Baptists in Great Britain. In April, 1866, 2,023 churches reported 209,773 members; but 400 small churches are still unreported. The following statistics of other Baptists in Great Britain are given by the census of 1851: The annual meeting of the Christian (Campbellite) Churches of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales, which was held at Nottingham in August, 1866, reported the membership of the Churches represented as 4,607. Baptists on the Continent of Europe. The membership of the Baptist Churches in the countries of the European continent was, in 1867, as follows: Asia and Australia. The Asiatic Missions in Burmah and the neighboring kingdoms, Siam, and China, embrace about 16,000 members. The latest statistics give 3,424 Baptists in South Australia, and 9,601 in Victoria. Congregationalists. Congregationalists in America. The statistics of Congregationalism in America were, at the beginning of the year 1869, as follows: The number of absent members in the United States was 34.915; in all America, 35,395 (against 34,372 in 1867). Total number of ministers in the United States, 3,070; in all America, 3,156; number of pupils in Sunday schools in United States, 339,205; in all America, 346,766. Congregationalism in England and the English Colonies. The Congregationalists in Great Britain and the British Colonies are commonly called Independents. There were, in 1867, in Great Britain and her dependencies, 3,330 Independent Churches, with 1,613 out-stations and missionrooms, under the superintendence of 2,876 Independent ministers, whose labors are supplemented by 2,326 evangelists and lay preachers. The denomination has 76 associations and unions, 27 colleges and institutes, with 386 students under training for ministerial and missionary work: The Friends. In the United States, the Friends number 100,000, belonging to 8 Yearly Meetings. A Yearly Meeting has also recently been organized in Canada. The separate organization of the "Hicksite" (Liberal) Friends numbers about 10,000 members in 6 Yearly Meetings. The Friends in England numbered in 1867, 13,786 members. Lutherans. Lutherans in the United States. The Lutherans in the United States belong to four different groups, namely: Synods connected with the General Synod, Synods connected with the General Council, Synods connected with the (Southern) General Synod of North Amer ica, and independent Synods. The statistics of these four groups, in 1868, were as follows: I. Synods. SYNODS CONNECTED With the General Synod oF THE UNITED STATES. 1. Synod of New York. 2. Hartwick Synod, (N. Y.).. 3. Franckean Synod, (N. Y.)... 4. Synod of New Jersey.. 5. Synod of East Pennsylvania.. 6. Susquehanna Synod, (Penn.). 7. Synod of West Pennsylvania.. 8. Synod of Central Pennsylvania. 9. Alleghany Synod (Penn.).. 10. Pittsburg Synod (Penn.).. 11. Synod of Maryland... Communicante. 1,642 4,109 13. East Ohio Synod.. 14. Wittenberg Synod, (Ohio). 16. Synod of Northern Indiana... Communicants. 7. Synod of Wisconsin.. 12,750 3,035 9,000 9. Synod of Iowa.. 7,000 4. Eng. Dist. Synod of Joint S'd of Ohio.10,000 III. SYNODS CONNECTED WITH THE (SOUTHERN) General SYNOD OF NORTH AMERICA. Synods. IV. SYNODS NOT CONNECTED WITH ANY GENERAL SYNOD OR GENERAL COUNCIL. Synods. Communicants. 7. Buffalo Synod, (N. Y.)... 5,000 8. German Synod of New York. 1,800 Grand Total-51 Synods, 1,792 Ministers, 3,182 Churches, 350,088 Communicants. Lutherans in Europe. In Prussia and a number of other States the Lutherans and the Reformed churches have been fused into the "United Evangelical Church." The Lutheran element prevails in the Protestant State Church of nearly every German State. In Wurtemberg, the greater part of Bavaria, Hanover, Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg, the principalities of Renss and Schwarzburg, the union of Lutherans and Reformed has not been introduced, and nearly the whole Protestant population belongs to the Lutheran Church. The Lutheran Church is the State Church in all the Scandinavian States-Sweden, Norway and Denmark, and nearly the whole population belongs to it. Austria has 1,218,750 Lutherans. France has 44 consistories and 232 parishes. The Lutheran population is about 500,000, mostly in the Alsace. In Russia the Lutheran Church is the predominant church in the Baltic provinces and in Finland. The Lutheran population of Poland is 382,000, and of Finland 1,787,000. In Holland there are two organizations of Lutherans; one, the "Evangelical Lutheran," has a population of about 66,000; the other, the "Reformed Lutheran," numbers about 10,000. Lutherans in Asia, Africa and Australia. The Lutherans sustain missions in India, China, and several parts of Africa. There are about 10,000 Lutherans and German Protestants in Victoria, and a number in the other Australian Colonies. Methodists. The Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States. At the close of the year 1868, the Methodist Episcopal Church had the following membership: The fol The number of Annual Conferences in 1868, was 71, an increase of four over 1867. lowing is a summary of other important statistics: Bishops, 9; traveling preachers, 8,481; local preachers, 9,899; total preachers, 18,370; members in full connection, 1,060,265; members on probation, 194,850; total lay