States and its dependencies, among the Italians, Scandinavians, Hungarians, Spanish, and other foreigners, is a most interesting one; but not more so than the romantic history of William Nast, the fellow-student and friend of the infidel Strauss, and his founding Methodism among the Germans in America in 1835, and the wonderful development that has followed until there are to-day ten German Conferences in the United States. In spite of the persecutions of the Methodists in Protestant Germany, the people of Luther are not unappreciative of the best things in Methodism, as witness the remark of Christlieb, "the best method against Methodism is to do the same as it is doing," and the keenly appreciative article in the twelfth volume of the third edition of the HauckHerzog "Realencyclopædie für protestantische Theologie und Kirche" (1903) on which I have based an article in The Methodist Quarterly Review, Nashville,

October, 1903. In speaking of this article by Loofs in the "Realencyclopædia" to the editor, Professor Hauck, of Leipzig, I asked him if its favorable tone had called out any dissent in Germany. He said: "Not that I have noticed. In fact we in Germany are much nearer to Methodism in feeling and sentiment than to the Anglican Church. The High Church movement is in part, of course, the cause of this."

STATISTICS

ACCORDING to the latest statistics as given in the admirable Methodist Year Book, (New York, 1903), edited by Mr. Stephen V. R. Ford, the Wesleyan Methodist Church has in Great Britain and Ireland 2,491 ministers, 20,850 lay preachers, and 525,360 members (including probationers) and in foreign lands she has of each, 727; 7,942; 205,646. The figures of the Methodist New Connection are 207; 1,171; 42,929; the Independent Methodist Churches, 397; figures for lay preachers omitted; 8,644; Wesleyan Reform Union, 18; 479; 7,849; Bible Christians, 212; 1,483; 28,877; Primitive Methodists, 1,048; 16,016; 195,651; United Methodist Free Churches, 444; 3,302; 93,684; Australasia Methodist Church, 932; 8,452; 131,774.

For Canada the figures stand thus: for the four Conferences in Ontario and the one in Quebec, 1,351 ministers and lay preachers and 218,848 members; for the maritime provinces, 321 and 41,710; Manitoba, Northwest and British Columbia, 326 and 28,508. In Japan the Canadian Church has 32 and 2,675.

In the United States Dr. H. K. Carroll gives the latest figures in The Christian Advocate, January 8, 1903. Methodist Episcopal, 16,805 ministers, 2,801,798 communicants; African Methodist Episcopal, 6,429 and 728,354; African Methodist Episcopal Zion, 3,310 and 542,422; Methodist Protestant, 1,647 and 184,097; Wesleyan Methodist, 700 and 17,000; Methodist Episcopal, South, 6,247 and 1,518,854; Congregational Methodist, 400 and 22,000; Colored Methodist Episcopal, 2,061 and 204,972; Free Methodist, 1,001 and 28,038; Union American Methodist Episcopal, 180 and 16,500; smaller bodies, 440 and 20,720.

The statistical results of foreign missions for the Methodist Episcopal Church are as follows: Africa, 678 probationers and 2,928 full members; China, 10,654 and 9,299; India, 51,290 and 34, 108; Malaysia, 1,725 and 1,768; Japan, 2,194 and 4,367; Korea, 4,559 and 1,296; Germany, 4,990 and 15,062; Switzerland, 1,058 and 7,655; Norway and Sweden, 1,947 and 21,024; Denmark, 217 and 3,248; Finland and St. Petersburg, 253 and 759; Italy, 534 and 1,923; Bulgaria, 76 and 238; Mexico, 2,516 and 2,819; South America, 2,037 and 3, 107.