The (Jcrman Methodists now possess two colleges — one in Berca. Oiiio, and one in Warrenton, !Mo. ; one Normal Scliool in (ialena. 111.; and a "I\Iission House" at New York. They have also two orphan asylums —
one in Berea, Ohio, with sixty-five orphans, and one in Warrenton, Mo., with thirty-five orphans; the running expenses of these oqihan asylums amount to nearly 814,000 per year, which sum is contributed by Ger- man ;Methodists. The value of the property of these institutions is over 6'-">0.000, besides an endowment fund of e.'w.OOO of the <nrman Wallace College at Berea, Oliio. The circulation of their olhcial organ, the Clinst- liche Apolofjctf, is lo,0()0, and of the Soiiiiltir/- vnd Schul- Glocke (their Sunday-school paper) 2G,0U0. Very re- cently a religious (Jerman monthly family magazine has been started, and it promises to be a success. The Ger- mans of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, issue an official organ weekly, and a Sunday-school paper.
German Methodists returning to their native country impressed the (ierman mind with the value of experi- mental religion, and in 1849 a mission was established in Germany by the Methodist Episcopal Church. Its first superintendent and most efficient worker was the Kev. L. S. Jacoby, D.U., himself a German. But long before any efTort had been made to establish missions in that country Methodism was already known there. Wes- ley had spent in 1738 nearly three months in Germany and Holland, and again in 1783 and 178C shorter periods in the latter country, where he became acquainted with some of the most godly and learned men in those two
j centres of Protestant Christianity and enlightenment. The friendship of the Moravians contributed to make his name and doings still more widely known there. Nor was the German press silent while such a revival
' was going on in England. Dr. Burckhardt, a godly minister, of I hi- Saxdv < liiipel.in the Strand, and an ad-
mirer of
Nuremberg a Com-
plete I/islon/ nj'tln M, iIkhUsIs in Kinjhtnd, which reached a second edition in 1795. Wesley's sermons were trans- lated into German by Lutheran ministers, several of whom visited England and became greatly interested in Methodism. Since then Methodist literature has mul- tiplied in Germany, imtil it would make up quite a for-
j midable list both for and against the Methodists.
The first Methodists who established themselves on German soil were the converts of a German named Al- brecht, or Albright, who, having embraced the Method- ist doctrines in America, was pressed in spirit to engage actively in caring for the religious wants of his fellow- countrymen in the United States. The work which he first organized, about the hegimnng of the centuiy, has grown into vast proportions, under the name of the "Evangelical Association," noticed above. After hav- ing extended to thousands of the (icrmans of America,
I the Albrecht Methodists, as they are called abroad, be- gan to extend tlieir efforts towards the Germans in Eu- rope. Tliey held their sixtieth Conference in 1872 at
i St rasburg, where they commenced a work several years
STATISTICS OF THE GERMAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES.'
Conferences.
SliMion- aries.
Members.
Proba-
Local Preachers.
Churchei.
Probable Value.
Parson- ages.
Probable Value.
Missionary Colleclions.
California.
6
3-2 24 27 2 31 25 14
197 9,564 4,166 2,T66 72 3,627 8(156
302
33
1.220
983
51 ;•
717
1,237
16
1 94 44 24
42 141
4 163
74 34
67 154
$ 3.\500 551,200 2.S3,400 SS3,300
105,950 386,100
4 60 40 18
33 64
,* 4,750 103,750 82,150 04,600
27',480 69.075
$ 214 25 0,933 34 2,120 86 3,264 63
2,664'60 0,054 05
Central German
Chica"'o German
Louisiaua German
North-west German
South-west (supposed).... Texas
Total
161
28,750
4,742
346
496
$l,t.l»a,450
219
$3iil,S05 1 *21,131 h 1
• The Methodist Episcopal Church, South. sn|)port9 a j The annual statistics covering my operations in the Bal- ission for Die Gerninns within its boundnries. This ' tiniore Conference nie as follows: Local preachers, 2;
miRS)
field ol" labor was ontered by Cluircli, Siiiilli, inmu'diatclv upon ils SiippfliilciiilciitsHic ^.•tall:^■tl)vlll(•( in Texas Louisiana, Maryland, and centlv a (ierman con urfira lion has b pbis,■T('nnc.-^co. The Itev. E. N of the (Jerman mission in the Balliin fercnces. reports in 1S73 a trift'lunl i "Tlie woik,"he savs, "extends no \m\'s. lliihmond, Haltimore, and II missiimarios in the field besides mvs
engaged in the duties of aggressive missionary labor. .
he Metliodi-t Kpisropal ' members, 32 : infants baptized, 12 ; Sunday-schools,'.
ils ortraiii/Mli'm in I-IC. ' pcrintcndcnis, :? : teachers, l(i ; scholars, 17S : volumes in
...lint: library. 2111." 'I'lie M issionary Iteport for IS'il furnishes
i\ re- no oU'icr statistics of the (Jcniian work, but the secretary
been >iarliil in Mem- prefaces tlie reixnts from the snperintciulciits {under date
Bloi.'L', sn|jciinleii(Uiil of June 1) with the remark that '-a very important qnes-
nore an<l ViiL'inia Con- I tlon will be nu'ilii'ed at the next General Confeienre
h. I [Mav, 1S74]— that of erecting the (iennans into a separ.ile
■s- Conference." .\ (Jerman paper I'lr the members in this
iir field is published by the Methodist Episcopal Church,
ly i South, under the editorial guidance of the Kev. J. A. B.
.". 1 AUrens, at New Orleans, Louisiaua.
d h.^altlifiil -rowi to Norfolk. I'cte >kstown. with fc f, who arc zealou:
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since. They have in all Germany 3071 Church mem- bers, 59 Sunday-schools with 3030 scholars, and 24 itin- erant preachers. They have two periodicals, and have lately extended their tield to Switzerland.