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and of the said corporation of the minister, elders, and deacons of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of the city of New York, the annual value or income of nine thousand dollars ; and of the said First Presbyterian Church of the city of New York, the annual value or in- come of six thousand dollars ; and of the said rector, church-wardens and vestry-men of St. George's Church, in the city of New York, the annual value or income of six thousand dollars ; and of the minister, elders and . deacons of the Reformed Dutch Church, in the city of Albany, the annual value or income of ten thousand dol- lars ; and also to repair and alter their churches or meeting-houses and to erect others if necessary, and to erect dwelling-houses for the use of their ministers, and school-houses and other buildings for the use of such church, congregation or society ; and such trus- tees shall have power to make rules and orders for managing the temporal affairs of such church, congre- gation or society ; and to dispose of all moneys be- longing thereto, and to regulate and order the renting the pews in their churches and meeting-houses, and the perquisites for the breaking of the ground in the cemetery or churchyards, and in the matters relating to the temporal concerns and revenues of such church, congregation or society ; and to appoint a clerk and treasurer of their Board, and a collector to collect and receive the said rents and revenues, and to regulate the fees to be allowed to such clerk, treasurer and col- lector, and them or either of them to remove at pleas- ure, and appoint others in their stead ; and such clerk shall enter rules and orders made by such trustees, and payments ordered by them, in a book to be provided by them for that purpose.
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SEC. 5. " And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for any two of such trustees, other than the trustees mentioned in the first section of this act, or their successors, at any time to call a meeting of such trustees ; and that a majority of the trustees of any church, congregation or society mentioned in this act, being lawfully convened, shall be competent to do and perform all matters and things which such trustees are authorized or required to do and perform, and that all questions arising at any such meetings shall be deter- mined by a majority of the trustees present, and in case of an equal division, the presiding trustee shall have the casting vote.
SEC. 6. " And be it further enacted, That the trustees first chosen according to the third section of this act, shall continue in office for three years from the day of their election, and immediately after such election the said trustees shall be divided by lot into three classes, numbered one, two and three, and the seats of the members of the first class shall be vacated at the ex- piration of the first year ; of the members of the sec- ond class, at the expiration of the second year, and the members of the third class at the expiration of the third year, to the end that the third part of the whole number of trustees, as nearly as possible, may be an- nually chosen ; and the said trustees, or a majority of them, shall, at least one month before the expiration of the office of any of the said trustees, notify the same in writing to the minister, or, in case of his death or absence, to the elders or church-wardens, and in case there shall be no elders or church-wardens, then to the deacons or vestry-men of any such church, con- gregation or society, specifying the names of the trustees whose times will expire ; and the said min-
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ister, or, in the case of his death or absence, one of the said elders or church-wardens, or deacons, or ves- try-men shall, in manner aforesaid, proceed to notify the members of the said church, congregation or society, of such vacancies, and appoint the time and place for the election of new trustees to fill up the same, which election shall be held at least six days before such va- cancies shall happen ; and all such subsequent elec- tions shall be held and conducted by the same persons, and in the manner above directed, and the result thereof certified by them, and such certificate shall en- title the person elected to act as trustee ; and in case any trustee shall die or refuse to act, or remove within the year, notice thereof shall be given to the trustees as aforesaid, and a new election appointed and held, and another trustee be elected in his stead in manner aforesaid.
SEC. 7. " And be it further enacted, That no person be- longing to any church, congregation or society, in- tended by the third section of this act, shall be en- titled to vote at any election succeeding the first, until he shall have been a stated attendant on divine wor- ship in the said church, congregation or society, at least one year before such election, and shall have con- tributed to the support of the said church, congrega- tion or society, according to the usages and customs thereof ; and that the clerk to the said trustees shall keep a register of the names of all such persons as shall desire to become stated hearers in the said church, congregation or society, and shall therein note the time when such request was made ; and the said clerk shall attend all such subsequent elections, in order to test the qualifications of such elections, in case the same shall be questioned.
