The finance of Wesleyan Methodism for 1880 was nearly as follows:-- Missionary Fund L138,346 Home Mission Income 34,210 Education of Minister's Children 22,036 Chapel Building 292,599 Training Candidates for Ministry 12,130 Total L499,321 During the past four years the Wesleyan Methodists have raised a "Thanksgiving Fund" amounting to L303,600. METHODIST ASSOCIATION. In 1834 a controversy arose among the Methodists as to the propriety of establishing a Wesleyan Theological Institution; and a minister who disapproved of such a measure, and prepared and published some remarks against it, was expelled from the Connexion. Sympathizers with him were in like manner expelled. Hence the formation of the _Methodist Association_, which differs from the parent Society in a few particulars of Church government. This Society is now joined with the _Wesleyan Reform Association_, and with the Protestant Methodists, the union being effected in 1857. The amalgamation is known by the name of "_The United Methodist Free Churches_." They number-- Ministers. 377 Lay Preachers. 3,134 Members. 66,297 Sunday Scholars 8,599 On Probation. 1,233 Chapels. 186,254 METHODISTS, CALVINISTIC. Up to 1751, John Wesley and George Whitefield had worked in harmony, but then arose a difference of opinion between them on the doctrine of election, which resulted in their separation. Whitefield held the Calvinistic view, Wesley the Arminian. After Whitefield's death, in 1769, his followers gradually settled into two separate religious bodies, one being the _Lady Huntingdon's Connexion_, or, as it is sometimes called, the _English Calvinistic Methodists_, and the other the _Welsh Calvinistic Methodists_. Whitefield was chaplain to the Countess of Huntingdon, and it was by his advice she became the patroness of his followers, and founded a college for the education of Calvinistic preachers. The doctrines of this connexion are almost identical with those of the Church of England, interpreted, of course, in a Calvinistic sense, and her liturgy is generally employed. They have no general ecclesiastical government, and have become virtually Congregational Societies. The _Welsh Calvinistic Methodists_ owe their origin in a great degree to a Mr. Harris, who did for Wales much what Wesley and Whitefield did for England. He instituted "Private Societies" in 1736, but it was not till 1811 that the connexion separated from the Church. Their Church government differs slightly from Wesleyanism, and their doctrines are said to be in accordance with the 39 Articles, interpreted in a Calvinistic sense. Chapels 1,343 Ministers and Preachers 981 Deacons 4,317 Members 5,029 On probation 177,383 Sunday Scholars 119,358