members, 1,255,115; adult baptisms, 67,065; infant baptisms, 46,207: total baptisms, 113,272; number of churches, 11,692; number of parsonages, 3,810; value of church edifices, $41,692,922; value of parsonages, $6,275,979; value of churches and parsonages, $47,970,501; number of Sunday schools, 15,885; Sunday school teachers, 181,666; Sunday school scholars, 1,145,167; benevolent collections, $909,962. Methodist Episcopal Church South. The latest statistics published by this Church are for the year 1867, when the membership of the Annual Conference was as follows: The number of white members in 1867, was 472,484 (increase over preceding year, 53,080); number of colored members, 54,172 (decrease during the year, 24,570); number of Indian members, 1,851. The Church has 9 bishops, 2,389 traveling preachers, and 3,952 local preachers. The African Methodist Episcopal Church, and the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. The former body has 560 traveling preachers, 15,000 local preachers, 200,000 members; the latter has 694 traveling preachers, 164,000 members. The Methodist Church and Methodist Protestants. In 1866, the Northern Conferences of the Methodist Protestants held a "Union Convention," the object of which was to effect a union between non-Episcopal Methodists. The name of the new body was to be simply the "Methodist Church." But this plan of union was repudiated by all save the Methodist Protestants and the new "Methodist Church" which is substantially identical with the former Methodist Protestant Conferences of the Northern States. The Methodist Church has now 624 traveling preachers, 444 local preachers, 49,030 members. In the Southern States, the old name of "Methodist Protestants" has been retained, and the Methodist Protestant Church now reports 423 traveling preachers, and 72,000 members. Other Methodist Bodies in the United States. The Evangelical Association had, in 1868, 15 Conferences, 500 traveling preachers, 377 local preachers, and 62,344 members. The Wesleyan Connection has about 250 ministers and 20,000 members. The Free Methodists have 85 ministers and 4,889 members. The Primitive Methodists have 20 traveling preachers and 2,000 members. Other Parts of America. The Methodist Episcopal Church has a mission in the Argentine Republic, with 171 members. The Methodist Episcopal Church of Canada has 216 traveling preachers and 18,741 members. All the other Methodist bodies in British America and in Hayti are in connection with the English Methodist Denominations. Altogether, the number of Methodists in America outside of the United States is about 150,000. The Methodist Denominations in Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia. The Wesleyan Church, of England, had in 1868, 367,306 members in Great Britain: 20,299 in Ireland and Irish missions, and 68,741 in foreign missions. Adding the French, Australasian, Canada and Eastern British American Conferences which are in connection with the Church, the Church has a total membership of 594,485. The other Methodist bodies in England are, Primitive Methodists, 159,798; New Connection Methodists, 32,486; United Free Church Methodists, 68,478; Bible Christians, 26,275; Calvinistic Methodists, 58,577; Wesleyan Reform Union, 9,423; Church Methodists in Ireland 9,158. The number of Methodists in France is 2,063; in Germany and Switzerland, 12,092; in Gibraltar and Malta, 51; in Denmark, Sweden and Norway, 769; in India and Ceylon, 2,973; in China, 1,271; in Africa, 42,193; in Australia and Polynesia, 61,081. The total number of the members of all the Methodist denominations was, in 1868, about 3,400,000. Moravians. The Church is divided into four provinces, which, in 1867, reported the following membership: 14,979 24,310 In connection with the Foreign Missions, are 70,311. New Jerusalem Church (Swedenborgians). This Church has in the United States 9 Associations, which are united in a "General Convention," meeting annually. The number of organized societies is 67. In England, Holland and Ireland, 56 societies are in connection with the "General Conference," and 10 societies not in full connection. Presbyterians. Old School Presbyterians in the United States. May, 1868, are as follows: Synods. The Statistics reported in Communicants. Albany 10,855 Missouri. 6,457 Pittsburgh ..19,565 St. Paul.. 1,694 The number of Synods is 26; Presbyteries, 142; Licentiates, 223; Candidates, 326; Ministers, 2,330; Churches, 2,737; Contributions for Church Purposes, $4,289,595. New School Presbyterians. In May, 1868, the following statistics were reported: The number of Synods is 23; Presbyteries, 111; Ministers, 1,800; Churches, 1590. United Presbyterians in the United States. In May, 1868, the following statistics were reported: The Church has missions in Trinidad, Syria, India, Egypt, China and Italy. The United Presbyterian Church arose out of a union of the Associate and the Associate Reformed Churches. A part of these organizations refused to join the Union. They now constitute the "Associate Reformed Synod of New York," which has 16 ministers and 1,631 communicants, and the "Associate Synod of North America,' which has 11 ministers and 778 communicants. There is, besides, the "Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church South," which