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SEC. 8. " And be it further enacted, That nothing in this act contained shall be construed or taken to give to any trustee of any church, congregation or society, the power to fix or ascertain any salary to be paid to any minister thereof, but the same shall be ascertained by a majority of persons entitled to elect trustees, at a meeting to be called for that purpose ; and such sala- ries, when fixed, shall be ratified by the said trustees, or a majority of them, by an instrument in writing under their common seal, which salary shall thereupon be paid by the said trustees out of the revenues of such church, congregation or society.
SEC. 9. " And be it further enacted, That wherever any religious corporation within this State, other than the chartered corporation, shall deem it necessary and for the interest of such religious corporation to reduce their number of trustees, that it shall and may be law- ful for any such religious corporation to reduce their number of trustees at any annual meeting : Provided, That such reduction shall not be such as have a less number than three trustees in any one of the said religious corporation.
SEC. 14. "And be it further enacted, That the Corpora- tion of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in the city of New York, shall be and is hereby authorized to con- tinue to elect nine trustees of the corporation in the same manner as if that number of trustees had orig- inally been named in the certificate of incorporation, and such trustees shall be classed, or continue to be classed, in the manner prescribed by the sixth section of this act."
Revised Statutes, vol. III, p. 244.
W. C. LITTLE & Co., Albany, N. Y., 1848.
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RELIGIOUS INCORPORATIONS .- ART. SEVENTH.
SUMMARY OF SECTIONS RELATING TO THE DISTURBANCE OF RELIGIOUS MEETINGS AND ASSEMBLAGES FOR INSTRUCTION.
SECTION 53. Prohibition of certain acts, describing meetings for religious worship.
SEC. 54. Penalty ; proceedings to be called ; sum- mary conviction.
SEC. 55. Duty of peace officers to apprehend offend- ers against this article.
SEC. 56. Judicial officers may order offenders in cus- tody.
SEC. 57. Proceedings on conviction, if penalty be not paid or secured.
SEC. 58. Party complained of may demand trial by jury.
SEC. 59. Cost of proceedings.
SEC. 60. Assemblages for instruction not to be dis- turbed.
SEC. 61. Penalty for violation of last section.
SEC. 62. Trustees of school districts to prosecute for it.
SEC. 63. Offenders may be imprisoned for non-pay- ment.
SEC. 64. Trial by jury may be required.
Revised Statutes.
W. C. LITTLE & Co., Albany, 1846.
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LAW IN RELATION TO THE INCORPORATION OF RELIGIOUS SOCIETIES.
AN ACT " supplementary " to the Act of 1813, Chap. 60, and " amend " Acts of 1826 and 1850, entitled "An Act to provide for the Incorporation of Relig- ious Societies," passed March 29, 1875.
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows :-
SECTION 1. Trustees elected under the provisions of section three of chapter sixty of the laws of eighteen hundred and thirteen, entitled " An Act to provide for the Incorporation of Religious Societies," shall hold their offices during the term for which they were elected, and until their successors are chosen.
SEC. 2. Whenever a trustee elected under the provis- ions of said section three of the above-mentioned act ceases to be a member of the Church, congregation or society, by removal or otherwise, or ceases to statedly attend upon and support its services, he shall at the same time, and for such cause, cease to be a trustee, and his place shall be declared vacant by a notice of the board of trustees to the Church, congregation or society, and said Church, congregation or society, shall proceed to fill the vacancy, as provided for in the above-mentioned act.
SEC. 3. Any corporation organized in accordance with the provisions of said section three of the above- mentioned act, may take and receive, by bequest or devise, any real or personal estate, the net annual in-
.
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come of which shall not exceed twelve thousand dol- lars ; subject, however, to the provisions of chapter three hundred and sixty of the laws of eighteen hun- dred and sixty, entitled " An Act relating to Wills."
SEC. 4. The trustees of any Church, congregation or religious society, incorporated under said section three of the above-mentioned act, shall administer the tem- poralities thereof, and hold and apply the estate and property belonging thereto, and the revenues of the same, for the benefit of such corporation, according to the discipline, rules and usages of the denomination to which the Church members of the corporation be- long ; and it shall not be lawful for the trustees to divert such estate, property or revenues to any other purpose, except toward the support and maintenance of any religious, benevolent or other institution con- nected with such Church, congregation or religious society.
