rs are oftener in their own pulpits than their Welsh
brethren.

The Calvinistic Methodists form in some respects the strongest church in
Wales, and its forward movement, headed by Dr. John Pugh of Cardiff, has
brought thousands into its fold since its establishment in 1891. Its
Connexional Book Room, opened in 1891, yields an annual profit of from
L1600 to L2000, the profits being devoted to help the colleges and to
establish Sunday school libraries, etc. Its chapels in 1907 numbered
1641 (with accommodation for 488,080), manses 229; its churches[1]
numbered 1428, ministers 921, unordained preachers 318, deacons 6179;
its Sunday Schools 1731, teachers 27,895, scholars 193,460, communicants
189,164, total collections for religious purposes L300,912. The
statistics of the Indian Mission are equally good: communicants 8027,
adherents 26,787, missionaries 23, native ministers (ordained) 15,
preachers (not ordained) 60.

The Calvinistic Methodists are intensely national in sentiment and
aspirations, beyond all suspicion loyalists. They take a great interest
in social, political and educational matters, and are prominent on
public bodies. They support the Eisteddfod as the promoter and inspirer
of arts, letters and music, and are conspicuous among the annual prize
winners. They thus form a living, democratic body, flexible and
progressive in its movements, yet with a sufficient proportion of
conservatism both in religion and theology to keep it sane and safe.
(D. E. J.)

FOOTNOTE:

[1] Adherents and members in scattered hamlets and attending
different meeting-houses or chapels, often combine to form one
society or church.

CALVISIUS, SETHUS (1556-1615), German chronologer, was born of a peasant
family at Gorschleben in Thuringia on the 21st of February 1556. By the
exercise of his musical talents he earned money enough for the start, at
Helmstadt, of an university career, which the aid of a wealthy patron
enabled him to continue at Leipzig. He became director of the
music-school at Pforten in 1572, was transferred to Leipzig in the same
capacity in 1594, and retained this post until his death on the 24th of
November 1615, despite the offers successively made to him of
mathematical professorships at Frankfort and Wittenberg. In his _Opus
Chronologicum_ (Leipzig, 1605, 7th ed. 1685) he expounded a system based
on the records of nearly 300 eclipses. An ingenious, though ineffective,
proposal for the