REMARKS UPON THE STATISTICS.

THE foregoing Statistics are compiled mainly from the minutes of the several State, Territorial, or Provincial Associations, as published in 1864, corrected and completed by correspondence and comparisons. Differences between our "totals" and those of the State Minutes arise principally from the fact that the bodies printing them seldom agree with State boundaries; while, also, a careful revision often renders new additions necessary. While our Summary is not perfectly correct, it is believed that it does present a fair and reliable view of the strength of the denomination, its amount being below-not above the actual truth. The names of some churches are omitted, which we feel perfectly confident still exist, but which the State Minutes dropped. Indeed we felt so confident that Henry Ward Beecher's Church is still alive that we ventured to re-insert it; but some others in Brooklyn we leave to next year's resurrection, as well as churches in other parts of New York, in Pennsylvania, and in Ohio.

It will be noticed that we have this year introduced a new column, viz.: Dates of Ordination of Ministers. The following tables show the number of churches and ministers, with yearly changes in membership, etc., for the years specified. They are compiled with great care; the tables of each year having been subjected to a thorough revision, and having been compared with each other, so as to cover the same ground, and corrected on a uniform system of data. A portion of these figures were printed in the Quarterly, in 1861, but then embraced only the churches in the United States; while the present tables cover the whole of American Congregationalism, excepting some independent churches and some connected with Presbyterians on the "plan of union." The Statistics generally belong to the summer of the year mentioned in the second column. While not, of course, perfectly accurate, the tables give a very respectable approximation to the truth.

It is to be noticed that "total" often includes more than the sum of particulars, because of imperfect reports of the latter..

January, 1858 1857 1859 1858

Females.

TOTAL.

1232,549)
239,586

Absent.

46 1860 1859 75,158 144,690 257,634 27,705 1861 1860 81,453 157,257 260,389 29,082 1862 1861 81,195 158,237 259,119 32,180 1863 1862 81,852 163,215 261,474 33,535 1864 1863 83.551 164,037 264,313 31,178 1865 1864 88,305 174,083 268,015 34,398

66

66

44

128,772 162,815

6,913 65,592 13,505 3,110 6,076 465| 9,651)
13.248 8,107 22,175 3,338 6,992 512 10,842)
25,590 9,623 35,2133,589 8,205 717 12,593 10,618 6,156 206,441
7,646 7,588 15,2343,644 7,097 715 11,456 3,061 4,841 250,660
5,522 6,629 12,151 3,708 6.280 551 10,539 2,151 4,544 246,547
6,424 6,521 12.9453,940 5,507 640 10.087 2,489 4,876/255.257
7,999 6,487 14,375 4,288 5,577 780 10,146 3,362 4.405260,492
9,328 6,897 16,2254,937 5,923 641 11.501 4.0524,462286,798

These figures show a steady gain in the number and numerical strength of our churches. There is no reason whatever to doubt the reality of this increase, but every reason to believe in its substantial truth. If it has been followed by an equal advance in spiritual life, we have done well.

The number of ministers has also steadily increased. It is a little remarkable that the "total" is regularly a little behind that of the number of churches; and therefore our churches are inadequately supplied. A far greater want, however, is disclosed when we notice the great number of ministers not in pastoral work. Of these, many are teachers, professors, or presidents of colleges or seminaries; a goodly number are in pastoral work abroad; others are editors, secretaries, or agents of religious societies; - all of which are of indispensable service to the churches. Many more still are supplying different pulpits from Sabbath to Sab

bath. But, after all these deductions, the number of ministers who are superannuated, or who have engaged in secular pursuits, makes a sad diminution from our "total." Yet, after all, it is evident that the number of vacant churches is not so great but that they could be easily supplied by the ministers now on the list, if the churches chose to employ them.

The number of "absentees" remains about stationary. The evil apparent is not so great in reality; inasmuch as these "absentees" really balance each other. That is, a church generally has worshipping with it as many members of distant churches as it reckons absentees of its own. Under the Episcopal and Methodist system, they would be actual members at the place of worship.

The additions are quite uniform year by year, except in years following revivals, as in 1857-8. The deaths moderately and proportionally increase; so regularly that it may be taken for granted, that, in every thousand members reporting, the deaths will be eighteen annually.

The gain in the column of "Sabbath Schools" is not so reliable as it should be, because the report for the first year mentioned must be, we are satisfied, entirely inadequate. But, commencing with the next year, -a more reliable point, the increase is seen to be very marked. In the revival years it was very great; and a gain of a hundred and twenty thousand in five years is exceedingly gratifying.

When the compiler prepared the figures for January, 1861, he had in mind several projects of improvement, with promises of cooperation. But he went to the war, and staid three years, and wanted to stay longer, but could n't. The projected improvements he has had time to carry into effect this year but slightly. Procrastination in sending reports has interfered badly; errors in the minutes he could not get corrected; perplexing contradictions had to be left unsolved; and the haste requisite forbade the time necessary to send to his residence everything which ought to have passed under his eye. Still, the errors which are obvious at a glance he is confident are the worst. Another year it is hoped will witness a great improvement.

But he wishes to say that not the least love for figures leads to the work of this compilation. It would be mere drudgery were it not for the fact that it brings into one view the churches of our order; exhibits its strong and its weak places; shows faithfulness and unfaithfulness; points out duty, and warns against neglect. When the proposed Council meets next June, it will take cognizance of the strength, the duty, and the privileges of the nearly three thousand churches, and nearly three hundred thousand members, which constitute its constituency, to whom God is opening a field of usefulness unprecedented.