SEC. 5. Each and every of the corporations aforesaid may receive, use and apply all rents or income de- rived from pews, in addition to the annual income limited by the aforesaid act or any amendment thereof.
SEC. 6. The jurisdiction of courts of equity in this State is hereby extended over such corporations, so far as may be necessary to enforce the provisions of this act.
SEC. 7. No religious corporation shall be deemed to be dissolved for any neglect hitherto to exhibit an ac- count or inventory of its real and personal estate, and the annual income thereof, provided that such account or inventory shall be exhibited within three years from the passage of this act.
SEC. 8. This act shall take effect immediately.
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RELIGIOUS INCORPORATIONS.
REMARKS ON THE NEW SUPPLEMENT TO THE LAW RELATING TO RELIGIOUS INCORPORATIONS.
BY REV. DR. HUNT.
FOR many years the laws of the State of New York in regard to religious corporations have been found inadequate to the just demands of the varied inter- ests represented by the Churches of the State. The main body of the act under which religious societies have incorporated was passed in 1813, when the num- ber and wealth of the Churches were limited. Various amendments have been made to the general law, but none of them are of great importance. At the Syra- cuse Convention, held in December, 1871, a paper was adopted directing the appointment of a committee to draft a law adapted to the wants of societies con- nected with the Methodist Episcopal Church. That committee met in New York, and, after three days of careful deliberation, appointed a sub-committee, con- sisting of Judge Fancher, of New York, and Judge Reynolds, of Brooklyn, to embody their conclusions in a bill to be presented to the Legislature, but it failed to become a law. Finally the present bill was prepared, which includes all the first bill which the sub-committee had agreed upon, and which passed the Senate May 8, 1872, with the addition of three sec- tions. It passed both houses of the Legislature, and was signed by the Governor, March 20, 1875.
REMARKS ON SECTION 1.
Eminent jurists maintain that under the old law, unless the election to fill the vacancy took place
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within the year, the corporation was dissolved. Under such a construction of the law many societies have been obliged to reorganize. This section will pre- vent such necessity.
Since 1844 trustees held over one year after the expiration of the term for which they were elected, provided there was a neglect to hold the annual meet- ing for the election of their successors.
SECTION 2.
The justice of this section will be apparent without comment. If a trustee removes from or abandons the Church or congregation, he should leave his office be- hind him. He should not retain an office for the pur- pose of annoying those who have elected him. This section simply demands that a trustee shall retain the qualifications which rendered him eligible to the office when elected.
SECTION 3.
Most readers will be surprised to learn that here- tofore no religious corporations organized under the general law could receive by devise. It is certainly remarkable that so serious a defect has not been pro- vided for years ago.
SECTION 4.
This section, which was a part of the original bill, constitutes the strength of the whole. "The disci- pline, rules and usages" of a denomination are a " common law," in accordance with which trustees, whatever their personal views, must administer the temporalities of the corporation. This section must lead to a reversal of the decision of the Court of Ap- peals virtually declaring each congregation inde-
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pendent of the denomination to which it belongs. Men who contribute to establish and maintain spe- cific doctrines or polity have a right to demand se- curity that their benefactions shall not be diverted to other purposes. If the "discipline" of the M. E. Church, or the "rules and usages" of other Churches, need any modification to adapt them to meet this new responsibility, it will devolve on them now to make it, and the trustees in their administration must be gov- erned by " denominational " law.
SECTION 5.
Section four of the Law of 1813 limits the income of all religious corporations, excepting a few cases specified, to three thousand dollars. But little atten- tion has been paid to this restriction, yet all Churches organized under section three, whose income exceeds the above-named sum, are liable to be annoyed by any disaffected party. This section practically re- moves all restriction, since nearly all Churches with a large income derive it mainly from pew rent.
SECTION 6.
A distinguished judge in this State decided that courts of equity have no jurisdiction over cases in- volving Church property. That decision will not be repeated until this section is repealed.
SECTION 7.
