachers, afternoon session 411
Total number of scholars, December, 1883 5,841
Average attendance of scholars, afternoon session 3,802
Number of conversions in Sunday-school 148
Amount raised and paid out for current expenses by the Treas-
urer of the Board $21,885 97
Amount raised and expended for cuirent expense hy the local
societies 29,1*3 83
Amount raised by the local societies and expended for current
expenses of the Sunday-schools 6,246 22
Total $57,316 02
In addition to the foregoing amount there has been raised and expended on new
church enterprises about $35,000 during the past year, making a total of $92,316 02.
200 Methodist Year-Book.
John Street Churcli, New York City.
This old historic Church of American Methodism (the Society of which was or-
gjanized on the last Sunday in October, 1766, the first dedication taking place two
years later) passed, by special act of the Legislature of New York, in 1866, into the
care of trustees to be elected by the General Conference. This trust was accepted
by the General Conference of 1868, and trustees were elected by that body, and
their successoi's have since been duly elected by the General Conference of 1872,
1876, and 1880. The report adopted by the Conference of 1880 included the fol-
lowing :
"As the Centennial of the organization of the Methodist Episcopal Church will
occur in 1884, we suggest, without entering into details, that it may be feasible to
interest the entire Methodism of our own country, as well as that of the mother
country and the Canadas, in perpetuating this old historic Church, planted more
than a hundred years ago, to evidence on this continent the truth of John Wesley's
maxim — a maxim we, his children, hold as our own — " The world is our parish."
We also recommend the editors of our papers to render such aid as may be necessary
to carry out the suggestions of this report.
" Nominated by the Quarterly Conference of the First Methodist Episcopal Centen-
nial Church of the city of New York, (John Street,) we approve and otfer the fol-
lowing names for this General Conference to elect as trustees of said Church : John
Bentley, (President and Treasurer,) Edward Allen, Benjamin W. Tilton, William
Colhns, James Wright, Walter B. Bailey, Frank E. Trowbridge, Keese B. Gwillim,
James S. Coward."
In 1866, the Centennial year of the organization of the John Street Church, the
pastor and trustees, acting in accordance with the advice of the presiding elder and
of Bishop Janes, obtained from the Legislature of the State ot New York the sub-
joined special cliarter, the purpose being " to make sure ol the preservation of the
church edifice, with its appurtenances in perpetuity, as a place for religious services
according to the Discipline and usages of the Methodist Episcopal Church."
Charter.
Section 1. B. F. ■Weymouth, C. H. Applegate, E. Allen, D. Roberts, Luke Sharp, William
Collins, John Bentley, John A. Currier, and Charles Ferguson, residents of the city of New
York, and their successors in office as herein provided for, are hereby constituted a body cor-
porate, by the name of "The First Methodist Episcopal Centennial Church of the city of New
York," to take, have, hold, and use upon the trust, and for the purpose of executing- the trust
hereby created, the property, buildino-s, church edifice, and appurtenances, moneys, funds, uses,
benefices, and income of both the realty and personality, now in whole or in part belonging to,
or that from any source would at any lime hereafter accrue to the use and benefit of, the cor-
poration of " The First Methodist Episcopal Church in the city of New York," and for the pur-
poses of said trust, the trustees of "The First Methodist Episcopal Church in the city of New
York " * are hereby authorized and empowered to execute and convey unto the corporation
hereby created, under their hands and seals, and for a nominal consideration in the sum of one
dollar, all rights, title, property, rights of property, possession, use, and income of, in or to any
property or things aforesaid, held upon trust by the said trustees as such, for and on behalf of
the congregation connected with the said Church aforesaid, together with all corporate rights
of said Church corporation of every name, nature, or description whatever ; and thereupon said
church edifice, jiroperty, rights of property, possession, use, income, and corporate rights, as
aforesaid, theretofore in any wise appertaining or belonging unto the said Church corporation of
the said " First Methodist Episcopal Church of the city of New York," shall be and become
transferred unto and vested in the corporation hereby created upon the trusts, and for the uses
and purposes of said trust, as herein defined. And the corporation hereby created shall possess,
enjoy, and exercise all the rights, powers, and jn-ivileges hereby conferred, and shall perform all
the duties and obligations hereby imposed, and in Its corporate name may sue and be sued, and
* The corporate name of the John Street Church.
Methodist Year-Book. 201
may take, hsve, hold, possess, use, and enjoy, and may sell, frrant, alien, convey, or mortijag'e
any real or personal property, for the uses and purposes of the trusts hereby created ; but no
sale or mortgage of real estate shall be made without the consent of the General Conference
hereinafter named, and the order of the Supreme Court of the First Judicial District of the
State previously obtained therefor.
Sec. 2. The property, rights of property, and of possession, and all equities of property or in-
come hereby authorized to be transferred by conveyance, as aforesaid, to the corporation here-
by created, shall be held and used solely upon the trust of maintaining and supporting upon the
property, premises, and in the church edifice situate and now know as numbers forty-four and
forty-six John Street, in said city of New fork, and to be known by the name of said incorpo-
ration hereby created, a church dedicated to the service of the worship of Almighty God, and a
ministry and religious services and instruction to the people or persons who shall hereafter
constitute the congregation connected tlierewith, under the formula and discipUne of the Gen-
eral Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States.
Sec. 3. The business and affairs of the corporation hereby created shall be managed by a
bo.ird of trustees, not exceeding nine in number, a majority of whom shall constitute a quorum
competent to act at any regular or adjourned meeting thereof; but the acts of said trustees as
such shall be subject at all times and subordinate to the directions and instructions of said Gen-
eral Conference relative thereto.
Sec. 4. All persons first herein named shall be and act as trustees of the said corporation
until their successors are elected, as herein provided ; and at any regular session or meeting
of the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States, said Gen-
eral Conference may elect a board of trustees, not exceeding nine in number, to be trustees of
said corporation, and to hold office as such trustees untU the ne.xt session of the General Con-
ference, and until tbeir successors are elected as aforesaid, all of whom shall be citizens of the
Slate of New York, and members of the Methodist Episcopal Church ; and the trustees thus
elected shall succeed to aU the rights, powers, and privileges, and shall perform all the duties
conferred or imposed upon their immediate predecessors as trustees, under the trust created
under this act, and as such, for the time being, shall constitute said corporation, and upon the
election of their successors, shall, from time to time, surrender all their rights, powers, and pre-
rogatives as said corporation, as well as said trustees, to such successors, and any vacancy oc-
curring from any cause in said ofiice of said trustee may be filled in such manner as shall be
provided by said General Conference, to hold until its next regular session.
Sec. 5. The said corporation may establish and maintain, in connection with the said Church
and congi-egation, a parsonage for the use, occupancy, and accommodation of the minister or min-
isters that may from time to time be assigned to said Church and congregation, and may also
estabhsh and maintain any parochial school. Sabbath-schools, or mission schools, for the sup-
port, maintenance, education, and instruction of any and every class of persons or children who
may voluntarily choose to attend the same.
Sec. 6. The Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, within whose juris-
diction the church edifice of said corporation shall, for the time being, be located, shall be em-
powered and authorized, in accordance with the usage and discipline of said Church, to assign to
the ministry of said corporation such minister, ministers, and teachers as may be deemed
proper by said Annual Conference ; and said Church congregation shall be represented in said
Annual Conference in the same manner as other Churches under the discipUne of said Meth-
odist denomination.
Sec. 7. The corporation hereby created may take by gift, grant, devise, or bequest, any mon-
eys, property, real or personal, rights of propert}', or other \alnable thing, the annual income
from which shall not exceed the sum of twenty "thousand dollars in the whole, and subject to
the trusts hereby created shall apply the same to the execution and carrying into effect of the
objects and purposes of the said trust, as herein contemplated ; and all derises and bequests to
said corporation shall be subject to the provisions of an act entitled "An Act relating to Wills,"
passed April thirteenth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty, and the acts amending the
same.
As soon as the charter was obtained the trustees of the old corporation, by due
legal process, transferred the whole John Street property to the new corporation,
the deed containing the additional provision that the General Conference, in the
election of trustees, shall select from a list nominated by the John Street Quarterly
Conference. All the papers in the case were reported to the General Conference of
1868, and that body, witliout dissent, accepted the trust.
Pastoes Airo Presiding Elders of the John Street Church.
The following is a complete list of the pastors and presiding elders of John Street
Church from the date of its first service. Until the year 1838 John Street was em-
braced in a circuit, and, as other congregations were formed, the pastors in their
y*
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services alternated at the several churches. This ■will indicate the reason why sev-
eral names are connected with the pastorate during each year.
DATE
NAME.
DATE
NAME.
DATE
NAME.
1766
Philip Embury.
1801
Thomas Morrell.
1816
A. Scholefleld.
1T6T
.. i'
"•
D. Ostraiider.
1817
D. Ostrander.
176S
U 11
"
M. Coate.
"
N. Bangs.
Thomas Webb.
1802
T. Morrell.
"
S. Crowell.
1T60
Robert Williams.
"
T. F. Sargent.
"
S. Howe.
Eichard Boardman.
"
J. Wilson.
1818
N. Bangs.
1770
Joseph Pilmoor.
1803
M. Choato.
18l8
L. Clark.
1771
Francis Asbury.
"
R. WiUiston.
"
S. Crowell.
1772
Richard Wright.
"
J. Wilson.
"
S. Howe.
1773
Thomas Rankin.
1804
N. Snethen.
"
T. Thorpe.
1774
Georfre Shadford.
"
M. Coate.
1819
N. Bangs, P. E.
1775
James Dempster.
"
S. Merwin.
"
A. Hunt.
1776
Daniel Ruff.
1805
F. Garrettson.
"
S. Merwin.
1777
John Mann.
"
N. Snethen.
"
L. Clark.
1778
Samuel Spraggs.
"
A. Hunt.
"
B. Hibbard.
1T79
" "
"
J. Wilson.
"
T. Spicer.
1780
» 11
1806
A. Hunt.
"
N. Morris.
1781
U 11
•1
T. Bishop.
1820
P. P. Sandford, P.E.,4y.
1782
11 (1
1807
J. Crawford, P. E.
"
A. Hunt.
1783
John Dickins.
"
T. Bishop.
"
J. Soule.
1784
U 4k
1'
F. Ward.
"
B. Hibbard.
1785
John Hasrerty.
"
P. Peck.
"
T. Spicer.
1786
John Tunnell, Eld.
"
S. Thomas.
"
E. Hebard.
John Dickins.
1808
W. Thatcher.
1821
J. Soule.
1787
U 11
E. Cooper.
"
E. Hebard.
Woolman Hickson.
"
J. Wilson.
"
M. Richardson.
1783
Henry Willis, Eld.
"
F. Ward.
"
W. Ross.
"
John Dickins.
"
L. Andrus.
"
H. Bangs.
"
Freeborn Garrettson.
"
P. Peck.
"
J. Sumnierfield.
1789
F. GaiTettson, l'. E.
1S09
W. Thatcher.
1822
E. Washburn.
Robert Cloud.
1'
E. Smith.
"
M. Richardson.
"
John Merrick.
"
W. Keith.
"
8. Martindale.
"
William Phcebus.
1810
N. Bangs.
"
W. Ross.
1790
Thos. Morroll, Eld.
"
E. Smith.
«
H. Bangs.
"
Robert C'loud, Eld.
"
1. Robertson.
"
J. Summerfield.
"
William Jessup.
"
J. M. Smith.
1823
E. Washburn.
1791
Robert Cloud, Eld.
"
P. P. Sandford.
"
S. Martindale.
"
Richard Wliatcoat.
1811
F. Garrettson, P. E., 4 y.
P. Rice.
"
Thomas Motrell.
"
N. Bangs.
"
J. B. Stratton.
"
James M^inn.
"
W. Phcebus.
11
8. Bushnell.
1792
Thomas Morrell, Eld.
"
L. Clark.
"
E. Brown.
"
Lemuel Green.
"
W. Blagborne.
1824
L. Clark, P. E, 8 yrs.
"
George Strebeck.
"
J. M. Smith.
"
P. P. Sandford.
1793
Jacob Bush, Eld.
"
P. P. Sandford.
P. Rice.
>'
Thoma-s Morrell.
1812
J. Crawford.
11
T. Mason.
•'
Daniel Smith, supply.
■'
W. Phoebus.
J. B. Stratton.
"
Ev. Rogers, supply.
"
L. Clark.
!•
8. Bushnell.
1791
Ezekiel Cooper.
"
P. Cook.
"
E. Brown.
•'
Lawrence M'Combs.
1813
P. Cook.
1825
P. P. Sandford.
3795
Wilson Lee.
"
J. Crawford.
H. Stead.
"
John Clark.
"
S. Cochr.an.
»
W. Jewett
1796
George Roberts.
"
P. Rice.
"
J. Tounirs.
"
Andrew Nichols.
1814
W. Phcebus.
"
D. DeVinne.
1797
George Roberts.
"
S. Cochran.
"
H. Chase.
"
Joshua Wells.
'1
N. Emery.
1826
H. Stead.
"
Wm. Beauchamp.
"
M. Richardson.
"
W. Jewett.
1798
Joshua Wells.
1815
S. Merwin, P. E., 4 yrs.
"
J. Youngs.
"
George Roberts.
"
W. I'hcebus.
"
N. White.
"
C. Stebbins.
"
W. Thatcher.
'1
R. Seney.
1799
John M'Claskey.
"
E. Washburn.
"
J. Field.
"
Thomas Sart'ent.
"
M. Richardson.
1827
T. Burch.
"
Michael Coate.
"
A. Seholi'field.
1'
N. White.
isoo
John M'Claskey.
1816
D. Ostrander.
"
R. Seney.
"
Jesse Lee.
"
W. Thatcher.
"
J. J. Matthias.
"
8. Hutchinson.
"
E. WashlMirn.
"
N. Leviiigs.
1801
J. M'Claskey.
"
L. Andrus.
"
J. Fiild.
Methodist Year-Book.
203
Pastors and Presiding Elders of the John Street Church — Continued.
DATE. NAMK.
DATE
NAMK.
DATF
NAME.
183S
D. Ostrandcr, P. E.,4 y.
1834
E. DeVinne.
1855
(Supply.)
"
T. Burch.
"
J. TackHberry.
1850
(Sujiply.)
"
C. Cariienter.
1S35
K. E. Gri.swold.
1857
W. H.Nonis, P. E., 2y.
u
J. Hunt.
"
J. B. Stiatton.
"
C. E. Harris.
"
J. J. Matthias.
"
D. De Viiine.
1S5S
I. >i .1
"
N. Levings.
"
J. Tackaberry.
1859
H. Bangs, P. E., 2.vrs.
"
G. Coles.
"
L. Mead.
"
E. L. Janes.
1829
S. Lucky.
1836
D. Ostrander, 4 yrs.
1S60
11 .1 ,1
C. Carpenter.
"
E. E. Griswold.
1661
E.E.Griswold, P.E.,4y.
"
J. Hunt.
"
C. W. Carpenter.
"
W. H. Milburn.
"
H. Bangs.
"
J. Covel. Jr.
1862
i; I. I.
"
G. Coles.
"
J. Z. Nichols.
1S63
J. M. Carroll.
"
S. D. Ferguson.
"
L. Mead.
1864
S. C. Keeler.
1880
S. Luckey.
"
L. Pease.
1865
H. Bangs, P. E., 2 yrs.
"
S. Mervviu.
1837
C. K. True.
'•
R. C. Putney.
"
L. Pease.
"
C. W. Carpenter.
1866
W. H. DePuv.
"
S. Martindale.
"
J. Covel. Jr.
1867
H.F. Pease. P.E.,4yrs.
"
B. Goodsell.
"
J. Z. Nicholls.
•'
W. H.DePuy.
"
H. Bangs.
"
A. S. Francis.
1863
" " "
«'
8. D. Ferguson.
1S88
B. Goodsell.
1S69
W. P. C.rbit.
1831
8. Merwin.
1S39
B. Coodsell.
1870
L. S. Weed.
"
L. Pease.
1S40
S. Luckey, P. E., 1 yr.
1871
J. B. Merwin, P. E.,4 y.
"
8. Martindale.
"
W. K. Stopford.
"
L. 8. Weed.
''
B. Goodsell.
1841
P. Eice. P. E., 3 yrs.
1872
"
8. Landon.
"
W. K. Stopford.
1873
N. G. Cheney.
"
J. Clark.
1S42
V. Buck.
1874
u u ..
"
B. SiUick.
1S43
" "
1875
G. F. Eetfell. P. E.
"
C. Prindie.
1844
P.P.Sandford,P.E.,4y.
"
N. G. Cheney.
1832
8. Merwin, P. E.,4yr3.
"
A. Eogers.
"
W. H. De Puy.
"
G. Coles.
1845
" "
1876
C. Fletcher, P. E.
'<
P. P. Sandford.
1S46
E. Crawford.
"
M. L. Scudder.
"
8. Landon.
1847
" "
1877
J. L. Peck, P. E., 2 yrs.
"
J. Bowen.
1848
N. Bangs, P. E., 4 yrs.
'•
B. T. Abbott.
"
C. Prind!e.
"
V. Buck.
1878
" " "
1833
Fitch Eeed.
1849
" "
1879
J. W. Beach, P. E., 2 y.
"
P. P. Sandford.
1850
George Brown.
"
B. T. Abbott.
•'
J. Bowe'i.
1851
" "
ISSO
L. S. Weed.
"
J. C. Gn-en.
1852
n. Bangs, P. E., 2 yrs.
ISSl
T. H. Burch, P. E., 2 y.
"
C. W. Carpenter.
"
H. Mattison.
'■
C. C. Laf^by.
1834
F. Keed.
1853
I. u
1882
" " "
'•
J. B. Strattnn.
1854
J. Floy, P. E.
1883
B. M. Adams. P. E.
"
J. C. Green.
"
6. 8. Hare.
"
A. B. ^an ord.
The Bishops at their Annual Meeting, held at their Room in New Yorlc, Novem-
ber, 1883, adopted the following :
Whereas^ The John Street Methodist Episcopal Church in New York is truly a
memorial of the first place of preaching the free grace of God according to Meth-
odist formulas in this city and county ; tvkerea.1, it is held by tiie Genei'al Contbr-
ence in trust as a Memorial Missionary Church for a large population of very mod-
erate means ; and, wherem, tliere are increasing difficulties in maintaining this
house of worship by reason of the removal of persons of financial ability ; there-
fore,
Resolved, That we commend the Church to benevolent and able men for finan-
cial asssistance.
Trustees of the John Street Methodist Episcopal Church Trust Fund Society,
organized in 1873: Bishop Harris, Pi'esident ; Isaac Odell, Vice-President;
John Bentley, Treasurer ; Edward Allen, James Wright, Wm. Collins, George
Sperling, B. M. Tilton, Geo. H. Shaffer, Wm. Iloyt, R. B. Guillim, and
H. D. Rolfe.
204
Methodist Year-Book.
International Bible Lessons for 1884.
First Quarter.
Jan. 6. The Conference at Jerusalem. Acts
15. 1-11.
13. Hearing and Doin°r. James 1. 16-27.
20. The Power of the Tongue. James 3. 1-lS.
27. Living as in Gud's Sight. James 4. 7-17.
Feb. 3. Paul's Second Missionary Journey.
Acts 15. 35-41. and 16. 1-10.
10. The Conversion of Lvuia. Acts 16. 11-24.
17. The Conversion of the Jailer. Acts 16. 25-40.
24. Thessalnnians an'l Bere;ins. Acts 17. 1-14.
March 2. Paul at Athens. Acts 17. 22-34.
9. Paul at Corinth. Acts IS. 1-17.
16. The Coming of the Lord. 1 Thess. 4. 13-18,
and 5. 1-8.
23. Christian Diligence. 2 Thess. 3. 1-18.
30. Eeview, or Lesson selected by the school.
Second Quarter.
April 6. Paul's Third Missionary Journey.
Acts 18. 23-28, and 19. 1-7.
13. Paul at Ephesus. Acts 19. 8-22.
20. Paul's Preaching. 1 Cor. 1. 17-31.
27. Abstinence for the sake of others. 1 Cor.
8. 1-13.
May 4. Christian Love. 1 Cor. 13. 1-13.
11. Victory over Death. 1 Cor. 15. 50-.58.
18. The Uproar at Ephesus. Acts 19. 23-41,
and 20. 1, 2.
25. Liberal Giving. 2 Cor. 9. 1-15.
Juve 1. Christian Liherty. Gal. 4. 1-16.
8. Justification by Faith. Rom. 3. 19-31.
15. The Blessednessof Behevers. Rom. 8.28-39.
22. Obedience to Law. Rom. 13. 1-10.
29. Eeview, or Lesson selected by the school.
Third Quarter.
July 6. David King over all Israel. 2 Sam.
5. 1-12.
13. The Ark in the House. 2 Sam. 6. 1-12.
20. God's Covenant with David. 2 Sam. 7. 1-16.
27. Kindness to Jonathan's Son. 2Sam. 9. 1-13.
Aug.S. David's Repentance. Psa. 51. 1-19.
10. Absalom's Rebellion. 2 Sam. 15. 1-14.
17. Absalom's Death. 2 Sam. 18. 24-33.
24. The Plague Stayed. 2 Sam. 24. 15-25.
31. God's Works and Word. Psa. 19. 1-14.
Sept. 7. Confidence in God. Psa. 27. 1-14.
14. Waiting for the Lord. Psa. 40. 1-17.
21. A Song of Praise. Psa. Hl3. 1-22.
28. Review, or Lesson selected by the school.
Fourth Quarter.
Oct. 5. Solomon Succeeding David. 1 Kings
1. 22-35.
12. David's Charge to Solomon. 1 Chron. 22.
6-19.
19. Solomon's Choice. 1 Kings 3. 5-15.
26. The Temple Built. 1 Kiugs 6. 1-14.
Nov. 2. The Temple Dedicated. 1 Kings 8.
22—36
9. The Wisdom of Solomon. 1 Kings 10. 1-13.
16. Solomon's Sin. 1 Kings 11. 4-13.
23. Proverbs of Solomon. Prov. 1. 1-16.
80. True Wisdom. Prov. 8. 1-17.
Dec. 7. Drunkenness. Prov. 23. 29-35.
14. Vanity of Worldly Pleasure. Eccles. 2.
1-13.
21. The Creator Remembered. Eccles. 12.
1-14.
28. Eeview, or Lesson selected by the school
Plan of Episcopal Visitation for Spring Conferences of 1884.
Conference. Place. Time
Florida Feraand'a, Fla. . . Jan.
North India .. .Cawnpore, India. .Jan.
South Carolina.. Sumter, S. C Jan.
Mississippi Jackson, Miss.... Jan.
Mexico Miss'n.. Mexico City Jan.
Liberia Monrovia, Lib. . .Jan.
Blue Ridge Catawba, N. C.Jan.
Louisiana New Orleans Jan.
N. Carolina Greensborough . . . Feb.
Little Rock Little Rock, Ark. Feb.
S. Amer. M'n. . . Montevideo, Ur. . .Feb.
Arkansas Rogers, Ark Feb.
Wilmington Wilmington March
Baltimore Washington March
South Kansas ... Paolo, Kan March
Virginia Waterford, Va. . .'March
Missouri St. Joseph, Mo.. .March
Italy Arezzo, Italy March
New Jersey Camden, N.J March
S. \V. Kansas... Newton, Kan March
Washington I.ynchb'g, Va March
Philadelphia. . . .Philadelphia March
Saint Louis Kansas City, M.. March
Bis/top.
.Bowman.
16.
.Bowman.
16
....Wiley.
n.
..Warren.
94
30.
Bowman.
30.
...Wiley.
6.
.Bowman.
13.
...Wiley.
13.
. . . Wiley.
. . . Harris.
. . . Foster.
. . Merrill.
..Warren.
Foss.
. . . Harris.
. . Merrill.
.Andrews.
. .Warren.
Foss.
Confmnce. Place. Time. Bishop.
Central Pa Williamsp't, Pa.. March 19 Hurst.
N. W. Kansas... Salina, Kan March 19....MerriU.
Kansas Topeka, Kans March 26 Merrill.
Newark Newark, N.J... .March 26. .Andrews.
Wyoming Scranton, Pa March 26. ..Warren.
Lexington Covington, Ky.. .March 26 Foss.
New York New York April 2. . Simpson.
New England April 2.... Foster.
East German . . . Brooklyn, N. Y. . . April 2. . Andrews.
North Indiana.. Pern, Ind April 2 Foss.
N. York East... Brooklyn, N. Y... April 2 Hurst.
North. N. Y....Utica, N. Y April 9. .Simpson.
N. E. South 'n . . .N. Bedf M, Mass. .April
Troy Amster'm, N. Y. . . April
N. Hampshire. . . Manchester April
Vermont Montpelier, Vt. . . April
East Maine Camden, Me April
Maine Bath, Me April
Delaware Easton, Md June
Ger'y& Switz'd. .Zurich, Switz'd. . . June
Sweden Upsaln, Sweden.. July
Norway Bergen, Nor'y July
Denmark Frederiksv'n Aug.
9.
. . . Foster.
9
Andrews.
9.
. . . . Hurst.
16.
Simpson.
16.
. . Harris.
16.
. . Foster.
4.
. Simpst n.
25.
...Hurst.
9.
...Hurst.
23.
.. Hurst,
8.
...Hurst.
Methodist Year-Book.
105
Necrology of the Itinerant Ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
LFor year ending November, 1883.]
The following Is a list of the Itinerant ministers of the Methodist Episcopal Church
who were members of Annual Conferences at the date of theix decease. The dates of
birth, entry into the Itinerant ministry, and death, are also given so far as they have been
reported. Should any errors in this list be noted, the Editor of the " Year-Book " desires
to be informed of them so that they may be corrected in next edition.
Abbott, Ira
Austin, Isaac
Baker, E.J. L
Bannister, Henry..
Bristol, Daniel W.
Brown, Philo E....
Brownson, W
Bugbee, Lucius H. .
Butler, Elisha
Chase, B. W
Chase, John
Cheston, Henry C.
Clippenger, W. A.
Cocker, B. F
Copeland, David...
Cranage, G.W ...
Dailey, J. P
Day, M. A
De Vinne, Daniel,.
Don Carlos, A
Eckert, A. B
Ellison E
Fish, Abraham
Fletcher, Josiah.. .
Ford, S. S
Fuller, Erasmus Q.
Garrett, W. M'K..
Gilder, John L. . . .
Glover, Charles E.
Gray, J
Green, Edwin T...
Greenstead, J
Hall, James
Hancock, L. M
Harford, R. L
Heatherly, L. D...
Henry, S
Henrj', William. . .
Hillman, Abner P.
Hood, A. W
Howe, C. L. F
Hovt, William C.
Hurlbnrt, R. H. . . .
Hutchinson, J. H..
Hutchins, D
Jackson, Abner..,.
Jones, Adam
Karsner, Charles. .
Kellogg, E. E
Kettell, G. F
Kingsland, C. F...
Kristeller. S
Latimer, E. C
Liscomb, Cyrus,. . .
Manley,R. W
Mahon, S. S
Marriott, Franklyn
Martin, R. B
N. Y. E,
Wyom.
Erie.
Wis.
C. N. Y,
Geuesee
Mich.
Pittsb'g
Cen. Pa.
Wilm.
Trov.
Cen. Pa,
Cen. Pa.
Detroit.
Wyom.
Pittsb'g
N'wark.
Phila.
N.Y. E
Illinois.
Wyom.
E.Ohin
Black R
N. N.Y.
Troy.
Georgia.
Pittsb'g
N. Y. E.
N. Y. E,
Detroit.
Genesee
Mich.
Cal.
Cal.
W. Va.
Holston
Troy.
Maine.
Wyom.
~ N.Y.
N.Y. E.
E. Ohio.
N. Ind.
C.N. Y.
Pittsb'g
Troy.
Phila.
N.N.y.
N. Y. E.
Minn.
N. Y. E.
E.Ohio.
W.Wis.
Col.
S.E.Ind
Cen. O.
Ind.
Aug. 29,'28
Oct. 5, '
Dec. 15,'
May 7, '
Apr. 12,'
Nov. 26,'
Junes, '
Mar. 8, '
June 5, '
1834.
Feb. 1,
Apr. 15,'16
Aug. 1, '20
Jan. 19, '3(1
April 9, '95
Mar. "5, '19
Apr. 15,'28
Aug. 8, '11
Dec.' 4, '08
Mar! ib','55
May 3, '23
1856.'
July 19,'06
Aug. 18,'50
'.'25',''r4
Apr. 21, '26
Nov. 10,'10
Dec. 1,1800
1795.
Mar.13, >08
1814.
May'i8,'''l'7
May 24,'24
1835.
Jan. 10, '10
Sep. 21, '06
Aug. 6, '30
Mar. 8, '37
Jan. 14, '23
Apr. 13,'40
Apr. 16,';
Mar. 16,'
Dec. 30, ':
Apr. 15,'
Mar. 2, '
June 25,'
Feb. 22, 'I
July 28,'
Apr. 5, '
Dec. 11,'
Mar. 6, '
Nov. 27,'
May 2, '
April 8, '
Dec. 6, '
Apr. 10, '
Apr. 2, '
Feb. 10, '
Feb. 23, '
Aug. 31,'
M.ar.lO, '
Feb. 15,'
Apr. 6, '
June 9, '
1883.
July 3,
Oct. 2, '83
Dec. 10,'82
Mar. 27
June 5,
Feb. 19, '83
Dec'.' Ysl'h
Feb. S8, '
Feb. 52, '
Apr. 14,'
Jan. 16, '
Feb. 14, '
Aug. 3, '
Dec. 18,'
June 6, ':
Sept.l2,'J
Mar. 19,':
Aug.31, 'I
Sept. 25,'l
Sept.28,'i
Mar. 23,'l
July 15, 'I
1883.
May 3, 'i
Dec. 6, 'i
Matlack, Lucius C.
M'Clelland, J. F..
M'Kindless, J. A..
M'Kinstrv, Wm...
Merriam.'W. H...
Millard, Jeremiah.
Moore, J. H
Nesbit. A. B
Newhall, Fales H.
Paddock, L. D
Peck, Jesse T. . . .
Peck, William
Pelton, P. D
Pfeiffer, F
Phillips, Jonas....
Pier, Orris
Pond, Valorous. . . .
Pratt, Rnfus
Price, John S
Prindle, E. B
Prosser, John
Pryor, James T....
Redding, S. A
Rider, A. C
Ripley, Merrill W.
Robinson, Alex....
Rogers, Aaron
Rogerson, Fred. . . .
Scoles, J
Semple, Alex
Sheldon, H. O
Smith, John C. . . .
iSmith, S. C
ISnyder, J. W
iStauley, T. M
j Stearns, D. M
jStenger, W
IStellner, Chas
I Stiver, David
IStnckeman, C. H..
Terrv, David
Thompson, C. I...
iTilden, Henry C...
Timkin, G
Vannorman, Eph..
Waggoner, Adam.
Wait, Daniel
Wallon, Aug. C. F.
Warebam, Philip..
Waters, George H.
Weaver, J. G
Whitney, J
Williams, J. R....
Wilson, T. H
Winstanley, T
Wood, J. H
Worthineton.S.G.J
Young. William. ..
Wil.
'■( in.
Cen. Pa.
Genesee
Cen. lU.
N. Y.
Illinois.
. S. 111.
N. Eng.
Rock R.
Bishop.
N. N.Y.
N.Ohio.
C. Ger,
Trov.
N. v.
E. Ohio.
Erie.
N. Jer'y
Detroit.
Erie.
W.WIs.
rai.
Pittsb'g
Genesee
Genesee
N. Y.
Cen. Pa.
U. Iowa
Illinois.
Cen. O.
Ind.
Feb. 16, '19
April 4,'
1804.
Mar. 27.'10
Nov. 1, '48
Apr! 25,'21
War. 7, '97
May 7, '07
July 13,'48
1820.
April, 1808
May 24,'U
1874
Jan. 22, '06
1807.
1S52.
Apr. 17,'99|1S'34
Feb. 25, '27 1852
Sept.15 " '
Apr. n,'09
Dec. 18, '42
Genesee
E. Ohio.
Ohio.
Kansas. I ....
Minn. 1832.
N WGer June 30,'39
S.E. Ind Apr. 20, '03
S. L.Ger
N. Y.
Phila.
N.N.Y
S.L. Ger
Detroit.
Illinois.
N. Eng.
E. Ger.
E. Ohio.
Del.
W. Va.
Wis.
Ind.
Cent. O.
E.Ohio.
N. Y.
Pittsb'g
Up. la.
Apr.27, '28
Mar.
Mar.28,'19
isil.
Mar.20, '19
Aug. 1, '14
Aug. 26,'26
May 6, '06
June 24, '83
Jan. 19, '83
Aug. 22,'83
Nov. 22, '82
Feb. 12, '83
July 29, '83
July 11,'83
1883.
Apr. 6, '83
July 13, '83
May 17, '83
Mar. 16,'83
Mar. 18,'83
'83
June 26,'»8
Jan. 25.'83
Apr. 23, '83
Aug. 31, '83
July 23,' ''83
Dec. 22, '82
Sept. 11, '83
1871
1835.
Sept.l9,'(i8
Mar. 29,'18
Oct. 14, '16
1834.
1808.
Deo. 7. '10
May 3, '83
Feb. 24,'83
Mar. 19,'?3
Aug. 13,'83
Nov. 5, '82
Dec. 11, '82
June 19,'83
Dec. 21, '83
Jan. 4, 'S3
May 12, '83
Apr. 14, '83
Aug. 6, '83
Mar. 9, '83
Nov. 10,'82
Dec. '82
Mar. 9, '83
Jan. 4, '83
May 12, '83
Dec. 27, '82
Au?. J8,'83
Sept. 6, '83
Apr. 22,'83
Oct. 13, '83
Feb. 15, '83
Nov. 26,'82
May 19, '83
. 26, '.'^S
Nov.22, '82
July 11, '83
Sept.28,'83
Apr. 22,'b3
206 Methodist Year-Book.
National Association of Local Preachers of the Methodist Episcopal
Church.
The New York and Brooklyn Local Preachers' Association sent out a call in-
viting local preachers, of all sections, to unite with them in their anniversary exer-
cises, at Allen Street Methodist Episcopal Churcli, New York city, October 2, 1858,
and also consider, in convention therewith, the propriety of organizing a National
Local Preachers' Association. A large body of local preachers responded to the
call, numbering, perhaps, one hundred at the formation of the latter.
The anniversary exercises commenced Saturday afternoon. Sunday morning a
love-feast was held at 8:30 o'clock. Bishop Baker presiding. At 10:30 o'clock
Eev. Prof. Harman, of Dickinson College, preached an able sermon from Dan. ix, 24.
In the afternoon the report was read by the secretary. Rev. R. Ilorton, of New
York, showing the society was first organized in Brooklyn in 1837, and in 1848 New
York was included. The Association was incorporated in 1854, and comprised
thirty-seven members, several of whom were chaplains of public institutions, and
several members had entered the itinerancy. It had then a fund of $1,000, and also
$300 for benevolent purposes. The Association supplied 1,500 appointments
annually. Addresses followed from C. C. Leigh and, by request, from B. Kollock,
of Philadelphia, and Isaac P. Cook, of Baltimore.
In the evening a general platform-meeting was held, Wakeman H. Dikeman pre-
siding. Addresses were delivered by Dr. G. C. M. Robeits, of Baltimore ; J. Lee,
J. M'Gee, Mr. Street, J. Gatchell, I. Byrd, J. H. Brakeley, of New Jersey; A.
Mooney, of Troy ; Mr. M'Cullough and J. Riddle, of Delaware ; W. H. Kincaid,
of Pittsburg ; and D. Jones, of Long Island ; closing with benediction by Father
Tiemann, father of ex-Mayor Tiemann, of New York.
Monday morning, October 4, the first convention was organized, with Dr. G. C.
M. Roberts temporary chairman, and afterward Hon. S. Bi-ady, ex-Mayor of Balti-
more, was made permanent chainnan, with C. C. Leigh, of New York, T. T. Tasker,
St., of Philadelphia, and J. W. Hancock, of Newark Conference, a.s vice-presi-
dents ; R. Horton, of New York, and W. H. Kincaid, of Pittsburg, secretaries.
After remarks by J. Riddle and the chairman a Business Committee was appointed,
and several resolutions were referred to it. It was resolved to hold another Con-
vention one year hence. The Business Committee reported in favor of an organiza-
tion of the National Association of Local Preachers, briefly outlining its object, and
appointed a committee to select the place of meeting and to draft a fuller Constitu-
tion, and also to select a person to preach the annual sermon. Baltimore was
selected as the place, in October, 1859, and Rev. T. T. Tasker, Sen., of Philadel-
phia, to preach the annual sermon. C. C. Leigh was xippointed to act as con-e-
sponding secretary until the firet regular election.
Dr. Abel Stevens, editor of TJie Christian Advocate^ spoke favorably of the new
organization, and commended it editorially, as did his assistant. Dr. W. P. Strick-
land ; Dr. Durbin, Missionary Secretary, and Hon. G. P. Disosway also spoke fa-
vorably ; Drs. Carlton and Porter, Book Agents, Drs. Floy and Wakeley, and others,
were present.
The convention adjourned that evening, and a revised Constitution was adopted,
and the regular Association was held in Baltimore, T. T. Tasker, Sen., presiding,
W. H. Kincaid, secretary.
The following list of presidents, secretaries, and treasurers have been elected
since the organization to the present :
Methodist Year-Book. 207
Full List of Peesidents of National Association of Local Peeacheks.
1S58-1859. Samuel Brady, East Baltimore Conference.
1859-1860. Thomas T. Tasker, Sen., Pliiladelpliia Conference.
18G0-1861. Charles C. Leigh, New York Conference.
1861-1802. John 11. Brakeley, New Jersey Conference.
1862-1863. Wakeman H. Dikemim, New York East Conference.
1863-1864. George C. M. Eoberts, Baltimore Conference.
1864^1865. Jimies Riddle, Philadelphia Conference.
1865-1866. Isaac P. Cook, Baltimore Conference.
1866-1867. John Cottier, New York East Conference.
1867-1868. Leonard P. Frost, New England Conference.
1868-1869. Edward HeflFner, Baltimore Conference.
1869-1870. Joseph Gatchell. Newark Conference.
1870-1871. A. Gm-ney, North-west Indiana Conference.
1871-1872. William Wood, New Jersey Conference.
1872 . John F. Dravo, Pittsbm-g Conference.
1872-1873. Daniel T, Macfarlau, New York Conference.
1873-1874. John F. Forbes, Cincinnati Conference.
1874-1875. George W. Evans, Philadelphia Conference.
1875-1876. Jabez W. Loane, Baltimore Conference.
1876-1877. William J. P. Ingrabam, Philadelphia Conference.
1877-1880. David H. Wheeler, D.D., New York East Conference.
1880-1881. Isaac P. Cook, D.D., Baltimore Conference.
1881-1882. Benjamin Sehofield, Jim., Pliiladelpliia Conference.
1882-1883. Nathan U. Walker, East Ohio Conference.
1883-18S4. Henry E. Sutherland, Central Pennsylvania Conference.
Full List of Seceetaries.
1858. Eicbard Horton, New York Conference, and William H. Kincaid, Pitts-
burg Conference.
1859. William H. Kincaid, Pittsburg Conference, and Daniel T. Macfarlan, (part
of the session,) New Y^ork Conference.
1860-1884. William H. Kincaid, Pittsburg Conference.
In 1872 the assistant secretary was made elective, and Daniel T. Macfarlan, of
New York East Conference, was elected, and has since occupied the position, ex-
cejJt in 1872, 1873, (as president,) when George W. Evans, Philadelphia, was the
assistant secretary.
Full List of Teeasueees.
1859-1866. Isaac P. Cook, Baltimore Conference
1866-1868. Arthur Mooney, Trov Conference.
1868-1871. Frank C. Pearson, Pliiladelpliia Conference.
1871-1872. George W. Evans, Philadelphia Conference.
1872-1873. John L. VanBoskerck, New York Conference.
1873-1875. William J. P. Ingrabam, Philadelphia Conference.
1875-1877. Nathan U. Walker, Pittsburg Conference.
1877-1878. Frank C. Pearson, Pliiladelpliia Conference.
1878-1881. Benjamin Sehofield, Jun., Philadelphia Conference.
1881-1882. William L. M'Dermutt, New York Conference.
1882-1883. Georse W. Mooney, New York East Conference.
1883-1884. Benjamin Sehofield, Jr., Philadelphia, Pa.
Local Preachers of the Methodist Episcopal Ohiirch.
The number of local preachei-s was first officially recorded in 1837. The num-
ber then reported was 4,955. In 1844, tlie year of the separation of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, South, the number had increased to 8,087. It is estimated that
208 Methodist Year-Book.
over 4,000 local preachei's went with that Church. In 1847 the number reported
was 4,954. The returns for the next three decades were as follows :
Number of Local Preachers in 1847 4,954
Number of Local Preachers in 1857 7,169 — net increase, 2,215
Number of Local Preachei's in 1867 9,469 " 2,300
Number of Local Preachers in 1877 12,537 " 3,068
Number of Local Preachers, July 1, 1883 *12,337
Net increase of Local Preachers for thiity-six years 7,383
Local Preachers who entered the Itinerant Ministry in the year
closing July 1, 1883 620
Itinerant Preachers returned to local ranks foryear closing July 1, '83. 202
Total number of Local Preachers who entered the Itinerant Minis-
try of the Methodist Episcopal Church from 1773 to July 1, 18S3. 32,045
Total number of Itinerant Preachers returned to local ranks from
1773 to July 1, 1883, (110 years) 6,807
Local Preachers stationed as pastors during year ending July 1, '83. 1,689
Ordained Local Preachers now living, over 5,000
Twenty-sixth Annual Meeting, 1883.
The Annual Meeting of the National Association of Local Preachers of the
Methodist Episcopal Church was held in Philadelphia, October 13-16, 1883, N. U.
"Walker, President ; W. H. Kineaid, Secretary ; D. T. Macfarlan Ass't Secretary.
Eepresentative delegates from seventeen Annual Conferences, numbering 120,
were reported. Saturday — morning session, (thelSth,) prayer, praise, and congrat-
ulatory remarks ; afternoon, perfecting roll and payment of annual dues, Presi-
dent's address, appointment of standing conunittees, etc. ; evening, addresses of
welcome and responses, appointments for filling pulpits. Sunday — prayer, praise,
and experience meeting at 9 ; morning sermon by President Walker ; afternoon,
Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, followed by annual Love-Feast; evening, sermon
by Eev. Moses Atkinson, of Leeds, England, delegate from Wesley an Methodist Local
Preachers' Mutual Aid Association. Monday morning — reception of Philadelphia
Preachers' Meeting and addresses and responses, report of J. Field to English body
at Newcastle-on-Tyne, June, 1883, and fraternal address of English delegate and
regular business ; afternoon, usual business and discussions, election of officers and
fixing place of next session; evening, the Quarter Centennial of the Association
T. T. Tasker, Sr., President; I. P. Cook, D.D., and C. C. Leio^h, Vice-Presidents'
W. H. Kineaid, Secretary. Addresses by T. T. Tasker, Sr. I. P. Cook D D C
C. Leigh, E. Ilorton, W. H. Kineaid, B. Schofield, Jr., and J. Field, appointed to
speak, declined because of the lateness of the hour. Tuesday morninw regular
business session ; afternoon, in connection with business, Dr. J. H. Vincent, espe-
cially invited to be present, made an elegant and extended address ; also brief ad-
dressess by Eevs. J. S. Inskip, J. B. M'Cullough, D.D., and A. J. Kynett, D.D. ;
evening, addresses from J. W. Cornelius, H. E. Sutherland, N. TJ. Walker, E.
Emery, G. W. Bryant, E. Horton, L. F. Shepard, W. H. Kineaid, H. J. Moore, Eev.
C. F. Turner, (pastor of church,) and M. Atkinson, of England.
The following are the officers elected for the ensuing year :
President— R. E. Sutherland. Vice-Pt-esidents—Q. C. Leigh, T. T. Tasker, Sr.,
I. P. Cook, N. U. Walker, W. H. Carter, W. T. Tull, H. J. Moore, W. H. Knapp,
E. D. Callahan. Secretary— W. H. Kineaid. Assistant Secretary— T>. T. Mac-
farlan. Corresponding Secretary—^. E. Hudson. 7Veasurer—B. Schofield, Jr.
Directors— L. H. Cole, J. W. Cornelius, J. North, G. L. Horn, W. Stretch, W. H.
Formosa, E. Horton, J. G. Baf?s, G. W. Evans, E. Emeiy, E. Dawson, W. E. Cahoon.
* An increase over the previous year of 200.
Methodist Year-Book. 209
New Charter.
Know all Men by these Presents, That we, Isaac P. Cook, Edward Heffner, Sen.,
William R. Monroe, William M. Barnes, Fletcher E. Marine, Andrew Jameson, and Lewis
H. Cole— all of Baltimore city, and Thomas T. Tasker, Sen., of Philadelphia, Charles C.
Leisrh, of Brooklyn, N. Y., George W. Evans, of Ocean Grove, N. J., William H. Kincaid,
of Pittsburg, and Nathan U. Walker, of Wellsville, Ohio, being citizens of the United
States, and a majority of whom are citizens of the State of Maryland, do hereby certily
that we do, under and by \irtue of the general laws of this State, authorizing the for-
mation of corporations, hereby form a corporation under the name of the " National
Association of Local Preachers of the Methodist Episcopal Church."
2. We do further certify that the said corporation so formed is a corporation for the pur-
pose of uniting more closely all accredited Local Preachers of the Methodist Episcopal
Church in fraternal intercourse and brotherly co-operation in all Church work, including
the propagation of Christianity, the advancement of Education, and the cause of Temper-
ance, in harmony with the doctrines and established polity of the Methodist Episcopal
Church. And also to afford pecuniary relief to any sick or disabled member of the Associ-
ation, or the family of any deceased member. For the purposes aforesaid they may adopt
a Constitution, and, if necessary, revise the same ; elect ofllcers and directors ; prescribe
terms of admission for all active members, also for honorary members, annual contribu-
tors, fraternal and corresponding members, as such, any accredited Local or Itinerant
Preachers from any branch of Wesleyan Methodism. Auxiliary societies may be formed
in the bounds of the several Annual Conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
The Association is hereby declared to be able and capable in law to receive any legacy or
bequest, real, personal, or mixed, and use or dispose of the same as the testator may di-
rect, as fuUy as any body corporate can or may do, for the objects of the Association, but
for no other purpose. The Association may buy, rent, lease, or erect any building or
buildings for their use and occupancy, and, if found necessary, may dispose of the same,
provided the fimds received from any such sale or sales shall be under the control of the
Association absolutely ; that the term of existence of the said corporation is limited to
forty years, and that said corporation is formed upon the articles, conditions, and pro-
visions herein expressed, and subject, in all particulars, to the limitations relating to cor-
porations, which are contained in the general laws of this State.
3. We do further certify that the operations of the said corporation are to be carried
on in the city of Baltimore, and that the principal office of the said corporation will be
located in Baltimore, Md.
4. We do further certify that the said corporation has no capital stock, its funds being
derived from fees, dues, contj-ibutions, legacies, gifts, donations, etc.
5. We do further certify that the coiporation will be managed by the incorporators
herein named, and their siiccessors, namely : Isaac P. Cook, Edward Heffner, Sen., William
R. Monroe, William M. Barnes, Fletcher E. Marine, Andrew Jameson, and Lewis H. Cole
—all of Baltimore city, and Thomas T. Tasker, Sen., of Philadelphia, Charles C. Leigh, of
Brooklyn, N. Y., George W. Evans, of Ocean Grove, N. J., William H. Kincaid, of Pitts-
burg, and Nathan U. Walker, of Wellsville, Ohio, are the names of the persons who will
manage the concerns of the said corporation for the first year, or untU the annual meet-
ing of the Association, October 13, 18^3, in Philadelphia, Pa.
In Witness Whereof, we have hereunto set our hands and seals this 12th day of Jan-
uary, 1883.
Isaac P. Cook,
Edward Heffner, Sen.,
SEAL.
[seal
William R. Monroe, [seal."
William M. Barnes, [seal."
Signed, Fletcher E. Marine, [seal.
Andrew Jameson, [seal.
William M. Marine, Attorney. Lewis H. Cole, [seal.
Same day appeared and recorded in the oflBce of the Clerk of the Superior Court of
Baltimore city, Md. The record and attestations of the Court's record are omitted.
Proceedings of Corporators.
Baltimore, Md., January 13, 1883.
At a meeting of the corporators of the " National Association of Local Preachers of the
Methodist Episcopal Church " there were present, Isaac P. Cook, Edward Heffner, Sen.,
William R- INIonroe, William M. Barnes, Fletcher E. Marine, Andrew Jameson, and Lewis
H. Cole, all of Baltimore city. Isaac P. Cook was elected chairman, and Lewis H. Cole
secretary.
On motion, the annexed Constitution and Rules of Order were unanimously adopted, to
be submitted for approval or revision to the first annual meeting of the Association, to be
held at Philadelphia, October 13, 1883.
On motion, the following accredited Local Preachers of the Methodist Episcopal Church
were unanimously elected active members of the Association. [Naiues of members
omitted.]
210 Methodist Year-Book.
On motion, it was unanimously voted, that the following ofiRcers he and they are hereby
elected to serve until the Qrst annual meeting, October 13, 1883, in Philadelphia, Pa., and
until their successors are duly elected, namely: President, N. U. Walker. Vice-Presi-
dents, T. T. Tasker, Sen., Philadelphia Conference ; Isaac P. Cook, Baltimore Conference ;
W. L. M'Dermutt, New York Conference; J. M. Goldy, Philadelphia Conference; W.
R. Monroe, Baltimore Conference ; J. A. Moormann, North Indiana Conference ; H. L.
Sibley, Ohio Conference ; J. M. Davis, West Virginia Conference : R. Emery, New Jer-
On motion, adjourned, subject to the call of the chaiiman and secretary.
Isaac P. Cook,
Lewis H. Cole, Cluiirnian.
Secretary.
Constitution.
Article I. This Association shall be called the " National Association of Local Preach-
ers of the Methodist Episcopal Church," and shall be composed of the members or dele-
gates from the several Conference Associations, auxiliaries to this Association.
Article II. Each Conference Association shall be entitled to one delegate for every
ten members, but no Conference shall be restricted to less than two delegates. Each
delegate, before taking his seat as a member of the National Association, shall present a
certiUcate of his election from the Conference he represents.
Article III. The objects of the Association are hereby declared to be, the promotion
of fraternal intercourse ; brotherly co-operation in all Church work, including Educa-
tion, the advancement of the cause of Temperance, mutual efforts to propagate Chris-
tianity, in accordance with the doctrines and established polity of the Methodist Episco-
pal Church ; and also for the mutual relief of any sick or disabled member, or the family
of any deceased member, of the Association.
Article IV. Each active member of the Association shall pay annually not less than
one dollar. Honorary members, lay or ministerial, may be aduiitted as such on the pay-
ment of Ave dollars annually. Any person paying twenty-flve dollars at any one time
shall be constituted a Life Patron.
Article V. The oflBcers of the Association shall consist of a President, nine Vice-
Presidents, Secretary, Assistant Secretary, Corresponding Secretary, Treasurer, and
twelve Directors ; all of whom shall be elected annually, by ballot.
Article VI. 1. The Board thus elected shall be empowered to transact all business of
the Association during the interval of the Annual Meeting. 3. It shall be the duty of the
Board to carry into effect the resolutions of the Association ; to see that auxiliary Asso-
ciations are duly notified of proposed amendments to the Constitution ; to prepare busi-
ness tor the annual Association until the regular Business Committee is appointed, and
to perform such other duties as may be required to perpetuate the Association and pro-
mote its interests. 3. It shall be the duty of the President to preside at all meetines of
the Association and of the Board, and perform such other duties as pertain to this oiTlce,
and to call meetings of the Board, whenever in his judgment it shall be necessary.
4. In the absence of the President, the Vice-Presidents shall preside in th(3 order of their
election, and perform all other duties of that olHcer. .5. It shall be the dutv of the Sec-
retary to keep a correct record of the proceedings of the Association and of the Board,
and to report annually to the Association the proceedings of the Board for the past year.
6. It shall be the duty of the Corresponding Secretary to correspond with the Conference
Associations and kindred societies in this and other countries. 7. It shall be the duty of
the Treasurer to keep the funds of the Association, and to pay out the same only on a
draft of the President, and countersigned by the Secretary.
Article VII. The funds of the Association, derived from all sources, including leg-
acies and bequests, shall be paid to the Treasurer, subject to the order of the Association,
for the subjects hereinafter named.
Article VIII. The Association may rent, lease, buy, erect, or otherwise procure, any
lot of ground or building for educational purposes, or for religious and moral improve-
ment, in conformity with the doctrines of the Methodist Episcopal Church ; and, if nec-
essary, may dispose of the same for the use of the Association.
Article IX. Whenever the funds of the Association will allow, relief may be granted
to any sick or disabled member, or to the family of any deceased member thereof, at
such times and in such amounts as the Association may determine. Provided, no Local
Preacher shall be relieved who is not at the time an accredited Local Preacher of the
Methodist Episcopal Church.
Article X. Annual Meetings of this Association shall be held at such time and place
as shall be agreed upon at an annual meeting.
Methodist Year-Book. 211
Article XI. It shall be lawful for the Association to make such Rules of Order as
may be required to carry out and extend the objects for which it has been formed.
Article XII. This Constitution may be altered or amended, according to the charter
at any meeting of the Association, by a vote of two thirds of the members present; notice
of such alterations or amendments having been submitted at a previous Annual Meeting,
or at the Board, at least three months previous to the session at which they are acted
upon.
Article XIII. The Association when convened shall have the power, by a vote of
two thirds of the members present, to constitute any local or traveUug preacher, or a
Iraterual delegate or correspouding member, as such members.
Rules of Order.
1. Order of Business and Religious Exercises, subject to such changes as mav be
ordered by the Association : 1. Devotional exercises. 2. Appointment of Standing
Committees: Business, seven members; Finance Committee, seven members; Com-
mittee on Credentials, three members. 3. Reports of Standing Committees. 4. Reports
of Special Committees. 5. Miscellaneous business. 6. Reports from auxiliary Associa-
tions in writing, and not to exceed Bve minutes each in the reading. 7. The Election of
Officers for the ensuing year. 8. All resolutions shall be referred to the proper com-
mittee without a formal motion, except considered by special vote.
2. The Local Committee where the Annual Association is held shall appoint a sub-
committee to have charge of perfecting the roll of delegates ; said Committee shall pre-
pare printed slips, with blanks for name. Conference, P. O. address ; they shall be pres-
ent previous to the opening, and during the session of the Association, and furnish such
blanks to delegates that they may be filled, to enable the Committee on Credentials to
perfect the roll. The Local Committee shall also, with such others as may be appointed
by the Association, be a Committee on Public Worship.
3. Meetings for prayer and relation of religious experience shall be held each morning
of the Association, at S:30 o'clock. The morning session of the Association shall be hold
at 9 o'clock, and close at 12. The hour from half past one to halt past tvro shall be re-
served for the meeting of committees. The afternoon session shall begin at 2:30, and
close at 5 P. M. The hour for evening service shall be fixed by the Local Committee.
4. The following special orders, in addition to the regular order of business, will be
observed :
5. SATTniDAY. After the devotional services, appointment of Standing Committees by
the President, to be followed by the reports of officers.
6. Sunday. Preaching in the various churches at the usual hour in the morning, as
may be arranged by the Committee on Public Worship. ^/fcDioon..— Sabbath-school
meeting, sacramental or general service, to be arranged by the Local Committee. Even-
ing—General love-feast.
7. Monday. Regular order of business, unless otherwise ordered. Special order in
the afternoon, after the reading of the Minutes : Election of otHcers for the ensuing
year, and immediately thereafter the appointment of the time and place for holding
the next Annual Meeting. iJycnxjit/— Reports of delegates in accordance with the
Constitution. ' '
8. Tuesday. Proceed with regular order of exercises, and in the evening hold a fare-
well service.
Conrses of Study for Local Preacliers.
Foe License to Preach. — Candidates for license to preach are to be examined
on the common branches of an English education, and on their general knowledge
of the Bible, and of the doctrines and usages of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
First Year.— The Bible— History. Outlines of Bible History. (Hurst.) Cate-
chism of the Methodist Episcopal Church, (No. 3.) Christian Theology. (Wake-
field.) (Intro(4uction and Book I.) Discipline of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
(Edition of 1880.)
To BE Kead. — Watson's Life of Wesley. Simpson's A Hundred Years of Meth-
odism. Porter's Hints to Self-Educated Ministers.
212 Methodist Year-Book.
Second Year. — The Bible — Doctrines. Christian Theology. (Wakefield.) (Books
II and III.) Christian Baptism. (Merrill.) Church History — Outlines of Church
History. (Hurst.)
To BE Eeao. — Eidpath's History of the United States. Stevens's History of
Methodism. (Abridged Edition.)
Third Year. — The Bible — Sacraments. Cliristian Theology. (Wakefield.)
(Books IV and V.) Plain Account of Christian Perfection. (Wesley.) Khetoric.
(Haven.)
To BE Eead. — Wesley's Sermons. (Vol. I.) Nast's Introduction to the Gospel
Eecords. Seebohn's Era of the Protestant Eevolution.
Fourth Year. — Christian Theology. (Wakefield.) (Books VI and VII.) Logic.
(Jevons.) (Science Primer Edition.) Eeview of the Course for the three preceding
years.
To BE Eead. — Wesley's Sermons. (Vol. 11.) Porter's Compendium of Meth-
odism.
Examinations of Local Preachers. — The Bishops, having received several
communications relating to the Course of Study for Local Preachers, and the exami-
nations required thereon, adopted Nov. 1, 1880, the following minute, and ordered
its publication, namely :
Inasmuch as the Bishops have been informed that a difference of judgment and
administration has existed in reference to the renewing of the license of Locul
Preachers, and the relation which the examinations on the Course of Study bear to
such renewal ; and inasmuch as complaints have been made of great inconvenience,
and even hardship in many cases, resulting therefrom ; and inasmuch as four years
have elapsed since the General Conference first authorized a Course of Study for
Local Preachers, thus affording a presumption that Local Preachers licensed pre-
viously to the authorization of said Course of Study have already accomplished it ;
therefore the Bishops recommend as follows, namely :
1. That the new Course of Study for Local Preachers, published in the Discipline
of 1880, be applied only, (1) To Local Preachers licensed since the publication of
said new Course of Study ; and, (2) To such other Local Preachers licensed since
1876 as may not yet have completed the prescribed four-years' Course of Study.
2. Tliat in case of the necessary absence of the candidate from the meeting of the
District or Quarterly Conference, a report of the examination on the Course of Study
conducted by the Presiding Elder and pastor may be accepted instead of the report
of the regular Committee of Examination.
3. That, in analogy with the method pursued in Annual Conferences, when a
Local Preacher, who has not been examined, is unavoidably absent from the District
or Quarterly Conference, liis license may be renewed, conditioned on his examina-
tion at as early a period thereafter as practicable.
4. That Local Preachers who have passed an examination on one or more years oi
the previously prescribed Course of Study be required to be examined hereafter only
on the remaining years of the present Course.
The examinations in this Course of Study are not intended in any case to take the
place of tlie examinations by the Annual Conferences of Local Preachers who are
candidates for orders.
Examinations of Local Pbeacheks by the Annual Conference.
1. For Deacon's Orders. — Local Preachers who are candidates for Deacon's Orders
must pass a satisfactory examination in review of the eiitire four-years^ course pre-
scribed for Local Preachers.
2. For Elder's Orders. — Local Deacons who are candidates for Elder's orders are
required to pass a satisfactory examination on Watson's " Theological Institutes "
and Stevens's " History of Methodism."
Methodist Year-Book. 213
British Wesleyan Methodist Local Preachers' Mutual Aid Association,
Head-quarters, London.
This Association was established in 1849 for the purpose of ministering to the
wants of poor local preachei-s on the principle of Mutual Aid; but it was found,
however, that there was so much distress among them, especially in the outlying
agricultural districts, that the scope of tlie society was enlarged, and aid was asked
from the Methodist public to meet their claims. Now, no member of the Associa-
tion fails to obtain relief in sickness and old age, and local preachers bury their
dead brethren. The Association simply attend to the bodily wants of local preach-
ers, visiting the sick members, and burying those who die.
The Association was established chiefly for Wesleyan local preachers, but has
membera belonging to the Methodist Eeformers and United Methodist Free
Churches. After an existence of thirty-four years, notwithstanding there are up-
ward of fourteen thousand local preachers in Wesle^'an Methodism alone, the
membership is but 4,200, and of that number about one thousand are not local
preachei-s. Its branches are located in different sections of England, and there are
twenty -six district committees to attend to the work of the Association, with power
to add to their number. The General Committee meet monthly in London, the
seat of the organization. The annual meetings of the General Committee are held
at different points, like a Conference, the place of the next meeting being fixed at
each session, and the representatives are elected by the respective branches who
meet with them and transact the business of the body. These sessions begin Sat-
urday evening and close Tuesday evening. Sunday the representatives occupy all
the pulpits of the different branches of Methodism and near-by places. Considera-
ble time is devoted to public, religious, and other exercises.
The membership consists of tivo classes.
1. Honorary^ receiving no relief from the funds, and embracing other persons
than local preachers.
2. Benefit^ who pay with the expectation, should the necessity arise, of claiming
the advantages offered by the Association.
The following Ls a brief summary of the rules relating to membership and bene-
fits :
1. The entrance fee up to 35 years of age is ten shillings; and, above that age, a
small yearly addition.
2. The payment for members is three shillings per quarter or twelve shillings an-
nually,
3. The benefit in sickness is eigM shillings weekly.
4. The funeral allowance is £8.
5. The highest annuity in old age is seven shillings per week.
About 210 aeed brethren and widows are at present on the Annuitant Fund,
the sum of £2,160 being paid to them last year — and, in order to allow these poor
brethren from four to seven shillings each weekly, subscriptions and donations to
the amount of £2,400 per annum are required, in addition to the payments of Bene-
fit members of the Association.
The total amount paid to the sick, to the aged, and for death since the Associa-
tion commenced payment to the members, in 1851, is as follows :
To sick members £25,937
For deaths 9,215
To the superannuated 33,316
Total to May, 1883 , £68,468
214 Methodist Year-Book.
The business of the Association is managed by a Board of Trustees, President
two Honorary Secretaries, General Secretary, and Committee of about fifty breth-
ren, all of whom, with the exception of the General Secretary, give their services
gratuitously.
The total annual income from all sources (including dividend on £13,000, accu-
nmlated surplus invested in Consols) is a little over £4,400 ; and last year's re-
port sho\*s an excess of income over expenditure of £106.
The thirty-fiftli aggregate meeting of the Association was held in Wesley Chapel,
Newcastle-on-Tyne, England, from Saturday, June 2, to Tuesday, June 5, 1883.
Saturday evening the General Committee met to perfect roll and arrange for Sab-
bath appointments. Preaching by representatives in sixty-six churches, generally
two services in each, besides open-air, children's, and love-feast services. Monday
morning the representatives met for business, J. Dyson, J.P., (President,) in the
chair, and more than one hundred representatives present. A. E. Johnson was
appointed Secretary, after which the President delivered an address. At the close
Eev. Jolm Field, fraternal delegate from the National Association of Local Preach-
ers of the Metliodist Episcopal Church, was invited to the platform, and Mr.
Thomas Chamberlain, the Honorary Secretary, read the fraternal address and letter
accrediting Brother Field, signed by N. U. Walker, President, and W. H. Kincaid,
Secretary, after which the President gave him a hearty welcome, who, on rising to
address the body, was greeted with much applause. At the close of his address, it
was ordered tliat a suitable reply be forwarded to America. Subsequently, Mr.
Moses Atkinson, of Leeds, was appointed, and accepted, to go as a fraternal dele-
gate to America. T. Chamberlain, Honorary Secretary, read the annual report,
from which is gleaned the following facts : The Annuitant list now contains 185
aged local preachers and 22 widows of local preachers, an increase of 21 on the
year, to whom have been paid the sum of £2,156 19s. 6d., which is £247 more
than was paid last year. The number of sick relieved during the year is 383, who
received the sum of £1,272 Is. 8d., fully fifty per cent, more than the usual.
The expenses for the funei'als of 68 members and 19 members' wives have been
paid — a total of £429. The number of benefit members is now 3,282, and of hon-
orary members, 905, a total of 4,187 — an increase of 124 benefit and 29 honorary
members. The investments of the Association now represent a cost of £12,461 Os.
Id., and, at par, a capital of £13,053 4s. Qd. Total working expenses, £444 Is.
2t?. Income from entrance fees, fines, and quarterly subscriptions, £1,829 Is. 11(Z.
The honorary members' and other free subscriptions are £1,129 10s. \\d. The
dividends from investments, £379 5s. SrZ. The profits from the " Local Preach-
ers' Magazine," £45 15s. IQd. The total income, exclusive of Mr. Wild's gift,
amounts to £4,429 3s. Id. Balance on hand, £202 3s. 4:d. Wild's Trust Fund,
a year's dividends, £53 10s. 6(Z. / donations, £32 7s. Od. ; total, £85 17s. M.
Paid to 109 old brethren, 10s. each; 36, 5s. each — £63 10s. Od. After the reading
of the report and a letter from Philip Parker, the publisher of the " Local Preach-
ers' Magazine," the Secretaries reported the ballot for officers for the ensuing year
as follows: W. H. Stephenson, J. P., of Newcastle-on-Tyne, President; John
Carter, The Vale, King's Road, Chelsea, S. W., Treasurer; Thomas Chamberlain
and A. E. Johnson, both of London, Honorary Secretaries. The new President,
on taking the chair, briefiy addressed the body, and the ex-President formally pre-
sented him with the President's Box, as one of his badges of office, and the Presi-
dent's Bible. A business meeting was held in the afternoon, and, in the early
part of the evening, a public tea meeting in a hall, after which a public platform
meeting was held, J. W. Way man, Esq., Mayor of Sunderland, presiding. Tues-
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215
day morning a business meeting was held, in the afternoon a public sacramental
service, and at night a temperance meeting, and also a public meeting elsewhere,
and the xissociation adjourned to meet in Manchester, June, 1884.
The following is the
List of Officers, Trustees, and Coitmittee foe 1883-84.
President. — W. H. Stephenson, Newcastle-on-Tyne.
Ex-President. — J. Dyson, J. P., Thurgoland, Siietlield.
Treasurer. — John Carter, The Vale, Kini,''s Kuad. Chelsea, S.W.
Honorary Seeretarie-s. — Thomas Chamberlain, Tnanies Street, Windsor, Berks.
A. Russel Johnson, 101 Long Acre, London, W.C.
GeriTal Secretary. — John Harding, 24: Bedford Street, Covent Garden, Lon-
don, W.C.
Trustees. — John Carter, Esq., Chelsea; Eichard Carter, Esq., Buckingham;
Thos. Chamberlain, Esq., J.P., Windsor ; Thos. Coyle, Esq., Sheffield ; J. Dvson,
Esq., J.P., Thurgoland, Sheffield : D. Plant, Esq., 1 The Birches, Angles Eoad,
Streathani, S.W.; W. W. Pocoek, Esq., B.A., Wandsworth; S. D. Waddy, Esq.,
Q.C., Thornclitfe, London.
The General Committee consists of fifty members, residing in diiferent j^arts of
England, the members of which comprise the District Committees.
Full List of Presidents and Places of Holding the Annual Meetings. •
1849
1850
1851
1852
1853
1854
1855
1856
1857
1858
1859
1860
1861
1862
1863
1864
1865
1866
1867
1868
1869
1870
1871
1872
1873
1874
1875
1876
1877
1878
1879
1880
1881 !
1882
18S3'
London
Birmingham
Sheffield
Huddersfield
Leeds
London
Bristol
Sheffield
Louth
Birmingham
Norwich
London
Bath
Derby
Manchester
London
Norwich . .
Sheffield
York
A.shton-under-Lyne.
London
Northampton
Keighley
Louth
Norwich
Manchester
London
Cardiff.
Lynn
Hull
Oldham
York
Sheffield
Leicester
Newcastle
WiUiam Harris
Isaac English
W. B.Carter
William Nelstrop
John Unwin
James Wild
Eichard Carter
Thomas Chamberlain .
J. B. Sharpley
John Towne
Joshua Massingham. .
Thomas Cuthbertson. .
John Wade
Thomas Hiret
James Arundale
Eichard Durley
John Carter
Thomas Cole
David Hill
George Thompson
William Bowron
S. D. Waddy
N. A. Alder'sley
William Jameson
Eobert Daws
Abraham Andrew
W. W. Pocoek
Dr. Aldom
Edwin Benson
Aid. Dowsing
Joseph Milsom
C. S. Madder
S. M. Johnson
J. Dyson
W. H. Stephenson ....
Died November 23, 1855, aged 61.
Died September 10, 1877, aged 76.
Died May 1, 1866, aged 83.
Died June 24, 1872, aged 72.
February 22, 1868, aged 58.
September 26, 1875, aged 61
Died
Died
Died June 30, 1870, aged 81.
Died August 22, 1876 aged &l.
Died August 25, 1882, aged 62.
216
Methodist Year-Book.
Officers of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
Missionary Secretiuy, Eobert A. Young, D.D. ; Book Agent, J. B. M'Ferrin,
D.D. ; Treasurer of Board of Missions, D. C. Kelley, D.D. ; Editor of Sunday-
school Publications, W. G. E. Cunnyngham, D.D. ; Editor " Nashville Christian
Advocate," 0. P. Fitzgerald, D.D. ; Secretary Church Extension Society, David
Morton, D.D. ; Book Editor, W. P. Harrison, D.D. ; Editor " Wesleyan Christian
Advocate," W. H. Potter, D.D. ; Editor " Southern Christian Advocate," Samuel
A. Weber, D.D. ; Editor " Alabama Christian Advocate," J. W. Christian, D.D. ;
Editors "Central Methodist," Z. Meek, S. Noland; Editors "Ealeigh Christian
Advocate," W. S. Black, D.D., and F. L. Reid, D.D. ; Editor "Holston Method-
ist," Frank Kichardson ; Editor " Texas Christian Advocate," I. G. John,D.D. ;
Editors "St. Louis Christian Advocate," D. E. M' Anally, D.D., E. M. Bounds.
Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
1824
1832
1846
184()
1850
1852
1854
1854
1866
1866
1866
1866
1866
1882
1882
1882
1882
Joshua Soule
James 0. Andrew
William Capers..
Robert Paine
H. B. Bascom
Georee F. Pierce .
John Early
Entered Ministry.
Conference. I Year
Aug.
1, 1781 New York.. 1799 Died March. 6, 1867.
. .1794 So. Carolina 1812 Died March 1, 1871.
Jan. 20, 1790 So. Carolina' 1808 Died Jan. 29, 183.5.
Nov. 12, 1799 Tennessee
May 27, 1796!Ohio
Feb. 3, 1811 1 Georgia..
Jan. 1, 1786|Virgima..
H. H. Kavanaugh'June 4, 1802 Kentucky
W. M. Wightman. Jan. 29, 1808 So. Carolina
E. M. Marvin June 12, 1823; Missouri . . .
David S. Doggett 1810, Virginia. . . .
H. N. M'Tyeire.. July 28, 1824lVirginia.. . .
John C. Keener. . Feb. 7, 1819J Alabama. ..
A. W. Wilson 1834lBaltiinore . .
Linus Parker 1829iLouisiana . .
J. C. Granbery . . . Dec. 5, 1829, Virginia. . . .
R. K. Hargrove.. Sept. 17, 1829' Alabama. ..
1818 Died Oct. 20, 1882.
1813; Died Sept. 8, 1850.
1831 Residence, Sparta, Ga.
1807iDied Nov. 5, 1873.
1823 Residence, Anchorage, Ky.
1828 Died Feb. 15, 1882.
184llDled Nov. 26, 1877.
1829 Died Oct. 25, 1880.
1845 Residence, Nashville, Tenn.
1843 Residence, New Orleans, La.
1853 Residence, Baltimore, Md.
1849 Residence, New Orleans, La.
1848 Residence, 4 E. Main St., Richm'd,Va.
1857 Residence, Nashville, Tenn.
Note. — A. G. Haygood, D.D., President of Emory College, Oxford, Ga., was elected Bishop, third in order, May
16, 188-2, but declined to accept, not being willing to leave his educational work.
Of the seventeen Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, eight had
been editors — Soule, Bascom, Capers, Wightman, Keener, M'Tyeire, -Doggett, and
Parker ; seven, authors — Bascom, Paine, Pierce, Wightman, Marvin, Doggett, and
M'Tyeire ; four were presidents of colleges — Paine, Pierce, Bascom, and Wightman ;
six were graduated — Wightman at Charleston College, Keener at Wesleyan Uni-
versity, M'Tyeire at Eandolph-Macon College, Parker at Centenary College, Lou-
isiana, Granbery at Eandolph-Macon College, and Hargrove at the University of
Alabama. Soule filled the otfice of Bishop longest, Bascom the shortest. Soule and
Bascom were the youngest licensed to preach, Three were born in South Carolina
— Capers, Wightman, and M'Tyeire; two were born in Georgia— Andrew and
Pierce; three were born in Virginia— Early, Doggett, and Granbery; Soule was
born in Maine; Paine, in North Carolina; Bascom and Parker, in New York;
Kavanaugh, in Kentucky ; Keener, in Maryland ; Marvin, in Missouii ; and Har-
grove, in Alabama.
Publishing Department of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
Publishing House, Nashville, Tenn., J. B. M'Ferrin, D.D., Agent. Assets,
April 1, 1882, $283,511 73. Liabilities, $225,724 01. Business during previous-
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217
four years: Merchundise sold, $279,783 34; receipts from Nashville "Christian
AdvociUe," $103,454 86; from Sunday-school periodicals, $180,546 16; from other
business, $52,171 82 ; from rents, bequests, anil donations, $17,405 87 ; total
amount of business for four years, $633,362 05.
Necrology of the Methodist Episcopal Ohurcli, South.
Namb.
Conf.
Braxton Craven, D.D.
N. Car.
(;. W. Humphreys —
PaeiBe
H B. Avery
AV. E EUis
John W. Walton
Albert Crumpler —
Alabama
T. P. C. Spell man —
Ky.
W. D. Givens
Tenn.
Jeremiah Johnson —
N. Car.
Anselo Hardlson
Columbia
C.J. Lane
Texas
S. H. Williams
N. Ala.
O. B. Whitten
Memphis
F. A.OvFcn
Date of Death.
Name.
Nov. 7.
Nov. 3,
Nov. 6,
Nov. 10,
Nov. 26,
Nov. 29,
Dec. 5,
Jan. 2,
Jan. 5,
Jan. 13,
Jan. 30,
Feb. 22,
Mar. 2,
Mar. 16,
Conf.
J. P. Younpr Alabama
A. M. Barrington Miss.
A. B. Joyce
T. B. Buckingham
Edward Wadsworth. . Alabama
James M'Heiiry . ..Ind. Miss.
Edmund P. liuckner. . ;
Alexander Means — Georgia
Lemon Shell N. Car.
Robert Michael Virginia
,E. R. Harrison ;Ark.
[E. G. Vandever Virginia
L. R. Martin Ky.
Date of Death.
•83
■as
•83
•&3
'83
'83
'&3
'83
'sa
'83
•83
'83
'83
Mar. 20,
Mar. 20,
April 5,
April 8,
April 24,
May 2,
May 4,
June 5,
June 14,
July 19,
July 31,
Sep. 14,
Sep. 12,
Official Appointment of Itinerant Ministers other than Pastors of the Meth-
odist Episcopal Church, South.
Editors by Episcopal Appointment 18
Book Agents — 3
Presidents of Universities and Colleges. . 28
Professors in Universities and Colleges. . 1.5
Presidents of Seminaries 35
Professors in Seminaries 1
Superintendents of Asylums 1
Agents of Colleges and Seminaries 8
Chaplains of Bethels 1
Superintendents of Societies 1
Secretaries of Societies 8
Agents for Societies 10
Agents American Bible Society 1
Tract Agents 2
Missionaries 7
Chaplains of Universities 2
Courses of Study for Itinerant Ministers of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
South.
All the Annual Conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Lave four
years' thorough courses of theological study prescribed by the Discipline* of the
Church, and no preacher (whether a graduate of the Theolngical Seminaries or not)
is allowed to graduate into the full ministry of the Church until he has passed an
e.xamination in these courses of study before the officially-appointed Examining
Committees. The following summaries, carefully collated from the General Min-
utes, and from the Local Minutes of the Annual Conferences for the year 1883, will
indicate the number of Examining Committees and students embraced in the^e
courses of Conference Theological Studies for the year :
Total number of Conference Committees of Examination 152
Total number of Examiners appointed on these Committees 532
Number of Preachers in classes for admission on trial 21 S
Students in classes for First Year's Course 1 96
Students in classes of Second Year's Course 215
Students in classes of Third Year's Course 1 64
Students in classes of Fourth Year's Course 194
Total number of Preachers in Conference Courses of Theological Study 987
* For Courses of Studv now required, see Discipline of Methodist Episcopal Church, South,
1882, pp. 85 and 346.
10
218
Methodist Year-Book.
Tlie examinations are similar to those in the Metliodist Episcopal Church. In
the Conference Courses of Theological Study the Examining Committees for the
several classes are selected by the presiding Bishop and Presiding Elders, and an-
nounced at the Conference session. The names of tlie persons thus selected, with
tiie names of tlie students in the several classes, are published in the Local Confer-
ence Minutes, and the examinations usually take place at the ensuing session.
Missionary Department of Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
Missionary Office, Nashville, Tenn. Amount raised for Foreign 3Iissions, from
May, 1874, to June, 1878, $242,933 98 ; from June, 1878, to April, 1882, $354,-
371 99 — an increase in the last four years of $111,438 01. Domestic Missions for
corresponding periods, $216,916 67 and $226,850 — an merease during the last
quadrennium of $9,934 31.
Compare TiYE Summaries of the Methodist Episcopal Chuech, South,
Showing number of communicants and the number of baptisms for every year
(since 1868, except three, the minutes of those years not having been printed.
Infants
Adults
Inc.ifMemb'rs.
InPts Baptized.
Ad'ts Baptized.
Baptized.
Baptized.
Per Cent.
Per cent.
Per cent.
1869 . . .
.571,241
19,776
34,539
4.80
3.46
6.00
1870...
586,418
21,002
34,408
2.65
3.59
5.86
1871...
621,184
23,221
41,289
5.92
3.73
6.64
1872...
654,159
22,784
39,355
6.30
3.49
6.01
1873...
676,600
22,755
37,454
3.44
3.36
5.53
1874...
712,765
24,909
49,358
5.48
3.49
6.92
1875...
731,361
22,603
38,908
2.60
3.17
5.31
1879 . . .
832,175
28,011
49,798
4.17
3.36
5.98
1880...
847,703
26,344
37,012
1 86
3.10
4 37
1881 ...
860.717
27,125
3'i,785
1..53
3.15
4.30
1882...
877,299
27.205
38,832
1.93
3 10
4.42
General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South,
May 3-25, 1882.
At the last session, held in Nashville at the date above named, all the Bishops were
present. Whole number of delegates elected, 258, equally divided between ministers and
laymen. Dr. T. O. Summers was unanimously elected Secretary. On his death, three
days later, Dr. J. S. Martin was elected Secretary. Bishop M'Tyeire read the Episcopal
Address, which reported the Church as prosperous in all departments of the work. Bishop
Paine, who had been in the itinerancy 65 years, 36 of which had been spent in the Epis-
copacy, asked permission to retire from effective work, and his request was granted.
(Greetings were exchanged with the General Conference of the Colored Methodist Epis-
copal Church of America, then in session at Washington, D. C Fraternal delegates
were cordially welcomed from the Methodist Episcopal Church and the Methodist Church
of Canada. The administration of the Bishops during the previous quadrennium was
approved. Five new Bishops were elected, namely, Drs. A. W. Wilson, L. Parker, A. G.
Haygood, J. C. Granbery, and R. K. Hargrove. Dr. Haygood declined to accept the
office on account of the demands of his educational work. The Bishops' salaries were
fixed at $3,000 per annum. The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society was organized.
The question of changing the name of the Church to that of the " Methodist Episcopal
Church of America " was referred to the Annual Conferences. Richmond, Va., was chosen
as the seat of the next General Conference.
Methodist Year-Book.
219
Educational Statistics of the Methodist Episcopal Ohurch, South.
Name of Institution.
1S37
183H
1846
1872
1854
Raiiilolph-Macon Ashland, Va
Bowling Green Female Seminary Bowiing Green, Va.
Southern Female College Petersbm-g, Va
Martha Washington College Abingdon, Va
Valley Female College Winchester, Va —
Farmville Female College Farraville, Va
Montgomery Female College Christiansburg, Va.
Emory and Henry College Emory, Va
Abingdon District High School Castle Woods, Va..
Hiwassee Sweetwater. Tenn. .
