The Book of Religions / Comprising the Views, Creeds, Sentiments, or Opinions, of All the Principal Religious Sects in the World, Particularly of All Christian Denominations in Europe and America, to Which are Added Church and Missionary Statistics, Together With Biographical Sketches

by John Hayward

Methodists.

The population of all denominations of Methodists in the United States exceeds three millions.

Publications.—The Christian Advocate and Journal, New York city; Zion's Herald and Wesleyan Journal, Boston, Mass.; Northern Advocate, Auburn, N. Y.; Christian Repository, Philadelphia, Pa.; Richmond Christian Advocate, Richmond, Va.; Southern Christian Advocate, Charleston, S. C.; South-Western Christian Advocate, Nashville, Tenn.; Pittsburg Christian Advocate, Pittsburg, Pa.; Western Christian Advocate, and the Christian Apologist, a German paper, Cincinnati, Ohio.

There is also published by this denomination, the Methodist Quarterly Review, New York city; Ladies' Repository, (monthly,) Cincinnati, Ohio; Guide to Christian Perfection, (monthly,) Boston, Mass., Sunday School Advocate, (semi-monthly,) New York city; Sabbath School Messenger, (semi-monthly,) Boston, Mass. The Methodists have ten colleges, and thirty academies.

In the Methodist church in Canada, are two weekly newspapers viz., Christian Guardian, Toronto, U. C.; The Wesleyan, Montreal, L. C.

From the “Minutes of the Annual Conferences of the Methodist Episcopal Church, for the Year 1840,” we copy the following table:—

Conferences, Ministers, &c.

Conferences.	Whites.	Colored.	Indians.	Total Com.	Trav. Prs.
Troy	24,488	78		24,566	144
New England	22,319	235		22,554	157
New Hampshire	20,084			20,084	151
Pittsburg	35,276	474		35,750	136
Maine	22,359			22,359	145
Black River	15,908	27		15,935	96
Erie	17,860	50		17,910	107
Oneida	22,909	65		22,974	142
Michigan	11,308	12	87	11,407	74
Rock River	6,519	21	45	6,585	75
Genesee	27,931	50		27,981	162
North Ohio	23,594	91	213	23,898	95
Ohio	53,621	662		54,283	168
Illinois	24,607	80		24,687	103
Missouri	12,386	1,224	382	13,992	66
Kentucky	30,679	6,321		37,000	114
Tennessee	21,675	4,405		26,080	95
Indiana	52,208	407		52,615	156
Memphis	12,497	1,995		14,492	69
Arkansas	4,228	725	1,524	6,479	41
Holston	25,902	2,420		28,322	68
Mississippi	8,433	4,178	67	12,678	81
North Carolina	15,983	4,480		20,463	61
Texas	1,623	230		1,853	19
Alabama	19,491	5,821		25,312	87
South Carolina	26,945	30,481		57,426	102
Virginia	21,841	3,086		24,927	94
Georgia	28,868	9,989		38,857	127
Baltimore	42,789	13,904		56,693	182
Philadelphia	35,094	8,778		43,872	128
New Jersey	22,733	542		23,275	108
New York	36,284	405		36,689	215
Liberia Mission		922		922	19
Total, 1840	748,442	102,158	2,318	852,918	3,587
Total, 1842	796,495	107,251	2,617	906,363	3,846