The seventh section was not in the original bill, but was added by some member of the Assembly when the bill was put on its passage. By Chapter 122 of Laws of 1850 no Church with an income of less than $6,000, aside from slip rent, is required to present an
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inventory at all. The section is of no practical im- portance. "
Many other amendments have been suggested by different persons, but the committee did not feel safe in asking the Legislature for additional modifications, which might endanger the safety of the bill as finally passed.
A change in the qualification of voters has been deemed by many important. Yet an examination will show that the present law is sufficiently restrictive, if enforced. According to section seven, "No person shall be entitled to vote at any election succeeding the first until he ~hall have been a stated attendant on divine worship in the said Church, congregation or society, at least one year before such election, and shall have contributed to the support of said Church, congregation or society, according to the usages and customs thereof." If this law is observed, there will be no cause of complaint in regard to the electors.
We sincerely hope and believe that the bill obtained will furnish adequate security to Church property in the future.
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STATISTICS OF METHODISTS.
STATISTICS OF METHODISTS IN THE UNITED STATES, EPISCOPAL AND NON-EPISCOPAL, FOR 1875.
EPISCOPAL METHODISTS.
Itinerant Ministers.
Local Preachers. 12,881
Lay Members 1,580,559
Methodist Episcopal.
.10,923
Methodist E. South.
3,485
5,356
712,765
Colored M. E. Church.
635
683
80,000
African M. E. Church
600
1,450
200,000
African M. E. Zion
1,200
800
225,000
Evangelical Association
835
503
95,253
United Brethren.
967
1,709
131,850
Total E. Methodists. 18,635
22,882
3,025,427
NON-EPISCOPAL METHODISTS.
The "Methodist Church,"
775
507
55,183
Methodist Protestant.
650
200
54,319
American Wesleyan
250
190
20,000
Free Methodists
90
80
6,000
Primitive Methodists
20
25
2,800
Independent Methodists
23
. .
9,500
Total Non-E. Methodists.
1,808
1,001
147,802
Total Methodists in U. S.
20,453
24,384
3,173,229
GROWTH OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES BY DECADES.
Year.
Traveling Preachers.
Increase of Preachers.
Members.
Increase of Members.
1766
1776
24
24
4,921
2,921
1786.
117
93
20,689
15,768
1796.
293
176
56,664
35,975
1806.
452
159
130,570
73,906
1816.
695
243
214,235
83,665
1826.
1,406
711
360,800
146,565
1836.
2,928
1,522
650,103
289,303
1846
3,582
654
644,229
dec. 5,874
1856
5,877
2,295
870,327
156,098
1866.
7,576
1,699
1,032,184
231,857
1875.
10,923
3,347
1,580,559
548,375
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GENERAL SUMMARY OF METHODISTS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.
Itinerant Ministers.
Local Preachers.
Methodists in United States ..
.20,453
24,384
Lay Members. 3,173,229 467,583
British Wesleyans.
2,589
13,720
Irish Wesleyans.
185
800
21,273
French Wesleyans.
27
96
2,030
Australian Wesleyans.
862
750
67,912
British Primitive Methodists.
1,020
14,838
169,660
New Connection.
158
125
25,837
United Methodist Free Church ..
354
3,428
74,702
Bible Christian Churches.
274
1,747
26,878
British Wesleyan Re'm Union ...
538
104
8,093
M. E. Church of Canada.
1,004
1,000
102,887
M. E. Church in Canada.
247
200
23,012
Other Methodists not included above.
380
420
26,000
Grand total
27,591
61,474
4,189,105
These aggregates are exclusive of the Methodist converts in heathen lands. Of the great Methodist family of the world the United States claim upward of two-thirds, or 3,173,229, and the remainder, 1,189,- 105 by other christianized nations of the globe.
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CITY OF BROOKLYN M. E. CHURCHES.
CITY OF BROOKLYN METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCHES FOR 1875.
THE following comprise the list of the City of Brook- lyn M. E. Churches, which form part of the North and South Long Island Districts, with the names of the re- spective Pastors in charge, and the names of the Sunday School Superintendents :
CARROLL PARK ..
W. W. BOWDISH.
-
Sunday School Sup't.
C. T. Trowbridge.
CENTRAL CHURCH.
B. M. ADAMS.
Sunday School Sup't E. V. Armstrong.