Vanderbilt University Nashville, Tenn
Sullins College Bristol, Tenn
People's College t'ikeville, Tenn
M'Tyeire Institute M'Kenzie, Tenn
Emory College Oxford, Ga —
Wesleyan Female College Macon, Ga
La Grange Female College F,a Grange, Ga
Dalton Female Cnllege Dalton,Ga
Andrew Female College Cuthbert, Ga
Georgia Methodist Female College Covington, Ga
Southern University Greensboro, Ala.. . .
Alabama Conference Female College... Tuskegee, Ala
Centenary Institute Sumraerfield, Ala.. .
Huntsville Female College Hunts ville, Ala
Centenary College Jackson, Ala
Mansfield Female College Mansfield, La
Wofford College Spartanbura, S. C 1853
Columbia Female College Columbia, S. C 1"^59
Cokesbury High School Cokesbury, S. 0 183fi
Williamston Female College Williamston, S. C 1872
Whitworth Female College Brookhaven, Miss 1859
East Mississippi Female College Meridian, Miss 1871
Port Gibson Female College Port Gibson. Miss 1854
Aberdeen Female College Aberdeen, Miss
Kosciusko Institute Kosciusko, Miss
Methodist District High School ,
Logan Female College Russellville, Ky
Millersburg Female College Miilersburg, Ky
Warren College Bowling Green, Ky..
Kentucky Wesleyan College Millersburg, Ky
Central College Fayette, Mn
Belle vue Collegiate Institute Caledonia, Mo ,
Howard College Fayette, Mo ,
Morrisville Collegiate Institute Morrisville, Mo
Neosho Collegiate Institute Neosho, Mo
Center Female College Lexington, Mo
St. Charles College iSt. Charles, Mo
Shelby High School Shelby ville. Mo ,
Trinity College Trinity College, N. C... 185S
Greensboro Female College Greensboro, N. 0 1839
Jonesboro Hifth .^cliool '.lonesboro, N. C 17
Franklin District High School IWaynesville, N. C 188ii
Quitman College Quitman, Ark 1871
Arkansas Female College ! Little Rock, Ark 1872
Harrell International Institute Muskogee, Indian Ter.. 1881
New Hope Female Seminary Oak Lodge, Indian Ter. 1842
Asbury Manual Labor Scliool iEufaula, Indian Ter 1845
Pacific Methodist College , Santa Rosa, Cal 18B i
Alexander Institute iKUgore, Tex 1^73
Fredericksburg College Fredericksburg, Tex — tl'i70
Laredo School jLaredo, Tex 1S8I
Concepcion School iConcepcion, Tex 1881
Sulphur Springs District High School... jSulphur Springs, Tex l^ii7
Honey Grove High School JHoney Grove, Tex 1875
South-western University | Georgetown, Tex 1873
Young Ladies' School jGeorgetown, Tex 1 1868
North Texas Female College Sherman, Tex. 1870
^ o o S
Chappell Hill Female College.
Soule College
Andrew Female College.
Dallas Female College..
Coronal Institute
Fairfield College
Chappell Hill, Tex 118.52
Chappell Hill, Tex 1856
Huntsville, Tex
Dallas, Tex 1870
San Marcos, Tex 1873
Fairfield, Tex 1 1854
!>S-
4
125
1(1
148
4
117
5
111)
6
138
5
107
4
53
?.
8(1
f,
120
4
90
100
2
75
^
120
4
180
H
1H«
1!
110
6
90
3
80
■5
"m
5
160
8.5
$60,000
Ui,000
15,001)
30,000
20,000
10,000
8,500
100,000
1,200
25,000
600,000,
10,0001
10.5116
100,01 '0
150.0001
50,000
10,000
*20,0 '0
100,000
60,000
27,(K)0
50,000
80,000
100,100
40,000
3,000
10,000
50,000,
I.5.OO0I
40,000
30,000
20,000
15,000
40,000
60,000
10,000
10,000
111,000
■25.666
15,000
45,000
75,000
3,000
1,000
6,000
20,000
10,000
10,000
2.5,0110
7,0il0
6,000
8,000
10,000
50.000
5.000
17r500
5,000
30,000
20,000
12,000
8.000
601,0.0
100,"(>0
50,000
ItsOoO
20,000
90,000
20,000
220
Methodist Year-Book.
Statistical Summaries of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
Alabama
Arkansas
Baliimore
i'olumbia
Denver
East Texas
Florida
German Mission....
Holston
Illinois
Indian Mission
Kentucky
Little Rocli
Los Angeles
Liiuisiana
Louisville
Memphis
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
North Alabama
North Cai'olina
North Georgia
North Mississippi
North Texas
North-west Texas...
Pacific
fouth Carolina
South Georgia
South-west Missouri
St. Louis
Tennessee
Texas
Virginal
Western
Western Virginia. . .
West Texas
A\hite River
China Mission
Urazilian Mission.
Mexican Mision...
liishops
Total in 1882
Total in 1881
129
93
169
211
i!l
61
70
22
lo9
44
39
in.5
88
22
74
137
142
105
123
6
119
195
201
124
125
136
68
162
118
96
61
181
82
1911
30
59
83
69
3,736
3,704
192
210
110
27
13
154
116
25
299
49
112
1U4
195
248
141
139
4
380
245
416
162
257
272
38
141
207
151
94
324
114
141
34
116
103
155
24
5,869
5,865
32,714
16,728
31,302
1,497
685
15,760
10,892
1,398
44,375
5,058
6,308
23,041
ia741
1,123
14,992
33,233
35.075
24,191
27,684
215
37,083
70,796
66,337
29,348
26,511
23,687
4,3.i5
49,456
34.178
18,.543
12,184
46,658
12.507
5&910
2 922
14',616
8,640
13,533
160
121
1,484
877.299
860,687
923
1,105
183
"85
1,124
'120
78
104
'298
1,181
"'53
> 1,261
189
91
205
l',486
2,534
1,518
332
1,937
1,437
846
360
353
4.420
1,043
"47
1,520
435
56
63
299
2
SUNIMY- P. S. I S. S.
' SCHOOLS. Teachers. Schola
5,580
119
1,645
25,688 7,949 9,649
9,310
409
183
479
9
22
153
158
24
565
91
14
153
264
400
291
258
4
437
762
662
279
194
193
84
563
863
166
145
478
102
667
23
217
119
162
8
3
30
2.372
1,136
4,632
40
1.50
844
894
145
3,991
588
233
1,334
l,4fr2
82
897
1,765
2,662
1.511
1,916
18
2,343
4,943
4,432
1,511
1,437
1,264
510
3,593
2,865
1,346
875
2,989
745
7,051
172
1,436
576
945
33
20
65,198
62.442
17.813
9,6;?9
28,014
374
926
6,087
6,627
835
30,098
5,082
1.602
9,757
10,120
574
6,346
14,432
20,237
10,198
15,130
l(i6
19,.i96
42,i;i6
36,843
11,809
11,250
10,4-18
3,573
27,103
16,511
9,969
7,135
23,682
6,621
41,411
959
8,710
4,398
6,832
383
1-20
830
4aS,426
■162,321
Summaries of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, for Seventeen Years.
Year.
Confer-
Trav.
SCP'D
Local
Preach'ks
SuNnAv-
S. S.
S. S.
ences.
Pb'ch'bs.
PR'S.
Fb'ch'rs.
AND Mem>
SCHOOLS.
Teachers.
SCHOl.iES.
18(i6
27
2,314
171
3,769
505,101
1867
30
2,389
19.3
3,952
535,040
52,093
22,1 .^H
I8i«
30
2,495
179
4,413
545,069
26,715
16,686
186-9
30
2,646
187
4,753
571,241
30,646
4,474
5,951
41,830
278,149
1870
34
2,72.5
187
4,714
586,418
6,173
42,505
282.467
1871
35
2,858
199
4,944
621,184
35,-566
796
6,530
45,417
300,.=23
]>'72
35
3,013
219
5,134
654,159
33,947
972
6.900
45,998
312,759
1873
35
3,134
2:^7
5,344
676,600
22,944
503
7.019
48.5-M
321,572
1874
37
3,224
261
5,356
712,765
37,335
1,17(1
7,204
48,825
328,6,34
1875
37
3,271
259
5,462
731,361
23,929
ft;S33
7,578
49,797
346,759
1876
3,485
5,356
721,506
1877
3,271
5,462
731,079
1878
39
3,457
306
5,762
798,862
7,262
54,867
391,298
1879
39
3,459
31H
5,832
833,175
37,408
4,895
8,941
55,528
421,137
18811
39
3,676
328
5,868
847,703
17,363
1,849
9,129
61,119
440,614
1881
39
3,704
307
5,865
860,717
16,041
3.057
9,310
62,442
462,321
1882
38
3,736
309
5,869
877,299
25,688
7,949
9,649
65,198
483,426
* The Indiana Conference territorj* was added to the Louisville Conference this year, and hence the columns of
** Increase" and "Total Preachers and Members" will not agree.
[The transferred preachers are reckoned with the Conferences from which they are transferred. The preachers
who were discontinued this year (42) and those who were located (9fi) are not counted. Those who were admitted
on trial (195) and those who were re-admitted (19) are counted among the traveling preachers.
N. B, The Methodist Episcopal Church, South, was formed as a distinct body in May, 1845 At the time of the
separation there were about 450,000 communicants. In 1860 there were 767,205, of whom 20 7,766 were colored.
Methodist Year-Book. 221
African Methodist Episcopal Ohurch of America.
From Nov. 1, 1882, to Nov. 1, 1883.
♦ 7 7 7
Dec. 15, 1883. The Parent Home and Foreign Missionary Board — oiBce, Rich-
moud, Ind. — have ordered the erection of an Indian Mission House for Port-au-
Prince, Ilayti, and appeal for $2,000 to complete the enterprise.
Jan. 4, 1883. The Bishops have organized a Connectional Sunday-school
Union; the Publishing Manager, Kev. T. Gould, announces the publication and
sale of the " Child's Recorder " and helps for teachers and school.'^.
Jan. 9. Aunt Lena Townsend, perhaps tlie oldest colored Methodist in the
United States, who became a member in 1812, and at tlie time of her death was con-
nected with this Church, died in the 11 2th year of her age.
Jan. 25. Eev. T. M'Couts Stewart, Professor-elect of Liberia College, was
tendered a farewell reception, at the Bethel Church, Philadelphia, which was large-
ly attended.
Feb. 1. Eev. Daniel Smith, who will be 100 years old March 10, 1884, and the
only living person who was ordained by Bishop Allen, the founder of this Church,
has been tendered, by Bishop Turner, a centennial dinner, to take place at Balti-
more, where he was born, or at Cincinnati, near where he resides, to which all the
Bishops and General Conference officers and their wives are to be invited.
Feb. 4. Bishop T. M. D. Ward's wife died, at Bennings, D. C, and was buried
the following Wednesday ; aged 53.
Feb. — . Eev. Daniel Pickett has resigned the office of Treasurer of Allen Uni-
versity, at Columbia, S. C, and Dr. J. C. Waters was elected his successor. Eev.
C. Pierce Nelson was elected Secretary of the Board of Trustees.
Feb. — . Eev. Prof. J. M. Morris, of Georgia, has been elected Professor of
Allen University.
March 1. The elegant new Union Bethel Church, at Washington city, the finest
in the Connection, 121 feet long and 85 feet wide, with seating for 3,500, and cost-
ing, including ground, $100,000, is nearly completed, and the pastor, Eev. James
A. Handy, appeals, through the " Christian Eecorder," for $10,000 to complete it.
March 8. The Treasurer, Mrs. Bisliop Campbell, reports the condition of the
Women's Parent Mite Missionary Society of the African Methodist Episcopal
Church, for the quarter ending Feb. 6, 1883: receipts, $92 75; expenditures,
$100 65.
March 20. Dr. B. T. Turner, Editor of the " Christian Eecorder," delivered a
lecture in Washingrton city; subject, "The Year 2000, and What of It."
March 27. Bishop Campbell gave a banquet and reception, at his residence, in
Philadelphia, to Eev. Edward N. Blyden, D.D., LL.D., President of Liberia College.
April 26. Bishop Payne announced to the Church that Children's Day will be
observed Sunday, June 10, 1883, and a collection taken for tlie support of the Con-
nectional Sunday-school Union, and an outline programme is printed for Sunday-
schools to use on that occasion.
May 29. Bishop Disney returned to Chatham, Canada, from England, in good
health.
June 27. The Annual Meeting of the Bishops was held in Chicago.
July — . Hon. H. C. C. Astwood, United States Consul to San Domingo, was or-
dained an elder in this Church, in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Sept. 13. The first number of the Quarterly Magazine or Eeview of the African
Methodist Episcopal Church will be issued January 1, 1884. It will be 32 or 36
pages, at $1 per jear.
223 Methodist Year-Book.
Bishops of the African Methodist Episcopal Church,
And their post-offlce address, Jan. 1, 1884.
Bishop D. A. Payne, D.D., LL.D., Evergreen Cottage, Wilberforce, Greene Co., 0.
Bishop A. W. Wayinan, D.D., 127 East Baltimore Street, Baltimore, Md.
Bishop J. F. Campbell, D.J)., LL.D., 1923 North Eleventh Street, Phii'a, Pa.
Bishop J. A. Shorter, Wilberforce, Greene Co., Ohio.
Bishop T. M. D. Ward, Bennings, D. C.
Bishop J. M. Brovi'n, D.D., D.C.L., near Howard University, Washington, D. C.
Bishop H. M. Turner, D.D., LL.D., Atlanta, Ga.
Bishop W. F. Dickerson, D.D., 109 Taylor Street, Columbia, S. C.
Bishop R. H. Cain, D.D., Paul Quin College, Waco, Texas.
Bishop Payne is senior Bishop, and Bishop Dickerson is Secretary of the Council
of Bishops.
The Annual Meeting of the Episcopal Council was held in Chicago, June 29,
1883 ; the next will be held in Baltimore, May 1, 1884.
General Conference Officers.
Eev. T. Gould, General Business Manager.
Rev. B. T. Tanner, D.D., Editor of the "Christian Recorder," Philadelphia.
Rev. .J. M. Townsend, Corresponding Secretary of the Missionary Society, Rich-
mond, Ind.
Eev. B. ¥. Watson, Secretary of Education, Wyandotte, Kansas.
Rev. C. S. Smith, M.D., Corresponding Secretary of the Sunday-School Union.
Rev. B. W. Arnett, D.D., Financial Secretary, 213 Cedar St., Nashville, Tenn.
Trustees of the Publication Department of African Methodist Episcopal
Church.
Revs. M. F. Sluby, C. T. Shaffer, Joseph S. Thompson, A. A. Wilson, and J.
W. Beckett. Laymen — Brothers Hans Schadd, Wm. T. Simpson, F. P. Main, and
Josiah Eddy.
Rev. M. F. Sluby, President, 4112 Powelten Avenue, West Philadelphia.
Brother Wm. T. Simpson, Secretary, 1241 N. 10th Street.
Rev. John W. Beckett, Assistant Secretary, 1607 Darien Street.
Brother Hans Shadd, Treasurer, 416 S. 11th Street.
Educational Institutions of the African Methodist Episcopal Church.
Wilberforce University. — Xenia, Ohio. B. F. Lee, D.D., President.
Allen University. — Columbia, S. C. Bishop W. F. Dickerson, D.D., President.
Paul Quinn College. — Waco, Tex. Rev. Bishop R. II. Cain, D.D., President.
East Florida Divinity High School. — Jacksonville, Fla. Rev. W. P. Ross,
President.
7%e Johmon A-^o^.— Raleigh, N. C.
The IVe-Hern, University. — Quindora, Kan.
Ihyne University.— Cokeabury, Abbeville Co., S. C.
Appropriations of the General Conference of the African Methodist
Episcopal Church, held in 1880.
The appropriations were made by the General Conference on the basis of the as-
sessment of 300,000 Church members,* at $1 each, which would give ample means
to meet the demands of the Church work. We quote the subjoined list from the
official record in the General Conference Journal.
1. Appropriation of $73,000 for salary of nine Bishops, at $1,800 a year each, to
be paid monthly ; salaries and traveling expenses for the quadreunium.
2. |1,350 per year for four general officers.
3. $4,000 for salaries of tefichers of Payne Institute.
4. $100,000 for general educational purposes.
5. $100,000 for Church Extension, to be a loan fund to be perpetuated.
6. $20,000 for Home Missions.
7. $10,000 for Payne Institute.
8. $5,000 for Waco College.
* The whole number of members in May, 18S0, was n-purted at8S7,5C6.
Methodist Year-Book. 223
9. $20,000 for foreign missionary work.
10. |;iiO,000 for Wilberforce University.
11. $5,000 for Jolinson Institute, Tallahasso, Fla.
12. $15,000 to establish an Industrial Kindergarten School in Georgia.
13. $5,000 for Johnson School, in Kaleigh, K C.
14. $10,(100 for widows and orphans of deceased itinerant pieachers.
15. $10,000 for superannuated preacliers.
16. $10,000 for presiding elders who fail to receive support as per Discipline.
17. $5,000 for contingent fund for the Bishops.
18. $30,000 for the Pulilication Dcpartiuent.
19. $5,000 to establish an Industrial Kindergarten School for Girls in Chailer*toii.
20. $25,000 for missionary work in Hayti and Africa.
21. $25,000 to aid young men who study for the nunistry, and young women for
teachers and missionaries.
22. $20,000 to aid in building the Cosmopolitan Church, Washington, D. C.
23. $3,000 to aid the Union Bethel Churdi in New Orleans, Lm,
24. $4,800 for the expenses of twelve delegate to the Ecumenical Council, held in
Europe in 1881.
25. $1,000 to pay the expenses of Commissioners to the African Methodist Epis-
copal Zion Church, to form the basis ot union of the two Connections.
26. $1,000 to pay the expenses of delegates to the General Council of the Colored
Methodists, to be held in America.
Conference Calendar of the African Methodist Episcopal Chcrch, and
Episcopal Supervision, from Aug. 1, 1883, to Aug. 1, 1884.
Iowa. — Des Moines, Iowa, August 15, 1883. Bishop Ward.
Indiana. — Allen Chapel, Indianapolis, Ind., August 22, 1883. Bishop Shorter.
y?i5i«0M.— Springfield, 111., August 23, 1883. Bishop Ward.
North Ohio. — Lebanon, Ohio, September 5, 1883. Bishop Shorter.
Missouri. — Cape Girardeau, Mo., September 5, 1883. Bishop Ward.
California. — Sacramento City, Cal., September 26, 1883. Bishop Turner.
Kentucky. — Nicholasx ille_, Ky., September 19, 1883. Bishop Campbell.
Ohio. — Hillsborough, Ohio, September 19, 1883. Bishop Shorter.
North Missouri. — St. Charles, Mo., September 13, 1883. Bisliop Ward.
South Kansas. — Lawrence, Kan., September 20, 1883. Bishop Ward.
West Kentucky. — Columbus, Kv., October 3, 1883. Bishop Campbell.
Httshurg.—EelMontQ, Pa., October 3, 1883. Bishop Shoi-ter.
Kansas. — Denver City, Kan., October 11, 1883. Bishop Ward.
Indian. — Brazil, Indian Territory, October 17, 1883. IJishop Turner.
Tennessee. — Franklin, Tenn., October 17, 1883. Bishop Campbell.
West Tennessee. — Paris, Tenn., October 31, 1883. Bishop Campbell.
North Carolina. — Durham, N. C, Nov. 14, 1883. Bishop Payne or Dickerson.
Arkansas. — Little Eock, Ark., November 21, 1883. Bishop Turner.
North-East Texas. — Waco, Texas, November 22, 1883. Bishop Cain.
Macon. — Forsythe, Ga., November 28, 1883. Bishop Dickerson.
South Arkansas. — Helena, Ark., November 29, 18'-'2. Bisliop Turner.
Floi%da. — Pensacola, Fla., December 5, 1883. Bishop Waymaii.
Cohimbia. — Greenwood, S. C, December — , 1883. Bisliop Dickerson.
Mississippi. — Port Gibson, Miss., December 12, 1883. Bishop Turner.
Alabama. — Troy, Ala., December 12, 1883. Bishop Wayman.
West Texas. — San Antonio, Texas, December 13, 1883. Bishop Cain.
North Alabama. — Florence, Ala., December 19, 1883. Bishop Wayman.
Texas. — Palestine, Texas, December 27, 1883. Bishop Cain.
North Georgia. — Marietta, Ga., January 9, 1884. Bishop Dickerson.
Noi'th Mississippi. — Vieksburg, Miss., January 9, 1884. Bishop Turner.
. Georgia. — ^Valdosta, Ga., January 17, 1884. Bishop Dickerson.
South Carolina. — Georgetown, S. C, February 13, 1884. Bishop Dickerson.
North Louisiana. — Lake Providence, La., February 14, 1884. Bishop Cain.
East Florida. — Jacksonville, Fla., February 20, 1884. Bishop Wayman.
Louisiana. — Plaquemine, La., March 13, 1884. Bishop Cain.
Virginia. — Portsmouth, April 8, 1884. Bishrip Payne.
New Jersey. — Bordentown, N. J., April 10, 1884. Bishop Brown.
Baltimore. — Frederick, Md., April 17, 1884. Bishop Payne.
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PMladelpMa. — Chambersbur^, Pa., June 11, 1884.
Nero To?'^.— Brooklyn, N. Y., (Bridge Street church,) June 25, 1884.
I\-ew England. — Newport, K. I., July 16, 1884.
The General Conference assembles in Bethel African Methodist Episcopal
Church, Saratoga Street, Baltimore, Md., Monday, May 5, 1884.
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Oliiircli.
The first colored Methodist Episcopal Church, separate from the whites, was or-
ganized in New York city in 1796. In 1800 the society built its first liouse of wor-
ship, and called it Zion. In its temporal economy it was separate from the Meth-
odist Episcopal Church, with which its members had been connected, but its min-
isters and pastoral oversight were supplied from the Parent Church for about
twenty years. Later, wlieu other Churches became associated with it, the Connec-
tional organization took the general name of its first Church, in honor of the latter.
The doctrines and genei'al polity of the Church are the same as those of the Meth-
odist Episcopal Church, except that the Bishops are elected for the term of four
years, but are eligible for re-election.
The first general meeting of ministers (now designated the first General Confer-
ence) was liekl in 1820. At this session the first vSuperintendent or Bishop was
elected, namely, Bishop Kichard Allen. The entire Episcopal list, up to May 1, 1884,
embraces twenty names. The present list, with the post-oflice address of each, is as
follows :
Eight Eev. Joseph J. Clinton, D.D., P. 0. box 91, Atlantic City, N. J.
Eight Eev. Singleton T. Jones, D.D., Louisville, Ky.
Eight Eev. John J. Moore, U.I)., New Haven, Conn.
Eiffht Eev. James W. Hood. Fayette ville, N. C.
Ei'tjht Eev. Joseph P. Thompson, M.D., P. O. box 6, Newburg, N. Y.
Eight Eev. William H. Hilliary.
Eight Eev. Thomas H. Lomax.
The 16th Quadrennial Session of the General Conference was held in Mont-
gomery, Ala., May 5-24, 1880. The election of Bishops resulted in the re-election,
by a nearly unanimous vote, of all the former incumbents. The full list of other
Connectional officers is as follows;
Eev. C. E. Harris, Concord, N. C, General Conference Secretary and General
Financial Steward.
General Home and Foreign Missionary Board. — Bishop Jones, President;
Bishop J. W. Hood, Vice-President; Bishop Thompson, Secretary.
First District, Eev. Jacob Thomas; Second District, Eev. S. S Wales; Third
District, Eev. W. J. Moore; Fourth District, Eev. S. W. Jones; Fifih District,
Eev. E. H. Curry ; Sixth District, Eev. J. B. Handy.
General Board of Book Concern. — Head-quarters at Bleecker Street, New
York. Eev. II. M. Wilson, President; Eev. G. H. Washington, Vice-President;
Eev. John B. Small, Secretary; Eev. Jacob Thomas, General Book Agent; Eev.
Charles Eobinson and Rev. M. M. Bell, Members of the Board.
Episcopal District Stewards. — First District, Eev. Geo. H. Washington ; Sec-
ond District, Eev. J. M'H. Farley; Third District, Eev. I. C. Clinton; Fourth
District, Eev. Allen Hannon ; Fifth District, Eev. J. S. H. Stoveus; Sixth District,
Eev. David Butler.
Educational iNSTrrcTioNs.
Zion Wfsley InntHute. — Concord, N. C.
FMy^x Hnih ,S'c//^>^J?.— Lancaster C. H., S. C.
Zion Hall 'VolUyiatu Institute. — Salisbury, N. C.
Methodist Year-Book. 225
The Colored Methodist Episcopal Church of America.
This Church was organized Dec. Ifi, 1S60, under the auspices of the M. E. Church,
South, although entirely separate from the jurisdiction of that body. Latest reports
received show a total Church membersliip of over 125,000 members, and about
1,300 ministers. Its Bishops are L. H. Holsey, Isaac Lane, and J. II. Beube.
The General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, at its ses-
sion in 1882, resolved upon taking steps for the education of teachers and preachers
of the colored people for the Colored M. E. Church in America_, and directed the
appointment of a Commissioner of Education to raise and receive funds for that
purpose; they also provided to organize a Board of Trustees, a majority of whom
should be whites, to use said funds for the end intended. Under this authority.
Eev. J. E. Evans, D.D., of tlie North Georgia Conference, was appointed saia
Commissioner ; and the following Board of Trustees was also appointed and or-
ganized according to law, viz. : Rev. J. E. Evans, President of the Board ; Kev.
W. H. La Prade, Treasurer; Bishop G. F. Pierce, Rev. Morgan Calloway, Rev. J.
W. Hinton, Eev. W. A. Candler, and Mr. C. G. Goodrich, of Georgia; Hon. L.
Q. C. Lamar and Eev. E. G. Porter, Mississippi ; Hon. Fleming Law, Alabama ;
Hon. E. H. Pollard, Virginia ; Eev. W. W. Duncan, South Carolina ; Col. Eobert
Vanc€, North Carolina; Eev. J. B. M'Ferrin, Tennessee; Eev. D. Morton, Ken-
tucky ; Eev. E. E. Hendrix, Missouri ; Eev. S. H. Babcock, Arkansas ; Eev. I. G.
John, Texas, of the M. E. Church, South.
Of the Colored M. E. Church in America: Bishop L. H. Holsey, E. A. Maxey,
J. S. Harper, Secretary of the Board, and Eev. G. W. Usher, of Georgia; Eev. W.
T. Thomas, Washington City; Rev. J. E. Daniel, Tennessee; Eev. J. H. Ander-
son, Mississippi, and Eev. J. F. Jamison, Te.xas.
The Board has selected Augusta, Ga., as the location of the Parent Institute, to
be called " The Paine Institute," in honor of the late Senior Bishop, and his inter-
est in the Christian education of the colored people. Eev. Morgan Calloway, D.D.,
Vice-President of Emory College, Ga., has been elected to, and has accepted the
Presidency of the Institute ; other first-class white teachers, male and female, are
ready to enter upon duty at the earliest day possible.
United Brethren Church.
This Church was organized by Eev. Philip Otterbein, a devoted and distinguished
scholar and missionary of the German Eeformed Church. Otterbein, in 1752, em-
igrated from Dillenbc7-g, Germany, to America. Soon afler his arrival to his new
field of labor, Lancaster, Pa., he became convinced of the need of a deeper relig-
ious experience than he had ever enjoyed, and, at the close of one of his sennons,
hurried trom the pulpit to his study, and there remained in intense prayer until he
consciously received the baptism of spiritual power. Having received this he was
prepared, as was Wesley with a similar experience, to inaugurate an earnest move-
ment in the direction of spiritual and evangelical reform, and, as a calm, dignified,
patient, hmnble, devout, and persistent leader, carry it forward to success.
At this date there was not an organized Methodist society in America. The
German Churches were sunken into a lifeless and chilling formality, and, as Otter-
bein went among them enforcing experimental spiritual religion, the majority of the
chief ministers and members pursued him with severe criticism, and occassionally
with direct persecution. But his heart, like that of Wesley in England, had been
" strangely warmed," and he ceased not to move forward, the apostle of a better
life. Later, at Tulpohocken, Pa., he became acquainted with Eev. Martin Boelun,
formerly a Mennonite preacher, but now an earnest and devoted Methodist local
preacher. These two preacliers, soon after the enjoyment of their new experience,
met (for the first time) at a great meeting, held in a barn, in Lancaster County. The
sermon, one of great spiritual power, was by Boehm, and, at the close, before Boehm
could be seated, Otterbein arose, and, embracing him, exclaimed, "We are breth-
10"^
226 Methodist Year-Book.
ren ! " These words proved suggestive of tlie name of the new Church organized
.among the converts.
As the converts multiplied it became necessary to organize them into societies for
spiritual culture and ettbrt, and to throw around these societies or classes a Connec-
tioual bond. The first Annual Conference was held in Baltimore in 1789, five
years after the organization of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1800 all
the Societies were formally organized into one body, under the name of the
" United Brethren in Christ," and William Otterbein * and Martin Bochm were
elected Superintendents or Bishops. Up to this time no system of doctrines had
been promulgated. Some of the members were Germnn Reformed, some were
Mennonites, some were Lutherans, and others were Methodists. The work spread
westward, and, in 1814, a call was issued, by an Annual Conference in Ohio, for a
General Conference.
The first General Conference was held in Mt. Pleasant, Pa., June 6, 1815, at
which the doctrines and polity of the denomination, very much as they now exist,
were formulated.! The Connectional Missionary Society was organized in 1853 ;
the Church Erection Society in 1869 ; the Sabbath-School Association in 1869 ; the
Woman's Missionary Society in 1877.
List and Address of the Bishops, in 1883.
Eev. J. J. Glossbrenncr, Churcliville, Va.
Kev. Jonathan Weaver, D D., Lisbon, Iowa.
Eev. John Dickson, D.D., Westerville, Ohio.
Rev. Nicholas Castle, Philomath Oregon.
Eev. E. B. Kephart, D.D., Toledo, Iowa.
* "The eminently Christian character of Mr. Otterbein. and his usefulness in founding this
Church, malie it pioper that a few sentences be written of him. lie was born at Dillenbertr,
Germany, March 6, 1726. and resided in liis native land twenty-six years, and in America sistv-
one years, dyin;? Nov. 17, 1S13, liavin? eiintinued liis ministry to the close of his lonsr life. He
was an eminent scholar in classical attainments, and in philosophy and divinity. He was held
In his-h esteem by Bishops Asbury and Coke, of the Methodist Church, and assisted, by special
r quest, at the ordination of the former. On hearinfr of his death Bishop Asbury said of him,
'Great and good man of God!' An honor to his Chtireh and country; one of the greatest
scliolarB and divines tliat ever came to America, or who were born in it." — M'Clintock and
Strong's " Cyclopedia."
+ Membership in the Church is conditioned upon a bilief in the Bible as the Word of God ;
the experience of the pardon of sins; a determination, by grace and a good life, to save the
soul ; and a pledge to obey the Discipline of the Church.
Only one order of ministers is recognized by the Church, namely, that of elders. The Bishops
of tlie Church are only elders elected, for a term of four years, us" superintendents of the whole
field.
Her ecclesiastical bodies consist of Offici.il Boards, Quarterly, Annual, and General Confer-
ences. The latter meet quadrennially. Her ofhcers are superintendents of Salibath-schools ;
stewards, who attend to the finances of the Churches ; class-leaders, or subpastors, who have
cli;irsre of classes for spiritual instruction and worsliip; preachers in charge, who have the ]ias-
toral care of a mission, circuit, or station ; prt-sidiiig elders, who are t'lected. bj' the Annual Con-
fer nee, from among the ordained elders, and travrl over a certain number of fields of l.alior. jire-
side at the Quarterly Conferences, and see thnt all tlie laborers, in their respective districts, f:iitli-
fully perform their duties; and Bishops or General Superintendents of tlie whole Church, who
preside at all the Annual and General Conferences. Tlie method of supplying the Churches of
the denomination with pastors is that known as the " itinerant system." Pastors in charge are
suliject to removal or re-appointment at the end of each Conference year, by a committee consti-
tuted bv the Annual Conference, composed of the Bishop, the presiding elders of the past and
the present year, and an equal number of local elders and preachers. A minister cannot re-
Jiittin in the same charge more than three ye.irs, e.vcept by the consent of two thirds of the
members of the Annual Conference.
Presiding elders have no limit as to the time they may servo in a district, subject only to the
0[)tion of the Annual ('unference. Bishops may be re-elected every lour years, indetiuitely, by
the General Conference.
The Gener.al Conference of 1877 made provision for lay representiUion in the Annua! Confer-
ence.*, leaving it to tlie will of the several Annual Conferences to accept or not. A considerable
number of Conferences have adopted it, and its introduction is believed to be .advantageous.
Methodist Year-Book. 227
Printing Establishment and Publishing Agent.
The genenil publishing head-quarters are in Dayton, Ohio. Rev. L. Davis,
D.D., Eev. S. Milk, N. G. Tliouias, Esq., Rev. J. L.Luttrell, Rev. G. Fritz, D. L.
Kike, Esq., and Eev. W. M'Kee, Trustees oftlie Establishment.
Rev. William J. Shuey, Publishing Agent.
Editors and Connectional Periodicals.
Eev. James W. Hott, Editor of " The Religious Telescope," a large sixteen-page
weekly, now in its 50th volume.
Eev. M. E. Drury, A.M., Assistant Editor of" The Eeligious Telescope."
Eev. Daniel Berger, D.D., Editor of Sabbath-school literature.
Eev. D. K. Flickinger, D.D., Editor of" The Missionary Visitor," an illustrated
semi-monthly.
Eev. William Mittendorf, Editor of "Froehliche Botschatter" and "Youth's
Pilgrim " — German.
Mrs. Lillie E. Keister, Editor of the " Woman's Evangel," a monthly missionary
magazine, organ of Woman's Missionary Society.
In addition to the above-named periodicals the Church publishes " Our Bible
Teacher," a teacher's monthly ; " Our Bible-Lesson Quarterly," of thirty-two pages ;
"Our Intermediate Bible-Lesson Quarterly," a sixteen-page quarterly ; and " Les-
sons for Our Little Ones," a little four-page weekly.
Officers of the United Brethren Church Nov. 1, 1883.
General Board of Education. — D. D. DeLong, N. R. Luce, L. Davis, J. P. Lan-
dis, Geo. Miller, L. S. Cornell, S. B. Allen, "W. J. Shuey, J. L. Field, E. B. Kcp-
hart, M. Wright, and John Hill.
Board of Missions. — Bishop Glossbrenner, President ; the other Bishops, Vice-
Presidents ; Eev. W. J. Shuey, Eev. John Kemp, Eev. G. A. Funkhoiiser, D.D.,
Rev. G. Siekafoose, Eev. L. Craumer, John Dodds, Esq., and Jacob Iloke, Esq.,
Managers ; Eev. D. K. Flickinger, John Dodds, Eev. J. K. Billheimer, Rev. G. A.
Funkhouser, D.D., and J. Dickson, D.D., Executive Committee.
Womayi^s Missionari/ Association. — Mrs. Professor Haywood, President, Wester-
ville, Ohio; Mrs. A. Billheimer, Mrs. W. J. Shuey, Mrs. Lewis Davis, Vice-Presi-
dents ; Mrs. L. Keister, Corresponding Secretary, Dayton, Ohio ; Mrs. Benjamin
Marot, Recording Secretary, Dayton, Ohio; Mrs. D. L. Rike, Treasurer, Dayton,
Ohio; Mrs. A. L. Billheimer, General Traveling Agent, Dayton, Ohio; Mrs. L.
Keister, Editor, Dayton, Ohio.
Church Erection. — Dayton, Ohio. The Board and officers are the same as the
Board of Missions.
Sabbath-school Association:— Rev. W. Dillon, President, Dayton, Ohio ; Robert
Cowden, Secretary, Gallon, Ohio; Eev. W. J. Shuey, Treasurer, Dayton, Ohio.
Managers: Eev. H. A. Thompson, D.D; Eev. D. E. Miller, Eev. W. O.
Tuhey, A.M.
Boaril of Education.— 'BlAxo]-) E. B. Kephart, D.D., President; Eev. M. Wright,
D.D., Vice-President; Eev. J. P. Landis, A.M., Secretary, Dayton, Ohio ; Eev.
G. A. Funkhouser, D.D., Treasurer, Dayton, Ohio.
Printing Establishment. — Trustees: Eev. L. Davis, D.D., President; Eev. G.
Fritz, N. G. Thomas, Esq. ; Eev. S. Mills, D. L. Eike, Esq. ; Eev. W. M'Kee,
Rev. J. L. Luttrell.
Board of Statistics. — Bishop J. J. Glossbrenner, President ; Bishops J. Weaver,
228 Methodist Year-Book.
D.D. ; J. Dickson, D.D. ; N. Castle, and E. B. Kephart, D.D., Vice-Presidents ;
J. K. Billlieimer, Secretary.
Colleges and Seminaries.
Avalon College. — Avalon, Mo. Eev. C. J. Kephart, A.M., President.
Edwards Academy. — White Pine, Tenn. D. W. Doran, A.B., Principal.
Gould College. — Harlan, Kan. Eev. A. Bishop, A.M., President.
Hartsville College. — Hartsville, Ind. Eev. C. H. Kiracofe, A.M., President.
Lebanon Valley College. — Annville, Penn. Eev. D. D. DeLong, A.M., President.
Lane University. — Lecompton, Kan. N. B. Bartlett, President.
Otterbein University. — Westerville, Ohio. Rev. II. A. Thompson, D.D., Presi-
dent ; Eev. S. M. Hippard, Agent.
Westfield College.— \V e&fa&lA, 111. Eev. E. B. Allen, D.D., President; Eev. W.
C. Smith, General Agent.
Western College. — Toledo, Iowa. Eev. W. M. Beardshear, A.M., President ; Eev.
M. S. Drury, Agent.
Philomath College. — Philomath, Oregon. Eev. "Wayne S. Walker, A.B., Presi-
dent.
Dover Academy. — Dover, 111. W. 11. Mason, B.S., Principal.
Fostoria Academy. — Fostoria, Ohio. Eev. W, T. Jackson, A.M., Ph.D., Prin-
cipal.
Green Bill Seminary. — Green Ilill, Ind. G. Thompson, A.M., Principal.
BoanoTce Academy. — Eoanoke, Ind. M. DeWitt Long, A.M., Principal.
Shenandoah Seminary. — Dayton, Va. Eev. J. N. Fries, A.M., Principal.
Washington Seminary. — Huntsville, Wash. TeiT. Charles W. Bean, A.M.,
Principal.
Woodbridge Seminary. — Woodbridge, Cal. Eev. D. A. Mobley, A.M., Prin-
cipal.
Union Biblical Seminary.— Dayton, Ohio. Faculty: Eev. L. Davis, D.D. ; Eev.
G. A. Funkhouser, D.D. : Rev. J. P. Landis, D.D. ; Eev. A. W. Drury, A.M.
Letters of inquiry may be addressed to the Eesident Agent, S. L. Herr, Dayton,
Ohio.
United Bretheen Conference Calendar from Oct. 1, 1883, to April 1, 1884.
Western Eeserve, Alliance, Ohio, October 3. Bishop Glossbrenner.
Wisconsin, Pleasant Valley, Wisconsin, October 4. Bishop Weaver. Post-ofEee,
Gillingham, Richland County, Wisconsin.
Scioto, Hallsville, Ohio, October 10. Bishop Glossbrenner.
Minnesota, Cordova, October 11, 8 A.M. Bishop Weaver.
Kansas, Lecompton, Kansas, October 11. Bishop Kephart.
Tennessee, Liberty Ilill, October 11. Bisliop Dickson. Post-office, Eheatown,
Greene County, Tennessee.
AVest Kansas, Harlan, Kansns, October 18. Bishop Kephart.
Dakota, Milltown, Dakota, October 19, 8 A.M. Bishop Weaver.
Iowa, Lisbon, Iowa, October 24, 2 P.M. Bishop Weaver.
Arkansas Valley, M'Phei-son ; Kansas, October 25. Bishop Kephart.
West Des Moines, Scranton, Iowa, October. 31, 2 P.M. Bishop Weaver.
Osage, lola, Kansas, November 1. Bishop Kephart.
South-west Missouri, Eaymore, Missouri, November 8. Bishop Kephart.
West Nebraska, Union' Chapel, November 8, 2 P.M. Bishop Weaver. Post-
office, Juniatta, Adams County, Nebraska.
East Nebraska, Crete, Nebraska, Mareli 21, 1884. Bishop Kephart.
Pennsylvania, York, Pa., February 27, 1884. Bishop Dickson.
Virginia, Lacy Sprincrs, Va., March 5, 1884. Bishop Dickson.
Parkersburg,"Philippi, Barbour County, West Virginia, March 19, 1884. Bishop
Dickson.
Methodist Year-Book.
229-
Statistics of the United Brethren Chuich.
CONFliRK.N-CKS.
Alleghany. . .
Arkansas Val.
Auglaize —
California . . .
Cent. Illinois.
Central Oliio.
Colorado
Dakota
East German.
E. Des Moines
E. Nebraska.
Elkhorn
Erie
Fo.K River —
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Low'rWab'sh
Miami
Michigan
Minnesota . . .
Missouri
Muskingum..
N. Michigan.
North Ohio . .
Ohio German
Ontario
Oregon
Osage
Parkersburg .
Penns'lvania.
Rock River..
Sandusky
Scioto
St. Joseph . . .
S.W. Missouri
S. Illinois —
Tennessee . . .
TJpp'rWabash
Virginia
Walla Walla.
W.DesMoin's
West Kansas .
W.Nebraska.
W'st'uRes've
White River. .
Wisconsin . . .
Germany
Sh'bro— Afr'a
6.aS5
1.4V3
6,209
r.59
2.744
8,845
214
475
5,0'
1..550
1,808
440
3,274
461
2,865
5,632
2,735
2,29'^
544
5,116
7,145
2,547
1,3.-j1
2,203
4,063
2,278
5,274
2,ai4
1,087
894
1,5.37
7,184
12,872
1,788
6,811
6,458
6,780
518
681
832
5,373
8,.554
407
2,637
2,140
706
3,115
6,0.34
1,R57
293
191
38 15
14 14
44 24
14 15
22 24
27 22
5 ..
13 6
m 23
19 13
22 24
11 11
46 35
7; 4
22' 23
25 44
$29 37
ioe 40
135 70
36 00
214 36
6 68
81 55
2 5.^
259 31
4 00
7
19 00
23 15
"32 16
338 15
11 92
3 18
726 60
24 94
110
2
10 72
"r 55
'"4
48 00
""9 58
3 00
$193,750, 11
6,755 4
92,000 "
16,400
59,300; 16
97,250 5
10,000'
2.8.501
198,000 10
16,9(X)
14,775
1,000
62,000 23
7,675 1
74,500 15
47,.5.50 13
62,2r)0 15
17,400 14
1,500
61,100
222,730,
50.5001 17
12,000; 6
14,000, 6
81,900 4
14,655! 14
127,160| 16
75,250 18
27,150 1
2,688 21
8,500 5
54,600 9,
364.120 26
50,000 16'
187.200 12;
90,700 4
133,720
5,200
3,500
5,600
62,975
118,750
2,000
30,000
5,150
1,900
75,150
83.600
14,500
3,000
2,.t00
$15,800
615
4,350
5,000
7,400
8,S00
2,000
200
19,000 91
2,0.-0 35
2,550; 45
.... 9
16,400 116
140: 14
8,700
4,450
8,650
4,045
....
4,350
6,700
9,900
2.300
2,100' 44
4,500' 69
4,140 79
12,300: 103
15,150 47
500
700
1,750
3,100
40,000
10.000'
8,6.50
1,869
5,2.50
600
350
6,650
8,750
1,000
4,475
100
4',350
1,700
1,400
7,877
l,4i;5
7,691
879
3,660
4,012
218
265
6,7a5
1,41
1,614
366
5,1
460
2,559
2,871
2,755
1,796
76
4,497
7,855
3,330
1,146
1,879
4,117
2,754
6,454
1,969
2,900
468
1,191
5,615
15,940
2,284
8,337
6,190
7,461
667
325
623
3,8.'-.0
8,680
19i
2.786
1,721
550
3,242
3.930I
1,450
296
227
1,135
232
1,156
154
531
6t)2
48
59
1,250
245
295
59
&30
87
448
483
471
355
14
718
1,143
595
215
287
611
552
1,056
403
221
83
254
930
2,316
365
1,415
979
l,2r6
58
76
68
700
1,386
56
433
255
118
496
621
230
Totals forl882 4463
Totalsfor 1881 44a)
1.59..547
1.57,712
1257
1235
963! $2,294 og
750! 918 75
2322 $2,974,313
2250 2,804,173
389 $282,284 3180
377 251,096 3213
Increase 63
Decrease. . .
1,835
22 213' $1,375 53
72 $170,140 12| 30,588
33
165,743 25,6!'0
158,319 26,.520
7,4241 830
Contributions during the year: For Ministers' Salaries, $387,710 99; General, for Mis-
sions, $42,998 84 ; Woman's Missions, $4,948 84 ; Sunday-schools, for Missions. $2,294 28 ;
Church Extension, $1,742 02; General Sunday-school Fund, $1,741 50; Local Sunday-
school Collections, $.53,246 93; Bishops' Support, $6,661 42; Colleges and Seminary,
$36,4.50 51 ; Church Building and Expenses, $268,800 02 ; Ministerial Education, $1,477 78.
Grand total, $8:i,2uy 42.
230 Methodist Year-Book.
The Evangelical Association.
This Church, familiarly known in its early history as the Church of the " Cer-
man Methodists," or the " Albriglit Metlioelists," was organized by Jacob Al-
bright (Albreciit.) Albright was born of German parentage in Montgomery
County, Pa., three miles from Fottstown, in 1759. He was converted and joined
the Methodist Episcopal Churcli in 1790. He began an earnest evangelical work
in 1796 among the German families and in various German communities in tliat
part of Pennsylvania. In 1800 he began to organize his followers into classes, after
the manner of those of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and, later, these began to
be designated by the name of their apostolic leader. In 1803 the necessity for a
Connectional Bond of Union became so urgent, that a Conference was held (Nov.
3, 1803) to arrange for Connectional ministerial supervision. There were present
Jacob Albright, John Walter, and Abraham Leiser, ministers, and fourteen mem-
bers of the society. In the name of the entire society they considered Albright as
a genuine evangelical preacher, and recognized him as their teacher, and, as such,
they solemnly consecrated him. Upon this the society adopted the Holy Scriptures
of both Old and New Testaments as their Articles of Faith and I'ractice, and pre-
sented to Albright the following written aclinowledgment in accordance with their
declaration :
" We, the undersigned, as Evangelical and Christian friends, declare and recog-
nize Jacob Albriglit as a truly Evangelical minister in word and deed, and a be-
liever (Belvennerf in the Universal Christian Church and the communion of saint-*.
To this we testify as brethren and elders of his society. Given in the State of
Pennsylvania the 5th of November, 1803."
At this meeting the first ordination occurred. John Walter and Abraham
Leiser (the latter one of Albriglit's converts, and the former united with liim to
labor in the ministry — no evidence of his being regularly in the luinistry) ordained
Jacob All-right, by the laying on of hands and prayer, to be a preacher and elder,
thus consecrating him, with the consent of fourteen " elders," to the office of an
" Evangelical preaclier."
In 1805 circuits were named for the first time, and the increase of members for
the year was tliirty-five. George Miller was called into the ministry, who became
Albright's successor at his death. In 1806 the society numbered 120 members and
4 itinerant preachers, namely : Jacob Albright, John Walter, Alexander Jimeison,
and George Miller. Besides these, there were four local preachers employed, one
of whom afterward entered the itinerancy. It wjus determined this year to hold
thereafter a regular Annual Conference.
The first Conference was held in the house of Samuel Becker, at Muehlbach,
then in Dauphin County, but now Lebanon, Pa., Nov. 15 and 16, 1807. There
were 28 members present, consisting of 5 itinerant and 3 local preachers, and 20 class -
leaders and exhorters. The membership numbered 220. The Conference was
called by Jacob Albright and his associates " Tlie Newly Formed Methodist Con-
ference." No Church name had yet been selected, neither had it been the pur-
pose of Albright and his co-laborers to organize a new denomination. This Con-
ference elected Jacob Albright to the oiiice of Bishop, and the record in the
minutes was as follows : " Jacob Albright was elected Bishop by the majority of
votes, and George Miller was elected elder." The Conference gave the first regu-
lar license to John Driesbach and Jacob Frey, receiving them as traveling preach-
ers on trial. The following is a copy of tlie license given to the first named:
Methodist Year-Book. 231
" Upon the authority of ' The Newly Foriucd Mctliodist Conference,' wliieh has
firiven John Driesbach a good testimony, and is willing to receive him into our
Commission ; so I, the undersigned, give him nennission to serve in the office ac-
cording to our regiilatioUj and is also appointed thereto as a preacher for one year
on trial, if he conducts himself as is most according to the Word of God.
" Jacob Albright."
" The Uth of November, 1807."
Albright was appointed to write Articles of Faith and Discipline. George Mil-
ler and Joim Driesbach were stationed on the old Circuit — Lancaster aiidSchiiijltiU
— and John Walter and Jacob Frey on Korthumherland Circuit. Abraham Leiser
had died in 1S05, and Andrew Jimeison located, in 1806, on account of family cir-
cumstances. During the year Albright labored with these men as his health would
permit.
On Easter Day, 1808, a general meeting was held at the house of John Probst, in
Berks County, Pa., when Albright stationed the preachers. One week later a
meeting was held in the house of P. Eadenbach, near Linglestown, Dauphin
County, Pa., and here George Miller and John Driesbach bade Albright farewell
for the last time. Albright traveled and preached as much as his health would
permit, and started home to die, but was not able to reach home. At Muehlback
(now Klintersville, Lebanon County, Pa.) he stopped, entered the house of George
Becker, and said : " Have you my bed ready ? I have ccmie to die?'' He lingered a
few days, and expired May 18, 1808, at the age of 49 years and 17 days. His
funeral took place May 20, John Walter preaching the funeral discourse.
George Miller became the successor of Jacob Albright, and, as the latter had
been prevented from compiling the Articles of Faith and Discipline, Miller under-
took the work. Ill health delayed its completion, and, finally, he made the com-
pilation out of the Word of God, and partly according to the Episcopal form of
Church government. Other new helpers in the ministry appeai'ed, but about this
time a storm of persecution arose against Methodists and the Evangelical Associa-
tion, as it is now called ; and the United Brethren, as well as the Methodist Epis-
copal Church, suffered. As the preachers of the Associationl abored among the
Germans, they were especially the objects of hatred. The German Churches had
become lifeless, and drunkards and blasphemers were constituted officers of tlie
Church, and many of the clergymen were notorious drunkards, and hence the per-
secution.
2d Conference, held in April, 1809, in the house of George Miller, Berks County,
Pa.; 6 preachers present. George Miller elected President, and J. Dreisbach,
Secretary. J. Walter and J. Dreisbach were set apart for the office of elder, but
■were not ordained until later, when George Miller was also ordained elder, his or-
dination having been authorized at the first Conference, in 1807. This Conference
gave the Association the name of " The so-called Albrights." John Dreisbach
was instructed to publish a Catechism which he had translated from the English.
George Miller presented tiie MSS. of the Articles of Faith to the Conference, and
was authorized to publish them at his own expense. The Discipline appeared
in 1809, under the following title : " Doctrines of Faith, General Eules of Cliurch
Discipline, and regulation for the So-called Albright people," etc. The preachei-s
were stationed, and it was a year of success, six young men being among the con-
verts, -vvho afterward entered the ministry.
3d Conference, held April 18-20, 1810, at the house of George Becker, near the
Muehlbach; George Miller, President, J. Driesbach, Secretary. There were 528
members reported; 7 itinerant and 10 local preachers; 2 preachers received on
trial ; a new circuit formed. G. Miller, having written a biography of Jacob Al-
232 Methodist Year-Book.
bric'lit, was authorized to publish it at the expense of the itinerants. John Walter
received permission to publish a small hymn book. It was resolved to hold two
camp-meetings — the first held by this people — which proved successful ; some of
the members came eighty miles with their wagons and tents. Fourteen new classes
formed, and the membership increased 200.
4th Conference, April 9-11, 1811, at same place as preceding year. Lay mem-
bers, 740, with 8 itinerant and 12 local preachers. The work extended into Mary-
land, and success prevailed generally. This year George Miller wrote his book,
entitled " Practical Christianity," but it was not published until 1814, when the
" Biography of Jacob AUo'ight" also appeared.
5th Conference, 12 itinerant preachers present; lay membership, T61 ; circuits
were divided, and the work extended into New York. The society now had 5 cir-
cuits and one mission appointed.
6th Conference, at Mr. Dreisbach's, in Buffivlo Valley, Union County, Pa., April
21-23, 1813 ; George Miller, President, J. Dreisbach, Secretary. Several preachers
excluded from the society, one located, 6 received on trial; 2 ordained deacons, and
2 elders. Lay members, 706 ; itinerant preachers, 15.
7th Conference, at the same place as the two preceding; lield April 13-15,
1814; J. Dreisbach elected President, and N. Niebel, Secretary. Itinerant preach-
ers, 13; received on trial, 3; lay members, 1,016. This Conference elected the
first preddiiig elde?; John Dreisbach, who had 7 circuits in his district; 4 camp-
meetings, 14 general meetings, and 8 watch-meetings were held by him during the
year.
8th Conference, at the house of Jacob Klinefelter, near Shrewsbury, York
County, Pa.. April 4-6, 1815; H. Neibel elected President, John Klingfelter, Sec-
retary. Tliree preachers received on trial, 3 onlained deacons, 1 located; lay
membership, 1,108. Two districts were formed, and H. Niebel elected the second
presiding elder. The 2 districts has 7 circuits. The year was prosperous. George
Miller, the successor of Jacob Albright, after an illness of three months, with con-
sumption, died April 5, 1816, in the 43d year of his age. Ilis last words were, "I
know that I shall be saved." lie was interred in New Berlin, Pa.
9th Conference, which completes the second division, held at Abraham Eyer's,
Dry Valley, Union County, PiU, June 12-13, 1816; J. Dreisbach, President; H.
Niebel, Secretary; 9 received on trial; 4 ordained deacons, 2 elders; 3 located;
lay members, 1,401, an increase of 293 during the year; several circuits formed
and 3 missions. J. Dreisbach and H. Neibel were authorized to make a proper
selection of hynms, and improve the Discipline.
The outfit of a new printing-press, etc., was purchased at Philadelphia, Nov.
30, 1815, by J. Dreisbach, at a cost of $375 08. This was the beginning of the Pub-
lishing Houses of the Evangelical Association; commenced at New Berlin, Pa.,
and is now a large establishment at Cleveland, Ohio. The Conference consisted
of 2 districts, of 9 circuits, and 3 missions. Lake Mission, in New York, was ex-
tended into Canada. This was the beginning of the Canada and New York Con-
ferences. This year the first attempt was made in Ohio, which prospered rapidly,
and by the next Conference 55 members were reported.
It was resolved at this Conference to hold a General Conference of the Associa-
tion in October, 1316. Twelve delegates were elected which composed that body,
namely, J. Dreisbach, 11. Niebel, J. Walter, L. Zimmerman, J. Erb, J. Sambach,
John Klinefelter, S. Miller, J. Dehoft', D. Thomas, A. Ettinger, and J. French.
Methodist Year-Book. 233
Seventeentli Quadrennial General Conference of the Evangelical
Association,
The General Conference convened- Oct. 4, 1883, at Allentown, Pa., -within a few
hours' ride from the humble scat of the first General Conference, held in the house
of Father Martin Driesbaeh, in Union County, Pa., just 75 years ago. That Confer-
ence consisted of but 12 members, a number of whom had not received elder's or-
ders, and represented a membership of but 1,491. The present Conference is com-
posed of 87 delegates and 9 ex-offido members, making 96 in all, representing
119,758 members.
The Bishops of the Church, namely, Bisliops J. J. Esher, E. Dubs, and Thomas
Bowman, presided, in turn, as chairmen ex-ojicio. Kevs. E. Mott and S. P. Spreng
were elected Secretaries.
Most of the first and second days were occupied in perfecting the organization and
routine preparation for business.
After the opening services of the third day the fraternal greetings of the United
Brethren Annual Conference, in session at Beading, Pa., were received. A paper
was presented, signed by Bishop E. Dubs and D. B. Byers, with reference to the
proper delegated representative of their Church at the Ecumenical Conference of
Methodism, requesting investigation into the matter. The subject was discussed
by D. Strohraan, D. B. Byers, J. D. Domer, E. L. Kiplinger, C. S. Hainan, M.
Lauer, W. Whitington, and Bishop Esher.
At the morning and afternoon sessions of the fourth and fifth days, with the ex-
ception of some routine mattei"s, the Conference resolved itself into a committee of
the wliole, with C. K. Felir in the chair, reporting progress, on the reassembling of
each session, to the Conference, including morning session of the sixth day, to trans-
act business of a private character.
The afternoon of the sixth day was occupied in discussing the rights of two del-
egates to membership, and the reading of the quadrennial report of the General
Book Agents — the aggregates as follows : Eesources, $461,201 66, increase in 4 years,
$62,956 02; gross receipts, $764,007 78, increase, $169,096 87; improvements,
$17,303 18, decrease, $34,189 19; Conference dividends, $48,500, mcrease, $21,548 70 ;
Bishops' claims, $14,587 14, decrease, $1,860 17; appropriations, $7,740 82, in-
crease, $4,140 92. Summary: Improvements, $17,303 18; Conference dividends,
$48,500; Bishops' claims, $14,587 14; appropriations, $7,740 82; increase in re-
sources, $62,956 02; profits for 4 years, $151,087 16. Subscription lists for 1883:
" Botschafter," 22,100; " Evangelical Messenger," 12,100; " Evangelische Maga-
zin," 8,900 ; " Epistle and Epistle Teacher," 2,000 ; " Evangelical Sunday-
School Teacher," 5,600; " Christliche Kinderfreund," weekly, 7,400, semi-month-
ly, 15,000, monthly, 1,600; "Sunday-School Messenger," weekly, 7,900, semi-
monthly, 11,200, monthly, 4,200 ; " Laemerweide." 11,700 ; " My Lesson," 20,500 ;
" Lectionsblatt," etc., 58,000; "Lesson Leaf and Quarterly," 68,000; "Wandtafel,"
260; "Blackboard," 3,000; " Kinderlehrer," 125; "Primary Chart," 175; net
increase, of total, 55,735. The Bishops, as well as the delegates, present individual
requests and recommendations, which are referred to special or standing committees.
On the seventh day action was taken dividing Minnesota Conference, and form-
ing the Territory of Dakota into a Conference. W. Yost, Treasurer of the Mission-
ary Society, read his quadrennial report, as follows : Total receipts, for Home and
European Missions, $346,909 71; expenditures, $341,412 17; receipts of Heathen
Missions, $23,441 56 ; expenditures, $26,570 12 ; bequests to Standing Fund,
$13,735 40 ; grand total receipts, $384,086 67 ; tutal in the four years previous,
234 Methodist Year-Book.
$280,681 70, increase, $103,404 97 ; grand total expenditures, $367,982 29 ; total in
four years previous, $314,022 71, increase, $53,959 58; account of Standing Fund
cash bequests for four years, $13,735 40; assets valued at $59,244 13: real estate
belonging to current fund, $8,700 ; receipts for Church-building purposes in Europe,
$36,906 17; amount of Annuity Fund, $35,100.
On the reading of the Minutes, in English and German, the Conference went
into a committee of the whole. Action was taken in the afternoon session that,
in view of the healthful financial condition of the Publishing Department of the
Church, recommended a reduction in Sabbath-school and tract literature. Vari-
ous other publishing interests were considered at this time.
On the ninth day the Committee on the Book Establishment reported, recom-
mending the erection of a new building for publishing house, and the publication
of the " Christliche Botschafter " and " Evangelical Messenger" in book form, of
sixteen pages.
On the tenth day the committee recommended that one third of the dividends
fi'om the publishing house be divided among the Home Conferences in North
America, and the remaining two thirds among the Annual Conferences in propor-
tion to the amounts severally contributed to the Book Establishment by each. After
a lengtliy discussion the report was amended to one half to be divided equally
among the Conferences, and it was adopted. The Committee on the Book Establish-
ment reported, directing the publishers to publish a word edition of the " Echoes of
Praise," recommending that two Book Agents be elected, which was adopted, also
that one editor and one assistant edicor of the "Christliche Botschafter" be elected.
A lengthy discussion followed, and it was referred back to the committee, with
amendments, and on the afternoon of the eleventh day the committee reported
back the same as yesterday, and, after further discussion as to the best way to elect
or appoint assistant editors, it was decided, after amending, that the editor appoint
with the consent of the Board of Publication, by a vote of 49 yeas and 45 nays.
The recommendation relative to the " Evangelical Messenger " was the same, and the
Conference voted to have one editor and an assistant appointed in the same manner
as the " Botschafter." The same action in regard to the editorial force of the
" Evangelische Magazin," and German Smiday-school and tract literature, and the
" Living Epistle" and English Sunday-school and tract literature, was taken. The
Committee of Publication was instructed to publish more Sunday-school books and
tracts. Rev. E. Light, fraternal delegate of the General Conference of the United
Brethren, addressed the Conference.
On the twelfth day the editor of the " Christliche Botschafter " was made editor of
all German books, except Sunday-school books, and the editor of the " Evangelical
Messenger" was to be the editor of all English books, except Sunday-school books.
The Editors, with the Book Agents, were constituted the committee on the publi-
cation of all books. It was decided to elect an editor and Book Agent in Germany.
Much discussion arose about a hymn book for the Sunday-school and social meet-
ings, which was referred to the Board of Publication, and that Board was instructed
to publish a German book for prayer-meetings and revival services. A motion was
also adopted to provide a similar book for prayer-meeting purposes in the English
language, and Sunday-schools were requested to order books and supplies through
their own agents. Resolutions were adopted to publish the second volume of the
History of the Church. A motion was offered to instruct the Board of Publication
to publish a new course of study, to which objection was made that it infringed
upon the rights of Annual Conferences, and it was amended so as to provide that
the Bishops prepare the manuscript for sucli course of study. The whole was re-
Methodist Year-Book. 235
ferred back to the committee. The Committee on Kevision reported the phrase on
receiving members, "a suitable prayer shall be ottered," wliicli was adopted. Pro-
bationers to be excluded, if the cluss-leader and exhorter of the class find no iiii-
provement.
Ou the thirteenth day it was decided, by a vote of 70 to 23, to expunire the par-
a^niph in the Discipline puttiuj^ members on pi-obation for marrying unconverted
persons. An item, making women eligible as stewards, was adopted by a vote of
5t) to 27. In Articles of Incorporation the word " Association" shall be changed to
" Society," where local societies are referred to. The Committee on Boundaries
reported, providing for the division of Kansas Conference, and appointing a
superintendent for their work in Texas. A proposition to organize an Annual
Conference in Japan was defeated.
On the fourteenth day the Connnittee on Missions reported, and, after a lengthy
discussion, in which the Bishops participated, as they generally did in Connectional
matters, it was decided to publish a monthly missionary periodical in pamphlet
form ; also authorizing the Superintendent and two others in Japan to be a Building
Committee to secure real estate, and erect buildings for their missions, and an ap-
propriation of $7,000 was made from the Henthen Mission Fund, to aid them, and
the Board of Missions was requested to send another missionary to Japan. Author-
ity was asked to form a "Woman's Missionary Society," to be auxiliary to the
Parent Society, aiiid under the general supervision of the General Board of Missions,
but, alter much debate, was recommitted, and subsequently it was granted.
A long-time loan, at a small interest, was made to Germany, by a close vote of 48
to 33, and, on reassembling tlie fifteenth day, it was reconsidered and referred back
to the committee. It was decided to organize Sunday-school missionary auxiliaries,
and take collections once a month, or once a quarter, for the same. The Conference
ordered that two Corresponding Secretaries of the Missionary Society be elected,
the Secretary first elected to be ex-qfficio a member of the General Conference.
Tuesday, the 23d, the following General Conference officers were elected, for the
quadrennial term of four years : Bisliops, J. J. Esher R. Dubs, T. Bowman— a re-
election in each case; Book Stewards, M. Lauer, W. Yost; Editor of " Christliche
Blotschafter," William Horn ; Editor of "Evangelical Messenger," H. B. Hartzler ;
Editor of "Evangelische Magazin" and German Sunday-school literature, C. A.
Thomas ; Editor of "Living Epistle " and English Sunday-school literature, P. W.
Eaidabaugh ; Corresponding Secretary of Missionary Society, S. Heininger; Treas-
urer of Missionary Society, S. L. Wiest ; Book Steward in Germany, J. Waltz;
Editor of Publications in Germany, G. Fuessle ; Superintendent of Orphans' Home,
E. Kohr.
The next day, the 24th, the Church was divided into eight districts, each of
which to appoint a member of the Board of Publication, as follows : First District —
East Pennsylvania Conference— C. S. Haman ; Second District — Atlantic, New
York, Canada, and Germany Conferences — M. Pfltzinger ; Third District — Central
Pennsylvania Conference — M. J. Carothers ; Fourth District — Pittsburg and Ohio
Conferences — John Stull ; Fifth Distnct — Erie, Michigan, Indiana, and Switzerland
Conferences — J. M. Haug; Sixth District — Illinois and South Indiana Conferences —
D. B. Byers ; Seventh District — Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Dakota Conferences —
G. Fritsche ; Eighth District — Iowa, Des Moines, Kansas and Nebraska, Platte
Eiver, California, and Oregon Conferences — D. H. Kooker. It was decided to pub-
lish an English Family Magazine, when 1,600 subscribers were received, and also
add four pages to the " Evangelische Magazin."
Adjourned sine die, the 25th, to meet in Buffalo, N. Y., October, 1887.
236
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The Methodist Protestant Church.
Organization. — Nov. 12, 1828, a delegated convention of "Eeformers" met in
Baltimore to institute a new Methodist Church, and, Nov. 20, organized under the
title of " Associated Methodist Churches." Nov. 2, 1830, another delegated con-
vention met at the same place, and adopted a regular Constitution and Discipline,
and changed the title to that of the Methodist Protestant Church.
The Convention of 1830 was composed of 114 ministerial and 83 lay delegates,
representing a constituency of about 5,000 members.
As a result of the agitation on the subject of slavery, in November, 1858, nine-
teen Annual Conferences of the Free States, at a Convention lield in Springfield,
O., decided to suspend all official relation with the other Conferences and
cliurches until the causes of disagreement were removed. The Northern Confer-
ences in 1866 dropped the name " Protestant," and took the title of " The Method-
ist Chuich." After the close of the Civil War fraternal intercourse between the
Northern and Southern bi-anches was renewed, resulting in the appointment of a
Joint Union Commission, composed of nine Connnissioners appointed by the General
Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church in 1874, and of nine Commissioners
appointed by the General Conference of the Methodist Church in 1875. The Com-
missioners* met in Joint Session at Pittsburg, Oct. 22, 1875, and agreed upon a
Basis of Union, which was subsequently approved by all the Annual Conferences
of The Methodist Church and by four fifths of the Annual Conferences u{ the
Methodist Protestant Church. At a convention of each branch, met in Baltimore,
May 12, 1877, and after settling preliminaries in separate sessions, the two bodies
formally united May 16, 1877, and became one Connectional organization under
the name of the Methodist Protestant Church. Eev. L. W. Bates, D.D., was
elected President of the united body ; J. J. Smith, Vice-President ; and G. B.
M'Elroy and K. H. Willis, Secretaries. The Conference remained in session for
several days, and remodeled the Constitution and revised the Discipline.
The Church announces as its " Distinctive Peculiarities," " 1. But one order of
the ministry — elders. 'All elders of the Church of God are equal.' 2. The mutual
rights of the ministry and laity. Equal representation in the Annual and General
Conferences."
General Conference. — Eev. G. B. M'Elroy, D.D., (Adrian, Mich.,) President;
W. S. Hammond, (Chestertown, Md.,) Secretaiy. Next quadrennial session to be
held in May, 1884, to be composed of an equal number of ministers and laymen,
elected by the Annual Conferences of 1883, on the basis of one minister and one
layman for every 1,500 persons in full membership.
The Annual Council. — G. B. M'Elroy, President; Eev. J. Gregory, Secretary.
This body is a central Connectional Supervising Board, meeting annually, or oftencr,
if necessary. It consists of the Boards of Ministerial Education, Missions, and
Publication, with their secretaries and agents, editors, publishers, and the presidents
of colleges, and meets annually in the month of July. The President of the pre-
ceding General Conference is a member ex-ojlcio, and presides over its deliberati< >ns.
It is the duty of all the Boards to report to this Annual Meeting the condition of
the work under their care. This Council also publishes a condensed Annual Ee-
* Kamesofthe Joint Commi.ssion : From the Protestant Methodist Church— Ministers, L.
W. Bates and S. B. Southerlanrt, Md.; B. F. Dug?an, Tenn.; R. H. Willis, N. C; W. M. Betts,
W. Va. Laymen, O. Hammond, Md.; W, Vandeyoort.
238 Methodist Year-Book.
port of each of the Boards, in one publication, for general distribution, the expenses
of which are borne mutually by the several Boards.
Publishing Department. — This department has two branches, one at Baltimore,
and the other at Pittsburg.
FiiblisMng Directory at Baltimore.— II. F. Zollikoffer, J. C. Clarke, H. Burrough,
J. D. Kinzer, and J. T. Murray. W. J. C. Dulaney, Publisher and Book Agent.
I'ublications : " The Methodist Protestant," * official weekly organ, edited by Eev.
E. J. Drinkhouse, D.D. ; "The Bible-School," monthly, "The Bible-School,"
quarterly, " The Bible-School Journal," " Weekly Lesson Leaf," and " My Picture
Le-son," all edited by Eev. E. J. Drinkhouse, assisted by Eev. J. D. Kinzer and
Augustus Webster, D.D.
Publishing Directory at Fittshurg. — J. S. Gillespie, J. Munden, Dr. T. W. Shaw,
G. G. Westfall, and John Gregory. Wm. M'Cracken, Jr., Publisher and Book
Agent. Publications: "The Methodist Eecorder," official weekly organ, (which
begins its 45th volume January, 1884,) edited by Eev. Jolm Scott, D.D. ; " The
Morning Guide" and " The Child's Eecorder," both edited by Dr. Scott.
Assets of the Baltimore Directory in 1882, $6,721 03 ; liabihties, $223 25. Assets
of the Pittsburg Directory in 1882, $29,591 68 ; liabilities, $15,438 13. Total as-
sets, $36,312 71 ; total liabilities, $15,661 38.
Unofficial Publications. — " The Central Protestant," organ of the North
Carolina Conference, Eev. J. L. Micliaux, Editor and Publisher, Greensborough,
N. C. " Western Eecord," organ of the Indiana Conference, J. H. C. M'Kinnuy,
Editor and Publisher, Indianapolis, Ind. " The Methodist Protestant Missionary,"
Eev. C. H. Williams, A.M., Editor and Publisher, Springtield, Ohio.
Board of Ministerial Education. — John Scott, D.D., President, Pittsburg ;
J. II. Claney, Treasurer, 89 Fourth Avenue, Pittsburg ; Eev. J. B. Walker, Cor-
responding Secretary, Springfield, Ohio. Permanent Fund, $3,696 05 ; receipts in
1882, $3,840 35.t
Board of Missions. — Eev. C. S. Evans, President, Middletown, Ohio ; Eev. A.
H. Trumbo, Treasurer, Springfield, Ohio; Eev, C. H. Williams, A.M., Correspond-
ing Secretary, Springfield, Ohio.
Foreign Mission. — Yokohama, Japan. Missionaries in 1882, Harriet G. Brittan
and Miss Anna M'Cully. A school of forty-four pupils is maintained, and might
be much larger but for lack of accomodation in the house now occupied. A desir-
able property is oflTered tlie Board for $12,000, and efforts are being made to secure
the amount. The Board appropriated $2,000 to pay the salary of an ordained min-
ister, whom they wish to send out to take charge of the work as soon as possible.
Eev. F. C. Klein, of the Maryland Conference, was appointed missionary, with in-
structions to spend some time before his departure securing funds for the purchase
of a Mission House. Total receipts in 1882, $4,757 58, an increase of $784 96 over
last year.
* "The Methodist Protestant" is the successor to "The Wesley an Repository," Issued from
1821 to 1S24, and to " The Mutual Eights," Issued from 1S24 to 1S30. It was fli-st issued Jan. T,
1831, and will enter upon its 53d volume January, 18S4.
+ "Methodist Protestant Year-Book," for 18S8.
Methodist Tear-Book,
239
Statistical Summaries of the Methodist Protestant Church for 1882.*
Conferences.
Maryland
Indiana
Pittsburg
Onondaga
Genesee
Michigan
Ohio
New Jersey
North Missouri
West Tennessee —
Fort Smith
Mississippi
Central Texas
Arkansas
Colorado (colored).
Minnesota
Pennsylvania
Deep River
West Michigan
West Virginia
Colorado
Georgia
Iowa
North Illinois
Alabama
Baltimore (colored)
Georgia (colored) .
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
M'Calne .
Missouri
Muskingum
Nebraska
New York
North Arkansas —
North Carolina
North Mississippi..
Oregon
Bed River
South Carolina
South Illinois
Tennessee
Texas (colored)
Texas
Virginia
West Arkansas
Boston
California
Alabama (colored).
Total 1,3.58
Last year 1,335
S Pl,
113
eo
40
66
28
40
54
19
21
20
31
15
25
15
"ik
10
13
26
54
22
25
53
43
24
7
15
53
22
13
10
22
43
20
33
23
47
41
6
5
8
53
19
10
21
28
14
6
2
6
62 14,977
56 6,o:
5,839
2,090
718
2,439
5,790
i,8.-y
1,273
830
900
90S
1,29
1,072
480
335
*a50
531
1,442
103 41.0(X)
23 4,102
2,671
2,160
2,619
200
642
1,419
1,917
851
668
2,849
10,350
600
2,874
800
12,028
989
200
113
1,073
2,275
1,344
300
1,664
3,214
930
"54
500
&38
a50
62
133
13
113
178
179
11
170
12
1
4
15
80
200
84
4
1
'586
450
10
17
2
2
4
2
10
100
220J 49;
99J 16,
76 17
32 23
35
401
29
19
12*
"28
11
15
14*
2*
15*
11
22
132
7
50
43
57
60
3
10
4
2
22
25
24
123
2
25
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147
24
2
27
2
33
2
26
2
18
4
25
5
2,305 197 2,555
85,000, 1041 595
605,731'
86.400,
28,150
83,200
2,565
3,6.50
5,256
2,428
2,025
2,000
40,300
65,150
895
24,530
64,500
110,100
52,475
1,400
1,490;
1,8:?9
5001
5,000
4,800!
19,4501
233,875
1,675
137,900
1,000
75,725
3,800;
5,000
9,800 19
26,800|
10,350|
1,000
7,990
28,950|
i,8oo:
1
6
6
"46
20
6
62
131
"27
70
62
47
13
12
13
'i39
24
27
'ios
4
24
2,500
1,010 119,0.30 4,024 1,496 I 290 $2,728,016
939 117,263 3,009 1,599 1300 3,062,9751
931
581'
144
910
134,300, 101 1 1,123
94,950 34j 433
20,.300 34 156
5,100 12 24
10
'ioo
195
is:
529:
6,448 j
"m
446!
318:
119
18
'252
7
24
1,492
84
15,239
3,.509
5,401
2,120
1,095
4,053
6.535
2,956
1,175
300
"ii
232
115
27
200
4,482
192
1,951
10,300
457
12
1,015
2,953
3,078
1,293
179
1,778
400
204
400
8,596
920
2,741
5',.3i9
846
197
197
1,000
SlTUMARY OF WoEK FOR THE TeAE 1882.
Two Theological Schools instituted— Ward Hall and Western Maryland. College build-
ing for Theological School, Westminster, erected. New building for Yadkin College
nearly completed. Rebuilding North Hall, Adrian College, completed. Gittings' Sem-
inary, La Harpe, freed from debt and endowed with $15,000. Steps taken to establish
Watalula College, Arkansas. Steps taken to establish Conference publication by Iowa
Conference. New Conference — Fort Smith — Set off from North Arkansas. Total mem-
bership, 125,432. Increase in twenty-four Conferences, 3,876. The Boards of Missions
and Ministerial Education each show an increase of receipts over last year.
* See "Methodist Protestant Year-Book" of 1882.
240 Methodist Year-Book.
American Wesleyan Methodist General Conference.
Tlie Eleventh General Conference of the Wesleyan Church of America convened
in Syracuse, N. Y., Wednesday, Oct. 17, 1883. Ministerial and lay delegates were
present from twenty-one Conferences.
Conference was called to order by the President, the Rev. N. Wardner, editor of
the "American Wesleyan," official organ of tlie Church; Rev. H. T. Besse, Secre-
tary. The first session was devoted to tlie regular routine business.
On the second day permanent officers were elected as follows : President, Rev.
N. Wardner, Syracuse, N. Y. ; Vice-President, Rev. J. Martin, of Brighton, Mich.,
and Mr. P. Lamb, of Cadiz, Indiana ; Secretary, Rev. E. W. Bruce, of Okemos,
Mich., who nominated W. Pinkney, of Illinois, and S. Bedford, of Seneca Falls,
N. Y., as Assistants.
Immediately after the opening of the third day, the report of the Connectional
Agent, Rev. D. S. Kinney, was read, showing the business in an encoui'agi iig con-
dition. The Conference re-elected Rev. N. Wardner, Editor of the " American
Wesleyan," and Rev. D. S. Kinney, Denominational Agent. A committee was
appointed to prepare a course of study for candidates for the ministry.
The discussion on the solenmization of marriage on the Sabbath was lengthy,
and the report of Committee on Revision was so modified as to permit marriages to
be solemnized on the Sabbath, and that part forbidding the marriage of believers
with unbelievers was stricken out, and the report, while expressing sympathy for
soldiers of the late war, regarded the organization of the Grand Army as being, to
a certain extent, a secret one. Temperance was strongly indorsed, and the in-
iquities of Mormonism condemned.
The report on Sabbath-schools urged that the instruction be wholly of a religious
character, and not for mere literary training, and discountenancing the practice of
using it for various amusements. The discussion of the report on the Book Con-
cern resulted in retaining the present form of the "American Wesleyan " but in
changing the name to " The Wesleyan Methodist," and in excluding secular adver-
tisements from its columns as soon as the paper becomes financially self-support-
ing without their aid, and after present contracts expired.
Church nmsic was discussed, and an efibrt was made to leave the matter with
individual churches, but the rule was not changed which " recommends the Church
to dispense with instrumental music."
It was voted not to ordain any man to the Christian ministry who uses tobacco.
A resolution against extravagant funerals was adopted, and also another favoring
plainness in dress and furniture. Action was also taken declaring that the decis-
ions of the U. S. Supreme Court, that the Civil Rights Law is unconstitutional, re-
opens all the issues of the War, and makes it possible for the people of any State
to trample on the 13th, 14lh, and 15th amendments, and, in case such State shall
fail to punish such violations, then these amendments become inoperative and void ;
also that it is the duty of the Government to protect the civil rights of its citizens,
and that, if the amended Constitution does not give such rights of protection, it
should be at once so amended. In the report on fraternal delegates, it stated that,
in view of their distinct position on the subject of secret societies, it would not be
consistent to receive fraternal greetings from an adhering Freemason. Various
other reports of a denominational intent were read, and action taken.
Oct. 26 the General Conference adjourned sine die, to meet, for its next quadren-
nial session, in Indiana, the place to be fixed hereafter.
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The Congregational Methodist Church.
This Church was organized in the house of Mickleberry Mcrritt, in Monroe Co.,
Ga., May 8, 1852. Wm. L. Fambrough, a layman, presided, and Rev. Hiram
Pliinazee acted as Secretary. The following persons were enrolled as members :
Kevs. lliram Phinazee, Absalom Ogletree, and W. II. Graham, local preachei-s ;
and W. L. Fambrough, Kobinson Fambrough, Jackson Bush John Flynt,
James M. Flemming, Geo. W. Todd, Mickleberry Merritt, and Travis Ivcy, lay-
men. All of them were members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, but
liad become disatfected in respect of the polity of that Church. A preiiml)le and
various resolutions, di-awn up by Rev. Hiram Phinazee, were adopted, and the new
organization stiirted out bearing the name of "The Congregational Church.''
Soon after Revs. J. F. N. Huddleston and J. Fletcher Wethersbee, of the M. E.
Chureli, South, with a considerahle number of lay menibei-s of the Churcli in Re-
hoboth, Ga., jomed the new organization, their fir.5t society being called Rocky
Creek. By the first of August following six other Churches had been organized,
namely, Mount Hope, in Spalding County ; I'leasant Grove, in Buttz County ; New
Market and Providence, in Monroe County ; and New Hope, in Pike County.
