tenary of the Heidelberg Catechism was duly celebrated, and an excellent edition of the same was issued. In connection with this, more than $100,000 were raised for the colleges of the church. It is proposed to drop the word "German" from the title of the church.

THE UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH was formed in 1853 by a union of the Associate Presbyterian and Associate Reformed Churches. It reports, 1867, 7 synods, 54 presbyteries, 543 ministers, 717 congregations, 63,489 members, and $1,277,204 contributions. In the eight years of its history, it has increased in its ministry from 408 to 543; and in its contributions, from an average of forty-one cents per member to an average of nine dollars. It has missionary presbyteries in India, China, Syria, and Oregon. It is antislavery and close communion in its character.

THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES (the style of the Southern Church) was formed by a union of the Old and New School Churches (South) during the war. They report, 1867, 10 synods, 46 presbyteries, 66,528 communicants, 829 ministers, 1,290 churches. The contributions are set down as $409,282. There are 340 churches and 4 presbyteries from which there is no report. The numbers given are probably much below the facts. There is no present prospect of re-union with the Northern churches.

THE CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHES, North and South, are re-united. They had, before the war, 588 ministers, and 48,600 members.

THE REFORMED PRESBYTERIANS in the North have two synods; one of about 100, the other of about 60 ministers.

THE UNITED BRETHREN IN CHRIST (organized 1744) is "Arminian in doctrine, and Methodistic in polity." It has 4,255

preaching places, 3,297 societies, and 91,570 members; contributions, $341,279.

THE MORAVIANS.89 mission stations; 307 preaching places; 213 missionaries, male and female, and 882 assistants; expended, $120,189. Under the religious instruction of the Unitus Fratrum, there are 177,669 persons in Europe and America. The adult communicants number 14,240.

THE FRIENDS, or QUAKERS, of the orthodox side, number 54,000.**

FREEWILL BAPTISTS. This denomination of evangelical Christians numbers (including Canada West) 31 yearly and 147 quarterly meetings, 1,264 churches, and 56,738 members. They have a biblical school and three colleges; a printing establishment, publishing a quarterly review, a weekly, and a sabbath-school paper semi-monthly. They practise baptism by immersion. They are Arminian with respect to the doctrine of freewill, and are open communists.

Concerning other evangelical churches and religious organizations, such information as our limited space will allow, in addition to what has been already given, will be found in the following statistical tables :

*The above statistics are taken chiefly from the Report of Rev. HENRY B. SMITH, D.D.

Some discrepancy between the statistics given in different places is inevitable, for the reason that they represent the facts at different periods. Simultaneous and full reports of the several churches do not exist. This, however, does in no way affect the argument for which these figures are brought forward.

From reliable statistics of the population of the United States, and of the evangelical churches, Rev. D. Dorches

Taken from the census of 1860. It cannot be claimed that the figures are absolutely correct; but they can be relied upon to show, in general, the relative material progress of the several denominations.

ter has ascertained that the ratio of communicants to the inhabitants ten years of age and upwards was as follows:

In 1800, one communicant for 10 5-6 inhabitants.

"During this same period, the population has increased nearly sixfold; but the communicants of evangelical churches have increased nearly fourteen and one-half fold, or the increase of church-membership has been two and a half times greater than the population." This progress is most encouraging.

It would certainly be a wrong use of language to call these dry statistics. They point directly to the great doctrine of the atonement by the death of Christ, to the inspiration of the Holy Scriptures, the publication of the gospel by authority of God, the privilege of believing prayer, the new creation by the Holy Spirit; to the great reformation of heart and life, of principles and manners, distinguishing civilization from barbarism. What man will claim the ability to estimate the influence upon the morals and piety of this nation which has come from all the sermons, and other pastoral labors, of more than fifty thousand ministers of the gospel, with those of their predecessors, since the landing of the first Christian colonists on this continent? Who will venture to describe the power of all the prayers, exhortations, tears, and examples of the unquestionably good among the more than five millions of enrolled laboring Protestant Christians of the country, and the multitudes who have gone before them? Were it possible to abstract all these benign influences from our history, the world would then see how dark a moral night would have set in upon this fair portion