SUMMARY V. STATISTICAL SUMMARIES OF THE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHES IN THE UNITED STATES AS PUBLISHED 1858-1877, FOR THE YEARS 1857-1876. CHURCHES. WITH MINISTERS. VACANT. MINISTERS. IN PASTORALWORK. Sup. by Not TOTAL CHURCHES. Acting Pastors. * Foreign Missionaries are additional to TOTAL MINISTERS. In the early years included in the above table the totals exceed the sum of the particulars, because in many cases the condition of the churches and the relation of the ministers were not specified. Females. ADDITIONS CHURCH MEMBERS. 6,196 5,376 616 9,900 6,433 12,629 3,908 83,551 164,037 | 260,284 30,854 6,243 14,378 4,244 86,571 171,145 262,649 34,068 6,777 15,809 4,900 5,739 84,715 171,608 263,296 34,244 11,030 7,393 18,442 4,729 6,578 1866 1867 85,781 174,333 267,453 32,981 11,249 8,593 19,994 4.380 8,366 1867 1868 91,309 184,456 278,708 34,059 19,127 11,065 30,210 4,238 9,491 1868 1869 97,090 193,636 291,042 34,915 16,432 11,814 28,246 4,310 10,479 1869 1870 98,165 196,865 300,362 35,364 15,167 12,078 27,373 4,386 10,761 1870 1871 101,901 200,927 306,518 36,590 13,501 11,636 25,137 4,440 10,090 1871 1872 103,470 204,062 312,054 39,147 13,271 10,969 23,343 4,701 9,799 1872 1873 105,804 207,614 318,916 41,787 13,945 10,746 25,394 4,785 10,252 1873 1874 196,991 208,575 323,679 42,660 13,216 11,312 24,820 5,294 | 10,003 1874 1875 108,194 211,918 330,391 44,352 15,279 11,961 27,330 5,120 10,450 863 16,433 1875 1876 110,761 217,454 338,313 44,871 17,306 12,198 29,645 5,168 10,727 895 16,805 1876 1877 116,240 227,419 350,658 45,033 20,844 12,400 33,294 5,503 10,468 1,076 17,047 784 15,284 729 15,766 836 16,138 In this table the total of members is greater than the sum of males and females, and total additions and removals are sometimes greater than the sum of particulars, because totals are sometimes reported alone. "Absent" are included in males, females, and total. REMOVALS TOTAL. TOTAL. Not in pas toral work. As to Contributions, in this table it will be seen that it is more an exhibit of the number of churches reporting than of actual sums contributed. Previous to our issue of 1867 not half of the churches reported Contributions; many States did not put the item in their schedules. CHURCHES. Net gain of members. SUMMARY VI.- ANNUAL CHANGES, AS PUBLISHED 1867-1877, FOR THE 1866 1867 111 54 1867 1868 121 82 1868 1869 201 69 1869 1870 144 52 1870 1871 124 46 1871 1872 141 60 1872 1873 128 67 1873 1874 144 82 4,763 56 111 10 130 60 71 In the above table, the "new" churches are occasionally such as were previously "dropped." The changes in "Benevolent Contributions" are greatly due to more or less full reports. See table next above for number of churches reporting year by year. 64 'Acting Pastors” were included in "Without Charge," in column of deaths, until 1873. Decrease. REMARKS UPON THE ANNUAL STATISTICS. STATES.- Florida is added to the list of States in which Congregationalism is represented. CHURCHES. - The number given last year, 3,438. Net increase (123 new, less 52 dropped as in Summary IV), 71. Present number, 3,509, as in Summary I. CHURCH MEMBERS. Last year, 338,313. Net increase (12,664 increase in thirty-three States, less 319 decrease in eight States, as in Summary IV), 12,345. Present number, 350,658, as in Summary II. IN SABBATH SCHOOLS. Last year, 401,838. Net increase (14,808 increase in twenty-five States, less 1,554 decrease in twelve States, as in Summary IV), 13,254. Present number, 415,092, as in Summary III. BENEVOLENT CONTRIBUTIONS.- Last year, $1,241,014.39. Net increase ($94,243.35 increase in sixteen States, less $57,005.64 decrease in sixteen States, as in Summary IV), $37,237.71. Amount this year, $1,278,252.10, as in Summary III. This is the amount reported by 2,635 churches. In the Summary of each State an additional statement of Benevolent Contributions has been added the present year, giving the amount contributed to each of the Congregational Societies and to miscellaneous objects. This statement is made up from the reports of the different societies named, with the exception of that of the Congregational Publishing Society, and from the returns given in the State Minutes. The amount of Benevolent Contributions according to this statement is as follows: Foreign Missions, credited to the several States, $409,360.69,- adding to this the Donations for Debt, $40,463.60, and Centennial Donations, $7,037.95; total, $456,862.24; Home Missions, $383,632.08; Am. Miss. Association, $168,813.51; Am. Cong. Union, $46,386.11; Am. Coll. and Ed. Society, $63,154.88; Cong. Pub. Society (reported by the several States, $3,451.37, additional reported by the Society, $1,658.68), $5,110.05. Total for denominational work, $1,123,958.87; Miscellaneous (reported by 2,635 churches), $415,183.36. TOTAL, $1,539,142.23. This varies from the amount reported above, because it includes the contributions of a greater number of churches, and because the financial year of the societies does not cover the same period exactly as is embraced in the reports of the different State Minutes. The amount contributed to Home Missions includes $45,922.83 for boxes of clothing acknowl edged in The Home Missionary, and $30,606.28 reported in the Massachusetts Minutes, as given to local missions. The total amount given to miscellaneous objects is much larger than the sum here reported. COMPARISONS. I. As to Churches.