┌─────────────────────────┬────────────┬─────────────┬─────────────────┐ │ │ │ Number of │ Number of │ │ │ Number of │ church │ Sunday-school │ │ Denomination. │ ministers. │ members. │ scholars. │ ├─────────────────────────┼────────────┼─────────────┼─────────────────┤ │ Wesleyan Methodists │ 3157 │ 557,995 │ 776,522 │ │ Welsh Calvinistic ditto │ 207 │ 58,577 │ 80,000 about│ │ New Connexion ditto │ 260 │ 35,706 │ 50,000 about│ │ Primitive ditto │ 943 │ 161,229 │ 258,857 │ │ Ditto (Ireland) ditto │ 85 │ 14,247 │ 20,000 about│ │ Bible Christians │ 254 │ 26,241 │ 44,221 │ │ United Methodist Free │ │ │ │ │ Churches │ 312 │ 68,062 │ 152,315 │ │ Wesleyan Reform Union │ 20 │ 9,393 │ 18,475 │ │ ├────────────┼─────────────┼─────────────────┤ │ Totals │ 5238 │ 931,450 │ 1,400,390 │ └─────────────────────────┴────────────┴─────────────┴─────────────────┘ Marvellous, however, as the success of Methodism has been in the United Kingdom, it has been far more marvellous in the United States. There it holds and preaches precisely the same doctrines as are held and preached in England. There, as here, it is intensely loyal; and, during the late terrific war, sent a hundred thousand white, and seventy-five thousand, black troops into the field of battle under the loyal flag. It is dotting the whole of the vast American continent with its church edifices, and has perhaps the most powerful religious press of which the world can boast. Let the reader ponder the significance of the following statistics for the year 1869, taken from the _New York Christian Advocate_, and referring exclusively to _the Methodist Episcopal Church North_. Bishops 10 Travelling preachers 8,830 Local preachers 10,340 Total ministerial force 19,179 Lay members in full connection 1,114,712 Lay members on probation 184,226 Total lay membership 1,298,938 Number of church edifices 12,048 Number of parsonages 3,963 Value of church edifices $47,253,067 Value of parsonages $6,862,230 Total value of churches and parsonages $54,115,297 Number of Sunday-schools 16,393 Number of officers and teachers 184,596 Number of scholars 1,179,984