A Book of Discipline, (a pamphlet of forty-eight pages,) prepared by a com-
mittee, with a prefiico by Rev. H. Phinazee, a member of the Committee, and
published by A. G. Murray, Griffin, Ga., was issued August 12, 1S52. The body
of the book was written by Rev. J. F. N. Huddleston.
The first District Conference of the new organization was held in Rocky Creek,
Ga., August 12, 1852, and was composed of delegates from the seven Churches above
named. Rev. J. F. Wethersby, was chosen President, and Rev. H. Phinazee, Sec-
retary. The session lasted three days. Among the items of business transacted
was the granting of an exhorter's license to one of the members. The second Dis-
trict Conference was held at Mount Hope, Ga., December 11, 1852, eleven Churches
being represented ; the third at Rock Spring, May 13, 1853, nine Churches being
represented. In a Convention, held at Mount Zion, early in 1855, delegates were
present fromGeorgia, Alal)ama, and Mississippi.
CONTERENCES PkOVIDED FOB BY THE CONSTITUTION.
1. Church Conferences. — To be composed of all the local Church members, who,
by a majority vote, shall elect Church otticei-s, namely, an elder or pastor, class-
leader, deacon or steward, and clerk. The Church Conference shall beheld monthly,
and the elder or pastor shall preside, or, in his absence, a chairman pro tern, shall
be elected. Reception or dismission of members shall be by majority vote of the
members present.
2. Dutrict- Conferences. — Meeting semi-annually, and composed of delegates from
the local Churches, on the ratio of one delegate for every twenty members.
3. State Conference. — Composed of delegates from the District Conferences, to
meet annually, electing its own officers ; to review the doings of the District Con-
ferences ; to change or form new districts ; to resolve all questions touching doc-
trine or discipline ; to supply destitute sections of the States outside of Districts.
4. General Co«/«renc6s.— Meeting quadrennially, and composed of delegates
elected to the State Conference, and to leave the power to make general rules and
regulations for the whole Church, subject to various limitations and restrictions.
Statistics : At the last General Conference, held in 1881, the reports from the
Church claimed a total lay membership of 20,000. The " Congregational Meth-
odist," the organ of the body, (which eight years previous was edited by Rev.
Eppes Tucker, of Opclike, Ala.,) v.-as under the editorial management of Mr. L. T.
Jones, of Mississiipi.
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242 Methodist Year-Book.
The American Bible Society.
The first Bible Society in the United States was instituted in Philadelphia in
tlie year 180S, about four years after the organization of the British and Foreign
Bible Society in London. Other similar societies sprang up, from time to time, in
different parts of the country, until the year 181fi. Thirty-live of these local
organizations united in forming the American Bible Society, and eighty-four
became auxiliary to the national institution during the first year of its existence.
Tlie convention which founded the American Bible Society met in the city of
New York in May, 1816, and consisted of sixty members, all of whom have passed
away. The last survivor of this honored company of Ciiristian men was Henry
"W. Warner, Esq., who died on Constitution Island, near West Point, on the 20th
of February, 1875.
Tliis Society was established for the sole purpose of securing a wider circulation
of tlie Holy Scriptures without note and comment. This opened a definite
but ample field. All denominations of Christians could co-operate in such a work,
and in addition to the vast amount of good which has resulted from the Scriptures
which have been distributed, untold blessings have come to the Protestant Chui-ches
of the land from the existence of a Society under whose auspices Christians of every
name may labor in perfect harmony without the slightest compromise of their
convictions.
As the result of action taken by the General Conference of 1836, and consum-
mated in 18-iO, the Methodist Episcopal Church, having dissolved its denomina-
tional Bible Society, has for more than forty years co-opei'ated with other branches
of the Church in sustaining this national and unsectariau institution.
Its Unsectarian and Benevolent Chaeactek.
The Society is thoroughly unsectarian. Its entire work is essentially gratuitous
and not remunerative. In sixty-seven years it has issued 42,083,816 volumes of the
Holy Scriptures, in more than eighty languages or dialects, so that every quarter
of the globe has been blessed by its ministrations. It has made grants to mission
Churches, Sabbath-schools, hospitals, and asylums, in all parts of the land. It has
supplied hundreds of thousands of volumes to immigrants as they reached our
shore-*, and hundreds of thousands more to the freedmen, and it lias paid special
attention to the wants of the North American Indians. It has prepared at great
expense the entire Bible in raised letters for the blind. It is now conducting an ex-
tensive system of colportage in the United States, thus reaching multitudes whose
wants could not otherwise be supplied.
Special Efforts in the United States.
It has thrice instituted and helped forward a general exploration of the United
States: In 1829, when every accessible family in the more settled portions of the
country is supposed to have been visited ; in 1856, when within two years 500,000
destitute families were supplied with the Bible ; and again in 1866, since which time
843.826 destitute families and 533,157 destitute individuals are reported to have
received the Scriptures through its various agencies.
The Managers are now prosecuting tlie fourth general supply of the whole country.
The facilities of the Society for circulating the Scriptures were never greater than
now. Through auxiliary societies, through benevolent and missionary organiza-
T<ons, through varied instrumentalities and agencies, it is holding forth the Word of
Life for the people of the United States and of the world.
Methodist Year-Book.
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Total Receipts for Year closing March 31, 1883.
The receipts for the year for general purposes were $598,641 91. Of this amount,
$283,999 55 were received for books and on purchase account; $184,179 20 from
legacies ; $60,367 33 in donations from auxiliary societies, churches, and individ-
uals ; $32,294 47 from rentals, and the balance from interest and other sources.
Besides which, $53,000 have been added to the trust fund, the interest of which
alone is appUcable for general purposes.
The Disbursements for manufacturing and for all other general purposes were
$599,206 89. For the foreign work of the Society, to be expended duiiag the com-
ing year, the amount of $164,986 85 has been appropriated.
Copies issued at home, 1,273,657; abroad, 402,575. Total, 1,676,232.
Operations in Foreign Countries.
The year's work, on the whole, was one of decided progi-ess in nearly all the
countries which engage the attention of the Society, and the total circulation re-
ported, though not quite equaling the figures of the preceding twelve months, is
greatly in advance of any thing which has gone before. The distribution in the
Leviint has risen from 43,146 to 56,534 ; and that in China from 103,195 to 181,062
copies. As many pages have been circulated in Japan a.s in the preceding year,
but the demand having been chiefly for complete copies of the New Testament, the
issue of smaller portions has fallen off. The number of volumes manufactured at
the Bible House and sent to foreign countries (70,389) is unprecedented. Fully one
half of these have been shipped to Mexico, and more than half of the remainder to
different parts of South America.
Tlie attention of the Managers has long been directed to Cuba as a field in which
very little circulation of the Bible has ever been accomplished, and they have now
adopted measures to establish a permanent depository.
The expenditures for foreign work in the year ending March 31, 1883, were
$147,754 44 ; and in the last ten years the cash outlay in foreign lands has been
$996,432 32, besides what has been expended at the Bible House in printing the
Scriptures in foreign languages for circulation abroad.
Officers and Managers of the American Bible Society.
President^ S. Wells "Williams, LL.D., New Haven, Conn.
Vice-Presiden ts.
Hon. Jacob Sleeper, Mass.
Hon. Fred'k T. Frelinghuysen, N. J.
Hon. Robert C. Winthrop, Mass.
Frederick S. "Winston, Esq., N. Y.
Hon. Grant Goodrich, 111.
Hon. George H. Stuart, Pa.
James M. Hoy t, Esq., Ohio.
A. Robertson "Walsh, Esq., N. Y.
Hon. E. L. Fancher, LL.D., N. Y.
Francis T. King, Esq., Md.
Richard P. Buck, Esq., N. Y.
Hon. J. L. Chamberlain, Maine.
Gen. O. 0. Howard, Dist of Columbia,
Hon. Williiun Strong, LL.D., Pa.
Hon. George G. "Wright, Iowa.
Hon. PaurDillingham, Vt.
Cortlandt Parker, Esq., N. J.
Charles Tracy, Esq., N. Y.
Hon. C. G. Memminger, S. C.
Robert Carter, Esq., N. Y.
Hon. Frank M. Cockrell, Missouri.
Hon. James Jackson, Georgia.
Hon. John "W. Foster, Indiana.
"William M'Elrov, Esq., Albany, N. Y.
Hon. Rutherford'B. Hayes, LL.D., Ohio.
Hiram M. Fon-ester, Esq., N. Y.
William H. Crosby, Esq., N. Y.
James M. Brown, Esq., N. Y.
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Methodist Year-Book.
Secretaries.
Eev. Edward W. Gilman, D.D., (elected 1871.)
Eev. Alexander M'Lean, D.D., ("elected 1874.)
Kev. Albert S. Hunt, D.D., (elected 1878.)
Assistant Treasurer.
Andrew L. Taylor, (elected 1869.)
General Agent.
Caleb T. Rowe, (elected 1854.)
MANAGERS.
First Class. Tei-m, 1883-1887. Third Class. Term, 1881-1885.
Theophilus A. Brouwer.
James M. Fuller.
James 11. Taft.
John E. Parsons.
Frederick Sturp^es.
Kobert Lenox Belknap.
F. Wolcott Jackson.
George J. Ferrj'.
Second Class. Term, 1882-1886.
Augustus Taber.
Caleb B. Knevals.
John Noble Stearns.
Andrew C. Armstrong.
William L. Skidmore.
Jolm A. Stewart,
William H. S. Wood.
Anson D. F. Eandolph.
Cornelius Vanderbilt.
Isaac Odell.
John H. Earle.
George W. Lane.
Smith Sheldon.
Henry G. De Forest.
S. Van Rensselaer Cruger.
Oliver Hoyt.
Elbert A. Brinckerhoff.
Cornelius N. Bliss.
Fourth Class. Term, 1880-1884.
Henry Dickinson.
Henry A. Oakley.
Willi'am T. Booth.
Bowles Colgate.
John C. Havemeyer.
John Jay.
Churchill H. Cutting.
Tlieodore Gilman.
William E. Dodge.
Presidents of the Society from its Organization.
from 1816-1821.
1. Hon. Elias Boudinot,
2. Hon. John Jay,
3. Hon. Richard Varick,
4. Hon. John Cotton Smith
5. Hon. Theodore Frelinghuysen,
6. Hon. Luther Bradish,
7. James Lenox, Esq.,
8. William H. Allen, LL.D.,
9. S. Wells Williams, LL.D.,
1821-1827.
1828-1831.
1831-1845.
1846-1862.
1862-1863.
1864r-1871.
1872-1880.
1881-
Secretaries of the Society from its Organization.
The Society has had twenty Secretaries, as follows :
Eev. John M. Mason, D.D., from 1816-1820.
Eev. John B. Eomeyn, D.D., " 1816-1819.
Eev. James Milnor, D.D., " 1819-1840.
Eev. Selah S. Woodhull, D.D., " 1820-1825.
Eev. Thos. M'Auley, D.D., LL.D., " 1825-1839.
Eev. Charles G. Sommers, D.D., " 1825-1833.
Rev. Nathan Bangs, D.D., " 1827-1829.
Eev. John C. Brigham, D.D., " 1828-1862.
Eev. Spencer H. Cone, D.D., " 1833-1836.
Rev. Edmund S. Janes, D.D., " 1840-1844.
Eev. Noah Levings, D.D., " 1844-1849.
Kev. S. Irenseus Prime, D.D., " 1849-1850.
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Kev. Joseph Holdich, D.D.,
Eev. Joseph C. Stiles, D.D.,
Eev. James H. M'Neill,
Eev. William J. E. Taylor, D.D.,
Eev. T. Ealston Smith, D.JD.,
Eev. Edward W. Gilman, D.D.,
Eev. Ale.xander M'Lean, D.D.,
Eev. Albert S. Hunt, D.D.,
rom 1849-1878.
" 1850-1852.
" 1853-1861.
" 1862-1870.
" 1866-1871.
" 1871-
" 1874-
" 1878-
A glance at the above lists will show that the Methodist Episcopal Church has
been awarded its full share of representation in the executive management of the
affairs of the Society. The 8th President was an honored Methodist layman, and
five of its Secretaries are well-known ministers of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Seven of the present managers are lay Methodist office-bearers. The General Con-
ference heartily approved of the Society, and adopted resolutions providino' for
annual collections in all our churches in its support. The foUovviug resolution was
adopted by the General Conference of 1880 :
Begolved, That in the work of circulating the Holy Scriptures in all lands, the
American JBible Society should receive the hearty co-operation of Christians with-
out respect to denomination, and we recommend that collections be taken annually
in all our congregations for this purpose, and that the amount of such collections be
reported to the Quarterly and Annual Conferences each year.
Eeceipts of the American Bible Society in each Year since its Organization.
Ykar.
Date.
Receipts.
Year.
Date.
Receipts.
1st
1816-17
$37,779 35
35th
1850-51
$276,882 53
2d
1817-18
36,564 30
36th
1851-52
308,744 81
3d
1818-19
53,223 94
37th
1852-53
346,542 42
4th
1819-20
41,361 97
38th
1853-54
894,340 50
5th
1820-21
47,009 20
39th
1854-55
346,767 09
6th
1821-22
40,682 34
40th
1855-56
893,167 25
7th
1822-23
52,021 75
41st
1856-57
441,805 67
8th
1823-24
42,416 95
42d
1857-58
890,759 49
9tli
1824-25
44,833 08
43d
1858-59
415,011 37
10th
1825-26
53,639 85
44th
1859-60
435,956 92
11th
1826-27
60,194 13
45th
1860-61
389,541 52
12th
1827-28
75,879 93
46th
1861-62
378,132 03
13th
1828-29
101,426 72
47th
1862-63
422,588 00
14th
1829-30
143,449 81
48th
1863-64
560,578 60
15th
1830-31
116,900 74
49th
1864-65
677,851 39
16th
1831-32
86,875 18
50th
1865-66
642,625 64
17th
1832-33
83.556 03
51st
1866-67
734,089 14
18th
1833-34
86,537 63
52d
1867-68
723,106 68
19th
1834-35
98,306 29
53d
1868-69
731,734 73
20th
1835-36
101,771 48
54th
1869-70
747,058 69
21st
1836-37
83,259 79
55th
1870-71
729,464 70
22d
1837-38
91,904 57
56th
1871-72
689,923 47
23d
1838-39
79,545 24
57th
1872-73
669,607 06
24th
1839-40
94,880 24
58th
1873-74
664,436 06
25th
1840-41
116,485 05
59th
1874-75
577,569 80
26th
1841-42
132,637 08
60th
1875-76
527,198 27
27th
1842-43
124,728 77
61st
1876-77
543,579 55
28th
1843^4
153,678 05
62d
1877-78
446,954 04
29th
1844-45
159,738 68
63d
1878-79
462,274 66
30th
1845-46
196,182 48
64th
1879-80
608,342 28
81st
1846-47
203,494 63
65th
1880-81
606,484 96
32d
1847-48
251,804 68
66th
1881-82
502,223 32
33d
1848-49
236,428 94
67th
1882-83
598,641 91
34th
1849-50
284,459 69
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Methodist Year-Book.
NtiMBEE OF Bibles and New Testaments Issued in each Yeae since its
Organization.
Year.
Bibles.
Tbsts., Etc.
Total.
Ybab.
Bibles.
Tests., Etc.
Total.
1st
6,410
6,410
35th
209,821
382,611
592,432
2d
17.594
17,594
36th
221,450
444,565
666,015
3d
23,870
' 7,248
31,118
37th
260,381
538,999
799,380
4th
26,800
14,713
41,513
38th
277,584
537,815
815,399
5th
20,772
16,474
43,246
39th
256,087
493,809
749,896
6th
28,910
24,560
53,470
40th
240,776
427,489
668,265
7th
28,448
26,357
54,805
41st
258,846
511,211
770,057
8th
31,590
28,849
60,439
42d
260,997
451,048
71 2,045
9th
30,094
33,757
63,851
43d
269,826
451,269
721,095
10th
31,154
35,980
67,134
44th
267,466
486,306
753,772
11th
35,876
35,745
71,621
45th
295,858
426,020
721,878
12th
75,734
58,873
134,607
46th
161,374
932,468
1,093,842
13th
91,248
108,874
200,122
47th
175,554
1,083,563
1,259,117
14tli
130,254
108,329
238,583
48th
238,063
1,187,084
1,500,564
15th
171,972
70,211
242,183
49th
239,097
1,291,466
1,830,756
16th
54,843
60,959
115,802
50th
256,498
695,447
1,150,528
17th
36,941
54,227
91,168
51st
324,215
692,139
1,257,960
18th
34,083
76,749
110,832
52d
315,525
693,936
1,187,194
19th
47,709
75,527
123,236
63d
339,595
720,096
1,386,611
20th
65,974
155,720
221,694
54th
329,774
1,000,866
1,330,640
21st
51,354
154,886
206,240
55th
316,857
790,870
1,107,727
22d
45,083
113,215
158,298
56th
298,352
802,519
1,100,871
23d
45,333
89,604
134,937
57th
313,714
887,531
1,201,245
24th
54,227
103,034
157,261
58th
317,365
673,207
'990,572
25th
64,304
87,898
152,202
59 th
281,703
645,197
926,900
26th
101,416
155,698
257,066
60th
269,303
581,167
850,470
27th
82,912
133,650
216,605
61st
239,546
641,510
881,056
28th
114,766
199,893
314,582
62d
297,452
560.041
857,493
29th
145,970
283,116
429,092
63d
343,902
8i3,952
1,187,854
30th
161,974
821,822
483,873
64th
394,545
961,494
1,356,039
31st
209,416
418,399
627.764
65th
422,208
1,052,395
1,474,603
32d
232,272
422,748
655.066
66th
371,728
1,153,045
1,524,773
33d
205,307
359,419
564,726
67th
438,063
1,238,169
1,676,232
34th
205,037
428,358
633,395
The Bible House.
The corner-stone of the Society's Publishing House, or, as it is generally called, the
" Bible House," was laid on the 29th of June, 1852 ; and the building was occupied
by the Society during the early part of the following year. The forty -seventh An-
nual Report of the Society says: "It is gratifying to be able to state that the Biblo
House, held by the American Bible Society, is the result of individual subscriptions
made for that purpose, and the rents since received ; and that no part of the funds
raised for the puhlication and distribution of the S<yri}}tures has been invested iv. ity
At the time of its completion there was a considerable debt remaining on it, but
that has since been removed. On this point the Finance Committee say : "In the
period often years from the occupation of the building the whole debt on the prop-
erty has been canceled ; and a future income realized for the general objects of the
Society, more than sufficient to pay the salaries of all its Executive Otticers.
The British and Foreign Bible Society at its 79th annual meeting, held in London,
May 2, 1883, reported the followmg summaries for the year closing at that date :
Free income, £112,428 ; from sale of Scriptures, £98,068 ; a total income of £210,600 ;
an increase of £10,816 over 1882. Expenditure, £207,996. Issues for the year,
2,964,636 copies ; an increase of 26,091 over the total of 1882.
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latemational Committee of Young Men's Ohristian Associations.
Elected at Milwaukee, Wis., May IS, 1SS8.
Term expires 1889.
Cephas Brainerd, N.Y. City, Chairman.
Benj. C. Wetmore, N. Y. City, Treas.
James Stokes, New York City.
John S. Maclean, Halifax, N. S.
EussELL Sturgis, Jr., Boston, Mass.
Henry M. Moore, Soinerville, Mass.
James M'Cormick, Harrisburo;.
H. Kirk Porter, Pittsburg, Pa.
H. Thane Miller, Cincinuati, Oliio.
(/YRus H. M'Cormick, Jr., Chicago, HI.
Chakles L. Colby, Milwaukee, Wis.
Term expires 1887.
CoKNELius Vanderbilt, New York City.
EoBERT E. M'Burney, New York City.
Moses Taylor Pyne, New York Cit}'.
Cleveland H. Dodge, New York City.
Jacob B. Perkins, Cleveland, Ohio.
Thomas C. Day, Indiauapolis, lud.
H. E. Sargent, Chicago, 111.
Thomas Cochran, Jr., St. Paul, Minu.
Frank L. Jc'Hnson, St. Louis, Mo.
Joseph Hardie, Selma, Ala.
John L. Wheat, Louisville, Ky.
Term expires 1885.
Walter Hughson, New York City.
Henry H. Webster, New York City.
EicHABD M. Colgate, New York City.
S. H. Blake, Toronto, i)nX,.
Theodore Macknet, Newark. N. J.
Wm. G. Warden, Philadelphia, Pa.
J. L. Houghteling, Ciiicago, 111.
Moreau S. Crosby, Grand Kapids, Mich.
H. B. Chamberlin, Denver, Col.
James W. Harle, Atlanta, Ga.
James Bowron, NaShville, Tenn.
ADVISORY MEMBERS.
Term expires 1889.
William E. Dodge, New York City.
Franklin Fairbanks, St. Johusbury, Vt.
T. W. Harvey, Chicago, 111.
Term expires 1887.
Morris K. Jesup, New York Citv.
D. W. M' Williams, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Augustine T. Smithe, Charle.slon, S. C.
Term expires 1885.
Elbert B. Monroe, New York City.
Wm. p. Munford, Eichmond, Va.
George W. Gibbs, San Francisco, Cul.
BOARD OF TRUSTEES.
Egbert Fulton Cutting, N. Y. City.
Bowles Colgate, New York City.
Charles Lanier, New York City.
John S. Bussing, New York City.
John C. Havemeyer, New York City.
John Noble Stearns, New York City.
Samuel Colgate, New York City.
James Talcott, New York City.
J. N. Harris, New London, Conn.
James Carey Thomas, Baltinaore, Md.
Dan. p. Eells, Cleveland, Ohio.
Washington C. DePauw,N. Albany, Ind.
Henry J. Willing, Chicago, 111.
Charles W. Lovelace, Marion, Ala.
Cephas Braineed, N. Y. City, ex-qfficio.
International Central Committee of Young Men's Cliristian Associations.
Appoiuted by the Wurld's Conferencp, in London, England, August 3, 1881.
In Switzerland.
Pastor Gustave Tophel, Chairman Geneva.
Charles Fermaud, Secretary "
Henry Eaymond "
Frederic Bonna, Treasurer, Pettit Flori^ssant, $6 '•
H. Cuchet ''•
E. Osteemann "
Prof. W. Baede "
Hermann Eidenbenz Zurich.
In other Countries.
George Williams London.
Eichard C. Morse New York.
JosiAs Paradon Nimes, France.
Christian Klug Wulflng Strasse, Elberfeld, Germany.
Francisco Albricias Barcelona, Spaii-.
W. Van Oosterwijk Bruyn Zeist, Holland.
Ferdinand Schultess Upsala, Sweden.
Jean de Looper, Heigue-J umet Hainaut, Belaiain.
W. Meille Turin, Italy.
248
Methodist Year-Book.
Young Men's Christian Associations of Various Countries,
As Far as Ascertained from Kecknt Repokts, to jS"ov. 1, 1883.
NORTH AMERICA.
United States
Dommion of Canada
Bermuda
West Indies
SOUTH AMERICA.
British Guiana
Ciiili
EUROPE.
OREAT BRITAIN.
England
Scotland
Ireland
FRANCE.
Groupe de la Drome et Ardeche .
" du Gard el Midi
" du Nord
" du Poitou
" du Rhone
" de la Seine
" du Sud Oest
Unions Isolees
En Dehors d' Alliance
GERMANY.
A. Rhenish Westphalian Bund.
Rhenish Prussia
Westphalia
Hesse-Nassau
Provmce of Hanover
Hesse
Lippe-Detmold
B. East German Bund.
Province of Brandenburg
" Silesia
" Saxony
" Pomerania
" Posen
" Prussia
Duchy of Anhalt
C North German Bund.
Hamburg.
Province of Schleswig-Holstein . .
Mecklenburg
Province of Hanover
Braunschweig
Independent Associations not be-
longing to the Bund
D. Saxon Bund
E. South German Bund.
Wurtemberg
Province of Alsace-Loraine. . .
Grand Duchy of Baden
HOLLAND.
Province of Groningen
Frieslaud .
Drcnte
Overyssel...
Gelderland.
Utrecht. . ...
786
50
1
3
840'
1
2
3
190
178
20
388
r,
[
14
G
1
4
10
5
8
C4'
400
HOLLAND— CoTitinwed.
Province of Noordholland
Zuidholland
' Zeeland
■ Noordbrabant . . .
Limburg
SM'ITZERLAND.
Romand Switzerland.
Canton of Geneva
Canton of Vaud
Groupe du Centre
" du Jura
" de la Cote
" des Alpes
" de la Broie
Canton of Neuchatel :
Groupe du Vignoble
" du Val de Travers.
" de Val de Buz —
" des Montagnes
" de laSuze
" de I'Ea.st
German Switzerland.
Canton d' Argau
" d'Appenzell
" deBale
" de Berne
" de Glarns
" des Grisons
" de Schaffhausen
" de St. Gallen
" de Thurgau
" de Zurich
German-speaking in French
Switzerland
SWEDEN
BELGIUM.
Province of Brabant. . .
" Hainaut . .
" Liege
Independent
SPAIN
ITALY
TURKEY
AUSTRIA
RUSSIA
TURKEY
SYRIA . . .
INDIA . . .
JAPAN . .
ASIA.
AFRICA.
'^OUTH AFRICA AND MADA.
GASCAR
OCBANICA.
AUSTRALASIA
HAWAII
Total.
Methodist Year-Book. 249
OorrespondiDg Members of the International Committee.
Elected at Milwaukee, May 19, 1S83.
Awtralasia W. G. Marsh Melbourne.
JJawaii Samuel C. Damon Honolulu.
Japan James II. Ballagh Yokohama.
Turkey. W. W. Teet Constantinople.
Manitoba '.'.'.'......'. CM. Copeland Winnii)eg.
JS'ew Brunswick J. E. Irvine St. John.
2\ova Scotia W. B. M'Nttt ^Ilahfa.K.
Ontario John J. Gaktshore Toronto.
Prince Edward's Maud T. C. James Charlottetown.
Quebec !>• A. Biuge Montreal.
Alabama C. W. Lovelace Marion.
Arkansas J. W. Fai sx Little Eock.
California H. J. M'Coy San Francisco.
Volwado J. A. Chain Denver.
Connecticut C. E. P. Sanford New Haven.
Ddaware A. J. Fleming Henry Clay.
IHdi-ict of Columbia B. H. Warner Washington.
Florida. '. Robert Jones Jacksonville.
Georgia W. Woods White Atlanta.
lllinms A. T. Hemingway Chicago.
Indiana L. W. Minhall Indianapolis.
Jowa M. H. Smith Des Moines.
Kansas W. N. Fisher Topcka.
Kentucky J • S. Detweiler Louisville.
Louidaiia ('has. H. Shite New Orleans.
Maine W. S. Coeey Portland.
Ma7^yUnd C. J. Orrick Cumberland.
Massachusetts H. L. Porter .Lynn.
Michigan A. E. Haynes Irdlsdale.
Minnesota H. E. Fletcher Minneapolis.
Missh'sippi J. W. Stokes Corinth.
Missouri F. A. Hatch Kansas City.
Nebraska J. C. Denise Omaha.
i\«w Hampshire Allen Folger Concord.
I\ew Jersey F. W. Owen Morristown.
2^'ew York Henry* Dalley, Jr Brooklyn.
JS'orth Carolina G. B. Hanna Charlotte.
Ohio W. M" Alpin Cincinnati.
Oregon D. W^. Wakefield Portland.
Ftnn.oylvania S. A. Taggart Pittsburg.
Mode /stand C. A. Hopkins Providence.
Soi/tk Carolina Geo. Cook Charleston.
Tennessee James H. Cowan Knoxville.
Texas W. J. B. Patterson San Antonio.
V'ei-mont J. J. Este y Brattleboro.
Virginia Hugh M'Ilhany Staunton.
Washington Territory F. H. Whitworth Seattle.
West Virginia A. D. Barr Charlestown.
Wisconsin C. G. Baldwin Eipou.
Representation at the International Convention, May 18, 1883.
Associations represented 254
Number of Delegates 463
Number of Corresponding Members 120
Total Delesrates and Corresponding Members present 5G7
11*
250 Methodist Year-Book.
Methodist Union in Canada.
On September 6, 1882, the Joint Committee on Union appointed by tbe Method-
ist Church of Canada, the Methodist Episcopal Churcli of Canada, tlie Primitive
Methodist Church of Canada, and the Bible Christian Church of Canada, consid-
ered the question of formulating, if possible, a Basis of Union between the Metliod-
ist bodies which the delei^ates represented. The members of the Joint Committee
consisted of 86 delegates, representing the respective bodies, as follows : The
Methodist Church of Canada, 42 ; the Methodist Episcopal Church, 19 ; the Primi-
tive Methodist Church, 14; the Bible Christian Church, 11. As the result of the
deliberations, the Committee, by a nearly unanimous vote, adopted the following aa
the Basis of Union, to be presented to their respective Churches :
BASIS OF UNION.
I. Doctrine, General Eules, OEDiNANcn, Etc.
The Doctrinal Basis of the proposed United Church shall be the Standards of
the Doctrine and Articles of Keli^ion contained in the Book of Discipline of the
Methodist Church of Canada, edition of 1879, from p. 13 to p. 21. That portion
of the Book of Discipline of the said Methodist Church of Canada, edition of
1879, from p. 21 to p. 33, referring to General Kules, Ordinances, Reception of
Members, and Means of Grace, is also adopted as part of the Basis.
II. Church Government.
(l) THE general conference.
1. There shall be a Quadrennial General Conference, composed of an equal
number of Ministerial and Lay Delegates, elected as hereinafter provided, with
power to make rules and regulations for the entire Church. (See " Annual Con-
ferences," par. 9.)
2. No change shall be made in the Basis of Union affecting constitutional ques-
tions or the rights and privileges of Ministry or Laity, except by a three fourths
majority of the General Conference, and, if required "by either ()rder of Ministry
or Laity, a two thirds majority of each order, voting separately.
3. There sliall be one or more Itinerant General Superintendents elected by the
General Conference, to hold (office for the term of eight years. But if it be decided
at the meeting of the General Conference after Union to elect two General Superin-
tendents, one of them shall be elected for four years only, so that there may V)e a
recurrhig election or re-election every four years.
4. A General Superintendent shall preside over all Sessions of the General
Conference, and over all Standing Committees of the same.
(ll) ANNtJAL conferences.
1. The Territory occupied by the Church shall be divided into Conferences as
the General Conference may from time to time direct.
2. Each Annual Conference shall be composed of all Ministers in Full Connec-
tion within its bounds, and an equal number of Laymen, elected as elsewhere
provided. (See " District Meetings," par. 6.)
3. Laymen elected shall have the right to be present at all ordinary Sessions of
the Annual Conference, and to speak and vote on all questions except the exam-
ination of Ministerial character and qualification ; the Keception, by vote, of Pro-
bationers into Full Connection, and their Ordination ; and the granting of tlie
Superannuated or Supernumerary relation, on whicli exceptive questions Ministers
alone shall take action. In case any Minister's character shall be arrested, it shall
be competent for the Ministerial members to meet in Special Session to examine
into the case and pronounce judgment, reporting tlieir action to the Mixed Con-
ference— such report to be for information and reconl, and not for discussion.
4. Each Annual Conference shall have authority to elect a President from among
its Ministerial members.
5. The General Superintendent, when present, shall open the General Confer-
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ence, and preside during the first day of its Sessions, and, afterward, alternately
with the President elected hy the Conference. In the absence of a General Su-
perintendent, the President of the previous year shall take the Chair and open the
Conference. In association with the President, the General Superintendent shall con-
duct the Ordination Parliaments. But all other duties pertaniing to the presidency
of the Annual Conference shall be vested in the President elected by that Dody, ana,
in the absence of the General Superintendent, he shall conduct the Ordination.
6. The President of the Annual Conference shall be ex-officio Superintendent of
the District in which he may be stationed during the year of his presidency.
7. The Annual Conference shall elect by ballot, without debate, a Secretary or
Secretaries, as the case may require.
8. The Annual Conference shall elect by ballot, without debate, a Superintend-
ent for each District from among the ordained Ministers within the bounds of such
District.
9. Each Annual Conference, at its Session next preceding the Session of each
General Conference, shall divide into Ministerial and Lay Electoral 'Conferences,
for the purpose of electing Delegates to the General Conference, each body elect-
ing its own representatives. The Delegates shall be elected w ithiu the bounds -of
said Conference, and the vote shall be by ballot.
10. Each Annual Conference shall have a Stationing Committee, composed of
the President of the Conference, (who shall preside in the Committee,) tlie Super-
intendents of Districts, and one Minister elected by each District Meeting, such
election to be by the joint votes of ministers and laymen.
11. Each Annual Conference shall have authority to elect into Full Connection
and ordain any Probationer within its bounds who has traveled four years and ful-
filled all disciplinary requirements. Also, to elect and ordain Probationers of less
than four years' standing when the necessities of the work require it.
12. All preachers -nho have received ordination in any of the uniting bodies,
and are in good standing at the time of the Union, shall retain all rights and
privileges conferred by such ordination.
(ill) DISTRICT MEETINGS.
1. The Territory occupied by each Annual Conference shall be divided into two
Districts.
2. Each Annual District Meeting shall consist of all the Ministers and Proba-
tioners for the ministry within its bounds, and one Lay Delegate for each Minister
or Probationer in the active work from each Circuit, Mission, or Station throughout
the District ; said Delegates to be elected by the Quarterly Meetings as hereinafter
provided.
3. Each District shall be under the Supervision of a presiding officer, to be called
the District Superintendent, who shall be elected by the Annual Conference, as
elsewhere provided. He shall preside in the District Meetings, oversee the tem-
poral and spiritual interests of the Church in his District ; and, with the Ministers
and Probationers under his charge, shall administer and enforce the Discipline of
the Church, being responsible therefor to the Annual Conference.
4. The District Superintendent shall fix the time and place of the Jii'st District
Meeting, after wliich lie shall fixthe time, and the District Meeting shall fix the place.
In the absence of the District Superintendent, the District ileeting shall elect from
amonix its minis'terial members, by ballot, without debate, a Chairman pro tern.
5. The examination of ministerial character shall be the business of the first da}'
of the District Meeting, and shall be confined to the ministerial members alone.
6. The Lay Members of the District Meeting shall meet separately some time
during the Session, and elect by ballot, without debate. Lay Representatives to the
Annual Conference in the proportion of one for each Minister in full connection
within the bounds of the District. Laymen, to be eligible, must be at least twenty-
five years of age, and must have been members of the Cliurch, in good standing,
for the five consecutive years next preceding the election.
(iv) QUARTERLY ATEETINGS.
1. There shall be a Quarterly Official Meeting on each Circuit, Mission, or Sta-
tion, consisting of the Ministers and Probationers for the Ministry, the Local
Preachers, the Exhorters, the Circuit Stewards, the Leaders of Classes, the Super-
252 Methodist Year-Book.
inteudents of Sabbntli-schools, (beins: members of the Church,) one Eepresentative
from each Board of Trustees, (he being a member of the Church;) and also of
additional representatives who may have been appointed by the Societies of the
Circuit. The apportionment, scale, and mode of election shall be arranged by the
fourth Quarterly Meeting of the year; but such additional Kepresentatives shall
not exceed the number of the Stewards on the Circuit.
2. The Superintendent of the Cia'cuit shall be the Chairman of the Quarterly
Meeting, except when the Superintendent of the District shall be present, in which
case the latter may preside.
3. The Quarterly Meeting shall hear complaints, and receive and try appeals ; rec-
ommend Candidates for the Ministry ; manage and control Circuit finances ; and dis-
charge such other duties as the General Conference may from time to time determine.
4. The Quarterly Meeting shall, at the fourth regular meetmgof the year, elect by
ballot, without debate, the Lay Delegates to attend the ensuing Annual District
Meeting, in the projiortion of one Delegate for each Minister or Probationer in the
active work on the circuit.
[Note. — Regulations concerning the Licensing of Local Preachers and Exhorters
are referred to the first General Conference.]
in. Church Pkopektt.
1. Upon the ratification of the proposed Union such legislation shall be obtained
fi'om Legislatures having competent jurisdiction, as shall vest in the United Church all
property now held by, or in trust for, the respective Churches entering into the Union.
2. As it is probable that, in some instances, Church and Parsonage Property now
in use will not be requii'ed, after the Union, lor Church or Circuit purposes, it is
recommended that a Committee, consisting of the District Superintendent, two
Ministers, and two Laymen, be appointed at the District Meeting on each District
where any such property may be situated, who shall act conjointly with the Trust-
ees on each Circuit m determining what property shall be retained for use, and
Avhat shall be sold.
8. In all cases where such Church or Parsonage Property may be so sold, the pro-
ceeds arising from the sale may be applied,^
(1) To the payment of any debts or claims upon or in respect of such property.
(2) To the payment of any debts upon the property retained for use by the Con-
gregation formerly using the property so sold, or in building a new church or par-
sonage, where necessary, for the United Congregation.
(3) The balance, if anv, to be applied, with tlie consent of the Trasteea, to the
use of the Church and Parsonage Aid Fund of the United Church, in the Annual
Conference in which such projperty is situated.
[Note. — The regulations contained in clause 3 and its subsections, in so far as
they apply to property held by the Bible Christian Church, shall be subject to the
regulations adopted in regard to Church Funds respecting the debt of the Missionary
Fund of said Church. J
IV, Church Funds.
(l) THE SUPERNUMERARY FUND.
1. There shall be, in tiie United Church, a Superannuated Ministers.' Fund for the
Western Conferences, and a Supernumerary Ministers' Fund tor the three Confer-
ences m the Maritime Provinces ; which funds shall, for tlie present, be under the
management of separate Boards,' as has been the practice in the Methodist Church
of Canada. As no change is deemed necessary in regard to tlie Supernumerary Fund
of the Eastern Conferences, the recommendations which follow, save the final one,
are to be understood as referring solely to the Superannuation Fund of the Western
Conferences.
2. The Methodist Church of Canada having an invested capital for the three
Western Conferences of over SOl.OOO, it is agreed that the other Churches uniting shall
supply such an amount of capital to said Superannuation Fund, as shall place their
ministers on an equality with the ministers of tlie said three Western Conferences.
3. No change shall be made in regard to the claims of any Minister holding a
Superannuated relation at the present time, (that is, 1882; ) and they shall receive,
on the basis of their present claims, as far as the annual income will allow.
4. Income arising from Amiual Collections an<l Subscriptions in all Conirrcgations
of the United Cliurch, Annual Subscriptions by Jlinisters of the same, and any
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amount appropriated from time to time out of the funds of the Missionitry Society,
shall be used in triectins^ payments to all claimants on the fund, without distinction.
5. Income arising trom the invested capital now helil by the Methochst Cliiivch
of Canada for this land, and the amount annually received from the jirotits of the
Toronto Book Enom (until such time ius the publishing interests of the other unitiny^
Churches shall be amalifamated, and their as-^ets e(iualizcd with tliose of said Book
Koom) shall be used exclusively for the benefit of the claimants on the Superannu-
ation Fund now connected with the Methodist Church of Canada, and the chums of
Ministers, now in the active work of that Church, who may become «uperuunuated
after the Union.
6. The rule adopted above, in clause 5, shall apply, in the case of the Alethodist
Episcopal, Primitive Methotlist, and Bible Cliristian Churches, in re^'ard to any
Book Koom or other assets available for their respective Superannuation Funds,
until the amalgamation referred to in said clause is accomplished.
7. So soon as the Methodist Episcopal, Primitive Methodist, or Bible ("hri.-tian
Churches shall furnish an amount of capital equal, in propoi'tion, to that now held
by the Methodist Church of Canada, the Superannuated Ministers of such uniting
Churches, and those wlio may become Superannuates after Union, shall have a
claim on the proceeds of the whole invested capital in common with those who are
now Ministers of the Methodist Church of Canada.
8. If the income of any year shall not be sufficient to meet the Claims in full then all
claimants shall share in the deficiency in propoition to the amount of their claim.
'.). If tmy of the three uniting Churches aforesaid shall fail to provide its full pro-
portion of'in vested capital, Ministers of these Churches who are now, or may heie-
after become, Superannuates, shall draw in proportion to the amount of capital
actually provided.
10. In case of failure by any of tiie Churches above mentioned to provide in-
vested capital, it ^hall be competent for any Minister of such Churches to piovide
his individual .-hare of such capital, and thereafter to drav/ from the proceeds of the
investments in the same manner as Superannuates of the present Methodi.-t Church
of Canada. This latter provision shall apply to any JMinister now on the Superan-
nuated lists of the Metnodi.~.t Fpiscopal, Primitive Methodist, or Bible Chrstian
Churches.
11. The principles embodied in the foregoing regulations shall be applied in ad-
justing the relations to the Supernumerary Ministers' Fund of the tliree Eastern
Conferences, of anv Ministers of the Bible Christian Church who may be included,
by the proposed UTnion, in any of the said Conferences.
[Note. — A committee has been appointed, with power to emjiloy an actuary, if
necessary, to make a careful estimate of the value of existing investments belonging
to the Superannuation Funds, and Keport at the Fir>t General Conference.]
(ll) TUE MISSION.\r.Y FUND.
1. On the consummation of the Union there shall be one Missionary Fund for the
whole Church.
2. The Missionary Societj^ of the Methodist Church of Canada having no debt,
and the income and expenditure being equal, no recommendation is necessary.
3. The Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church has a debt of
110,000, incun-ed in the purchase of pro]ierty and the erection of churches in Mani-
toba, the property being held by the Society as security for the debt. This debt is
to be liquidated but of the assets of the Society, before the consummation of the
Union.
4. The Missionary Society of the Bible Christian Church has a debt of ^21,080,
less about SS.OOO on which annuities are paid at H i->er cent, per annum, which an-
nuities will probably cease in a few years. As this debt was incurred in the pur-
chase and erection of Mission churches and parsonaires, it is considered a legitimate
claim against such property. It is, therefore, agreed that tJie next Annual Confer-
ence of the Bible Christian Church shall make arranijements to desiribute the Mis-
sionary debt among the several properties to erect or purchase which said debt has
been incurred. And in case any property belonging to the Bible Christian Church
be sold, the proceeds, after paying other debts of the Trust, shall be applied to the
reduction of the said Missionary debt.
5. The above-mentioned debts being provided for us aforesaid, the Churches in-
cluded In the Union are to unite on equal terms.
Churches, it is agreed that the whole question be relegated to the tirst General Cou-
Church, to deteruiine on what basis, if any, a Children's Fund
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(hi) the contingent fund.
As the invested capital of the Contingent Fund of the Methodist Church of Can-
ada belongs to the three Western Conferences of that Church, it is agreed that it bo
left to the'^said Conferences to propose a plan for dealing' with said investments, and
report the same to the General Conference of the Methodist Church of Canada at the
Special Session to be held before Union is consununated. As the other Conferences
and Churches have no such invested capital all further action on the subject is re-
feired to the lirst General Conference of the United Church.
(iv) THE children's FUND.
As there are no investments in connection with this Fund in any of the uniting
churches, it is agreed that t
ference of the United Churc
shall be maintained.
V. Book and Publishing Interests.
1. The Halifax Book Room and weekly paper shall be continued as at present, on
account of their geographical position.
2. The Toronto Book Eoom, with its various publications, will also l>e main-
tained; and no serious ditiioulty is apprehended in the way of consolidating the
other publishing interests in the West at an early date after the Union is effected.
3. As the assets of the Book and Publishing House of the Methodist Church of
Canada for the three Western Conferences are larL'er, in proportion to the number
of iMinisters in those Conferences, than the similar assets of any one of the other
contracting parties, it is agreed that each Minister of the Methodist Episcopal.
Primitive Methodist, and Bible Christian Churches, entering into the Union, shall
pay into the General Publishing Fund such a sum as will malie his interest equal to
the per capita interest of the Ministers of the three Western Conferences aforesaid.
4. In equalizing the per capita interest, as above, payments may be made in cash,
or by notes, payable in one or two years from the date of Union ; such notes to bear
interest at six per cent, per annum.
VI. Educational Interests.
1. The Methodist Church of Canada and the Methodist Episcopal Church have a
number of Educational Institutions in successful operation. The Primitive Meth-
odist and Bible Christian Churches have no such institutions in this country.
2. The Educational Institutions in the Maritime Conferences present no difficulty
in the way of Union, and no change is recommended in their present relations.
3. In regard to the Western Conferences, it is believed that those Institutions
which possess University powers can be consolidated, to the honor of then* grad-
uates, and advantage of their educational work.
4. It is recommended that the United Church adhere to the traditional policy of
Methodism in regard to education, believing that the best interests of t"he Church
and of Education imperatively demand that our Colleges and Universities should be
under the fostering care of the Church.
VII. Miscellanf;ous Eecommendations.
(i) composition of the first general conference.
The General Conference of the Methodist Church of Canada having authorized
the calling of a Special Session, in 1883, to give etfect to the Union, provided a sat-
isfactory basis is secured, it is recommended, —
1. That, in case the Basis of Union is approved by the requisite majorities in tlie
Quarterly Meetings and Annual Conferences of the Churches proposing to unite, it
shall be competent for the Annual Conferences of tiie Methodist Episcopal, Prim-
itive Methodist, and Bible Christian Churches to elect Delegates to the First Gen-
eral Conference of the United CImrch, in the proportion of one out of ten Ministers
in full connection, with an equal number of Laymen, elected in Annual Conference
or District Meeting, as the case may be; and these, tdgether with the Delegates
composing the present General Conference of the MetTiodist Church of Canada,
meeting in joint session after the latter body shall have closed the special session
above alluded to, shall compose the First "General Conference of the said United
Church, with power to perforin such acts as may be necessary to the final ratifi-
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catioa of the Union, and all other acts which come within the province of a General
Conference.
2. The Annual Conferences and District Meetings of tlie Methodist Church of
Canada sliall have authority to till vacancies that jiuiy have occurred in their dele-
gations, either lay or clerical, by the Uisual mode of election.
(ll) EXPENSES OF GENEKAL CONFERENCE.
If the Basis of Union be approved, it is reconnnended that the various Annual
Conferences make provision for taking up a collection in every congregation for the
Expenses of the First General Conference.
(in) TRANSFER OF MINISTERS,
The Joint Committee recommends to the Fin^t General Conference the matter of
making provision for the Transfer of Ministers from one Conference to another, so as
to give lill reasonable facilities for meeting the wants of the work.
(iv) TIME OF FIEST GENERAL CONFERENCE.
In the event of the Basis of Union bemg approved, it is recommended that the First
General Conference of the United Clmrch be held in tlie Metliodist Episcopal
Tabernacle, in the city of Belleville, on the first Wednesday in September, 1883,
commencing at nine o'clock in the forenoon.
(v) NAME.
The adoption of a name for the United Church is referred to the First General
Conference ; but the Committee recommend that it be called " The Methodist
Church."
Circular Letter.
To the Ministers and People of the Methodist Church of Canada, the Methodist
Episcopal Church in Canada, the Primitive Metliodist Church of Canada, and
the Bible Christian Church of Canada.
Dearly-Beloved Brethren and Friends : As your fellow-laborers in the
ministry of the g'lorious Gospel, and pastors of the tioek of Christ, we greet you af-
fectionately, in the name of the Father, the Son, and the ever- blessed Holy Gliost,
praying earnestly that ye be enriched with all spiritual blessings in Christ, built up
in him, and established in the faith of the Gospel which has been declared unto
you. And we are the more anxious concerning your welfare amid the agitations of
our cherished Methodisms in these times, lest ye be led aside from singleness of
purpose, humility of mind, and obedience to the truth, after the spirit of the world,
and the plans of men, and not after the mind and will of God. You all know that
there has been an earnest desii-e, in many true hearts in our respective Churches,
that the divided Methodisms of this country should be united into one Methodist
Church, in order that the occasion for strife should be removed, that love might the
more abound, that there might be less waste and better direction of the n sources of
the Church, and that the men of God given us to minister in word and doctrine
might be the better employed to spread the common Savioiu"'s name. We have all
mourned over the conflictincr interests on oppressed fields of labor, the scanty sup-
port of the ministry by small and divided Societies, the erection of many houses of
worship that a united people would never have required, the rivalry of denomi-
nations carrying precisely the same doctrines and, for the most part, the same
usages, into new mission-fields, and the envy and ill-will to often engendered by
the perpetuation of these divisions. For the removal of these occasions of the re-
proach of the adversaries, for the unity of the Spirit in the bonds of peace, for a wise
and etficient direction of the resources of the Churcli in her men, her institutions,
and her money, and for tlie consequent revival of the work of God, many sincere
prayers have gone up from the members of all our Chm-ches unto the living God,
our Father in heaven.
You also know that there are great difficulties in the way of the accomplishment
of such a Union of the diverse branches of Methodism into one Methodist Churcli ;
difficulties, indeed, which no merely human thought, spirit, or plan could over-
come. All the Churches liave their cherished polity and principles of government
and administration, second only in importance, in the view ot good men maintain-
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inp them, to the doctrines of Holy Scripture themselves. Prejudices have ansen
and stroncr feeUngs have been stirred ; wherefore, it is often dithcult for t'ne must
lionest purpose to obtain a calm, impartial view. Worldly motives intervene, and
selfish aims, sometimes doubt, suspicion, and party spirit, bias the judgment. Tlie
remembrance of injury, real or fancied, discolors the ray and beclouas the vision.
How we need to pray to be delivered from ourselves and the mere influence of cir-
cumstances, and to be enabled to see the truth in its ovvn clear light, and feel it in
its own comfort and glow ! In view of these formidable obstacles we are confident
that you will rejoice with us and give glory to God, tliat, in our consultations just
closing, the greatest harmony and brotherly love have abounded ; and, whatever
the issue, we have been able to see more clearly eye to eye, and our hearts have
been drawn together in tlie fellowship of the Spirit and the fraternity of the Gospel
of Christ.
The General Conference and constituted authorities of our several Churches,
having affirmed the desirability of Union, appointed committees of bretiiren, faith-
ful and beloved, to confer as to a Basis of Union, and ascertain whether there be a
common ground on which all the Churches interested could join in organic unity.
The identity of our doctrines au;l rules of Society, and the similarity of our usages
in many respects, gave us a favorable starting-point. We could easily agree on the
doctrines of the Holy Scriptures as understood by the people called Methodists, on
the Eules of our Societies as given by Mr. Wesley, the venerable founder of our com-
mon Methodism, on our usages of worship and means of grace, and on the excel-
lency of the spirit of love. But the diversities of polity and principles of goverment,
and the cherished peculiarities of the several Cliurches, give to your Committee the
occasion of mucii study and prayer. One of the Churches has made prominent in
its administration the maintenance of the rights of the Annual Conferences, and of
the peculiar functions and privileges of the pastorate. Another has held unswerv-
ingly by the Connectional idea, the supremacy of the General Conference, and the
otfice and prerogatives of an Itinerant General Superintendency. The other two
Churches have especially maintained the rights of the laity to representation in the
Conferences and Courts of the Church. These central and fundamental positions
of the Churches are reconcilable, are incorporated in the Basis of Union, and, in our
opinion, will all be found to be elements of safety, solidity, liliertv, and power.
This basis in its regard for cherished principles and inalienable rights, proi)ose.s
that these central and fundamental positions be preserved and constitute the
common ground of unity, while peculiarities of less importance, in a spirit of mutual
concession, are, in most cases, handed on to be arranged by the General Conference
and constituted authorities of the United Church, should such Union, by your vote,
allowance, and action, ever take place. The missionary, educational, and financial
interests of the Churches, their Church property. Book Rooms, and publishing
establishments gave us much concern, but we are persuaded tliat in them is no in-
superable barrier to union. The welfare of ministers and societies was in our
tliought to afford them all possible safeguards. The superannuated ministers are
protected in their rights, and ordained men have secured to them the privileges and
functions possessed within their respective Churches. It has been the careful and
prayerful effort of your United Committee to discharge the sacred trust confided to
them by their several Conferences and Churches ; and guarding rights, principles,
and important interests, to find, if practicable, according to their instructions, a basis
on which the Methodist people of this Dominion might, under God, unite in one
Methodist Church for the spread of scriptural holiness over these lands. W^ith
some degree of confidence that so desirable an end has been reached, with many
prayers for divine guidance of all the Churches, with reliance upon the intelligence
and loyalty of our respective memberships, with an expectation that undue prejudice
will be laid aside, and the great issues of the hour calmly and candidly considered;
with an admonition that our respective peoples, under their own constitutions, keep
united and in the spirit of cliarity among tliemselves, and with the assurance tliat
for ourselves we are, in the fear of God, heart and soul with our people within con-
stitutional action and decision, we commend the Basis of Union and all the interests
that cluster about it to the honest scrutiny and thoughtful, godly determination of
the Churches, content to receive their solemn acceptance of it, or equally solemn re-
jection of it, as unto us the indication of Providence and the voice of God.
In the several Churches the Basis of Union will be presented for action to the
General and Annual Conferences, the Quarterly Meeting Conferences, and Official
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Meetln£;s and Boards, and to the Societies and memhers themselves, under the con-
stitutional provisions in the respective Churches, and according to the direction of
their separate constituted authorities, so that there may be the utmost fairness and
freedom of discussion, that no improper advantage be taken, or unlawful bias given,
and that the entire constituency att'ected in each c.ise shall have the opportunity,
nnder its own constitution, usage, and law, to employ voice and infiuence for or
against its adoption, according to tlie solemn and conscientious conviction of duty
before God and his Church, in this important crisis of the history of our Mcth-
odisins. What greater dignity, what more weighty and awful charge and trust than
this i Here is a vote passuig "far the importance ot ordinary civil aiid political atfairs
among men. It involves much of the power, success, and destiny of the Church of
God. What an immense responsibility is placed hereby upon every member and
friend of oar Zion. Shall we not be much in prayer before God, touching our pres-
ent duties i Shall we not seek counsel of the Most High? Dare we allow personal
or wordly feelings or issues, or impulses of pride, jealousy, or ill-will to intervene in
a business of this character? Are we not in duty bound to walk in the light as God
himself is in the light, and seek to possess all the mind of meekness, obedience, and
love that was in Christ, our Saviour and Lord? How else shall we discharge the
solemn obligations of these eventful times ? The past is looking upon us with its
many bi'eaches to be repaii-ed, mistakes con-ected, and ills remedied, notwithstand-
ing its many successes, for wiiieh we joyfully give glory to God. The present is
looking upon us, in the cordial desire and interest of all' Evangelical Christendom,
in tliis movement, and especially in the prayerful and brotherly sympathy and re-
gard of all the Methodisms of both hemispheres. The future is looking to us with
Its enlarging demands, opening doors, and increasing facilities in the work of God ;
with its call for tlie maintenance and spread of the ]>eeuliar doctrines of our Meth-
odism, a free, full, present, instant, perfect, and eternal salvation to faith and obedi-
ence; and with its grand promise and prospects of the multiplying victories of the
cross, for tiie economy of our resources at home, and the proper direction of our en-
ergies to the salvation of men here in this fast-peopling Dominion, and to the re-
motest parts of the earth. The missionaries and martyrs of all ages, the holy
angels, Christ, the Head of the Church, and the Adorable Father and Holy Spirit
are looking upon us, that what we do we do it not as unto ourselves, but as unto the
Lord; that we do our best to unite ourselves, our cherished prineii)les and powers,
our resources and enterprises in the love of God, and in the faith and hope of the
glorious Gospel. Seeing we are encompassed about by so great a cloud of wit-
nesses, be it ours to lay aside every weight and the sins tljat so easily beset us ;
and, whether accepting or rejecting the Basis of Union, let us decide every question
regarding it as in the presence of the Lord, and in view of that day when every one
of us sliall give account of himself to God. Constrained of the love of Christ and
zeal for the souls of men, we must cease unseemly strife, and on a basis of brotherly
and mutual regard, and Cliristian honor and riglit — which we think the basis hei'e-
with submitted to be — we must be drawn togetlier and established, not only in the
unity ot the Spirit and bonds of peace, but in an organic and visible unity to the
confounding oi the advei'saries of Christ, the demonstration of the Avork of tlie
Spii-it, and "the glory of God the Father. And as your pastors and servants, fur
Christ's sake, we shall earnestly and continually pray that the Holy Ghost descend
upon us all, and till us with the love of God, enlighten every mind, and purify
every heart ; and that he guide our CJiurches to the wisest and safest results, to the
praise of his glory. And to God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit be praise forever.
Signed by order of, and in behalf of, the Joint Committee on the Union of the
Metiiodist Churches of this Country.
S. D. Rice,
President of tJie General Conference of the Methodist Church of Canada.
J. Goodman,
President of the Pritnitive Methodist Church in Canada.
W. Pascoe,
P-esident of the Bible Christian Church of Canada.
A. Carman,
Bishop of the Methodist Epiicopal Church in Canada, Cli'n Joint Union Com.
Alexander Sutherland, iiecretary of Committee.
Toronto, Dec. 6, 1883.
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The General Conference of the United Methodist Ohnrch, Canada.
Held in Belleville, Ontario, Sept. 5, 1883.
Ill accordance with the resolution of the Union Committee, the " Basis " having
been adopted by all four Churches, the United General Conference, representing
the four Methodist bodies, met in the Methodist Episcopal Tabernacle, Belleville,
on Wednesday, September 5, at 9 A. M.
Eev. Dr. WlUiains was elected Presiding Officer of the provisional organization.
Eev. E. Eobeits, of Toronto, (President of the Bible Christian Conference,) was
elected Vice-President. Eev. F. B. Stratton (Methodist Episcopal) was appomted
Secretary ; Eev. J. C. Antlitf (Primitive Methodist) and Dr. D. Allison, Assistant
Secretaries. Eev. J. Bredin was elected Journal Secretary.
The roll of delegates was called, the following number belngfound present: Method-
ist Church, 161 ; Methodist Episcopal, 30 ; Primitive Methodists, 8 ; Bible Christian, 9.
The Nominating Committee was constituted, consisting of one minister and one
layman from each of the Annual Conferences represented. The following is a list
of the chief officers elected :
Eev. Samuel D. Eice, D.D., (to serve for 8 years,) and Eev. A. Carman, D.D.,
(to serve for 4 years,) Superintendents.
Eev. J. C. Antliff, B.D., Secretary.
Eev. J. J. Eice, Assistant Secretary.
Eev. William Briggs, Book Steward at Toronto.
Eev. S. F. Huestis, Book Steward at Halifax.
Eev. E. H. Dewart, D.D., Editor of the " Christian Guardian," Toronto.
Eev. S. G. Stone, D.D., Associate Editor of the " Christian Guardian."
Eev. T. W. Smith, Editor of " The Wesleyan," Hallftix, N. S.
Eev. W. H. Wlthrow, D.D., Editor of the "Methodist Magazine," Toronto.
Eev. Andrew Sutherland, D.D., General Secretary of the Missionary Society,
John Macdonald, Esq., Lay Treasurer of the Missionary Society.
Eev. Enoch Wood, D.D., Honorary Secretary of the Missionary Society.
Eev. Di-. Eose, D.D., Clerical Treasurer of the General Conference Fund.
Eobert Walker, Esq., Lay Treasurer of the General Conference Fund.
Eev. J. Gray and Lieut.-Governor Alkens, Treasurers of Superannuated Minis-
ters' Fund.
Eevs. Dr. Elliott, Hon. J. Ferrier, Dr. Inch, Dr. Nelles, W. Herridge, E. Eoberts,
W. Prittie, Dr. Sanderson, S. F. Huestis, W. G. Brown, and G. Abbs, General
Conference Special Committee, (to whom, in conjunction with the General Super-
intendents, there is intrusted the government of the Church during the interval
between the present and the ensuing General Confei-ence. )
Western Section of Book Committee. — Toronto Conference: Eevs. W. Bee
G. Eoberts, A. Sutherland, D.D., John Macdonald, T. H. Willmott. London
Conference: Eev. E. B. Ryckman, D.D., Eev. W. E. Parker, M.A., Eev. E. Louns-
bury, Wm. Bowman. Guelph Conference : Eev. J. Gray, Eev. J. Kenner, G. H.
Kennedy, A. S. Fisher. Niagara Conference: Eev. J. A. Williams, D.D., Eev. J.
Gardner, D.D., Johnson Harrison, Humphrey Arthurs. Bay of Quinte Con-
ference : Eev. John Bredin, Eev. J. Curtz, W. A. Morrow, Judge Dean. Montreal
Conference : Rev. T. G. Williams, Eev. A. B. Chambers, Eev. F. Chlsholm, Dr.
Lavell, Wm. Bow. Manitoba Conference : Eev. Geo. Young, D.D.
Eastern Section of Book Committee. — New Brimswick and Prince Edward,
Island Conference : Eevs. Dr. Pope, D. Chapman, and Eobert Duncan, Hon. W. G.
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Strong, and Mr. J. E. Irvine. Hova Scotia Conference: Eevs. J. Latliern, Dr.
M'Murray, and W. C. Brown, Messrs. J. S. Belocher and J. W. Smith. J^'eiv-
foundland Conference: Rev. J. Dove and Mr. H. J. N. Woods.
General Board of Missions. — In addition to the othcers of the society and
those appointed by the Annual Conferences and Conference Missionary Couimittcc.i
for the ensuing quadrennium — Ministers : Eev. Drs. Young, Douglas, Stone, Potts,
John Shaw, S. F. Huestis, E. Roberts, J. Gray, W.Bee. Laymen: Hon. J. Ferricr,
Lieut.- Governor Aikins, W. E. Sanford, R. Walker, G. A. Cox, J. Paterson, A. L.
Mordeu, W. Gooderham, J. Hull.
Commission for the Consolidation of the Universities. — Drs. Rice, Nelles, Potts,
Burwash, J. A. Williams, Carman, Sutherland, Ryckman, Revs. W. I. Shaw, D.
G. Sutherland, Judge Dean, Messrs. W. Kerr, G. A. Cox, James Mills, John Mac-
donald, W. E. Sanford, J. J. MacLareu, J. E. Rose, W. Gooderham, R. I. Walker,
J. Aylesworth, B. F. Austin, J. Gillsard, Drs. Jaques, Badgley, Aylesworth, Mor-
deu, Burdett, Revs. A. Campbell, F. Stratton, and J. J. Rice.
Court of Appeals. — Revs. Drs. Williams, Sutherland, Gardiner, Revs. J. Gray,
Crompton, G. Webber, Judge Jones, Judge Dean, Messrs. T. Thompson, A. L.
Morden, J. MacLaren, and Windiatt — 6 ministers and 6 laymen.
General Conference Fund. — Clerical Treasurer, Rev. Dr. Rose ; Lay Treasurer,
Mr. Robert Walker, Toronto.
Fraternal Delegates to other Methodist Churches. — To the Methodist Episcopal
Church, Rev. S. S. Nelles, D.D., LL.D., and Rev. I. B. Aylesworth, LL.D. ; to the
Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Rev. Wm. Briggs ; and to the several Churches
in England, Rev. Dr. Rice.
United Annual Conference Calendar for 1884.
Conferences. Place of Meeting. Date of Meeting,
Montreal Brock ville June 5, 1S84.
London London June 12, 1884.
Niagara Hamilton June 12, 1884.
Manitoba Brandon June 12, 1884.
Toronto Toronto Jane 19, 1884.
Guelph Clinton June 19, 1884.
Nova Scotia Halifax June 20, 1884.
New Branswick and ) g^^ j^^^g June 25, 1884.
Prmce Edward Island (
Newfoundland St. Johns June 27, 1884.
Bay of Quinte Pictou June 19, 1884.
Districts reorganized by the General Conference shall form a provincial District
Meeting, to be held in each district.
The next General Conference is to meet in the Metropolitan Church, Toronto, on
Wednesday, September 1, 1886.
While the union of the four Methodist Churches was practically completed at the
United General Conference in 1883, the Dominion legislation needed to give full
administrative authority to the United Church could not be secured until a later
date, and hence the Conference ordered that July 3, 1884, should be the date f r
carryiuff into effect the administrative action of the united body. Until that date
the publishing and financial interests will be conducted as heretofore.
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Disciplinary Provisions of the Methodist Church of Canada.
The following is a summary of the principal Disciplinary provisions adopted by
the First United General Conference :
Pbeldonaby Disciplinary Provisions.
1. That the Basis of the Union be published in the Book of Discipline.
2. Tliat the doctrines, articles of religion, general rules, oi-dinances, reception of
members, and means of grace, as contained in the Book of Discipline of the Meth-
odist Church of Canada, edition of 1879, from page 13 to S3, be incorporated in tlie
new Book of Discipline.
The General Conference.
The next General Conference shall meet on the first Wednesday of September,
(Sept. 1,) 1886, and thenceforward on the first Wednesday in September once in
four years, and in such place as the previous General Conference may determine.
Wlien the General Conference is in session fifty of its members shall constitute a
quorum for the transaction of business. The General Conference shall elect from
tlie ministers of the Church, by ballot, without debate, one or more itinerant Gen-
eral Superintendents, in accordance with the Basis of Union. A General Super-
intendent shall preside over all sessions of the General Conference, and over all
sittings of the conunittees of the same; but in case no General Superintendent be
present the General (,'onference or committees shall elect, by ballot, without de-
bate, a President 7J/'o tempore.
It was ordered that when this Conference adjourn it shall stand adjourned to
meet at call as follows: If the call be made before the consummation of legislation
atfeotingour legal Union, it shall be made by the President and Secretaries of this
Conference, under its provisional organization. If the call be made after the con-
summation of Union by legislation, etc., as aforesaid, it shall be made by the Gen-
eral Superintendents, with the advice ot the General Conference Special Committee.
Composition of the General Conference.
1. The General Conference shall be composed of an equal number of ministerial
and lay delegates.
2. Each Annual Conference, at its first session next preceding the session of each
General Conference, shall divide into Ministerial and Lay Electoral Confei-ences, for
the purpose of electing delegates to the General Co?iferenee, each body electing its
own representatives. The delegates shall be elected from within the bounds of said
Conference, and the vote shall be by ballot.
3. The ministerial delegates shall consist of one member in every ten ministerial
members of each Annual Conference : the president of each Annual Conference
shall be one of that number. Provided, nevertheless, that a fraction of one half
shall entitle the Conference to an additional representative.
4. Each dele2:ate to the General Conference must receive a majority of votes of
the members of the Electoral Conference, who may be present and vote, in order to
an election.
5. No layman shall be chosen a delegate to the General Conference who shall be
under twenty -five years of age, and must have been a member of the Church con-
tiimously during the five years next preceding his election.
6. Each Electoral Conference, after the election of the number of delegates as pro-
vided in paragraph 2, shall elect a reserve delegate, and, in addition, a reserve del-
egate for every ten members it is entitled to send ; such reserve to take the place of
a delegate when, by reason of death or other cause, there is a vacancy in the dele-
gation ; provided always that the vacancy in the delegation occurs before the meet-
ing of the General Conference.
Eestrictive Rules.
The General Conference only shall have full power to make rules and regulations
for the Church, imder the following limitations and restrictions, namely :
1. It shall not make, alter, or change any article of religion, nor establish any new
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standards or rules of doctrii^e contrary to our existing ami established standards ot
doctrine.
2. It shall not destroy the plan of our itinerant system.
3. It shall not make any change in the general rules of our society.
4. It sliall not do away with the privileges of our ministers or |>robationers for the
ministry, of trial by a committee, and of an appeal; neither shall it do away with
the privileges of our membei-s of trial, by the society or by a committee, and of an
appeal.
5. No change shall be made in the Basis of Union affecting constitutional ques-
tions, or the rights and privileges of the ministry and laity, except by a three fourths
majority of the General Conference ; and if '-equired by either order of the ministry
or laity, or two thirds majority of each order voting separately, the General Con-
ference, by a vote of two thirds ot its members, shall have power to increase or di-
minish, change or alter, the boundaries of the several Annual Conferences. The
General Conference shall appoint a special committee, on the nomination of the Gen-
eral Superintendent, of twelve members, who shall, in association with the General
Superintendent or Superintendents from one General Conference to another, watch
over and guard all the rights and privileges of our Church throughout the Connec-
tion, and carry out, as far as possible, the recommendations of the General Con-
ference, and decide on any measures which may seem necessary for the general
interests of the Church which could not have been foreseen at the meeting of tha
General Conference, and adopt such measures for their accomplishment as it may
deem expedient ; said committee to report to the General Conference.
Pivvided, however, that the General Conference may, by a constitutional \ote,
vary or change any of the rules of our society embraced in the third restrictive
rule.
The General SuPEEmrENDEjrcY.
1. The itinerant General Superintendent shall preside over all sessions of the Gen-
eral Conferences, and over all standing committees of the same.
2. He shall not be stationed, but shall travel at large throughout the Church, and
render such service as the General Conference may direct.
3. He shall, when present at the Annual Conferences, in association with the
President, conduct the ordination services.
4. He shall sign all ordination parchments, jointly with the President of the
Annual Confereiice.
5. He shall be elected to hold office for eight years, but if it be decided to elect
more than one General Superintendent, one of them shall be elected to hold office
tor only four years, so that there may be a recurring election or re-election every
four yeai-s. [The term " four years " is defined to mean from one General Confer-
ence to another.]
fi. That we elect two General Superintendents.
7. That the General Superintendent shall, when present, open the Annual Con-
ference, and preside during the first day of its session, and afterward alternately
with the President selected by the Annual Conference.
8. He shall be a member of the Annual Conference within the jurisdiction of
which he resides when elected.
9. He shall not take part in the proceedings of his Annual Conference any further
than his duties as General Superintendent may require.
10. He shall be ex officio a member of the General Conference sitting at the time
his term of office shall expire.
11. He shall be eligible for re-election.
12. He shall be elected to the General Superintendency from among the minis-
terial members of the Church by ballot without nomination.
13. He shall be responsible to the General Conference for all his official acts.
14. He shall have general oversight of all Church interests and institutions, and
do all in his power to forward them ; nevertheless, he shall not interfere with the
functions of the ministers and other officers of tlie Church in their prescribed
duties.
15. That the salary of each General Superintendent be $2,500 per annum and
actual traveling expenses of fare and public conveyances.*
* The coat of the General Superintendency is to be met as follows : Three sixths by the
Mission Fund; one sixth by the Education Fund; and two sixths by the General Conference
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NuMBEE AND COMPOSITION OF THE AnNDAL CoNTERENCES.
The territory occupied by the Church shall be divided into ten Annual Confer-
ences. The Annual Conference shall bo composed of all ministers within its juris-
diction who have been received into full connection, and an equal number of lay-
men who have been elected as elsewhere adopted. All preachers who have re-
ceived ordination in any of the uniting bodies, and are in good standing at the time
of the Union, shall retain all rights and privileges conferred by such ordination.
Laymen elected shall have the right to be present at all ordinary sessions of the
Annual Conference, and to speak and vote on all questions except examination of
niinLsterial character and qualification, the reception by vote of probationers into full
connection and their ordination, and the granting of supernumerary relations, on
which exceptive questions ministers alone shall take action.
Each Annual Conference shall assemble not earlier than the first Wednesday in
May nor later than the last Wednesday in Juno of each year. The General Super-
intendent, when present, shall open the Annual Conference, and preside during the
first day of its sessions, and afterward alternately with the President elected by the
Conference. In the absence of a General Conference Superintendent the President
of the previous year shall take the chair and open the Conference. In association
with the President the General Superintendent shall conduct the ordination service,
and they shall jointly sign the ordination parchments, but all other duties pertain-
ing to ti:e presidency of "the Annual Conference shall be vested in the President
elected by that body, and in the absence of the General Superintendent he shall
conduct the ordination.
The President of the Annual Conference shall be ex officio superintendent of the
district in which he may be stationed during the year oi^his presidency. The An-
nual Conference shall elect, by ballot, without debate, a superintendent for each
district from among the ordained ministers within the bounds of such district.
Each Annual Conference, at its session next preceding the General Conference,
shall divide into Ministerial and Lay Electoral Conferences for the purpose of elect-
ing delegates to the General Conferences, each body electing its own representatives.
AnUTJAL CoNTEEENCE BOUITOAEIES.
The Annual Confererence boundaries, as reported by the Committee on Annual
Conference Boundaries, and adopted by the General Conference :
1. That no change be made in the boundaries of Manitoba, Nova Scotia, New
Brunswick and Prnice Edward Island, and Newfoundlantl Conferences.*
2. That the remaining portion of the work be formed into the following Con-
ferences :
London Conference.— Ymbra.cins the following districts: London, St. Thomas,
Chatham, and Sarnia. In these districts the Methodist Church of Canada has 84
circuits, 111 effective ministers, 16 superannuated ministers, and 13,996 members.
The Methodist Episcopal, 34 circuits, 44 effective ministers, T superaimuated minis-
ters, and 4,129 members. The Primitive Methodist, 12 circuits, 12 effective minis-
ters, 5 superannuated ministers, and 1,151 members. Bible Christian Church, 10
circuits, 10 eff'ective ministers, 2 superannuates, and 1,018 members. Total, 140
circuits, 177 efl'ective ministers, 30 superannuated ministers, 20,294 members.
Guelph Conference. — Including Guelph, Stratford, Wellington, Goderich, Walker-
ton, and Owen Sound Districts. The Methodist Church of Canada has here 97 cir-
cuits, 117 effective ministers, 13 superannuated ministers, and 15,481 members. The
Methodist Episcopal Church, 15 circuits, 18 efl'ective ministers, 3 superannuates, and
2,034 members. The Primitive Methodist Church, 12 circuits, 13 efl'ective ministers,
2 superannuated ministers, and 1,038 members. The Bible Christian Church, 8
circuits, 8 eflfective ministers, 1 superannuated minister, and 1,210 members. Total,
132 circuits, 156 efl'ective ministers, 19 superannuates, and 19,763 members.
A'iagara Conference. — Embracing Hamilton, Niagara, Brantford, Woodstock, and
Simcoe Districts. The Methodist Church of Canada has 83 circuits, 98 efl'ective
Fund. The expenditure for other Connectlonal interests until the next General Conference
(three years) is expected to be: Transfer Committee, $750; Court of Appeal, $250; delegation,
1 600 ; General Conference Committees, $200 ; Jeg-islation, $1,000 ; traveling expenses of dele-
gates to next General Conference, $6,000. The amount is to be raised by an annual collection,
to be held in the month of July.
* For full classified numerical summaries of the whole Church, see a subsequent page.
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ministers, 2fl superannuated ministers, and 14,630 members. The Metliodist Epis-
copal Church, 29 circuits, 43 elfective ministers, 7 superannuated ministers, and
4,713 members. The Primitive Methodists, 8 circuits, 8 effective ministers, 1 super-
annuated minister, and 807 members. The Bible Christian, 3 circiuts, 3 effective
ministers, and 233 members. Total, 123 circuits, 152 effective ministers, 34 super-
annuates, and 20,583 members.
Toronto Vonference. — Embracing Toronto^ Brampton, Whitby, Bradford, Bame,
Bracebridge, CoUingwood, Algoma, Victoria, New Westminster, Port Simpson,
and Japan Districts. The Mefhodist Church of Canada has hero 154 circuits, 168
effective ministers, 38 superannuates, and 19,291 members. The Methodist Episco-
pal, 25 circuits, 21 effective ministers, 4 superannuates, and 3,023 members. The
Primitive Methodist, 35 circuits, 38 effective ministers, 8 superannuates, and 4,563
members. The Bible Christian, 10 circuUs, 17 effective ministers, 2 superannuates,
and 2,324 members. Total, 224 circuits, 244 effective ministers, 52 superannuates,
and 29,201 members, or, omitting Victoria and New Westminster, Port Simpson,
and Japan, a total membership of about 27.000.
Bay Quinte Conference. — Embracing Belleville. Cobourg, Peterboro, Lindsay, Nap-
auee, and Picton "Districts. The Methodist Church of Canada has 87 circuits, 104
effective ministers, 13 superannuates, and 14,638 members. The Methodist Episco-
pal, 34 circuits, 48 effective ministers, 10 superannuates, and 6,256 members. The
Bible Christian, 14 circuits, 15 effective ministers, 5 superannuates, and 1,309 mem-
bers. Total, 135 circuits 167 effective ministers, 28 superannuates, 22,203 members.
Montreal Conference. — Embracing Montreal, Kingston, Brockville, Perth, Pem-
broke, Ottawa, Quebec, Stanstead, Waterloo, and the French District. The Meth-
odist Church has here 165 circuits, 175 effective ministers, 27 superannuates, and
19,996 members. The Metho(iist Episcopal, 31 circuits, 23 effective ministers, 6
superannuates, and 4,726 members. The I'rimitive Methodist, 2 circuits, 1 effective
minister, and 67 meml->ers. [Rev. W. Bell said it was evident that a mistake had
been made in the numbers of the Primitive Methodists. To Montreal Conference
should be added 4 circuits, 4 ministers, and about 500 members.] Total, 198 cir-
cuits, 199 effective ministei-s, 33 superannuates, and 24,789 members.
It was resolved that the Japan, Victoria, New Westminster, and Port Simpson
Districts be considered Missionary Districts, and that the Central Missionary Board
be empowered to appropriate directly to each of these.
Societies Outside of the Canada Conference Bocndaries.
" That whereas there are Bible Christian Churches in Ohio and Wisconsin, U. S.,
which are now in connection with the Bible Christian Church of Canada; tlierefbie,
" Besolved, That the whole question of tiie future relation, if any, wliich these
Churches shall sustain to the Methodist Church be referred to the General Cou-
ference Special Committee."
This recommendation was agreed to.
Transfer of Preachers.
The General Superintendents, the Presidents of the Annual Conferences, and one
minister elected by ballot annually in each Annual Conference, shall compose the
Transfer Committee — the Committee to be divided into two sections, the Eastern
Section for the Conferences east of Montreal Conference, and the Western Section
for the Conferences west of these.
In view of division and multiplication of Annual Conferences, and the consequent
restricted territory within the bounds of each Conference, we deem it important
that provision be made for the frequent interchange of ministers between the vari-
ous Conferences as a means of promoting Connectional feeling throughout the entire
Church, and maintaining the itinerancy in its integrity.
In case of an emergency arising between the meetings of the Annual Conference,
making it necessary to transfer a minister to supply the work in the missionary
field, the General Superintendent, together with the President and representatives
of any Annual Conferences interested, shall have power to transfer any one whom it
is desirable to transfer, and who is willing to be transferred.
When the President of an Annual Conference communicates to a General Super-
intendent any application for a transfer, or makes a proposal to transfer any min-
ister or probationer to another Conference, he siiall, with such application or pro-
posal, send the names of two or more ministers or probationers belonging to the
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Conference into which he seeks or proposes to secure a transfer, so that, if necessary
for the preservation of an equality of ministerial supply, one may be transferred
from the Conference into which the other is proposed to be transferred. The Pres-
ident of an Annual Conference may submit other names instead of those suggested,
but in all cases the ministers or probationers concerned shall be notified ot such
proposal.
In the case of ministers transferred prior to or at the Annual Conferences of any
of the contracting Churches, from one of the Annual Conferences of these
Churches to another, or from one part of the territory to another part so distant as
to cross the bounds of any of the newly-formed Annual Conferences, the men so
transferred or removed by any of the Churches in due course of discipline shall be-
long to that Conference of the Methodist Church to whose territory they have been
transferred or removed. Furtlier, such transfers or removals shall be made only in
the interests of the work or under compuct already existing, and the field of labor to
which the brother would have been transfen-ed shall be designated.
Stationing Comiiittee and Pastoral Teem.
1. The Provisional Committee, to station the preachers at the Conferences in 1884,
shall be composed of all chairmen of districts and all presiding elders.
2. The Stationing Conunittee sluill not allow any minister or probationer for the
ministry to remain'more than three years successively on the same circuit, except
General Conference officers, superannuated and supernumerary ministers, the mis-
sionaries among the Indians and in French and Foreign Mission Districts, and such
ministers as may be appointed to our Educational institutions.
3. No minister shall be re-appointed to a circuit or mission within a less interval
than six years.
4. It was recommended that every candidate shall spend at least two years in cir-
cuit work prior to being appointed to college.
5. One year on his probation shall be allowed to any student who has attended a
university or theological school for two or more years.
6. It was resolved that all young men who are candidates for the ministry shall
be sent to one or other of the theological schools for one or more years.
Re-adjustment of the Woek.
The report of the Committee on the Ke-adjustment of the Work (adopted by the
General Conference) recommended that districts recognized by Conference shall
form provisional districts of tlie Methodist Church. The report provided for the
holding of provisional District Meetings, composed of all the ministers and proba-
tionei;s within the bounds of the district, and one lay delegate from each circuit ;
also for a provisional Standing Committee composed of all cliairmen of districts and
presidinir elders, and further recommend that the time of the meeting of Annual
Conferences be as given in the Conference Calendar.
The appointment of a committee by General Conference to re-adjust circuits and
missions was recommended.
All future arrangements for the pastorate work shall be provided for by Annual
Conferences, but it is very desirable that all preaching places shall continue to re-
ceive preaching until, by mutual agreement, they may be changed.
Mission Statistics of the Uniting Churches,
Officially announced at the General Conference, September, 1883.