-1. The average increase in the number of churches for nineteen years has been about 63. The gain this year is 71. 2. The increase in membership is greater than in any other year since the record was com menced. 3. The number of additions by profession is larger than in any other year since 1859. II. As to Ministers.—1. The number does not increase as fast as the number of churches. The number of pastors remains the same as the previous year; the number of acting pastors has increased. 2. The majority of ordinations without installation waxes worse and worse. 3. The number of deaths of ministers is 64. III. As to Sabbath Schools. The number connected with the schools has advanced every year except in 1865. IV. As to Benevolent Contributions. The amount reported is greater than in any other year except in 1872. LIST OF CONGREGATIONAL MINISTERS IN THE UNITED STATES. REPORTED BY THE SEVERAL STATE ORGANIZATIONS. THE NATIONAL COUNCIL, in 1871, unanimously adopted the following: "Resolved, That all ministers in our denomination ought to be in orderly connection with some ministerial or ecclesiastical organization, which shall be able to certify to their regular standing in the ministry." The following appears among the BY-LAWS : "The Council approves of an annual compilation of the statistics of the churches, and of a list of such ministers as are reported by the several State organizations." The following list, in conformity to the above, is made up from the alphabetical lists printed by the State Associations and Conferences (not from the preceding tables), sometimes changed by letters from the Secretaries, with the names of persons regularly ordained since the issue of the State Minutes, or under commission from the American Home Missionary Society or the American Missionary Association. Any omissions (unless by accident) are due to the fact that no organization reported the names of the omitted. Licentiates are not included in this list, nor are ministers of other denominations, unless they are also members of some Congregational organization, although they may be temporarily supplying our churches. A list of Licentiates follows this. Names without post-office address are followed by the name of the State reporting them, in parenthesis. Letters for foreign missionaries are forwarded by the respective Boards. See Missionary Herald and American Missionary for particular directions. Abbe, Frederick R., Dorchester, Mass. Adams, Edwin A., A. B. C. F. M., Austria. Adams, George C., Hillsboro', Ill. Adams, George M., Holliston, Mass. Adams, Harvey, Bowen's Prairie, Ia. Adams, John, Hillsboro' Centre, N. H. Adams, Lucien H., A. B. C. F. M., Central Adams, Myron, Rochester, N. Y. Adams, William W., Fall River, Mass. Alden, Ezra J., Medina, O. Alden, Edmund K., Boston, Mass. Allen, Frederick H., South Boston, Mass. Allen, John W., North Woodstock, Ct. Allen, J. Wing, Saline Co., Neb. Allen, Samuel H., Windsor Locks, Ct. Allen, Simeon O., Springfield, Mass. Alley, Frederick, Wilber. Neb. Alley, Moses, Waupaca, Wis. Alvord, Augustus W., West Granville, Mass. Anderson, Charles, No. Woburn, Mass. Anderson, James, Manchester, Vt. Andrews, Edwin N., Crystal Lake, Ill. Andrews, Samuel B., Lanesville, Mass. Anthony, George N., Peabody, Mass. Armstrong, Julius C., Western Springs, Armstrong, Robert S., Winnebago Agency, Minn. Arnold, Arthur E., Lemars, Ia. Arnold, A. S., Newton, Ia. Arnold, Henry T., Providence, R. I. Ashley, George H., North Springfield, Mo. Atherton, Isaac W., Cloverdale, Cal. Atkins, Doane R., Westbrook, Ct. Atwater, Edward E., New Haven, Ct. Avery, William P., Chapin, Ia. Ayers, Frederick H., Long Ridge, Ct. Babb, Thomas E., Oxford, Mass. Baird, John W., A. B. C. F. M., Turkey. Baker, Smith, Lowell, Mass. Baldwin, Elijah C., Branford, Ct. Baldwin, Joseph B., West Townshend, Vt. Baldwin, Thomas, Plymouth, Vt. Barber, George W., Milwaukee, Wis. Barnum, Augustine, Candor, N. Y. Barnum, George, Wauseon, Ó. Barnum, Samuel W.. New Haven, Ct. Barrows, Allen C., Kent, O. Barrows, Charles D., Lowell, Mass. Barrows, Elijah P., Oberlin, O. Barrows, George W., Elizabethtown, N. Y. Barrows, John H., Lawrence, Mass. Barrows, John, A. B. C. F. M., Western Tur key. Barrows, Simon, Osceola, Neb. Barrows, Walter M., Salt Lake City, Utah. Barrows, William, Reading, Mass. Barrows, William H., Hampton, Ia. Barteau, Sydney H., Zumbrota, Minn. Bartlett, Lyman, A. B. C. F. M., Turkey. Bassett, Edward B., Columbus, N. Y. |