speakers on the last day: "Methodism is admitted to be, in its ground-plan and in its structure, of all Church systems the closest in texture and the most cohesive. Its original structure was, that of UNITED SOCIETIES. No other Church has such a concatenation of appliances for binding its members together. It is, in fact as in name, a Connection, bound and fastened together by class-meetings, love-feasts, leaders' meetings, quarterly-meetings, district-meetings, Conferences, the community of ministers which the itinerancy secures, affiliated Conferences, fraternal Conferences, and now the top stone is at last brought on with shouting-the Ecumenical Conference."

The entertainment of this company devolved upon the English Methodists, and nothing was left undone by those who keep the old homestead to make the family reunion pleasant and edifying. It was a love-feast of nations, and the members separated with a greater love for the Head of the Church, and for that Christian family of which they formed a part, greater love for each other, and for all who loved the Lord Jesus Christ, of every clime, and a greater hope for the conversion of the world. Before adjournment another Ecumenical Conference was arranged for, to be held on the western side of the Atlantic.

While this record of the rise and progress of Methodism is being finished, notes of preparation are heard in the land. A hundred years ago the Christmas Conference was held. Then the Church was organized with eighty-three preachers and fifteen thousand members, which now numbers the former by thousands and the latter by millions. The times favor a Centennial Celebration, and as to the place of meeting, Baltimore has no rival. The graves of Asbury and Lee are there, and not far away sleeps the noble Strawbridge. And there, as from a mount of vision, may the people called Methodists, grateful for what God has done for them and by them in the past, catch an inspiring view of what God will do for them and by them, if faithful to their principles, in the next HUNDRED YEARS.

FINIS.

APPENDIX.
ENDIX.

METHODISTS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.

EPISCOPAL METHODISTS IN THE UNITED STATES.

British Wesleyan Methodists in Great Britain 1,917
British Wesleyan Methodists in Missions....

385

70,747

Primitive Methodists..

1,147

New Connection Methodists.

188

RELIGIOUS DENOMINATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES.

The census of 1880, so far as the statistics of Churches are concerned, has not
yet appeared in print. From the census of 1870 the following table is taken.

When Methodism began in America the Protestant Episcopal Church had been
on the ground for one hundred and sixty years. Congregationalism followed in
1620, when the Mayflower landed with an organized Church. The Baptists, if
dating no farther back in America than Roger Williams, may be reckoned from
1639, and the Presbyterians from 1684.

All denominations....

72,459 63,082 21,665,062 $54,483,581

From the last figures the "Methodist Year-book" makes the following exhibit:

27,538 22,915 7,455,937 $73,975,581

Total Methodists....

ABINGDON, Maryland, 372.

Abolition movement a failure, 619.

Abolitionism, 601.

Adams, John, 264.

INDEX.

African Methodist Episcopal Church, 564.

Alabama, Methodism in, 524; Colleges in, 658.
Alexander, Robert, 613, 614.

Alleghany College, 595.
Allen, Beverly, 357.

Allen, Richard, 565.

Andrew, Jas. O., 585; elected bishop, 591; 6:23.
Annesley, Dr. Sam'l, 20, note; his preaching, 133.
Annual Conference, first held, 211. 284.
Anti-Methodist literature, 132.
Apostolical succession, 397.
Appointing power discussed, 405.
Arminian Magazine, 416.

Arminian Methodism planted, 261.
Articles of Religion, 350.

Asbury, Francis, 274, 280, 289, 203, 305; meets
Bishop Coke, 346; elected bishop, 348; 354,
365, 368, 381; in New England, 427-448; 469;
proposes to nominate episcopal colleagues,
470; 471, 475, 477, 495, 528; death, 531.
Asbury Manual Labor School, 579.
Attendance at anti-slavery conventions, Meas-
ures against, 611.

Augusta College, 567.
Augusta, Ga., 475.

Axley, James, 555.

Ayres, David, 614.

BALTIMORE, Asbury in, 300.

Band societies, 200.

Bangs, Nathan, 423, 567, 601.

Baptists persecuted in Virginia, 250.

Barnes, Nathan, 503.

Bascom, Henry B., 644; elected bishop, 655.
Baxter, John, 326.

deau Nash and John Wesley, 157.

Bennett, John, 228.

Benson, Joseph, the commentator, 246.
Bermuda Islands, Whitefield in, 236.
Berridge, John, 228.

Bethel College, 440, 448; failure of, 449.
Birchett, Henry, 446.

Bishop Andrew's case, 622.

Bishop and Superintendent, 392; Watson on,
395; Dixon on, 395; Luther and Hoadley, 396.

Bishop of London, 170.

Bishop's Address, the first, 527.

British America, Refusal to elect F. Garrettson

a bishop for, 391.

