mer, all the rest in the United States." And on page 54, "Mount Bethel, organized in 1851,' should appear as located in Virginia, and not in North Carolina. On page 71, in the list of the churches of the British Province, Greengates, a congregation affiliated to Baildon, has been omitted. STATISTICAL APPENDIX. The statistics here presented are altogether summary, and intended to give merely a general view of the numerical condition of the church. Detailed statistics, which change very much every year, belong to the periodical publications of the church, and not to a Manual like this. The statistics of the Foreign Mission work are given somewhat more fully than the rest, because this enterprise is one of particular interest, and frequent inquiries are made respecting it. In compiling these statistics, the reports for the year 1858 were used. The writer is not certain whether he has given the correct number of communicants in the Continental Province; the statistics which were sent him from Germany did not distinguish between communicants and the whole number of souls. Hence he substracted the whole number of children, and one half the number of those designated as youths and maidens, from the whole number of souls, and gave the remainder as the number of communicants in that Province; inasmuch as all persons are there confirmed when they reach the age of fifteen or sixteen years. * Including the communicants of the Home Mission Churches. *The statistics of the Diaspora are incomplete, especially so far as the number of members of the Societies is concerned. In the report sent us from Germany, the number of these members in the Russian Empire, was not given. It must amount to many thousands. For explanations of this table, the reader is referred to pages 66 and 67. |