In connection with its schools, there are libraries containing more than two millions and a half of books. Its Book Concern has about thirty cylinder power-presses in constant operation; and about 2000 different books on its catalogue, besides tracts, etc., and 14 periodicals, with an aggregate circulation of more than twelve millions every year. It also has a great Missionary Society, with prosperous missions in China, India, Africa, Bulgaria, Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and other places. The returns for _the Methodist Episcopal Church South_, in 1869, are 2581 ministers, 3951 lay preachers, and 535,040 church members. _The Methodist Episcopal Church_ in Canada has 216 ministers, 224 lay preachers, and 20,000 members. Besides the above, there are other Transatlantic Methodists, as:—1. The African Methodist Episcopal Church, which, in 1867, had 14 annual Conferences, 673 chapels, 509 travelling preachers, 727 local preachers, 130,950 members, 33,134 Sunday-school scholars, and 40,716 volumes in Sunday-school libraries. 2. The Methodist Protestant Church, with about 90,000 members. 3. The American Wesleyan Methodists, with above 20,000 members. 4. The German Methodists, with 46,000 members. 5. Three or four smaller sects, which need no further notice. The aggregate membership of these several Methodistic bodies may be fairly estimated at about 300,000, and their ministers and preachers at 5000. These are startling figures; put together in an abbreviated form, they stand as follows:— ┌───────────────────────┬────────────────┬────────────┬───────────────┐ │ │ Ministers │ │ │ │ │ exclusive of │ Church │ Sunday-school │ │ │local preachers.│ members. │ scholars. │ ├───────────────────────┼────────────────┼────────────┼───────────────┤ │ Great Britain, │ │ │ │ │ including Missions │ 5238 │ 931,450 │ 1,400,390 │ │ American Methodist │ │ │ │ │ Episcopal Church │ │ │ │ │ North │ 8840 │ 1,114,712 │ 1,179,984 │ │ Ditto South │ 2581 │ 535,040 │ say 500,000 │ │ Ditto Canada │ 216 │ 20,000 │ say 20,000 │ │ Other American │ │ │ │ │ Methodists │ 5000 │ 300,000 │ say 300,000 │ │ ├────────────────┼────────────┼───────────────┤ │ Totals │ 21,875 │ 2,901,202 │ 3,400,374 │ └───────────────────────┴────────────────┴────────────┴───────────────┘