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 |
Presbyterians.
The Protestant faith was introduced into Scotland about 1527; and about 1592 Andrew Melville effected the introduction of the Presbyterian form of church polity. This form, through much persecution, and even bloodshed, has been maintained ever since. Its creed is Calvinistic. This church has nearly a thousand ministers, and about [pg 323] one million five hundred thousand church members. It is the established religion of Scotland, sustained by law. There are also several bodies of dissenting Presbyterians in Scotland.