Mass.; Rev. JOHN O. FISKE, D. D., Bath, Me.; Rev. GEORGE B. SAFford, Burlington, Vt.; Hon. DAVID J. BREWER, Leavenworth, Kan.; Rev. EDWARD H. MERRELL, Ripon, Wis.

Committee to confer with Committee of American Congregational Union:

Hon. WILLIAM B. WASHBURN, LL. D., Greenfield, Mass.; Dea. ELIPHALET W. BLATCHFORD, Chicago, Ill.; AMOS D. LOCKWOOD, Providence, R. I.; Rev. EDWARD F. WILLIAMS, Chicago, Ill; Dea. WILLIAM H. WHITIN, Whitinsville, Mass.; Rev. AUGUSTUS F. BEARD, D. D., Syracuse, N. Y.; Rev. SAMUEL E. HERRICK, Boston, Mass.

Committee on Ministerial Responsibility and Standing:

Rev. EGBERT C. SMYTH, D. D., Andover, Mass.; Rev. GEORGE L. WALKER, D. D., Brattleboro', Vt.; Rev. GEORGE B. SAFFORD, Burlington, Vt.; Rev. HENRY P. HIGLEY, Beloit, Wis; Rev. LEVI H. COBB, Minneapolis, Minn.

Committee on Pastorless Churches and Churchless Pastors":

Rev. FRANK P. WOODBURY, Rockford, Ill.; Rev. ROBERT WEST, St. Louis, Mo.; Rev. CHARLES H. RICHARDS, Madison, Wis.; Rev. MoOSES SMITH, Jackson, Mich.; Rev. Louis W. HICKS, Woodstock, Vt.; Rev. WILLIAM S. PALMER, Norwich, Conn.; Rev. HENRY M DEXTER, D. D., Boston, Mass.

Committee on Disabled Ministers:

Rev. JUSTIN E. TWITCHELL, D. D., Cleveland, Ohio; Rev. CYRUS W. WALLACE, D. D., Manchester, N. H.; Hon. CHARLES THEodore Russell, Boston, Mass; Rev. WILLIAM H. MOORE, Hartford, Conn.: Rev. HIRAM N. GATES, Omaha, Neb.

Committee on Monument to Rev. John Robinson:

Rev. HENRY M. DEXTER, D. D., Boston, Mass.; Rev. SAMUEL C. BARTLETT, D. D, Hanover, N. H.; Hon. ALPHEUS HARDY, Boston, Mass.; Rev. GEORGE E. DAY, D. D., New Haven, Conn.; ALFRED S. BARNES, New York, N. Y.; Dea. ELIPHALET W. BLATCHFORD, Chicago, Ill.; Dea. STEPHEN S. SMITII, San Francisco, Cal.

Delegates attending se-sions of corresponding bodies are also expected to report at the next session of the Council.

THE ANNUAL STATISTICS.

THE following pages contain the statistics of the Congregational Ministers and Churches in the United States, collected in the year 1877 by the Secretaries of the several State organizations, and compiled for this publication by the Secretary of the National Council.

The Secretary in no case presumes to insert or omit the name of church or minister on any authority but that of the State Secretaries, representing their own organizations; or of Councils since the issue of State Minutes.

The contents of the statistics are as follows:

1. The Statistics of the Churches and Pastors, by States.

2.

List of Foreign Missionaries, arranged by Missions.

3.

4.

List of Ministers without Pastoral Charge, by States.
General Summary tables for the year.

5. Tables of Summaries, as printed 1859-1878.
Remarks upon the Statistics.

6.

7.

8.

The National Co-operative Societies, with officers.
The Theological Seminaries.

9.

10.

The National and State Organizations of the Churches.

Alphabetical List of Ministers, with P. O. address, and indexed to pages. 11. Alphabetical List of Licentiates.

RULES OF COMPILATION.

1. To arrange in alphabetical order everything capable of it; except that the churches in any one town or city are placed according to age.

2. To make each State list conform strictly to the State boundaries. Churches or ministers reported by the Association of a State other than their own are, therefore, transferred to their proper places; and the summaries are correspondingly corrected.

3. To make new tables each year. No church or name of minister is brought from last year. "Last year's report" (if known to be such) is always omitted, but the membership of enrolled churches, and of their Sabbath Schools, not reporting, are included in the summary of their State, provided such a church reported the previous year; if not, not. The list of churches of this year is compared, name by name, with that of last year, and all variations are specifically mentioned with the State summary, so that each church can be traced from year to year.

4. To examine carefully all the tables, with a view to correction or addition by correspondence, especially to correct "pastoral supply" to the latest moment, the several State Secretaries orten doing this, and examining all "proots" when time allows. But any such changes do not alter the original summary.

5. To complete the statistics by (1) giving in some form every statistical fact obtainable, items given by some States, but not by all, being aggregated with the respective State summaries; and (2) putting into finished State and general summaries, with "totals" in all cases, everything capable of it; so that no person in search of any statistical fact shall be obliged to perform any arithmetical calculation to find it.

MINOR EXPLANATIONS.

1. When any church is given in brackets, it is one organized since the date of State report, and is not included in the summary, but is inserted for information.

2. Installed pastors are marked "p"; others in service are not marked. Blanks in the column of pastoral supply, meaning no regularly engaged minister, are left blank for the convenience of those who note pastoral changes.

3. Post-office addresses of ministers in pastoral service are not certainly found in the tables of churches, but are in the General Alphabetical List of Ministers.

4. The two columns following the names of ministers in the tables of churches denote (1) the year of ordination, (2) the year when the minister was installed, or commenced service with that church.

5. A star (*) prefixed to the name of a minister in pastoral service, not installed, implies that he is not a member of any organization of churches or ministers in that State; but not many States so designate in the tables. A star similarly prefixed in the General Alphabetical List of Ministers denotes that he is found in the original State alphabetical list, but is reported not to be a member of any such organization in the United States. Similarly, a star prefixed to a church denotes that it is not associated, and a foot-note so states; but ordinarily such are new churches, yet to be associated. "Independent" churches are not regarded as Congregational churches, but a few not associated are enrolled by their own wish.

6.

Licentiates are not reckoned as ministers.

Churches supplied by such,

or by ministers of other denominations, are reckoned as vacant; but the number of such churches is given with each State summary. No ministers of other denominations (if so known) are inserted in the General Alphabetical List, unless they happen to belong to the two denominations at the same time.

7. Under" Church Members," "Absent," are included in "Males," "Females," and "Total." "Additions," "Removals," and "Baptisms" cover the twelve months next preceding the date of report given with the name of each State.

8. Blanks in any column of figures are such as were so left in the State Minutes. They ought always to signify "no report," but some States do not follow the proper rule of inserting a cipher where "none" is meant, and the examiner must decide, in any given case, whether "none" or "no report" is intended. In our General Summaries, a blank invariably signifles no report."

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Ord. C'd Ma Fe. To. Ab. P. L. To. Di. L. Dc. To. Ad. In.

1

614

7

1

1

2

1

1 183

5

150

6 16 194

8150 2667