Methodist Church of Canada. — Domestic missions, 348 ; missionaries, 350 ; mem-
bers, 80,149. Indian missions, 43 ; 27 missionaries, 12 native assistants, 30 teachers,
11 interpreters, 3,337 members. French missions, 9 ; missionaries, 9 ; teachers, 2 ;
memijers, 360. Foreign missions, 6 ; missionaries, 14 ; native assistants, 5 ; mem-
bers, 721. Income, last year, $160,000 ; expenditure the same; no debt.
Methodist EpUcopal. — Missions, 54; missionaries, 54; members, 5,332. Income,
$14,879 ; expenditure the same ; debt, $12,600, provided for according to the
Basis.
Primitive Methodist. — Missions, 48 ; missionaries, 43 ; members, 4,283. Income,
$8,890 ; expenditure the same ; no debt.
Methodist Year-Book. 265
Bibh Christians. — Missions, 35; missionaries, 87; members, 2,646. Ineoine,
$10,000; expenditure the same; debt, $20,326, provided for according to tiie
Basis.
Total missions, 544 ; missionaries, 534 ; native assistants, 17 ; teachers, 32 ; in-
, ernreters, 11; members, 46,828.
\Vith regard to tlie missionary debts above-mentioned the General Conference
Committee reported that steps were in progress by the Churclies concerned to liqui-
date the debts before Union is consummated, in accordance with the terms of the
Basis, and it is distinctly under.'itood that no part of the liabilities is to be assumed
by the Missionary Society of the United Church.
Provisional Arrangements for Missionary Administration.
1. That in view of the fact that some time must elapse before necessary legisla-
tion can be secured, the Missionary Societies of the uniting Churches continue as
at present as regards both management and support until the consummation of
Union.
2. That after the consummation of Union there shall be one Missionary Fund
for the whole United Churcli.
3. That a rule be incorporated in the Discipline of the Church that no new mis-
sion shall be formed unless by a vote of the Annual Conference witliin whose
boundary the mission is proposed.
4. That in view of the inevitable extension of our mission work in the near
future, all possible effort be made in the re -arrangement of work after the Union,
by amalgamation and otlierwise, to create self-sustaining circuits.
5. That one missionary secretary and one lay treasurer be appointed ; the former
shall be secretary-treasurer of the society.
Women's Missionary Societies.
That this Conference desires to express its hearty sympathy with the Women's
Missionary Societies of the Methodist Church of Canada and the Methodist Epis-
copal Church as valuable auxiliaries in missionary work, and recommends the in-
corporation of these societies in the constitution of "The Methodist Church."
Sale of Church Property.
1. That as we imderstand the Basis of Union, no church or parsonage can be
sold without the consent of the tnistees of said church or parsonage.
2. Tliat we recommend tliat all self-sustaining churches be allowed to continue
a-s they now are until they themselves express a desire for change.
3. That in case the disposal of property is plainly desirable before the legal con-
summation of Union, it shall be competent for the united district meetings and
chairmen, superintendents, and presiding elders, and united trustee boards, to act
as in the Basis proceeding with a good degree of unanimity.
Consolidation of Colleges.
1. That universities, both Victoria and Albert, be continued in active operation
in the full exercise of all their power.
2. That the ultimate object to be reached shall be, first, the establishment of a
consolidated university for the Methodist Church, and, secondly, the maintenance
of Albert College as a high class academic institution in Belleville.
3. That the practical amalgamation of university work be committed to a large
commission to arrange for the consolidation of the universities as rapidly as it can
be done with financial safety.
Inasmuch as there are in the Province of Manitoba two regularly constituted
bodies holding charters for the establishment of collegiate institutions, one that of
the Wesley College of the Methodist Church of Canada, the other that of Ti'inity
College of the Methodist Episcopal Church of Canada, and, as neither has yet
made financial investments or began educational work, this Conference appoint an
addition to the Board of Wesley College, such Board having full power to secure
the necessary legislation for the amalgamation of the two charters, to employ pro-
fessors and tutors, and to complete all necessary arrangements for the eommcnrp-
ment of an educational institute at such time as the Board might deem expsflient.
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266 Methodist Year-Book.
Centenary of American Methodist Okganization.
The report adopted by the General Conference recommended that the invitation
of the Methodist Episcopal Church of America to take part in the celebration be
cordially accepted ; that tlie General Conference heartily concur in the Centenary
celebration by United Methodi.-t Church in Canada ; that conventions be held at ■
Grimsby and St. Lawrence Camp-grounds ; that collections be made at all the
services and appropriated to the Superannuation Fund ; that delegates be appointed
to the Centenary Committee of the Methodist Episcopal Clmrch in the United
States.
Eev. Drs. Williams and Gardiner were appointed delegates to the Centenary
Committee. Committees were appointed to carry out the Centenary arrangements
for the camp-meetings.
The Second Ecumenical Conteeence.
The report of the Committee on the Ecumenical Conference (adopted by the
General Conference) recommended that such Conference be approved of by the
United General Conference, but as it is not proposed to hold it until 1887, and as
the (General Conference will meet again before that date, it is suggested that a Com-
mittee on Correspondence be appointed.
Action on Temperance.
In the report adopted on temperance, family pledge-cards and Band of Hope or-
ganizations were recommended. The importance of the introduction of text- books
into the public schools was recognized, and the circulation of temperance literature
advised. The Scott Act was heartily indorsed, and Methodists were urged_ to sup-
port only such candidates as would pledge themselves to temperance legislation.
Total prohibition was insisted upon as the only and completely etiective remedy.
The work of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union was commended, and
Official Church Boards were urged to secure the pure, unfermented juice of the
grape for sacramental purposes.
Western Superannuation Fund.*
It was resolved that the Western Superannuation Fund shall be adtrinistered by
a board of 32 members — 16 ministers and 16 laymen. The Board shall have full
authority to determine the number of years to be allowed and the amount due to
each regular claimant.
The claim of a widow shall be two thirds of the claim of her late husband, and
each child of a deceased minister shall have a claim on the fund to the amount of
$20 per year up to sixteen years of age. Any minister who may fail before ren-
dering five years of etiective service shall have refunded to him the amount he has
paid into the fund.
Scale of Payment.
1. A superannuated minister who has traveled five years shall have a claim of
$25 ; tor six years, $32; for seven years, $39 ; for eight vears, $46 ; for nine years,
$53 ; for ten years, $60 ; the above claims shall be good for five years only.
2. A superannuated minister who has traveled eleven years shall have a claim of
$68 per year; for twelve years, $76 ; for thirteen years, $84 ; for fourteen years, $92;
for fifteen years, $100, which claims shall hold good for a period of eight years.
3. A superannuated minister who has traveled sixteen years shall have a claim
of $114 per year; for seventeen years, $128 ; for eighteen years, $142 ; for nineteen
years, $156, holding good for ten years.
4. A superannuated minister who has traveled twenty years shall have a per-
manent claim of $170 per year; for twenty-one years, $182 ; for twenty-two years,
* The three Eastern Conferences have a fund for the benefit of the Supernumerary Fiinrl,
(established by the late Conference of Eastern British America,) which amounted in July,
1882. to $80,000. The receipts for the year 1882 were as follows: From circuit collections,
$1,556 51 ; ministers' subscriptions, $2,283 18 ; interest on investments, $.5,150 40; grant from
Missionary Society, $700 — total. $9,C90 09. Of this amount 98 per cent, was paid to the sev-
eral Conferences, namely: To Nova Sotia Conference, $4,743 20; to New Brunswick and
Prince Edward's Island Conference, J,3,5.52 50; to Newfoundland Conference, $960 40, foi
incidental and niiscelianeous expenses, $53; and addition to capital stock, $480 99.
Methodist Year-Book. 267
$194; for twenty-three years, $206; for twenty-four years, $21 S ; for twenty-five
years, $230; for twenty-six years, $244; for twenty-seven years, $258 ; for twenty-
eight years, $272 ; for twenty-nine yeare, $286 ; for tliirty years, $300.
5. AH permanent claimants who have rendered thnty years and upward of effective
service shall have a claim of $10 a year for each year of such effective service.
6. Widows of deceased ministers, being membere of our Church, shall receive
two thirds of the amount their husbands would have received according to the above
scale, except such widows as were fifteen years younger than their husbands at the
time of their maiTiage, and were married after then- husbands were fifty years of
age. Such cases shall be referred to the Board.
Basis of Equalization.
The report of the Special Committee on the Superannuated Fund — adopted —
recommended a method to be adopted by the smaller bodies in leveling up. " That
the amount of money invested on the 20th of September, 1883, of the Superannuated
Ministers' Fund shall be the amount to which incoming ministers shall level up."
" Thiit the basis on which the equalization of personal interest in the Book
Koom shall be calculated by the net assets of the Methodist Book and Publishing
House of the Methodist Church of Canada, as shown by the Exhibit of the Book
Committee at the May meeting of 1883, and that the quotient obtained by dividing
this sum, less than 25 per cent., as provided for in the Basis, by the whole number
of ministers of the Methodist Church of Canada, exclusive of superannuates and
supernumeraries, represent the sum that each minister and probationer of the other
contracting bodies be required to pay into the funds of the Publishing House of
the United Church."
Classified Statistics of Membership foe Whole Church.
The Committee on Statistics reported as follows on the number of ministers,
members, property, etc., connected with the four Methodist Churches now entering
into Union.*
Methodist Church of Canada. — Probationers for the ministry at college, 41 ; at
work, 126; effective ministers, 880; superannuated, 134; supernumerary, 35; total
ministers, 1,216. Members on trial, 8,375; full, 120,369 ; total, 128,644.
Methodist Episcc^al Church. — Probationers at college, 7; at work, 24; effective
ministers, 189; superannuated, 35; supernumerary, 4; total, 259. Members on
trial, 1,883 ; full, 23,788 ; total, 25,671.
Priwitive Methodist Church. — Probationers at college, none ; at work, 10 ; effect-
ive mininisters, 64; superannuated, 14 ; supernumerary, 1 ; total, 89. Members on
trial, 1,410; fall, 6,677; total, 8,090.
Bible Christian Church. — Probationers for the ministry at college, 1 ; at work,
10 ; effective ministers, 56 ; superannuated, 11 ; supernumerary, 2 ; total, 79.
Members on trial, 480 ; full, 6,918 ; total, 7,398.
Grand total : Probationers for the ministry at college, 49 ; at work, 170 ; effect-
ive ministers, 1,189; superannuated, 194; supernumerary, 42; total, 1,633. Mem-
bei-s on trial, 12,151 : full, 157,752 ; total, 169,803.
Church Profektt.
Methndia Ch^ivch., value of Church propertv, $6,809,817. Methodist Episcopal.
$1,523,514. Primitive Methodist, $402,266.' Mhle Christian, $395,210. Total
churches, 3,159. Total value of property, $9,130,807.
Sunday-Schools.
Methodist CAtwcA.— Sunday-schools, 1,968 ; teachers, 16,781 ; scholars, 132,320 ;
meeting in class, 17,352; volumes in library, 221,732.
Methodist Episcopal.— ^ahoolB., 432 ; teachers, 3,182 ; number of scholars, 23,968.
P)-imitive Metliodist. — Schools, 152 ; teachers, 1,172; scholars, 9,085.
Bible Christian.— Schools, 150; teachers, 1,299; scholars, 9,699-, meeting in
class, 1,178 ; volumes in library, 17,439.
' Grand totals : Schools, 2,702 ; teachers, 22,434 ; scholars, 175,052.
* For statistics of Missions and statistics of changed Conferences, see piecedlng pages.
268 Methodist Year-Book.
Miscellaneous Resolutions and Orders.
It was ordered that the General Conference Seal bear the words, " The Method-
ish Church, organized in Canada 1883," with the scriptural motto, " Christ, whom
we preach."
It was decided that the date for the United Church to enter on its legal existence
should be not later than the 3d of July, 1884.
All property of the bodies entering the Union shall be held as vested in lie
trustees, or in whosoever holds the titles at present, in trust for the United Church;
that application be made at the next sessions of the Dominion Parliament, and the
several Legislatures, for acts to give effect to the provisions of the report.
A large and influential committee was appointed to secure all necessary legisla-
tion.
When an appropriation is made by the General Board to any department of
work, the Annual Conference shall not be at liberty to divert any part of such
grant to any other department or object.
The consummation of the Union makes the United "Methodist Church" the
strongest Protestant Church in Canada. According to the census returns for 1881,
tlie adherents in the Dominion of the four Methodist Churches were as follows :
Methodist Church of Canada, 582,963; Methodist Episcopal, 103,272; Bible Chris-
tian, 27,236 ; Primitive Methodist, 2.5,680. So that the adherents of the United
Church will number 739,151. The Presbyterian Church stands next with 629,280
adherents, and the Church of England third, with 574,818 adherents. The main
strength of the Methodist Churches is in Ontario, where the adherents of the
United Church number 587,775, being more than the number of adherents of the
Church of England in the whole Dominion.
The General Oonferences of the Methodist Church of Canada,
First General Conference, Toronto, Sept. 16-Oct. 2, 1874.
Delegates elected, 98 ministers, 98 laymen; total, 196. All present, except 7 lay
delegates.
Temporary Chairman, his Honor Judge Samuel A. Wilmot, D.C.L., of New
Brunswick. Permanent Connectional officers were elected as follows :
President of the Conference. — Eev. Egerton Ryerson, D.D., LL.D.
Vice-President. — Eev. George Douglas, LL.D.
Secretary. — Eev. Duncan D. Currie.
Assistant Secretaries. — Eev. William Scott and Benjamin Hopkins, Esq.
Journal Secretary. — Eev. John Bredin.
The " Basis of Union," previously agreed to by the Wesleyan Methodist Church
of Canada, the Wesleyan Methodist Church «of Eastern British America, and the
Methodist New Connection Church of Canada, and in accordance with the provisions
of which representatives had been elected to constitute this General Conference,
was reported, together with the action of the several Annual and Quarterly Confer-
ences of those Churches, and was unanimously adopted ; and all the delegates for-
mally subscribed their names, as assenting to the same, in the Conference Joui'nal.
The members of the General Conference were elected on the plan of one minister
and one layman for every eight members of each Annual Conference, with the pro-
vision that " a fraction of three fourths shall entitle a Conference to an additionid
representation ; provided always that the President of each Annual Conference shall
be one of those elected ; and, also, provided always that the whole number of dele-
gates to the first General Conference shall not exceed 220." The plan provided that
the ministerial members should be elected bv ballot at the Annual Conferences.
Methodist Year-Book. 269
The election of lay members of the General Conference was held under the fol-
lowing provisions :
1. The laymen in each Annual District Meeting next preceding the meeting of the Gen-
eral Conference shalllelect from among the members of our Church, within the bounds
of the District, a representative or representatives to the General Conference ; the num-
ber so elecied to be determined by the number of Church members in the District, as
compared with the entire membership within the bounds of the Annual Conference ;
the whole number not to exceed the number of ministers appointed by such Annual
Conference.
2. The lay members of the District Meeting making such appointments to the General
Conference, shall be elected by ballot by the Quarterly Ofilcial Meeting next preceding.
3. The secretary of each Annual Conference shall compute the number of laymen to be
appointed by each District, in accordance with the principles laid down above, and pub-
lish the same in the Minutes of the Annual Conference next preceding such District ap-
pointment. Each delegate must be not less than 2.5 years of age, and must have been a
member of the Church continuously during the five years next preceding the time of his
election.
Among the visitors to this General Conference were Bishop Jesse T. Peck, D.D.,
LL.D., of the Methodist Episcopal Church of the United States; Kev. Dr. Sargent,
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South ; Eev. Gervase Smith, M.A., fraternal
delegate from the British Conference ; Eev. William H. Cornforth and Rev. T.Bow-
man Stephenson, of the British Conference ; Kev. J. H. Eobinson, of the New Con-
nection Conference in England; Eev. E. Boyle and Eobert Walker, Esq., of the
Primitive Methodist Church in Canada; Bishop Eichardson and Eevs. James Gard-
ner and Michael Benson, of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Canada.
Fraternal Delegates Elected.
To the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States, Eev. John A. Williams,
D.D., and John M'Donakl, Esq.
To the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Eev. George Douglas, LL.D., and
Hon. L. A. Wilniot, D.C.L.
To the Methodist Episcopal Church of Canada, Eev. William Williams and Eev.
Janjes Gray.
To the Primitive Methodist Church of Canada, Eev. Anson Green, D.D., and
Hon. E. Wilkes, M.P.
Connedional Officers Elected.
Rev. Samuel Eose, Book Steward at Toronto.
Eev. A. W. Nicholson, Bofik Steward at Halifox, Editor of the " Wesleyan."
Rev. Enoch Wood, D.D., Senior Missionary Secretary.
Eev. Alexander Sutherland, Missionary Secretary and Treasurer.
John Macdonald, Esq., Missionary Lay Treasurer.
Eev. Edward H. Dewart, Editor of the" "Christian Guardian," Toronto.
Eev. William H. Witiirow, M.A., Assistant Editor of the " Christian Guardian."
A Discipline was prepared by a special committee, and adopted ; and Eev. D. D.
Currie, Eev. William Scott, Eev. Samuel Eose, and Eev. John A. Williams, of the
Standing Committee on the Discipline, were appointed to edit the same. Eevs.
Currie, Scott, and Eose were appointed a committee to edit the General Conference
Journal.
SEcojfD General Conference Session, Montreal, Sept. 4-23, 1878.
Delegates elected, 115 ministt^rs, 115 laymen ; total, 230.
President, — Eev. George Douglas, LL.D.
Vice-President. — Eev. Samuel D. Eice, D.D.
Secretary. — Eev. Alexander Sutherland.
Assistant Secretaries. — David Allison, LL.D., and Judge Jones,
Journal Secretary.— Rev. John Bredin.
270 Methodist Year-Book.
Fraternal Delegates from Other Bodies.
From British Conference, Rev. Samuel Coley.
From Methodist Episcopal Church of the United States, Eev. Samuel F. Upham,
D.D.
Yrom Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Eev. Mr. Kelly, D.D.
From Methodist Episcopal Church of Canada, Kev. Jabez E. Jacques, D.D.,
Ph.D.
Fraternal Delegates to Other Bodies.
To the British Wesloyan Conference, Eev. Samuel Coley.
To the Methodist Episcopal Church of the United States, Eev. E. E. Eyckman,
M.A.
To tiie Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Eev. Howard Sprague, M.A.
To the Methodist Episcopal Church of Canada, Eev. W. S. Blackstock.
Connectional Officers.
Eev. William Brigs^s, Book Steward at Toronto.
Eev. Plumphrey Plclaird, D.D.,* Book Steward at Halifax.
Rev. Alexander Sutherland, Missionary Secretary and Clerical Treasurer.
John Macdonald, Esq., Missionary Lay Treasurer.
Eev. E. H. Dewart, Editor of the" " Christian Guardian."
W. H. Witlirow, M.A., Editor of the " Canadian Monthly Magazine."
Eev. T. Watson Smith,t Editor of the " Wesleyan," Halifax.
It was voted that the ratio of representation in the next General Conference be one
ministerial and one lay delegate for every ten ministers in each Annual Conference.
Kingston was selected as the place for holding the next quadrennial session, but
this was subsequently changed.
Third General Conference Session, Hamilton, Ont., Sep. 6-22, 1882.
Delegates elected, 103 ministers, 103 laymen ; total, 206.
President. — Eev. Samuel Dwight Eice, D.D.
Vice-President. — John A. Williams, D.D.
Secretary.— Y\,B\'. Alexander Sutherlaml, D.D.
Assistant Secretaries. — Eev. E. B. Eyckman, D.D., James R. Inch, LL.D., Rev.
George Cochran, D.D., and Eev. George H. Cornish.
Journal Secretary. — Eev. John Bredin
Fraternal Delegates from Other Bodies.
From Methodist Episcopal Church of the United States, Eev. William S. Studlev,
D.D.
From the Methodist Episcopal Church in Canada, Eev. S. G. Stone, D.D.
Fraternal Delegates to Other Bodies.
To the Bi'itish Wesleyan Conference. Rev. S. D. Rice, D.D.
To the Methodist Episcopal Church of the United States, Eev. S. S. Nelles,
D.D., LL.D.
To the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Eev. William Briggs.
To the Methodist Episcopal Church in Canada, Rev. John Wakefield.
To the I'rimitive Methodist Church in Canada, Rev. John Shaw.
To the Bible Cliristian Church, Eev. William Hansford.
Other Connectional Officers.
Rev. William Briggs, Book Steward for the Western Section.
Rev. E. H. Dewart^ D.D., Editor of the " Christian Guardian."
Rev. Dr. Withrow, Editor of the " Methodist Magazine."
Eev. S. F. Huestis, Book Steward for the Eastern Section,
Eev. T. Watson Smith, Editor of the " Wesleyan," Halifax.
* Rev. "W. H. Heartz was first elected, but resi<rned.
t Eev. A. W. NicholsoD was first elected, but i-esignej.
Methodist Year-Book. 271
Adjourned General Conference, held in Belleville, Aug. 29-Sept. 4, 1883.
The General Conference of the Methodist Church of Canada, under the provision,
named above, of the resolution adopted at the third General Conference held in
Hamilton, in 1882, was opened August 29, 1883, Dr. S. D. Eice presiding, with the
bame associate officers.
The Secretary, Eev. Dr. Sutherland, presented the following report concerning
the " Basis of Union," and the vote thereon :
In accordance with instnictions the committee appointed by this Conference, at
its session in the city of Hamilton, iu Se])tember last, to meet in joint session with
similar committees appointed by the Conferences of the Methodist Episcopal, the
Primitive Methodist, and the Bible Christian Churches, for the purpose of preparing,
if possible, a basis upon which the various Methodist Churches in this Dominion
might form an organic Union, assembled in the city of Toronto, pursuant to ap-
pointment, on the last Tuesday in November, 1882. TJie Joint Conmiittee con-
tinued in session for eight days, and, after careful consideration and an exhaustive
discussion of the more important points involved, an agreement was readied by
votes that were virtually unanimous. The findings of the committee were then
formulated and printed in a document, entitled '• The Proposed Basis ot Union," and
a copy sent to each Circuit Superintendent throughout our Connection, to be laid
before the Quarterly Official Boards for consideration and vote. Copies were also
sent to the Presidents of the Annual Conferences to be laid before these bodies, and
the document was published in the papers of the various Methodist Churches for
the information of the people at large. The official report of the vote in the Quar-
terly Board shows the following result:
Entire number of Boards voting 749
Number voting for the " Basis " 649
Number voting against the " Basis " 90
Number giving a tie-vote 10
Tlie Secretary reported the vote in the several Annual Conferences as follows :
For. Against, Majority for. Majority agr.lnst.
Toronto Conference 137 87 100
London " 88 101 .. 13
Montreal " 6(5 51 15
Nova Scotia " 34 31 3
New Brunswick" 40 28 12
Newfoundland " 26 3 23
Manitoba " 40 . . 40
Total 431 251 193 13
In the evening of the fifth day of the session, namely, Sept. 3, a resolution, for
the " Basis," offered by the Secretary, Dr. Sutherland, and seconded by Dr. Eyck-
man, was adopted by a vote of 123 yeas to 38 nays — more than the three fourths
vote required.
On the sixth day of the session, after adopting a report of General Conference
Fund Committee, (showing that $8,029 would be required to meet the expenses of
the year, recommending that Dr. W. W. Ogden, of Toronto, be appointed Assist-
ant Treasurer of the fund ; and recommending that the expenses of the delegates to
this General Conference be paid before entering the Union ; and that the debt of
the General Conference Fund be divided among the Annual Conferences according
to the membership,) the General Conference adjourned to meet at the call of the
President.
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The British Wesleyan Methodist Conference of 1883.
Held in Hull, July 24 — August 10.
On Tuesday, July 24, the 140t]i Wesleyan Methodist Conference commenced
its pastoral sessions in tiie Great Thornton Street Chapel, Hull, England, Presi-
dent Charles GaiTett in the chair. After religious services, the allocation of
seats was according to seniority. The names of the "Legal Hundred" were read,
and dispensations granted to four absent members. The elections to vacancies in
the " Legal Hundred " took place, and James Donnelly was elected to fill the va-
cancy of James Tobias, deceased. The election of President resulted in the choice
of Rev. Thomas M'Cullagh,* Eev. R. N. Young as Secretary.
Four vacancies declared in the " Legal Hundred " by superannuation were filled
by the choice of Eev. John Egliuton, H. VV. Jackson, B.A., John Martin, W. L.
Watkinson.
An open session was held in the evening, <ind the Irish Conference Deputation,
Dr. W. Crook and Eevs. J. D. Powell and E. Boyd, were introduced, and made
addresses. The French representative, Eev. M. Lelievre, was introduced, after
which, by request, ex-President E. Jenkins spoke. The address of the newly
termed South African Conference was read, and a speech from Eev. John Kiluer
closed the open session.
The second day was occupied in the death roll of the year and considering tho
obituaries.
Immediately after the opening of the third day, 84 ministers received the per-
mission of the Conference to become supernumeraries, and, of the foreign stations,
6 were permitted to retire from full work ; 44 young men were accepted as candi-
dates by the Conference. The ex-President reported that the " Joyful News" had
been so successful that he was authorized to give £50 to the Worn-out Ministers
and Widows' Fund. Ex-President M'Aulay spoke of the demand for district
missionaries, and asked for the appointment of H. P. Hughes, M.A., as a General
Evangelist, which called out a lengthened conversation, and Mr. Hughes expressed
his willingness to serve.
Eev. E. E. Jenkins, M.A., and Eev. C. Osborn were re-appointed General
Secretaries of the Missionary Society for a fourth term of six years. Eev. John
Walton, M.A., was re-appointed President of the South African Conference for
the yeai's 1884-5. Prof. A. J. French was appointed Tutor at Didsbury College
for a further term of six years. Eev. B. Hellier was re-appointed Governor of
Headingley College for a further term of three years, and Eev. J. Hartley was re-
appointed Governor of Birmingham College for a further term of three years. Dr.
G. Osborn was re-appointed Tutor at Eichraond College for another year.
* Eev. Thos. M'CulIag-h, born at New Inn, Galway, Ireland, in 1822 ; converted ami united
with the Wesleyan Church in 1839; was appointed to his first circuit in 1845: was ordained in
1849; during his ministry of 38 ye:irs spent 2 years at Working-ton, 2 at Hexham, 3 at Shotley
Bridg-e, ti in Sheffield, 9 in London, (including 3 years at City Road Chapel.) and 10 in Liv-
erpool. In 1875 he was elected a member of the "Legal Hundred." His election to the Con-
ference Presidency on the tirst ballut was by a vote of 233 in a total of 439. He lias been a
frequent contributor to the magazines and other publications, both in prose and poetry. He
has given two sons to the Wesleyan ministry. Out of 71 ministers who have occupied the
President's chair since the death of Mr. Wesley, 5 have been Irishmen. Of the " Legal Hun-
dred," 10 belong to tho Irish Methodist Conference. The following 6 Irishmen have been
elected to the Presidency: The Itev. Wni. Thompson, (the first President,) the Eev. Dr.
Adam Clarke, the Eev. Henry Moore, the Eev. Walter Griffith, the Eev. Wm. Arthur. M.A.,
and the Eev. Thomas M'Cullairh. No minister belonging to the Irish Conference lias ever
been elected to [ireside over tlie English Conference.
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The reports of tlie Taunton Wcsleyan Collegiate Institution and of Wesley Col-
lege were submitted. A call was submitted for ministers for the South African
Conference, and 2 young men responded ; 8 or 9 were needed. The report of tho
Probationers' E.vamination Committee showed that 42 out of 132 probationers
Lad been excused this year from the examination in Hebrew.
On Saturday, July 28, a letter was read from ex- President Farrar, asking to be
excused from attendance, being in feeble health. He stated he had preached his
trial sermon on Hull Circuit 61 years ago, and had known every President of the
Ci>nference since 1818. Memorials and suggestions were reported by the Commit-
tee, and the Conference considered them. Conference approved the sugges^tion of
First London District to celebrate the Centennial of the Signing of tiie Deed of
Declaration in 1784, and also the fact that Methodism in America was officially or-
ganized the same year. The request of Liverpool, that Kev. Charles Gan-ett be re-
appointed to the Liverpool Lay Mission, was granted. Questions were submitted by
Liverpool and Edinburgh in regard to extendmg the " time limit " of pastoral
service ; the Conference refused to accept the suggestion. A suggestion ti-om Man-
chester relative to the evils of dividing the Home from the missionary students
during their college course was referred to the Missionary and General Institution
Committees, to report upon next Conference. Certain rules in regard to reading
official minutes in the district meetings, on petition from Manchester were considered,
and it was decided to let the rule remain as it is, and that Eev. lilr. Bush prepare
a paper and submit it to a committee that is to report next year. Attention was
called by Manchester to the great losses in the number of members as repoi-ted in
column " Ceased to Meet," and recommends the practice which the Conference
recommended in 1878 of the public recognition of members admitted into society.
It was decided to insert a paragraph in the Piistoral Address, calling attention to
the recommendation of the Conference of 1878. Conference agreed to the sugges-
tion from York that the rule, that ministers elected to the Conference in its mixed
sessions be selected from those who have permission to attend the Pastoral Con-
ference, be so modified that representatives may be elected either from the first or
the second list.
A deputation of the clergy of the Church of England, of Hull, was received by
the Conference, and, after the reading of their address by Kev. Joseph M'Cormick,
the President and Dr. W. B. Pope made responsive addresses.
The ex-President's (Eev. Charles Garrett) official sermon was delivered in Great
Thornton Chapel Sunday morning.
Tuesday morning, the 31st, after some routine business, the convei-sation on the
State of the Work of God was opened by ex-President Gariett, followed by Eevs.
Hellier, Willis, Dilks, Champness, Bowden, Starr, Barnley, Gibson, Lewis, Smart,
and Jenkins. At noon a deputation of Non-conformist ministers visited the Con-
ference, and presented an address signed by thirty-two ministers. The address
was read by Eev. J. Sibree, and addresses were made by Eevs. J. O'Dell and
W. Scott, to which President M'Cullagh and Kev. F. W. Macdonald responded.
Kev. J. Waugh was appointed a Connectional E\ angelist. Shorth' after the open-
ing of Wednesday's service Rev. John Bond, who was Secretary of the first division
at the Ecumenical Conference, brought forward a notice of motion that the Confer-
ence should take steps toward promoting the interchange of representatives of the
various Methodist bodies, who formed the Ecumenical Conference, at their Confer-
ences, and that they should take their places on the platform, as the representatives
of the Methodist Episcopal Church do now. A section of each of the candidates for
the ministry were examined in Coltman Street Chapel, Beverly Kond Chapel, and
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George Yard Chapel, when each one gave an account of his conversion and c.U to
the ministry.
At tlie open session the 67 candidates for ordination were examined before tlie
Conference, viva voce, in theology, by Eev. F.W. Macdonald, and the ordination took
place, on the following day, at Kingston Chapel, the President conducting the serv-
ice, and was assisted in the imposition of hands and in tlie administration of the
Lord's Supper to the candidates by Revs, the ex-President, tlie Secretary, Dr. Osborn,
A. M'Aulay, B. Gregory, E. E. Jenkins, Dr. W. Crook, \V. Jackson, S. Davis, B.
Hellier, D. Sanderson, S. Hartley, J. V. B. Shrewsbury, and F. W. Briggs. Ex-Prcs-
ident Garrett delivered the charge. In the afternoon the election of the Chanmen
and Secretaries of the thirty-five districts took place.
The Committee on Allocation of Ministers to attend the ensuing Conference at Burs-
lem reported that the number of ministers to be provided for is 400, exclusive of the
ministers resident within the Macclesfield District, in which the seat of the Confer-
ence is located.
It was stated that there were 44 men on the President's List of Ee«erves, and 33
who had completed their third year, making 77 men available for work in circuits.
Eev. Samuel Wesley was permitted to become a supernumerary. Book affairs were
considered, and it was reported that the book of the revised Liturgy and the Book
of OflSces had been published. Eev. T. Woolmer, Book Steward, reported the
number of new books published, and, on motion of the Book Steward, the following
grants from the Book Eoora were agreed to : Annuitant Society, £3,000 ; Auxiliary
Fund, £500 ; Home Mission Fund, £500 ; Ireland, £300. The scheme, as proposed by
the Missionary Committee, for the proposed West Indian Conferences was laid on
the table for action at a future Conference. The Foreign and Home Missionary
Deputations to Districts were announced. Action was taken reaffirming the con-
demnation of the opium traffic.
Saturday, the 4th, the closing services of the Pastoral Conference took place. A
vacancy liaving occurred, Eev. A Ward was elected, by seniority, a member of the
Legal Hundred. The Conference Journal, containing the proceedings of the Pivs-
toral Conference, was signed by the President and Secretary, the whole Conference
standing. After closing remarks by the President and devotional exercises, and
benediction by the President, the Conference adjourned, to meet at Bui'slem, com-
mencing on July 22, 1884, at 9:30 o'clock A. M.
On Sunday, August 5, the President, Eev. Thomas M'Cullagh, preached the of-
ficial sermon, according to usage. Monday morning the representative sessions of
the Mixed Conference commenced. The roll showed a full attendance, with very
few exceptions. After the President's inaugural address the report, in totals, of
the Home Mission work was presented— receipts, £34,456 19s.; expenditures, £34,946
Ss. Sf/.— followed by arranging for work in certain sections.
The report of the District Sustentation Fund was read, which was started in 1874,
for the purpose of securing to every married and to every single minister a minimum
stipend of £150 and £80 respectively. During the nine years the sum of £40,607 19.1.
was paid out. Chapel affairs were considered, and the report showed the followinar :
Income the first year, £9,369 14s. M. ; number of separate trusts, 7,155 ; the debt,
etc., on these loans, £988,666; number of trusts free from debt, 4,098; total income
from the 7,155 trusts was £452,953, and the total expenditure, £449,389 ; 3,192
trusts contribute to circuit funds, £46,843 ; grants to the amount of £3,507 have
been made, and £6,333 has been advanced on loans to 25 chapels ; £367,238 has
been expended on new erections and in reduction of debt during the year. During
the past twenty-five years Jive millions o/ money have been expended on new ereo-
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tions, without additionfil debt to the Connection, and during the past year 118
chapels, 14 ministers' houses, 16 school-rooms, 88 alterations and enlargements, and
30 organs, have been erected and completed, at a cost of £331,992.
The report on Epworth Memorial Chapel was made, showing that £1,700 had
been received by the ex-President, and, with the £1,000 guaranteed by that circuit,
they liad now £2,700. The matter was Icfl in the hands of the ex-President to
complete.
Tuesday morning Rev. W. Arthur, M.A., attended the Conference, and was wel-
comed. A conversation on the State of the Work of God took place, Kev. II. P.
Hughes opening with stirring words, closing with a touching address from ex-
President Osborn.
In the diseu:<sion of the Extension of Methodism in Great Britain it was stated
that great difficulty sometimes occurred in securing sites for chapels from landlords,
and that an effort w'oiild be made to get Parliament to grant relief, as they did rail-
road and gas companies. Resolutions were adopted to establish a fund for the ex-
tension of Methodism in South Wales and Monmouthshire. Action was taken that
no grant or loan shall be made from the Extension Fund and the Metropolitan
Chapel Building Fund to any one case without the special vote of the Conference.
The report of the Theological Institution showed — income, £10,72C ; expendi-
tures, £10,220.
The Schools' Fund and Auxiliary Fund were considered, and the report of the
Sunday-School Union and Children's Home and Orphanage. Eev. Dr. Stephenson
was re-appointed Principal of both institutions. Immediately after the Thursday
session opened it was stated that the " London Quarterly Review" would be pub-
lished at a lower price, and that Rev. Drs. Pope and Eigg will be the editors.
The report on Leys School represented that £13,000, of the £20,000 required by
the governing body, had been secured. The attendance had reached 155 students.
Favorable reports were presented on middle-class education.
The Foreign Mission work, in a summarized form, was presented by the Senior
Missionary Secretary. Rev. Dr. Rigg was appointed one of the General Treasurers,
the Rev. John Kilner, Deputy Treasurer, and, by request of the General Com-
mittee, Sir Wm. M' Arthur was appointed Lay Treasurer, of the society. Action
was taken that efforts should be early put forth to increase the ordinary animal in-
come of the Foreign Missionary Society at least £20,000. November 11 was set
apart as a day of intercession in behalf of Foreign Missions. The report on Tem-
perance was to the effect that 30 districts have 2,644 Bauds of Hope, with 271,700
enrolled members; temperance societies, 321, with 28.414 enrolled members — an in-
crease during the past year of 144 societies and 17,502 members. Under the hn-
pulse of the President a gigantic petition, in favor of Sunday-closing in England, wa-*
presented to the House of Commons, with 596,877 signatures. The same disposition
of the scheme of the "West Indian Conference, and in regard to the Second Ecumen-
ical Conference, was made as in the Pastoral Conference.
Friday, 10th and closing session, referred to educational matters and auditiii'^
fund and committee accounts, etc., the President closing with an address ; and,
after singing, and prayer by Rev. E. Green, he pronounced the benediction, and
the Conference closed at noon.
CoNNECTiONAL Officers of the British "Wesleyan Conference, 1883-4.
Cnnffr&nce Office., Beni. Gregory, Editor; Theophilus Woolmer, Book Steward.
Missionary tiociety, John Kilner, Ebenezer E. Jenkins, M.A., Marmaduke C.
Osborn, George W. Olver, B.A., General Secretaries; William Arthur, M.A., lion-
276 Methodist Year-Book.
orary Secretary. Alexander F. Barley is under the direction of the Missionary
Committee.
Chinese Jlission, George Piercy, who shall act under the direction of the Foreign
Missionary Committee.
Nome Missions, Alexander M'Aulay, General Secretary ; John W. Greeves, Fi-
nancial Secretary ; Thomas Cook, Thomas Waugh, wiio shall act under the du'ee-
tion of the Home Mission Committee.
Metropolitan Chapel Building Committee, John Bond, Secretary to the Fund,
who shall also act as Secretary to the Metropolitan Lay Mission.
Wesleyan Chapel Committee, Henry J. Pope, General Secretary, (Mancliester.)
Extension of Methodism in Great Britain, Joseph Hargreaves, supernumerary,
Secretary to the Fund.
Education Department, David J. Waller, (Westminster Training College,) Secre-
tary of tlie Committee; Charles II. Kelly, Secretary of the Connection Sunday-
School Union.
Theological Institution : Richmond Branch, George Osborn, D.D., Theological
Tutor; Daniel Sanderson, Governor of the Institution House; W. Theophilus Da-
vison, M.A., Classical Tutor; William T. A. Barber, M.A., Assistant Tutor.
Theological Institution: Didshury Branch, William Jackson, (a,) Governor of
the Institution House. Tutors — William Burt Pope, D.D., Theology ; Alfred J.
French, B.A., Mathematics and Philosophy. Frederick L. Wiseman, B.A., Alfred
S. Geden, M.A., Assistant Tutors; John Dury Geden, supernumerary.
Wesleijan Theological Institution : Headiiujley Branch, Benjamin Hellier, Gov-
ernor of the Institution House ; John S. Banks, Theological Tutor ; George G. Find-
lay, B.A., Classical Tutor; Francis J. Nance, M. A., Assistant Tutor.
Tnstituti
tor
Assistant Tutor.
Normal Institution : Westminster Branch, James H. Eigg, D.D., Principal. Bat-
ter sea Branch, George O. Bate, Principal.
The Leys School, William F. Moulton, D.D., President.
The Children'' s Home, T. Bowman Stephenson, LL.D., Principal.
New Kingsivood School, Jnhn H Lord, Governor and Chaplain.
Wesleyan College, William P. Slater, Governor and Chaplain.
Editor and Book Steward, Samuel Davies, at Bangor, Noith Wales District.
Dr. M Hilton and Messrs. G. O. Bate and G. A. Bennetts, B.A., were appointed
General Examination Secretaries.
Additional Conference Appointments and Deputations.
The President, or in his absence any of the following, were appointed to preside
over the Irish Conference: Dr. Crook, (nominated by the Irish Conference,) Dr.
Osborn, Rev. E. E. Jenkins, M.A. Kevs. W. Hirst and D. J. Waller were appoint-
ed to accompany the President to Ireland.
The President was appointed to visit Scotland, and Eevs. M. C. Osborn and F.
Kellett to accompany him.
Kev. A. M'Aulay'was appointed to attend the financial meeting of the Norwich
and Lynn District.
Rev. J. W. Greeves to attend the financial meeting of the South Wales District.
Eevs. R. Roberts and J. W. Greeves the North Wales District Committee.
The President to attend the annual meeting of the South Wales District Commit-
tee, and Eev. G. Bowden to accompany him.
The ex-President to visit the Isle of Man.
Rev. W. Cornforth to be President of the next French Conference.
Mr. J. Walton to be the President of the South African Conference,
Foreign and Home Missionary Deputations were appointed to the various Dis-
tricts, except the three London Districts, which were to select their own missionary
deputations.
The Rev. E. Lightwood was re-appointed the Secretary of the Book Committee,
and the Rev. G. Stringer Rowe was appointed Secretary to the Tract Committee.
Methodist Year-Book. 277
Beitish Wesleyan Conference Statistics- Suhmakies,
Compiled from OfBcial Returns for 18S3.
Number of circuits having increase during the year 535
Kumber of circuits having decrease during the year 177
Whole number of circuits, August 1, 18S3 712
Total increase of members in 535 circuits. 17,893
Total decrease of members in 177 circuits 4,561
Total net increase during the year 13,3:52
Kumber of junior society classes 2.334
Number of junior society class-leaders 2,325
Kumber of junior society class-members 38,145
Increase in junior class-members over the number in 1882 5,728
Kumber of members on trial tor Church membership 34,391)
Decrease of members on trial at close of year ti,254
Kew full members received during the year 60,(506
Membere received from other circuits ] 0,525
Members removed to other circuits 24,802
Deaths of members during year 5,135
Ceased to meet in class during the year 27,710
Number of society classes ._....' 26,473
Average number of members to each society class 15
Total number of society and junior classes 28,807
Kuml)er of ministerial leaders of society classes 1,163
Kumber ot lay leaders of society classes 24,045
Number of accredited local preachera 14,l!s3
Kumber of Conference ministers 1,917
Whole number of Conference ministers and local preachers 16,100
Whole number of accredited full lay members 407,085
Number of members on trial for full membersliip 34,399
N umber of full members and members on trial 441 ,484
Net increase of full members dui'ing the year 13,331
[Note. — The above figures are for the Home Work, and do not embrace the nu-
merical returns from Ireland or from the Foreign Missions. The number of Uiem-
bers is the largest ever reported in the history of the Connection.]
The BRmsH Wesletan Conference of 1883.
The list of members appointed to attend the Conference during its Representative
Session embraced 240 Ministei-s and 240 Laymen, namely :
Miuisters.
Ministers of the Legal Hundred supposed to be able to attend 85
Assistant Secretaries not members of Legal Conference 2
Representatives of Departments not members of Legal Conference. .. 8
Chairmen of Districts not membere of Legal Conference 18
Lay Treasurers of Connectional Funds 13
Lay Treasurers elected by the Conference 18
Ministers allocated to the districts for election 127
Laymen allocated to the districts for election 209
Total 480
The following gentlemen were the Lay Representatives elected by the Conference
to attend in 18S3, being one eighth of the entire number of Lay Representatives, in-
cluding the General Lay Treasurers of Connectional Funds, who are Representatives
es. opicio :
Mr. James S. Budgett, General Treasurer of the Missionary Society.
Mr. Thomas C. Squance, General Treasurer of the Schools' Fund.
Mr. Richard Haworth and Mr. William Tunstill, Treasurers of the General
Chapel Fund.
Mr. Alderman M' Arthur, M.P., and Mr. S. D. Waddy, Q.C., Treasurers of tha
Metropolitan Chapel Building Fund.
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Mr. William Mewburn, General Treasurer of the Cliilclren's Fund.
Mr. John Vanner, Treasurer of the Home Mission and Contingent Fund.
Mr. Henry Mitchell, General Treasurer of the Theoloirical Institution Fund.
Mr. Frederick Howard and Mr. William Vanner, Treasurers of the Education
Fund.
Mr. John Napier, General Treasurer of the Au.xiliary Fund.
Mr. Ale.xander M' Arthur, M.P., Treasurer of the Fund for the Extension of
Methodism.
Mr. James E. Vanner,
" James Wood,
Sir James Falshaw, Bart.
Mr. George Lidgett,
" John Dyson,
" Thomas W. Pocock,
" Henry J. Atkinson,
" William Hunt,
" John H. Mason,
Mr. John E. Hill,
" John Dingley,
" Heury B. Hariison,
" Thomas G. Osborn,
" W. Shep. Allen, M.P.,
'' W. Farrar Smith,
" J. Wesley Lewis,
" Isaac Holden, M.P.,
" Joseph Edge.
British Wesleyan Publishing Depaetmen-t foe 1883.
The Report of Eev. T. Woolmer, Conference Book Steward, that the Book Room
sales during the past year had been very much above the yearly average, and the
profits were sufficient to allow the customary grants to the funds, namely : £3,000
to the Annuitant Fund, £&00 to the Home Missions, £500 to the Au.xiliary Fund,
and £300 to Ireland. The proposal to recommend these grants to the Conference is
first laid before the Finance Committee, who receive a monthly statement of the
sales of the Book Room, with the receipts and expenditures of the month, and report
them to the Book Committee. The large discounts which are now universally ex-
pected by customers, together with the aemand for cheap publications and the new
postal arrangements which will shortly come into operation, will make it increas-
ingly difficult hereafter to realize sufficient profit to warrant these grants, and they
can only be continued b}'' a further development of the business of the Book Room,
and by the active co-operation of the ministry. Great encouragement had been
given by the brethren in circuits who send their monthly orders, many of whom
take a very lively interest in the circulation of the books and periodicals, and use
their personal influence in persuading others to them. One superintendent minis-
ter who had been in correspondence with the Book Room for many years, and is
one of its warmest supporters, had increased the number of subscribers to the Mag-
azine in his present circuit — a country circuit — from 39 to 83, and a similar success
attended his efforts in former circuits. If this was a general experience, it would
not only be a great advantage to the Book Room, but a real blessing to many thou-
sands of people.
Number of new books published since the last Conference, 54; number of new
editions, 62; making a total of 116, exclusive of 78 new tracts, and a very large
number of reprints of tracts.
Among the new publications special attention was called to the " Book of Public
Prayers " and the new " Book of Offices," published by direction of the Conference.
A series of Devotional Manuals of a highly-spiritual character, and intended for
the more private use of Christian people, has been commenced ; and it is hoped that
the demand for them will correspond with their worth and excellence.
The number of publications issued by the Book Room was 1,707,000, being an in-
crease on the year of 30,000; 6,156,263 tracts, an increase of 156,436; 216,456 Wes-
levan hymn books ; 224,175 Wesleyan Sunday-school hymn books ; 26,622 Meth-
odist scholars' hymn books ; 251,700 hymns for mission services ; 23,331 tune books ;
186,600 revised Catechisins. Only 7 copies of the large edition of Mr. Wesley's
Works had been sold during the year, and 22 copies of the smaller edition ; 267 of
Mr. Wesley's Sermons in 2 volumes, and 324 in 1 volume, and 39 in 3 volumes ; 345
of Mr. Wesley's Notes, pocket edition, and 265 of the cheap octavo edition. A large
number of volumes of the Family Library had been purchased by the Salvation
Army.
Methodist Year-Book. 279
Order and Form of Business of the British Wesleyan Conference.
The British Wesleyaii Conference adopted the following Order and Form of Busi-
ness for the conduct of the Conference, subject to sucli modifications as may be
found to be necessary or convenient :
I.
Previously to each Conference the Stationing Committee shall prepare and issue
the first draft of the stations of ministers.
II.
The business of the Conference, when composed of ministers only, includes the
following subjects :
1. The formal constitution of the Legal Conference :
1.) Calling the KoU of the Legal Conference, and granting dispensations to ab-
sentees.
2.) Declaration of vacancies in the Legal Conference, caused by death or by
absence for two successive years without a dispensation, and filling up of
the same.
3.) Election of President.
4.) Election of Secretary.
5.) Declarationof vacancies in the Legal Conference caused by superannuation,
and filling up of the same.
2. Thanks to the retiring President and Secretary, and to other officers of the
Conference.
3. Appointment of, 1.) Assistant Secretaries; 2.) Official Letter-writers.
4. Appointment of hours of Conference sessions. N. B. — The Conference prayer-
meeting IS to be held during the first day of the Conference, at a convenient hour.
5. Eeceptiou of representatives from other Conferences; reading of addresses;
and appointment of committees to draft replies.
6. Presentation of memorials ; reading suggestions from District Committees ;
and appointment of Committee on Memorials and Suggestions.
7. Appointment of committees, 1.) On appeals and other cases ; 2.) To report on
chapel cases which aSect discipline ; 3.) To revise the draft of the Pastoral Ad-
dress.
8. Presentation of any documents which are, or may be, legally required to be
forthcoming at the Conference.
9. Time and place for holding the next Conference.
10. Appointment of a Conference Allocation Committee ; to report upon, 1.) The
number of ministers from each district who may attend the Conference when min-
isters only are present; and, 2.) The number of ministers from each district who
may attend the Conference when ministers and laymen are present.
11. Notice of motion. (These should be presented not later than the second day
of the Conference ; but such notices may be given subsequently, if occasion arise.
No motion, on any subject not before the Conference in the ordinary comse of its
business, can be considered until after twenty-four hours' notice thereof has been
given.)
12. Deaths of ministers and preachers on trial, 1.) In Great Britain; 2.) In Ire-
land; 3.) In other Foreign Missions.
13. Questions aflecting the character of ministers and preachers on trial.
14. Supernumeraries: (a) Ministers becoming supernumeraries ; (6) Ministers re-
tiring for one year; a committee on such cases to be appointed; (c) Supernume-
raries returning to the full work.
15. List of preachers to be admitted into Full Connection.
16. Probationers. 1.) Remaining on trial ; 2.) Now received on trial.
17. Candidates tor the ministry now recognized: 1.) Candidates on the Presi-
dent's List of Reserves ; 2.) Students in the Theological Institution ; 3.) Candidates
now received. N.B. A Candidates' Allocation Committee to be appointed.
18. Alterations and divisions of circuits, against which there is no appeal ; and
proposals for the increase or diminution of the number of ministers in any circuit,
which have received the sanction of the Home Mission Committee.
19. Alterations and divisions of districts, against which there is no appeal.
20. Appointment of ministers to depaitniental offices.
280 Methodist Year-Book.
21. Such reports of committees as are necessary for the business of the Stationing
Committee, including the report of the " Connnittee on Appeals and other Case.s."
22. Keport of the Candidates' Allocation Committee.
23. Keport of the number of members in society.
24. Conversation on the State of tlie Work of God.
25. Beading and adoption of the Pastoral Address of the Conference to the Societies.
26. TJieological examination of candidates for ordination, and their admission into
full connection.
27. Consideration of the stations of ministers and preachers on trial.
28. Ordination service.
29. Election of Chairmen of Districts, and of Financial Secretaries.
30. Keport of the Committee on Memorials and Suggestions.
SI. Keport of the Book Connnittee, and supervision of Connectional literature.
32. Pastoral reports (schools.)
33. General report upon the examination of preachers on trial. _
84. Arrangements for the examination of candidates for the ministry.
85. Adoption of replies to addresses of other Conferences.
36. Appointment of Missionary deputations : 1.) Home; 2.) Foreign.
37. Official appointments ; deputations and delegations.
38. Report of the Conference Allocation Committee.
39. Appointment of such ministers to attend the next Conference, when laymen
are present, as, in the judgment of the Conference, may be necessary for the ade-
quate representation of Connectional departments.
40. Revision and confirmation of stations.
41. Reports of special committees appointed by the preceding Conference.
42. Consideration of motions, on which due notice has been given, on subjecta
not previously disposed of.
43. Presentation and recording of the acts of our delegate in Ireland.
44. Miscellaneous business.
N. B. For British Wesleyan statistics of 1883 see subsequent page.
Missionary Anniversaries and other Missionary Meetings in Great
Britain, 1883.
British "Wesleyan Missionary Society — Foreign
Anniversary exercises of the Britisli Wesleyan Missionary Society commenced
April 25, at City Road Chapel, with a sermon by Eev. Luke Tyernian. The next
morning President Garrett preached in the same church, and on Friday afternoon
Dr. Joseph Parker, of the City Temple, delivered a sermon in Great Queen Street
Wesleyan Methodist Church. Sunday, 29th, 123 churches were occupied in tlie
First, Second, and Third London Circuits, at which 265 separate sermons and serv-
ices were held. On the Saturday morning previous a special prayer-meeting was
held in City Road Chapel at 7 o'clock, Rev. W. Williams presiding, and at 9 o'clock
the same morning the Missionary Breakfast Meeting took place at Exeter Hall, J.
T. Warrington, Esq., of Liverpool, chairman. The annual meeting was held in
Exeter Hall, Monday, 11 A.M., April 30, Isaac Holden, Esq., M. P., of Oakworth,
presiding. Distinguished ministers and returned missionaries participated in these
services of the anniversary. The series of meetings closed Monday evening, April
30, with a Missionary Love-Feast in City Road Chapel. Financial statement: in-
come, £169,361 0«. 3(7. ; expenditure, (including deht,) £169,446 ; deficiency, £85
Is. del.
British Wesleyan Home Missionary Anniversary.
The Wesleyan Annual Meeting of Home Missions was held in City Road Chapel,
May 8. Mr. Thoma.s Barnsley presided. The Annual Report showed the income
Methodist Year-Book. 281
of the Fund was £34,408 12s. 6(^. last year. Eev. Thomas Cook, General Evangel-
ist, s-tated that, at the special services hold in different places, 8,700 persons, above
the age of 14, had been helped in the inquiry-room, and these, with a large number
of children, chiefly between the ages of 10 and 14, make upward of 5,000 who have
shown a desire to flee from the wrath to come. Much had been accomplished
tlirough this agency in the Army and Navy, and in the Seamen's Mission. Ad-
dresses were delivered by the Chairman, Eev. D. J. Waller, Mr. W. R. Owen, Kev,
Jabez Parkyu, and Eev. Charles Garrett, President of the Conference.
Pkimitive Methodist Missionary Anniveusaet.
The Primitive Methodist Missionary Anniversary was preceded by the Breakfast
Meeting in the City Temple, May 1, Jonah Goodman, Esq., a wealthy Cougre-
gationalist, presiding. Eev. W. Cutts, General Missionary Secretary, read the
Annual Eeport. Since the organization of the society, forty years ago, 50 missions
have been made into circuits, and it was proposed to turn 7 missions into inde-
pendent stations this year ; this would make 49 missions in the United Kingdom,
with 63 missionai'ies. Eev. E. Cheesman, in giving a financial statement, stated
that the Connectional advance was 4,844, that the net increase in the Home Mis-
sions wa.s 202, and in no district had there been a decrease. The Annual Meeting
took place in the evening, in the Metropolitan Tabernacle, (Mr. Spurgeon's,)
Arthur Pease, Esq., M.P., presiding. The Eeport of the General Treasurer, Eev.
"W. Cutts, showed 56 Home stations were under the care of the committee ; Colonial,
178 ; and Foreign, 4. Number of missionaries : Home, 79 ; Colonial, 217 ; Foreign, 6.
Whole amount ot missionary money raised in the past year was £20,105 5s. IIJ.
The Missions have themselves raised, in addition to this, for their own mainte-
nance, £16,760 lis. 5d
Bible Christian Missionary Public Meeting.
On May 21 a public meeting of the Bible Christian Church was held, in the intei--
ests of Missions, Mr. H. M. Bompas, Q.C., in the chair. According to the report
presented of the work there were 39 mission stations in England, and 44 in other
countries ; missionaries employed, 180 ; lay preachers, 865 ; chapels, 534 ; othur
preaching-places, loO ; teachers in Sunday-schools, 4,328 ; scholars, 29,307 ; total
receipts, £11,111. Addresses were delivered by the Chairman, Eev. W. B. Lark,
President of the Conference, and Eev. John Kilner. Secretary of the Wesleyan Mis-
sionary Society.
United Methodist Free Churches.
The Annual Meeting of the Home and Foreign Mission work was held April 21,
1888, in E.'ceter Hall, Captain King presiding. Eeport of the foreign work was
read, as follows: Missionaries, 53 ; members, 7,845 ; Sunday-school scholars, 8,128.
Home Missions, as follows : Stations, 22 ; members, 1,353 ; Sunday-school scholars,
4,009. Total receipts, £17,000 6s. l\d. ; expenditures, £18,612 15s. 4(1., leaving a
deficiency of £1,601 8s. 5d. Addresses were delivered by the Eev. Arthur Hand}',
President of the Association, Mr. J. II. Crossfield, and Eev. J. Wray.
282 Methodist Year-Book.
Britisli Wesleyan Metropolitan Chapel Pund.
The Annual Meeting of the Wesleyan Metropolitan Chapel Building Fund was
held, May 2, in City Eoad Chapel, Mr. Isaiic Holden, M.P., in the chair. Eev.
John Bond, Secretary, read the report : Income of the ordinary Fund for the year,
£1,566 16*. Id. ; from the Provincial E^und, £1,479. The executors of the estate of
the late Sir Francis Lycett have paid on account of the remaider of his gift of
£50,000 the sum of £3,076 18s. 8d. Funds from other sources leaving balance on
hand of £11,464 15s. 4d. Six chapels have been opened during the year. The
retrospect of the Fund shows the following facts : 1. There were only 10 large
chapels, accommodating 1,000 persons and upward, in London, when this Fund
was commenced in 1861. Since then 64 such chapels have been erected with the
assistance ot this Fund, and 9 sites for similar chapels have been founded, and are
now awaiting the erections intended. 2. Toward these chapels and sites the Fund
has contributed, in grants and loans, not less than £150,000. 3. Omitting details,
the average attendance at these 64 chapels is fixed at 36,586, and the numljer of
Chiu'ch members over 10,000, with gifts and contributions reaching £20,462 bs. 2d.
Methodist New Connection Conference, 1883.
The 87th Annual Session was held in Sheffield, England. Eev. T. Rider was
elected President, Alderman Eamsden, Secretary; Rev. W. Longbalton, ex-Presi-
dent. The Confereufe comprised 165 members, with almost an equal number of
ministers and laymen. Each circuit sends one layman and one minister. At the
regular opening of the business of the Conference its legal status was completed by
the election, as guardian representative, of George Ridgway, J. P., of Staffordshire.
New circuits were organized, and the cases of ministerial candidates considered, after
which debate occurred on the question of continuing the Australasian Mission Work,
which it was voted to continue mainly through the agencies of the Churches there.
The statistics of 1883 show 514 chapels, 188 itinerant preachers, 1,271 local
preachers, 29,299 members.
Primitive Methodist Conference, 1883.
The Annual Conference opened June 13 at South Shields, England, Rev.
Joseph Wood, M.A., presiding. The election of President resulted in the choice
of Eev. W. Cutts, General Missionary Secretary, London, which office he had held
for five years. Rev. John Atkinson, of Stockton, was elected his successor. The
reports showed th:it all districts and circuits had reported an increase.
The report of the Superannuated Preachers, Widows, and Orphans' Fund : Total
income, £6,639 ; expenditure, £6,629 18s. 4d. ; number of annuits, 156 ; ministers'
widows, 103; and orphans, 8. Eleven applications to be placed on the superan-
nuated list, nine of which were granted. Twenty-nine had completed four years'
proliation, and were placed on the list of approved ministers. Quite a number of
ministers were allowed to retire from active work. One day was devoted to forin-
inc; new circuits and fixing first draft of stationed ministers, and various other Con-
nectional business occupied Monday and subsequently. The report of Book Stew-
ard showed that 15,000 copies of Revival Hymn Book" had been sold.
Thos. Fairley, a deed-poll member, had died, and Thos. Tiplady, sixty years a
member, was elected in his place. Five preachers had died during the year ; nine,
ranging from thirty to forty-seven years' itinerance, became supernumeraries ;
Methodist Year-Book. 283
twenty-eight young men were recommended for college training ; one of the col-
leges closed last year is to be re-opeiicd.
Statistics reported: Members, 19G,4S0, (increase, 5,151 ;) traveling preachers,
1,147; local preachers, 15,982; leaders, 10,994; preaching places, 6,249; Sabbath-
schools, 4,184 ; teachers, 61,215 ; scholars, 400,597. Value of Church property,
£2,812,263.
The membei-ship of the British Primitive Methodist Connection increased 50,144
during the last twenty years — an average increase of 2,507 per year. From 1862
to 1872 tlie increase was 20,279 ; from 1872 to 1882 the increase was 29,865. The
average increase for the tirst of these decades was about 2,000 a year, for the second
it was about 3,000 a year, which shows a steady growth and healthy development.
During the same twenty years ministers have increased 376, an average of 18 a
year ; lay preachers, 3,314, an average of 165 a year; class-leaders, 2,521, an aver-
age of 126 a year; Sunday-schools, 1,S34, avei-aging nearly 92 a year; teachers,
25,514, making an average addition of 1,275 a year; scholars increased 205,181, au
average of 10,259 a year.
The Sunday-school Annual Eeport for 1883 shows that in the home districts the
Connection has 3,682 schools, the increase for the year being 8. The teachers
number 57,148, being an increase of 811. The scholars are 369,522, which shows
an increase of 4,930. Of the scholars 28,291 are meeting in the class, and 76,982
are Band of Hope members. Tlie schools have an income of £52,236.
In 1872 there were 2,803 Counectional chapels; in 1882 there were 4,161, an in-
crease for the ten years of 1,358, being more than.135 a year on an average. Daring
the last ten years the Connection has spent in building and improving chapels
£1,142,68-!, an average for each year of £114,268. Of this sum £652,503 have been
raised and paid, and the remainder, £490,185, added to the consolidated debt upon
the Connectional property. The income of the chapels during the same period ad-
vanced from £148,054 a year to £269,508; while additional aecommoJation was pro-
vided for 203,704 worshipers, and the number of hearers at the principal services
advanced from 427,473 to 576,644.
These figures — collected from carefully prepared statistics — furnish abundant
evidence that the denomination is making substantial and steady progress in all
departments.
Annual Assembly of the United Methodist Free Churches.
The 47th Annual Session was held in Rochdale, England, July 31-Aug. — , 1RR3.
Mr. H. T. Mawson, a layman, was elected President by a vote of 104, agait;st 101
for his ministerial competitor, Eev. E. Askew. lie is the fourth layman who has
filled the presidency since the organization of the body in 1836. E.x-President,
Eev. H. Hand. Connectional Secretaries, Rev. Edwin Askew and Mr. Thomas
Watson, J. P. Corresponding Secretary, Eev. Thomas Sherwood.
The Stationing Committee consisted of 8 members appointed by the Committee,
and 13 members elected by the ballot of the assembly.
Among the special features was the receipts of the celebration of the " silver
wedding" of the body. The reports showed that £13,236 12s. was promised, and
it was proposed to make it £25,000 or £30,000. Tiiis sum, when secured, was to
be apportioned among the various Connectional interests.
The death of Eev. Wm. Griffiths was reported, and a resolution, setting forth the
high esteem in which he was held, passed unanimously. A number were nnida
Bupernumeraries, and 23 young men received into full connection.
284 Methodist Year-Book.
The profits of the Book Eoom were £941. The sum of £1,000 was ordered to be
distributed as follows : Superannuation Fund, £500 ; Chapel Relief, £200 ; Theoloi^-
ical Institute, £150 ; incidental expense fund, £100 ; books for probationers, £50. The
treasurer of the Missionary Society reported the income, £17,691, aud expenditures,
£19,277 ; balance on hand, about £600. Action was taken toward a new hyinn
book, with instructions that the committee consider the expediency and practica-
bility of adopting the Wesleyan Hymn Book with a Free Methodist title-pacre.
Rev. R. Abercrombie, M.A., was elected Connectional Editor for a term of three
years, and Rev. A. Crombie as Book Steward for sLx years.
Statistics.
The official statistics of this branch of English Methodism, as contained in the
printed Minutes published in September, 1883, gave the following summaries:
Itinerant preachers, 391 ; supernumeraries, 40 ; local preachers, 3,417 ; class-leadt-rs,
4,128; Church members, 75,577 (increase, 1,435;) probationer, 8,575; removals,
4,330; withdrawals, 3,952; deaths, 1,228; chapels, 1,357; other preaching places,
203; Sunday-schools, 1,352; Sunday scholars, 195,681; Sunday-school teachei-s,
26,851 ; scholars who are members of the Church, 10,965. Of the above member-
ship, 8,049 belong to the colonial and foreign districts.
List of British Wesleyan Conference Ministers wlio Died during tlie year
ending July 24, 1883.
James Mayer, Jan. 13, 1883, aged 65, in the 44th year of his ministry.
James Lees, Aug. 26, 1882, aged 71, in the 46th year of his ministry.
Wm. King, March 13, 1883, aged 43, in the 23d year of his ministry.
Henry J. Thomas, April 1, 1883, aged 69, in the 45tli year of his ministry.
W. Morgan, July 12, 1883, aged 33, in the 9th year of his ministry.
Nelson C. Hesky, April 6, 1883, aged 37, in the 15th year of his ministry.
John Harding, Aug. 1, 1882, aged 65, in the 53d year of his ministry.
Henry Hayman, Feb, 27, 1883.
William Henry, May 10, 1883, aged 73.
Aaron Langley, March 15, 1883, aged 68, in the 45th year of his ministry.
J. Evans, Dec. 29, 1882, aged 64, in the 37th year of his ministry.
Owen M. Jones, Aug. 15, 1882, aged 28, in the 5th year of iiis ministry.
Thomas Griffith, aged 36, in the 15th year of his ministry.
"\Vm. Davies, Jan. 11, 1883, aged 87.
John Roberts, Dec. 28, 1882, aged 62.
Robert Jones, March 15, 1883, aged 57, in the 32d year of his ministry.
Joshua Priestly, April 2, 1883, aged 72, in the 45th year of his ministry.
Jonathan J. Bates, April 2, 1883, aged 85, in the 61st year of his ministry.
George Rowe, April 30, 1883, aged 63, in the 39th year of his ministry.
John Booth, Jan. 16, 1883, aged 75, in the 48th year of his ministry.
Thomas Hodson, Sept. 9, 1882, aged 79, in the 54th year of liis ministry.
Andrew Mackintosh, Aug. 1, 1882, aged 83, in the 56th year of his ministry.
James Eacott, Oct. 25, 1882, aged 77 years.
John Nicholson, Dec. 13, 1882, aged 78, in the 53d year of his ministry.
Joshua Leadbeater, July 7, 1883, aged 43, in the 19th year of his ministry.
John L. Bleby, Aug. 22, 1882, aged 39, in the 20th year of liis ministry.
Henry Laugher, Jan. 17, 1882, aged 64, in the 39th year of his ministry.
Henry Pedley, aged 81, in the 56th year of his ministry.
Methodist Year-Book. 285
Thos. Saunders, April 10, 1883, aged 31, in the 8th year of his ministry.
F. M. Webster, M.A., Jaftra, Ceylon.
Benjamin Kidsdale, July 22, 1883, aged 64, iu the 43d year of his ministry.
Lewis Jones, July 28, 1883, aged 71, in tiie 50th year of his ministry.
Thomas K. Jones, Aug. 4, 1S83, aged 73, in the 48th year of his ministry.
Wesleyan Eeform Union Conference.
The delegates assembled at Sheffield, Eng., August 6, 1883, Eev. E. Barley pre-
siding. This organization was constituted in 1859. During the past year 902 services
had been held, and 465 conversions reported. Mr. John Neal, of Sheffield, was
elected President for the ensuing year. The statistical report was presented as fol-
lows : Chapels and preaching places, 216; preachers, 457 ; preachers on trial, 94;
ministers, 17 ; class-leaders, 480 ; member-s, 7,950 ; members on trial, 713 ; Sunday-
schools, 187 ; Sunday-school teachers, 3,140 ; Sunday-school scholars, 19,715. Its
sessions continued three days.
Proposed West Indian Methodist Conference.
At the British "Wesleyan Conference in 1882, the Foreign Missionary Committee
was instructed to prepare a scheme (to be submitted to the Conference of 1883) for
the Constitution of a Wesleyan Methodist Conference in the West Indies. The
Committee during the year prepared such a scheme, and reported it to the Con-
ference held in Hull, commencing July 24, 1883. It was for the most part upon
the plan of the South African Conference, as constituted last ye^r, with certain
modifications adapting it to the West Indies. It did not propose the constitution
of one Conference, but of two Conferences, with a general Conference to meet
once in three years. The scheme in its details went before the Kepresentative
Conference.
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French Wesleyan Conference.
The annual session of the Fi'cnch Wesleyan Methodist Conference was held at
Dienlefit, June, 1883, Rev. Wm. Comforth presiding. Hitherto one lay representa-
tive attended from each district; but it was decided to allow hereafter a second
lay delegate, provided there would be no expense to the central fund. By the vote
of the District Meetings no minister shall have a vote in the Pastoral Conference
who is not a member of the Mixed Conference of the same year. The reports of
Chairmen of Districts were of an encouraging character.
The ordination of two candidates took place, after a sermon by President Com-
forth, who was assisted by the twenty-one ministers present, including six minis-
ters of the Eeformed Church.
Eeport on Chapel affairs was read : Conference owns 30 chapels ; ministers' houses,
8 ; and school premises, 6 ; costing £33,000, worth now £21,000, with debts of £9,830.
Church structures — chapels and other preaching-places, 154 ; ministers, 29 ; evan-
gelists and teachers, 11 ; local preachers, 100 ; class-leaders, 117 ; members, 1,856;
members on trial, 168 ; communicants who, for various reasons, are not members,
396; Sunday-schools, 53; teachers, 314; scholars, 2,531 — an increase, in every re-
spect, except Sunday-school scholars and teachere.
Eeport of Worn-out Preachers' Fund : Distributed £100 to claimants, ten of
whom are widows. Eev. W. Lelievre was relieved from the responsible cditorfhip
286
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of the " Evangeliste," as he was to be stationed in Jersey, and Eev. J. W. Lelievre
was placed in charge, and Revs. W. Lelievre and J. P. Cook to assist. Election,
by ballot, for the year, as follows:
President^ Wm. Coniforth (subject to the approval of tlie British Conference.)
Vice-President, Eev. James Hocart. Secretary, J. W. Lelievre.
Matthew Lelievre was appointed delegate to the English Wesleyan Conference.
The estimates of receipts and expenditures show a deficiency of £400.
British "Wesleyan Statistics for 1883, by Districts.
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1,812
F. Greeves, D.D.
Geo. Kenyon.
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71
12
10,340
366
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'81
1,525
1,319
J. H. Riggs, D.D.
Wm. J. Brown.
3d London . .
69
21
9,578
452
573
100
1,538
890
Wm. Hirst
Walford Greene.
Bedford and
Northam'n
56
5
12,124
456
1,2.58
158
1,674
1,145, Geo. Sargeant ..
C. S. Sargisson.
Kent*
39
5
6,684
188
521
650Benj. Brown ...
John D. Thomas.
Norwich and
j
Lynn*
40
2
6,6.54
395
91
847
362Thos. T. Dilks..
Wm. J. Heaton.
Oxford
45
9
7,544
747
8:34
70
1,532
824 W. H. Cornforth.
C. F. Nightingale.
Portsmouth.
38
6
6,169
103
418
72
799
540: Richard Hardy.
J. E. Hargreves.
Channel Isl-
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Devonport* .
19
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3,569
9,.597
46
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65
483
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42
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516i 871
127
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James Taylor.
Cum wall*...
50
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19,919
663 1,974
245
2,491
49rChas.H. Floyd..
Samuel Wilkes.
Exeter*
49
6
6,4.55
405i 863
69
1,0.35
571 T. Nightingale..
John Green.
Bristol*
87
21
13,100
6.59 1,-307 151
2,178
l,335:Geo. Bowden...
John Rhodes.
Bath*
42
7
8,022
1.56
0.35 83
1,111
870, Wm. Andrews. .
W. D. Willey.
Swansea* . . .
28
2
4,259
263
501
63
698
615
H. H. Vowells.
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South Wales.
North Wales.
35
68
5
4,.501
12,908
6
141
2,068
280
l,5i6
1,505
David Yound...
JohnGriffltii.
Birm'gh'm k
Shrewsb'y.
113
20 18,875
191 1,485 219
2,340
2,143 Samuel Davies. .
Robert B. Jones.
Macclesfleld.
52
5 13,048
818! 1.389 168
2,341
1,261,J.H. James, D.D.
F. KelJett.
Liverpool . . .
115
28; 20,289
\M! 1,734 266
3,173
1,713' John S.Jones...
James Scott.
Manchester*
79
7
17,618
110
1,488 213
2,573
l,429lThos. M'Cullagh
Wm. H. Tindall.
Bolton* ....
Halifax and
Bradford. .
60
16,827
276
1,553, 142
2,217
1,825 W.B.Pope, D.D.
Jos. C. Woodcock.
69
6
22,697
1,372
1,362 261
3,749
3,850 John Howard. . .
J. F. Broughton.
Leeds*
76
li:20,.527
489
1,.502 317
3,002
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M. Harts.
Sheffield....
54
11 i 12,551
392
871 166
1,872
1,226 Martial Randall.
Richard Harding.
Nottingham
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68
6
17,.531
196
1,346 215
2,419
1,353 Henry Hastings.
W. R. Jones.
Lincoln
33
1
13,328
314
1,590 1.53
1,936
842:R. S. Davidson..
Ed. Workman.
Hull*
63
8
18,107
409
951 235
2,563 1,955 Richard Green..
John Gourd.
York
53
9
13,870
3
663 175
1,758
561 Geo. Follows....
Jos. Nettleton.
Whitby and
1
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Darlington
47
3
13,130
194
1,127
152
1,723
992' A. Burgess
T. M. Thorp.
Newcastle-
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59
3
16,489
645
1,259
196
2,737
2,108;H. W. Jackson..
John H. Greib.
Carlisle
35
6
6,530
588
686
81
1,227
525 Wm. Means
Geo. Abott.
Isle of Man.
10
3,036
193
100
50
461
54 Wm. T. Radclifl.
Edinburg &
Aberdeen*
39
4
4,083
340
392
42
759
287iGeo. Bamly ....
Ed. J. Brailsford.
Zetland* ....
6
1,270
38
55
32 John H. Hooper.
Totals
Last Year.
1917
271
407068
393754
13388
32870
438b
56322
35705
Net Increasei —
13,314
* Has a General District Missionary' who acts
Home District Missionaries app'jiuted in lbS3, 19.
nder the direction of the Chairman. Whole nnmher of General
Methodist Year-Book. 287
British Methodist Educational Institutions.
"Wesleian Colleges fob Training Teachers fob Public Elementary Dat-
ScHooLS. — These two colleges are under the care of the Wesleyan Education Com-
mittee, and are maintained by government grants and contributions from the
Wesleyan Education Fund, together with entrance fees, of limited amounts, pay-
able by students. The Kev. David J. Waller was appointed Secretary of the Com-
mittee by the Conference of 1881.
1. Westminster Training CoUeije. — This institution occupies a fine location upon
an extensive plot of ground, entrance from London on Horse FeiTy Eoad. This
college was originally built and furnished, in 1851, by means of a grant from Cen-
tenary Fund and other gifts, supplemented by a government building grant. But
ehice that time the grounds have been enlarged, and large practicing schools built
for scholars of both sexes. Up to 1871 both mistresses and masters were trained in
the college for employment almost exclusively in Wesleyan schools ; but since that
date it has been used for training masters only, many of whom find employment in
the board schools of the country. About 120 young men are resident for training.
Dr. J. H. Rigg is the Principal, and Mr. C. Mansford, B.A., is Vice-Principal,
under whom a large tutorial stalf is employed. The chapel is a large Gothic struct-
ure adjoining the college.
2. Southlands Training College^ Battersea. — This college was opened at Christ-
mas, 1871, and is exclusively devoted to the training of young women as teachers
for Public Elementary Schools, of whom there are 110 in attendance. Connected
with the college are schools for girls and infants, in which the students are practiced
in teaching. The college premises include a large adapted mansion, to which have
been added buildings occupied as students' dormitories, class-rooms, lecture halls,
etc., the Principal's house and schools. Eev. G. 0. Bate is Principal ; Mr. J. Bailey
is the Head Master, and with him several tutors are employed in the instruction and
training of the students.
The Queenswood School. — This school is situated on King's Eoad and Clap-
ham Park. It is for the education of the daughters of Wesleyan ministers. About
sixty pupils are in residence. Miss Henley is the lady Principal.
Trinity Hall, Southport. — A handsome structure, designed as a " school for
the education, instruction, and improvement of the daughters of Wesleyan min-
isters," presented to the Wesleyan Connection by the late John Fernley, Esq., in
1871. It accommodates about sixty girls.
Children's Home, ORPHAifAGE, Refuge, and Training Institute. — London
Branch, Victoria Park. Lancashire Branch, Edgeworth. Canadian Branch, On-
tario, Canada,. Certified Industrial Branch, Milton, Kent. Seaside Branch, Ram-
sey, Isle of Man. Commenced in a very humble way, but has grown rapidly, and
now there are between five and six hundred children in its various branches.
Founded in 1869 by its present Principal, Eev. Dr. T. B. Stevenson. House at
Victoria Park is managed upon the " family " principle, the buildings being erected
in separate blocks or " homes." There is a chapel, and the children have an ef-
ficient band and choir. Another Branch of this system was about being established
in 1881, at a cost of £19,000, in the neighborhood of Birmingham.
New Ktngswood School. — This famous school stands on Lansdowne Hill, over-
looking the city of Bath. It is used exclusively for the education of the sons of
Wesleyan ministers, and is the property of the Wesleyan Methodist Conference. It
accommodated in 1881 about 140 boys, but the enlargement, by the expenditure of
288 Methodist Year-Book.
£15,000 from the Thanksgiving Fund, -will supply room for 800 boys. The school
has lieen for many years distinguished for the number of boys who have won hon-
ors at various university examinations. Governor, Rev. J. H. Lord ; Head Master,
Mr. T. G. Osborn, M.A.
WooDHousE Grove School, Leeds. — This time-honored school was erected in
1812, enlarged in 1847, and has been used during that period for the education of
the sons of Wesleyan ministers. It accommodates 130 boys. Governor, Eev. G.
Fletcher. The Wesleyan Conference of 1881 having decided to concentrate the
schools at New Kingswood, the Woodhouse Grove will be used for other educational
purposes.
Weslet College, Sheffield. — This college was built in 1838, at a cost of
$30,000, and is a proprietary institution, under Wesleyan control ; the Governor,
Eev. W. H. Dallinger, a distinguished Fellow of the Eoyal Society, is ajjpointed by
the Wesleyan Conference. Head Master, Mr. H. M. Sherra, M.A. The college is
affiliated to the London University.
Wesley College, Taunton. — Built, at a large cost, in 1843, and has accommoda-
tions for about 220 scholars. The directors are chosen from the proprietors, and the
Buperiutendent from the Wesleyan ministers of the Exeter District ; the President
of the Wesleyan Conference, Eev. T. M'Cullagli, is President of the college ; Gov-
ernor, Eev. W. P. Slater; Head Master, Mr. T. B. Sibly, B.A.
Wesleyan Methodist College, Belfast, Ireland. — The buildings of this in-
stitution are among the handsomest in the north of Ireland, costing £40,000, with
an endowment fund of £20,000. There is accommodation for 30 students, 80 board-
ers, and 300 day pupils. Founded in 1865. President, Eev, J. W. M'Kay, LL.D.
Wesleyan Connectional School, Stephen's Green, Dublin. — This school,
established in 1845, provides accommodations for about 150 scholars. The school ia
under the conti'ol of the Irish Wesleyan Methodist Conference.
The Leys School, Cambridge. — Founded about nine years ago for the purpose
of furnishing to the youth of Methodist families, and others, superior facilities for
high-class public school education, free from special ecclesiastical bias of the larger
public schools. The buildings are finely located in a well-wooded park of twenty-
one acres, and hardly surpassed by any among the richly-built colleges of Cam-
bridge. This famous city is only one hour and a half's ride from London. The
governing body includes the President of the Wesleyan Conference, (ex officio,) the
Right Honorable the Lord Mayor of London. The Head Master is the Eev. W. F.
Moulton, M.A., D.D., one of the members of the New Testament Revision Com-
mittee.
Wesleyan Theological Institution, Eichmond, Surrey. — This institution is
one of four colleges used for the training of candidates for the Wesleyan Methodist
ministry. The estate was purchased in 1843, upon the summit of Eichmond Hill,
and is now a very valuable property. Provision is made for seventy students.
There is a governor's residence, and also separate residences for the tutors. In 1851
a chapel was erected on the grounds. The college is now used exclusively for the
training of students for the foreign missionary work. Governor, Eev. D. Sander-
son; Tutors— Eev. Dr. G. Osborn, theology; Eev. F. P. Napier, B.A., andW. T.
