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" by contributions from Europe, and To-
Gated in John street, New York, A. ID.
1863 or 9. About the same time Messrs.
Richard Boardman and Joseph Fillmore,
arrived as missionaries, regularly appoint
ed to labour in this country, by the British
conference. From that time to the pre-
sent. period of SO years, the borders OF
this church have been extended, un-
It'll it presents the collowing aggregate viz.
twelve annual conferences, twelve hun
|dred and twenty six travelling preachers
and a total of three hundred and twelve
thousand, five hundred and forty members
Exhibiting also, as the last years increase
the number of fourteen thousand nine hun
dred and eight, according to the returns
lust made, which exhibited the total num-
ber of members within the bounds OF each
conference, as follows:


Ohio 36,S82-Kentucky "a, l65-Alis-
souri 1O,752-Tennessee 81, ,i66-Missls-
sippi 8,S24-South Carolina 57.0l6-Vir-
ginia $685. Baltimore 3S,424-Phila.
deIphia S4,S57-New York 27,457-Ncw
England 81 ,926-Genesee 1858.


The Methodists have, with other demo.
limitations, cast their mite into the treasury
of Missionary exertion. Missionaries have
been successfully sent to several tribes OF
the aborigines Of our country; and il we
turn our eyes to foreign missionary estao-
1iishments, we behold the uottentots oi the
Cape of Good Hope, the Naimnaquas OF
the interior, the South Sea Islands, Cey-
Hon, and numerous Islands of the West In.
dies, presenting field not only lrhite, but
pending unto the harvest. " J. journal