"This support of the minister should not be done in the way of charity or alms, but as a matter of right; and, if the people are able, it ought to exceed his bare necessity, that he may be able to be exemplary in acts of hospitality. 1 Tim. iii. 2."

One more remark, and we close.

Whatever may be the difficulties with which the` Baptist churches in Kentucky may be afflicted, we have every reason to believe that they have within themselves a redeeming spirit. There is a large portion of genuine active piety, both among the preachers and the private members, which, under the influence of the Sun of Righteousness, will expand, and which, with its expansion, will acquire strength, till the whole shall be purified, and enlightened, and triumphant, in the common cause of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

No. 24.

METHODISTS OF KENTUCKY.

THE minutes of the annual conferences are the only public and authentic account of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Kentucky, which we have been able to procure. According to them the state of that connexin Kentucky in the year ending in Nov. 1822, stood thus:

The whole state appears to be divided into four districts, viz.

1. The Kentucky District, between the Ohio and Kentucky rivers. Here we have eleven circuits, one presiding elder, thirteen preachers, five thousand three hundred and nine white, and eight hundred and ten people of colour, members.

2. Salt River District, comprehending all south of the Kentucky river to the waters of Green river. Here are nine circuits, with three thousand six hundred and fifty-three whites, and six hundred and seventytwo blacks, members, with one presiding elder and fourteen preachers.

3. Green River District, upon the waters of Green river. Here are eight circuits, four thousand one hundred and fifty-eight white and eight hundred and thirty three black members, with one presiding elder and thirteen preachers.

4. Cumberland District, upon the waters of Cumberland. Here are nine circuits, five thousand and twenty-one white and three hundred and ninety-four black members, with one presiding elder and sixteen preachers.

SUMMARY.

Two things are worthy of notice and of imitation in this extract.-1st. That the ministerial supply in the districts and circuits is abundant. The Methodists all over the world understand well the value of concentra ted labour. While they are continually extending their influence, they never take any more ground under cultivation than they have hands to appoint to the work. 2nd. It is an essential part of their system to preach the gospel to the blacks. Hence a greater number of that class are connected with the Methodists than with aby other church.

No. 25.

EXHIBIT OF THE POPULATION OF KEN

TUCKY.

According to the census of 1820 the population of Kentucky stood thus:

According to the documents to which we have had access at this time, the christian population stands thus:

The number of whites, male and female, under ten years, about

166,100

to be be brought under the influence of a christian pro. fession.

The preachers of different denominations, who are at present actually employed in different parts of the state, must be something about 200-that is, we have a preacher in some good degree devoted to his work for nearly every two thousand souls.

It is believed that there is scarcely a county in the state where there are not several organized churches. And whatever may be the real state of the heart, infidelity is not now openly avowed by many. The great mass of the non-professing population may therefore be considered as well disposed to christianity.

Suppose that there are two hundred preachers actually employed every Sabbath, and that each has an audience of 200, there will be only 40,000 worshippers in all. A number somewhat less than the number of church members. Yet taking all the circumstances connected with the arrangements of the different churches throughout the year into view, we are persuaded that the average number of regular Sabbath day worshippers does not exceed this number. Now take this forty thousand from five hundred thousand, the population of the state, and you have four hundred and sixty thousand every Sabbath who are not attending public worship any where.

But suppose that the arrangements of all the churches were such that all the members of the different churches could attend public worship with their families every Sabbath, and suppose that on an average every communicant brought five of his children, or servants, or friends, with him, and you will have at least two hundred thousand regular worshippers every Sabbath-that is, by this single arrangement fully two thirds of the population of the state, from ten years old and upward, would be every Sabbath under the influence of gospel truth,