East Michigan .. North Iowa ington ... 41 18 II 50 20 63 27 54 2 27 12 38 6 2,164 275 800 10,300 12,350 1,200 750 28,900 609 300 171 962 317 1,632 351 897 29 Total ...... 16.—THE INDEPENDENT METHODISTS. These consist of congregations in Maryland, Tennessee, and the District of Columbia, which are not connected with any annual conference. They are members of an association which, however, has no ecclesiastical authority whatever. Each congregation is entirely independent. There is i hall, with a seating capacity of 100. This organization of Colored Methodists was formed in 1886 by ministers and members in Ohio who withdrew from the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church for various reasons. It has no creed but the Bible; but, according to its bishop, it inclines in belief to the doctrine that there is but one divine person, Jesus Christ,“ in whom dwells all the Godhead bodily.” It has ii organizations, in the States of Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin. Nine halls, with a seating capacity of 2650, are occupied. Alabama. 17 1,493 438 23 1,709 559 146 239 247 4,700 375, ,622 123,874 32,200 72,582 65,940 58,100 1,200,842 2,575,631 1,105,700 2,225,730 1,116,125 656 123,316 36,874 10,850 30,815 117 235 258 25,786 96,377 107, 100 2,360 18,305,200 265,551 2,418,984 276,336 SUMMARY BY STATES OF ALL METHODISTS.-Continued. cants. 1,162 Seating Capacity. 37,925 180,142 735,033 5,925 640,797 529,600 33,110 355,990 219,839 391,635 182,525 87,301 353,235 163,472 329,907 97,800 Dist. of Columbia Florida. Georgia Idaho. Illinois. Indiana. Indian Territory Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana. Nebraska Nevada .. New Hampshire New Jersey.. New Mexico. New York... North Carolina North Dakota... Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont. Virginia Washington. West Virginia Wisconsin. Wyoming 62 58 776 816 2,406 2,663 42 30 2,457 2,229 1,901 1,832 351 181 1,579 1,387 1,529 894 1,700 1,408 810 780 356 290 1,340 1,324 422 406 1,578 1,198 591 448 1,885 1,935 2,412 1,888 74 54 738 490 12 I2 134 129 727 707 60 42 2,563 2,388 2,413 2,335 140 61 2,798 2,713 51 20 294 199 2,536 2,359 52 45 1,456 1,709 306 148 2,443 2,351 2,716 1,940 32 29 234 200 1,737 1,646 239 171 1,543 1,097 784 672 16 12 466,026 11,805 2,700 40,505 229,831 418 Value of Com- muniProperty. $1,543,000 16,369 829,551 70,458 2,783,267 275,784 74,200 7,807, 118 189,358 4,656,235 179,613 75,243 11,601 3,602,860 122,607 2,230,265 95,781 2,718,518 141,521 1,134,992 65,693 1,152,875 23,041 5,347,527 123,618 5,398,825 61,138 4,144,427 101,951 1,764,493 32,199 1,652,269 164,589 4,232,428 162,514 247,850 2,425 1,336,475 42,941 78,800 614,350 12,354 5,500,640 139,985 4,889 9,600,820 272,737 37,550 2,029 693,275 11,927 14,476,904 260,388 606,368 7,353 1,658,182 251,477 384,обо 12,116 3,491,360 223,116 2,677,391 218,890 223,650 1,055 765,650 17,527 2,910,853 154,693 763,175 12,697 1,450,448 85,102 1,889,200 43,696 52,700 912 8,025 723,349 11,100 4,650 44,940 732,641 20,335 497,873 33, 174 689,446 570,328 6,205 57,076 410,335 44,615 274,891 144,693 2,390 Total ...... 51,489 46,138 12,863,178 $132,140,179 4,589,284 CHAPTER XXX. THE MORAVIANS. This is the name by which the members of the Unitas Fratrum are generally known. The Unitas Fratrum, or Unity of Brethren, originated in Germany, and has no connection with the United Brethren in Christ, a denomination which sprang up in this country near the beginning of the present century. The Moravians trace their rise back to the time of Huss. The fruit of the Huss reformation appeared in the National Church of Bohemia. The Bohemian Brethren were an organization formed within the Bohemian Church, pledged to take the Bible as their only rule of faith and practice and maintain a Scriptural discipline. The Bohemian Brethren were persecuted and their organization was overthrown in Bohemia and Moravia, but it was resuscitated in 1722–35, among a colony of refugees from Bohemia and Moravia, settled on the estate of Count Zinzendorf in Berthelsdorf, Saxony. There the colony built the town of Herrnhut, which became the center of the Renewed Brethren. The first Moravians who came to the United States settled in Georgia in 1735, the year when the first bishop of the Renewed Church was consecrated. The colony left Georgia five years later and founded Bethlehem, in Pennsylvania. At Bethlehem, and also at Nazareth and Lititz, in the same State, Moravian Church settlements were formed. “The lands were the property of the church, and the farms and the various departments of mechanical industry were stocked by it and worked for its benefit. In return the church provided the inhabitants with all the necessaries of life. Whoever had private means retained them." There was, however, no common treasury, and the settlements did not adopt a communal life. The economical system was abolished in 1762, having lasted twenty years. The Brethren, however, continued to maintain the church system of communal government until 1844-56, when it disappeared. This system, in a modified form, is still maintained in Germany. The Unity of Brethren consists of three provinces, the German, British, and American. All are under a central government, the seat of which is in Herrnhut, Germany. There is a general synod, which meets once in ten years. It consists of delegates from each of the provinces and also from the various foreign mission fields, and is empowered “to consult and legislate upon those matters which are of general import." It decides as to all questions of doctrine, all essential points of the liturgy, all fundamental rules of discipline, conditions of membership, nomination and appointment of bishops, etc. In the interim between its meetings it is represented by the Unity's Elders' Conference, which is a sort of executive committee. Each province has a synod of its own, which legislates for and controls provincial affairs. Bishops, presbyters, and deacons are recognized in the ministry of the Brethren. Bishops are general, not dio |