. COOK STREET
.G. H. ANDERSON.
Sunday School Sup't.
John Denison.
DE KALB AVENUE.
S. H. PLATT.
Sunday School Sup't.
William Jeremiah.
EIGHTEENTH STREET.
R. C. PUTNEY.
Sunday School Sup't.
A. J. Frace.
EMBURY CHURCH.
C. E. MILLER.
Sunday School Sup't.
C. A. Gay.
FIRST PLACE.
J. W. BARNHART.
Sunday School Sup't.
D. Wadsworth.
FLEET STREET
W. C. STEEL.
Sunday School Sup't.
J. B. Summerfield.
GOTHIC CHURCH.
W. J. ROBINSON.
Sunday School Sup't.
Foster N. Smith.
GREENPOINT FIRST CHURCH .. . G. A. HUBBELL.
Sunday School Sup't.
John D. Filter.
GREENPOINT TABERNACLE.
J. S. BRECKENRIDGE.
Sunday School Sup't.
Richard Shapter.
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GREEN AVENUE. F. W. WARE. Sunday School Sup't. L. W. Beasley.
HANSON PLACE.
G. E. REED.
Sunday School Sup't.
Samuel Booth. .
JOHNSON STREET.
J. L. HALL.
Sunday School Sup't.
W. H. Wilson.
JANE CHURCH.
J. H. STANSBURY. 7
Sunday School Sup't
C. L. Potter.
LEONARD STREET
S. C. KEELER.
Sunday School Sup't
Wm. S. Beauvelt.
NOSTRAND AVENUE
C. M. GIFFIN.
Sunday School Sup't
N. B. Abbott.
NEW YORK AVENUE
G. L. WESTGATE.
Sunday School Sup't
P. T. Tunison.
NORTH FIFTH STREET
C. P. CORNER.
Sunday School Sup't
Henry C. Burr.
PACIFIC STREET
A. S. HUNT.
Sunday School Sup't
John Young.
SAND STREET
GEORGE TAYLOR.
Sunday School Sup't.
S. S. Utter.
SUMMERFIELD CHURCH
A. H. WYATT.
Sunday School Sup't
C. W. Dunlap.
SIMPSON CHURCH.
W. R. DAVIS.
Sunday School Sup't.
Thos. L. Jones.
ST. JOHN'S CHURCH.
H. W. WARREN.
Sunday School Sup't.
Joseph F. Knapp.
SOUTH SECOND STREET
JOHN PEGG, JR.
Sunday School Sup't.
Ferdinand Van Sicklen.
SOUTH THIRD STREET
ICHABOD SIMMONS.
Sunday School Sup't.
Chas. H. Fellows.
SEVENTH AVENUE.
E. J. HAYNES.
Sunday School Sup't.
George Copland.
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CITY OF BROOKLYN M. E. CHURCHES.
WASHINGTON STREET D. A. GOODSELL.
Sunday School Sup't.
Horatio B. Elkins.
WARREN STREET.
JOHN PARKER.
Sunday School Sup't
L. W. Payne.
WILLIAM STREET.
E. K. FANNING.
Sunday School Sup't
L. Smith.
WESLEY CHURCH.
FREDERICK BROWN.
Sunday School Sup't
D. W. McLean.
YORK STREET.
J. L. GILDER.
Sunday School Sup't.
Joshua Rogers.
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THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH STATISTICS FOR 1875.
THE following official statistics for 1875, relate to the Methodist Episcopal Church North, and do not embrace the Southern branch of the great Methodistic family in the United States :
Annual Conferences
81
Bishops who preside over the same
13
Traveling preachers
7,874
Preachers, superanuated.
1,103
Preachers, supernumeraries
680
Preachers on trial.
1,256
Preachers, located (not actually employed).
98
Total number of preachers. 11,021
Preachers who have died during the year
135
Aggregate number of local preachers. 13,881
MEMBERS.
Members in full connection
1,384,152
Members on probation. 196,407
Total number of members 1,580,559
Members increase over 1874. 61,610
Members decrease in twenty-five Conferences. 21,829
Members died during the year.