Broughton, Secretary, 80, 81.
Brown, David, 509.
Bruce, Philip, 312.

Buckingham, Duchess of, 242.
Burke, William, 448, 452, 465.
Burnett, Bishop, 30.
Butler, Bishop, 31.

Calvinism. Leaning toward, 333.
CALIFORNIA. Methodism in, 652.
Camp-meetings, Beginning of, 490.

Canada Conference, 575; Methodism in, 532.
Canterbury, Archbishop of, reproved, 247.
Canu, Theresa, 547.

Capers, Wm., 414, 575, 588; elected bishop, 644.
Carden, Commissary, suspends Whitefield, 235
Centenary of Methodism, 617.
Carlton, Dr. Thomas, 665.
Central College, 659.
Chapel, First, 165.
Charles I., 25: II., 27.

Charleston, Whitefield in, 234; difficult field,
Chartered Fund, 465.
355; 361; Dissension in, 413; An. Conf. in, 473.

Checote, Samuel, 580, note; Cherokee Mission,
582, note.

Cheshunt College, survivor of Trevecca House
249.

Chesterfield, Lord, 237.

China Mission, 654, note.

Christian Advocates, 575, 536, 603.

Christian Church, 411.

Christian perfection, 307, 327.

Christmas Conference, 348, 379,

Church Constitution established, 514,

Church extension begun, 353; Board of, 675.
Civil war, 664.

Clark, Francis, 438.
Class-meetings, 201.
Clayton, Rev. Mr., 76.

Clergymen aiding Mr. Wesley, 218.
Clergymen suing for salaries in Virginin, 251.
Coke, Thomas, 338; ordained hishop, 342, 345
361; missionary character, 382, 468; 471
marriage, 515; letter to Bishop White, 515
Cokesbury College, 368, 372.
516; his missions, 518; death, 518.

Cole, Le Roy, 311.

Colored Methodist Episcopal Church, 671.

Bishops elected, in 1854, 659; in 1866, 669; in Commissioners for Church property, 644; Fra-

1882, 677.

Black Harry, 346.

Blackman, Learner, 503.

Blendon, home of Delamotte family, 117.

Boardman, Richard, 257, 279, 281, 286.

Bodily exercises, 159.

Boehm, Henry, 435, 525, 533.

Convention, Episcopal, in Virginia, 319.
Cook, Valentine. 448.

Bönler, Peter, in London, 108; account of, 111- Cooper, Ezekiel, 417.

118; 188.

Bolingbroke, Lord, 238.

Bolzius, John Martin, 90.

Book Agents elected, 528, 644.

Book Concern, 311, 535; burned, 617.
Books, Publication of, 223.

Boring, Jesse, 652.

Boston, Methodism in, 428.

Boundaries of An. Conferences established, 464.

Bowman, Elisha W., 549.
Bowman, Matthew, 540.

Cornwall, Methodism in, 208.

Course of study provided, 536.
Cox, Philip, 484.

Coxe, Mellville B., 592.

Cradle of American Methodisni, 253.
Crawford, A. J., 582.

Cromwell, Oliver, 26, 27.
Cumberland Gap, 442.

DARK AND BLOODY GROUND," 443.
Dartmouth, Wesley's Letter to Lord, 290.

EARLY, JOHN, 643, 644, 655; elected bishop, 659. Harper, Miles, 540,

Earnest's, Felix, Conference at, 453.

Easter, John, 312, 482.

Ecumenical Conference in London, 684.

Hooker on the witness of the Spirit, 137.
Huguenots and the Edict of Nantes, 234.
Hull. Hope, 361, 362.

Fetter Lane Society, 167; Dissensions in, 173 Humphreys, Thomas, 311, 357.

Fisk, Wilbur, 433, 596; elected bishop, but de- Immersion, Baptism of infants by, 90.

Indian Territory, 583.

Indians, Missions among the, 577.

Ingham, James, 73, 84, 90, 93, 94.

Instructions to Wesleyan missionaries, 383.
Ireland, Methodism in, 216.
Ivey, Richard, 311, 359.

JAMES I, 24; II., 29.

Janes, Edward S., elected bishop, 639,
Jarrett, Devereux, 250, 267, 302, 318, 377.
John Street Chapel, 263; Conference in, 369.
Justification by faith, 23.

KAVANAUGH, H. H., 596; elected bishop, 659.
Keener, John C., 548, note; elected bishop, 674.
Kentucky, Methodism in, 438; first Annual
Conference in. 439.

Kinchin, an early Methodist, 81.
King, Jacob, 546.
King, John, 266, 268.

Kingswood School, 165, 222, 333.
Kirkham, of Merton College, 74.
Knobb, Jacob, 546.
Kobler, John, 458.