The history of Methodism [electronic resource] . ges;23 were colleges and universities, and 2 were theologicalseminaries. Nearly all of these institutions were in need offinancial aid. There were employed 714 teachers, who wereinstructing 23,106 students. Statistics carefully gathered during the year showedthe numerical and financial strength of the Church tobe already considerable. In the Methodist EpiscopalChurch, on January 1, 1867, there were 64 AnnualConferences, 7,576 traveling preachers and 8,602 localpreachers, and 1,032,184 members, besides about 1,000,000Sunday school scholars. There
The history of Methodism [electronic resource] . ges;23 were colleges and universities, and 2 were theologicalseminaries. Nearly all of these institutions were in need offinancial aid. There were employed 714 teachers, who wereinstructing 23,106 students. Statistics carefully gathered during the year showedthe numerical and financial strength of the Church tobe already considerable. In the Methodist EpiscopalChurch, on January 1, 1867, there were 64 AnnualConferences, 7,576 traveling preachers and 8,602 localpreachers, and 1,032,184 members, besides about 1,000,000Sunday school scholars. There were 10,462 houses of wor- Educational Improvements 1059 ship, valued at $29,594,004 and 3,314 parsonages, valuedat $4,420,958. When the reports of the centennial year were fully summedup it was found that $9,155 had been contributed Gen-eral Educational Fund and $56,674 to the Childrens Fund,making a total of $65,829. Among the special gifts to the cause of education the mostimportant, as it was the largest, was that of Mr. Daniel 4s*.. V e. A. ^ .*: ?„?; — ?*»?>, ?.;,/ ? 1, \ v ^ DRAWN BY W. B. DAVIS. HECK HALL, GARRETT BIBLICAL INSTITUTE. Drew, by which was founded at Madison, X J., the DrewTheological Seminary. The Garrett Biblical Institute at Evanston, 111., receiveda gift of $50,000, with which Heck Hall was erected in mem-ory of Barbara Heck. An equal sum was given to the Bus-ton Theological Seminary, and the school which had beenknown as the Methodist General Biblical Institute, situ-ated at Concord, N H., was removed to Boston and in 1S71became the theological department of the Boston the generosity of Mr. John T Martin, of Brooklyn, 1060 American Methodism N. Y., the Theological Seminary in Germany received thegift of $25,000, by means of which the institution was morefavorably located at Frankfort-on-the-Main, where a build-
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