Davison, M.A., classics and mathematics ; Eev. W. A. Findlay, B.A., Assistant
Tutor.
DiDSBURY College, Manchestee. — This branch of the Wesleyan Theological
Methodist Year-Book. 289
Iiistitution Is used exclusively for the home work, and was opened in 1842, located
in the suburbs of the city, and easily reached. Toward the erection and furnishing
of the Didsbury and Richmond Colleges £71,000 was ^ranted from the Wesleyan
Centenary Fund, and a large fund has been granted to the Theological Institution
Fund out of the recently formed Thanksgiving Fund. There are about sixty stu-
dents in residence. Governor, Rev. VV. Jackson; Tutors— Rev. Dr. W. B. Pope,
theology; Rev. J. D. Geden, Hebrew and Clajssics ; A. J. French, B.A., math-
ematics and philosophy ; G. A. Bennett, Assistant Tutor. An elegant and costly col-
lege chapel has been ei-ected by the family of the late James Heald, Esq.
HE.iDixGLET College, Leeds. — This college, located near Leeds, belongs to the
Wesleyan Methodist Connection, and was erected and opened in 1868. The build-
ing is large and commodious, providing accommodation for sixty students. Gov-
ernor, Rev. B. Hellier; Tutors— Eev. J. S. Banks, theology; Eev. G. G. Findlay,
B.A., classics; and Rev. F. J. Nance, M.A., Assistant Tutor.
Birmingham Wesleyan College. — This college is located at Handswoith, near
Birmingham, and is under the control of the Wesleyan Conference, and the most
recently built of the Wesleyan theological institutions. It is a very handsome ed-
ifice, erected and equipped, for £30,000, with money from the Thanksgiving Fund.
It will accommodate seventy students. Governor, Rev. M. Hartley ; Tutors — Rev.
R. N. Young, classics ; Rev. F. W. Macdonald, theology ; Rev. William Foster,
B. A., Assistant Tutor.
Eanmoor College. — Principal, Eev. Dr. Wm. Cocker. It is situated in the
suburbs of ShetBeld, is the property of the Methodist New Connection, and is used
for tlie training of ministers.
Primitive Methodist Theological Institute, Sunderland. — Eev. T. Green-
field, Principal and Tutor. Substantial and commodious building, free from debt.
Provides for twenty-two students. Dr. W. Antliff'e has been Principal for many
years.
Primitive Methodist Theological Institute, Manchester. — This handsome
and commodioas new building was opened a few years ago, and will accommodate
fifty students when fully completed. Eev. James Macpherson, Principal and
Tutor.
Primitive Methodist College, Elmtield, York. — Extensive and beautiful
premises, near York city, with provision for one hundred and twenty boys. Built
seventeen years ago. Eev. R. Smith, Governor.
Primitive Methodist Ladies' College. — The Cedars, Clapham Common, on
rented property, opened nine years ago. Education of the highest order. A con-
siderable percentage of the pupils have, year by year, successfully passed Cambridge
University examinations. Eev. W. Eowe, Governor.
Primitive Methodist Boubne College, Birmingham. — For years occupied
rented buildings, but recently have entered new buildings belonging to the Church,
with prospect of great success. Rev. G. Middleton, Governer.
The College, Harrogate, (Wesleyan Proprietary.) — Rev. Thomas M'Cnllagh,
President of the Wesleyan Conference, is the official Visitor ; Rev. H. W. Holland,
of the same body. Chaplain and Ministerial Secretary ; Head Master, E. Rush, Esq.,
B.A., a,ssisted by graduates of other Universities. One resident master to every fif-
teen pupils. No day boys received. The directors comprise ministers and laymen.
13
290 Methodist Year-Book.
East Anglican Wesleyan Middle-class School, Buet St. Edmund's. — Pupils
prepared for Cambridge local examinations. Chairman of the Association, Eev.
Thoma-s M'Cullagh, President of the Wesleyan Conference; V ice-Chairman, J.
Floyd, Esq., Ex-Mayor of Bury; Visitor, the Eev. Dr. W. F. Moulton, the Leys,
Cambridge; Head Master, S. Leigh, B.A., London.
Cornwall Wesleyan Middle-class School, Tkcro. — Fine new buildings, and
pupils prepared for college and university examinations. Head Master, G. O. Tur-
ner, M.A., with six assistants.
Wesleyan College, (Cotlake House,) Taunton. — Conducted by George Mearns
Savery, M.A.
Hawkesbukt House, Leamington, (Wesleyan Educational Home.) — Principals,
Mrs. Geach and her daughters, the Misses Hill. Pupils prepared for the University,
Koyal Academy, and art examinations. Number of pupils limited.
Wesleyan Ladies' School, (Springfield House,) Stonehouse, Gloucester-
shire.— Principal, Miss Astles, assisted by a full stalf of teachers. Examinations
by the authorities of Eussell College, London.
British Wesleyan Day-Schools. — The reports of the day-schools (not included
in any of those above named) presented to the Conference in 1882, showed the fol-
lowing sumniaries: Total number of day-schools, 848; day-scholars, 181,514;
average attendance, 125,829; amount paid for teaching staff, £175,515; other ex-
penses, £46,280 ; certificated Wesleyan teachers employed in schools, December,
1882, about 1,300. The teachers in these schools are furnished by the Wesleyan
Training College, under the supervision of Dr. J. H. Eigg.
Unofficial Wesleyan Schools.
The NoHTi- West Wesleyan Methodist School Association, (limited.)
Epworth College, Holly Mount, Ehyl, (for boys.)— Head Master, Dr. Eaby, B.A.,
B.S., (University of London,) formerly Head Master of Woodhouse Grove School,
assisted by other ma^iters.
Penrhbs College, Colwyn Bay, (for girls.)— Lady Principal, Miss Pope, daughter
nf Eev. Dr. Pope, of Didsbury College, assisted by a large staff of teachers. Pres-
ident of the English Wesleyan Conference, Chairman of the Board of Directors.
The following table shows the increase of the four great classes of Voluntary
Rcliools in average attendance during the last decade :
1870. 1881. Increasb.
Wesleyan 96,691 121,466 25 per cent.
British 150,901 253,596 66 per cent.
Eon lan Catholic 71,666 155,676 more than 100 per cent.
C liurch of England 882,432 1,508,380 nearly 80 per cent.
Australian Methodist Institutions.
Prince Alfred College, Adelaide. — Hon. President, Eev. J. Bickford. Head
Master, Frederic Chappele, B.A.', B.S., formerly Tutor at the Westminster Wes-
leyan College, with S. Churchward, B.A., (Second Master;) J. T. Sunter, B.A.,
and H. C. Shott, and other Assistant Masters. Students graduated in classical,
commercial, and scientific studies, and fitted for the Adelaide University.
Methodist Year-Book. 291
Newington Wesleyan College, Stanmore, Sydney. — Pre.-sident, Eev. Joseph
H.Fletcher. Head Master, Joseph Coates, Esq. Assistant Masters : J.J.Fletcher,
M.A., (Syd,) B.S., (Lond. ;) J. Waterhouse, M.A., (Syd. ;) K. T. Baker, (Peter-
borough Training College.)
Wesley College, Melbourne. — President, Eev. James S. Waugh, D.D. Ar-
thur S. Way, M.A., Head Master; F. Goldstraw, M.A., Second Master; A. H. S.
Lucas, M.A. and B.S., First Mathematical and Science Master, with a large staif
of regular and special teachers. During the last 10 years 20 of the 30 Matricula-
tion exhibitions awarded at the University of Melbourne have been gained by
Wesley College, and, during the same period, 130 have passed Matriculation, and
177 the Civil Service Examination.
lIoRTON College, Tasmania. — President, Eev. Francis Neale. Head Master,
Mr. W. W. Fox, B.A., London ; Second Master, Mr. Claude, H.W., Johns, B.A.,
Queen's College, Cambridge ; Third Master, Mr. P. M. Pitt, Melbourne University,
and other resident Masters. The college is located on the main line of the rail-
way, and has won considerable scholastic distinction. The Horton Scholarship of
£20 is open for annual competition.
Hardwioke House Collegiate School Fob Girls, Kent Town, Adelaide. —
Conducted by Mrs. Tilley and the Misses Tilley. Pupils prepared for the
Matriculation and Junior University Examinations. Professors attend daily. Two
scholarships of £10 each open for competition.
Methodist Ladies' College, Hawthorne, Melbourne. — (Founded by, and un-
der the government of, the Methodist Church of Victoria.) President, W. H.
Fitchette, B.A. ; Head Master, Frank Wheen, B.A., London; First Lady Assist-
ant, Mrs. Tiddeman, formerly of Ormiston College. It is a modern school of the
first order, and provides for girls what Wesley College at Stanmore offers to boys.
The buildings form a collegiate institution for girls unsurpassed in Australia,
and cost £12,000.
Wesley College, Three Kings. — An institution not, long established for the
education of native and English students. There were 10 of the former and 2 of
the latter in attendance last year. Eev. W. J. Watkin, Principal, and a Classical
Tutor.
Select School, Eichmondville, Stanmore Eoad, South Kingston.— Conducted
by Mrs. Ballam. Listruction in English and French course*, music and drawing.
Eev. Dr. W. Kelynack, Wesleyan Missionary Secretary, a patron, and other min-
isters.
Mission Training Institution, Navuloa, Fiji. — Eev. Lorimer Fison, M.A.,
Principal. For the education of Fijian students, with much promise of usefulness.
The Affiliated College, Melbourne. — This is a first-class college, projected
T>y the Wesleyans in Victoria and Tasmania, to affiliate with the Melbourne Uni-
versity, the erection of which will be commenced when subscriptions to the
amount of £10,000 are received, of which sum a good portion has been contributed,
and, it is believed, before the close of 1883, the erection of the buildings will be
commenced.
Wesley College, Dublin. — Gov. and Chaplain, Eev. Dr. M'Kee. Head Mas-
ter, Maxwell M'Intosh, LL.D., T.C.D., assisted by 20 Tutors and Professors.
Students of this College have been awarded the highest University honors.
292
Methodist Year-Book.
Australasian "Wesleyan Methodist Olmrch,
The Australasian Wesleyan Methodist Church w:is organized as a separate Church
at the first General Conference held at Melbourne, on May 13, 1875. It includes
four Annual Conferences, namely, 1. New South Wales and Queensland Confer-
ence, which shall include the South Sea Missions ; 2. Victoria and Tasmania Con-
ference ; 3. South AustraUan Conference ; and, 4. New Zealand Conference. These
Conferences meet annually, and are comprised in and governed by a General Con-
ference, which meets once every three years. The General Conference is composed
of the Presidents and Secretaries of the Annual Conferences, one General Secretary
and one Lay Treasurer of the Australasian Missionary Society, one General
Clerical and one Lay Secretary of each of the Connectional Funds ; also of repre-
sentatives from the Annual Conferences in the proportion of one delegate to every
eight members of the Conference, only so that each Conference shall have at least
two delegates ; also an equal number of lay delegates from Annual Conferences;
Australasian Methodist Census.
(COMPILED FROM THE AUSTRALASIAN HAND-BOOK OF 1883.)
pkovinces.
New South Wales.
Wesleyan Methodists
Primitive Methodists
United Methodist Free Churches .
Victoria.
Wesleyan Methodists
rrimitive Methodists
ITnited Methodist Free Churches .
Methodist New Connection
Bible Christians
United Brethren
South Australia.
Wesleyan Methodists
Primitive Methodists
Bible Christians
United Brethren
Methodist New Connection
Queensland.
Weslevan Methodists
Primitive Methodists
Bible Christians
United Brethren
Tasmania.
Wesleyan Methodists
Primitive Methodists
United Methodist Free Church . . .
New Zealand.
Wesleyan Methodists
Primitive Methodists
United Methodist Free Churches
Bible Christians
New Connection Methodists
293
m
8
673
154
83
2
112
2
103
113
1
1
105
'"9
12
24
20
2?
5;;
42,794
12,000
1,140
77,017
14,354
6,000
700'
11,372
300
37,553
16,799
16,140
200
500
11,390
1,700
150
25,468
8,930
510
57,76S
7,838
4,000
400
4.875
140
42,103
10,275l
10,491
186'
410
10,918
319
48
249
7,187
39,544
4V
2,009
375
31
290
57
8
406
89
45
1
58
2
83
2,124
531
58
4,110
776
283
20
616
4
799
512
45
14
18,130
5,517
485
27,567
5,538
2,931
180
2,282
47
4,571
5,008
4,112
450
119
Methodist Year-Book. 293
Methodist Publishing Houses m England.
Wesletan Conference, Office and Book Eoom, 2 Castle Steeet, Citt Eoad,
London. — Book Steward, Rev. T. Woolraer; Editor, Eev. B. Gregory. Formed
by Mr. Wesley for the publication and sale of his works. On his death he vested
his property in the Book Eoom in trustees for carrying on the work of God in con-
nection with the Conference. The premises are being partially rebuilt. The fol-
lowing particulars of the sales of a single year are reported to the Conference :
Periodicals, 1,779,000; Tracts, 4,976,572; new Congregational Hymn Book, 210,729 ;
Methodist Scholars Hymn Book, 41,050 ; other publications, 590,000.
Methodist New Connection Book Concebn.— Established in 1797, No. 4 Lou-
don House Yard, St. Paul's. Editor and Book Steward, Eev. John Hudston.
United Methodist Free Chukches Book Eoom, No. 119 Salisbuey Square,
Fleet Street, London. — Established in 1837. The Book Eoom has been very suc-
cessful as a commercial institution, and large sums have been appropriated out of
its profits toward the theological institution, chapel, mission, and other funds of
the assembly. Eev. T. Newton is Book Steward, and Eev. E. Abercrombie, M.A.,
is Editor.
Primitive Methodist Book Eoom. — Eented premises, Sutton Street, Commer-
cial Eoad, London. Tlie sale of magazines, hymn books, and other Connectional
books is very large. The Eev. W. Ten wick is Secretary and Book Steward, and
the Eev. C. C. M'Kechnie is Editor. Business large and prosperous. Last year
£325 of the profits allocated to the " Superannuated Ministers, Widows, and Or-
phans' Fund." Eemaining profits, namely, £500, to the New Book Eoom Fund.
United Free Gospel and bfDEPENDENT Methodist Book Eoom. — Located in
Lancashire, with a publishing department in London, where the " Free Gospel and
Independent Methodist Magazine," 40 pp., is published monthly. The new Hymn
Book recently published, contains 1,153 hymns.
British Methodist Sunday-Schools.
Wesletan Methodist Sunday-School Union. — This Union was established in
1874. Its head-quarters are at 2 Ludgate Circus Buildings, London. It lias many
agencies for trade purposes, in difierent parts of the country, and it promotes Sun-
day-school work by conventions and meetings. It publishes monthly "The Wes-
leyan Methodist Sunday-School Magazine for Workers," which has a large circula-
tion, and also " Our Boys and Girls," a paper for children. It has also issued an
excellent Hymn Book, and more recently a Tune Book to accompany it. Its Bible
cartoons and other appliances have been extensively circulated among Sunday-
schools of nearly all Churches. Wesleyan Methodist Sunday-schools, both at home
and abroad, can be affiliated to the Union. Secretary, Eev. Charles H. Kelly.
Statistics in 1883 : Total number of schools, 6,489 ; Jiumber of teachers and officers,
122,999; number of scholars, 829,666; total cost of schools, £69,965.
Primitive Methodist Sunday-School Union. — There are now in the Primitive
Methodist Connection, at home and abroad, 4,100 schools ; 59,272 teachers ; and
383,350 scholars; and 2,682 schools are connected with the Union. The Union has
not at present a separate building set apart for its purposes.
294 Methodist Year-Book.
Wesleyan Mission Home and Centenary Hall.
This building is located in Bishopsgate Street Within, opposite Threadneedle
Street. It is a substantial building with an imposing fagade, surrounded by bank-
ing and commercial institutions. The premises were purchased in 1839 with a
portion of the proceeds of the Centenary Fund, and have since formed the head-
quarters of the Wesleyan Foreign Missionary Society, and more recently also of the
Wesleyan Home Missionary Society. The building contains numerous committee
rooms and offices, which are used for the Connectional Committees of the Wesleyan
Societies ; a saloon capable of holding some 250 persons, and a hall holding about
400. The trustees have, on more than one occasion, been offered £150,000 for this
property. In connection with the mission house is a Museum of Methodist An-
tiquities. The museum was originated, about four years ago, by the late Kev. Drs.
Jobson and Punshou. It contains numerous letters, portraits, printed papers, and
Hianuscripts affecting the history of Methodism, the two celebrated pictures repre-
senting Wesley escaping as a lad from the burning rectory at Epworth, and his
death- bed scene at City Eoad; also various paintings and busts of Methodist
preachers and laymen adorn the museum. A curator is in charge.
United Free Gospel and Independent Methodists in Great Britain,
The President of this body is Wm. Oxley, of Manchester. Outlines of doctrines,
principles, polity, etc., as follows : 1. Doctrines, those commonly expressed by the
term Evangelical. 2. Mode of worship and services, those usual among Method-
ists. 3. Every Church is independent or self-governing, managing its own trusts
and financial and other internal affaii's ; and each Church may retain its own local
name, but the general body is designated, " Tlie United Free Gospel Churches."
4. All members of full age share in the government of the Church, either by
Chureli Meetings, Leaders' or Elders' Meetings, or by Office-bearers, as each Church
may determine. 5. Ministry open and free, in contradistinction to exclusive sys-
tems which confine the ministry of the Word to a Clerical Order. We hold that
every Christian is called by God to actually labor in his cause, and that none can
discharge his responsibility by proxy ; but as some have talents of a higher order
than others, those suitably gifted and scripturally qualified are placed in the minis-
try. 6. We recognize no clerical titles or designations. 7. Our ministry is purely
voluntary and unpaid. 8. We have an evangelistic agency, brethren being ap-
pointed to go from pliice to place preaching the Gospel, visiting the weak, and plant-
ing new Churches ; and while so engaged they may be maintained, evangelists
having " liberty to live of the Gospel." 9. Groups of churches in adjacent
neighborhoods are associated in circuits or districts, for ministerial and other
mutual advantages. 10. A General Meeting of Delegates from the Churches is
held annually in the month of June.
The Society of Friends in Great Britain and Ireland.
Carefully compiled statistics of the Society of Friends, or Quakers, for 1882,
(the latest reliable reports published,) show that in the United Kingdom the total
number of members is 17,977. In addition to these there are 5,790 regular at-
tenders of the Friends' meetings who are not in full membership. About 25,000
scholars, adult and junior, are regularly under instruction by the Friends in their
Sabbath-schools ; but very few of these become members of the Society, antl only
Methodist Year-Book. 295
about 3,000 out of the 25,000 are estimated to be attendants of the Friends' meet-
ings.
This little Church of 18,000 members is, however, represented in Parliament by
about 10 members, including Mr. John Bright, Sir J. W. Pease, Mr. Arthur
Pease, Mr. Lewis Pry, Mr. Theodore Fry, Mr. George Palmer, Mr. J. N. Richard-
son, Mr. J. F. B. Firth, and Mr. Wm. Fowler. The Society includes one baronet,
(Sir J. W. Pease,) and one knight, (Sir John Barrington, of Dublin.) Many of
the principal members of large municipalities are Friends, including the pi-esent
Mayors of Birmingham, (Mr. William White,) and of Bradford, (Mr. Frederick
Priestmau,) and of Alderman Tatham, of Leeds, three times Mayor of that town.
The amount of accumulated funds, on November 20 last, of the Friends' Provi-
dent Institution was £1,622,907, being an increase of more than £91,000 in the
year. The Society supports missionary establishments of its own in Madagascar,
Syria, Palestine, and India.
It has a quarterly magazine, the " Friends' Examiner," and three monthly
journals, which advocate its special views and interests, the " Friend," (^Loudon,)
the "British Friend," (Glasgow,) and the "Monthly Eecord," (Birmingham.)
The society possesses institutions, combining somewhat the character of literary
societies and social clubs, in London, Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham, Dub-
lin, and Belfast. It devotes great attention and large sums of money to its own
schools, which are many in proportion to its numbers. It has a training college
for teachers, the Flounders Institute, at Ackworth, which is endowed with £40,000,
Houses of Worsliip in Great Britain.
A ponderous Blue Book has just been issued in England, under direction of
Parliamentary order, giving the official numerical returns of the " churches, chapels,
and buildings registered for religious worship in the registration districts of Great
Britain, showing the religious denomination to which such churches, chapels, and
buildings belong." This return shows that in England and Wales the churches
and chapels belonging to the various denomination are divided as follows :
Established Church 14,573
Wesleyan Methodist 12,375
Calvinistic Methodist 895
Countess of Huntington Meth'st . 35
Eoman Catholic 524
Independent, or Congregation'st. 2,063
Baptist 2,243
Society of Friends 375
Presbyterian 271
Unitarian 124
Jewish 60
Catholic Apostolic Church 47
Latter-Day Saints 47
New Jerusalem 39
Moravian 84
All others 1,037
This record gives the Established Church 14,573 places of worship ; to the Non-
conformists 20,469.
*
Comparative Statistics of the Anglican Oonunnnion.
Bishops. Clebov.
England, (including 2 Archbishops, 3 Suffragan Bishops, and 2
Assistant Bishops)
Ireland, (including 2 Archbishops)
S -otland
British Colonies, India, etc
United States
Ketired Bishops
Total 212 30,000
36
21.000
12
1,700
7
240
73
3,100
67
3,600
17
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Methodist Union in Australia.
In July, 1883, representatives from the Wesleyans, Primitive Methodists,
United Methodist Free Church, and the Bible Christians, met in committee, at
Melbourne, to consider a Basis of Union of the Churches of Victoria and Tasmania,
and with a hope that the Methodists of other colonies in Australia would also ulti-
mately unite, and perfect Methodistic union in that country. The question of the
episcopacy was not considered, nor of doctrine or worship, but simply the elabora-
tion of a constitution or method of government under which all might dwell in
visible unity.
The position and powers of the laity in matters of government presented the real
difficulty in the discussion, but this was found to be no insuperable barrier. It was
agi'eed that the Church should be governed by General and Annual Conferences.
The General Conference to meet once every three years, to consist of an equal num-
ber of ministers and laymen elected by the Annual Conferences, and to possess, in
all respects, equal powers, so that in the General Conference there is to be no Pas-
toral Conference and Mixed Conference, but simply one Assembly, dealing with all
questions coming within its jurisdiction. The General Conference will be the legis-
lative body of the united Church, will control all Connectional funds, divide the
Annual Conferences, if need be, tix the number of delegates to be sent liy each An-
nual Conference to the General Conference, and indicate generally the lines upon
which Annual Conferences shall proceed in the management of their affairs. The
Annual Conferences, it is proposed, shall consist of all ministers in full connection
within their respective boundaries, and one lay representative from each circuit.
The Annual Conferences are to attend to all matters of administration ^^ithin
their respective boundaries, and to the stationing of the ministers. Matters relating to
ministerial position and character, however, such as admitting ministers to full con-
nection, receiving them on probation, admitting students to the colleges, deciding
cases of superannuation, examination of ministerial character, electing chairmen of
districts, are to be discussed and decided by the ministers acting alone, so that the
expedient of dual Conferences— Pastoral and Mixed— finds a place in the proposed
Constitution of the " United Australian Methodist Church," and the full equality of
the laity in matters of government is not recognized.
The Constitution is a compromise, and, perhaps, goes as far in the direction of
equality as could, under the circumstances, be expected. It is believed, if this union
is consummated, the recognition of perfect equality in matters of government be-
tween miuistei-s and laymen will follow ; but it will come as a reform in the
united Church, a very different thing from any particular method of government at
present existing among any section of the Methodists.
The stationing of the ministers is to be done in the first draft by a committee
purely ministerial, but the Mixed Conference is to have the power to discuss this
draft of the stations, and to add, if it so please, to the original committee for the
consideration of the second and final draft, a number of persons not exceeding half
those who sat on the first draft.
The District Meetings are to constitute a kind of District Committees for inquir-
ing into ministerial character and dealing with various questions relating to the
pastoral office, reporting to Conference thereon, and they are to consist solely of
ministers. The Financial District Meeting is to embrace both ministers and lay-
men, and exercise oversight in relation to the financial and temporal attairs of the
(Mmrch. Quarterly Meetings are to consist of preachere, leaders, stewards, trustees
who are members, superintendents of Sunday-schools, and Society representatives
Methodist Year-Book. 297
elected wlio must not exeeod in number the stewards of the Societies they rejire-
sent.
The chvss-meeting is to be retained, not only as a means of grace, but as a test of
memliei-ship, and no person is to be removed from membership without the priv-
ileo'e of trial by a Leaders' Meeting, and right of appeal to the higlier courts of the
Church. Ministeis in full connection in the resjiective Metliodist Churches are to
have the same status in the United Church.
The financial difficulties associated with the Supernumerary Ministers and Min-
isters' Widows' Fund are not regarded as insuperable, and it is confidently ex-
pected that all will be able to enter this fund in the United Church on fair and
equitable terms.
There are, in the Victorian Colony and Tasmania, 200 Methodist preachers— 117
Wesleyans, 35 Primitive, 25 United Methodist Free Church, and 23 Bible Chris-
tians ; and the membership of these Churches, taking them in the same order, is
14,975, 2,929, 1,000, 1,520— in all, 20,424. The proi>erties of these communities, tak-
ing them in the same order, are 533, 114, 63, 80— in all, 790. It is calculated that
stations can be found in the United (.'hurch for all the ministers, save about 20, and
that this number and more can be employed in general evangelistic work.
The principal features of tliis proposed policy are: the members' privilege of trial
and appeal, elected representation of the Societies in the Quarterly Meetings, the
direct representation of every circuit in the Annual Conference by a layman, the
actual stationing of the ministers by the Mixed Conference, and the equality of
ministers and laymen on all questions in the General Conference — flie legislative
body of the United Church. This proposed Basis of Union is to be submitted to
the various bodies represented, and an expression of <>piiui..n invited.
Methodist Union in New Zealand.
At this writing, (Nov. 1, 1883,) four separate Methodist Connectional Jurisdic-
tions exist in New Zealand, namely : the Wesleyan, with a membership of 6,932 ; the
Primitive Methodist, with 1,309 members; the United Methodist Free Church,
with 861 members; and the Bible Christian Church, with 100 members — a total
membership of 9,202, the Wesleyan having about three fourths of that total.
For economical and other obvious reasons the feeling in favor of Union has been
growing for several years. Early in 1883 the Annual Conference of the four
Churches severally adopted resolutions strongly favoring Union, and appointed a
Joint Union Committee to prepare and report a Basis of Union. As a result of
the meetings of the Committee, a proposed Basis of Union was fonimlated and
adopted with great unanimity. As in the case of Basis of Union in Canada, mutual
concessions had to be made. Fortunately all the bodies had some plan of lay
delegation.
It was agreed that the government of the United Church (to be called "The
Methodist Church of New Zealand") shall be that of an Annual Conference,
composed of an equal number of laymen and ministers. In the Districts and
Quarterly Meetings the laymen will have the preponderance. The ministers and
laymen, in the Annual Conference, are to have equal riglits of speaking and voting
on all subjects, except that the session of ministers only shall deal with the ques-
tion of ministerial character. The President is not to be stationeil, but is to be
left free to itinerate through the Connection during his year of office.
As the Wesleyan Superannuation Fund is proportionately much larger than that
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298 Methodist Year-Book.
of either of the other three bodies, it was agreed that, in order to sacredly guard
existing rights, one Superannuation Fund shall be formed, from -which clainiants
Bhall be paid on the same scales that now exist in their respective Churches. But,
in case the other Churches " level up," by providing the sum requisite to place
tliein on a financial equality with the Wesleyan clainiants, then all the clainiauts
in the United Clmrch shall share alike.
Provision was made for the establishment of separate Home Mission and Forei>jn
Mission Funds. "With regard to Church jiroperty, the relative position of the dif-
ferent bodies was about the same. The total value of Church property is over
£200,000, with a debt of a little over 25 per cent.
According to the " New Zealand Metliodist," organ of the "Wesleyan bod}', the
"proposed Basis" was to be submitted to the Quarterly and District Meetings in
November, 1883, after which it would come before the four Annual Conferences
in January, and the Australian General Conferences in November, 1884. If all
these Church authorities decide favorably upon this Basis, arrangements are to bo
made to hold the first United Conference in January, 1885.
Suggested Method' st TJnion in England.
One of the noteworthy items in the business of the last British "Wesleyan Confer-
ence was the introduction of a re.-olution by Eev. John Bond, looking toward tlie
fraternization, atfiliation, and early unity of the various branches of Methodism
represented in the Ecumenical General Conference. The resolution was tentative
in its character and purpose, and (though withdrawn because not in the routine of
of ordinary Conference) proved encouragingly successful in evoking many earnest,
approving words, indicative of a rapidly increasing Union sentiment in the Wesleyan
body. The Press, both in and out of the Churches, has taken up the question, and
the importance of immediate harmonious affiliation and ultimate organic Union is
sure to be brought home to the consideration of all the Methodist Churches.
One item in the programme of one of the Methodist Quarterly Keviews (1884)
is "'A Symposmm on Methodist Union in England,' the contributors to be Dr.
"William Cooke, of the Methodist New Connection ; Eev. John Bond, Wesleyan ;
Eev. Eichard Chew, United Methodist Free Church ; Eev. F. "W. Bourne, Bible
Christian ; and our General Missionary Secretary, Eev. John Atkinson. Dr.
Cooke will open and close the discussion. "We shall look forward to this sym-
posium with high expectation." An editorial note in the " Primitive Methodist " of
Oct. 4, in calling attention to this part of the programme, expresses the conviction
that a " discussion on this important subject by such able and representative men
as those announced is very likely to set in motion those intellectual and moral
forces which will lead in due time to an active confederation, if not to a corporate
oneness, of the several Methodist communities in England."
British Wesleyan Thanksgiving Fund.
The report of the Treasurers of thia Fund, beginning in 1878, made to the Confer-
ence of 1883, showed that up to July 3, 1883, there had been paid into the Fund the
sum of £291,721. The appropriations from; the Fund had already been as follows :
Methodist Mis.sionary Society £62,^70
Home Mission and Contingent Fund. . . 2t.000
Education Fund 14,000
Schools' Fund U,UOU
Coniiectionnl Sunday-School Union £6,000
Children's Home 5,000
Theoldfrical Institution 83,400
Fund for Ext'n of Meth. inGt. Britain. 45,000
Methodist Year-Book. 299
Methodism m Ireland.
Irish Wesletan Conference Session, 1883.
The 114th session of the Irish Wesleyan Conference was held in Dublin, June
15-28, 1883, Rev. Chas. Garrett, of the British Conference, President; Kev. James
Donnelly, of the Irish Conference, Secretary.
Four preachers were admitted on trial, 12 remained on trial, and 5 were admit-
ted in full connection with the Conference ; 2 retired (voluntarily) from the work,
viz., Geo. A. Lebert and Nicholas J. Warner; and 5 became supernumerary, viz.,
Eobert Kerr, John C. Story, Kichard Mexad, Colin M'Kay, and John L. Woods.
During the Conference year 3 ministers had died, viz. : James Tobias, born in
Belfast July 11, 1803 ; entered the ministry in 1829 ; and died in Dublin, August
25, 1882, in the 80th year of his age and 53d of his ministry.
Daniel Henderson, born near Bally connel in 1798; entered the ministry, 1824;
and died June 7, 1883, in the 85th year of his age and the 59th of his ministry.
Thomas Hickey, born in Dublin Feb. 15, 1815 ; entered the ministry in 1835 ;
and died June 24, 1882, in his 68th year, and in the 47th of hia ministry.
The ("onference work for 1883-34 embraces 135 circuits and stations, divided into
10 districts, with a total assignment of 237 itinerant ministers, including 43 super-
numeraries, and 2 ministers who received permission to emigrate — one to Australia,
and the other to New Zealand.
Irish Conference Circuit Statistics for 1883.
The Circuit statistical and financial returns for 1883 furnish the following aggre-
gates:
Number of lay members in Society 24,384
Number on trial for membership 668
Total lay membership 25,050
Emigrations during the year 486
Number of deaths during year 414
Eeceipts for Home Mission on Contingent Fund $17,546
Receipts for Supernumeraries' and Widows' Fund 3,007
Eeceipts for Chapel Fund 2,321
Eeceipts for Education Fund 1,091
Eeceipts for Orphan Fund 3,166
Eecipts for Mission Fund 26,587
Total receipts for Connectional Funds $53,718
Irish Connectionai, Officers for 1883-84.
Eev. Wm. Crook, D.D., nommated for the delegation of the next yearly Con-
ference to be held in Hull.
Dr. Wm. Crook, John D. Powell, and Eobert Boyd, Eepresentatives to the Brit-
ish Conference.
Eev. Wallace M' Mullen, General Secretary of Home Missioas.
Rev. Oliver M'Cutcheon and James H. Swanton, Esq., J. P., Dublin, Treasurers
of the Home Mission and Contingent Fund.
Eev. Oliver M'Cutcheon and Rev. Robert Kerr, with Messrs. James H. Swanton,
J. P., and Samuel Griffin, Treasurers of the Union Guarantee Fund.
Rev. James Wilson and Rev. Wallace M'MuUen, Secretaries of the Union Guar-
antee Fund.
Eev. George Vance and Mr. Eobert Humphries, of Cork, Treasurers of the Chil-
dren's Fund.
Eev. John Gileriest, Secretary of Children's Fund.
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Eev. Joseph M'Kay, D.D., and E. K. Matthewson, of Belfast, Treasurers of
Auxiliary Fund (Supernumerary Methodist Ministers' and Widows' Fund.)
Eev. Eobert KeiT, Secretary of Auxiliary Fund.
Eev. John Donald, D.D., Secretary and Treasurer of Itinerant Methodist Preach-
ers' Annuitant Society.
Eev. James Eobertson, 2 Newgrove, Dublin, Secretary of Building and Chapel
Fund.
Eev. W. Gerard Price and Mr. Thos. Shillington, J.P., (Portadown,) Treasurei-s
of Building and Chapel Fund.
Eev. Samuel Hollingsworth, B.A., Belfast, Secretary of Education Fund.
Eev. Wm. Nicholas, B.A., and Eobert Crawford, Sligo, Treasurers of Education
Fund.
Eev. Wm. Ci'ook, D.D., Chairman, and Eev. James Donnelly, Convener, of the
General Committee of Management.
Eev. John T. Powell, Secretary, and Dr. Wm. Crook and Joseph M. Lynn,
M.D., Treasurers, of the Methodist Orphan Society.
Eev. J. Wesley Guard, Secretary, and Dr. Tlios. A. M'Kee and Mr. J. Lambert
Jones, of Dublin, General Treasurers, of tlie Hibernian Methodist and Missionary
Society.
Eev. Eobert Kerr, Secretary of the Committee of Privileges and Exigencies,
Eev. William G. Campbell, M.A., General Missionary.*
Eevs. Eobert Collier and John S. M'Dade, General Missionaries for the North
and North-west.*
Ibish Conference Methodist Colleges.
Metliodist College^ Belfast. — Eev. Joseph W. M'Kay, D.D., Principal, Treasurer,
and Theological Tutor. Henry E. Parker, Esq., LL.D., Head Master.
Wesley College, Dublin. — Eev. Thos. A. M'Kee, D.D., Governor and Chaplain.
Dr. M'Litosh, Head Master.
Irish Conference Thanksgiving Fi-nd.
The Fund was established by order of the Conference of ISSO for the purpose of
raising the sum of $100,000, (£20,000,) to be appropriated as follows:
1. To Metliodist Union Guarantee Fund (in addition to the amount of the
subscri]itions jireviously promised) £2,000
2. To Home Mission and Contingent Fund 8,000
3. To Methodist Orphan Fund 1,000
4. To aid in creating a Fund for the Educatir.n of Ministers' Daughters 3,000
6. For the reduction' of the debt on Wesley College, Dublin 4,000
6. To the Methodist College, Belfast, to aid in providing Theological Train-
ing for Students who are accepted Candidates ibr the Ministry 1,000
7. For Foreign Missions 1,0()0
Total £20,000
Secretaries. — Eevs. Wesley Guard and E. Johnson, and Messrs. J. Lambert Jones
and George Chambers.
Ti-easiirers. — Eev. James Donnelly and Mr. Samuel M' Comas.
At the session of Conference held June 15, 1883, the subscriptions to this Fund
■were reported as in hopeful progress, the whole to be closed by Jan. 1, 1884.
* Tho General Missionaries are under the direction of the General Committee of Mnnape-
inoiit. Thi^ August District Meeting send to the Secretary of the Home Mission and Con-
tingent Fund their sug-gestions as to the iilaoes in which the missionaries shall be employed
during the year, the season at which they shall visit each place, and the length of time they
shall spend in it.
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Irish Conference Sessions.
The Annual Sessions are now held under an order of Conference directing tliat,
in a cycle of eight years, the Conference shall meet three times in Dublin, three
times in Belfast, and twice in Corlv, thus :
18T8.. Dublin
1S79 Belfast
1880 Dublin
1881 Cork
1882 Belfast
1883 DLihliu
1884 Belfiust
1885 Cork
Irish Conference Calendar for 1884.
Tlie 103d Annual Session opens June 13, at 10 A.M.
The Stationing Committee meets June 11, morning.
The Open Session, June 19, evening.
The Financial and Easiness Session, June 20, morning.
The President's Sermon, June 20, evening.
Tiie Sunday-school Convention, June 21, afternoon and evening.
The Conference of 1884 will consist of 120 ministers and 120 laymen, allocated
to the several Districts as follows :
Districts. Ministers. Liiymen.
Euniskillen 10 11
Clones 8 7
Londonderry 9 8
Belfast 24 IS
Portadown 14 1 1
Districts. Ministers. Lavmen
Dublin 23 If.
Waterford 8 7
Cork.. 11 10
Limerick 7 7
Sligo 6 7
Total Ministers from the Districts 1 20
Total Laymen from the Districts 102
Lay Treasurers of Connectional Funds 8
Laymen to be selected by Committees ; 10
Total Ministerial and Lay Members 240
" The District Meetings may give ministers leave to attend the Conference for
special reasons, providing tliat lodgings otherwise available for those who go of-
ficially shall not be occupied ; that the Lord's Day services on the circuits be ef-
ficiently supplied ; and that such ministers pay their own expenses."
When any vacancy occurs in the membeship of the Representative Conference
by the death of an ex-ofiicio member, " the Committee to which he stood related
shall elect a Eepresentative to Conference in the place of such deceased member."
St.vnding Orders of the Irish Conference.
The Chairmen of Districts (who are all stationed ministers) are directed to visit
each circuit in their respective districts to which only one minister is appointed,
at least once in each j"ear, whenever it is at all practicable, and, if possible, at the
time of holding a quarterly meeting.
A Fee of Six Guineas, including the stamp duty, shall be chargeable for each
Special Mamage License. Such licenses may be obtained from the Secretary of
the Conference.
In all cases in which testimonials to ministers or preachers on trial who may
leave the Irish Connection are applied for, " and the Conference deems it right to
grant them, such credentials shall be signed by its Secretary for the time being.
The Conference disapproves of the practice of giving private testimonials, and
hereby declares that it is not accountable for any that may be so given."
For the prevention of unauthorized persons from preaching in chapels, the Con-
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ference orders that " no stranger shall be sutfered to preach in any of our places
of worship unless he comes fully accredited ; if an itinerant [>reacher, by having
his name entered on the Minutes of the Conference of which he is a member ; and,
if a local preacher, by a recommendatory note from his superintendent."
Each superintendent shall keep a list of all the families who usually or occa-
sionally attend our preaching services on both Sabbath and week-days, giving the
name and address of each member in the family ; such list shall be left for his suc-
cessor; and in order to secure accuracy in such returns, a book for the purpose
shall be kept on each circuit.
No minister shall be appointed to a circuit on which he had formerly been
stationed unless he has been absent from it at least six years.
The Chairmen of Districts are directed to inquire at the August District Meetings
as to the time when the ministers arrived in tlieir respective circuits.
In case of the removal of members of society from one circuit to another, the
Conference orders :
1. When any of the members of our Society shall remove from one circuit to
another, a certificate shall in each case be furnished by one of the ministers to the
person removing, sealed, and directed to the superintendent of the circuit to
which the party is about to remove. At tlie same time a note shall be sent to the
superintendent by post, informing him of the person so removing.
2. Each superintendent shall be required to keep a list of the names of the
persons leaving his circuit, with an account of the places to whieli tliey remove,
together with the date of each letter sent by post, as alcove directed ; the list to be
jiroduced at the May District Meeting, and brought by the Chairman to the Con-
ference.
Special Suggestions for Promoting the Work of God in Each Circuit.
1. The superintendents of circuits and stations are directed " to appoint a
Special Society Meeting, to be held in each principal chapel in their cii-cuits,
either on the afternoon of the Lord's Day, or on some convenient evening of the
week, for the purpose of having the Pastoral Address read to the Society, and
made the subject of suitable remarks and exhortations. Inquiry to be made at the
May District Meetings whether this regulation has been observed.
2. " The Conference is fully convinced that, under the Divine blessing, the spirit-
ual health of the Societies must mainly depend upon the efficiency of the public
and divinely instituted ordinances of religion, and upon the regular observance
and profitable character of our class-meetings and other private means of grace ;
and therefore exhorts all the ministers to use their best efforts to sustain the in-
terest and secure the full effect of those ordinary opportunities of religious im-
provement which are in use in our community.
3. " And as the best human arrangements for the promotion of the work of God
among men can be of no avail unless succeeded by the Divine blessing, we have
appointed the first Friday in September, December, March, and June to be ob-
served as days of fasting, humiliation, and prayer." . . .
4. With reference to " the religious instruction and pastoral care of the young,"
the Conference recommends a continuance of effort on each circuit to promote a
work of so much acknowledged importance, and that classes of young persons of
twelve years old and upward be formed, for whose instruction the ministers shall
be responsible, they employing such agents as may be deemed necessary to co-
operate with them. The Chairmen of Districts are directed to make inquiry at
their Annual District Meetings in May as to the observance of this recommenda-
tion.
Methodist Year-Book. 303
The Pirst South African Conference *
The Conference of the Wesleyan Methodist Churches of South Africa, autliorized
by the action of the Britisli Wesleyan Conference of the previous year, met and or-
ganized April 10, 1883, under the presidency of Rev. John Walton, M.A. Eev. R.
Lamplough was appointed Secretary, and Eevs. S. E. iJowe and H.. Tindall, As.si>t-
ant Secretaries. Eev. J. Smith Spencer was appointed official letter-writer.
After an address by the President the various routine matters of the Conference
were taken up, occupying two days, and an open session was held. A day was
given largely to a Conversation on the Work of God.
The statistical report of members was read, showing that the number of full and
accredited Church members was 20,739, an increase of 1,629 in the year. It was
ordered that a special pastoral address be printed in the Kaffir and Dutch languages,
for native Churches. Tbe President was relieved from circuit work, and he was
requested to reside at Grahamstown, where it was decided the next Conference
should be held, to meet on April 15, 1884. Two candidates were admitted into full
connection, and live recommended to be received into full comiection with the Brit-
ish Conference. Committees were appointed to deal with several matters atl'ecting
Kaffir beer-drinking, polygamy, dowry, etc.
April 17 the Mi.^ed Conference commenced its sessions. There were present lay
representatives from five districts. Much time was given to the discussion and con-
sideration of educational and financial matters. It was decided to adopt the name
approved by the Pastoral Conference, " The Conference of the Wesleyan Methodist
Church of South Africa," as its legal and Connectional name and title. Steps were
taken for the organization of various fund societias, and, after much ministerial
business, adjourned the 24th.
At the session of the British Wesleyan Conference of 1883, pending the question
of granting the application for a separate Conference jurisdiction, Eev. John Kilner,
Senior Missionary Secretary of the British Wesleyan Conference, said, in an ex-
haustive and eloquent argument in favor of the motion :
They (the ministers and laymen of the South African work") know all these re-
sponsibilities, and they accept the onus, and tliey will carry these burdens in ac-
cordance with the covenant you have made with them. Even now their gifts to the
support of their own Connection amount to the noble sum of £45,000 out of the
£60,000 which their work costs. And I think, Mr. President, we have in all this
an ample and satisfactory cause for our being grateful to God and proud of our sons
in the Gospel.
As a new Conference they have now a Methodist history to make, Methodist vic-
tories to win, Methodist traditions to hand down from generation to generation.
And, sir, they have a new country and a large country before them. The social and
national life' of South Africa wdl be touched and influenced — yea, and greatly
molded — by that Connection. Confederation in South Africa is not an impos-
sibility.
You have, in the newly-organized Methodist Connection, a model for the con
verging of various forces and interests to one center for the general weal. And I am
sure of this, that other Churches will feel the throb of this Connectional life, not as
a stealthy Jesuit force, slyly seducing or slowly proselytizing, but as a real friend in
all types of evangelical "efibrt, while, at the same time, this new Connection will
prove a resisistle.ss bulwark against any assaults of saeeraotalism — a safe bulwark of
general freedom, because a resolute defender of the liberty of conscience.
Just look for a moment at the area covered by this South African Conference. It
* Methodism was introduced, by Baruabas aud William Shaw, into South Africa among the
settlers of 1820.
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extends from the Cape to the Vaal River, and from Natal to Namaqualand. And,
then, think of the races and tribes reached by tlie agencies of tlie Conference — the
Hottentot, the TembuSj the Pondos, the Bara'longs, and the Zulus ; and think, also,
of her position, and weigh her influence among the colonists of South Africa — tlie
leading men of the Cape, Grahamstown, Port Elizabeth, King Williamstown,
Queenstown, Durban, Pietermaritzburg, Kimberley, Bloemibntein — all centers of
commercial activity. And I may remark, what, perhaps, is not generally known in
England, our intluence in these places is second to none. And, then, consider the
mission stations this Conference will have under her control — those centers of ren-
ovating forces in the very heart of the ruling tribes of South Africa.
And, then, Mr. President, I think we ought to thank God, and take courage,
when we think of the men who, by a gracious Providence, are now on the ground
to carry out the grand purposes of this great scheme. There is Kichard Eidtrill, tlie
friend of Punshon, and his peer in Dutch literature and pulpit oratory ; and Henry
Tindall, a master of the most difficult of all Soutli African languages ; and William
Tyson, a profound theological and biblical scholar; and Peter Hixrgreavos, one of
the most apostolic of modern missionaries ; and S. Evans Eowe, whom this Confer-
ence has not yet forgotten as a statesman and Methodist expert ; and Jonathan
Smith Spencer, with his power in the pulpit and on the platform ; and Ezra Nuttal,
the brother of a bishop, and, what is better, a bishop himself, voluntarily surren-
dering honors as an English preacher that he may give his great powers to the
educating and training ot a native ministry ; and Owen Watkins, a modern Pauline
pioneer ; and Theopholus Chubb, B. A., giving himself to the most missionary work
in the most missionary district in South Africa ; and H. S. Barton, who, yonder in
Griqualand West, is finding gems far brighter than the diamonds of the Kimberley
Mines, in the thousands of the natives from some twenty or thirty lingual sections
of South Africa, who come to work in those diamond mines ; and Eobert Lam-
plough, the model secretary of that or of any Conference; and Frederick Mason,
their coming man, and a very wise and trusted missionary-statesman ; and, then,
Mr. President, to crown all there is John Walton, M.A., the graceful orator, the ex-
perienced missionary, and the master administrator — yes, sir, and a hundred
younger brethren, all eager for work and for the advancement of Methodism, sec-
onded by a hundred native ministers, grand and trustworthy men. I think, then, I
may, without a shadow of a doubt, or a twinge of fear, or one moment's hesitation,
commend this address of the brethren of the South African Conference — laymen ana
ministers all — to your loving confidence and continued sympathy.
Semi-Oentenary of Methodism in Liberia.
The Semi-Centennial of Methodism, pursuant to the action of the Liberia Meth-
odist Episcopal Conference, was held on August 22, 1883. Eev. Melville B. Cox
ai-rived in 1833. The first society was formed on board the ship Elizabeth, that
bore the first company of emigrants to this portion of Western Africa. The Meth-
odist Episcopal Church was handsomely decorated with mottoes and floral devices.
Sunday morning the pastor, Eev. C. A. Pitman, delivered a discourse on the great
work of the Church of Christ in Africa. The needs of Methodism were specifically
set forth, particularly its educational wants. A considerable sum was contributed
to be devoted to educational purposes. In the afternoon the Sunday-school had
special exercises of recitations and musical performance. Hon. H. E. W. Johnson
delivered an interesting address, showing the unity of religious ideas, and pointed
out that Methodism was coeval with the establishment of the colony of Africa. He
referred to the effect it had made on the native tribes in the days when the work
was vigorously pushed. The necessity of an independent organization of Method-
ism in this country was asserted as essentially necessary to vigorous life and local
activity. The school and audience made further contributions, and the sum for the
day amounted to between three and four hundred dollars. The celebration closed
with a missionary meeting in the evening, when several addresses were made.
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Centenary of the Organization of American MethodisnL
HisTOEio Eecord.
The General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, in 1873,
three years be+bre the meeting of the Ecumenical Conference, adopted the follow-
ing resolutions :
Whereas, The year 1884 will be the Centenary of American Methodism, the
Methodist Episcopal Church having been organized in the city of Baltimore, De-
cember, 1784; and.
Whereas, That event ought to be commemorated by all tlie Methodists on thia
Continent ; therefore,
liesolved, TJiat the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
South, now assembled in Atalauta, Ga., deem it desirable that a Conference of
Methodists in the United States, the Dominion of Canada, and other parts of the
Continent of America, be held in the city of Baltimore, at Christmas, in the year
1SS4, that being the Centenary of the organization of the Methodist Church in
Auierica.
Resolved, That the Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, be re-
quested, in behalf of this Conference, to open a correspondence on this subject
witli tlie Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church, tlie Presidents of the several
Canada Conferences, and all other Methodist bodies on this Continent.
Resolved, That the Bishops and Presidents aforesaid be, and the same are,
hereby requested to mature a programme for the solemn observance of the Cen-
tenary of the organization of American Methodism in the city of Baltimore, De-
cember '25, 1784." (Adopted May 18, 187S.J
Action of the General Conference or 1880.
The General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, held in Cincinnati,
1880, appointed the following Committee on the Centennial: Dr. \V. F. Mallalieu,
of New England Conference; Mr. Isaac N. Hall, of Vermont; Dr. S. L. Baldwin,
of Foochow; Mr. Joseph Hillman, of Troy ; Eev. E. Cunningham, of North India;
Mr. Francis H. Root, of Genesee ; Dr. Jacob Todd, of Philadelphia ; Mr. Horace
Benton, of Nortli Ohio ; Eev. S. B. Darnell, of Florida ; Mr. Wilson Cook, of South
Carolina; Eev. Joseph S. Woods, of Indiana; Mr. Mills Gardner, of Ohio; Dr. E.
Q. Fuller, of Georgia; Mr. Wm. H. Crogman, of Savannah; Eev. F. D. Hemen-
way, of Michisran ; Mr. Sumner Howard, of Detroit ; Eev. L. N. Wheeler, of Wis-
consin ; Mr. W. F. Johnson, of Upper Iowa ; Dr. D. P. Mitchell, of South Kansas ;
Mr. Fi-ank T. Campbell, of Iowa ; Dr. B. F. Crary, of Colorado ; Mr. Charles C.
White, of Nebraska; Eev. C. Uibantke, of Southern German; and Mr. Andrew
Geineker, of Western German Conference.
This Committee reported to the General Conference, May 21, as f illows :
Report of Centennial Committee, No. 1.
The Centennial Committee, having met and attended to the duty assigned them,
beg leave to make the following report :
1. They recommend that the year 1884 be observed as the Centennial of the or-
ganization of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
2. That this General Conference order the appointment of a commission, such
appointment to be made by the Bishops, of one from each mission district, wlio
shall make all needful arfansrements for carrying out the observance of the Cen-
teimial throughout the entire Church.
3. That the Centennial gifts be made for the following objects:
(1) Education.
(•2) The extinguishment of Church debts.
(3) Fund for superannuates,
(4) General mis.sions.
(5j Home evangelization.
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4. That $10,000,000 be the minimum sum to be asked for in behalf of the before-
mentioned enterprises of the Church.
5. That each pastor, throughout the entire Church, be requested to prepare and
preach a special Centennial sermon on each of the benevolent causes recommended
in this report.
6. That each pastor be requested to preachan Historical Centennial sermon on the
last Sunday of 1884.
7. That each Annual Conference take measures to observe the Centennial, by the
appointment of one of its members to preach a Centennial sermon at the session of
the Conference held durinf; 1884.
8. Tliat Bishop Simpson, with Bishop Foster as alternate, be requested to preach
a Centennial sermon before the General Conference of 1884.
9. That a mass meeting, or Centennial convention, be held in each presiding elder's
district, as early as practicable, in the year 1884, at which all the benevolent causes
recommended in this report be considered, together with all other matters of special
interest connected with the Centennial.
10. That on Christmas, or at some time during Christmas week, special services
be arranged for all our children, and particularly for our Sunday-schools, by means
of which all our young people may be thoroughly interested in the history of the
Church, and led to take an active part in its future developmoni and growth.
11. That all our preachei-s and people be careful to make the year 1884 one of
special consecration to the service of God, and that, fas ar as possible, constant and
prayerful efforts may be put forth by all to secure the universal renewal of pure and
undefiled religion, to the end that scriptural holiness may be spread over all lands.
Let this important work begin with the Watch-night Service ot December 31, 1883.
all over the world, and continue, as God shall help, through the entire Centennial
year.
12. That a committee of three ministers and three laymen be appointed by each
Annual Conference, during the session held in 1883, who shall co-operate with tlia
Centennial Commission ordered by this General Conference, in carrying out all
plans and measures necessary for a proper and successful observance of our Cen-
tennial year. W. F. Mallalieu, Chairman.
Jos. HiLLMAN, Secretary.
At the same General Conference the Standing Committee on Education, after
considering a memorial from the Educational Convention, asking for the appoint-
ment of a Centennial Education Commission, presented a report recommending —
That the General Conference provide for and order a general centennial effort, to
be made by all our people, during the coming quadrennium, in couimemoration of
the approaching close of the first century in tlie history of our Church, to promote
the cause of education ; and that the enterprise embrace the following particulars :
1. To secure a proper control of all the schools of every grade that shall be recog-
nized as bulongino; to the Methodist Episcopal Church.
2. To secure a liberal endowment of all these institutions.
3. To guard, as far as possible, against the loss or pecuniary embaiTassment of
any such institutions.
4. To enlarge the funds, under the charge of the Board of Education, devoted to
tlie assistance of needy students.
To carry out these provisions we would further recommend that the Bishops ap-
point a "Centennial Commission," to consist of two of their own number, and one
minister and one layman from each General Conference District, and that this com-
mission have full power to provide plans and means for the above purposes, and to
carry them into execution.
In behalf of the Committee. Geo. S. Hare, Chairman.
F. D. Hemenway, Secretat'y.
Both of the above reports were presented, and ordered printed. May 21, and on
May 27 (the day previous to the final adjournment) came up for action, but, pend-
ing the decision of some amendments which were proposed, the whole matter was
referred to the Bishops, with instructions to report a plan for the whole Church.
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Centennial Paper Signed ky American Methodist Delegates in London.
At the Ecumenical Conference in London, in 1881, the following paper was
drawn up, at the instance of Mr. H. K. Carroll, of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
and signed by a large number of the American delegates:
Ecumenical Methodist Conference, City Eoad Chapel, I
London, E. C, Sept. 19, 1881. \
The undersigned, delegates from Methodist Churches in America to the Ecu-
menical Methodist Conference, join in commending to the fiivorable consideration
of our respective Churches the holding of a commemorative Centennial meeting in
1884, to l)e composed of representatives (clerical and lay) from all Methodist bodies
in American :
Methodist Episcopal Church. — M. Simpson, Jesse T. Peck, Henry "W. Warren,
J. M. Walden, A. Wheeler, Clinton B. Fisk, Oliver Hoyt H. K. Carroll, O. H.
WarreDj^C. H. Payne, A. C. George, S. L. Baldwin, J. W. Wausrh, Francis S.
Hoyt, W. S. Edwards, A. J. Kynett, George W. Frost, E. D. Huntley, R. S.
Maclay, E. Q. Fuller, G. R. Crooks, J. P. Newman, 0. H. Titfanv, C. E. Felton,
C. A. Van Anda, J. Braden, P. S. Donelson, J. B. Stitt, Wm. N.'M'Elroy, J. M.
Buckley, A. Edwards, B. K. Peirce, Otis Gibson, Benj. St. James Fry, J. M.
Eeid, E. 0. Staunard, W. C. De Pauw, George W. Peck, Henry Liebhart, David
M'Williams, O. A. Horton. James M. King, L. M. Vernon, Honier Eaton, W. H.
Kincaid, J. W. M'Donald, W. R. Davis, W. W. Evans, J. Dorman Steele.
JMetJivdist Episcopal Chinch., Sovtit. — H. N. M'Tyeire, E. E. Wiley, Edward H.
East, David Morton, G. W. Horn, S. H. Werlein, J. 0. A. Clark, H. V. M. Mil-
ler, J. B. M'Ferrin, W. W. Bennett, J. B. A. Ahrens, F. Asbury Mood, C. G.
Andrews, Thomas S. Moorman, W. H. Potter, Walter Clark.
Methodist Fn^otestant Church. — S. B. Soatherland,* J. H. Robinson, C. W.
Button.
African Methodist Episcopal Church.— Da.m&\ A. Payne, Wm. F. Dickerson,
J. P. Shorter, Alexander Clark, John M. Brown, A. Thos. Carr, F. W. Morris.
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. — J. W. Hood, Joseph P. Thompson,
J. C. Price, J. M'H. Farley.
Colored Methodid Flpiscopal Church.— Z . H. Holsey.
Independent Methodist Church. — Chai'les M. Giffin.
On March 22, 1882, a meeting, of which J. M. King, D.D., was Chainnan, and
Mr. H. K. (,'arroll. Secretary, of such Ecumenical Conference delegates as resided
in New York city and vicinity, and had represented the Methodist Episcopal Church
in London, was held in the Mission Board Room, 805 Broadway, New York, and
a Provisional Committee constituted to bring the subject of the Centenary celebra-
tion before the Church.
On May 3, a Joint Committee, consisting of members of the Provisional Com-
mittee, and of duly appointed representatives of Annual Conferences and Ministers'
Meetings of the Church, met in the city of New York, and adopted an address to
the Board of Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church, asking them to appoint
a committee of Bishops, ministers, and laymen, to co-operate with similar com-
mittees of other Methodist bodies in making arrangements for the holding of a
Centennial Conference in 1884. The Committee also sent a communication to the
General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, stating what steps
had been taken, and expressing a confident hope that, if that Conference deemed
it wise to provide for a committee on their part, there would be a similar com-
mittee ^pointed on behalf of tlie Methodist Episcopal Church.
Action of the Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
The Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church, at their session in Detroit, in
May, 1882, appointed the committee as follows :
* Dr Southerland subsequently withdrew his name.
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Bishops : Simpson, Andrews, Wiley, and Hurst.
Ministers : Ruv. Drs. L. Hitchcock, C. N. ISims, A. Longacre, J. W. Joyce, C.
H. FowLer, J. F. Goucher, Daniel Dorchester, Sr., M. D'O. Crawford, tSaudlbrd
Hunt, D. A. Goodsell, Joseph Horner.
Laymen: G. 1. Seney, J. B. Cornell, G. J. Ferry, A. V. Stout, Charles Scott,
J. A. Wright, William Claflin, Tlieodore Eunyon, D. H. Wheeler, John Owen,
Amos Shinkle.
Following are the Minutes of the first meeting of the Committee ai>i)ointed by
tlie Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Chm-oh :
Such members as could be conveniently reached were invited by Bishop Simpson
to meet at 805 Broadway, New Vork, Thursday evening, Nov. 9, I8b:i, at 8 I'.M.
In response to this invitation the followmg members were present:
Bishops : Simpson, Wiley, Andrews, and Hurst.
Ministers: J. F. Goucher, C. H. Fowler, S. Hunt, A. Longacre, D. A. Goodsell,
M. D'C. Crawford.
Laymen: D. H Wheeler, John A. Wright, J. B. Cornell.
Bishop Simpson stated the object of the meeting, namely, to hold a preliminary
consultation as to matters intrusted to the Committee.
D. A. Goodsell was chosen Secretary.
On motion of Bishop Hurst, H. K! Carroll was invited to co-operate with the
Committee.
H. K. Carroll stated facts concerning the orisrin of the movement to celebrate the
organization ot the Methodist Episcopal Church at the Cliristmas Conference of
1784, and the assent and dissent of members of various Methodistic bodies to the
proposal.
Bisliop Andrews moved that a Committee of Correspondence and Counsel be ap-
pointed to confer with representatives of other Methodist bodies with regard to tlie
proposed celebration, and to prepare, in conjunction with such representatives,
plans for the consideration of the United Committees, and to unite with such repre-
sentatives in calling a meeting of the several Committees.
Pending the consideration of this resolution, the meeting adjourned to meet at
9 A.M. Friday, Nov. 10, in the Bisliops' Kooni, 805 Broadway.
Second Session.
The Committee met Friday at 9 A.M. in the Bishops' Room, 805 Broadway,
Bishop Simpson in the Chair. The consideration of the resolution of Bishop An-
drews was by unanimous consent deferred for the purpose of considering the fol-
lowing resolution offered by Bishop Wiley :
Jiesolved, That it is the judgment of this Committee that it is desirable to hold a
Centennial Conference in 1884 to celebrate the organization of the Methodist Epis-
copal Churcli in Amerlcaj and that it is desirable that all organizations of American
Methodism should unite in the celebration.
This resolution was passed unanimously. The consideration of the resolution of
Bishop Andrews was then resumed. It was amended and adopted unanimously as
follows :
Eesolved, That a Committee of Counsel and Correspondence be appointed to com-
municate with representatives of otlier Methodist Cliurches on matters relating to
the proposed celebration of the organization of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and
that tliis Committee be empowered to unite with such representatives in calling a
general meeting of such representatives of the participating Churches, and in pre-
paring plans for such celebration for their consideration.
It was then ordered that a committee of five should be appointed under this reso-
lution, and the following were appointed: Chairman, Bishop Simpson ; also J. F.
Goucher, H. K. Carrollj D. A. Goodsell, and Andrew Longacre.
Previous to the appointment of this committee, H. K. Carroll was chosen to fill
the vacancy caused by the absence in Europe, through illness, of A. V. St(»ut.
It was then ordered that a copy of tlie minutes be sent to absent rnembers by the
Secretary, asking their approval of these proceedings, and explaining the reason
why they were not notified.
On motion, it was ordered that the terms used were intended to include Canadiaa
Methodism.
The Committee then adjourned at call of the chair.
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Circular Letter to Other Methodist Churches.
The Committee of Counsel and Correspondence named above, met, and chose
Bishop Simpson as Chairman, and Mr. H. K. Carroll as Secretary. The Committee
sent the following letter to all Methodist bodies in the United States and Canada:
New York, December 25, 1882.
Dear Brethren — The Board of Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church
appointed, at their spring session, a committee of twenty-six, including four of
tneir own number, eleven ministers and eleven laymen, to consider the matter of
holdmg a Methodist Centennial Conference in Baltimore in 1884. This committee
met in New York city, November 9,10, Bishop Simpson presiding, and adopted a
resolution approving the proposal to hold a Conference in celebration of the Cen-
tenary of the " Organization of the Methodist Episcopal Church," and declaring
that it is desirable ihat the various branches of Methodism in America should be
represented in it. The Committee appointed a subcommittee of Counsel and Cor-
respondence, consisting of the following persons : Bishop Simpson, (Chairman,) D.
A. Goodsell, D.D., the Eev. J. F. Goucher, the Eev. Andrew Longacre, and Mr.
H. K. Carroll, (Secretary.)
The subcommittee was instructed to communicate with representatives of other
Metiiodist Churches " on matters relating to the proposed celebration," and to
"unite with them in calling a general meeting" of the committees of the partici-
pating Churches, and in preparing plans for its consideration.
It seems to us, dear brethren, very desirable that all the members of the Method-
ist family in America which trace (with us) their origin back to the Christmas
Conference of 1784, to the first societies of 176(5, and thence to the rise of Method-
ism in England, should take part in this Conference. Though the one body of
1784 has now become many bodies, yet we are closely bound together in one fam-
ily, and are ecclesiastically descended from the same holy men whose organization
a century ago we propose to celebrate. As Paul and Apollos and Cephas are not
divided to our common Christianity, so Wesley and Asbury and Garretlson and
Wliatcoat and Ware are not divided to our common Methodism. TJiey are equally
our heritage. It was not intended or desired by our C'-mmittee, in the use of the
phrase " organization of the Methodist Episcopal Church," to confine the celebra-
tion to that bodj' which has retained the original name, nor even to those bodies
which are denominated Episcopal. We use the words in a historic sense. It
would, therefore, give great pleasure to our Committee to unite with committees of
other Methodist Churches in preparing plans for the Conference.
We do not, brethren, claim priority in this movement. Tlie Methodist Episcopal
Church, South, took, we believe, in its General Conference of 1878, the first oflieial
action in favor of the celebration. Its representatives in the Ecumenical Conference
last fall, in common with those of other American Churches, signed a recommenda-
tion for a Conference in 1884, and its General Conference of May, 1882, appointed
a committee to deal with the matter. It seems to us that the time has conje when
correspondence ought to be opened, and we have ventured, without con>ultiiig
with that body, to send to you and to other Methodist Churches this letter. We
hope most sincerely that you will see your way clear to take steps to have a com-
mittee appointed, either formally or informally, which shall be empiowered to enter
into correspondence and to assist in prcparmg plans for the approval of a general
meetintr of committees of the Churches to be called next year.
Will you do us the favor to reply to this letter as soon as possible, in order that
it may be known whether your Church will probably participate in the celebra-
tion ? We also desire very much to have you make any suggestions touching the
preliminaries that may occur to you. By free interchange of ideas we may soon
arrive at satisfactory conclusions.
Trusting that it may be our privilege to co-operate with representives of all the
Methodist Churches in the United States and Canada in preparing for a grand
Methodist assembly at Baltimore in 1884, and that the celebration will result in
advancing the interests of our common Methodism and the cause of Christ,
We are youi-s, very truly, M. Simpson, Chaii'man.
H. K. Carroll, Seaxtary.
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Action of the General Coxference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South, May 24, 1882.
Your Committee to whom was referred tliat part of the Bishops' Address respect-
ing the Centenary of American Methodism, and also a paper from leading ministers
and laymen of the Methodist Episcopal Church on toe joint celebration of that
event in the city of Baltimore, in December, 1884:, after carefully considering the
same, submit the following report :
The religious movement called Methodism, which by the middle of the eighteenth
century had spread over England, soon ibllowed English-speaking people to the re-
mote colonies, and by 1766 was introduced into America by the zeal of Barbara
Heok and the faitbful preaching of Philip Embury and Captain Webb. Three
years later the movement had taken so kindly to American soil that, in response to
Mr. Wesley's call at the British Conference, " Who will go to the help of our breth-
ren in America ? " Eicliard Boardman and Joseph Pilmoor offered their services, and
were promptly aided in coming by the liberality of their brethren in the Confer-
ence. A few years later Mr. Wesley himself was urged to come, but, unable to do
so, he sent Francis Asbury, a man the most like Wesley in executive power, untiring
labors, and consuming zeal, ever given to the Church. Appointed Superintendent
in 1772, he soon introduced the plans of work which had been successfully tested in
England, and put the impress of his organizing mind on the infant societies. In
the absence of ordained preachers the people were dependent on the English clergy
for the sacraments. The Kevolutionary War causing the return of most of these, it
was necessary to organize the "few sheep_ in the wilderness" into a Church of their
own, where not only the word of God might be preached, but the sacraments duly
admmistered. Of the eighty-three traveling preachers in the New World sixty
were assembled at the memorable Christmas Conference in the city of Baltimore, in
December, 1784, to welcome Thomas Coke, LL.D., recently set apart and ordained
by Mr. Wesley to the office of Superintendent or Bishop of the Methodist Societies
in America. He and Francis Asbury were chosen to this high office by the voice
of the Conference, and twelve faithful men were elected and ordained elders. At
this time, with the adoption of our Articles of Religion and the general system of
discipline which has since governed us, tlie scattered societies became a fully organ-
ized Church. We thus antedated by some five years the organization of the con-
stitutional government of the country, and in 1789 the Methodist Episcopal Church,
through their Bishops, presented a congratulatory address to President Washington,
on his assuming the duties of his office.
Thus, in the providence of God, Methodism took an organic shape in a land pe-
culiarly favorable to its growth, until, within less than a hundred years, our eighty-
three traveling preachers have Dccorae more than twenty- seven thousand, and her
few hundred members over four million. This numerical showing is in keeping
with her moral and religious influence in the New World. What with the extent
and character of her periodical literature, her institutions crowded by the youth of
the land, the thousands annually converted at her altars, and the countless multi-
tudes WHO attend upon her service, Methodism is an incalculable power in the
land of her adoption. Her responsibility to God and man is augmented in like pro-
portion. At the General Conference of 1878 action was first taken looking to "a
Conference of Methodists in the United States and Canada, and other parts of the
continent of America, to lie held in the city of Baltimore, at Christmas in 1884,"
and the Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, were " requested, in be-
half ot the Conference, to open a correspondence on this subject with the Bishops
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, the Presidents of the several Canadian Confer-
ences, and of all other Methodist bodies on this continent." In view of the action
already taken we submit the following resolutions :
BesoLved, 1. That, in grateful acknowledgment of God's signal mercies and of our
increased prosperity and responsibility, we will endeavor, during the year 1884, to
raise the sum of two million dollars, to be applied equally to the cause of education,
Church extension, and foreign missions, save where donors shall give special di-
rection to their gifts, under the supervision of a committee hereafter named.
2. That a committee, consisting of twelve ministers and twelve laymen, to be ap-
pointed by the Bishops, shall, together with the Bishops, be charged with the duty
of collecting and administering "all funds collected for Connectional objects, and
that such committee make its report to the General Conference in 1886.
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3. That such committee "be authorized to organize suhcommittces i n every An-
nual Conference, who, jointly with these, may aid in collecting funds for botli local
and Connectional objects, and who shall report to the Central Committee as above
constituted all amounts raised for the payment of Church-debts the erection of
churches and parsonages, and all other local objects or needs as for Connectional
objects.
4. That the committee above provided for shall represent us in all correspondence
respecting the Conference to be held in Baltimore, in December, 1884, and that our
Bisliops be and are hereby authorized to appoint all necessary representatives fi-om
our Church to such Conferences.
Meeting or the Centenary Committee of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
South.
The Committee convened in the Bishops' Eoom at the Publishing House, at
Nashville, Tenn., Nov. 4, 1882, according to appointment, holding a session of two
days. Members present: Ministers — All the Bishops, E. E. Hendrix, H. P.
Walker, Samuel Eodgers, Samuel K. Cox, N. H. D. Wilson, J. 11. M'Lean, A. G.
Haj-good, C. B. Galloway, O. P. Fitzgerald. Laymen— G. D. Shands, W. C. Ire-
land, P. Meguiar. Dr. E. E. Hendrix presided, Dr. Fitzgerald, editor of the Nash-
ville " Christian Advocate," was appointed Secretary.
A communication was received from the Eev. Dr. James E. Evans, Commis-
sioner of Education for the colored people, calling the attention of the Committee
to his work, and bespeaking good-will and co-operation. The reading of the paper
elicited the informal expression of hearty approval of the object for which Dr.
Evans is laboring, and earnest wishes for his success.
The Eev. David Morton, Secretary of the Board of Church Extension, by invita-
tion, addressed the Board in relation to the operations of that Board in connection
with the Centennial celebration.
The following resolutions, embodying a proposed plan of Centenary observance,
were adopted :
Besolved, 1. That the leading object of this Centenary observance is the spiritual
improvement of our people by reviewing God's signal mercies during the hundred
years of our organic life, and by calling out in suitable monumental form our
gratitude for the'se blessings.
2. Tiiat the first Sabbath in January, 1884, he observed throughout the Church
as a day of devout prayer for the divine blessing upon the Centenary services of
the year, and for a general revival of religion, and that on that day our preachers
explain the nature and objects of the Centenary celebration, and especially urge
adnerence to those doctrines and usages of early Methodism that have contributed
under God to her spiritual power.
3. That each Annual Conference provide for the preaching of a Centenary ser-
mon before its own body, and that a committee of ministers and laymen in each
Conference be appointed by the Central Centenary Connnittee to an-ange for ap-
propriate Centennial services at such points in the Conference as may be deemed
test.
4. That the last Sabbaths in May and October, 1884, as each Annual Conference
mav designate, be observed as days of special Centenary service in all our churches
and mission stations, and that the Central Centenary "Committee be requested to
prepare a programme of exercises therefor.
5. That due attention be paid to a children's celebration of our Methodist Cen-
tenary, to be held at such time in 1884 as each Annual Conference may deter-
mine.
6. That a subcommittee of five be appointed to co-operate with like committees
of other Methodist bodies in arranging for a joint celebration of the Centenary
of the Christmas Conference held in Baltimore in 1784.
7. That a Central Centenary Committee, composed of three ministers and three
laymen, be appointed by the General Centenary Committee, whose duty it shall
be to correspond with the Annual Conference Centenary Committees ; to prepare
and publish all necessary documents, and to secure the intelligent and hearty co-
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operation of the whole Church, particularly in the matter of collections for Con-
nectional objects.
8. That special attention be given to raising funds for educational purposes.
That the Centenary Committee of each Annual Conference, the Central Committee
concurring, may designate the institution or institutions for whose benefit contrilm-
tions are made, provided that all donors may give directions to their contributions ;
and that all funds contributed for educational purposes, and not otlierwise directed,
shall be forwarded to the Central Committee, to constitute " A Centenary Educational
Fund," whose administration shall be determined by the next General Conference.
9. That the cause of Church Extension be strontjly urged upon the attention of
our people as a leading object for their contributions in 188-i, and that we seek to
raise a Loan Fund of $500,000.
10. That the Anglo-Chinese University at Shanghai, the mission-house and
church edifice in tlie City of Mexico, the mission-school at Kio de Janeiro, be
recommended as special objects for Centenary contributions in our mission tields.
11. That the Executive Committee, provided for in article 7, be constituted a
temporary Board of Trust, who shall take charge of and administer all funds
coming iiito the hands of this Committee until the creation of a permanent Board
of Trust, except funds for missionary and Church Extension purposes, which latter
they shall receive and pass over to their appropriate Boards.
12. That Bishop M'Tyeire he requested to prepare a suitable Centennial volume,
setting forth the salient points in the history of our American Methodism during
the first hundred years of its organic existence.
The following were appointed members of the Central Centenary Committee
named in the 7th resolution above: E.R. Ilendrix, D.D., Chairman; W. P. Har-
rison, D.D., Secretary; James Whitworth, Treasurer; Bishop H. N. M'Tyeire,
L. D. Palmer, J. G. Carter.
The following committee was appointed under the 6th resolution : Bishop A. W.
Wilson, Chairman; John S. Martin, D.D., Secretary; Samuel Rodgers, D.D., T.
J. Magruder, Charles Shipley.
The Committee adjourned to meet at the call of the Chairman.
The Bishops' Circulae Address to the Methodist Episcopal Church.
To the Ministers and Members of the Methodid Episcopal Church :
Dear Brethren— The General Conference, at its session in Cincinnati, in May,
18S0, api^ointed a Committee on the Centennial of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
and also referred to the Committee on Education a memorial asking for the appoint-
ment of a " Centennial Educational Commission." After the reports from these
Committees had been presented, the General Conference ordered " that the matter
be referred to the Bishops to devise a plan for the Centennial year, and report to
the Church as early as convenient."
In accordance with this direction the Bishops have considered the matters pre-
sented in these reports, as well as the general subject, and they presented the
Church the following suggestions :
1 . As the organization of the Methodist Episcopal Church occurred in the closing
week of 1784, and as the General Conference will assemble in May, 1884, the
Bishops consider it necessary to indicate at this time the order of religious services
to celebrate the anniversary, as full directions can be given by the General Con-
ference.
2. As preparatory measures, they recommend that the several Annual Con-
ferences, at their sessions in 1883, shall appoint a minister to preach a sermon on
the subject at their session in 1884, and shall aiTange for such other seiTices at the
Conference sessions as they may deem best. They also recommend the Annual
Conferences in 1883 to appoint a Committee of ministers and laymen, who shall
plan for such public meetings or conventions in the various parts of the Confer-
ence, and for such other services as may best promote the proposed objects.
3. As the German Churches contemplate the holding of jubilee services to com-
memorate their organization in 1835, we have, at the request of their Conferences,
so far modified the plan that they may combine their services in 1884 and in 1885.
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4. Thouj^li the religious services should be tlie cliief feature of the celebration, yet
as an expression of gratitude to God for his signal mercies and blessings during the
century, many generous persons liave already "arranged for approiriate thauk-otfer-
insrs; and it is greatly desii-able that the entire Church should unite in making such
offerings. We recommend that an earnest eftbrt be made to pay the inflebtedness
now existing on churches and parsonages before the commencement of 1884. Many
Churches have already moved in this matter ; and we are glad to note that in
several cities, and in a few districts, all tlie Cliurches have become free from em-
barrassment. We should greatly rejoice if, before the century sliall close, all existing
debts, especially those of long standing, should be liquidated, that the Churches
might more properly unite in Connectional otfcrings.
5. The chief object of Connectional ofterings should be the cause of education.
The future of tlie Church will, under God's blessing, largely depend on the culture
given to the youth. We commend to the liberality "of the Church, first, the Board
of Education ; second, the Freedmen's Aid Society ; third, Theological Schools ;
and fourth, such Seminaries, Colleges, and Universities as shall be selected by the
several Annual Conferences.
6. In addition to Educational Institutions, we recommend to the Church the
Chartered Fund and other asssociations which care tor the support of tlie super-
annuated preachers. Also the permanent funds of the various Church Boards,
such as Missions, Church Extension, Sunday-schools, and Tracts ; also the Trustees
of the Methodist Episcopal Church, who are empowered to receive and administer,
according to the will of the donors, any specific Church funds. Also benevolent
church institutions, such as Orphanages, Homes, and Hospitals which may be ap-
proved by the Annual Conferences. In all cases, however, their thank-offerings
should be for permanent funds, and should not interfere with the contribution or
disbursement of the annual collections. •
7. It is not our right to dictate to any member of the Church either the object or
the amount of his contribution. But we earnestly hope that in reviewing tlie his-
tory of the past, and in considering the great work which lies before us, e^ach mem-
ber of the Cliurch will esteem it a privilege to contribute to such enterprises as
shall bless humanit.y in all coming time.
8. We earnestly recommend that the .year of 18S4 be one of special personal con-
secration ; that we may humble ourselves before God, and fervently plead for that
precious baptism of the Holy Spirit, without which nothing good or great can be
accomplished.
Pra\ing that the blessing of God may rest upon the Church, and every member
thereof, we are, dear brethren, youi-s in" Christ Jesus.
Signed by order and in behalf of the Board of Bishops,
William L. IIakeis, Seo'etary.
CoimiTTEES OF COERESPOXPENCE.
Metlwdist Episcopal Church. — Bishop Simpson, Cliairman; H. K. Carroll, Sec-
retary; Eev. Messrs. D. li. Goodsell, D.D., J. F. Goucher, Alexander Longacre.
3Iethodist Episcopal Church., South. — Bishop A. W. Wilson, Chairman ; John S.
Martin, D.D., Secretary ; Samuel Eogers, D.D., T. J. Magruder, Charles Sliipley.
African MefhodM Episcopal Cliurch. — Bishop Campbell, Chairman ; Bishop
John M. Brown, T. G. Steward, D.D., Eev. Jaraes A. Handy, John T. Jenifer,
D.D., Messi-s. T. Smith, Isaiah Wears, T. T. Fortune.
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. — President J. C. Price, North Caro-
lina, Chairman. (Eest of committee not announced.)
Colored Methodist Episcopal Church. — Bishop Holsey, Bishop Beebe, the Eev. G.
W. Mosely.
Primitive Metlwdist Church. — Eastern Conference : The Eev. W. H. Yarrow,
Mr. W. A. Montignani. Western Conference : The Eev. Joseph Hewitt, Mr.
James Cioft.
Methodist Church of Canada.— 'Rev. John A, Williams, D.D., Eev. James Gard-
ner, D.D.
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AcnoN OF THE British Confebencb.
The attention of tlie Bfitish Wesleyan Conference at its sessioii, July 24, 1883, in
the city of Hull, was called by a memorial fro-na the First London District to the
subject of the American Methodist Ceotenary Celebration, and the following ]-ecord
was officially reported :
As the Deed of Declaration was signed on February 28, 1784-, and Methodism in
America received its recognition by the British Conference in that year, it was
thought advisable to celebrate in some way or other these eveutSj and the Con-
ference remitted the matter to the consideration of the monthly meetmg of ministers
in London.
