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Total number of local preachers 7,928

_Members and Probationers._

Number of members 306,044
" " probationers 85,000
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Total number of members and probationers, 391,044

SUMMARY OF MEMBERS.

Total number of travelling preachers 1,832
" " " local preachers 7,928
" " " members and probationers 391,044
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Grand total membership 400,804

SUNDAY-SCHOOLS.

Number of Sunday-schools 2,345
" " teachers and officers 15,454
" " pupils 154,549
" " volumes in library 193,358

CHURCH PROPERTY.

Number of school-houses 88
" " churches 2,051
" " parsonages 395

VALUE OF CHURCH PROPERTY.

Value of school-houses $26,400 00
" " churches 2,884,251 00
" " parsonages 162,603 20
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Total value of church property $3,073,254 20

PAPER.

Number of subscriptions to "Christian Recorder" 5,380

In 1818 a publishing department was added to the work of the Church.
But its efficiency was impaired on account of the great mass of its
members being in slave States or the District of Columbia, where the
laws prohibited them from attending school, and deprived them of
reading books or papers. In 1817 the Rev. Richard Allen published a
book of discipline; and shortly after this a Church hymn-book was
published also. Beyond this there was but little done in this
department until 1841, when the New York Conference passed a
resolution providing for the publication of a monthly magazine. But
the lack of funds compelled the projectors to issue it as a quarterly.
For nearly eight years this magazine exerted an excellent influence
upon the ministers and members of the Church. Its coming was looked
forward to with a strange interest. It contained the news in each of
the conferences; its editorials breathed a spirit of l