has been separated from the northern organizations in consequence of the Slavery question. It has 68 ministers. *Missionary Station. The (Southern) Presbyterian Church. The statistics, according to the minutes of the General Assembly of 1868, are as follows: Synods in connection with the General Assembly, 10; Presbyteries, 48; ministers and licentiates, 837; Churches, 1,309; members added on examination, 2,857; members added on certificate, 1,411; total number of communicants, 76,949. Cumberland Presbyterians. This Church had, in 1868, 25 synods, 1,300 ministers, and 125,000 communicants. Reformed Presbyterians. Of these there are two organizations, the one called the Old Side or the General Synod, the other the New Side or the Synod. The former in 1868, had 8 Presbyteries, 77 ministers, with a membership of 8,487. The latter had 63 ministers and 5,821 communicants. Presbyterians in Great Britain and the British Colonies. The main branches of Presbyterianism in Great Britain are the following: "The Church of Scotland," which is the State Church in Scotland, has 16 Synods, 84 Presbyteries and 1,243 congregations; "The Free Church of Scotland" has 16 Synods, 71 Presbyteries, 861 churches, 3 theological schools with 226 students; "The United Presbyterian Church" has 31 Presbyteries in England and Scotland, 584 Ministers, 596 Churches, and (1868), 176,391 communicants; "The Reformed Prosbyterian Synod" (Cameronians) has 6 Presbyteries, 45 churches, 2 Professors in Divinity, 41 ministers, and (1868), 6,516 members; "The Presbyterian Seceders" have 4 Presbyteries, and 25 congregations: "The Presbyterian Church in England" has 7 Presbyteries, 119 congregations and 20,782 communicants; "The Presbyterian Church in Ireland" has 50 ministers, and 60 churches. The largest of these denominations have branches in Canada, Australia and other colonies. Reformed Churches. Reformed Churches in the United States. Of these there are two, the one formerly called the "Reformed Dutch Church," but since 1867, simply the "Reformed Church," the second called the "German Reformed Church." The Reformed Church, in 1868, reported: Ministers, 469; candidates, 7; families, 37,090; members added on confession, 3,705; members added on certificate, 2,294; total number in communion, 59,508; infants baptized, 3,843; total number of S. S. scholars, 47,981; amount contributed for religious and benevolent purposes, $204,492.93. The statistics of the German Reformed Church were in January, 1869, reported as follows: Synods, 3; classes, 31; ministers, 505; congregations, 1,181; members, 115,483; Sunday school scholars, 44,435. Reformed Churches in Europe and Africa. In Holland, the Reformed Church is the State church, and has about 1,800,000 members. There is in the same country, a Free Reformed Church, with about 70,000 members. In Switzerland, the Reformed Church is the State church of all the Protestant Cantons, and nearly the whole Protestant population (about 1,400,000) belongs to it. In some Cantons, (as Vaud, Geneva), there are Free Reformed Churches beside the National Churches. In Germany, the, Reformed Church has been nearly absorbed by the United Evangelical Church. The Reformed Church of France, which received support from the state, has 1,045 congregations. In Russia, a population of about 200,000, and in Austria, a population of about 1,900,000 are connected with the Reformed Churches. In Belgium there are about 12 Reformed Congregations. In the Transvaal Republic, and Orange Free State, in Africa, the Dutch Reformed church is the State Church, and it has also numerous adherents in the Cape Colony. Unitarians. Unitarians in the United States. The "Year-book of the Unitarian Congregstional Churches" for 1869, gives a list of 315 societies and of 383 ministers. Within two years, 51 Unitarian churches have been built, enlarged or otherwise improved. No statistics of membership are given. There is also an organization of German Unitarians in the United States. Unitarians in Europe. In England, there are about 300 Unitarian ministers who have charge of congregations. In Ireland there are three Presbyterian bodies, which are regarded as Unitarians. In the Austrian province of Transylvania, the Unitarians have a population of 50,000. United Brethren in Christ. According to the Almanac of this denomination, for 1869, it now has 5 bishops, 1,334 meeting houses, 25 parsonages, 864 itinerant preachers, 4,618 preaching places, 3,663 societies, 108,122 members, 2,268 Sunday schools, and 106,002 Sunday-school scholars. The amount raised for church purposes, was $526,000. United Evangelical Church. This is the State Church in Prussia, and a number of the smaller German States. It arose in 1817 out of a union of Lutherans and Reformed. Universalists. Universalists in the United States. According to the "Universalist Regis ter" for 1869, there were 6 Associations in Maine, 3 in New Hampshire, 5 in Vermont, 6 in Massachusetts, 1 in Rhode Island, 3 in Connecticut, 16 in New York, 6 in Pennsylvania, 14 in Ohio, 4 in Michigan, 6 in Indiana, 6 in Illinois, 3 in Wisconsin, and 3 in Iowa. The number of societies reported is about 792. No statistics of membership are given. Universalists in Europe. In 1860, 3 Universalist Congregations were reported in England. |