Actios of the TJnited Canasa Geneeal Confeeen-ce.
The following is the report on the " Centenary of the Organization of Methodism
in America," adopted by the United General Conference, Sept. 18, 1883:
1. That this General Conference respond to the req\iest of the Metliodist Epis-
copal Church, and join with them in the celebration of the orgimization of tlie said
Methodist Episcop:d Church in the United States of America, and that this Con-
ference appomt a delegation of two to represent the Methodist Church.
2. That we deem it advisable to join with this the celebration of the unification
of Methodism in Canada, coinciding as it does in time with the Centemiial of Epis-
copal Methodism in America.
3. We recommend the raising of a Memorial Fund, to be devoted in part to the
Superannuation Fund, and in part to a Su>*tentation Fund to meet urgent necessities
arising out of tiie union of Canadian Methodism, such necessities not having been
otherwise provided for.
4. That the currying out of aiTangements be refen-ed to a committee composed
of the General SuptTintendents, Drs. Douglas, Nelles, Jacques, Dcwart, "Withrow,
Eevs. W. Ilervidge, and E. Roberts.
5. That a convention in the interest of the above funds, and in connection with
the above celebration, be held on the St. Lawrence Central Camp-Around, under
the management of Kevs. F. B. Sti-atton, T. G. V/"iUiams, J. F. ^Vilson, S. Bond,
"Wm. Blair, J. Kines, T. W. M'Vety, L. Hooker, E. Harris, and Messrs. Arthur
Chown, D. B. Jones, P. D. Cowan, and J. J. Kico. Also, that a similar conven-
tion be held on the Grimsby Camp-ground, under the manasrement of Revs. Dr.
Williams, W. S. Griffin, Dr.Ryckman, Dr. Gardner, Dr. Sanderson, J. S.William-
son, W. R. Parker, A. Lansrford, E. Roberts, R. Cade, and Messrs. Noah Philps,
P. 0. Fairflelds, and E. S. Whipple.
6. That in view of the Centennial now being celebrated in the Eastern Confer-
ences, in connection with the introduction of Methodism into the provinces there
situated, your Connnittec recommend that such course be taken as the Annual Con-
ferences may determine.
A meeting of the Central Centenary Committee of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South, held in Nashville, Aug. 28, 1883. The Secretary, Dr. Harrison, an-
nounced that 183 presiding elders had reported the appointment of the home com-
mittees severally for their districts. The District Committees consist of one
minister and one layman appointed by the presiding elder, with the presiding elder
as chairman.
The Chairman of the Central Committee, Dr. Hendrix, was instraeted to prepare,
and the Secretary to publish, an address to the Annual Conferences, giving them a
clear and concise statement of the objects and methods of the Centenary Com-
mittees.
It was recommended by the Committee that the Children's Centennial day be
titilized for the creation of a fund in aid of Sunday-schools among the poor, in such
manner as may be deemed advisable.
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Interesting Pacts for Centenary Eemembrance.
The first missionary from America to foreign lands was sent out by the Methodist
Episcopal Church. Among those present at its organization, at Baltimore, in 1784,
■was William Black, of Nova Scotia, who had made the long and perilous journey
to appeal to the Conference to arrange for an organized pastorate over the circuits
■which he liad already formed during his previous four years' ministry. The soul of
Bisliop Coke became inspired by the appeal, and he appointed Garrettson and
Cromwell, with Black, to the mission work, and collected money for its support,
and hastened to England for a further supply of money and preachers for their aid.
Garrettson and Cromwell immediately pushed forward to their new field. Thus it
■was that at the first Conference, of organized American Methodism, and immedi-
ately after the act of organization was completed., the new Church entered vpon its
foreign mission work.* Before the close of the Conference session a collection was
taken by the Bishops for its support. This was the firet missionary collection of
the Methodist Episcopal Church.
' The first Methodist educational institution (Cokesbmy College — named after its
two chief founders. Bishops Coke and Asbury) was projected at the Christmas Con-
ference. The corner-stone of the college edifice (admirably located at Abington,
twenty-five miles from Baltimore) was laid by Bishop Asbury, June 5, 1788, about
five months after the close of the first Conference. About $5,000 had been already
raised by Bishop Coke to pay for materials and vcork. It was erected at a cost of
150,000 ; and, during its ten years' history, and until its destruction by fire, Dec. 7,
1795, it was largely patronized, acquired extensive fame, and was enanently useful.
In 1792 it reported over seventy students, its curriculum embracing, in addition to
the English branches, the Greek, Latin, German, French, and Hebrew languages.
For more fuller notice see the Educational Department of the present Yeak-Book.
/
The Methodist Episcopal Church was the first American Church to recognize the
value of Sunday-school instruction, and the first to establish such schools in any
American community, " Let us," says the Conference Minutes of 1790, " labor, as
the heart and soul of one man, to establish Sunday-schools in or near the place of
public worship. Let persons be appointed by the Bishops, elders, deacons, or
preachers, to teach (gratis) all that will attend, and have a capacity to learn, from 6
o'clock in the morning till 10, and from 2 o'clock in the afternoon till 6, where it does
not interfere with public \\'orship. The Council shall compile a proper school book
to teach them learning and piety." The Council, composed of the Bishops and pre-
siding elders, was a supervising board established by the Conference, and otficiated
during 1789 and 1790.t
* G.irrettson and Cromwell embarked in less than six weeks after their appointment, and
reached Halifax, >'ova Scotia, after a most perilous voyage of two weeks. A week later Gar-
rettson formed a society of seven or eight members— the " First Methodist Pocifty of Halifax,"
and the first society organized by the Methodist Episcopal Church in its foreign mission field.
Halifax is now, and has been for many years, the Methodist publishing head-quarters for the
eastern provinces of the Dominion of Canada. ""
t The modern system of Sunday-school instruction, with which the name of Robert Eaikes
was so intimately connected, was first sugsested by a Methodist lady in England, who subse-
quently becamethe wife of Samuel Bradburn, one of Mr. Wesley's most efficient and dis-
tinguished ministers. This lady, at Gloucester, England, suggested the -whole plan to Eobert
/
The first congratulatory address ever presented by any body of Christian minis- /
try to the United States Government was unanimously adopted by the Methodist
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Episcopal Church. "Washington was declared the first President of the TJnited
States, April 6, 1789. At the New York Conference, commencing May 28, in that
year, an address to the President was suggested and unanimously voted ; and a com-
mittee, consisting of John Dickins and Thomas Morrell, was appointed to visit the
President, and acquaint him with the fact, place in his hands a copy, and aiTange
with him for a date for the formal reception of the original manuscript, to be pre-
sented by the Bishops in person. Washington cordially received the Committee,
and named June 6. On that date the Bishops were presented by the Committee,
and Bishop Asbury read, with great self-possession and expressiveness, the address,
and, at the close of which, Washington responded, reading a written reply, with
fluency and dignity, yet with great kindness of manner. The full text of the ad-
dress and reply is given below.
Address of the Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
To tTie President of tlie United States :
Sir : We, the Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church, humbly beg leave, in
the name of our society, collectively, in these United States, to express to you the
warm feelings of our hearts, and our sincere congratulations on your appointment
to the Presidentship of these States. We are conscious, from the signal proofs you
have already given, that you are a friend of mankind ; and, under this establislied
idea, place as full confidence in your wisdom and integrity for the preservation of
/ those civil and religious liberties which have been transmitted to us by tlie prov-
~^ idence of God and the glorious revolution, as we believe ought to be reposed in man.
We have received the most grateful satisfaction from the humble and entire de-
pendence on the great Governor of the universe which you have repeatedly ex-
pressed, acknowledging him the source of every blessing, and particularly of the
most excellent Constitution of these States, which is at present "the admiration of
the world, and may, in future, become its great exemplar for imitation ; and hence-
we enjoy a holy expectation that you will always prove a faithful and impartial pa-
tron of genuine, vital religion, the grand end of our creation and present probation-
ary existence. And we promise you our fervent prayers to the throne of grace, that
God Almighty may endue you with all the graces and gifts of his Holy Spirit, that
he may enable you to fill up your important station to his glory, the good of his
Church, the happiness and prosperity of the United States, and the welfare of man-
kind.
Signed, in behalf of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
Thomas Coke.
-New York, May 29, 1789. Francis Asbury.
To the Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America :
Gentlemen : I return to you individually, and, through you, to your society col-
1 lectively in the United States, my thanks for the demonstrations of affection, and
y the expressions of joy offered in their behalf, on my late appointment. It shall be
my endeavor to manifest the purity of my inclinations for promoting the happiness
of mankind, as well as the sincerity of my desires to contribute whatever may be in
my power toward the civil and religious liberties of the American people. In pur-
suing this line of conduct I hope, by the assistance of Divine Providence, not
Eaikes in 1T81, and prompted him to establish snch a school in that city at once. She aided in
the organization, became one of the teachers, and accompanied Eaikes in the first and famons
procession of ra<jg-ed children from the scliool-room to the parish church. Mr. Wesley was the
first man in England to approve, publicly, of the plan which she had sujrsested, and which
Kaikes, with her aid,had carried out. See Memoir of Sophia Bradburn, in "Wesleyan Magazine,"
1834, page 319 ; and a full account of her relation to the first Sunday-school, in "History" of City
Eoad Chapel," by Geo. J. Stevenson, London, 1S72.
Eaikes published an account of the plan in the " Gloucester Jotirnal," in 1784. Wesley im-
mediately copied the account in the " Arminian Magazine," and recommended his people to
adopt the new plan of instruction.
The first Sabbath-school ever held in America was organized by Bishop Asbury, at the house
of Thomas Crenshaw, In Hanover County, Va. (See Stiickland's " Asbury" page 217.)
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altogether to disappoint the confidence which you have been pleased to repose
in me.
_ It ahvaj-s affords me satisfoction when I find a concurrence of sentiment and prac-
tice between all conscientious men, in acknowledgements of homage to the great
Governor of the universe, and in professions of support to a just civil government.
After mentioning that I trust the people of every denomination, who demean them-
selves as good citizens, will have occasion to be convinced that I shall always strive
to prove a faithful and impartial patron of genuine, vital religion — I must assure you,
in particular, that I take in the kindest part the promise you make of piesehting
your prayers at the throne of grace for me, and that I likewise implore the divine
benediction on yourselves and your religious commuuity.
Geoegb Washington.
Both addresses were published in ofiicial and other journals, and elicited general
commendation. Other Chmvhes followed with congratulations at later dates.
On May 14, 1864:, during the progress of the great Civil War, the General Con-
ference of the Methodist Episcopal Chui'ch, at its quadrennial session in Phil-
adelphia, voted an addi-ess to President Lincoln, and appointed a Committee,
consisting of Bishop Ames, and Eev. Drs. Joseph Cummings, George Peck, Charles
Elliott, and Granville Moody, to proceed to Washington, to present it to the Pres-
ident of the United States, with the assurance of the loyalty of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church. The following are the opening and closing portions of the address,
together with the full text of the response of the President :
Addeess of General Conference to President Lincolit.
Td his Excellency^ Abraliam Lincoln^ President of the United States: The Gen-
eral Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, now in session in the city of
Philadelphia, representing nearly seven thousand ministers and nearly a million
of members, mindful of their duty as Christian citizens, takes the earliest opportu-
nity to express to you the assurance of the loyalty of the Church, her earnest devo-
tion to the interests of the country, and her sympathy with you in the great
responsibilities of your high position in this trying hour. With exultation we
point to the record of our Church as having never been tarnished by disloyalty.
bhe was the first of the Churches to express, by a deputation of her most dis-
tinguished ministers, the promise of support to the government in the days of
Washington. In her Articles of Eeligiou she has enjoined loj'alty as a duty, and
has ever given to the government her most decided support. In this present
struggle for the nation's life many thousands of her members, and a large number
of her ministers, have rushed to arms to maintain the cause of God and humanity.
They have sealed their devotion to their country with their blood on every battle-
field of this terrible war. . . .
We trust that when military usages and necessities shall jiistify interference with
established institutions, and the removal of wrongs sanctioned by law, the occasion
will be improved, not merely to injure our foes and increase the national resources,
but also as an opportunity to recognize our obligations to God, and to honor his law.
We pray that the time may speedily come when this shall be truly a republican
and free country, in no part of which, either State or Territory, shall slavery be
known. The praj'ers of millions of Christians, with an earnestness never man-
ifested for rulers before, daily ascend to heaven, that you may be endued with all
needed wisdom and power. Actuated by sentiments of loftiest and purest patriot-
ism, our prayer shall be continually for the preservation of our country undividedj
for the triumph of our cause, and for a permanent peace, gained by the sacrifice ot
no moral principles, but fi:iunded on the word of God, and securing, in righteous-
ness, liberty and equal rights to all.
Signed, in behalf of the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
WiixiAii A. Harris,
PHiLADEi.gHiA, Moy 14, 1864. Secretary
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Pkesident Lincoln's Eeplt to the Address.
Gentlemen : In response to your address allow me to attest the accuracy of its
historical statements, indorse 'the sentiments it expresses, and thank you, in tlie
nation's name, for the sure promise it gives. Nobly sustained as tlie government
has been by all the Churches, I v/ould utter nothinc; which miglit in tlie least ap-
pear invidious against any. Yet, without this, it may fairly be said that the Metli-
odist Episcopal Church, not less devoted than tlie best, is, by its greater numbers,
the most important of ail. It is no fault in others that the Methodist Cliurch send.s
more soldiers to the field, more nurses to the hospitals, and more prayers to heaven
than any. God bless the Methodist Church ! bless all the Chm-ches ! and blessed
be God! who, in this oui' great tiiul, giueth us th& Churches.
A. Lincoln.
The Methodist Episcopal Church is not only characterized by patriotic loyalty at
home, but the principles which it inculcates also insure similar loyalty to the civil
governments in all countries in which its ministers have carried forward their work.
As an illustration of this historic fact, the reader will appreciatively note the fol-
lowing correspondence between the General Conference of the Methodist Church of
Canada — a Church whose earliest societies were organized by the ministers and
missionaries of the Methodist Episcopal Church of the United States :
Address of the Methodist General Conteeence.
To His Ezcellency and Most Honorable, the Marquis of Lansdoiime, Governor- Gen-
eral of Canada : M.A.Y it Please Your Excellency, The General Conference of the
"Methodist Church," formed by the union of the Methodist Church of Canada, the
Methodist Episcopal Church in Canada, the Primitive Methodist Church of Canada,
and the Bible Christian Church in Canada, assembled in the city of Belleville, the
seventeenth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and eighty-three, earnestly engaged in the great work of consummating the union
aforesaid, and, therefore, fully representing the ministry, membership, and adherents
of our Churches in glad anticipation of your Excellency's coming unto us as the Gov-
ernor-General of our Dominion, unanimously and cordially prepare and send a loyal
f reefing, a true and heartfelt welcome to your Excellency, in the name and on be-
alf of all our membership, over all the continents and all the seas ; for we believe,
in the providence of God, our motherland is set in the midst of the nations to demon-
strate how supreme authority in the crown is reconcilable with perfect liberty and
equality to all subjects, and how Christian civilization — the righteousness of the
Holy Scriptures — exalteth a nation among the nations of the earth. Therefore, as
British subjects and with a thousand welcomes, we hail you as the represntative of
Britain's fame, strength, and glory among us, the precious bond linking our youth-
ful government on this vast continent to the government of the ancient and hon-
orable empire beyond the seas. We beg to assure your Excellency of our devotion
to the throne and crown of Great Britain, of our true affection for the person of our
gracious sovereign. Queen Victoria, and our supreme loyalty to the Constitution and
the government she has been endowed by God to administer so long and so well.
This very Conference in which we are assembled, and Avhich now approaches your
Excellency, with pledges of fidelity and earnest support to your Excelleuey in the
discharge of the duties of your high office, and in all wise and righteous adminis-
tration, is to us a proof of our liberty of conscience and freedom of our ecclesiastical
and religious action under the benign sway of British sovereignty and law. Our
four Methodist Churches, comprising three quarters of a million of our Canadian
people, over one sixth of the entire population of the Dominion, having our mis-
sionaries at home and abroad, our colleges, our publishing houses and religious liter-
ature, and our varied institutions for the maintenance and advancement of the
work of God, we believe under the care and direction of the Divine Father of the
whole human race, are of a true conscience and simple faith, forming one body for
the broad Dominion, in its administration and laws, that, from the Atlantic to the
Pacific, and to the realms beyond, we may more successfully spread the Gospel of
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tlie sreat salvation sent down to us from God out of heaven, and especially that we
may eo-operate with and aid the other Christian Churches of our yoodly heritage, to
establish all our people in the doctrines of religion, and perpetuate among us the
blessings of intelligence, virtue, and truth. In our sphere, and in our solemn and
important work, we hupe to aid your Exeelleney in securing to all the people the
benefits of good government, and holding up the example of a Christian ]ieoplo
among all the nations of the earth. And to this end we can most confidently as-
sure your Excellency that we shall continually and devoutly pray to the Mo>t "lligh
God, tlie King and Lord of tlie rulers of the earth, tliat great grace and wisdom be
given to your Excellency, as to your many illustrious predecessors in tlie adminis-
tration of the government ; that the hfe and health of your Excellency and your
family may be precious in the sight of Him that sittethin the circles of the heavens;
and that your sojourn among us as our Governor-General may be pleasant and em-
inently prosperous. We would also beg your Excellency to convey to your devoted
wife, the noble Marchioness, the humble as.surances of our highest esteem and pro-
tbundest love and respect, and of our prayers that her life arn'ong this people may
comfort, exalt, and refine all our homes.
Signed, in behalf of the General Conference of the Methodist Church,
Joan A, Williams,
i\ B. Stratton, I'j'eaiaent.
tSiiCretary.
Hi3 Excellency's Eeplt.
Mr. Trmdent and Officers of the General Conference of the Metliodist ChvrcTi of
Cd-nada : I thank you cordially for the manner in which you have availed your-
selves of my accession to the office of Governor-General ot the Dominion in order
to assure me of your devotion to her Majesty and to welcome us on our arrival in
Canada. Your address contains kindly references to myself upon wliicli I might be
tempted to dwell. It is, however, as the rejiresentative of the Sovereign of these
realms, and in that capacity only, that I am here to accept the expressions of your
loyalty and of your attachment to the political Constitution under which you are
living. Under'that Constitution the maintenance of the supreme authoi-ity of the
crown has been found consistent with the conces>ion of the largest measure of lib-
erty to its -subjects, and in the enioynient of that liberty the important religious de-
noniination which you represent lias thriven, asking from the State noihing beyond
permission to pursue witliout interference the ta.-k wliich it has set for itself to per-
form. I note with pleasure your statement that, in the performance of that task, you
do not desire to isolate yourselves fi-om the lest of your fellow-subjects, but that you
are ready to co-operate with the other Christian Churches in the sacred and im-
portant work upon which you and they are engaged side by side. In this country
there is no official connection between Church and State, but the State has a right
to claim you, and it does claim you, as a great force ranged on the side of law and
order; a'foree engaged in the task of spreading knowledge and the fear of God
among its people ; afoive ready, as yon have pointed out, to exert itself in strength-
ening" and maintaining the boiid by" which the mother country is united to the con-
stituent parts of the empire. Under these circumstances it would be a misfortune
if the relations between the official representative of the State and the official rep-
resentatives of your Church were not of a cordial character, and I rejoice to learn
that you desire' them to be of such a character. You are good enougii to ask me to
convey to Lady Lansdowne the assurance of your good-will. I am glad she stands
by me to receive these assurances, and 1 thank you heartily in her name and in my
own for your visit to us. Lansdowne.
A Eemarkable and Instructive Histcrio Transformation.
The Methodist Episcopal Church has establislied Iter head-quarters in the City of
Mexico, on the sit-e of the famous palace of Montezuma, the Aztec king, and on the
very spot where were gathered the treasures of the greatest Pagan dynasty of the
Western World, and where for hundreds of years Romanism held her .seat of rob-
bery, tyranay, and corru['tion. When Bishop Gilbert Haven and Di'. Wm. Butler
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reached the Mexican capital, for the purpose of opening our mitfsion work, in 1873,
they opened negotiations for the purchase of what was called " The Circus of Chiar-
inie," in the " Calle de Gaute." The thrilling and suggestive story of the property
and its purchase is thus told in Dr. Eeid's " History of Missions of the Methodist
Episcopal Church":
Clavijero, the Jesuit historian of Mexico, (vol i, p. 214,) states that this property
stands on the ground once occupied by the palace of the Aztec so\'ereign, Monte-
zuma. So that it was on this spot that the impetuous Cortez seized the person of
the Emperor, and in the name of Charles V. and the Pope confiscated his country
and all his treasures to the crown of Spain : one of the most glaring acts of public
robbery and wrong that the world ever witnessed. Without the shadow of right
from claim or purchase, and only by the terror of the gory sword she held in her
liand, did Eomanism thus seize and appropriate this great palace, and in it founded
the inunense and wealthy Monastery of San Francisco, for the use of the monks
whom she imported, and to whom was committed the obligation of Komanizing the
nation which Cortez had crushed and subdued. They held it as their head-quar-
ters for about three hundred years ; and sucli was its extent, that it was capable of
accommodating four thousand monks luxuriantly, on revenues and lands wrung from
a people, who, instead of being elevated by them, through education and moral-
ity, were left in ignorance and debasement, until at last the heart of the nation
turned against the'm, and swept them away in a fierce outburst of pubUc indigna-
tion.
The victorious President of the Mexican Eepublic signed the decree that restored
to his race and nation this and all the other property which Eomanism had so un-
justly acquired, and it was sold to pay the debts created in the mighty struggle tor
freedom, and for the promotion of the national welfare.
The immense premises of San Francisco were divided into lots, and the central
"patio" and "cloisters," and their surroundings, including the beautiful court
formed of arches and pillars of stone carved with wonderful elegance and taste,
were sold to a Mexican gentleman, who disposed of them to other parties by whom
they were converted into a grand place of public entertainment, known as the-
" Circo de Chiarini."
The Bishop and the superintendent, while trying to obtain possession of these
desirable premises, were warned that they were closely watched by the Catholic hier-
archy, who were resolved to prevent, if possible, the premises from pass J ng into
the hands of Protestants. The difficulty was increased by the existence of a lease,
which had eighteen months to run, and by the fact that one of the parties, whose
signature was essential, was a very fanatical Eomanist. The matter had to be left
to the superintendent, who, after several weeks of careful and anxious negotiations,
was at last enabled to bring tlie matter to a safe conclusion. The next thing was
to effect such an arrangement with the lessee as brought the property into the
hands of the Missionary Society. The Methodist Episcopal Church acquired her
title by honest purchase from the Mexican people, through their government, at a
cost of §16,300.
_ Four months of hard toil transformed the costly court from its theatrical condi-
tion into a beautiful church ; and tlius, on the site of Montezuma's paganism and
the institutions of Eomanism, evangelical Methodism entered, and holds the place
as the head-quarters of her missions in the Eepublic of Mexico. The church room
within these premises was dedicated on Christmas-day, 1873, about six hundred
pei-sons being present.
The premises extend one hundred and eighty feet from front to rear, are one
hundred feet wide, and are situated in the best part of one of the widest streets in
the City of Mexico ; so that, besides the church and vestries and class-rooms there
is a book-store and printing establishment, two parsonages, and a school-room, and
also the orphanage and school of the Ladies' Mission, and a home for their mission-
ary, with room still to spare. It forms to-day one of the most complete mission
establishments in the world.
ORGANIZATION OF THE METHODIST EPIS-
COPAL CHURCH.
CHAPTER I.
PREPARATIONS FOR THE ORGANIZATIOIT OP THE
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
Dr. Thomas Coke — His early Life — He is "chimed" out of his Church
— Joins Wesley — Importance of his Services — Sketch of Thomas
Vasey — He sacrifices a Fortune for Methodism — His Services —
Eichard "Whatcoat — His Appearance and Character — His early His-
tory— His Labors and Sufferings in Ireland — Necessity of Wesley's
Measures for America — Condition of American Methodism — Condi-
tion of the Protestant Episcopal Church — Wesley solicits Ordinations
from the Bishop of London for America. — Fletcher's Interest for
America — Eaukin's Intervie^r with him — Wesley's Consultation with
Coke — The Ordinations at Bristol — Wesley's Opinion on Church
Polity — Voyage of Coke and his Companions to America — Their
Arrival at New York — At Philadelphia — At Dover — At Barrett's
Chapel.
In the year 1776, while pursuing his daily travels and
ministrations in Somersetshire, England, John Wesley
was saluted by a clergyman, who had come twenty miles
to meet him. "I had much conversation with him,"
says Wesley, "and a union Avas begun then which, I
trust, shall never end."* The stranger was Thomas
Coke, LL.D., a man who was destined to become a
chief character in the history of Methodism in both
hemispheres.
1 From the pen of Dr. Abel Stevens, whose complete " History of the
Methodist Episcopal Church," in four volumes, furnishes the most elo-
quent, instructive, and valuable denominational history ever given to the
Church. The whole four volumes, neatly printed and in an attractive
binding, may be had at the Methodist Book Concern at New York, or at
the Western Book Concern, Cincinnati, Chicago, and St. Louis, or at any
of the Depositories of either Book Concern, at the low price of §6.
a Wesley's Journals, Works, vol, iv, Moore's Life of Wesiey, vol. ii.
14*
322 Methodist Tear-Book.
Thomas Coke was born in 1747, at Brecon, a pictur-
esque town of Wales. His father is commemoratecl,
in the chancel of the ancient Priory church of the town,
for his extraordinaiy benevolence and hospitality, and
his services as "chief magistrate of the borough," a
function which he administered "with universal appro-
bation.'"
The only child of a wealthy house, Thomas Coke be-
gan early his education for one of the learned professions.
In his seventeenth year he entered Jesus College, Oxford,
as a Gentleman Commoner. He there chose the Church
as the future sphere of his life ; but he did not escape
the infection of the speculative infidelity then prevalent
in the English universities. Sherlock and other writers
rescued him from doubt, but failed to teach him genuine
personal religion. He entered upon his office as incumbent
of South Petherton Parish, Somersetshire, an unregen-
erate man, but a conscientious inquirer. An interview
with Thomas Maxfield, Wesley's first lay itinerant, af-
forded him better views of evangelical Christianity.
Visiting a family in Devonshire, he found among its
laborers an untutored but intelligent Methodist, a Class-
leader of the rustics of the neighborhood. He sought
this good man's conversation, and was surprised at hia
knowledge of divine truth. The nature of faith, justifi-
cation, regeneration, and the evidences which attend
them — the "unsearchable riches of Christ" — were themes
upon which the clergyman found he could be instructed
by the unlettered peasant. They not only conversed but
prayed together. The educated divine obtained from
the lay Methodist his best knowledge on the profoundest
subjects, and acknowledged that he owed to him greater
obligations, " with respect to the means of finding peace
8 Etheridge's Life of Coke, chap. 1.
Methodist Tear-Book. 323
with God and tranquillity of mind, than to any other
person."^
His increased earnestness now surprised his parishion-
ers ; his church was crowded ; its vestry declined to
erect in it a gallery for the accommodation of the throng,
but he had it put up at his own expense; he pi'eachcd no
longer with notes ; he held numerous evening meetings
in distant parts of his parish, introduced the singing of
hymns, and testified to his people his personal experience
of " the forgiveness of sins," attained while preaching at
one of his neighboring appointments, where his " heart,"
he says, " was filled with joy unspoalcable and full of
glory." A clamor Avas raised against him as " a Method-
ist," though he had yet no relations whatever with Wes-
ley, or any of his Societies. His bishop admonished him;
his rector dismissed him ; mobs of his own parishioners
menaced him ; he Avas " chimed " out of his church ; but
on the two ensuing Sundays he took his stand in the
street, near the church door, and preached with power
Stones had been collected in heaps for an assault upon
him, but he was protected by some of his pious people.
He was compelled to abandon his parish. On the day
he departed the bells were merrily rung, and the mob
was treated Avith hogsheads of cider, Petherton cele-
brated as a jubilee its deliverance from a Methodist
curate ; but it gave to the world a man who Avas to rank
second only to Wesley in the history of Methodism, and
to be the first Protestant bishop of the new world. In
later years the Petherton bells were to ring again for
Lim as he flew over the country, one of its greatest
evangelists, ring for him a hearty welcome to his old
pulpit.
It has been remarked that Coke's appearance in the
» History of the Eeligious Movement, etc., ii, 186.
324 Methodist Tear-Book.
Methodist movement, at this time, was one of those note
worthy providences which mark its early history. Wes-
ley, advanced in years, had hoped that Fletcher might
be his successor in his great work, bat the saintly vicai
of Madeley w^as fast declining in health, and was to pre-
cede him in the grave. Coke was thrust out of Pether-
ton, and found refuge in the Wesleyan Conference at the
opportune moment. Wesley needed now a practical, an
energetic, an administrative coadjutor. He had himself
legislated and matured the disciplinary system of Method-
ism, Whitefield had stirred the conscience of England
and Amei-ica for it, Fletcher had settled its theology,
Charles Wesley had provided for it a psalmody which
was to become its virtual liturgy throughout the world.
. The field of Wesley's operations and responsibilities had
enlarged beyond his expectations and his powers;
Methodism had already extended to foreign lands, and
the time had come for grand foreign plans ; the Ameri-
can Revolution was preparing the way for an Ameri-
can organization of the denomination. Coke now ap-
peared by the side of the great but aged founder as
the providentially commissioned man for the times. In
travel and preaching he becan.e as indefatigable as Wes-
ley or Whitefield. He was to traverse continually the
United Kingdom, the United States, and the West Indies.,
He was to have virtual charge, for years, of the Irish Con-
ference, presiding at its sessions oftener than Wesley
himself. He was to win the title of the " Foreign Minis-
ter of Methodism." He was to cross the Atlantic eight-
een times, defraying himself his expenses ; to organize,
uuder Wesley, the Methodist Episcopal Church, as its
first bishop ; to originate the constitutional organiza-
tion of English Methodism by Wesley's Deed of Declara-
tion j to found the Wesleyau Missions in the West
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Indies, in Africa, in Asia, in England, Wales, and Ii-e-
iand ; fo represent, in his o'n'n person, down to his death,
the whole missionary operations of Methodism, as their
official and almost their sole director ; lavishing upon
them his affluent fortune, and giving more money to
religion than any other Methodist, if not any other Prot-
estant of his times. Dying at last, a veteran of nearly
seventy years, a missionary himself, on his way to the
East, he was to be buried beneath the waves of the
Indian Ocean, " the greatest man of the last century,"
says Asbury, " in labors and services as a minister of
Christ." Like most, if not all, great men, he had pecul-
iar faults, as we shall have occasion to see; but they
hardly mar the noble proportions of his character.
Such was the man that Wesley was now to send to
America to introduce a new era in its struggling Method-
ism. He was to go as a " superintendent " or Bishop,
and to be accompanied by two assistants, as Elders, that
he might thus conform, in his ordinations, to the usage of
the English Church, which required in that solemnity the
co-operation of at least two presbyters with the bishop.
These assistants were Thomas Vasey and Richard What-
coat.
Thomas Vasey was early left an orphan. A wealthy
imele, who was a rigid churchman, adopted him as the
heir of his property. His conversion among the Method-
ists excited the indignation of his rich patron, and he
was threatened with the loss of all his expected inherit-
ance if he should join any of Wesley's Societies. He
obeyed his conscience, and, sacrificing wealth and ease
and kindred, submitted in 1775 to the hardships of the
Methodist itinerancy. He had traveled about nine years
when Wesley ordained him as one of Coke's presbyters.
He labored in America about two years. It appears that
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he was induced to accept reordinatioTi from Bishop
White, of Philadelphia, but Wesley's liberalized views of
Church polity enabled him to receive the returned mis-
Eionary without severe animadversion on this caprice.
It was Wesley's policy to keep his British Societies in
union with the national Church, and to promote the ap-
pointment of his most able preachers to parishes in the
Establishment, that the Melliodists might have, without
embarrassments, the holy sacraments. He encouraged
Vasey, therefore, to accept a curacy. The latter was
content with his new position only two or three years,
and in 1789 re-entered the itinerancy, "in which, with
much zeal and success, he persevered during the twenty-
two following years."* From 1811 to 1826 he was re-
tained, by the Conference, at City Road Chapel, London,
where he performed the liturgical services regularly
as enjoined by the will of Wesley, and, as an or-
dained clergyman, afforded important assistance to the
Metropolitan Societies generally. He was at last recog-
nized as a patriarch among the London Methodists,
having labored till the eighty-fourth year of his age and
the fifty-first of his ministry. Bending under infirmities,
he retired, in 1826, to die in Leeds, a place sacred ia
Methodist history, not only for its missionary reminis-
cences and the agency of its Conferences in American
Methodism, but for the primitive piety of its Societies.
He found there a congenial sanctuary in its " Select
Bands," an early institution, winch had always been hia
delight, and which he deemed the best school for instruc-
tion in " the deep things of God." He attended them
constantly, and ripened fast for heaven. During his resi-
dence in Leeds, says the Conference, " his Christian sim-
plicity, his pious conversation, and his fervency and dili-
« Minutes of the British Conf., 1827.
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gence in prayer were highly observable and exemplary.
For a considerable time previous to his death nearly one
third of his time appeared to be spent in prayer." He
died suddenly on the 27th of December, 1826. He rose
in the morning as well as usual, but in a few hours was
seized with a convulsion, and expired instantly.-"*
Richard Whatcoat was one of the saintliest men in the
primitive itinerancy of Methodism. Had he been a
Papist, he might have been canonized. One of his
American cotemporaries says that " his personal appear-
ance " was " genteel and grave, his soul comprehensive,
vigorous, noble, great, active;" his "presence and aspect
pleasant, yet solemn, often striking with reverence and
awe such as looked upon him, especially Avhen he was
exercising the offices of his position."^ The biographer
adds that it might be said of him, as of St. Basil, " that
60 much divine majesty and luster appeared in him, it
made the wicked tremble to behold him." " In him
were seen majesty and love. His Avhole deportment was
beautiful, and adorned with personal graces. His amia-
ble, heavenly, and courteous carriage was such as to
make him the delight of his acquaintances. He was a
man of fortitude; he appeared to fear no danger when
duty was plain, (as his labors and troubles showed,) be-
lieving that he who walks uprightly walks safely, though
he pass ' through the valley and shadow of death.' "
*' He feared not the face of man, but where there was
just occasion he Avould boldly admonish and faithfully
reprove, yet with so much prudence, and with such ex-
pressions of tenderness, as made way to the heart, and
rendered liis work successful in winning souls to his
» "Wes. Meth. Mag., 1827, p. 142.
"Dr. Phoebus's "Mems. of Eev. Eichard "WTiatcoat, late bishop of
the Methodist Episcopal Church j p. 58. New York, 1828."
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heavenly Master." " His spirit was serious, his gesture
reverent, his words well suited, well weighed, pithy,
solid, and expressive. His deportment was such, as if
at every moment he saw Christ, and had God's law, his
own conscience, and covenant with the Holy Spirit, and
the day of judgment before his eyes." " When ho
awoke in the night he was in meditation or prayer, ex-
ulting and praising God, like Paul and Silas, speak
ing to himself in spiritual songs, making melody in his
heart with grace. This holy man was sent to the Church
as if an example, to show to what a life of peace and
holiness Chi-istians may attain on earth."
He was bora on the 23d of February, 1V36, in the
parish of Quinton, Gloucestershire, England. His re-
markably devout character is doubtless attributable, in
some measure, to his pious parentage and strict early
education. " I believe," he says, " that my mother
walked in the form and enjoyed the power of godliness
more than thirty years, and died in the triumph of faith."
" From the earliest period I can remember," he adds, "I
had the fear of God, so as to keep me from the gross sins
of the age ; but in July, 1758, when I was about twenty-
one years and five months old, I attended Methodist
preaching regularly, and soon found the word was made
light and power to my soul ; for when the preacher was
describing the foil of man, I thought he spoke as if he
had known everything that was in my heart. When he
described the nature of faith, I was conscious I had it
not ; and though I believed all the Scriptui'es to be of
God, yet I had not the marks of a Christian believer;
and I was convinced that if I died in the state wherein I
then was, I should be miserable forever. Yet I could
not conceive how I, that had lived so sober a life, could
"be the chief of sinners. But this was not long j for 1 no
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sooner discovered the spirituality of the law, and the
enmity that was in my heart against God, than I could
heartily agree to it. The thoughts of death and judg-
ment now struck me with terrible fear. In this state I
was when one told me, ' I know God, for Christ's sake,
has forgiven all my past sins, that the Spirit itself beareth
witness with our spirits that we are the children of God.'
This gave me great encouragement, and I determined
never to rest until I had a testimony in myself that my
sins also were forgiven. But in the mean time such was
•the darkness I was in, such my consciousness of guilt,
and the just disjileasure of the almighty God, that I
could find no rest, day or night, either for body or soul,
BO that life was a burden, and I became regardless of all
things under the sun. On the 3d of September, 1758,
being overwhelmed with guilt and fear, as I was reading,
it was as if one Avhispered to me, 'Thou hadst better
read no more, for the more thou readest the more thou
wilt know ; and he that knoweth his Lord's will and
doeth it not, shall be beaten with many stripes.' 1
paused a little, and then resolved. Let the consequences
be what they may, I will proceed. When I came to
those words, ' The Spirit itself beareth witness with our
spirit that we are the children of God,' I fixed my eyes
upon them, and in a moment my darkness was removed,
and the Spirit bore witness with my spirit that I was
a child of God. In the same instant I was filled with
unspeakable peace and joy in believing; all fear of death,
judgment, and hell suddenly vanished. Before this I
was kept awake by anguish and fear, so that I could not
get an hour's sound sleep in a night. Now I wanted no
Bleep; being abundantly refreshed by contemplating the
rich display of God's mercy in adopting so unworthy a
creature as me to be an heir of the kingdom of heaven."
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But he could not be content. He aspired to the high-
est consecration possible to the soul of man. " Yet I
soon found," he writes, "that though I was justified
freely I was not wholly sanctified. This brought me
into a deep concern, and confirmed my resolution, to
admit of no peace nor truce with the evils which I
still found in my heart. I was sensible both that
they hindered me at present in ray holy exercises, and
that I could not enter into the joy of my Lord unless
they were all I'ooted out. These considerations led me
to consider more attentively the exceeding great and
precious promises whereby Ave may escape the corrup-
tion that is in the world, and be made partakers of the
divine nature. I was much confirmed in my hope of
their accomplishment by frequently hearing Mr. Mathei'
speak freely upon the subject. I saw it was the mere
gift of God, and, consequently, to be received by
faith. And after many sharp and painful conflicts,
and many gracious visitations also, on the 2Sth of
March, 1761, my soul was drawn out and engaged in
a manner it never was before. Suddenly I was stripped
cf all but love. Now all was love and prayer and
praise. And in this happy state, 'rejoicing evermore,
and in everything giving thanks,' I continued for some
years with little intermission or abatement, wanting
nothing for soul or body more than I received from
day to day."
During eight or nine years he labored humbly but
effectively as a Band and Class-leader in Wednesbury,
Staffordshire, where, as we have seen, Methodism was
"tried as by fire" in terrible persecutions. In 1767 he
began to hold public meetings, as an Exhorter, in rural
neighborhoods. In 1769 the devoted John Pawson, Avho
knew how to estimate his character, proposed him as a
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candidate at the memorable Leeds Conference, Avhich
(Sent the first Methodist missionaries, Boardman and Pil-
moor, to America. The Conference miglit well liavo
received their obscure young probationer with peculiar
intevest, could they have anticipated that he Avas provi
denlially destined to follow their missionaries, and be-
come one of the early bishops of the wide-spread Church
they had thus been humbly founding in the distant
West.
After traveling two years in England he was sent to
Ireland. Before his de2:)arture he went home to take a
last leave of his " dear old mother, dying with dropsy."
" I stayed with her," he writes, " a fortnight, and then
took my final farewell, until we should meet where part-
ing is no more ; she knew and loved the work I was
engaged in, and therefore gave me up willingly. She
lived a few weeks later, and then died in the faith." In
Ireland he traveled an eight weeks' circuit, preaching
twice or thrice daily, " meeting the Societies," " visiting
the sick," and suffering severe hardships in the cabins
of the common people. Nearly three hundred souls
were gathered into the classes of his circuit the first
year. In the second he was prostrated by his excessive
labors, and disease. " I was taken," he says, " with an
entire loss of appetite, a violent bleeding at the nose,
and profuse night-sweats, so that my flesh was consumed
from my bones, and my eyes sunk in my liead. My sight
also failed me, so that I could not distinguish my most
intimate acquaintance at the breadth of a room. I was
confined by this afiiiction twelve weeks ; for some time I
could not set my feet to the ground. But my mind be-
ing upon my work, I little regarded the pain of my body
60 long as I was able to sit on my horse, or stand and
epeak to the people." His life was despaired of, but he
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improved, and in 1773 was sent to travel among the
mountains of Wales, where he continued two years*.
The remainder of his sei'vices, down to the time of his
departure to America, were on various circuits in En-
gland. Shadford, who well knew the wants of the
American Church, urged him to go with Coke ; he
hesitated, and observed a day of fasting and prayer for
divine guidance. At last "my mind," he says, "was
drawn to meditate on the subject; the power of God
came upon rae, and my heart was remarkably melted
with love to God and man." He offered himself to be
sacrificed, if need be, for his distant brethren. His name
will often recur in our pages, and always to command
our reverence.
These were the men whom "Wesley selected to share
with him the grave responsibility he was now about to
assume, of organizing the " Methodist Episcopal Church
in the United States of America." We have seen the
necessity of this momentous measure. Methodism had
extended greatly in the new world. It was the only
form of religion that had thrived there during the Revo-
lution. It now comprised more than eighty traveUng
preachers, besides many local preachers, liundreds of
class-leaders and exhorters, thousands of members, and
tens of thousands of regular hearers. It possessed chap-
els in most of the principal communities of the middle
states, and in many of the rural towns. It was rapidly
extending its net-work of ministerial plans over the land.
Its members could not be called "communicants," for
they had not the sacraments. It received its converts
into its Churches without baptism, in many places, and
the children of its families' were growing up without
' We shall soon see that Coke, immediately after Ms arrival, baptized
not only hundreds but " thousands."
Methodist Tear-Book. 333
that holy rite, except where the hrief measures of the
Fluvanna Conference had provided it. It was a Church
without a sacramental altar, though as pure and valid as
any then on tlie American continent. Its early but pre-
carious dependence upon the English clergy for the
sacraments had almost entirely failed since the outbreak
of the Revolution. The colonial English Church had
been generally disabled, if not extinguished ; its clergy
fleeing the country, or entering political or military life.
Virginia had been the center of its American strength,
but it had then quite fallen away. At the Declaration
of Independence it included not more than a third of the
people of that province. When the war began the sixty-
one counties of Virginia contained ninety-five parishes,
one hundred and sixty-four churches, and ninety-one
clergymen. At the conclusion of the contest many of
her churches were in ruins, nearly a fourth of her par-
ishes "extinct or forsaken," and thirty-four of the remain-
ing seventy-two were without pastoral supplies ; twenty-
eight only of her ninety-one clergymen remained, and
these with an addition,, soon after the war, of eight from
other parts of the country, ministered in but thiity-six
parishes. In the year in which Wesley ordained an
American Methodist bishop, "memorials" to the Vir-
ginia legislature for the incorporation of the " Protestant
Episcopal Church in Virginia," and for other advantages
to religion, were met by counter petitions that " no step
might be taken in aid of religion, but that it might be
left to its own superior and successful influence." The
memorials were postponed till the next session, and
then rejected; but a bill for the "incorporation of all
religious societies which may apply for the same," was
adopted. In other parts of the country the English
Church never had been numerically strong, and its ex-
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istence was now precarious, except in two or three large
cities.^
It was in these circumstances that a majority, as ha?
been shown, of the American itinerants, representing a
majority of their circuits and people, attempted to pro-
vide the sacraments by the measures of the Fluvanna
Conference of 1779, after years of compi'omise and delay.
The temporary rupture of that year was healed by a
further compromise and delay in 1780, till the counsel
of Wesley could be obtained. The letters which Wesley
received convinced him that something must be done,
however extraordinary, for the relief of the distant and
Buffering societies. He endeavored, nevertheless, to avert
the necessity of "irregular" measures. Four years before
the ordination of Coke, Whatcoat, and Vasey, he ad-
dressed two letters to Lowth, Bishop of London, entreat-
ing the ordination of at least one Presbyter to administer
the sacraments among the American Methodists. " I
mourn," he wrote, "for poor America; for the sheep
scattered up and down therein ; a part of them have no
shepherds at all, and the care of the rest is little better,
for their shepherds pity them not." ^ Lowth declined
his request. Wesley turned now to his own chief coun-
selors, among whom were Coke, and Fletcher of Madcley.
The latter had long sympathized with his American
brethren, and had thought of crossing the Atlantic, and
of laboring and dying among them ; but his declining
health forbade him. Rankin, on his return to England,
8 See History of the Eeligions Movement, etc., vol. ii, book v, chaps,
e, 7, where I have endeavored to treat exhaustively the whole ques-
tion of Wesley's measures and intentions respecting American Method-
ism. For the statistical statements of the test, compare Dr. Hawks's
Contributions to the Ecclesiastical History of the United States of
America, i, 10, and Journals of the Virginia, Assembly, 1784.
e Wesley's Works, vol. vii, p. 231.
Methodist Tear-Book. 335
met him near Bristol. "His looks, Lis salntation, and
his address," says Eankin, " struck me with a mixture
of wonder, solemnity, and joy." They walked in a gar-
den for retired conversation. Fletcher eagerly inquired
respecting the condition of the American Societies.
While Rankin was describing it, the saintly vicar
" stopped him six times," under the shade of the trees,
and broke out with prayer to God for the prosperity of
the American brethren. '•He appeared," says Rankin,
"to be as deeply interested in behalf of our suffering
friends as if they had been his own flock at Madeley.
He several times called upon me, also, to commend them
to God in prayer. This was an hour never to be forgot-
ten by me while memory remains." ^'
In the year 1784 the Leeds Conference was again to
be rendered memorable by its interest for America.
Fletcher was there, and with his counsels the American
question was brought to an issue." "Wesley had already
discussed it with Coke, representing to him the actual
circumstances of the transatlantic Societies, their new
relation and that of their country to the British Church
and State ; and the providential necessity that seemed
to devolve upon him, as leader of the Methodistic
movement, to A^enture on the extraordinary measure
of ordaining men to supply them with the sacraments.
He cited the example of the ancient Alexandrian
Church, which through two hundred years provided its
bishops through ordination by its presbyters. Coke was
already an ordained presbyter of the Church of England;
Wesley now proposed to ordain him a bishop under the
unpretentious, but SATionymous title of " superintendent,"
and to send him to the relief of the American Method-
'" Benson's Fletcher, chap. vii.
" Etheridge's Coke, pp. 162, 153.
336 Methodist Year-Book.
ists/' Coke required time to consider a proposal so
momentous ; after about two months he wrote to Wesley,
acceding to it, though still suggesting delay, oi*, if possi-
ble, some modification of the plan. Wesley summoned
him, with Rev. James Creighton, a presbyter of the Es-
tablishment, to meet him and Whatcoat and Vasey at
Bristol, and there, on the first day of September, 1784, as-
sisted (according to the custom of the English Church")
by the two j^resbyters, Creighton and Coke, Wesley or-
dained Vasey and Whatcoat deacons, and on the next day
ordained them elders or presbyters. On the latter day
he also ordained Thomas Coke superintendent or bishop
of the Methodist Societies in America. By this solemn
measure American Methodism was to take precedence of
the Colonial Episcopal Church in the dates of their reor-
ganization after the Revolution. The Methodist bishops
were the first Protestant bishops, and Methodism was
the first Protestant Episcopal Church of the New World ;
and as Wesley had given it the Anglican Articles of Re-
ligion, (omitting the seventeenth, on predestination,) and
the Liturgy, wisely abridged, it became, both by its pre-
cedent organization and its subsequent numerical import-
ance, the real successor to the Anglican Church in
America.'''
This great measure was not only dignified by solemn
forms and justified by providential necessity, but Wesley
'^ The first consultation was in Wesley's study at City Road Chapel,
London. Etheiidge's Coke, p. 100. Ou Coke's hesitancy, see his lettej"
Li Etheridge, p. 101.
1' Wliatcoat in his Journal (PlicEbus's Life of "Whatcoat, p. 17) says :
''September 1,1784, Eev. John Wesley, Thomas Coke, and James
Creighton, presbyters of the Churcli of England, formed a presbytery ami
ordained Eichard Wliatcoat and Thomas Vasey deacons. And on Sep-
tember 2d, by the same hands, etc., Eichard Whatcoat and Thomas
Vasey were ordained elders, and Thomas Coke, LL.D., was ordained
superintendent for the Church of God under our care in North America."
'* History of the Eeligious Movement, etc., ii, p. 215.
Methodist Tear-Book. 337
had been providentially prepared for it. It has some,
times been attributed, by the opponents of Methodism,
to the imbecility of his old age, and the ambitious influence
of the men who were immediately concerned in it. No
man who has studied the progress of Wesley's opinions,
as shown in his minute autobiographical records, can
doubt that it was the legitimate result of his matured
judgment. He says, expressly, that it was " a step which
he had long weighed in his mind." '^ He had begun his
public career as a "bigoted high Churchman." His
brother Charles still retained his original prelatical prej-
udices, and therefore was excluded from his consultations
m this transaction. But Wesley himself had long since
outgrown the Churchly errors of his education. Nearly
forty years prior to these ordinations he had read
Lord King's " Primitive Church," and renounced the
opinion that there was any essential distinction of " or-
der" between bishops and presbyters. Fifteen years
later he denied the necessity, though not the expediency,
of episcopal ordination. Stillingfleet had proved to him
that it is " an entire mistake that none but episcopal
ordination is valid." Nearly thirty years before the
ordinations at Bristol he renounced all other regard for
systems of Church government than that of scriptural
expediency. "As for my own judgment," he wrote in
1756, "I still believe 'the episcopal form of Church gov-
ernment to be scriptural and apostolical ;' I mean, well
agreeing with the practice and writings of the apostles ;
but that it is prescribed in Scripture, I do not believe.
This opinion, which I once zealously espoused, I have
been heartily ashamed of ever since I read Bishop Stil-
lingfleet's ' Irenicum.' I think he has unanswerably
proved that * neither Christ nor his apostles prescribe any
»» Journals, anTio 1784.
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S38 Methodist Tear-Book.
particular form of Church government, and that the plea
of divine right for diocesan episcopacy was never heard
of in the primitive Church.' " '^ Twenty-nine years be-
fore the appointment of Coke and his companions Wesley
had asserted, in his Notes on the New Testament, the
Bcriptural identity of bishops and presbyters. " I firmly
believe," he at last said, " that I am a scriptural episcopos
as much as any man in England, for the uninterrupted
succession I know to be a fable, which no man ever did
or can prove." "
In accordance with these opinions, Wesley, at various
times, ordained some of his other itinerants, some for
Scotland, some for the West Indies, and at last some for
England also. At least a score of them were thus, at in-
tervals, solemnly authorized to administer the sacraments.
The little band, charged with their great mission, now
prepared to embark. " As we passed through our Soci-
eties, from Leeds to London and Bristol," says What-
coat, " our friends showed us many kindnesses, so that
nothing was wanting to make our voyage as comfortable
as the nature of things would admit." They set sail at
ten o'clock on the morning of the 18th of September. ^^
Storms immediately assail them. After about a week
they are still struggling with tempests between the
coasts of England and France, doubtful whether they
shall not be compelled to take refuge in the port of
Brest. Better auspices dawn at last, and they hasten
oil their destined course. Coke finds " one peculiar
blessing, a place of retirement, a little secret corner in the
" Letter to Clarke, Works, via, p. 284.
" " On the Church," Works, vii, p. 312.
»8 The date given by Coke. " Extracts of the Journal of the Rev.
Dr. Coke's five visits to America," p. 7. London, 1793. Dr. Phcebus'a
Life of Whatcoat says ".Sept. 28," a typographical error, copied by
Sandford in " Wesley's Missionaries to America," etc.
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fihip" which he calls "his study." "It is so small," he
adds, " that I have hardly room to roll about; but there
b a window in it which opens to the sea, and makes it
the most delightful place under deck. Here, God will-
ing, I shall spend the greatest part of my time." He en-
tertains himself there with books and prayer. He reads
the life of Xavier, and exclaims, "O for a soul like his!
But, glory be to God ! there is nothing impossible with
him. I want the wings of an eagle, and the voice of a
trumpet, that I may proclaim the Gospel through the
East and the West, the North and the South." Brain-
erd's life is his fitting counterpart to Xavier. " O that
I may follow him," he writes, " as he followed Christ !"
The " Confessional ;" Hoadley on " Conformity and Epis-
copacy ;" but, above all, except his Greek Testament,
Augustine's "Meditations" are his delight. He fails
not also to relieve the monotony of the voyage by indulg-
ing his scholai'ly tastes with the Pastorals of Yirgil,
which, " notAvithstanding their many exceptional pass-
ages, by a kind of magic power convey me," he says,
" to fields and groves and purling brooks, and paint be-
fore my eyes all the feigned beauties of Arcadia, and
would almost persuade me that it is possible to be happy
without God. However, they serve now and then to un-
bend the mind." He usually spends two evening hours
a day reading with his colleagues, the captain and his
son and mate sometimes listening with interest. He, or
one of his colleagues, reads prayers daily, and preaches
on Sundays. They observe Fridays with fasting and
prayer. On the 22d of October they are visited by a
sparrow, which " informs them that they are not a great
way from land ; it probably came from Newfoundland."
Eleven days are yet to elapse, however, before they reach
their destined port. At last, on Wednesday, the od ol
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November, they land at New York, after a voyage of
more than six weeks, in which, says Whatcoat, " accord-
ing to the sailors' measure, we sailed over four thousand
miles."
They were conducted to the house of Stephen Sands,
an influential member and trustee of the John-street
Church, who entertained them with liberal hospitality.
John Dickins, the Methodist preacher of the city, was
soon introduced to them, and welcomed them heartily.
Coke stated to him the scheme which he brought from
Wesley. Dickins, being one of the Fluvanna brethren,
emphatically approved it, and requested that it might at
once be announced to the public, assured that it would
be received with joy. Coke deemed it expedient to dis-
close it no further till he could consult Asbury. Intima-
tions, however, of his official visit had preceded him, and
he writes, that "by some means or other the whole
country has been, as it were, expecting, and Mr. Asbury
looking out for me for some time."
On the night of his arrival he preached his first sermon
in the new world, in John-street Chapel. The next day,
and still the next, he proclaimed his message, and on the
afternoon of the latter set off with his colleagues for
Philadelphia, where they arrived on Saturday evening,
and were entertained by Jacob Baker, "merchant in
Market-street." The next day Coke preached in the
morning for Dr. M'Gaw, at St. Paul's, and in the evening
to the Methodist Society at St. George's. On Monday
Drs. M'Gaw and White (the latter afterward Bishop of
Pennsylvania) paid their respects to him, and White in-
vited him to occupy his pulpit on the ensuing Sabbath.
He was presented to the governor of the state, an ac-
quaintance of AVesley, and an admirer of the writings of
Fletcher of Madeley.
Methodist Year-Book. 341
By the latter part of the week they are traveling south-
ward, and on Saturday are received by Bassett, at Dover,
where the latter was now erecting a Methodist chapel.
Coke meets Garrettson at Bassett's house and admires
him as " an excellent young man, all meekness, love, and
activity." On Sunday, 14th of November, he arrives
with Whatcoat, at Barrett's chapel, " so called from the
name of our friend who built it, and who went to heaven
a few days ago." " In this chapel," he adds, " in the
midst of a forest, I had a noble congregation, to whom I
endeavored to set forth the Redeemer as our wisdom,
righteousness, sanctification, and redemption. After the
Bermon, a plain, robust man came up to me in the pulpit
and kissed me. I thought it could be no other than Mr.
Asbury, and I was not deceived. I administered the
sacrament, after preaching, to five or six hundred com-
municants, and held a love-feast. It was the best season
I ever knew, except one at Charlemont in Ireland. After
dinner Mr. Asbury and I had a private conversatipn on
the future management of our afiairs in America. He
informed me that he had received some intimations ot
my arrival on the continent, and had collected a consid-
erable number of the preachers to form a council, and it
they were of opinion that it would be expedient immedi-
ately to call a Conference, it should be done. They were
accordingly sent for, and, after debate, were unanimous-
ly of that opinion. We therefore sent off Freeborn
Garrettson, like an arrow, from north to south, directing
him to send messengers to the right and left, and to
gather all the preachers together at Baltimore on Christ-
mas eve. Mr. Asbury has also drawn up for me a route
of about a thousand miles in the mean time. He has
given me his black, (Harry by name,) and borrowed an
excellent horse for me. I exceedingly reverence Mr,
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Asbury ; he has so much wisdom and consideration, so
much meekness and love ; and under all this, though
hardly to be perceived, so much command and authority
He and I have agreed to use our joint endeavors to es
tablish a school or college. I baptized here thirty or
forty infants, and seven adults. We had indeed a pre-
cious time at the baptism of the adults."
Asbury knew not that Coke was present till he arrived
at the chapel. The occasion was a regular Quarterly
Meeting of the circuit, and fifteen of the preachers and a
host of the laity were there. A spectator of the scene
says : " While Coke was preaching, Asbury came into the
congregation. A solemn pause and deep silence took
place at the close of the sermon, as an interval for intro-
duction and salutation. Asbury and Coke, with hearts
full of brotherly love, approached, embraced, and sa-
luted each other. The other preachers, at the same
time, were melted into sympathy and tears. The con-
gregation also caught the glowing emotion, and the
whole assembly, as if struck with a shock of heavenly
electricity, burst into a flood of tears. Every heart
appeared overflowing with love and fellowship, and an
ecstasy of joy and gladness ensued. I can never forget
the afiecting scene. The sacrament of the Lord's supper
was administered, by the doctor and Whatcoat, to several
hundreds, and it was a blessed season to many souls,
while, in the holy ordinance, they discerned, through
faith, the Lord's body, and showed forth his death. It
is the more affecting to my memory, as it was the first time
I ever partook of the Lord's supper, and the first time
that the ordinance was ever administered among the
Methodists by their own regularly ordained preachers." ^c
a" Ezekiel Cooper's Funeral Discourse on Asbury, p. 165. This meet-
Lag was furtlaer memorable as the occasion on which Cooper himself
Methodist Tear-Book. 343
Thus we reach again the memorable interview at Bar-
rett's Chapel; and here, in the forest solitude, the moment-
ous scheme of Coke's mission was fully disclosed, the
first General Conference of American Methodism ap-
pointed, Garrettson " sent off like an arrow " to summon
it together, and the project of Dickins, for a Methodist
college, revived. It was with prayerful counsels, sacra-
mental solemnities, liberal devisings, and with singing
and shouting, that the young denomination prepared, in
this woodland retreat, to enter upon its new and world-
wide destinies.
(one of the most important preachers of early Methodism) vraa induced,
after long hesitation, to join the itinerant ranks.
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CHAPTER II.
BISnOP COKE 11^ AMERICA.
Coke itinerating before the Christmas Conference — Sketch of "Black
Harry" — Scenes on the Peninsula — Black Harry's preaching-
Ware's Account of Coke — The Bishop meets his English Associates,
with Asbury and Black, of Nova Scotia, at Abingdon — They are re-
ceived at Perry Hall — Coke and Black's Account of the Place —
Preparations for the Conference.
The route which Asbmy recommended to Coke, for iho
time thai remained before the Christmas General Confer-
ence, was that which he himself had just gone over, taking
in most of the numerous appointments of the Peninsula.
"Black Harry," (Harry Hosier,) Asbury's traveling
servant, wlio was now to accompany the doctor, was a
notable character of that day.* Asbury first alludes to
him, in 1780, as a suitable traveling companion to preach
to the colored people. He was exceedingly popular iu
Philadelphia as a preacher. Dr. Rush, whose predilec-
tions for Methodist preaching are well known, did not
disdain to hear him, and, making allowance for his illit-
eracy, (for he could not read,) pronounced him " the
greatest orator in America." He was small in stature,
and perfectly black, but had eyes of remarkable brilliancy
and keenness, and singular readiness and aptness of
speech. He traveled extensively with Asbury, Coke, and
Whatcoat. We shall hereafter find him traversing New
England with Garrettson. He acted as servant, or
" driver," for these eminent itinerants, but excelled them
' He must not, however, be confounded with "Black Harry" of St,
Eustatius, who occupies so romantic a place in Coke's subsequent his-
tory. Hist, of the Kelig. Movement, etc., vol, ii, p. 358.
Methodist Year-Book. 345
all in popularity as a preacher, sharing with them in
their public services, not only in black, but in white
congregations. When they were disabled by sickness or
any other cause, they could trust the pulpit to Harry
without fear of unfavorably disappointing the people.
Asbury acknowledges that the best way to obtain a large
congregation was to announce that Harry would preach ;
the multitude preferring him to the bishop himself.^
Though he withstood for years the temptations of extra-
ordinary popularity, he fell, nevertheless, by the indulg-
ent hospitalities which were lavished upon him. He
became temporarily the victim of wine, but had moral
strength enough to recover himself. Self-abased and
contrite, he started one evening down the Neck, below
Southwark, Philadelphia, determined to remain tifl his
backslidings were healed. Under a tree he wrestled
in prayer into the watches of the night. Before the
morning God restoi'ed to him the joys of his salvation.
Thenceforward he continued faithful.^ He resumed Lis
public labors, and about the year 1810 died in Phila-
delphia, "making a good end," and was borne to the
grave by a great procession of both white and black
admirers, who buried him as a hero, once overcome, but
finally victorious.
• " It has been said that on one occasion, in Wilmington, Del., where
Methodism was long unpopular, a number of the citizens, who did not
ordinarily attend Methodist preaching, came together to hear Bishop
Asbury. Old Asbury Ohapel was, at that time, so full that they could
not get in. They stood outside to hear the bishop, as they supposed,
but in reality they heard Harry, Before they left the place, thoy com-
plimented the speaker by saying : ' If all Methodist preachers could
preach like the bishop we should like to be constant hearers.' Some
one present replied, ' That was not the bishop but the bishop's serv-
ant.' This only raised the bishop higher in their estimation ; as theil
conclusion was, 'if such be the servant, what mast the master be?'
The truth was, that Harry was a more popular speaker than Asbuiy, ot
almost any one else in his day." — Lednum^ p. 282.
» Lednum, p. 282.
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AccompanieLl by Black Harry, Coke set out on hia
ministerial tour, holding one or two services daily. In
two days, after the meeting at Barrett's Chapel, he Avas
preaching in White's Chapel, Kent County, and rejoic-
ing in the Christian hospitalities of Judge White. At
Annamessex Chapel he preached in a forest. "It is
romantic," he says, " to see such numbers of horses fast-
ened to the trees. Being engaged in the most solemn
exercises of religion, for three or four hours every day, I
hardly know the day of the week; every one appears to
me like the Lord's day." At Bolingbroke he says: "I
preached at noon ; our chapel is in a forest. Perhaps I
have, in this tour, baptized more children and adults
than I should in my whole life if stationed in an English
parish." " I preached to a lively congregation at Tuck-
ahoe Chapel in a forest; the best singers I have met
with in America. In the afternoon, went to Colonel
Hopper's; a man of excellent sense, a member of our
Society, six years sheriff of Caroline County, and late a
representative in the Assembly. In my way dined with
the present representative, a dear brother, who has lately
* built us a synagogue.' Some time ago, during the war,
when he was sheriff for the county, one of our preachers
was apprehended because he would not take the oaths
of allegiance. Mr. Downs, the sheriff, told the preacher
that he was obliged to imprison him, but that he would
turn his own house into his prison ; and both the colonel
and his lady were awakened by their prisoner." He
becomes delighted with his African colleague, for such
Harry really was. "I have now," he writes, on the
29th of November, "had the pleasure of hearing Harry
preach several times. I sometimes give notice, immedi-
ately after preaching, that in a little time he will preach
to the blacks ; but the whites always stay to hear him.
Methodist Year-Book. 347
Sometimes I publish him to preach at candle-light, as tho
negroes can better attend at that time. I really believo
that he is one of the best preachers in the world — there
is such an amazing power attends his word, though ho
cannot read, and he is one of the humblest creatm-es I
ever saw."
Coke continued to preach to great throngs, on the
Peninsula, till near the date of the Conference. Ilis con-
gregations Avere sometimes so large that he was com-
pelled to address them from the chapel doors. Methodist
families flocked from all directions to receive the sacra-
ments from his hands. Thomas Ware, who was in this
region, says " he passed through our circuit. I met him
at Colonel Hopper's, in Queen Anne County, on the
Eastern Shore of Maryland. At first I was not pleased
with his appearance. His stature, complexion, and voice
resembled those of a woman rather than those of a man ;
and his manners were too courtly for me. So unlike was
he to the grave and, as I conceived, apostolic Asbury,
that his appearance did not prepossess me favorably.
He had several appointments on the circuit, to which I
conducted him ; and, before we parted, I saw so many
things to admire in him that I no longer marveled at^his
being selected by Wesley to serve us in the capacity of
a superintendent. In public he was generally admired,
and in private he was very communicative and edifying.
At one time, in a large circle, he expressed himself in
substance as follows : ' I am charmed by the spirit of
my American brethren. Their love to Mr. Wesley is
not surpassed by that of their brethren in Europe. It is
founded on the excellence — the divinity — of the religion
which he has been the instrument of reviving, and which
has shed its benign influence on this land of freedom. I
eee in both preachers and people a resolution to venture
348 Methodist Year-Book.
on any bold act of duty, when called to practice piety
before the ungodly, and to refuse compliance with fash-
ionable vice. I see,' he continued, with a countenance
glowing with delight, ' a great and effectual door opened
for the promulgation of Methodism in America, whose
institutions I greatly admire, and whose prosperity I no
less wish than I do that of the land which gave me birth.
In the presence of Mr. Asbury I feel myself a child. He
is, in my estimation, the most apostolic man I ever saw,
except Mr. Wesley.' These remarks of Dr. Coke made
an impression on ray mind not soon to be forgotten. He
was the best speaker, in a private circle or on the confer-
ence floor, I ever heard. But his voice was too weak to
command with ease a very large audience. Yet this he
could sometimes do; and, when he succeeded in it, his
preaching was very impressive. Some of the first
scholars in the country have been heard to say that he
spoke the purest English they ever heard. His fine
classical taste did not raise him, in his own estimation,
above the weakest of his brethren. To them he paid the
kindest attentions ; and the most difiident and retiring
among them, after being a short time in his company,
we^e not only perfectly at ease, but happy at finding
themselves associated with a brother who had learned
to esteem others better than himself" He subsequently
returned to this section of the country, when, says Ware,
the "administration of the ordinances at our Quarterly
Meetings was singularly owned of God. Vast multi-
tudes attended, and the power of the Lord was present
to wound and to heal. The whole Peninsula seemed
moved; and the people, in multitudes, flocked to hear
the doctor, who spent some time on this favored shore.
Never did I see any person who seemed to enjoy him-
eelf better than he did, while thousands pi'essed to Mm
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to have their children dedicated to the Lord by baptism,
and to receive themselves the holy supper at his hands.
Daily accessions were made to the Church."
Meanwhile, Whatcoat and Yasey had accompanied
Asbury from Barrett's Chapel over the Western Shore
of Maryland. The 26th of November Asbury observed
*' as a day of fasting and prayer, that I might," he says,
"know the will of God in the matter that is shortly to
come before oiu' Conference; the preachers and peoj^le
seem to be much pleased with the projected plan ; I my-
self am led to think it is of the Lord. I am not tickled
with the honor to be gained ; I see danger in the way.
My soul waits upon God. O that he may lead us in the
way we should go !" At Abingdon they met Coke, on
his way to Perry Hall ; the next day the doctor preached
a "great sermon" on "He that loveth father or mother
more than me is not worthy of me." At Abingdon
joined them also William Black, an English preacher,
who had been founding Methodism in Nova Scotia, and
had wended his way thi'ough Boston, New York, and
Philadelphia, seeking ministerial reinforcements for that
distant province. On the 17th of December all the trav-
elers, except Whatcoat, arrived under the roof of Gough
at Perry Hall, "the most elegant house," says Coke, "in
this state." " Here," he adds, " I have a noble room to my-
self, where Mr. Asbury and I may, in the course of a week,
mature everything for the Conference." Black alludes
to Perry Hall as " the most spacious and elegant build-
ing" he had seen in America. "It is," he says, "about
fifteen miles from Baltimore ; Mr. Gough, its owner, is a
Methodist, and supposed to be worth one hundred thou-
sand poimds. He is not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ.
He has built a neat stone meeting-house, entertains the
Circuit Preachers, and at times preaches himself; and
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thus he continued to do dui-ing the late war, at the risk
of his immense estate."* Whatcoat, who had delayed,
in order to preach on the route, arrived on the 19th.
The next day they began the revision of " the Rules and
Minutes," and made other provisions for the approach-
ing session. Four days were spent in this task, relieved
by frequent religious exercises in Gough's numerous
family, and by the social hospitalities of the neighbor
hood.
♦Dr. Kichey's Life of Black, p. 135. Halifax, N. S. 1689.
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CHAPTER III.
THE CHRISTMAS CONFERENCE — ORGANIZATION OF THE
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
The first General Conference — Lovely Lane Chapel — "Wesley's Letter
to the American Methodists — Coke and Asbnry elected Superintend-
ents or Bishops — Whatcoat's Account of the Proceedings — Coke's
Sermon at the Consecration of Asburj^ — Character of the Conference
— Preachers present — Were their Measures in accordance with Wes-
ley's Intentions? — Expediency of the Episcopal Title of the New
Church.
OiSr Friday, the 24th of December,' 1784, the apostolic lil-
tie company rode from Perry Hall to Baltimore, and at ten
o'clock A.M. began the first " General Conference," in the
Lovely Lane Chapel. The latter was still a rude struct-
ure, and Coke commended gratefully the kindness of the
people in furnishing a large stove, and backs to some of
the seats, for the comfort of the Conference.'
Garrettson had sped his way over twelve hundred
miles in six weeks, calling to Baltimore the itinerants,
and preaching as he went, and had returned to find sixty
present. Coke, on taking the chair, presented a letter
« Not the aoth, as Bangs (Hist., i, 15V) and "Wakeley (Lost Chapters,
804) say ; nor the 27th, as Lee (Hist., 94) says. Lee, however, followed
the published Minutes, which, in their very title, give the date as the
27th. (See them in Emory's Hist, of the Dis., p. 26.) The reader has al-
ready been often reminded of the errata of our early official documents.
For the present correction compare Coke's certificate of Asbury's ordina-
tion, (Bangs, i, 157,) Coke's Journal, (p. 23,) Asbury's Journal, (i, 486,)
and especially Whatcoat's Journal, (p. 21.) Coke says expressly, "On
Christmas eve we opened our Conference," meaning, however, not so
much the evening as the day preceding Christmas. It was called the
*' Christmas Conference " because it extended through the " Chiistmaa
week."
* Dr. Hamilton : letter to the author.
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from "Wesley, dated Bristol, September 10th, 1784, and
addressed " To Dr. Coke, Mr. Asbnry, and our Breth-
ren in North America." It said that " by a very uncom-
mon train of providences, many of the provinces of If orth
America are totally disjoined from the British empire, and
erected into independent states. The English govern-
ment has no authority over them, either civil or ecclesi-
astical, any more than over the states of Holland. A
civil authority is exercised over them, partly by the Con-
gress, partly by the state Assemblies. But no one either
exercises or claims any ecclesiastical authority at all. In
this peculiar situation some thousands of the inhabitants
of these states desire my advice, and in compliance with
their desire I have drawn up a little sketch. Lord King's
Account of the Primitive Church convinced me, many
years ago, that bishops and presbyters are the same order,
and consequently have the same right to ordain. For
many years I have been importuned from time to time
to exercise this right, by ordaining part of our traveling
preachers. But I have still refused, not only for peace'
sake, but because I was determined, as little as possible,
to violate the established order of the national Church,
to which I belonged. But the case is widely different
between England and North America. Here there are
bishops who have a legal jurisdiction. In America there
are none, and but few parish ministers ; so that for some
hundred miles together there is none either to baptize or
to administer the Lord's supper. Here, therefore, my
scruples are at an end ; and I conceive myself at full lib-
erty, as I violate no order and invade no man's right, by
appointing and sending laborers into the harvest. I have
accordingly appointed Dr. Coke and Mr. Francis Asbuiy
to be joint superintendetits over our brethren in North
America. As also Richard Whatcoat and Thomas Vasey
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to act as elders among them, by baptizing and ministering
the Lord's supper. If any one will point out a more rational
and scriptural way of feeding and guiding those poor sheep
in the wilderness I will gladly embrace it. At present 1
cannot see any better method than that I have taken.
It has indeed been proposed to desire the English bishops
to ordain part of our preachers for America. But to this
I object, 1. I desired the Bishop of London to ordain
one only, but could not prevail ; 2. If they consented,
we know the slowness of their proceedings; but the
matter admits of no delay; 3. If they would ordain them
now they would likewise expect to govern them. And
how grievously would this entangle us! 4. As our
American brethren are now totally disentangled, both
from the state and from the English hierarchy, we dare
not entangle them again, either with the one or the
other. They are now at full liberty simply to follow the
Scriptures and the primitive Church. And we judge it
best that they should stand fast in that liberty wherewith
God has so strangely made them free."
In accordance with this document "it was agreed,"
Bays Asbury, "to form ourselves into an Episcopal
Church, and to have superintendents, elders, and deacons."
Asbury declined ordination to the superintendency, un-
less, in addition to the appointment of Wesley, his breth-
ren should formally elect him to that office.* Coke and
he were unanimously elected superintendents. What-
coat's notes of the occasion, though brief, are more spe-
cific than any other cotemporary document relating to it.
He says : " On the 24th we rode to Baltimore ; at ten
o'clock we began our Conference, in which we agreed to
form a Methodist Episcopal Church, in which the Liturgy
(as presented by the Kev. John Wesley) should be read,
* Lee, p. 94.
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and the sacraments be administered by a superintendent,
elders, and deacons, who shall be ordained by a presby-
tery, using the Episcopal form, as prescribed in the Rev.
Mr. Wesley's prayer book. Persons to be ordained are
to be nominated by the superintendent, elected by the
Conference, and ordained by imposition of the hands
of the superintendent and elders ; the superintendent has
a negative voice.'''' * He further states that on the second
day of the session Asbury was ordained deacon by Coke,
assisted by his presbyters, Vasey and Whatcoat; on
Sunday, the third day, they ordained him elder ; on Mon-
day he was consecrated superintendent, his friend, Otter-
bein, of the German Church, assisting Coke and hia
elders in the rite. Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday
were spent in enacting rules of Discipline, and the elec-
tion of preachers to orders. On Friday several deacons
were ordained; on Saturday, January 1st, 1785, the proj-
ect of Abingdon College was considered; on Sunday,
the 2d, twelve elders (previously ordained deacons) and
one deacon were ordained ; " and we ended," adds
Whatcoat, " our Conference in great peace and una-
nimity."
The session was a jubilee to the Methodists of Balti-
more and its vicinity. Coke preached every day at noon,
two of his discourses being especially on.the ministerial
office, and afterward published ; there was preaching, by
other members of the body, every morning and evening ;
Otterbein's Church, and the Methodist chapels in the
town and at the Point, were occupied by them. Coke
says: "Our Conference continued ten days. I admire
* Mems., p. 21. The italics are his own. There are no official records
or Minutes of this Conference except the preliminary reference to it in
the Minutes of 1785, and the Discipline, as published after the Confer-
ence. The latter is given entire in Emory's Hist, of the Dis., p. 25.
New York, 1844.
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the American preachers. "We had nearly sixty of them
present; the whole number is eighty-one. They are in-
deed a body of devoted, disinterested men, but most of
them young. The spii-it in which they conducted them-
selves, in choosing the elders, was most pleasing. I
believe they acted without being at all influenced by
friendship, resentment, or prejudice, both in choosing and
rejecting. The Lord was peculiarly jDresent while I was
preaching my two pastoral sermons. On one of the week-
days, at noon, I made a collection toward assisting our
brethren who are goJTig to Nova Scotia; and our friends
generously contributed fifty pounds currency — thirty
pounds sterling."
Coke's sermon at the Episcopal consecration of As-
bury produced a vivid impression, and presents some elo-
quent passages. After describing the true bishop it thus
concludes : " O thou lover of souls, who wiliest not the
death of a sinner, have pity on the world. Remember
Calvary. Hear the pleading Intercessor, and raise up
men after thine own heart, full ©f the Holy Ghost, full of
love, and full of zeal. Guide them by thy Spirit, accoin
pany thesn with thine omnipotence, that they may tread
the kingdom of Satan under their feet, and build up thy
glorious Church. You may now perceive the dreadful
effects of raising immoral or unconverted men to the
government of the Church. The baneful influence of
their example is so extensive that the skill and cruelty of
devils can hardly fabricate a greater curse than an irre-
ligious bishop. But thou, O man of God, follow after
righteousness, godliness, patience, and meekness. Be an
example to the believers in word, in conversation, iu
charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity. Keep that which is
committed to thy trust. Be not ashamed of the testi-
mony of our Lord, but a partaker of the afflictions of the
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Gospel according to the power of God. Endnre hard-
Bhips as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. Do the work of
an evangelist, and make full proof of thy ministry, and
thy God will open to thee a wide door, which all thy
enemies shall not be able to shut. He will carry his
Gospel by thee from sea to sea, and from one end of the
continent to another. O thou who art the Holy One
and the True, consecrate this thy servant with the fire of
divine love ; separate him for thy glorious purpose, make
him a star in thine own right hand, and fulfill in him and
by him the good pleasure of thy goodness."
Watters says that Wesley's plan was adopted "in a
regular formal manner, with not one dissenting voice."
Black, from Nova Scotia, gazed upon the scene with ad-
miration. " Perhaps," he says, " such a number of holy,
zealous, godly men never before met together in Mary-
land, perhaps not on the continent of America."
It is now too late to identify all the preachers who
constituted this important Conference. We are certain
of the presence of Thomas Coke, LL.D., Francis Asbury,
Richard Whatcoat, Thomas Vasey, Freeborn Garrettson,
William Gill, Reuben Ellis, Le Roy Cole, Richard Ivey,
James O'Kelly, John Haggerty, Nelson Reed, James O.
Cromwell, Jeremiah Lambert, John Dickins, William
Glendenning, Francis Poythress, Joseph Everett, Will-
iam Black of N. S., William Phoebus, and Thomas
Ware. It has been supposed, from their standing, and
the proximity of their circuits, that the following also
were present: Edward Dromgoole, Caleb B. Pedicord,
Thomas S. Chew, Joseph Cromwell, John Major, Philip
Cox, Samuel Rowe, William Partridge, Thomas Foster,
George Mair, Samuel Dudley, Adam Cloud, Michael
Ellis, James White, Jonathan Forrest, Joseph Wyatt,
Philip Bruce, John Magary, William Thomas, John
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Baldwin, Woolman Hickson, Thomas Haskins, Ira Ellis,
John Easter, Peter Moriarty, Enoch Matson, Lemuel
Green, Thomas Curtis, William Jessup, Wilson Lee,
Thomas Jackson, James Riggin, William Ringold, Isaac
Smith, Matthew Greentree, William Lynch, Thomas
Bowen, Moses Park, William Cannon, and Richard
Swift.5
Of the personal appearance and character of the mem-
bers it has been said that nothing arrested the attention
of Dr. Coke more, as he looked over the assembly for
the first time, than the generally youthful aspect ot
the preachers, though most of them, he says, bore the
marks of severe toil and hard usage. Some of them had
suffered imprisonment for conscience' sake, and others
the maltreatment of their persons by infuriated mobs.
*' Leaving out Asbury and his English brethren, What-
coat and Vasey, who were yet in the prime of life, the
American preachers had still about them the prestige
of a vigorous manhood. Few, if any of them, would
now be called old men. Dromgoole, who joined the
Conference in 1774, had traveled but ten years, and sat
as senior among his brethren. John Cooper and Will-
iam Glendenning were one year later, and then Francis
Poythress and Freeborn Garrettson, who entered the
Conference in 1776. After this we see the names of
eleven, including John Dickins and Caleb B. Pedicord,
who joined in 1777, and for 1778 and 1779 eight more.
These fourteen preachers, with Dr. Coke, Bishop Asbury,
Richard Whatcoat, and Thomas Vasey, in all eighteen,
constituted properly what might be called the age of the
Conference, being men of experience, and well acquaint-
ed with the workings of Methodism. A few others had
traveled four years, some three; a considerable number
* Lednum, p. 413.
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two years, and others even not more than ten months.