19,591
Children baptized during the year. 58,218
Adults baptized during the year.
66,718
SUNDAY SCHOOLS.
Number of Sunday schools.
19,287
Number of officers and teachers.
207,181
Number of scholars of all ages. 1,406,168
NUMBER AND VALUE OF CHURCH PROPERTY.
Number of churches
15,633
Number of parsonages
5,012
Value of churches. $71,353,234
Value of parsonages. 9,731,628
Total value of churches and parsonages. $81,081,862
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METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH STATISTICS.
CONFERENCE COLLECTIONS.
For churches $425,781 32
For Sunday schools. 176,959 27
Conference claimants 153,849 90
Woman's Foreign Mission Society 56,118 97
Church extension. 61,326 93
Freedmen's Aid Society 41,198 08
Educational purposes 22,911 61
Sunday School Union 17,585 02
Tract Society 16,665 26
Total Conference collections $972,396 36
GENERAL FINANCIAL AVERAGES ESTIMATED.
Traveling preachers' salaries $9,000,000
Interest on debt of church property 1,000,000
Church expenditures for sextons, choristers, light, and fuel, etc. 3,000,000
Parsonages leased and rented.
1,500,000
Sunday school expenditures
1,175,000
Members' expenditures for books, periodicals, etc. 1,500,000
Conference collections. 1,175,000
Grand total expenditures .$18,500,000
The above expenditures are exclusive of endowments, donations, and subscriptions to colleges and other educa- tional institutions.
GENERAL AVERAGES RELATING TO EPISCOPAL, PRESIDING ELDERSHIP, AND PASTORAL SUPERVISION.
Church members. 1,500,000
Traveling preachers 11,000
Annual Conferences
81
Episcopal bishops
13
Presiding elders. 400
Members to each bishop 133,333
Traveling preachers to each bishop
1,000
Traveling preachers to each Conference
140
Presiding elders to each Conference.
5
Traveling preachers to each district.
28
Church members to each district.
4,000
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NEW YORK EAST CONFERENCE M. E. CHURCH STATISTICS FOR 1875.
As the Wesley M. E. Church belongs to the New York East Conference, the following statistics will be examined with interest; the figures are taken from the Minutes of the Conference held at Meriden, Ct., April, 1875, except such as are estimated :
Members and probationers 42,007
Number of churches.
283
Number of parsonages.
144
Pastors in active service
267
Sunday school
286
Officers and teachers
6,025
Scholars of all ages
43,600
Average attendance 28,180
Volumes in libraries.
102,280
Church property valued.
$1,291,200
Parsonage property valued
744,200
Debt on churches and parsonages.
812,785
MONIES RAISED TO SUSTAIN THE WORK DURING THE PAST
YEAR.
Pastors' salaries.
$250,170
For church improvements
163,287
Interest on debt. . 56,885
Conference collections.
54,299
Sunday school expenditures
41,774
Parsonages rented or leased (estimated)
30,000
For choristers, sextons, fuel, gas, etc., (estimated).
56,600
Total amount.
$653,015
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CITY OF BROOKLYN M. E. CHURCH STATISTICS.
CITY OF BROOKLYN M. E. CHURCHES, MISSION STATIONS, AND SUNDAY SCHOOL STA- TISTICS FOR 1875.
THE following statistics exhibit the number and financial condition of the city of Brooklyn M. E. Churches, Mission Stations, and Sunday Schools, em- bracing a portion of Long Island North and South Districts :
Number of churches 35
Mission Stations.
3
Number of Pastors 35
Number of parsonages.
21
Number of Sunday schools.
35
Church members, including probationers
11,051
Sunday school scholars of all ages
12,686
Officers and teachers
1,404
Church property value.
$1,602,000
Parsonage property value.
215,500
Debt on churches and parsonages.
346,050
MONIES PAID DURING THE YEAR.
Pastors' salaries.
$71,223
Church improvements
30,418
Interest on church debt
24,223
Conference and other collections.
20,621
Sunday school expenditures
15,483
Parsonages leased or rented (estimated)
6,400
Choristers, sextons, fuel, gas, etc., (estimated) .
12,152
Total amount.
$180,500
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