Thus a large proportion of the members of that great
council were young men, young, at least, in the work
of the ministry ; but many of them, doubtless, had old
heads on young shoulders. With such master-spirits aa
Coke and Asbury, Whatcoat, Dromgoole, Poythress,
Garrettson, and Dickins to direct and influence theii
deliberations, nothing was likely to be done, was done,
but what was best for the whole Church. Their woi-k
of ten days has been befoie us for three fourths of a cen-
tury, and speaks for itself; will continue to speak in all
coming time as presenting one of the Avisest and fairest
monuments of human arrangement for the good of the
race. The secret of their success was their oneness of
ppirit. Like the disciples in the Jerusalem chamber,
' they were all of one heart and of one mind.' Who-
ever looks at the system of rules or of government de-
vised and sent forth by the General Conference of 1784
must concede to it a ' wholesidedness,' and unselfishness
both as it regards the preachers themselves and the peo-
ple under their care. Casting aside all precedents as un-
authoritative in Church government, and looking to the
examples of Christ and his apostles, they went straight on
in the work of planning and executing, knowing at the time
the obloquy and scorn with which they would be assailed
from every quarter ; and now that men have grown
wiser in spite of themselves, the Methodists can look up
in conscious manliood while pointing to the result, and
say, ' Behold what God hath wrought.' "^
In compliance with the call from Nova Scotia, Garrett-
son and James O. Cromwell were ordained elders for
that province. Jeremiah Lambert Avas ordained to the
same office for Antigua, in the West Indies. For the
• Dr. Hamilton to the author.
Methodist Tear-Book. 359
IJnited States the elders were John Tunnell, AVilliara
Gill, Le Roy Cole, Nelson Reed, John Ilaggerty, Reu-
ben Ellis, Richard I\'ey, Henry Willis, James O'Kelly,
and Beverly Allen. Tunnell, Willis, and Allen were not
present, but received ordination after the session. John
Dickins, Ignatius Pigraan, and Caleb Boyer were chosen
deacons. Boyer and Pigraan were ordained in June fol-
lowing at the Conference in Baltimore,
Were these extraordinary proceedings in accordance
with the intentions of Wesley? The question has been
gravely asked, but never by any recognized Methodist
authority on either side of the Atlantic. " Churchmen "
have contended that Wesley designed merely to provide,
for a temporary exigency in his American Societies, by
an anomalous commission, vested in Coke and his asso-
ciates ; that his acts at Bristol were not considered by
him " ordinations," and that Coke and Asbury tran-
scended his designs in forming the "Methodist Episco-
pal Church." The historical facts of the case are so
palpable and demonstrative that it is astonishing any
such suspicion could for a moment be entertained.
Wesley believed in the scriptural parity of bishops and
presbyters, and the essential right of the latter to ordain.
In his preparatory consultation with Coke he stated, as
we have seen, this opinion, and referred to the ancient
Alexandrian Church as presenting an example of it; and
in his letter, by Coke, to the American Conference, ho
cites, in vindication of his proceedings. Lord King's
"Primitive Church" as proving it; expressly using the
word "ordination," and justifying his acts at Bristol
as "ordinations." Coke was already a presbyter of
the Church of England ; to what was he now ordained
then, by Wesley, if not to the only remaining office of
bishop ? Yv^esley precluded his brother, Charles Wesley,
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from the Bristol proceedings, because of his well-known
prelatical prejudices ; why such a precaution if these pro-
ceedings were merely what " Churchmen " allege them
to have been ? Presbyters were summoned to take part
in these proceedings, according "to the usages of the
Church of England " in ordinations ; why, if they were
not ordinations ? Whatcoat and Vasey were consecrated
by two separate acts, on two successive days, as deacons
and elders ; why these distinct ceremonies if they were
merely endued with a nondescript commission ? Would
notone suffice if there were no reference to some established
usage ? and where is there any such usage in the Chris-
tian Church, aside from ordination ? Wesley prepared,
printed, and sent by Coke a Ritual, containing the forms
of the English Church for the ordinations of bishops,
presbyters, and deacons, to be used by the new Ameri-
can Church in its ministerial consecrations ; why, if he
designed no ordinations, no Episcopal regimen in the new
Church? and why put them in permanent printed form
if they were not designed to be permanent provisions ?
He changed the name of bishop to superintendent, of
presbyter to elder, (synonymous titles in both instances,)
but retained the name of deacon ; why, if the change weie
not solely to avoid the adventitious and pretentious asso-
ciations of the higher titles, while retaining their essential
significance and the humbler title unchanged V
The American Minutes, published a few months after
the Baltimore General Conference, declared that " follow-
ing the counsels of Mr. John Wesley, who recommended
the Episcopal mode of Church government," the Confer-
ence had formed " an Episcopal Church." These Minutes
were, soon afterward, under the eye of Wesley, and in
» The title of ;he Form for Superintendents in the Eitual ifl "The
Form of Ordaining of a Superintendent."
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1786 the American Discipline, with similar declarations,
was reprinted, with the Liturgy prepared by Wesley, in
London and under "Wesley's care, but he never demurred
at their language,^ By July Coke himself was again in
England, attending Wesley's Conference, and reporting
his American proceedings ; Charles Wesley attacked hira
and "his Methodist Episcopal Church in Baltimore."
He defended himself through the press by asserting
that "he had done nothing but under the direction
of Mr. Wesley ;" and the latter declared to his brother,
" I believe Dr. Coke as free from ambition as from cov-
etousness. He has done nothing rashly that I know.'*
For four years the title " superintendent " was used by
the American Methodists instead of that of "bishop,"
but the latter had been inserted in their Minutes, which
say that " following the counsel of Mr. John Wesley,
who recommended the Episcopal mode of government,
we thought it best to become an Episcopal Church, mak-
ing the Episcopal office elective, and the elected superin-
tendent, or bishop, amenable to the body of ministers
and preachers." The title was thus inserted in the very
first Minutes issued after the Christmas Conference,
issued in the year in which that Conference closed, and
but a few months after its adjournment.' Wesley never
objected to this incidental use of it. When, however,
8 In 1789, about two years before the death of "Wesley, the American
Minutes declared that " in the year 1784 the Eev. John "Wesley determ-
ined, at the intercession of multitudes of his spiritual children on this
continent, to ordain ministers for America. PrefeiTing the Episcopal
mode of Church government, he set apart Thomas Coke for the Episco-
pal office, and having dehvered to him letters of Episcopal orders, di-
rected him to set apart Francis Asbury for the same Episcopal office,
in consequence of which the said Francis Asbury was solemnly set apart
for the said Episcopal office." Evidently, then, "Wesley had not disap-
proved the language of the previous Minutes, now more than four years
before the public.
• Minutes, etCj i, p. 22.
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the superintendents began personally to be called bishops,
he wrote a letter to Asbiiry emphatically objecting to its
use as a personal title. Upon this letter has been found-
ed most of the misconstructions of his design in the
organization of the American Church. It is, however,
indisputably clear that it was not to their Episcopal func-
tion, but their personal Episcopal title that he objected ;
he wished not to see, associated with the function, the
pretentious ecclesiastical dignities which had become
identified with it in the Pligh-Church fables and folliea
of his age. May it not then be asserted, as I have ven-
tured to affirm, in the discussion of this subject in an-
other work, that, looking at this series of arguments, the
American Methodists will be acquitted of presumption
when they assume that they may here make a triumphant
stand, surrounded by evidence superabundant- and im-
pregnable. The ecclesiastical system under which it has
pleased God to give them and their families spiritual
shelter and fellowship -svith his saints, and whose effi-
ciency has surprised the Christian world, is not, as
their opponents would represent, an imposition of
their preachers, and contrary to the wishes of Wesley,
bxxt was legitimately received from his hands as the prov-
idential founder of Methodism. If Wesley's strong
repugnance to the mere name of bishop had been ex-
pressed, before its adoption by the American Church, it
would probably not have been adopted. Still, the Amer-
ican Church was now a separate organization, and was at
perfect liberty to dissent from Wesley on a matter of mere
expediency. The Church thought it had good reasons to
use the name. The American Methodists were mostly
of English origin. The people of their country among
whom Methodism was most successful were eitlier from
England or of immediate English descent, and had been
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edncated to consider Episcopacy a wholesome and an
apostolical government of the Church. They approved
and had the office, why not, then, have the name ? espe-
cially as, without the name, the office itself would be
liable to lose, in the eyes of the people, its peculiar char-
acter, and thereby fail in that appeal to their long estab-
lished opinions which Methodism had a right, both from
principle and expediency, to make? The English Estab-
lishment having been dissolved in this country, and the
Protestant Episcopalians not being yet organized on an
independent basis, and the episcopal organization of the
Methodists having preceded that of the Protestant Epis-
copalians, the Methodist Church had a clear right to
present itself to the American public as competent to aid
in supplying the place of the abolished Establishment,
having the same essential principles without its peculiar
defects. And may not the fact of the assumption of an
episcopal character, nominally as well as really, by the
American Methodists, be considered providential ? Epis-
copacy, both in America and England, has reached an
excess of presumption and arrogance. The moderate
party, once declared by Bishop White, of the Protestant
Episcopal Church, to include a large majm-ity of Ameri-
can Episcopalians,'" has nearly disappeared. "Was it not
providential, under these circumstances, that a body of
Christians should appear, exceeding every other in suc-
cess, and nominally and practically bearing an Episcopal
character, without any of its presumptuous pretensions ?
Amid the uncharitable assumptions of prelatical Episco-
iialians, the Methodist Episcopal Church stands forth a
lonument of the laborious and simple Episcopacy of the
arly ages ; its success, as well as its humility, contrast-
ig it with its more pretentious but feebler sister. It
*» Case of the Prot. Epis. Church in the United States, etc., p. 25.
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has thus practically vindicated Episcopacy as an expe-
dient form of ecclesiastical government, and assuredly it
needs vindication in these days. Such, then, is the evi-
dence which should, with all men of self-respectful candor,
conclude decisively the question of Wesley's design and
agency in the organization of American Methodism.
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CHAPTER ly.
ORGANIZATION OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL
CHURCH CONTINUED.
Legislative Proceedings of the Conference — Its Records — Wesley's
"Large Minutes" — "Wesley's Prayer Book for American Methodism
— Gowns and Bands — The Articles of Religion — Wesley's continued
Superintendence recognized — The " Slavery Question " — The Func-
tions of Bishops, Elders, and Deacons defined — Printing of the
Minutes — Salaries, or "Allowance" — "Fees" — "The Preachers'
Fund " — " The General Fund " — Baptism — The Lord's Supper and
Class-Meetings.
The furthei' and more specifically legislative proceedings
of the Christmas General Conference were highly im-
portant.
Though no " Journal " of the doings, in the usual
form, was published or preserved in manuscript, its en-
actments were embodied in a volume "composing a
form of Discipline for the ministers, preachers, and other
members of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Amer-
ica,"* published in Philadelphia in 1785, and bound up
» Its complete title is, " Minutes of Several Conversations between
the Rev. Thos. Coke, LL.D., the Rev. Francis Asbury, and others, at
a Conference begun in Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, on Monday,
the 27th of December, in the year 1784. Composing a Form of Disci-
pline for the Ministers, Preachers, and other Members of the Methodist
Episcopal Church in America." Bangs (Hist., vol. i, p. 175) gives a
quotation from the Discipline of nearly forty pages, nearly the entire
book, supposing it to be " the rules as they were then adopted," that is
to say, at the Christmas Conference. To save my own citations from
impeachment I have to remark that my late venerated friend fell into
an important error. He gives not the Discipline of the Christmas Con-
ference. His quoted edition is in the form of sections, etc. ; this was
not the form of that of the Christmas Conference ; the sectional form
•was not introduced till 1787, and no copy of the edition of this year ia
extant. (Emory's Hist, of Dis., p. 82.) Nor could he have quoted
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with the " Sunday Service," and " Collection of Psalms
and Hymns," which Wesley had prepared for the Amer-
ican Societies, and had sent over in sheets." In 1786 a
new edition of the whole, in one book, was printed in
London, under Wesley's eye.' Hitherto, what are called
the " Large Minutes " of Wesley had been recognized as
the authoritative Discipline of the American Societies,
with the special enactments of the American Conferences
superadded. The Large Minutes were a compilation,
made by Wesley from the Annual Minutes of the British
Conference.* In the preliminary deliberations at Perry
Hall they were revised and adapted to the new form of
the American Church, and being adopted by the Christ-
from this later edition, for Lee (Hist., pp. 127, 128) says it contained
thirty-one sections, whereas that given by Dr. Bangs has thirty-five.
Moreover, his quotations show that he must have used a copy which
could not have been issued before 1789, for they include a law respecting
local preachers which was first inserted in the latter year. This correc-
tion is the more important, as the doctor intimates that he could not
find, " either in the printed Minutes or the Discipline," the important
passages I give, in the present chapter, on slavery, but gives them from
Lee, as "the substance" of what this Conference did in reference to
this subject, and supposes, in a note, that they were never printed.
They were printed in 1785, forming a part of the original Discipline or
Minutes of 1784. They were not omitted till the London edition of
1786, though suspended as a law in 1785. If any further proof that he
quoted a later edition is necessary, it will be seen in the fact that his
quotations use the word " bishop," which was not inserted as a person-
al title of the superintendent till 1787. Substantially the Minutes of
1784 (first published in 1785) have always been the Disci2)line of the
Church ; but those modifications, which have been made from time to
tima, had already begun when the edition from which Dr. Bangs quotes
was issued. As above shown, not only important omissions and addi-
tions, but an entire change of its form had taken jilace.
» Bishop Emory's "Defense of our Fathers," sec. 8. New York,
1840.
« Emory's History of the Discipline, p. 80.
* Their title reads : " Minutes of several Conferences between the Eev.
Mr. "Wesley, and others," etc. They were several times revised and
enlarged from 1744 to 1789, when the last revision before Wesley's
death was made. They are the Discipline of the Wesleyau Methodists
of England.
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mas Conference, were incorporated with the "Sunday
Service" and Hymns, and published in 1785 as the Dis-
cipline of American Methodism. In this volume, there-
fore, we find the enactments of the Christmas Confer-
ence.*
It has been seen that "Wesley sent over by Coke a Lit-
urgy abridged from that of the English Establishment,
and entitled " The Sunday Service of the Methodists in
North America. With other Occasional Services. Lon-
don : Printed in the year 1784." It contained a form of
Public Prayer, " The Form and Manner of Making and
Ordaining of Superintendents, Elders, and Deacons," and
"The Articles of Religion." Another part of this Lit-
urgy or " Service " was " A Collection of Psalms and
Hymns for the Lord's Day. Published by John Wes-
ley, M.A., late Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford ; and
Charles Wesley, M.A., late Student of Christ Church,
Oxford. London: Printed in the year 1784." The
General Conference of 1784, organizing the Church,
adopted these, and, therefore, in the emphasized language
of Whatcoat, " agreed to form a. Methodist Episcopal
Church, in which the Liturgy (as presented by the Rev.
John Wesley) should he reacV This organic provision
has never been formally repealed. The General Confer-
ence has, indeed, at a later session, directed that for the
" establishment of uniformity in public worship," " the
morning service shall consist of singing, prayer, the read-
ing of a chapter out of the Old Testament, and another
out of the New, and preaching." ^ But it has not di-
rected what the tAvo lessons shall be, nor what the form
of prayer ; its prescription would nearly correspond with
6 The younger Emory has given, in his History of the Discipline,
p. 26, the whole of the "Large Minutes" as adopted in 1784, discrimi-
nating the enactments of the American Conference.
• Discipline, Part I, chap. 2, § 1.
r68 Methodist Year-Book.
the original "Sunday Service," and as the latter has
never been formally abrogated, any Methodist Society
could legally adopt it. Public opinion has, however,
silently but effectually rendered it obsolete, and few
Methodists now know that their Church M'QS organized
with a Liturgical Service by the dii'ectiou of Wesley
himself. It was used for a few years, in both cities and
country, in the principal Churches ; but Sabbath love-
feasts, or other extra services, frequently preoccupied the
time allotted to it, and, from being occasionally omitted,
it at last fell into entire disuse.' It was published in but
two editions, both printed in London.^ In 1787 the
General Minutes, or Discipline proper, was published iu
a separate jDamphlet ; the " Articles of Religion," the Sac-
ramental, Ordination, and other administrative forms of
the Ritual, or " Sunday Service," were subsequently
copied into the Discipline, and the collection of Psalms
and hymns were changed into " The Hymn Book." But
there are traces of the recognition of the Liturgy down
to 1792, when all allusions to it disappear.^ Many, if
not most of the early Methodists, had been brought up
in the English Church ; to these the Prayer Book was
not unacceptable ; but the later extension of Methodism
comprehended, doubtless, a majority of members whose
early education had given them no such predilections.*"
Gowns and bands were also used for some time by the
superintendents and elders, but passed away in like
manner.
T The old preacliers, in whose day it was still usee', in John-street
Chapel, New York, have thus described its failure there.
8 The edition of 1784 was bound with the first edition of the Discipline,
published in Philadelphia in 1785. The Discipline was bound in the
London edition of 1786.
3 Emory, Hist, of the Discipline, p. 80.
. >" Wesley's abridgment of the Common Prayer was exceedingly wel]
done; superior to that adopted by the Protestant Episcopal Church.
Methodist Year-Book. 369
The Articles of Religion prepared by Wesley, and
adopted by this Conference, are an abridgment of tlie
Thirty-nineArticles of the English Church, omitting the
third, eighth, thirteenth, fifteenth, seventeenth, eight-
eenth, twentieth, twenty-first, twenty-third, thirty-fifth,
thirty-sixth, and thirty-seventh of the latter, also parts
of the sixth, ninth, and nineteenth, and introducing
verbal emendations of others. Of course the alleged
Calvinistic article entirely disappears.
The Conference declared that " during the life of the
Rev. Mr. Wesley we acknowledge ourselves his sons
in the Gospel, ready in matters belonging to Church
government to obey his commands. And we do engage,
after his death, to do everything that we judge consistent
with the cause of religion in America, and the political
interests of these states, to preserve and promote our
union with the Methodists in Europe."
The institution of slavery was again considered, and
stringent and comprehensive measures were adopted for
its " extirpation." The Conference declared that "We
view it as contrary to the golden law of God, on
It includes the very quintessence of the English Litnrgy in the best poa-
sible form. I am not aware that any effort has ever been made, in the
General Conference or otherwise, to revive its use. The expedience of
its restoration has occasionally been discussed in the Church papers.
Some Methodists have supposed that its use in our large commiinitie3
iiiigLit be desirable, and that, as the Methodist Episcopal Church, rather
than the Protestant Episcopal Church, was, by its precedent organization
as well as its Articles of Eehgion, its Eitual forms, and its numerical
preponderance, the legitimate successor of the English Church in the
United States, its continued use of the Liturgy would not only have at-
tracted to it most immigrant communicants of the parent Church, aa
well as other persons and families who prefer Liturgical services, but
would have enabled it to supersede more effectually than it has the
Protestant Episcopal Church in this country. It cannot be questioned,
however, that a large majority of Methodists believe that any such ad-
vantage would have been more than counterbalanced by many disad-
vantages.
16*
370 Methodist Yeo.r-Book.
which hang all the law and the prophets, and the in-
alienable rights of mankind, as well as every principle
of the Revolution, to hold in the deejjest debasement,
in a more al)ject slavery than is perhaps to be found
in any part of the world except America, so many souls
that are all capable of the image of God. We there-
fore think it our most bonnden duty to take immedi-
ately some effectual method to extirpate this abomina-
tion from among us." They then require every Method-
ist to "execute and record witliin twelve mouths after
notice from the assistant " a legal instrument emancipat-
ing all slaves, in his possession, at specified ages. Any
person concerned who should not concur in this require-
ment had liberty to leave the Church within one year,
otherwise the preacher was to exclude him. No person
holding slaves could be admitted to membership, or to
the Lord's supper, till he had complied with this law ;
but it was to be applied only where the laws of the
Btate permitted. Methodists in Virginia were allowed
two years " to consider the expedience of compliance or
non-compliance." Buying, selling, or giving away slaves,
unless to free them, was forbidden on penalty of expul-
sion from the Church. These rules produced much
hostile excitement, and were suspended in less than six
months. Not a few emancipations, however, occurred
before their suspension.
The duties of the ordained preachers were defined.
Those of the superintendent were to ordain superin-
tendents, elders, and deacons ; to preside as a moderator
in the Conferences ; to fix the appointments of the
preachers for the several circuits ; and, in the intervals
of the Conference, to change, receive, or suspend preach-
ers, as necessity might require, and to receive appeals
from the preachers and people, and decide them. No
Methodist Tear-Book. 371
person could be ordained a superintendent, elder, or
deacon, without the consent of a majority of the Confer-
ence, and the consent and imposition of the hands of a
Buperintendent. The superintendent was made amenable
for his conduct to the Conference, " who have power to
expel him for improper conduct if they see it necessary."
If he cease to travel without the consent of the Confer-
ence, " he shall not thereafter exercise any ministerial
function whatsoever in the Church." If by death, expul-
sion, or otherwise, there be no superintendent, " the
Conference shall elect one, and the elders, or any three
of them, shall ordain him." The office of an elder " is
tb administer the sacraments of baptism and the Lord's
supper, and to perform all the other rites prescribed by
the Liturgy." The office of a deacon " is to baptize in
the absence of an elder, to assist the elder in the admin-
istration of the Lord's supper, to marry, bury the dead,
and read the Liturgy to the people as prescribed, except
what relates to the administration of the Lord's supper."
No person was to be employed as a traveling preacher
unless his name w^ere printed in the Minutes, or a certifi-
cate given him by a superintendent or the circuit "as-
sistant." It was therefore ordered that the Minutes
should be annually printed. Hitherto they had remained
in manuscript; in 1785, and ever after, they were regu-
larly published, and in 1794" John Dickins issued, in a
volume, all these documents, including those which had
been in manuscript down to 1785.
The Conference defined the salai-y or allowance of
preachers and their families. It amounted to sixty-four
dollars to each, the same sum to each wife of a preacher,
'» Preface to bound Minutes. New York. 1840. Lee (p. 89) eays
1795. All the Annual Minutes from the beginning have been published
in bound volumes by the Methodist Book Concern: a large mass o£
vague but invaluable materials for the historian.
372 Methodist Year-Book.
Bixteen dollars to each child under the age of six years,
and about twenty-two dollars to each over six and under
eleven years, No provision was made for children above
eleven years old. All allowance for children was repealed
in about two years from this date, and no regular pro-
vision was made for them till 1800. These bald facts
are not without historical and striking significance. The
laborious but poorly supported ministry were prohibited
by this Conference (that is to say, by themselves) from
taking any fee or " present " for marriages, baptisms, or
funeral services. After some years they were allowed
to accept " presents " for performing the marriage cer-
emony ; but all money thus received was credited to the
circuit stewards toward the preacher's allowance. If the
latter were otherwise fully provided, (a rare fact,) the
marriage fees were taken to the Annual Conference
to aid in making up the deficient allowances of other
preacheis. Not till the year 1800 were marriage fees
the private property of the preachers to whom they were
given. The ministry was yet one family, with common
privations and common reliefs. Their destitution was,
however, often so severe that the present Conference de-
vised a plan of relief for " superannuated preachers, and
the widows and orphans of preachers." It was called
the " Preachers' Fund," and was to be provided by the
preachers themselves paying, at their admission to the
Conference, a sum equivalent to two dollars and sixty-
seven cents in Federal money, and afterward two dollars
annually. These receipts were held by three treasurers,
who with three clerks (each keeping a separate account)
and three inspectors, (who were to present to the Con-
ference annually an exact account of the fund,) were a
committee for its management. Out of the fund pro-
vision was to be made, first, for the worn-out preachers,
Methodist Year-Book. 373
and then for the widows and orphans. " Every worn-out
preacher," say the rules, " shall receive, if he wants it,
$64 a year; every widow, if she wants it, $53 33; ev-
ery child shall receive once for all, if he wants it, $53 33.
But none shall be entitled to anything from the fund till
he has paid $6 67; nor any who neglects paying his
subscription for three years together, unless he be sent
by the Conference out of the United States." Lee says
that " this fund afforded relief to a good many of our
preachers in the time of distress, and most part of the
preachers were subscribers to it. The regulations were
changed afterward, in some particulars, but the fund
continued in operation until we established the Chartered
Fund, in 1796. Then all the stock of the Preachers'
Fund was thrown into the Chartered Fund, which was
incorporated in 1797, in Philadelphia. After that time
there was some alteration made in the application of the
money given annually by the preachers. The annual
subscriptions of the traveling preachers to the Preachers'
Fund was to be reserved for extraordinary cases, wliich
the Chartered Fund might not reach. Some time after-
ward the subscriptions were dropped altogether, and
have never since been revived." Annual collections, how-
ever, have been generally given by the Churches for
such " necessitous cases," and though untold privations
have been suffered by the ministry and its families, some
of the Annual Conferences, in our day, fully meet their
claims as now allowed in the Discipline.
The Conference ordained that a " General Fund for
carrying on the whole work of God " should be provided
by " a yearly collection, and, if need be, by a quarterly
one," in " every principal congregation." It was a con-
tingent fund, chiefly for the expenses of preachers sent
into new or distant fields of labor.
374 Methodist Tear-Book.
It was further enacted that it should be recommended
to communicants to receive the eucharist kneeling, but
they were to be allowed to receive it standing or sitting.
None but members of the Church, or such persons as
received "tickets" from the preacher, were to be "ad-
mitted to the communion." Baptism was to be admin-
istered according to the choice of the candidate, or, if a
child, of his parents, either by sprinkling or immersion.
Rebaptism of such as had scruples respectmg their bap-
tism in infancy was to be allowed. Persons who contin-
ued to attend divine service, and to receive the Lord's
supper in other Churches, were to " have full liberty as
members" of Methodist Societies while they "comply
with our rules." Members who should persistently neg-
lect their class-meetings were to be excluded from the
Church, after suitable warning. Members marrying
*' unawakened persons" were also to be expelled — a rule
which was modified in 1 804 by changing the penalty to
"putting back on trial for six months." Subsequently
all penalty was abolished, and the Church pledged only
to "discourage" such marriages.
Such are the most important additions to, or modifica-
tions of, the previous American Minutes and Wesley's
*' Large Minutes," made by the Christmas Conference.
Methodist Year-Book. 375
Second Ecumenical Methodist Conference.
The Report of the Proceedings of the Fiist Ecumenical Methodist Conference held
in London, September 7-30, 1881, contains the following suggestions and resolu-
tions adopted by that Conference : 1. That it is expedient that a Second Ecumen-
ical Conference be assembled, and if practicable, in the United States, in the j-ear
18ST. 2. That in order thereto, and for the promotion of Christian fraternity, the
several Methodist bodies are eai-nestly desired to create an Executive Committee as
now constituted, subject to such changes in its meraberehip as they in their wisdom
may ordain, beginning with the British Wesley an Conference in the year 1883.
3. That the Executive Committee, constituted in accordance with these resolutions,
shall determine the time and place of holding the Second Ecumenical Conference,
the number ot delegates to be chosen, and the ratio of their distribution among
the respective Methodist bodies, shall prepare a programme of exercises and rules
and regulations for the government of the Conference, and shall make all other
necessary arrangements.
Action of the British Wesletan Conteeence.
The above resolutions were submitted to the consideration of the British Wes-
ley an Conference at its session held July 24r-August 10, 1883, and that body
adopted the following resolutions : 1 That a Committee be appointed to consider
tlie expediency of holduig a Second Ecumenical Conference in 1877, in the United
States or elsewhere. 2. That the Committee have power to invite to its delibera-
tions, if it thinks fit, representative men from the other Methodist bodies in this
country that took part in the last Ecumenical Conference. 3. That if the Commit-
tee agree as to the expediency of the proposed Ecumenical Conference, it shall take
such preliminary steps toward it, as it deems wise, with a view to such united ac-
tion as shall be found needful, including tlie instiiiction of the representations of
this Conference to the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Cliureh in
the United States as to any inquiries or suggestions it may be desirable they should
make. 4. That the Committee shall report its proceedings to the next Conference
to be held in Burslem in 1884.
The Committee appointed consists of the President and Secretary of Conference
and twenty-five other distinguished Wesleyan ministers, and of an equal number of
influential Methodist laymen, the latter including six members of the British Parlia-
ment ; the Chairman is Eev. John Bond.
Suggested Union of Colored Methodist Episcopal Churches.
An editorial by Dr. B. T. Tanner, in " The Christian Recorder," official organ
of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, in October, 1883, said :
The question is, why is it that the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church in
America, with her 1,321 traveling and local preachers and her 112,300 members;
the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, with her 5,400 traveling and local
preachers and 300,000 members, and our Bethel, (A. M. E. C.,) with her 11,692
t-aveling and local preachers and 400,000 members, cannot unite and form one grand
Methodist body ? Behold the army : 18,413 preachers, 812,300 members.
376 Methodist Year-Book.
American Board of OommissioDers for Foreign Missions.
The Board held its 74th Aunual Meeting in the Central Methodist EpLscopal
Church, Detroit, Oct. 2, 1883, Mark Hopkins, D.D., presiding. The reports
showed total receipts for the year, $591,488, an advance over the previous year
of $61,155 ; expenditures, $592,260. Among the items of receipts was the sum of
$13,000, received recently from the Woman's i'oreign Missionary Society.
The following is the general summary of the missions of the Board-, according to
latest statistics :
Missions 20
Stations 80
Out-stations 742
Ordained Missionaries* (6 being physicians) 154
Physicians not ordained, men and women 9
Other Male Assistants 7
Other Female Assistantst 263
Native pastors 144
Native Preachers and Catechists 369
Native School Teachers 1,014
Other Native Helpers 300
Laborers coimected with the Missions 2,260
Missionaries deceased during yearj 6
Pages printed as far as reported 32,000,000
Churches 278
Ch ureh Members, as nearly as can be learned 19,364
Added during the year, as 'nearly as can be learned 1,737
Whole number from the lirst, as nearly as can be learned 89,323
Hi^h Schools, Theological Seminaries, and Station Classes 58
Pupils in the above 2,086
Boarding-schools for Girls 40
Pupils in Boarding-schools for Girls 1,538
Common Schools 832
Pupils in Common Sch(X)ls 31,016
Whole number of pupils 34,640
Geneeai Survey of the Year's Work of the American Board.
This was very encouraging. It traced the transfer of the Dakota Mission to the
American Missionary Association ; called for more men, especially for India, China,
and Japan—" good, strong men or none ;" described the missions of the Turkish
Empire, the visit of the Secretaries, the Conference, the thrilling story of revival
at Adana, Tarsus, Hadjin, Kissal, Broasa, and Samokod, and of unusual interest
at Erzroom, Harpoot, Malatia, Choonkoosh, Tribisond, Ordo, Marsovan and Siias,
and especially the fruitful work among the women of this Empire, and in the
schools, many of which have been blessed with revival. It closed with a tabu-
* Including 8 still supported at the Sandwich Islands.
t Including 10 at the Sandwich Islands.
t Miss Townshend, 15 years in the girls' school atOodoopilty, Ceylon ; Mrs. Shaw, of North
China, after 3 years' service ; Mr. Ecrtell, after 38 years' service in the Madura Mission ; Miss
Agnew, "after 44 years devoted to the moral elevation of the women of Ceylon," never once
returning home, having entered upon her work ; Mrs. Hartwell. for 80 years missionary at
Foochow, and the venerable Titus Coan, " the patriarch of Hawaii, to whom it was given to
bring into the fold of Christ more than 12,000 souls, and to train tliem to Christian benevo-
lence till their monthly contributions, year after year, exceeded those of any church in the en-
tire constituency of the American Board."
Methodist Year-Book. 377
lated statement designed to refute the public statement of a decline in these mis-
sions, namely, from 1853 to 1883 an advance of churches from 13 to 103, and of
members from 351 to 7,395 ; of pastors, from none to 61, besides 68 licensed
pieaclicrs ; of schools, from one seminary with 50 students and two girls' schools
with 47, to 32 high schools, colleges, and seminaries for 865 young men, and 20
girls' boarding schools with 777 pupils, besides Eobert College, also an outgrowth
of the mission, with 200 students. The record of the Maratha, Madura, and Cey-
lon Missions was summed up in " healthful, vigorous growth." In the first of
these, 413 had been added to the churches on profession of faith, and the high
schools had gained 100 over last year. It had also advanced in self-support, and
both the native force and the membersliip had nearly doubled in the last ten jears.
In the Madura Mission the membership, both of the churches and of the Protestant
communities, has nearly doubled in the last ten years, and Xenana visiting now
reached 60,000 persons in 700 villages. In Ceylon all but three of the churches
were self-supporting, and most of the youths in high schools and colleges had been
converted.
Of China it was said that about one sixth of the mission force of the Board is
here employed, distributed mainly in the three fields of Foochow, North China,
and Shan-Si. Everywhere the work is encouraging.
The nineteen churches of Japan report a membership of 1,097, of which 222
were added the past year. The revival of tlie current year does not fall into this
report, else this number would be doubled. In all departments of work, especially
the educational, the outlook is most hopeful.
A similar if not equally hopeful view was taken of the Micronesian and the
Afiican fields, and of the missions in papal lands.
The Income of Eeligious Societies in England,
Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society £169,361
Primitive Methodist Home and Foreign Missions 30,865
Primitive Methodist Sunday-school Funds 53,236
Wesleyan Methodist Home Missions 34,408
United Methodist Free Chmches 17,691
Bible Christian Missionary Society 11,111
Wesleyan Chapel Fund 452,953
Wesleyan Theological Institution Committee 10,726
Wesleyan Metropohtan Chapel Fund 11 ,464
Church Missionary Society 225,231
Religious Tract Society 215,063
British and Foreign Bible Society ^?2'^?*'
London Missionary Society 127,627
Church Pastoral Aid Society 89,695
Baptist Missionary Society 60,722
Baptist Building Fund 1?'?"^
London City Mission 4< ,519
London Society for Promoting Christianity among Jews 38,783
British and Foreign School Society 25,263
Irish Church Missions 19,310
British and Foreign SaUors' Society 10,483
Church of England Sunday-School Institute 16,168
Congregational Church Aid Society and Home Missions 28,782
Church of England Temperance Society ^o'^o?
Liberation Society Tn i^
Ragged School Union g.9U
Young Men's Christian Association 8,000
Toung Women's Christian Association 3.100
Evangelical Continental Society 4,938
Colonial Missionary Society 4,228
Reformatory and Refuge Union 7,483
Daughters of Missionaries' Institution lor Education 3,624
Baptist Bible Translation Society 2,445
378
Methodist Year-Book.
Baptist Statistical Summaries.*
States and
Tekkitories.
Alabama
Arizona
■Arkansas
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Dakota
Delaware
Dis. of Columbia
Florida
Georgia
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Indian Territory
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts. . .
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire.
New Jersey ....
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina. .
Ohio
Oregon
Pennsylvania. . .
Ehode Island.. .
South Carolina. .
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington ....
West Virginia . .
Wisconsin
Wyoming
72
52
8
2
6
2
S
20
117
1
43
30
4
27
21
61
33
13
1
14
19
9
75
70
ii
"e
5
44
80
31
6
23
3
48
47
1,720
5
1,192
98
22
119
36
11
24
398
2,877
4
897
543
105
400
407
1,539
781
255
50
290
369
156
1,795
1,491
4
136
2
80
179
3
871
2,030
610
78
554
62
1,233
1,360
2,015
1
116
1,371
28
445
168
2
873
4
697
91
17
123
27
11
32
221
1,724
7
. 799
875
79
303
283
813
472
168
42
348
242
72
947
922
4
68
1
93
194
2
797
1,175
467
45
450
76
740
879
1,175
2
73
792
21
230
112
2
h5 tfl
■< «
171,822
80
67,153
6,375
1,733
20.711
976
2,208
9,170
23,731
241,462
67
67,542
40,864
6,386
23,528
17,574
164,716
58,578
20,247
9,353
49,211
27,198
7,110
133,930
90,542
100
4,803
110
8.942
32,638
45
113,777
205,534
50,105
2,984
63,974
10,917
151,121
112,465
124,970
54
9,628
210,088
622
28,062
11,407
149
Totals 1167 26,931 17,090i 2,394,742 20,580 15,138 130,606 1,065,195
fi3
634
304
43
12
170
*22
54
8
1,281
1
480
502
41
223
78
1,244
259
398
100
675
343
36
1,101
1,488
149
438
1,554
1,392
729
21
830
156
1,834
485
566
i59
2,242
5
362
161
O tn
K o
« o
w s
a 3
?5 X
Ei.E-1
O
944
6
300
55
22
131
25
14
24
120
1,638
3
668
558
50
239
173
400
167
240
43
275
377
93
404
858
5
74
2
74
244
3
878
1,317
632
30
540
82
850
510
500
3
98
981
17
325
142
2
4,500
30
1,500
300
240
2,189
90
234
354
350
7,400
17
6,800
6,500
150
2,193
2,000
4,000
1,340
2,500
719
2,500
4,471
880
2,650
6,610
50
625
10
851
3,837
20
13,161
13,000
7,113
250
6,250
1,500
5,659
2,600
2,500
17
1,086
7,500
60
2,400
1,558
42
Note.— This table includes all churches bearing the name of Baptist in all the States, although there is no bond of
conncctional jurisdiction between them. If the Methodist statistics were tabulated in the same way, the total mem-
bership would be largely in excess of the Baptist table given above. ^^^^
« Compilod from the Baptist Year-Book of 1883. The latest summaries reported up to Deccember, 1883.
Methodist Year-Book.
379
Btatistics of the Protestant Episcopal Cliurch in the United States for 1882.
(Compiled from the Protestaat Episcopal Year-Book for 1883,)
Dioceses and IVIissions,
Clergy.
Baptisms.
Conimuni- S. S.
cants. Teachf
Alabama
Albany
Arkansas.
California
Central New York
Central Pennsylvania —
Connecticut.
Delaware
Easton
Florida
Fond du Lac
Geor-'ia
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Long Island
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Nebraska
New Hampshire.
New Jersey.
New York
North Carolina
Northern New Jersey
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Pittsburg
Quincy
Rliode Island
South Carolina.
Southern Ohio
Springfield
Tennessee
Texas
Vei-mont
Virginia
Western Michigan
Western New York
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Missions.
Oregon ,
Dakota,
Colorado and Wyoming. .
Utah and Idaho
Nevada.
Niobrara
Northern Texas
Western Texas
Northern California
New Mexico and Arizona
Montana
Washington
West African Missions
China Missions.
Japan Missions
Europe and Cuba
Grand Totals
Summary for 1881
Increase
120
16
61
94
9S
180
29
S(J
27
28
38
88
29
51
31
36
103
34
23
160
163
67
84
28
65
33
32
98
320
73
80
64
205
46
27
48
48
49
44
36
22
34
148
26
102
22
71
45
93
17
28
106
91
146
28
37
15
30
34
47
40
55
27
35
66
43
21
132
117
61
63
42
46
34
25
75
205
&4
65
72
122
69
SO
44
54
48
21
33
29
39
160
27
97
26
40
307
1,465
101
€56
1,189
1,218
1,760
307
439
S34
338
822
889
439
392
lii3
474
1,934
507
223
2,647
1,999
1,293
^96
214
471
£98
150
1,143
5,478
610
1,508
779
3,578
745
180
789
590
481
429
416
383
296
1,623
373
1,200
196
208
102
310
227
162
459
200
2;)5
144
34
169
113
83
99
24
40
3,513
3,401
3,047
3,035
45,817
44,903
8,836
13,041
1.010
3,i97
12.825
6,932
20,953
2,026
2,Ho3
1,789
2,385
4,536
7,575
8,>«0
4,203
2,187
4,295
1.5,167
3,783
2,170
20.910
18,076
7.732
5,243
2,386
5,413
1,926
2,rt«
7,929
35,909
5,836
8,703
6,408
26,279
• 6,040
1,652
6,821
4,686
5,289
2,068
3,500
2,400
3,488
13,951
3,lil7
11,008
1,951
4,748
719
1,012
1,940
606
315
734
1,047
1,006
726
175
615
339
567
846
II 10
500
344,888
344,580
257
1,164
38
326
1,127
1,123
1,873
294
217
244
158
363
707
301
430
168
460
2,204
359
207
1,501
2,115
923
574
145
342
178
135
805
2,9.39
620
821
771
2,8»l
495
IfO
789
278
622
242
200
225
238
1,4^4
305
W37
293
386
102
61
20:3
59
82
80
95
124
95
14
50
67
34,675
34,363
1,910
1,0329
260
3,275
8.572
11,164
15,220
2,615
1,682
1.381
2,1 "6
2,915
7,279
3.144
3,771
1,257
3,833
16.476
2,939
1,610
14,150
15,413
7,966
4.742
1,916
4,(«l
1,775
1.123
7.802
36.259
3,988
7,927
6.4(3
28,289
4,749
14^60
6,409
2,465
5.453
2.259
2,000
1,641
1,762
10,603
2.330
&093
1,607
3,054
954
514
l,:-26
912
1,11=8
8C0
817
927
844
105
5C0
699
753
738
112
50O
308,591
304,952
312 I
380
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Methodist Year-Book.
381
Statistics of the Presbyterian Olmrch m tlie U. S. (North) for Six Tears*
Synods
Presbyteries
Candhiates
Licentiates
Ministers ,
Licensures
Ordinations
Installations
I'astoral Dissolutions
Ministers received
Ministers dismissed
Ministers deceased
Elders
Deacons
Churches
" organized
'■ dissolved
" received
" dismissed
Added: on examination
" on certificate . . .
Communicants
Baptisms: adults
"" infants
Sunday-school members
1878.
37
178
636
331
4,901
178
157
239
201
49
21
79
5,269
164
47
6
2
32,277
21,683
567,855
11,610
19,226
599,882
38
179
614
3U6
4,938
137
143
285
218
58
17
97
5,415
160
36
5
1
29,196
20,623
574,486
10,018
18,5111
614,774
38
177
600
294
5,044
152
158
377
251
4H
23
5,489
159
48
3
1
26,838
22,148
578,1 .71
9,232
18,^160
631,952
1881.
38
177
6-.'2
301
5,' 86
157
144
286
242
68
32
108
16,5 '1
4.596
5,598
90
56
2.5,344
21,635
581,401
8,174
17,489
633,564
1882. I 18f
23
180
626
Sdl
6,143
159
158
3ii6
265
54
28
f'8
18,584
5.6-13
6,744
182
511
8
1
29,389
24,651
592,128
19,026
654.051
21
182
678
282
5,218
157
157
3-i9
287
64
S2
89
18,9X6
5,876
5,858
165
66
4
3
32,132
24,677
600,695
10.397
17,728
663,765
CONTRIBUTIONS.
$383,434
370.772
95,847
30,781
97,.i65
52,268
43,583
19,946
411,452
6,333,659
813,649
$39fl,6»5
38 1.858
82,585
29,715
124,477
57,328
43,960
17,379
40.823
6.311,768
779,635
$429,71^9
42i 1,427
109,066
27,688
151,815
57,780
48,497
20,849
42,044
6,098,150
954,943
^4n8,098
475,626
190,799
33,015
158,281
68,454
69,1197
21,570
43,028
6,338,579
817,744
$467,625
465219
142,970
43,609
139,620
66,022
70,832
■20.697
44,2.53
6,862,640
'929,910
$582,360
501 578
187,254
39,179
150,3''l
Relief Fund
75,249
84,012
21,275
General Assembly
46,847
7,139,904
■833,444
Total
$8,281,956
$,8,260,013
*a361,02S
$8,674,291
*9,253,397
$9,661,493
Statistics of the
Synods
for 1883.
■^
i
S
5 '■§
i
1
Officers. Communicants.
-c
Ig- «ii
Ffvns.
SYNODS.
i
'3 '5
^
4
= c
Oh
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3 o
o
w
c <;!
<o
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tnS
fcS
1. Atlantic
6
94
3 6:^
161
491
267 j 867
218 11.751
305
576' 8,017
$12) $173
2. Baltimore..
4
142
7 16
152
470
173
939
426 16.886
'294
.791, 21.3.55
15,028 15404
3. China
5
46
12, 3
30
32
8
,^55
48, 2.^28
,539
1271 2,118
15
4. Colorado...
5
86
111! 7
94
200
37
407
613 4,061
116
140 7,303
3,823
2,744
5. Columbia...
3
51
5 3
63
138
2(1
253
3101 2.644
145
173 3.295
2,429
6. Illinois
11
391
13 32
473
1,537
4'.il
2,H46
1,911
43,326
■974 1,134 50,196
15,013
39,629
7. India
5
43
3 3
16
23 101 22
S
796
20, 20 1,9(15
141
8. Indiana
8
186
4 32
308
924
5221 1,260
93(1
27,973
522 493 27,175
8,868
11..326
9. Iowa
8
252
6 30
352
954
2.59
1,043; 1,143
20,944
317 679 2.5,241
8,795
8,715
10. Kansas
7
203
Hi 12
320
70ii
23,5
903' 1.124
13,274
271
409 17,333
2,654
2326
11. Kentucky ..
3
56
2! 6
84
194
133
223
198
6,104
.55
117 4,7.56
3,938
2,588
12. Michisan...
6
166
2: 9
184
65-i
123
931
803
16,688
347
31'9 19,851
15,664
14.877
13. Minnesota..
8
166
. v. 7
211
4,5o
84
.570
1,090
9,259
1.58
*K 12,895
7,317, 5,454
14. Missouri
6
137
4 39
217
479
199
813
892
12,09s
270
370 17.933
13,529 4,959
lo. Nebraska...
4
113
1' 7
1V6
325
97
405
694
5,843
132
218 6,695
1,948 1,282
16. New Jersey.
9
381
24' .54
286
1,237
34,-3
2,481
1,523
47,485
833 1.473 53,940
60,0221 58.562
17. New York..
29
1,022
89 115
801
3,3401,029
5,566
3,5n8il.33,189
1,830 2,765 138,064
182,361 153,695
IS. Ohio
17
489
72
61b
2,274 j 717
3,379
2,505 68,926
1,202 1,71)0 69,102
60,6951 48,295
19. Pacific
a
142
3
3
130
287 81
626
596 9,fli33
191 379 13,297
5,1601 4,423
20. Pennsylv'a.
23
830
64
135
931
3v596 803
7.276, 5,163 133,669
1,687 4,791 147,503
128,429,123,522
21. Tennessee..
3
44
2
14
o8
205 98
189| 87 3,472
86: 66 2,965
533j 520
22. Texas
8
33
2
50
68 30
W, 115 1,422
15 ,59 1,912
553 369
23. ^V isconsin . .
5 120
V
14
146
396; 115
4-80J 441 8,993
88 443 10,911
6,461 j 3,871
Total
182 5.218 282
678
5,858
18,986 5,876 32,132 24,677 600,695
10,397 17,728 663,765 582,360 501,573
• compiled from the Offleial Reports of la-.S
382 Methodist Year-Book.
Presbyterian Church (Southern Assembly) for 1883.
Synods 13
Presbyteries 67
Ministers 1,070
Licentiates 45
Candidates 199
Churches 2,040
Elders 6,2i)0
Deacons 4,220
Added on examination 6,633
Added on certificate 4,183
Total communicants 127,017
Adults baptized 1,719
Infants baptized 4,4^5
Number of baptized non-communicants 33,474
Teachers in Sunday-school and Bible classes 7,706
Scholars " '^' " " " 78,726
CoirrEiBUTioNS.
Sastentation, $49,155 ; Evangelistic, $32,750; Invalid, $10,798; Foreign Missions,
$52,385 ; Education, $32,147 ; Publication, $9,458 ; Tuckaloosa Institute, $2,724 ;
Presbyterial, $13,034; Pastors' salaries actually paid, $563,613; Congregationid,
$440,370; Miscellaueous, $62,982; total, $1,269,418.
Statistics of Oongregational Ohnrches.
(Compiled from Congregational Year-Book for 18S3.)
Tor 1881. For 1882.
Churches with pastors 877 927
Churches with acting pastors 1,981 1,986
Churches supplied with licentiates, 157 149
Churches vacant 789 894
Ministers recognized as pastors 856 918
Ministers as acting pastors 1,594 1,607
Ministers not in pastoral work 1,263 1 ,198
Total churches reported 3,804 3,936
Total ministers 3,713 3,723
Total members 385,685 387,619 *
Total persons in Sunday-schools 460,650 454,578
Adults baptized during the year 5,560 5,999
Infants baptized during the year 4,309 5,322
Total reported for benevolent contributions $1,383,685 f
Total reported for home expenses 2,934,027 t
Eeformed (Dutch) Church— Statistics.
The 77th General Synod of the Eeformed (Dutch) Church, held June 6, 1883,
at Albany, N. Y., W. Eankin Duryee, D.D., President, James Demarest, D.D.,
Addresser.
General Statistics : 500 ministers, 550 churches, 44,606 families, 80,156 communi-
* Of this 51,800 are reported as absent.
tTliis total (reported bv 2,994 churches) includes the following: For Foreign Missions,
I222.2C1; for colleges and education, $51,350'; Consregational Union, $41,493 : Home Missions,
S!225,.557 ; Mission Association, $92,904 ; Board of Publioatinn, $4,44S, etc. In the State reports
for Home Missions, the report from Massachusetts ($S0, 793) includes $21,026 for local m issions.
X Keported by 3,256 churches.
Methodist Year-Book. 383
cants ; contributions to benevolent purposes, $223,646 88 ; to congregational pur-
poses, $870,y20 37.
Contributions to Foreign Missions for the year 1882-3, $65,284 58, of whidi
$9,000 came tlirough the Woman's Board. Tlie Foreign Board has in India,
China, and Japan, 12 stations, 128 out-stations, 18 missionaries, 23 assistants, 18
native ministers, 46 catechists, with various assistants, 37 churches, 2,843 com-
municants, 5 academies, 95 day-schools, 18 special theological students, and the
native churches have contributed this year $2,768 24.
The Board of Domestic Missions this year received $36,281 67, aided 77 churches
through 70 missionaries among 5,740 families, and a membership of 4,459.
The Board of Education aided 66 young men in preparing for the ministry ;
receipts, $16,245 38.
United Presbyterian Statistics,— The statistical report of the United Pres-
byterian Church for 1882 gives the following figures : Synods, 9 ; presbyteries, 60 ;
pastors and stated supplies, 541 ; without charge, 179 ; total ministers, 1,719 ; min-
isters deceased, 18 ; ministers ordained, 32 ; mini.-^ters installed, 52 ; ministers re- /
leased, 35 ; licentiates, 39 ; students of theology, 50 ; congregations with pastors ^
and stated supplies, 661 ; congregations vacant, 165 ; total congregations, 826 ; con-
gregations organized, 16 ; mission stations, 96 ; new stations during the year, 20 ;
houses of worship erected, 37 ; average cost, $3,087. Total members reported,
84,573 ; adults baptized, 629 ; infants baptized, 3,720 ; total number of Sabbath-
schools reported, 809 ; officers and teachers, 8,647 ; scholars reported, 72,956 ; con-
tributions by Sunday-schools, $36,147 ; contributions for congregational purposes,
$930,125, an advance of $76,584 over the preceding year; for missionary objects,
$17,898. The average contribution per member was $11 40. The average salary
of pastors was $868.
Open Communion. Baptists. — At a convention of representatives of the dif-
ferent Open Communion Baptist bodies in the United States and British Provinces,
held in Minneapolis, October 2, 1883, Dr. O. B. Cheney, of Maine, was elected
President. From a comprehensive paper, from Eev. D. B. Montgomery, on " Lib-
eral Baptists in America," the following items are condensed :
The first Baptists of America were of the liberal type, some of whom came from Fn-
fland as early as 1620, and were recognized as good, loyal, and peaceable subjects. Led
y Eoger Williams tliey began to organize churches about 1636 in the State of Ehodo
Island. Other barids of Liberal Baptists in Virginia, Marj^land, North and South
Carolina, whose origin dates as far back as 1714, passed through the same ordeal,
and were reduced in 1765 from sixteen churches to but three and as many minis-
ters ; but they rallied, and still live, and have held up the banner of Liberal Bap-
tists for the past century and a quarter. About the time the old General Baptists
of New England lost their identity by giving up their liberal piinciplcs, there came
forth a young man full of life, energy, and perseverance, by the name of Benjamin
Kandall, who, in 1780, began to restore and establish tlie Liberal Baptist cause of
New England. Contemporary with his movement was the founding of the Free
Baptist Church in New York. These two forces united in 1841. They now num-
ber 78,000. In 1823 a movement, under Elder Stimson, began in Indiana. The
people took the name of " General Baptists," and now have, in the Western States,
not less than 13,000 members. About 1828 a few churches separated from the
United Baptists, and took the name of " Separate Baptists." Churches have been
planted by them, and we now know of ten associations, with a membership of not
less than 7,000 communicants. We also have Free Christian Baptists m Nova
Scotia, and the Free Baptists of New Brunswick. The people known as the
384
Methodist Year-Book.
"Church of God," organized in Pennsylvania in the year 1830, now embrace up-
ward of 30,000 members, sustain several newspapers and institutions of learniuff.
If we give a summary the showing is : Free Baptists, 78,000 ; Church of God,
80,000; N. S. and ISl. B., 14,000; General Baptists, 13,000 ; Free Baptists in North
Carolina, 10,000 ; Separate Baptist, 7,000 ; Free Baptists in Western States, 5,000.
Total, 157,000.
Dnnkards* — The Annual National Conference of the Dunkards, or German
Baptist Church, was in session in Ashland, Ohio, in 1881. The only college be-
longing to this denomination is in that town. It is stated that more than 100,000
persons are connected with the Church, which employs about 16,000 ministers.
Disciples of Christ. — Number of churches in the United States, 4,768 ; num-
ber of preachers, 3,488 ; number of members, 563,928.
General Summaries.
The following summaries are from the American Almanac for 1883, edited by
A. K. Spofford, Librarian of Congress. The table is given complete, for the pur-
pose of showing the numerical statistics of several religious bodies not included ia
our list. The figures in our own list are later. It will be noted that Mr. Spofford's
table omits the statistics of the African Methodist Episcopal Church and of the
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Cliurch, (which together report a total of 3,832
ministers, 12,510 local preache)-s, and 691,044 lay members,) besides other smaller
Methodist bodies, reporting only the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church of Amer-
ica, much the smallest of the three principal Colored Methodist Episcopal Churches
in the United States :
Denominations,
Adventist
Adventlst, Second. .
Adventist, Seventh
Day
American Communi-
ties
Baptist
Baptist,Anti-Misslon
Baptist, rree-Will...
Baptist,Seveath -Day
Baptist, Six. Principle
Christian (Disciples
of Christ)
Congregational
Dunkards (Tlie
Brethren)
Episcopal, Protestant
Episcopal, Reformed
EvangeUcal Associa-
tion
Friends
Jews
Lutheran . .
Mennonite, New. . . .
Methodist Episcopal.
Methodist Episcopal
(South)
Methodist Episcopal
Colored
Methodist, Free
91
583
14
24,794
1,090
1,485
87
20
4,681
8,689
710
3,049
55
11,332
621
269
5,556
31
16,781
287
Minis-
ters.
107
501
138
15,401
888
1,286
103
17
3,658
3,589
1,665
3,496
68
1,340
876
202
3,102
44
9,261
3,593
648
601
11,100
63,500
14,733
2,838
2,133,044
40,000
76,706
8,606
2,075
567,448
383,685
90,000
342,590
10,459
99,607
67,643:
13,683
684,570,
2,990i
1,680,779
828,013
74,195
12,120
Denominations.
Methodist, Indepen-
dent
Methodist, Primitive.
Methodist,Protestant
Methodist, Wesleyan .
Moravian
Mormon
New Jerusalem
(Swedenborgian) . .
Presbyterian
Presbyterian, South.
Presbyterian, Cum-
berland
'Presbyterian,. Re-
formed
Presbyterian , United .
Reformed Church in
America
Reformed Church in
the United States. .
Roman Catholic* . . .
Shaker
Unitarian Congrega-
tional
United Brethren in
Christ
United Evangelical. .
Universalist
Winebrennarians
(Church of God)...
Church-
Minis-
ters.
13
121
1,501
260
74
654
14
50
2,120
472
96
3,906
91
5.338
1,928
81
4,920
1,031
2,474
1,386
41
793
31
658
489
519
1,384
5,975
17
752
6,366
68
342
394
2,207
366
719
2,200
363
713
569
498
Mem-
bers.
2,100
3,370
118,170
17,847
16,113
110,377
4,7.34
573,377
319,970
111,855
6,020
80,236
78,917
154,743
2J406
17,960
15.5,437
144,000
26,238
20,224
* The Roman Catholloa claim to have 6,3T0,S58 adherents of that faith in the Unixed States,
(Catholio Directory for 1882,) but church membership is not reported.
Methodist Year-Book.
i8.5
United States Executive Officers.
President
Acting Vice-President
Secretary of State
Secretary of the Treasury . .
Secretary of the Interior. . .
Seci-etary of War
Secretary of the Navy
Postmaster-General
Attorney-General
(Jliief -Justice Supreme Court
Justice Supreme Court
Justice Supreme Court
Justice Supreme Court
Justice Supreme Court —
Justice Supreme Court
Justice Supreme Court
Justice Supreme Court
Justice Supreme Court
Pres'tof theSenate,pro<em.
Chaplain of the Senate
Speaker of House of Rep's.
Chaplain of House of Rep's.,
General of the Army
A dj utant-General '
Assistant Adjutant-General
Inspector-General
Quartermaster-General — ',
Paymaster-General
Commissary-General
Surgeon-General
Chief Medical Purveyor
Judge Advocate-General. . .
Cliief Signal Officer
Ad miral of the Navy
Judge Advocate-General... .
Ch'f of Bureau Y'ds and D'ks
Ch'f of Bureau of Navigat'n
Ch'f of Bureau of Ordnance.
Ch'f of Bure^jU of Provisions
Ch'f of Bureau of Medicine..
Ch'f of Bureau of Equipment
Ch'f of Bureau Construction
Ch'f Bureau St'm Engin'r'g.
Com'd't Navy Y'd, Wash'n.
Commandant Marine Corps.
In charge Marine Barracks.
Sup't Naval Observatory
Prof. Naval Observatory
Prof. Naval Observatory
Prof. Naval Observatory
Prof. Naval Observatory
Prof. Naval Observatory
Sup't Nautical Almanac
In charge of Signal Office. . i
Hydrographer
Solicitor-General I
Com'r General Land Office..!
Com'r of Pension Office |
Com'r of Indian Office
Com'r Bureau of Education.
Superintend't Census Office.
Com'r Bureau of Agricult're
Treasurer of the U. S
Comptroller of the Currency
Com r of Internal Revenue .
Ass't U.S. Treasurer, Boston.
Ass't U. S. Treasurer, N. Y .
Ass't U. S. Treasurer. Phila.
17
Name.
Chester A. Arthur
George F. Edmunds
F. T. Frelinghuysen
Charles J. Folger. . .
Henry M. Teller
Robert T. Lincoln . .
Wm. E. Chandler. . .
Walter Q. Gresham .
Benj. H. Brewster..
Morrison R. Waite.
Samuel F. Miller.. .
Stephen J. Field...
Joseph P. Bradley.
Ward Hunt
John M. Harlan. ..
William B.Woods.
Stanley Matthews.
Horace Gray
George F. Edmunds
Rev. J. J. Bullock
Rev. F. D. Power. . .
Wm. T. Sherman. . .
Brig. R. C. Drum. . .
Col. John C. Kelton.
Brig. D. B. Sackett.
Brig. M. C. Meigs. .
Brig. N. W. Brown.
Brig. R. M'Feely...
Col. J. H. Baxter. . .
Brig. D. G. Swaim..
Brig. W. B. Hazen.
David D. Porter. .
Col. W. B. Remey..
R'r Ad. E.T. Nichols
Com. J. G. Walker..
Com'der M. Sicard..
Paymaster-General.
Sur.-Gen. P. S.Wales
Com. Earl English . .
Chief Constructor. .
William H. Shock . .
Com. Thos. Pattison
Col. C. G. M'Cawlev.
Maj. G. W. Collier"..
R'r-Ad'l J. Rodgers
Asaph Hall
William Harkness . .
John R. Eastman. . .
Edward S. Holden..
Edgar Frishy
Prof. S. Newcomb..
Capt. P. C. Johnson.
Com.J.C.P deKrafft
Samuel F. Phillips. .
N. C. M'Farland....
William W. Dudley.
Hiram Price
John Eaton
Chas. W. Seaton
George B. Loring..
James Giiailan
John J. Knox
Walter Evans
Martin P. Kennard.
Thomas C. Acton. . .
George Eyster
New York
Vermont
New Jersey. . .
New York
Colorado
Illinois
N. Hamp.shire
Ohio
Pennsylvania.
Ohio
Iowa
California
New Jersey. . .
New York
Kentucky
Georgia
Ohio
Ma.ssachusetts.
Vermont
Ohio
Pennsylvania.
Military Acad
Military Acad
Military Acad
New York
Military Acad,
Vermont
Indiana
Military Acad
Pennsylvania.
Iowa
Georgia
Iowa ..
New York
Maryland
New Jersey..
Maryland
New York
Louisiana
Pennsylvania..
District of Col.
Massachusetts.
New York
N. Hampshire.
Army
Illinois
Massachusetts.
Maine
Illinois
North Carolina
Kansas
Indiana
Iowa
Tennessee
New York
Massachusetts.
Connecticut...
New York
Kentucky
Sept. 20, 1881 . . .
1883...
Dec. 12, 1881...
Oct. 27, 1881...
Apr. 6, 1882...
Mar. 5, 1881 . . .
Apr. 11, 1882. . .
1883...
Dec. 19, 1881 . . .
Jan. 21, 1874...
July 16, 1862...
Mar. 10, 1868...
Mar. 21, 1870...
Dec. 11, 1872...
Nov. 29, 18T7...
Dec. 21, 1880...
May 12, 1881 .. .
Dec. 20, 1881 . . .
18a3...
Ent'd Army 1840
June 15, 1880
June 15, 1880.
Jan. 10, 1881.
May 1.5, 1861.
June 8, 1880.
Apr. 14, 1875.
June 23, 1874.
May .., 1881.
Dec. 8, 1880.
Ent'd Navy 1829
July 1, 1878.
May 2.3, 1881.
Jan. 26, 1880.
Nov. 20, 1878.
Feb. 26,
July 10,
Nov. 1,
Nov. 1,
May 1,
May 2,
Aug. 24,
Feb. 17,
Mar. 21,
June 1 1,
Sept. 11,
July 12,
Nov. 15,
Oct. 24,
Oct. 25,
Mar. 6,
Mar. 6,
Nov. 1,
May 19,
Juiie 6,
Apr. 24,
1877.
1880.
1876.
1876.
1877.
1863.
1863.
1865.
1873.
1878.
1861.
1879.
1880.
1872.
1872.
1881.
1881.
1870.
1881.
1881.
1877.
1872.
1883.
$.50,000
8,666
8,000
8,000
8,000
8,000
8,000
8,000
10,.500
10,000
10,000
10,000
10,000
lO.OM
10,000
10,000
10,000
8,000
8,666
13^500
5,.500
4,500
5,500
5,500
5,500
5,500
5,500
4,200
5,500
5,500
13,000
4,500
5,000
5,000
5,000
5,000
5,000
5,000
5,000
5,000
4,000
4,500
3,500
5,000
3,500
3,500
8,500
2,700
2,400
3,500
3,500
3,500
7,000
4,000
5,000
3,000
3,C00
5,0il0
3,000
6,00.)
5,000
6,000
4.500
8,000
4,5OT
386
Methodist Year-Book.
List of TJ. S. Senators Elect.
48th Congress. — March 4, 1883, to March 4, 1885.
Term Eipi
Alabama.
James L. Pugh, D., Eufaula
John T. Morgan, D., Selma
Arkansas.
James D. Walker, D., Fayettevllle 1885
A. A. Garland, D., Little Rock 1889
California.
James T. Farley, D., Jackson 1885
John F. Miller, E., San Francisco. . .
Colorado.
Nathaniel P. Hill, R., Denver
T. M. Bowen, R., Del Norte 1889
Connecticut,
Orville H. Piatt, R., Meriden
Joseph R. Hawley, R., Hartford
Delaware.
Thomas F. Bayard, D., Wilmington..
Eli Saulsbury, D., Dover
Florida.
Wilkinson Call, D., Jacksonville
Charles W. Jones, D., Pensacola
Georgia.
Joseph E. Brown, D., Atlanta
Alfred H. Colquitt, D., Atlanta
Illinois.
John A. Logan, R., Chicago
S. M. Cullom, R., Springneld
Indiana.
Daniel W. Voorhees, D
Benjamin Harrison, R., Indianapolis..
Iowa.
William B. Allison, R., Dubuque
J. F. Wilson, R., Fairfield
Kansas.
John J. Ingalls, R., Atchison
Preston B. Plumb, R., Emporia
Kentucliy.
John S. Williams, D., Mt. Sterling.
James B. Beck, D., Lexington
Lonisiana.
B. Frank Jonas, D., New Orleans. .
R. L. Gibson, D., New Orleans —
Maine.
Eugene Hale, R., Elsworth
William P. Frye, R., Lewiston —
Maryland.
James B. Groome, D.", Elkton
Arthur P. Gorman, D., Laurel
Massachusetts.
Henry L. Dawes, R., Pittsfleld. . .
George F. Hoar, R., Worcester
Michigan.
Omar D. Conger, R., Port Huron. .
Thomas W. Palmer, R
Minnesota.
Sam. J.R. M'Mlllan, R., St. Paul.
De Witt M. Sabin, R
887
885
887
887
Term Expires.
Mississippi.
James Z. George, D., Jackson 1887
Lucius Q. C. Lamar, D., Oxford 1889
Missouri.
George G. Vest, D., Sedalia 1885
Francis M. Cockrell, D., Warrensburg..l887
Nebraska.
Charles H. Van Wyck, R 1887
Charles N. Manderson, R 1889
Nevada.
John P. Jones, R., Gold Hill 1885
James G. Fair, D., Virginia City 1887
New Hampshire.
Henry W. Blair, R., Plymouth 1885
Austin F. Pike, R., Franklin 1889
New Jersey.
William J. Sewell, R., Camden 1887
John R. M'Pherson, D., Jersey City 1889
New York.
Elbridge G. Lapham, R 1885
Warner Miller, R., Herkimer 1887
North Carolina.
Zebulon B. Vance, D., Charlotte 1885
Matt. W. Ransom, D., Weldon 1889
Ohio.
George H. Pendleton, D., Cincinnati 1885
John Sherman, R., Mansfield 1887
Oregon.
James H. Slater, D., La Grande 1885
J. N. Dolph, R., Portland 1889
Pennsylvania.
Jas. Donald Cameron, R 1885
John L Mitchell, R., Wellsborough . . . . 1887
Rliode Island.
Nelson W. Aldrich, R 1887
Henry B. Anthony, R., Providence 1889
South Carolina.
Wade Hampton, D., Columbia 1885
Manning C. Butler, D., Edgefield 1887
Tennessee.
Howell E. Jackson, D., Jackson 1887
Isham G. Harris, D., Memphis 1889
Texas.
Samuel B. Maxey, D., Paris 1887
Richard Coke, D., Waco 1889
Vermont.
Justin S. Morrill, R., Strafford 1885
George F. Edmunds, R., Burlington — 1887
Virginia.
William Mahone, Readjuster 1887
H. H. Riddleberger, Readjuster 1889
West Virginia.
Johnson N. Camden, D., Parkersburg. .1887
J. E. Kenna, D., Kanawha C. H 1889
Wisconsin.
Angus Cameron, R., La Crosse 1885
Philetus Sawyer, R., Oshkosh 1887
Republicans, 38 ; Democrats, 36 ; Readjusters, or Coalitionists, 2. Total, 76.
Methodist Year-Book.
387
State Capitals and Governors in 1884.
Alabama Montgomery .Edward A. O'Neil, D.
Arkansas Little Rock. . . | James H. Berry, D . .
California Sacramento . . iGeorge Stoneman, D.
Colorado Denver ! James B. Grant, D
Connecticut . . . Hartford
Delaware Dover
Florida iTallabassee . .
Georgia j Atlanta
Illinois ISpringfleld. . .
Indiana | Indianapolis .
Iowa iDes Moines. . .
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts..
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New York Albany
North Carolina. [Raleigh
Ohio Columbus . . .
Salem
Harrisburg. .
Oregon
Pennsylvania .
Rhode Island. . .
South Carolina.
Tennessee
Texas
Vermont
Virginia
West Virginia..
Wisconsin
Thomas M. Waller, D
Chas. C. Stockley,D..
Wm. D. Bloxham, D.
Henry D. M' Daniel, D
Shelby M. Cullom, R.
Albert G. Porter, R..
Buren R. Sherman,R
Geo. vv. Glick, D....
L. P. Blackburn, D . .
S. D. M'Enery, D.. ..
Frederick Robie, R..
Wm. T. Hamilton, D
Benj. F. Butler, D...
Josiah W. Begole, D.
Lucius F. Hubbard,R
Robert Lowry, D —
Thos. T. Crittenden,D
James W. Dawes, R.
Jewett W. Adams, D
Samuel W. Hale, R..
Geo. C. Ludlow, D. . .
Grover Cleveland, D .
Thomas J. Jarvis, D .
Charles Foster, R. ..
Z. F. Moody, R
iRobert E. Pattison, D
N'port & ProvJA. H. Littlefleld, R. .
Columbia — I Hugh S.Thompson, D
Nashville j William B. Bate, D. .
Austin I John Ireland, D . —
Montpelier . . . j John L. Barstow, R. .
Richmond :W. E. Cameron, Readj
Wheeling . . . I Jacob B. Jackson, D.
Madison Jeremiah M. Rusk, R
Topeka
Frankfort
Baton Rouge.
Augusta
Annapolis —
Boston
Lansing
St. Paul
Jackson
Jefferson City
Lincoln
Carson City . .
Concord
Trenton
Years
of
Term.
2
Nov.
29,
2
Jan.
4,
3
Jan.
5,
2
Jan.
111
2
Jan.
5,
4
Jan.
21,
4
Jan.
4,
2
Nov.
3,
4
Jan.
10,
4
Jan.
10.
2
Jan.
9,
3
Jan.
10,
4
Sept.
3,
4
Jan.
• -1
2
Jan.
5,
4
Jan.
14,
1
Jan.
4,
2
Jan.
1,
3
Jan.
3,
4
Jan.
3,
4
Jan.
10,
2
Jan.
4,
4
Jan.
«,
2
June
1,
3
Jan.
18,
3
Jan.
1,
4
Jan.
1,
2
Jan.
y,
4
Sept.
12,
3
May
25,
1
May
31,
2
Dec.
30,
2
Jan.
1.5.
2
Jan.
IH,
2
Oct.
«,
4
Jan.
1,
4
Mar.
4,
3
Jan.
2,
•83 Dec. 1,
'83 Jan. 13,
'83 Jan. 3,
'83 Jan. 9,
'83 Jan. 3,
'83Jan. 21,
'81|Jan. 6,
'82jNov. 3,
'SljJan. 12,
'SliJan. 12,
•83|Jan. 14,
'83Jan. 9,
'rgsept. 5,
'80 Jan. 19,
'83!jan. 7,
'801 Jan. 7,
'83Jan. 3,
'83'jan. 1,
'83 Jan.
Salary.
Jan. 5,
Jan. 12,
Jan. 2,
Jan. 2,
June 6,
Jan. 15,
Jan. 1,
Jan. 1,
Jan. 14,
_ Jan. 1,
'SSJJan. 18,
'83 May 30,
Dec. 30,
Jan. 15,
Jan. 15,
Oct. 4,
Jan. 1,
Mar. 4,
Jan. 7,
'84 $3,00.)
•85| 3,50;1
•87| 6,000
'85, 3,00.)
'85, 2,000
'87 2,0(X)
'85' 3,5(X)
'84! 3,0iK)
'85' 0,000
'851 bfim
'84 4,000
'85 3,000
'83; 5,000
'841 4;ouo
'85; 2,000
'84! 4,500
'84 4.000
'85' 1,000
'84 3,8iX)
•86 4,00J
5,00J
2,500
6,000
1,000
5,000
10,000
3,000
'841 4,000
'86 1,500
'871 10,000
1,000
3,50)
'85J 4,0110
4,0tlO
1,000
5,0lX)
'85i 3,700
'851 5,000
Grovemors of the Territories, 1884."*
Years
of
Term.
Teem
Esns.
Arizona Prescott • iFred. A. Tritle, R . .
Dakota.
Idaho
Montana
New Mexico.
Utah
Washington.
Yankton Neh. G. Ordway, R..
Boise City — John B. Neil, R.
Helena ij. Schuyler Crosby, R
Santa F^ 'Lionel A. Sheldon, R.
Salt Lake City Eli H. Murray, R. . . .
Olympia iWm. A. Newell, R.. .
Wyoming ! Cheyenne — I William Hale, R.
Feb. 6, '83 Feb. 6, '86 $3,600
May 23, '80 May 23, '84 3,600
July 13, '80 July 13, '84 3,600
Aug. 4, •83!Aug. 4, ^86 2,600
May 5, '811 May 5, '85 2,6 lO
Jan. 37, '80 Jan. 27, '84 3,6(iO
April 26, '80 April 26, '84 3,600
Aug. 3, '82lAug. 3, '86 2,000
Territorial Chief Justices, 1884.
Arizona.— Charles G. W. French, four years from January 13, 1880. Salary, $3,000.
Dakota.— Alon^o P. Edgerton, four years from December 21, 1881.
Idaho.— John T. Morgan, four years from June 10, 1879.
IVew Mexico.— Samuel B. Axtell, four years from January 13, 1883.
Utah.— John A. Hunter, four years from April 20, 1880.
Washington.— Roger S. Green, four years from January 16, 1879.
Wyoming.— James B. Sener, four years from December 11, 1879.
The Governors of Territories are appointed by the President.
388
Methodist Year-Book.
Heads of the Principal ITations of the World in 1884,
Governments.
Argrentlne Republic
Austria-Hungary
Belgium
Bolivia
Brazil
Chili
Ctiina
ColouiWa
Costa Rica
Denmark
Ecuador
France
Germany
Alsace-Lorraine
Anhalt
Baden
Bavaria
Bremen
Brunswick
Hamburg
Hesse
Lippe
Lubeck
Mecklenburg-Schwerin
Mecklenbuig-Sirelitz
Oldenburg
Prussia
Reuss-Greiz
Reuss-Sclileiz
Saxe-Altenburg
Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Saxe-Meiningen
Saxe-Weimar Eisenach
Saxony
Schaumburg-I.ippe
Scbwarzburg-Rudolstadt —
Schwarzburg-Sondershausen,
Waldeck
Wurtemburg
Great Britain and Ireland
Greece
Guatemala
Hawaiian Islands
Havti.
JulioA.Roca .
Franz Joseph I
Leopold II
Nicolas Cam pero
Pedi'o II. Alcantara
Kwong Slui.
Tomas Guardia
Christian IX
3os6 Maria Caamano
Fran(jois P. Jules Gr^vy,
Wilhelin I
F. M. Baron Manteuflel .
Friedrich
Fiiedrich I
Ludwig II
Wilhelm I.
Ludwig IV
G. F. Waldemer.
Honduras
Italy
Japan
Mexico
Morocco
Netherlands
Nicaragua ,
Paraguay
Persia
Peru
Portugal
Roumania
Russia
Salvador
Santo Domingo
Servia
Spain
Sweden and Norway.
Switzerland
Turkey
Egvpt
United States
Uruguay
Venezuela
Friedrich Wilhelm . . .
iPeter .
IWilhelm I
Henrlch XXII
Heinrich XIV
JEmst
Ernst II
JGeorg II
'Karl Alexander
Albert
Adolf
Georg
Giinther III
Georg Victor
Karl I
Victoria I
Georgios I
J. Ruflno Barrios
Kalakaua I
Gen. Salomon
M. A.Soto
Humbert I
Mutsu Hito
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Muley-Hassan
Willem III
Joaquin Zavala
Candido Bareiro
Nassr-ed-deen
General Iglesias
Luis I
Karl I. Domnu
Alexander III
Rafael Zaldivar
F. A. de Moreilo
Milan IV. Obrenovic.
Alfonso XII
Oscar II
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Dec. 2, 1848
Dec. 10, 1865
June 1, 1880
April 7, 1831
Sept. 18, 1876
Jan. 12, 1875
Provisional.
Nov. 15, 1863
Oct. 21, 18a3
Jan. 30, 1879
Jan. 18, 1871
May 22, 1871
Apr. 24, 1852
Mar. 10, 1864
Apr. 20, 1831
June 13, 1877
Dec. 8. 1675
Sept. 6. 1860
Feb. 27, lh-53
Jan. 2, 1861
Nov. 8, 18.'',9
July 10, 1867
Aug. 3, 1853
Jan. 29, 1844
Sept. 20, 181,6
July 8. 1853
Oct. 29, 1873
Nov. 21, 1860
Nov. 26,1869
July 17, 1880
May 14, 1845
June 2.5, 1864
June 20, 18^7
June 6, 1803
May 7, 1873
Feb. 12, 1814
Nov. 25, 1879
May 29, 18m
Jan. 9. 1878
Feb. 13, 1867
Dec. 1, 18S0
Sept. 25, 1873
Mar. 17,1849
Mar. 1, 1879
Apr. 12, 1878
Sept. 10, 1848
Oct. 23, I'^fr*
Nov. 11, 3861
May 10, 1866
Mar. 13, 18S1
Apr. SO, 1876
July 23, l8f-0
July 2, 1868
Dec. 30, 1874
Sept. 18, 1872
Jan. 1, 1881
Aug. 31, 187'6
June 25, 1879
Sept. 20, 1881
Mar. 17, ISKO
Feb. 26, 1879
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General Necrological Eecord for the Year.
Nov. 1, 1882— Nov. 18, 1883.
November, 18S3.
2. Quincy, Josiah, Massachusetts jurist, b. in Boston 1802.
3. Simpson, Win. H., American journalist, b. in Maine 1811.
4. Antinori, Marquis Horatio, Italian savant, b. in Perugia 1812.
5. Poor, Charles H., Eear-Admiral, (retired,) U. S. N., b. in Massachusetts 1800.
6. Hofman, Eudolf, German historical painter, b. 1817.
8. Saubert, Charles Paulin Roger de, Baron de Larcy, French advocate and po-
litical writer, b. 1805.
8. Arnold, Eichard, Maj.-Gen. U. S. A., b. in E. I. 1828.
10. Stephens, Edward Browning, A.E.A., English sculptor, b. in Exeter 1824.
11. rigueras-3'-Moracas, Seiior, Spanish statesman, b. in Barcelona 1819.
11. Twing, Eev. Alvi Tabor, D.D., P. E. divine, b. in Topsliam, Vt., 1811.
13. Eose, George, ("Arthur Sketchley,") English humorous writer, b. 1830.
14. Buchanan, Sir Andrew, English diplomatist, b. in Scotland 1807.
15. Kinkel, Johann Gottfreid, German poet and patriot, b. in Oberca.ssel 1815.
18. Hawkins, Dr. Edward, Provost of Oriel College, Oxford, b. 1789.
20. Draper, Prof. Henry, M.D., LL.D., Am. physicist, b. in Virginia 1837.
20. Fitzgerald, Lord Otlio Augustus, English soldier, b. in Ireland 1827.
20. Cogswell, Milton, Col. U. S. A., b. in Indiana 1828.
21. Sanguigni, Cardinal Domenico, Papal Nuncio at Lisbon, b. in Naples 1809.
22. Weed, Thurlow, American journalist and politician, b. 1797.
26. Eagle, Henry, Commodore U. S. N., b. 1801.
26. Le Clear, Thomas, N.A., American portrait painter, b. in N. Y. State 1818.
27. Manteuffel, Baron Otho Theodore von, Prussian statesman, b. in Branden-
burg 1805.
28. Strong, James H., Eear-Admiral U. S. N., b. in N. Y. 1814.
30. Tyler, Gen. Daniel, American soldier, b. in Conn. 1799.
December.
1. Murphy, Henry C, prominent citizen of Brooklyn, b. 1810.
1. Eemington, Samuel, inventor of Eemington rifle, b. in N. Y. 1817.
2. Wyman, Eobert H., Eear-Admiral U. S. N., b. in N. H. 1820.
3. Tait, Eev. Archibald Campbell, Primate of England, b. in Edinburgh 1811.
6. Blanc, Louis, French socialist and historian, b. 1813.
6. Trollope, Anthony, English novelist, b. in Harrow 1815.
8. Murray, Mrs. Elizabeth, English water-color painter, b. in London 1817.
8. Burbank, Sidney, Brig.-Gen. U. S. A., b. in Mass. 1808.
10. Lachain, Charles Alexandre, French advocate, b 1818.
11. Stubbs, Eev. Alfred, S.T.D., P. E. divine, b. in the Bahamas 1815.
12. Watson, Sir Thomas, English physician, b. 1792.
12. Caetano, Michael Angelo, Duke of Sermoneta, Italian statesman, b. Eome 1804.
13. Stephens, Henry Louis, American artist, b. in Philadelphia 1824.
17. Orth, Godlove S., U. S. Senator from Indiana, b. in Pa. 1817.
17. Schofield, Geo. W., Lieut.-Col. U. S. A., b. in N. Y. 1835.
18. Close, Very Eev. Francis, D.D., Dean of Carlisle, b. in England 1797.
19. PoUet, Victor Florence, French designer and engraver, b. 1810.
20. Park, Trenor W., American railroad and mining projector, b. in Vermont 1828.
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21. Schenck, James F., Rear-Admiral U. S. N., b. hi Ohio 1806.
23. Donnet, Ferdinand Frangois Augubte, Cardinal Archbishop of Bordeaux, b. 1795.
25. Corvisart, Dr. Lucien, Fi'ench physician and surgeon.
27. Afinger, Bernard, German sculptor, b. at Nuremburg 1813.
31. Gambetta, Leon Michel, French lawyer, statesman, and orator, b. at Caliors 1838.
January, 1883.
1. Allen, Elisha Hunt, American diplomatist, b. in Mass. 1804.
4. Chanzy, Antoine Eugene Alfred, French soldier and senator, b. 1824.
6. Clesinger, Jean Baptiste Auguste, French sculptor, b. 1814.
7. Seaver, WiUiam A., American misceUaneous writer, b. 1814.
9. Martin, Sir Samuel, British lawyer and jurist, b. in Ireland 1801.
10. Morrill, Lot M., American legislator, ex-Senator and ex-Governor of Maine,
b. 1815.
11. Kampon, Count Joachim Achille, French senator and savant, b. 1806.
12. Mills, Clark, American sculptor, b. in N. Y. State 1815.
15. Sailer, Joseph, American journalist and author, b. 1809.
15. Wolzogen, Baron Carl von, German author, b. in Frankfort 1823.
15. Talbot, Eev. Joseph Cruikshank, P. E. Bishop of Indiana, b. in Va. 1816.
18. Shackleford, John W., M. C. from North Carolina, b. 1844.
21. Prince Charles of Prussia, brother of Emperor William, and a famous soldier,
b. 1800.
23. Beard, Geo. M., A.M., Ph.D., American physician and author, b. in Conn. 1839.
23. Dore, Gustave, French artist, b. in Strasburg 1832.
23. Crittenden, Alonzo, Ph.D., American educator, b. 1800.
23. England, Sir Richard, English general, b. in Canada 1793.
25. Flotow, Baron Frederick von, German composer, b. 1812.
25. Baker, E. D., Colonel U. S. A., b. 1839.
26. Schauffler, William Gottlieb, D.D., LL.D., scholar and divine, b. in Stutt-
gart 1798.
26. Sandera, William Wilkins, Colonel U. S. A., b. in Pa. 1840.
31. Motterouge, Gen. Joseph Edouard de la, French soldier, b. 1804.
31. Keeney, Charles G., Lieut. -Col. U. S. A., b. in N. Y. 1824.
February.
3. Tamberlik, Henri, Italian tenor, b. in Rome 1820.
5. Dohne, Ernest, German humorous writer.
6. OuroussoiF, Prince Sergius, Russian statesman.
9. Dodge, Wm. E., American merchant philanthropist, b. in Hartford, Conn., 1805.
9. Corbaux, Fanny Doetyer, English miniature painter, b. 1812.
9. Sahm, Carl, German composer, b. 1821.
10. Jewell, Marshall, ex-Gov. of Conn., b. in N. H. 1825.
11. De Vinne, Rev. Daniel, M. E. divine, b. in Ireland 1793.
11. Morrell, Geo. Webb., Maj.-Gen. U. S. A., b. in N. Y. 1815.
11. Hayden, Maria B., M.D., b. in England 1826.
12. Morris, Francis, Commander U. S. N., b. 1840.
13. Wagner, Richard, German composer, b. at Leipsic 1813.
14. Morgan, Edwin D., ex-Gov. of New York, b. 1811.
17. Atwater, Lyman Hotchkiss, D.D., of Princeton College, b. in Conn. 1813.
22. Lord Egerton of Tatton, English statesman, b. 1806.
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24. Clifford, Walter, Capt. U. S. A., b. 1838.
25. Meriam, Peter, Swiss savant, b. 1796.
26. Martimprey, Count Edmond Charles, French soldier, b. 1808.
March.
8. Stephens, Alexander Hamilton, C4ov. of Georgia, b. 1812.
4. Lord Selborne, Englisli jurist.
5. Kaaslofi', Gen. Valdemar Rudolph, Prussian diplomatist, b. 1815.
7. Thayer, Nathaniel, Boston merchant and philanthropist, b. 1808.
7. Green, John Eichard, LL.D., English historian.
8. Huot, Adolphe Joseph, French engraver, b. 1841.
10. Coumondouros, Alexander, Greek statesman, b. 1812.
10. Muhlenberg, Edward D., Major U. S. A., b. 1831.
11. Gortschakotf, Prince Alexander Micliaelovitch, Russian statesman, b. 1800.
12. Green, Rev. Aaron Levy, English Hebrew scholar, b. lyiS.
12. Dilke, Ashtou Weutvvorth, English legislator, b. 1S60.
12. Brown, W. H., Lieut.-Col. U. S. A., b. 1838.
14. Marx, Carl, German socialist, b. about 1S30.
17. Witte, Charles, German jurist and author, b. 1800.
19. Kettell, George F., D.D., M. E. divine, b. in Boston 1817.
19. Doyle, Gen. Sir Charles Hastings, British soldier, b. in Ireland 1805.
21. Jessel, Sir George, English jurist, b. 1818.
24. Turner, Thomas, Rear- Admiral U. S. N., b. 1809.
24. Varroy, Henri Auguste, French civil engineer, b. 182fi.
25. Howe, Timothy 0., U. S. Postmaster-General, b. in Me. 1816.
25. Van Buren, William H., M.D., American physician and scientist, b. 1819.
28. Brown, John, personal attendant on Queen Victoria.
28. Delafield, Lewis Livingstone, member of New York Bar, b. 1834.
29. Buford, Napoleon B., Brig.-Gen. U. S. A., Am. soldier and engineer, b. 1807.
30. Diefeubach, Lorenz, German philologist and theologian, b. in He.sse 1806.
April.
1. Bailey, Joseph H., M.D., American physician, b. 1803.
2. Lartigue, Alfred Charlemagne, French dramatic author, b. 1821.
4. Cooper, Peter, American merchant philanthropist, b. 1791.
5. Barnes, Joseph K., Brig.-Gen. U. S. A., b. 1817.
6. Berge, William, composer and musician, b. 1824.
7. Vieullot, Louis, French journalist, b. 1813.
13. Russell, Sir Charles, V.C, English soldier, b. 1820.
14. Friedrich-Franz IL, Grand Duke of Mecklenberg-Schwerin.
15. Howe, George, D.D., LL.D., Pres. of South. Presb. Theol. Seminary, b. 1800.
15. Bannister, Henry, D.D., Professor in N. W. University, Evanston, Ul., b. 1812.
16. Malahide, James Talbot, Earl of, English statesman, b. 1805.
17. Cuyler, James Wayne, Major D. S. A., b. 1842.
17. Rose, Sir Philip, English lawyer and parliamentarian, b. 1816.
17. Duke Louis of Bourbon, b. 1800.
21. Taylor, Bushrod B., Captain U. S. N., b. in Indiana 1830.
22. Suleiman Pasha, Turkish general, b. 1840.
23. Mattei, Cardinal Roger Luigi Antici, b. 1811.
23. Peters, Wilhelm Carl Hnrtwig, German traveler and scientist, b. 1815,
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2i. Palmer, James C, Surgeon-General U. S. N., b. 1812. ■
24. Sandeau, Leonard Sylvahi Jules, French author and academician, b. ISll.
25. Bargue, Charles, French painter, b. 1841.
27. Middleton, Edward, Kear-Adiniral U. S. N., b. 1816.
28. Schulze-Delitzsch, Herzuan, German political economist, b. 1808.
28. Amigues, Jules, French feuilletonist, b. 1829.
80. Goupil, Jules, French landscape painter, b. 1841.
May.
1. Connor, Very Eev. George Henry, M.A., Dean of Windsor, b. 1823.
1. Manet, Edouard, French artist, b. 1833.
2. Burr, C. Chauncey, American journalist, b. in Maine 1815.
2. Paulding, Holmes Offley, Asst.-Surgeon, U. S. A., (great-grandson of John C.
Paulding, one of the three captors of Major Andre,) b. 1850.
6. Viardot, Louis, French Utieraievr, h. 1800.
6. Deasey, Et. Hon. Eichard, LL.D., Irish jurist, b. 1812.
11. Lee, William, D.D., Archdeacon of Dubhn, b. 1815.
12. Washburne, Israel, Jr., ex-Gov. of Maine, b. 1813.
14. Young, James, F.E.S., LL.D., British inventor and scientist, b. 1811,
17. Braekeleer, Ferdinand de, Belgian painter, b. 1792.
17. Peck, Jesse Truesdell, D.D., one of the Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, b. in Middletield, N. Y., 1811.
20. Chambers, William, Scottish editor and publisher, b. 1800.
23. Arbuckle, Matthew, famous cornetist.
25. Laboulaye, Edouard Bene Lefebvre, French jurist, b. 1811.
25. Heuschliug, Philippe Framjois Theodore, Belgian politico-economist, b. 1802.
26. Abd-el-Kader, noted Algerine chieftain, b. 1807.
27. Dresser, George Warren, Major U. S. A., b. 1838.
28. Sharswood, George, ex-Chief Justice of Pa., b. 1810.
28. Valenin, Gabriel Gustave, German physiologist, b. 1810.
80. MitcheU, WiUiam G., Col. U. S. A., b. 1836.
June.
7. Fulton, Charles Carroll, American journalist, b. 1815.
8. Clark, Eliphalet, M.D., American homoeopathist, b. 1801.
14. Casserly, Eugene, American lawyer and legislator, b. in Ireland 1822.
14. Brooks, Eev. Charles T., Unitarian divine, b. 1812.
17. Sheaban, James Washington, American journalist, b. 1824.
19. Irons, William Josiah, D.D., English religious writer, b. 1812.
20. Colenso, Et. Eev. John William, Bishop of Natal, b. 1814.
20. Wood, James Frederic, E. C. Archbishop of Philadelphia, b. 1813.
22. Aimard, Gustave, French sensational novelist, b. 1818.
24. Knollys, Gen. Sir William, Treasurer and Comptroller of the Prince of Wales's
Household, b. 1797.
27. Spottiswoode, William, LL.D., F.E.S., English scientist and printer, b. 1825.
27. Sabine, Gen. Sir Edward, K.C.B., F.E.S., English soldier and savaLt, b. 1788.
July.
1. Sands, Benjamin F., Eear- Admiral U. S. N., b. 1812.
2. Burke, "Father Tom," Irisli orator and .scholar, b. 1830.
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2. Strain, Mo.st Rev. John, D.D., R. C. Archbishop of Edinburgh, b. 1810.
4. Pinkney, Rt. Rev. William, D.D., LL.D., P. E. Bishop of Maryland, b. 1809.
5. Purcell, Most Rev. John B., R. C. Archbishop of Cincinnati, b. 1800.
11. Boyd, Very Rev. Archibald, D.D., Dean of Exeter, b. 1803.
11. Ryan, John J., American journalist, b. 1818,
15. Stratton, Charles Heywood, " Gen. Tom Tiiumb," famous dwarf, b. 1888.
16. Hornblower, Rev. W. H., D.D., Presbyterian theologian, b. 1819.
20. Palmer, Rev. Walter C, D.D., M. E. divine, b. 1804.
22. Barizian, Louis Martial, French dramatist, b. 1800.
22. Ord, Edward Otho Cresap, Gen. U. S. A., b. 1818.
23. Jeffers, WOliara N., Commodore U. S. N., b. 1820.
24. Webb, Captain Matthew, famous English swimmer, (drowned in an attempt to
swim the Niagara Whirlpool,) b. 1848.
25. Jerichan, Jean Adolphe, Danish sculptor, b. 1818.
26. Williams, Gen. Sir William Fenwick, K.C.B., British soldier, b. 1800.
27. Blair, Montgomery, American lawyer antl politician, b. 181S.
29. Barca, Don Fruucisca, Spanish envoy to the U. S., b. 1831.
August.
3. Sanford, Milton Holbrook, American turfman, b. 1812.
4. Cot, Pierre Auguste, French painter, b. 1837.
8. Moffat, Dr. Robert, English missionary to Africa, b. 1795.
13. Dubufe, Edouard, French painter, b. 1820.
13. Mosher, Jacob S., M.D., Ph.D., American physician, b. 1834.
14. Cockburn, Hon. James, ex-Speaker Dominion House of Commons, b. 1819.
17. Wullerstorf, Urbain, Baron Bernard von, Austrian savant, b. 1816.
18. Sikes, William Wirt, American author and journalist.
19. Black, Jeremiah S., American jurist, b. 1810.
22. Enauet, Etienne, French novelist, b. 1817.
24. Comte de Chambord, Bourbon claimant to the French throne as " Henri V."
26. Reynald, Hermille, French critic and author, b. 1828.
27. Reidel, August, German painter, b. 1799.
31. Ranovalona, Queen of Madagascar.
September.
3. Tourgu^neff, Ivan, Russian novelist, b. 1818.
5. Marwood, William, the English hangman, b. 1820.
6. Stout, Andrew Varick, American banker and philanthropist, b. 1812.
7. Smith, Julia P., American novelist.
8. Geoffroy, Jean Marie Michel, French dramatist and actor, b. 1820.
8. Maxse, Sir Henry Fitzhardinge Berkeley, Governor of Newfoundand, b. 1831.
9. Law, Rt. Hon. Hugh, Lord Chancellor for Ireland, b. 1818.
10. Giraudin, Paul, French vaudervilliste, b. 1813.
11. Conscience, Hendrik, Flemish novelist, b. 1812.
12. Hastings, Hugh J., American journalist and editor, b. about 1820.
12. Foster, Charles J., American sporting writer, b. 1820.
13. Cook, Dutton, English author and critic, b. 1832.
13. Collinson, Sir Richard, K.C.B., F.R.G.S., Admiral in British navy, b. 1811.
16. Puiseux, Victor Alexander, French mathematician, b. 1S20.
17. Booth, Junius Brutus, American actor, b. 1821.
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18. Collier, John Fajne, English Shakespearean critic, b. 1789.
20. Plateau, Antoine Ferdinand Joseph, Belgian physicist, b. 1801.
22. Hatfield, Eev. Edwin F., D.D., Presbyterian divine, b. 1807.
25. Khallis, George Alexander, Greek statesman and jurist, b. 1804.
28. Carter, Edward, Q.C., Canadian lawyer, b. 1821.
October.
2. Georges Trevor Douglas Bernard, Marquis d' Harcourt, French diplomat.
3. Sands, Joshua B., Kear-Admiral U. S. N., b. 1800.
8. Glover, Eev. Charles E., M. E. divine, b. 1837.
4. Farnam, Henry, benefactor of Yale College, b. in N. Y. 1803.
7. Marno, Ernest, Austrian traveler and naturalist, b. 1844.
8. Short, Kt. Eev. Augustus, Bishop of Adelaide, South Australia, b. 1800.
10. Crane, Charles H., Surgeon-General U. S. A., b. 1825.
10. Ewer, Eev. Ferdinand C, D.D., Episcopalian divine, born 1^.
11. Mount-Cashel, the Earl of, Irish peer, known as " the Father of the House of
Lords," b. 1791.
11. Shelton, Eev. William, D.D., Episcopalian divine, b. 1798.
11. Arnold, Eev. A. N., Baptist minister and theologian, b. 1814.
16. Fuller, Eev. Erasmus Q., D.D., M. E. minister and editor, b. 1828.
17. Siegert, August, German painter, b. 1820.
18. Funk, General Augustus, N. G. S. N. Y., b. 1843.
18. Villedieu, Raphael, Marquis de Torcey, French publicist and legislator, b. 1827.
21. Stanhope, George Philip, eighth Earl of Chesterfield, b. 1821.
21. Eaton, Eev. Horace, D.D., Presbyterian divine, b. 1810.
22. Eeid, Capt. Mayne, English writer of fiction, b. in Ireland 1817.
23. Bernard, Martin, French socialist, b. 1808.
24. Gale, Leonard D., American scientist, b. 1800.
25. Parnell, John Vesey, Lord Congleton, b. 1801.
28. Bounechose, Cardinal Henri-Marie-Gaston Boisnormand de, Archbishop of
Eouen, b. 1800.
29. Fox, Captain Gustavus V., U. S. N., b. 1801.
80. Burt, Arniistead, American lawyer and jmist, b. in S. C. 1802.
November, 1883.
1. Cordova, Fernando Fernandez, Spanish statesman and diplomat, b. in Madrid
1792.
7. Eandolph, Theodore F., ex-Governor of New Jersey, b. 1826.
11. Cushman, Charles H., Commander D. S. N., b. in Maine 1831.
12. Head, Natt, ex-Governor of New Hampshire, b. 1827.
13. Sims, James Marion, M.D., physician and surgeon, b. in S. C. 1813.
13. Creighton, Johnston Blakely, Eear-Admiral U. S. N., b. in E. I. 1822.
14. Lasteyrle, Marquis de, French senator and jurist, b. 1810.
15. Trenchard, Stephen Decatur, Eear-Admiral U. S. N., b. in N. Y. 1818.
15. Castren, Eobert, Swedish author, b. 1851,
15. Hendschel, Albert, German artist and caricaturist, b. 1834.
16. Le Conte, John Lawrence, M.D., American physician and scientist, b. in
N. Y. 1825.
16. Labaree, Eev. Benjamin, D.D., LL.D., American divine and author, b. in
N. H. 1800.
18, Loyd, Samuel Jones, Baron Overstone, English financier and author, b. 1796.
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General Okronological Outline,
From Novejibek 1, 1882, to Octobek 31, 1883.
1882 — ^Nov. 1. Numerous pension frauds discovered at Washington.
Nov. 2. Extensive fire raged in the Catskill Mountains. Fire at Hull, Canada,
caused loss of $500,000.
Nov. 3. Ashland, Ky., buried the victims of the recent military firing; business
suspended, and the streets hung with emblems of mourning.
Nov. 4. Alex. H. Stephens inaugurated governor of Georgia.
Nov. 6. Great fire at Eedbank, N. J., at which the M. E. church was burned.
Nov. 7. State elections took place throughout the United States. The Democrats
made great gains in most of the States.
Nov. 8. Typhoon passed over Manila, doing great damage.
Nov. 9. Kuu, ex-regent- of Corea, carried into perpetual captivity. The resi-
dence of Albert Bierstadt, the artist, burned at Irvington, N. Y. ; loss $150,000.
Nov. 10. Corporation of Dublin refused to confer the freedom of the city on Gen-
eral Wolseley.
Nov. 11. Unsuccessful attempt to assassinate Judge Lawrence in Dublin.
Nov. 13. Eleven new cases of yellow fever discovered at Pensacola, Fla.
Nov. 14. Prussian Landtag opened by Emperor Wilhelm in person.
Nov. 15. Dr. Kinkle, German professor and Democratic leader of 1818, died.
The Excise Commissioners of Cormecticut adopted sealing-wax to prevent the sale
of liquor on Sundays.
Nov. 16. Coasts of England had a heavy gale which did much damage to
shipping.
Nov. 17. An electric storm, throughout the United States and Canada, inter-
fered with telegraphic communication on land and by cable.
Nov. 18. Queen Victoria reviewed the returned Egyptian troops.
Nov. 20. Congregational church at Eiclimond, Mass., built more than 100 years
ago, destroyed by fire. Powder magazine exploded at Guayaquil, Ecuador, killing
10 persons, and destroying a church edifice.
Nov. 21. German Foreign Office issued a circular directing the consular repre-
sentatives of the Empire to confine their attention exclusively to matters of trade
and commerce.
Nov. 22. Gen. Crook's arrival at the San Carlos Indian Agency quieted the In-
dians upon the reservation.
Nov. 23. Wide distress reported in Ireland.
Nov. 24. Official count of votes for governor of New York gives Mr. Cleve-
land 193,825 majority. Commissioners of D. C. decided that no more telegraph
poles should be erected in Washington. Kail way bridge near London, Eng., fell,
killing several persons.
Nov. 25. Garfield Monument Fair opened at Washington. Detective shot and
killed by Fenians in Dublin, Ireland.
Nov. 27. Train fell through a bridge at Fyvie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, killing
14 persons.
Nov. 28. M. Gambetta accidentally shot himself in the hand with a revolver.
Nov. 29. Great snow-storm in the Eastern and Middle States. Unsuccessful at-
tempt to launch the monitor Puritan.
Nov. 30. Thanksgiving day generally observed through the United States.
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Dec. 1. Heury C. Murpliv, president of the Board of Trustees of the Brooklyn
Bridge, died of pneumonia, aged 72.
Dec. 2. Governor Cleveland declined an escort at his inauguration.
Dec. 4. Heavy frost at Pensacola, Fla., giving complete immunity from yellow
fever. Both Houses of Congress opened their session.
Dec. 5. President's message read to Congress, and gave general satisfaction.
Dec. 6. The transit of Venus, while in some places obscured by clouds, was
generally successfully observed.
Dec. 7. Secretary Folger decided that a Chinaman resident in this country
had a right to bring in his wife and child, not residents, on the ground that hus-
band and wife are one and inseparable.
Dec. 8. Excessive cold weather in the United States and Canada.
Dec. 9. Cold weather continued, thermometer marking at Bismarck, D. T., Z<^°
below zero. Great fire in London destroyed 2 acres of buildings and $15,000,000
cf property.
Dee. 12. Gen. John Pope confirmed as major-general. Heavy snow-storm in Spain.
Dec. 13. Great fire at Hickman, Ky. Mr. Gladstone received congratulations on
the 50th annivei-sary of his entrance into public life.
Dec. 14. Prosecution in the Star Koute cases begun. Hampton Court. Palace,
near London, Eng., burned; loss $150,000, and many of tlie curiosities and tapes-
tries damaged.
Dec. 16. Mexican Senate ratified the treaty of commerce, etc., concluded with
Germany. Mexican Congress adjoui-ned till April 1.
Dec. 18. Great suffering reported among the Cherokee Indians, in Indian Terri-
tory, on account of small-pox.
Dec. 20. Large meteor seen at Concord, N. H. The National Greenback Labor
party, in convention at St. Louis, passed resolutions favoring disbandment.
Dec. 21. At Washington the House of Repi-esentatives reversed its vote, passed
19t}i inst., not to adjourn for the holidays.
Dec. 22. At the New England dinner, in New York, Gen. Grant, Jos. S. Choatc,
Gov. Long of Mass., and many prominent gentlemen were among the guests.
Dec. 23. Ice harvesting begun in Albany, N. Y. ; ice reported 6 inches thick.
Dec. 25. Eailroad collision on the Cliesapeake and Ohio Railroad; 5 persons
killed. Lucius W. Pond, the Worcester, Mass., forger, pardoned.
Dec. 27. U. S. Senate passed Pendleton Civil Service Bill, with emendations.
The 600th anniversary of the foundation of the House of Hapsburg celebrated in
Austria.
Dec. 28. Chimney fell from a building at Bradford, Eng., killing 36 workmen
and injuring 50. Eight slave-dhows captured by H. B. M. ship Undine in the
Mozambique Channel.
Dec. 29. Mayor Grace, of New York, refused application of Salmi Morse to pro-
duce the " Passion Play."
Dec. 30. Great snow-storm in Virginia ; snow at Richmond 8 inches deep.
Dec. 31. Gambetta, the renowned French Republican leader, died.
1883 — Jan. 1. Officers-elect in many States and cities inaugurated.
Jan. 2. Remarkable meteor seen in Rochester, N. H., apparently 4 inches in
diameter; exploded like a rocket, but without noise.
Jan. 3. Legislatures of Connecticut, North Carolina, Massachusetts, Colorado,
Florida, and Missouri organized. At Chicago, 6:45 P. M., a large meteor seen.
Jan. 4. House of Representatives (155 to 147) passed the Senate Civil Service
Bill without change. Gen. Butler inaugurated governor of Massachueetts.
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Jan. 5. Mayor Edsoii refused license for the "Passion Play," because its pro-
duction would be " objectionable to the majority of our best citizens."
Jan. 6. Ovington's art warehouse in Brooklyn destroyed by fire.
Jan. 8. Steamer City of Brussels, from New York, Dec. 28, tor Liverpool, report-
ed run down in the Irish Ciiannel by a Glasgow steamer ; 10 lives lost.
Jan. 9. Eight Hon. Lyon Fairplay, M. P. for Edinburgh and St. Andrew Uni-
versities, resigned his seat.
Jan. 10. Newliall House, Milwaukee, Wis., burned ; 100 lives lost.
Jan. 11. Prof Mitchell, of the Coast Survey, estimated the cost of improving
the Mississippi river at $40,000,000. An earthquake felt in Southern Illinois and
Kentucky.
Jan. 12. Large fii-e in Des Moines, Iowa.
Jan. 13. Statue of the late Prince Imperial (killed in Zululand) unveiled by the
Prince of Wales at the Koyal Military Academy, Woolwich, England.
Jan. 15. Thirty persons injured by a railroad collision at Stepney, London.
Destructive fires reported at Yokohama and Tokio, Japan.
Jan. 16. A keg, containing $100,000 in U. S. gold coin, stolen from a safe de-
posit vault in Panama.
Jan. 17. Large meeting of colored men held at Wilmington, N. C, for pro-
moting the first railroad enterprise ever started exclusively by men of that race.
Jan. 18. $185,000 for the fast-mail service appi'opriated.
Jan. 19. The Pope sent a letter to the Irish Bishops, advising them to adopt a
conciliatory attitude toward the British Government.
Jan. 20. Japanese minister gave a reception in honor of Gen. Grant, at Washing-
ton. Terrible explosion at Muiden, Holland, in a gunpowder manufactory ; 40
lives lost.
Jan. 22. Dispatches from London conflnned the report of the loss of the steamer
Cimbria, in the German Ocean, by collision with the Sultan ; over 300 lives lost.
Jan. 23. Intense cold throughout the country ; at Chicago 25° below zero ; at
Niagara Falls the ice gorge was 100 feet thick.
Jan. 24. The Crown Prince and Princess of Germany celebrate their silver wed-
ding.
Jan. 25. Comtnemorative services held in the Senate, appreciative of the late
Senator Hill, of Georgia. Public funeral services over the unidentified dead at the
Milwaukee fire.
Jan. 26. New York Assembly Committee on State-prisons began an investi-
gation of the charges of cruelty to convicts.
Jan. 27. The French Chamber of Deputies received report from the Committee
on Bills for the expulsion of the Orleanists.
Jan. 29. Marquis of Lome, governor-general of Canada, attended the first public
reception of Mrs. M'Elroy, sister of President Arthur. Henry Bergh, Esq., sends a
stirring letter to the mayor of New York, asking him to prevent a glove-fight.
Jan. 30. Great floods reported in the English lake district. In Paris M. Jules
Ferry declined to undertake the formation of a new cabinet.
Jan. 31. Snow-slide near Crested Butte, Eocky Mountains, killed 7 men, wound-
ing 18 others. Cetawayo reinstated king of Zululand.
Feb. 1. The President approved the bill abolishing the detective force of the city
of Washington. Foster, anti-Jewish agitator, started for Paraguay, to found a new
Germany, where there will be no Jews.
Feb. 2. Chinamen driven out of Waynesborough, N. C, " because they sold
goods too cheap."
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Feb. 3. Massachusetts Semite rejected a bill providing that all elections should
he held on the same day, and that this should he a legal holiday.
Feb. 5. Great rain-storm in Northern Ohio and Indiana ; in States farther west
and north-west snow fell, hindering travel.
Feb. 6. U. S. Supreme Court decided that the New York head-money law was
unconstitutional. Spanish Government adopted the decimal system of weights
and measui-es.
Feb. 7. The Chinese in New York celebrated their New-Year with religious
ceremonies.
Feb. 8. Great floods reported on the Ohio Eiver, near Wheeling, W. Va. ; many
inhabitants shut in by the ice. The Gemian Eeichstag voted 100,000 marks for
exploring Central Africa.
Feb. 9. At file-works in Taylorville, 111., a boiler explosion took place, killing 5
men, and fatally wounding 2 others.
Feb. 10. April 1 fixed by the Senate as date for new tariff to go into effect.
Feb. 12. Great flood at Cincinnati, 0., Covington, and Newport, Ky.
Feb 13. Flood at Cincinnati reached 63 feet 7i inches, the highest known.
Wagner, composer, died in Venice, aged 70.
Feb. 14. The river at Cincinnati was 65 feet above low-water mark, and large
portions of the city could only be reached by boats. Ex-Govemor Morgan, of New
York, died, aged 72.
Feb. 15. Eeport of capture of Quito by the Ecuador revolutionists confirmed ;
ships of Great Britain and the United States sent for the protection of their citizens.
Feb. 16. Dispatch from Cincinnati says, of the great flood, " The school-houses
are crowded with fugitives ; the coal supply of the city under water ; water-works
overwhelmed ; gas-works submerged ; but the loss of life has not been very
great."
Feb. 17. 70 lives lost, at Braidwood, 111., by the flooding of a mine, caused by a
land-slide which let in the surface water. In Dublin, Ireland, the prisoner Carey
turned witness and gave information as to the murder of Lord Cavendish and Mr.
Burke.
Feb. 19. The great floods in the West begin to subside. The Ohio River fell 6
feet at Cincinnati. Distress continued; 1,350 families reported homeless at New
Albany, Ind.
Feb. 20. Salmi Morse's application for a mandamus to compel Mayor Edson to
issue a license for a theater in which to produce his " Passion Play " denied by
Judge Ingraham, of the Supreme Court of New York.
Feb. 21. Panic in Eoman Catholic school in East Fourth Street, New York city ;
17 children killed, and many injured.
Feb. 22. U. S. steamer Ashuelot lost off Hong-Kong, China ; 11 of the crew
drowned.
Feb. 23. The new French Ministry of France (M. Ferry, prime minister) de-
prived the princes of their military posts.
Feb. 24. The convicts in the Missouri State Penitentiary, at Jefferson City,
burned down the shops, causing heavy loss, and were with difficulty subdued.
Large subscriptions made in Germany for the relief of sufferers by the Western in-
undations.
Feb. 26. Typhoid and malarial fever broke out in lately submerged Western
districts ; manufactures and business paralyzed ; the Mississippi continued to rise.
Feb. 27. Communistic societies in Andalusia, Spain, reported as committing out-
rages equal to the worst in Ireland.
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Feb. 28. San Francisco, to reduce expenses, decided to dispense with all the
street-lamps. Shocks of earthquake felt at Newport, E. I., and Norwich, Conn.
March 1. Large quantities of smuggled goods seized, in New York, from four
fashionable tailors.
March 2. The Senate of New Jersey passed a bill permitting insurance compa-
nies to insure against storms.
March 3. Governor Cleveland, New York, vetoed the Five-cent (elevated railroad
fixre) Bill. A slight fire in Belle vue Hospital, New York, so shocked some patients
that they may not recover.
March 5. Congres.s adjourned, by limitation, at noon yesterday. Gov. Stephens,
of Georgia, died yesterday morning. Steam-boat Yazoo sunk near Donaldsville,
La. ; 16 lives lost.
March 6. The Mississippi floods reported causing much damage.
March 7. Tennessee House of Eepresentatives passed the State Debt Bill (re-
pudiation.) Defense begun in the Star Eoute trial.
B^rch 8. Board of Education, New Y'ork, rescinded the order reducing the
teacliers' salaries.
March 9. The prophecy of Prof. Wiggins, of Ottawa, of a terrible storm to-day,
while it did not occur, caused much alarm, and brought direct loss to Canadian
fishermen. Steamer Gloucester City, from Bristol, Eng., reported sunk in mid-
oeean.
March 10. The Mississippi Eiver declined slightly at Memphis ; gloomy accounts
from inundated district.
March 12. I'rince Gortchakoff, of Eussia, died. Socialistic troubles in Europe
increasing.
March 13. Terrible storms reported by arriving Atlantic steamers. 1,200 per-
sons arrested in iVndalusia, Spain, for complicity in the anarchist movement.
March 14. Bronze statue proposed to be erected at New York in honor of Will-
iam E. Dodge. Divers find 400 bodies in the hold of the wrecked steamer C'imhna.
March 15. N. L. ])ukes, murderer of Capt. Nutt, tried at Uniontown, Pa., ac-
quitted by the jury. The decree prohibiting American pork in Germany {gazetted.
March 16. A. N. Wymun appointed United States Treasurer, vicf- James Giltillan,
resigned. The Italian premier declared conformity of action between Italy, Ger-
many, and Austria.
March 17. The police of Newark, N. J., take measures to stop Sunday theat-
ricals. General Diaz, of Mexico, cordially welcomed in St. Louis.
March 19. Fresh trouble with the Sioux Indians threatened. Furious galea
caused trreat damage in Great Britain.
March 20. Sensational .story of an attempt, made by three incendiaries, to destroy
Asbury Park, N. J.
March 21. The governor of Tennessee signed the bill repudiating half the debt
of the State. Eight hours made a working-day, by Secretary Chandler, in all the
Government yards.
March 22. The quarrel between the milk-producers and the New York dealers
diminished the city's supply one quarter, and caused much suifering. Disastrous
floods reported in Nova Scotia.
March 23. New York State Senate passed bills permitting the sale of tobacco
and ice-cream on Sunday. The Merchant's Exchange of St. Louis began a move-
ment for the improvement of the Mississippi Eiver.
March 24. The remains of John Howard Payne, author of Home^ Su'eet Il>me,
after lying in state in the Governor's Eooin, City Hall, New York, taken to Wash-
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ington. The eruption of Mount Etna increased, and many villages threatened.
John Bright received the freedom of the city of Glasgow.
March. 26. Postmaster-General Howe died of pneumonia ; the disease alarmingly
prevalent in and about New York,
March. 27. The eruption of Mount Etna created a panic. Emperor William, of
Germany, and Queen Victoria, of England, who had been ill, were better.
March 28. Survivors of the Jeaniiette polar expedition aiTived in New York
city.
March. 29. John Brown, the well-known personal attendant upon Q\ieen ^'ic-
toria, died.
March 30. Gambling made a felony in Tennessee. The new archbishop of
Canterbury, England, enthroned with magnilicent ceremonies.
March 31. Count de Lesseps advocated the making of an inland sea covering the
Desert of Sahara. The Scotch coast devastated by a terrible gale.
April 2. Explosion of a boiler in St. Dizier, France, killed 26, and injured 38
persons. The French property of the Orleans princes mortgaged for $15,000,000.
April 3. Columbia College, New York city, issued an appeal for aid in establish-
ing an American university.
April 4. lOOth anniversary of the birth of Wasliington Irving celebrated at
Tarrytown, N. Y. The Reichstag tlmnked the contributors who aided the sufferers
by floods in Germany. Peter Cooper died.
April 6. Water-spout, accompanied by thunder and lightning, at Nashville,
Tenn. Pennsylvania Legislature defeated bill exempting those who observe the
seventh day of the week from the penalties of the Sunday laws of 1794.
April 7. Prof. Mommsen acquitted, by confirmation of the Supreme Tribunal,
of the charge of libeling Prince Bismarck. Mormons who reject polygamy gathered,
in large numbers, at Kirtlaud, O. Funeral services of Peter Cooper; many thou-
sands of people viewed the body.
April 9. Election frauds discovered at Chicago; tally-sheets tampered with, and
votes transferred from Eepublican to Democratic candidates.
April 10. Cyclone in Arkansas, and destructive tidal wave over the Atlantic, re-
ported on Sunday night. Sand-bags used in New Orleans to prevent the rising
Mississippi from flooding the city.
April 11. Great fraud on the treasury of New York city discovered ; interest
coupons paid twice. Bradlaugh, in England, arrested for blasphemous libel.
April 12. A codicil to Peter Cooper's will gave $100,000 to the Cooper Institute.
The caving-in of a mine near Quinnessee, Mich., buried eight men alive.
April 13. Physicians of New York city gave a banquet to Dr. Oliver Wendell
Holmes. Many persons killed by a gas explosion in a theater at Kevel, Russia.
April 14. Great freshets, in "Vermont and Canada, in districts tributary to the
St. Lawrence River. Brady convicted of the murder of Lord Cavendish and Mr.
Burke.
April 16. 2,000 persons arrested in Moscow for plotting to kill the Czar. Mr.
Bradlaugh acquitted of the charge of publishing blasphemous libels.
April 17. British House of Commons granted Lord Wolseley and Baron Aleester
(Admiral Seymour) £2,000 yearly, which at their death would revert to their heirs.
April 18. The Sultan mvited Baron von Glotz, of the German army, to under-
take the military education of the Turkish troops.
April 19. Serious caving-in of earth over a coal-mine at Ashland, Pa. War
threatened between France and China.
AprU 20. It was claimed that evidence showed that the conspirators who at-
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tempted to blow up public offices in London had been sent from New York. Great
damage, in the North-west, reported from floods.
April 21. Steamer collision, ofif the Spanish coast, in which one vessel was sunk
and seven persons drowned. Great fire in Dellii, India.
April 22. Superintendent Walling instructed the police to enforce the Excise Law
in New York Cicy strictly on Sunday (April 22.)
April 24. The German naturalist, William Karl Hartwig Peters, died. Destruc-
tive tornado swept over Iowa, North Carolina, Mississippi, and Georgia; 150 lives
lost ; villages were wrecked, and the damage to property immense.
April 25. France resolved to send 1,500 soldiers to Tonquin. Jules Sandeau
died. The cabinet considered the action of the dynamite plotters in the United States.
April 26. The jury in the trial of Timothy Kelly, in Dublin, again disagreed.
Swedish Anthropology Society awarded a medal to Henry M. Stanley, Phy.sicians
call for precautions against landing lepers in the United States.
April 27. " Convention of the Irish Eace" held at Philadelphia, 1,555 delegates
present; the dynamite party hopelessly in the minority. Fire in the Fouiidlmg
Asylum, Si.xty-ninth Street, New York, in which were 180 children, who were all
eaved by the Sisters of Charity.
April 28. Failure of the air-brakes on a passenger train, near Olivet, Mich.,
caused the death of three persons and the injury of many others.
April 30. Hailstones unusually large fell in Arcadia, La., doing much damage to
trees and crops. Schulze Delitzsch, founder of the system of friendly societies of
working-men, died.
May 1. Governor of New York signed Niagara Falls Park and New York and
Brooklyn Excise Bills.
May 2. Sitting Bull and tribe started for a reservation to begin a career as farm-
ers. Freeman, the Pocasset fanatic, adjudged sane at Barnstable, Mass., and held
for murder.
. May 3. President Artliur made proclamation of the supplementary extradition
with Spain. Patrick Delaney and Thomas Caftrey pleaded guilty of participating
in the Phcenix Park (Dublin) murders, and were sentenced to be hanged.
May 4. An old miser died at Bellevue Hospital, New York city, leaving $40,000.
May 5. Mr. Bradlaugh was heard, in his own behalf, at the bar of the House ot
Commons, but was not allowed to take the oath.
May 7. Koniginhof, Bohemia, destroyed by fire. Louis Viardot died.
May 8. Certificate of incorporation of the Electric Railway Co., of the United
States, filed ; capital $2,000,000. The $75,000 wortli of diamonds stolen in Paris,
and brought to New York, seized by the customs officers as smuggled goods.
May 9. 115ch anniversary of New York Chamber of Commerce. Civil Service
rules approved and promulgated by President Arthur. Death sentence of Patiiek
Delaney commuted.
May 10. The Pope absolved a nun at Montreal from her dedication vows. Tim-
othy Kelly convicted, in Dublin, on his third trial, and sentenced to be hanged.
May 11. Lightning struck a tank of petroleum in the yard of the National Stor-
age Co., in Communipaw, N. J. ; the consequent fire killed 6 men, and caused a loss
of $600,000.
May 12. International Fisheries Exhibition opened in London, England, with
imposing ceremonies.
May 14. Norwegian bark Inga collided with a huge fish, and rendered unsea-
worthy. Bridge on Pennsborough and Harrisville Railroad gave way, precipitating
a passenger train into the Hughes River, and killing two persons.
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May 15. Trustees of the New York and Brooklyn Bridge adopted the orifrinal
schedule for tolls, adding a charge of one cent for foot passengers. New asteroid
reported to Harvard College Observatory, from Kiel, Prussia.
May 16. Reported discovery of an infernal machine on a transatlantic stean^.er
caused great excitement in England. Eeunion of the Army of the Potomac at
Washington.
May 17. Prince Bismarck's disease pronounced catarrh of the stomach. Cety-
wayo, king of Zululand, routed by neighboring chiefs.
May 18. Steamer Granite State burned near Saybrook, Conn. ; four lives lost, and
many injured. Great loss of life from tornadoes in Illinois and Wisconsm.
May 19. New York and Brooklyn Bridge lighted for the iirst time. Car-shops
of the Pennsylvania E. E. Co., near the Hackensack Eiver, burned ; loss $400,000.
May 21. The Czar and Czarina of Eussia arrived at Moscow. William Cham-
bers, the publisher, died. A flood swept away more than half of the town of Dead-
wood, Dak.
May 22. Snow fell at Toledo, O., to the depth of three inches. Disastrous forest
fires in Vermont.
May 23. Frosts in the West and South seriously damaged the crops. The mem-
bers of the German Bundesrath left the Eeiehstag in a body on the refusal of the
Minister ot Finance to reply to a question.
May 24. New York and Brooklyn Bridge opened in presence of immense
crowds ; President Arthur and Governor Cleveland in attendance ; R. S. Storrs,
D.D., delivered the principal address ; great display of fire-works in the evening.
May 25. Judge Saunders, of the Helena, Ark., Circuit Court, shot at twice in
the court- room. The Emperor of Eussia formally announced Sunday, May 27, as
the day for the coronation.
May 26. State Department at Washington oiScially informed that a treaty of
peace has been signed by Chili, and Iglesias for Peru.
May 28. Plot discovered to shoot the king of Eoumania. Report that General
Crook and his white soldiera had been murdered by his Indian scouts created un-
easiness at the War Department.
May 29. Abd-el-Kader died at Damascus. General Caceres defeated in Peru.
Gabriel Gustave Valentin, the German physiologist, died.
May 30. Incendiary tires caused great damage in Minneapolis, Minn. A whirl-
wind in Indiana blew houses to pieces, killed many persons, and left a wide path
of ruins. Accident on the New York and Brooklyn Bridge, from panic, at one
of the flights of steps ; 12 killed, 44 seriously injured.
May 31. Overseers of Harvard University decided not to confer the degree of
LL.D. on Governor Butler.
June 1. Negotiations between Prussia and the Vatican broken off. Fifteen per-
sons killed in the anti- Jewish riots in Eostof, Russia.
June 2. Governor Cleveland signed the new Aqueduct Bill for New York city.
June 4. The Czar granted liberty of worship to the great dissenting sect of
Russia.
June 5. Trustees of Columbia College, New York, decided upon a course of
studies for women to pursue outside the college.
June 6. 143 private soldiers, stationed at Posen, Germany, accidentally poisoned.
50 persons reported roasted alive for witchcraft in the Sherbro district, near Sierra
Leone, Africa.
Jiine 7. General Hicks gained a great victory over 5,000 Arabs in the Soudan.
Jvme 8. Sir George Bowyer, the legal writer, died. Unusual loss of life reported
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during late frequent storms along the coast. Important treaty announced between
Chdi and Bolivia.
June 9. Professor C. E. Anthon, of the College of the City of New York, died at
Bremen, Germany.
Jime 11. Monument to John Howard Payne unveiled at Washington. Sulei-
man Daoud hanged in Alexandria, Egypt, for burning that city.
June 12. Eev. Drs. Paxton and Booth resigned from the New York Presby-
tery.
June 13. Great wind-storm in Missouri moved buildings, uprooted trees, and
did great damage. N. L. Dukes, who had been acquitted of the murder of Captain
Nutt, was shot and killed by Nutt's son at Uniontown, Pa.
June 14. The Czar commuted the sentences of a number of nihilists. Ten per-
sons killed by the falling of a government barracks in Kaluga, Russia.
June 15. Jury in Star Route trial acquitted all the defendants. Prohibition
State ticket nominated in Ohio.
June 16. High License Law passed by Senate of Illinois June 15, signed by the
governor, and will go into operation July 1. The House of Commons passed bill
providing grants of money to Lord Wolseley and Baron Alcester, instead of annual
pensions, as originally designed. Panic among children leaving Victoria Hall,
Sunderland, England ; 197 trampled to death.
June 18. Many Arrainian families expelled from Syria by the Turks.
June 19. Large portions of St. Louis flooded by the rise of the Mississippi and
the Missouri Rivers.
June 20. A reservoir, containing 650,000,000 gallons of water, burst at Smart-
ville, Cal., but no lives lost.
June 21. A Dutch man-of-war burned, and another damaged, at Amsterdam.
Trial of Louijse Michel begun.
June 22. Work of excavating for tlie pedestal of the Bartlioldi statue begun.
671 Mormons sailed from Queenstown for New York.
June 23. Jews on trial in Hungary charged with murdering a Christian girl.
Anti-Jewish riots in St. Gall, Switzerland.
June 25. Louise Michel convicted of assailing the French Government, and sen-
tenced to 6 years' imprisonment. President Arthur issued an order reducing the
number of internal revenue districts to 82.
June 26. Eev. W. H. Egleston, of Massachusetts, made chief of the Forestry
division of the Department of Agriculture. The Emigration Commissioners of New
York decided not to allow the landing of pauper British immigrants.
Jvine 27. Supreme Court of Ohio declared the " Scott Liquor Tax Law " consti-
tutional.
June 28. Steamer Rothesay sunk in the St. Lawrence. Announcement of dis-
covery of petroleum in Missouri attracted attention.
June 29. Statue of Gen. R. E. Lee unveiled at Lexington, Va. Floods near St.
Louis decreasing, but damage and suffering great. Bi-itish House of Lords rejected
the bill permitting marriage to a deceased wife's sister, 145 nays to 140 ayes.
June 30. Many deaths from cholera in Egypt ; great alarm in Europe.
July 2. Explosion of gunpowder in Winnepeg. Cholei-a increasing at Damietta,
Egypt.
July 3. Father Burke, the Dominican orator of Dublin, died. British Govern-
ment declined to annex New Guinea.
July 4. Missouri High License Law decided constitutional ; licenses cost about
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$1,000 each. Steamer Daphne^ while landing at Glasgow, capsized, drowning 150
persons. Archbishop Purcell, of Cincinnati, died.
July 5. Increase of cholera in Egypt.
July 6. Three men killed and seven houses destroyed by lightning, near Dover»
N. H. The Duke of Marlborough died.
Jiily 7. Militia called out to subdue the miners' revolt at Ely, Vt. The hottest
day of the season in New York city ; many persons prostrated by sun-stroke.
July 9. Yellow fever cases arrived at New Orleans, La., on a Swedish bark.
July 10. National Educational Association in session at Saratoga, N. Y. W. A.
Eoebling, chief-engineer of the New York and Brooklyn Bridge, resigned.
Jvlj 11- Cholera reported raging violently in China.
July 12. Collision on the Buflalo and South-western E. E. ; 2 persons killed.
200 "assisted" Irish immigrants arrived at Boston.
July 13. The Pope summoned the French bishops to Eome to consult in regard
to the condition of the Church in France.
July 14. Colored Press Association, in session at St. Louis, adopted resolutions
urging that the word Negro be printed with a capital N. Steamer Niagara, from
New York to Havana, burned ; passengers saved.
July 16. Charles H. Stratton, widely-known as " Gen. Tom Thumb," died at
Middleborough, Mass. 2,000 weavers left their work in England.
July 17. Damage in Iowa from storms. Cholera appeared in various parts of
Cairo, causing panic in Alexandria, Egypt.
Jvily 18. Lock-out, throwing 10,000 men out of work, ordered by the cigar
manufacturei-s of New York.
July 19. The Summer School of Philosophy began its sessions. Biennial con-
vention of the National Cotton Exchange opened at Fortress Monroe.
July 20. Great fire on the Brooklyn water-front ; several lives lost, and property
valued at $500,000 destroyed.
July 21 . European powers increased quarantine against persons, goods, and ves-
sels from Egypt, because of the spread of cholera.
July 22. Munro Building, New York city, used as a printing and publishing
house, burned.
July 24. Leprosy broke out in Egypt, where cholera continued to make rav-
ages.
July 25. Ex-Governor Thomas Swann, of Maryland, died. Captain Webb
drowned, attempting to swim through the ^\liirlpool rapids of Niagara. The En-
glish Government abandoned the Channel Tunnel Bill.
July 26. Tornado destroyed much property, and several lives were lost, in
Michigan. Eight colored persons drowned near Kiclimond, Va.
July 27. Ex-Treasurer Marshall T. Polk, of Tennessee, convicted of embezzle-
ment, and sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment.
July 28. Montgomery Blair, ex- Postmaster General, died. The Public Prose-
cutor abandoned the case in Hungary against the Jews for murder. Earthquake on
the island of Ischia, 15 miles from Naples, killing several thousand persons, and
injuring many others.
July 30. Three men attempted to rob the cashier of an Orange bank at Hoboken,
N. J. ; they did not succeed, and the principals were arrested.
July 31. Nugent and Farrell, the principals in the attempted robbery of the Or-
ange bank cashier, pleaded guilty, and were sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment.
Aug. 1. Mount Vesuvius in eruption. Captain-General Prendergast, of Cuba, re-
signed. Another earthquake in Ischia.
Methodist Year-Book. 405
Aug. 2. President Arthur opened the Louisville Exposition. Collision of freight
trains on the Troy and Boston K. R. ; cars took iire, and 6 men killed.
Aug. 3. Total number of deaths from cholera in Egypt to date, 11,000. A. F.
Pike, ex-Congressman, elected Senator from New Hampshire, on the 42d ballot.
U. S. Cattle Commission report that there is no " foot-and-mouth" disea.se among
American cattle.
Aug. 4. Jewish murder trial in Hungary ended with the acquittal of the prison-
ers. The King of Anam died.
Aug. 6. 39 buildings destroyed by fire in San Francisco. Military revolt in Ba-
dajoz, Spain. Leaders of a band of railroad robbers arrested near East St. Louis.
Fii-st bale of this year's cotton received at Selma, Ala.
Aug. 7. Proctor Knott elected Governor of Kentucky. 65 persons poisoned at
Camden, S. C, by eating ice-cream.
Aug. 8. Election returns in Utah showed a large Mormon majority.
Aug. 9. The " National" party of New Jersey held a State Convention at As-
bury Park; indorsed " greenback policy," "woman's rights," and " antimonop-
oly," but rejected " prohibition."
Aug. 10. Moritz Scharf, principal witness against the Jews at trial in Hungary,
confessed that his testimony was false.
Aug. 11. Mr. Hunt's plan for the pedestal of the Bartholdi statue adopted. 500
"Fresh Air" cliildren dined at Coney Island.
Aug. 12. Kimball House, Atlanta, Ga., burned; loss $1,000,000.
Aug. 13. Official reports declared the insurrection in Spain ended. Centennial
anniversary of incorporation of city of Charleston, S. C.
Aug. 14. Edouard Debufe, celebrated French painter, died. Cholera reported
epidemic in the East Indies.
Aug. 15. Western Union Telegraph Co. notified Mayor Edson, of New York,
that the city would be held responsible for the cutting of the wires.
Aug, 16. Association for the Advancement of Science met at St. Paul, Minn.
12 men killed in a mine at Eedruth, England. Vienna Electrical Exhibition
opened by Crown-Prince Eudolph.
Aug. 17. District Master Workman Campbell declared the telegraphers' strike a
failure ; a large number of operators applied for employment.
Aug. 18. American Library Association held a session at BuflPalo, N. Y. The
first car ran over the New York and Brooklyn Bridge.
Aug. 20. Three policemen shot in Ireland, during the eviction of an Orangeman.
Aug. 21. Eiot between Orangemen and Catholics at Coatbridge, Scotland.
Congress of the " Federation of Organized Trade and Labor Unions" met in New
York.
Aug. 22. Irish registration bill rejected. Governor and several councilors of
Horian, in the Island of Malta, captured by brigands.
Aug. 23. The French captured Hai-Dzuong, in Tonquin, getting 150 cannon an
$50,000. Ee-union of ex-Confederate soldiers at Fredericksburg, Va. Northern
Pacific E. E. completed.
Aug. 24. Extensive fires in Massachusetts -woocls. Coatbridge riots renewed.
Comte de Charabourg died.
Aug. 25. 23 villages abandoned by the Christians in Albania, because of mur-
ders committed by the Turks. Matthew Arnold granted a pension by the British
Government.
Aug. 27. Attorney-General of Kansas announced that the laws against prize-
fighting would be enforced against Mitchell and Slade.
406 Methodist Year-Book.
Aug. 28. Anti-Jewish outrages at Egerszeg, Hungary. Volcanic eruptions in
Java damage many towns. Steamer Biverdale exploded in North Eiver, N. Y.,
killing 5 persons, and injuring many othere.
Aug. 29. Thirteen participants in the massacres in Alexandria sentenced to be
hung. Outrages against the Jews continued in Hungary.
Aug. 30. Freethinkers' Convention met at Rochester, N. Y. Free public library
presented by Andrew Carnegie, of New York city, to town of Dunfermline, Scot-
land, opened.
Aug. 31. The anti-Magyar riots in Croatia, causing much uneasiness in Hungary,
continued.
Sept. 1. Session of the School of Christian' Philosophy closed at Eichfield
Springs, N. Y. Thirty thousand deaths from volcanic disturbances in Java.
Sept. 3. Foreign Exposition in Boston formally opened. Great Are in Cincin-
nati, causing loss of life to 9 persons. Frost damaged the crops in New England
States. Ivan Tourgenietf, the Kussian novelist, died at Bongival, France.
Sept. 4. The Bishop and Town Council of Stratford-on-Avon strenuously op-
posed the exhumation of Shakespeare's remains.
Sept. 5. Nine Hlinois soldiers killed, and 15 wounded, on returning from encamp-
ment, by train running through a herd of cattle, at Salmi. Bust of Fielding un-
veiled at Taunton, England, by James Russell Lowell. French Royalists declared
the Comte de Paris the successor of the Comte de Chambord. Marwood, the Brit-
ish hangman, died.
Sept. 6. Jay Gould, in New York, told the Senators of the Labor and Education
Committee the story of his life. Frank James, of Missouri, acquitted.
Sept. 7. Lord Chief-Justice Coleridge entertained by Governor Butler, of Massa-
chusetts.
Sept. 8. 7,000,000 feet of lumber destroyed by fire at Sulphur Springs, Texas.
Bathing pavilion at Long Beach, N. Y., burned.
Sept. 10. 600 Mormons arrived at Castle Garden, N. Y. Frosts injured the corn
crop in the North-western States.
Sept. 16. Several risings against Jews reported from Hungary.
Sept. 22. Rediscovery of the "Comet of 1812."
Sept. 24. Great explosion at Woolwich Arsenal, England.
Oct. 1. Two-cent letter postage goes into etiect throughout the United States.
Oct. 3. The Pittsburg Exhibition Buildings consumed by fire.
Oct. 4. Impeachment of the Norwegian Ministry by the Storthing.
Oct. 7. Safe return of the Point Barrow Arctic exploring party.
Oct. 8. Great fire at Dallas, Texas ; $1,000,000 in property destroyed.
Oct. 13. A severe f^hoek of earthquake in San Francisco creates niucli alarm.
Oct. 16. An earthquake in Anatolia, Asia Minor, destroys villages and many
lives.
Oct. 20. Gibraltar shaken by earthquake ; shocks felt throughout the Mediter-
ranean.
Oct. 22. The new Metropolitan Opera House formally opened in New York city.
Oct. 23. Lord Lansdowne inaugurated as Gov. -Gen. of Canada vice Marquis of
Lome.
Oct. 24. General Iglesias becomes President of Peru.
Oct. 30. Two dynamite explosions on the Underground Railway, London ;
many persons wounded.
Oct. 31. Great fire at Savannali, Ga.; several hundred houses burned, and nine
persons killed; loss $1,000,000.
Methodist Year-Book. 407
United States Postal Eegulations,
First Class Mall Matter —This class Includes letters, postal cards, and any thing
sealed, or otherwise closed against inspection, or any thing containing writing not al-
lowed as an accompaniment to printed matter in third class.
Postage, 2 cents each hall ounce or fraction thereof. On local or drop letters, at free
delivery offices, 2 cents. At offices where no free delivery by carrier, 1 cent. Prepay-
ment by stamps is required. Postal cards, 1 cent. Registered letters, 10 cents in ad-
dition to the proper postage.
Second Class.— This class includes all newspapers, periodicals, or matter exclusively
In print, and regularly issued at stated intervals as frequently as four times a year, from
a known office of publication or news agency. Postage, 2 cents a pound or fraction
thereof, prepaid by special stamps. Publications designed primarily for advertising or
free circulation, or not having a legitimate list of subscribers, are excluded from the
pound rate, and pay third class rates.
Third Class.— Mall matter of this class includes books, transient newspapers, and
periodicals, circulars, and other matter wholly in print, proof-sheets, corrected proof-
sheets, and manuscript copy accompanying the same. Manuscript, unaccompanied by
proof-sheets, letter rates. Limit of weight, 4 pounds each package, except that the
weight of single books is not limited.
Postage, 1 cent for each 2 ounces or fractional part thereof, to be prepaid by stamps.
Fourth Class.— Embraces merchandise and all matter not included in the first, second,
or third class, which is not liable to injure the mail matter. Limit of weight, 4 pounds.
Postage, 1 cent each ounce or fraction thereof, prepaid.
Registered third and fourth class matter, 10 cents in addition to postage.
All packages of matter of the third or fourth class must be so wrapped or enveloped
that their contents may be examined by postmasters without destroying the wrappers.
Matter of the second, third, or fourth class, containing any writing, except as here
specified, will be charged with letter postage ; but the sender of any book may write
names or addresses therein, or on the outside, with the word "from" preceding the
same, or may write briefly on any package the number and names of the articles inclosed.
Postal IVIoney-Orders.— An order may be issued for any amount, froa one cent to
$100, Inclusive, but fractional parts of a cent cannot be included.
When a larger sum than $100 is required, additional orders must be obtained ; but no
more than three orders will be issued in one day from the same post-office to the same
remitter in favor of the same payee.
Postal Xotes.— The uniform fee for a Postal Note is three cents. The notes were first
Issued October 1, 1883.
All communications to government officers, and to or from members of Congress, are
required to be prepaid by stamps.
Under a provision of the existing postal arrangement between the United States and
the Dominion of Canada, in pursuance of which the full prepayment of the domestic
postage rates of either country upon letters addressed to the other secures their delivery
in the country of destination free of charge, the reduced rate of United States postage
on first class matter (2 cents per one half ounce) applies also to ordinary letters sent in
the mails from this country to Canada.
International Postal Money-Orders.— Foreign money-orders may be obtained upon
any of the following countries, viz. : Great Britain and Ireland, France, Germany, Italy,
Switzerland, Canada, and Newfoundland, on application at any international money-
order office in the United States.
An international money-order cannot be obtained for a larger sum than $50, nor for
fractional parts of a cent.
408
Methodist Year-Bock.
The Ohange in Standard Time.
The new Standard Time went into effect at noon, November 18, 18S3. At tlie
moment of noon on the 75th meridian of longitude, the United States Naval Ob-
servatory at Washington telegraphed the hour to all parts of the country, and the
change was made simultaneously all over the United States.
The effect of this change is to do away with the fifty or more different standards
of time, with all their perplexities, and to adopt in their stead four standards — fifteen
degrees, or one hour, apart. TJiese four standards will be known as the " Atlan-
tic," " Central" or " Valley," " Mountain," and " Pacific," and the time of each
wiU be the time of the 75th, 90th, 105th, and r20th meridians respectively. These
correspond very nearly to tlie meridians of Philadelphia, New Orleans, Denver,
and Carson City. The area which will be governed by eaclj standard is bounded
by meridians seven and a half degrees from the standard meridian. The time of
Ahiska will be the time of the 135th meridian, and that of New Brunswick, Nova
Scotia, and Newfoundland will be the time of the 60th.
Hereafter it will be unnecessary, while traveling, to change the time of a watch,
as one has only to remember that in passing westward from one district to another,
the watch will be one hour too fast, and tice versa: thus, a watch keeping eastern
time will be one hour too fast at St. Louis and two hours too fast at Denver, while
at Halifax it will be one hour too slow.
The change was the subject of thought for several years by a number of eminent
men, and it was by them brought under the consideration of the railroad compa-
nies, without whose co-operation the change could not have been well effected.
It may be mentioned in this connection that watches and clocks are now being
made with the hours on the dial numbered from 1 to 24, and it is possible that ere
lung this change will come into general use.
The following table will indicate the changes made in several well-known cities
of this country and Canada :
Geographical Section,
Standard
Meridian
west
Standard Time slower or faster than true
** local time."
Designation of
pioposetl
Stauduid Time.
Newfoundland 1
New Brunswick >
Nova Scotia )
Canada
Maine
to
Florida
Ohio
to
Alabama
Lower Lakes.
Mississippi Valley .
Missouri Valley
Upper Lakes
Texas
Eocky Mountain Region
Paclflc States
British Columbia.
60'
75°
90°
105°
130°
Min.
29 slower than St. Johns, N. F.
24 faster than St. John, N. B. .
14 faster than Hahfax, N. S. . . .
f 15 slower than Quebec
18 faster than Toronto
16 slower than Boston
3 slower than New York
8 faster than Washington
19 faster than Charleston
45 faster than Montgomery —
14 faster than Buffalo
30 faster than Detroit
38 faster than Cincinnati
0 faster than New Orleans —
1 faster than St. Louis
J 12 faster than St. Paul
1 18 faster than Kansas City
19 faster than Galveston
[ 10 slower than Chicago
S 0 faster than Denver
'/ 28 faster than Salt Lake City. .
( 10 faster than San Francisco. . .
"/ 12 faster than Victoria
- Eastern Time.
Atlantic Time.
Central or
Valley Time.
Mountain Time.
Pacific Time.
Methodist Year-Book.
409
Mason k Hamlin Organs^
A cable dispatch announces that at the
INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION
(1883) NOW IN PROGRESS (1883) AT
THKSE ORGANS HATE BEEN AWARDED THE
Grrand Diploma of Honor^
Deing the VERY HIGHEST AWARD, ranking above the GOLD MEDAL, and
given only for EXCEPTIOIVAL SUPER-EXCELLEXCE.
Thus is continued the unbroken series of triumphs of these Organs
At every Great World's Exhibition for
Sixteen Years,
No other American Organs having been found equal to them in any.
The RECORD OF TRIUMPHS of MASON & HAMLIN ORGANS In such severe and
prolonged comparisons by the BEST JUDGES OF SUCH INSTRUMENTS IN THE
WORLD now stands : at
Paris,
Vienna,
Santiago,
Phila.,
Paris,
Milan,
Amsterdam,
1867,
1873,
1875,
1876,
1878,
1881,
1883,
France.
Austria.
Chiii.
U. 8. A,
France.
Italy.
Netherlands.
THE TESTIMONY OF MUSICIANS IS EQUALLY EMPHATIC.
■WORLo
.oe^Sgto
A New Illustrated Catalogue for 1883-4
(dated October, 1883) Is now ready and will be sent free ; including many new styles —
the best assortment and most attractive organs we have ever offered. One Hundred
Styles are fully described and illustrated, adapted to all uses, in plain and elegant cases
In natural woods, and superbly decorated In gold, silver, and colors. Prices, $22 for the
smallest size, but having as much power as any single reed organ and the characteristic
Mason & Hamlin excellence, up to $900 for the largest size. Sixty Styles between $78
and $200. Sold ahso for easy payments. Catalogues free.
THE MASON & HAMLIN ORGAN AND PIANO CO.,
154 Tremont St., Boston. 149 ^Vaba§h Ave., Chicago.
18
46 E. 14th St. (Union Square,) IVew York.
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This Institution oflfers to its under-graduate students three courses of study, each
extending through four years, called respectively the Classical, the Latiu-Scientilie,
and the Scientific Course, and conducting respectively to the degrees of Bachelor
of Arts, Bachelor of Philosophy, and Bachelor of Science. In each of these coui-st-s
the studies of the first two years are nearly all required ; but in the last two years
only about half the prescribed quota are required, the student selecting the remain-
der from a wide range of elective studies. It is believed that a sufficient amount is
required in each of the great departments of study to afford a good foundation in
general culture ; while the large freedom of election in the later years of the cour-^e
allows the student to adapt his work to his own taste, talents, and purposes. Post-
graduate courses in the various departments of science and literature are ofiFered to
graduates of this and other colleges.
An Astronomical Observatory provided with a fine Telescope, well-fumi.shed
Chemical and Physical Laboratories, and a large and constantly increasing Museum
of Natural History, aiford facilities for a practical training in the methods of ob-
servation and research employed in the several sciences. The Library numbei-s
over 32,000 volumes, and its steady increase is provided for by special fund. There
is a well-stocked Eeading-Eoom and a well-furnished Gymnasium.
Special attention is directed to the Tvition ScTwlar ships, which the President of
the College has authority to grant to students of good character who may need them.
These Scholarships exempt all who receive them from charges for tuition. 'J lie
President has one hundred of these at his disposal. In addition to these, the Col-
lege has forty-one Competitive ScholarsJiips, varying in annual value from |100 to
$250, which will be awarded to students according to class standing. Sixteen of
these Scholarships will be awarded to the Freshman Class ; eight, to the Sopho-
more Class ; eight, to the Junior Class ; and nine, to the Senior Class. If to these
be added the Prizes and the other aids that the College directly or indirectly sup-
plies, it is believed that no young person of ability, energy, and moral worth ni ed
be deterred by poverty from undertaking a course of liberal education in this Uni-
versity. Ladies are admitted to the University on equal terms with gentlemen.
For the special use of the Ladies of the College, provision ample, excellent, and
even elegant, has been made in immediate proximity to the University buildings.
In this provision it is believed that nothing in the nature of taste, convenience, or
service is wanting.
Examinations for admission are held the day after Commencement, and on the
day before the beginning of the Fall Term. These days for the year 1884 will be
respectively June 27 and September 10. For further information, and for Cata-
logues, address
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Methodist Year-Book.
ireET ^'I|e0l0gira.
IMt^IDISON, N"E"VV JERSEY'.
The Central Theological School of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
TRUSTEES ELECTED BY THE GENERAL CONFERENCE.
Besides a full Corps of Professors there are Special
Lecturers every year. Fall Term commences third
Thursday in September. Winter Term, second
Thursday in January.
FOR CATALOGUES AND SPECIAL INFORMATION,
Address the President,
HENRY A. BUTTZ, D.D.
JMJMrUS
Gf-REEN^VICH J^.CA.-DEIMY'. (Founded 1802.)
Usual literary courses, with Musical Institute and Commercial College. Both sexes. In-
fluences decidedly religious. Home care and comforts. Charmingly located on Narragan-
si;tt Bay, and on direct route from New York to Boston. Grand opportunities for salt water
bathing and boating. Expknses modeeate Winter Term opens Dec. 5. 1883. Spring Term
opens March 27, lte84. Fall Term opens Sept. 1, 1884. For catalogue (free) giving full partic-
ulars, address the Principal, Rev. F. D, Blakeslee, A.M., Bast Greenwich, R, I.
Methodist Year-Book. 413
^^^^^^ Centenary
Collegiate
Institute.
J^EWARK pONFER-
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m HACKETTSTOWN, N. J.
A First-class Institution for the Education of Both Sexes.
Facilities unsurpassed in all departments. The edifice is spacious and elegant,
the best of its class ; heated by steam, lighted with gas ; with mountain spring
water, both hot and cold, on eacli floor. All the rooms are handsomely furnished.
The patronage represents 13 Conferences and 9 foreign countries.
COURSES OF STUDY.— 1. Academic— two years. 2. College Preparatory
for Gentlemen — three years, with diploma. 3. Belles-Lettres Course for Ladies,
■with diploma, degree of M.E.L. — three years. 4. College Course for Ladies, with
diploma, degree of M.L. A. — four years. 5. Special studies for advanced students.
6. Course for those specially preparing for Theological Seminaries. 7. Course in
Music, with diploma. 8. Course in Art. 9. Commercial Course. 10. Normal
Course. Absolute thoroughness in all departnients.
TERMS REDUCED TO SUIT THE TIMES. CATALOGUES FREE. SPECIAL REDUCTION
TO ALL MINISTERS.
G^ARRETT SiBLICAL INSTITUTE,
EVANSTON, ILLINOIS.
DF" ^^ O XJ Ij T -2^ :
Rev. WILLIAM X. NINDE, D.D., CHARLES F. BRADLEY, A.M.,
Rev. MINER RAYMOND, D.D., Rev. H. B. RIDGAWAY, D.D.,
Rev. F. D. HEMENWAY, D.D., Prof. ROBERT L. CUMNOCK, A.M.
The GARRETT BIBLICAL INSTITUTE was chartered as a School of The-
ology in 1856. It is under the patronizing care of the Western Conferences of the
Methodist Episcopal Church. Since its organization more than twelve hundred
young m3n, most of whom are now actively engaged in the ministry, have sliared
in its educational advantages. The Institute is located in the salubrious and delight-
ful village of Evanston, ten miles north of Chicago, thus combining the advantages
of proximity to a great metropolis with the seclusion and quiet of a suburban retreat.
There are six Departments of Instruction, coveripg the whole field of Tlieologicul
training. Special attention is given to Pulpit Elocution and Voice Culture. Ben-
eficiary aid is afforded to a limited extent, and students are assisted in secuiiug
means of self-help whenever practicable.
The entire expense for the scholastic year need not exceed $150.
For Catalogue or further information, address
REV. W. X. NINDE, Evanston, Illinois.
414 Methodist Year-Book.
Ohio Wesleyan University,
IDela^wsti'o, OlT-io-
In Scholarship and all appointments among the best Colleges, East or West. Twenty-
four Professors. Five Departments. Collegiate, Ladies' Literary, Musical and Fine Art,
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^-^Tiie Berean Lesson ^ystem/^
Bev. J. M. VINCENT, D.D., JEditor.
-A.]N"T>rOU]SrCEM:EN'TS mOR 1884.
The Berean Lesson System has been received with unexampled favor during the past
year, its lesson publications having aggregated a sale of more than two million copies, larger
than ever before. This hearty acceptance of past improvements gives the warrant that the
changes to be introduced with the year 1884 will be received with increased favor.
I. The change in the plan of the QUESTION BOOK made four years ago, in order to
meet the wants of all the departments in the Sunday-school, having given general satisfac-
tion, the work will be published in the same form, in three separate grades, and at the same
price. These Question Books contain maps, illustrations, and a complete Bible Dictionary
upon the lessons; in fact, all that the scholar needs for his preparation of the lesson. In
addition to the lesson-matter subjects are given for a Missionary Meeting, and for a Tem-
perance Meeting, each monthly, and for quarterly meetings on Home, at the church, and its
benevolent enterprises. This secures a desired unity in all the departments of the Church.
1. THE SEMOR LEisSOX BOOK, for adult' scholars, contains notes, questions for
older students. Chronological Outlines, the Descriptive Index, or Bible Dictionary, and, as a
new feature, an Outline Bible Reading upon every lesson of the year. Price, 15 cents.
2. THE BEREAN aUESTIOi\ BOOK, for scholars from ten to sixteen years old, con-
tains explanatory notes, questions adapted to the age of the pupil, maps, both large and
small, the Descriptive Index, together with many other useful features. Price, 15 cents.
3. THE BEREAN BEGINNERS' BOOK is intended for children just above the in-
fant class, though it may readily be used in that department. It contains the lesson told in
the form of a story, with pictures, maps, lesson-symbols, questions and answers in large type,
and Practical Words with Little People. No other little children's question book in the
world approaches it either in the fullness of its material or the beauty of its typographical
execution. Price, 15 cents.
N. B. — In sending orders for the Question Books, be sure to state plainly how many cop-
ies of each grade are desired. Upon the average it is found that the three grades are used
in about equal proportions.
II. The success of the graded series of Question Books has led to a new departure in the
plans of the LESSON LEAF. This will also be issued hereafter in three grades, corre-
sponding to the three Question Books :
1. THE SENIOR LEAF takes the place of the BEREAN QUARTERLY. It will
include forty pages, and though of the same size as formerly, and including more matter,
will be reduced in price to twenty cents a year. It will contain each quarter the words and
music of new songs, besides the words of Church hymns, responsive readings with rich
spiritual thoughts from the best writers. Questions for Senior Students, the same with those
in the Senior Lesson Book, and a variety of helpful hints, engravings, Bible Dictionary, etc.
No other quarterly will be found so abundant in its assistance for members of Bible-classes
and the adult departments of the Sunday-School.
3. THE BEREAN LEAF. Price, six cents a year. For its size and quality by far
the cheapest lesson-quarterly in the world. It will contain the words and music of a new
song, and the words, without music, of the songs given (with music) in the Senior Leaf.
Every thing that the scholars from ten to sixteen years of age require will be found in this
lesson-leaf.
3. THE BEGINNER'S LEAF will correspond in Lesson Story and Questions with the
Berean Beginner's Book, but will contain the same songs and hymns as the other leaves, so
that the whole school will be supplied with new music each quarter. This new quarterly
will supply the want long felt, of a leaf containing questions for the younger scholars in the
school. It will cost but f/jr c*»/f/fr_>'*<ir.
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By the arrangement of these three lesson leaves, every department of the school will be
furnished with a diflferent set of questions, while the songs, lesson catechism, and all impor-
tant features are the same for all. In giving orders be sure to state plainly how many of
each leaf will be required, that all grades may have what they need.
III. THE PRIMARY DEPARTMENT of the Sunday-school will continue to receive
its two unsurpassed helps :
1. THE LEAF CLUSTER has been made beautiful by a new process of engraving, so
that it will be an ornament to the walls of the school-room, as well as a valuable help in the
teaching of the lesson to the little ones. The pictures are brilliantly illuminated. Issued
quarterly. Price, $4 per annum.
a. THE PICTURE LESSOIV PAPER, for infant classes, printed on tinted paper,
with beautiful engravings, questions for the little people, lesson stories, etc., is the most
attractive little children's paper published, as its immense and still advancing circulation
attests. Price, 25 cents per annum.
IV. THE STUDY is a quarterly publication, designed for superintendents, priniarj'-class
teachers, normal-class conductors, and advanced workers generally. It contains articles of
permanent value, accounts of the best ways of working, plans and lesson hints for infant
classes, blackboard outlines, lines of thought, illustrations on the lessons for the Teachers'
Meeting, and a " Bureau of Information," full of the latest suggestions concerning methods
in Sunday-school work. No superintendent, pastor, or primary teacher can afford to be
without this quarterly. Price, 50 cents per annum. ,
V. THE SUJVDAV-SCHOOL JOURXAL will continue to be, as in the past, the very
best help for teachers and older scholars in the study of the lessons. The questions from
all of the Question Books — Senior, Berean, and Begmner's — will be published regularly in
the Journal. Price, single copy, 65 cents per annum. In clubs of six copies and upward
to one address, 55 cents each.
VI. THE LESSOIV COMMENTARY, by Dr. J. H. Vincent and Rev. J. L. Hurlbut,
contains full notes and explanations upon all the lessons, both original, and selected from
nearly three hundred authors. Practical ThougTits, maps, engravings, large number of tables,
and every thing needed by the student of the lessons. 8vo. Price, %-i 25 per copy.
VII. WHEDOIV'S COMMENTARY 0\ THE NEW TESTAMENT. Vol. \\\.
Acts and Romans. Vol. IV. i Corinthians to 2 Timothy. Vol. V. Titus to Revelation.
Price, each, $1 50.
VIII. THE PEOPLE'S COMMENTARY ON THE NEW TESTAiMENT. By
Amos Binney and Daniel Steele, D.D. i2mo. Price, $3.
IX. WHEDON'S COMMENTARY ON THE OLD TESTAMENT. Vol. III.
Joshua to 2 Samuel. Vol. IV. Kings to Esther. Vol. V. Psalms. Vol. VI. Job, Proverbs,
Ecclesiastes, Solomon's Song. i2mo. Price, each volume, I2 25.
X. THE BEREAN ENVELOPE. A new and ingenious feature for preserving the
•Berean Leaf or Journal. It will be covered with suggestive hints. Price, $1 50 per hun-
dred, or three cents each.
XI. MAP ILLUSTRATING ST. PAUL'S TRAVELS. Size, 118x80 inches. Cloth.
Price, $10.
XII. MAP OF SCRIPTURE WORLD. Size, 55x72 inches. Cloth. Price, $5.
XIII. THE SUNDAY-SCHOOL ADVOCATE will be, as in the past, the fr.shest,
finest, and best paper for children. Price, single copy, 35 cents per annum ; in clubs ol six
or over, to one address, 25 cents each.
XIV. THE SUNDAY-SCHOOL <"L.\SSMATE is intended for a class of scholars fmm
twelve to eighteen years of age. It is beautifully illustrated, and contains the best of reading
for young people. Price, single copy, 35 cents per annum ; in clubs of six or over, to one
address, 25 cents each.
PHILLIPS & HUNT, 805 BROADWAY, NEW YORK.
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THE
C. - L. - S. - C.
The C. L. S. C. (Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle) is a
College for one's own home by which he may become acquainted, in a
general way, with the College world into which so many of our young
people go, and about which their parents know so little.
The C. L. S. C. brings to such persons a series of select readings
(through books and "The Chautauquan ") on all the subjects taken
up by a college boy in his regular coiU"se of study : History, Literature,
Science, Philosophy, Art, etc.
This course of reading requires about forty minutes' time a day, for
a term of four years. It need not be done every day, although this
is a desirable way to carry on the work. The readings are comprehen-
sive, clear, simple, and entertaining. They vary, of course, in interest
according to the taste of the reader.
The C. L. S. C. Course may be taken up by any body who can read
English with ease. One need not have enjoyed much of an " educa-
tion" to begin this plan for acquiring an education. Old men and
old women, busy housekeepers, mechanics, farmers, tradesmen, are
enrolled in it. Several of our members are over eighty years of age.
Very few are under eighteen.
College graduates, ministers, lawyers, physicians, accomplished
ladies, are also taking the course. They find the books required enter-
taining and useful, giving them a pleasant review of studies dropped
long ago. "We now have more than 40,000 names enrolled.
The C. L. S. C. has the spirit of delightful fellowship that belongs
to the College. Its "mottoes," "songs," "memorial days," "vesper
services," "diplomas," "commencement day," "seals," etc., etc., give
a peculiar charm to it, and kindle intense enthusiasm among its mem-
bers.
The books and the subscription to ' ' The Chautauquan " cost from
six to seven dollars a year. Two or three persons may use a single set
and thus save expense. The " tuition fee " is fifty cents a year.
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For books, address Messrs. Phillips & Hunt, Ifew Yorlc ; or
Messrs. Walden «fc Stowe, Cincinnati or Chicago.
For the monthly magazine, THE CHAUTAUQUAN, which con-
tains nearly half of the required reading, address Dr. T. L. Flood,
MeacUille, Pa.
The C. L. S. C. has many courses of study adapted to every variety
of reader and student.
1. The C. L. S. C. Course — a regular four years' course of general
reading, of necessity superficial, but exceedingly valuable, embracing
all the subjects (not numerous) pursued by the average college student.
2. The Preparatory Course, for persons who are too young or
not sufficiently advanced in their studies to take the regular C. L. S. C.
Course. This course, in operation for four years, embraces at least
five standard books a year.
3. The Bryant Course — a short course — embraces choice read-
ings from W. C. Bryant, and other books,
4. The Shakespeare Course — a short course — embraces studies
in the life and times of Shakespeare, two of his plays, with other read-
ings.
5. The Book-a-month Course provides one standard book for
every month in the year.
6. The Spare-Minute Course, for people who have very little
time and very little money. This course embraces twenty-one Home
College Tract Series in science, travel, literature, and biography, and
two Chautauqua Text-Books.
7. The Special Seal Courses of the C. L. S. C. are all so many
independent courses which may be prosecuted by persons who do not
take the regular C. L. S. C. Course. These courses, covering readings
from standard works in General History, English History and Litera-
ture, Oriental History and Literature, Greek History and Literature,
Latin History and Literature, American History and Literature, Mod-
ern History, Political Science, Geography and Travel, Biblical Litera-
ture, Secular Normal, Astronomy, Geology, Chemistry, Microscopy,
Botany, Zoology, Physics, Psychology, Pliilology, Art, The House
and Home — for mothers, Temperance, Missions.
For information concerning the above, address Miss K. F. Kimball,
Plainfield, N. J.
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The New York Tribune is the most accurate exponent of Republican sentiment In
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During the coming year the regular features of The Tribune will be well maintained,
and new ones will be added. The Weekly is chiefly devoted to the interests of farmers,
mechanics, country merchants, and their families— in general to the best elements of the
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