We have received, just too late for insertion in the tables, the report from CALIFORNIA. We insert it here for historical value; the very slight change it would have caused in the SUMMARIES must be omitted, except that we have made it in the number of churches and ministers in the columns just given above. A. H. Q.

OTHER MINISTERS: Rev. J. Rowell, Seamen's Chaplain; Revs. M. Kellogg and H. Durant, Professors in College of California; Rev. S. V. Blakeslee, Editor Pacific; Rev. Tyler Thatcher, Rev. J. P. Chamberlain, Rev. W. C. Bartlett, Rev. J. S. Zelie, and Rev. E. S. Lacy, absent from the State; Revs. J. A. Johnson and M. J. Savage, recently arrived.

SUMMARY.-CHURCHES: 5 with pastors; 12 with stated supplies; 4 vacant. Total, 21.

MINISTERS: 5 pastors; 12 stated supplies; 13 others. Total, 30.

CHURCH MEMBERS, etc., as above.

MONEYS CONTRIBUTED: $27,488.93 (14 churches) for current expenses; $38,662.14 (9 churches) for church building: $7,134.16 (12 churches) for charities.

VALUE OF CHURCH PROPERTY: $139,300 encumbered by debts amounting to $15,730.

LIST OF CONGREGATIONAL MINISTERS,

WITH THEIR LATEST KNOWN POST-OFFICE ADDRESS.

CONCERNING the following list, several things are to be noted:

1. The names of ministers found in the minutes of the several General Associations and Conferences are its basis; to which we have added only those others which come from reliable sources.

2. Licentiates are not ministers. Don't look for their names.

3. This list will often disagree with the foregoing tables, because we have corrected up to the latest moment.

4. This list is occasionally inaccurate. Where the same man is reported as living in three States at once, it requires more discernment than we possess to settle the difficulty. Nor do we know any thing except what comes by mail.

5. In searching for a name of various spellings, look at each form. All contracted names, like "Me," are arranged according to the contracted spelling.

6. In deciding between Presbyterian and Congregational character, a member of any ministerial or church body retains his denominational character, although acting as stated supply of a church of the other denomination; but a pastor is necessarily of the same denomination as his church. That is, we have tried to follow this rule, though we are very sure we have not always succeeded. A man can go from one denomination to the other; but no man can be a member of two denominations at once.

7. Send us notice of all mistakes.

8. We have erased from last year's, list 157, and have inserted 251 names. We ought to have had a hundred more. If your name is omitted, send us word, accompanied by a dollar and a half for the Quarterly for 1865!

Baldwin, Thomas, Plymouth, Vt.
Baldwin, William O., Johnsbury
East, Vt.

Balkam, Uriah, Lewiston, Me.
Ball, I. N., Grand Rapids, Wis.
Ballard, Addison, Williamstown, Ms.
Ballard, James,Grand Rapids, Mich.
Ballard, Josiah, Carlisle, Ms.
Bancroft, David, Prescott, Ms.
Barber, Alanson D., Williston, Vt.
Barber, Luther H., Scotland, Ct.
Barber, Wm. M., So. Danvers, Ms.
Barbour, Henry, London, ENG.
Barbour, Nelson, West Fairlee, Vt.
Bard, Geò. I., Lower Waterford, Vt.
Bardwell, D. Magee,Waukesha, Wis.
Bardwell, Horatio, Oxford, Ms.
Bardwell, J. P., Oberlin, 0.
Barker, Enoch, New Market, C. W.
Barker, D. R., Gray's Mills, Pa.
Barker, Nathaniel, Wakefield, N.II.
Barnard, Charles M., Neponset, Ill.
Barnard, Pliny F., Williamstown, Vt.
Barnard, Steph.A.,Willsboro', N.Y.
Barnes, Charles M., Neponset, Ill.
Barnes, E. S., Munnsville, N.Y.
Barnes, Jer. R., Marine, Min.
Barnes, Jona. E., Darien Depot, Ct.
Barnes, L. C., Mount Vernon, 0.
Barnes, N. H., Kiantone, N.Y.
Barney, James O., Seekonk, Ms.
Barnum, George, Medina, Mich.
Barnum, Samuel W., Stamford, Ct.
Barrett, M., New Haven, Ct.
Barris, Joseph S.,North Evans,N. Y.
Barrows, Elijah P., Andover, Ms.
Barrows, George W., Salisbury, Vt.
Barrows, Homer, Plaistow, N.H.
Barrows, John M., Olivet, Mich.
Barrows, M., Elizabethport, N. Y.
Barrows, S., Davenport, Io.
Barrows, William, Reading, Ms.
Barstow, Charles, Pitcher, N.Y.
Barstow, Zedekiah S., Keene, N. H.
Bartlett, Alexander, Conneaut, O.
Bartlett, Enoch N., Hamilton, Ill.
Bartlett, Francis, Coolville, O.
Bartlett, Joseph, Buxton, Me.
Bartlett, Lyman, Morristown, Vt.
Bartlett, Samuel C., Chicago, Ill.
Bartlett, Wm. A., Brooklyn, N. Y.
Bartlett, W. C., Santa Cruz, Cal.
Barton, A. S., Georgia, Vt.
Barton, Chas. B., Woodburn, Ill.
Barton, Fred. A., Indian Orchard,
Ms.

Barton, Walter, Amherst, Ms.
Bascom, E., Center, Wis.
Bascom, Flavel, Princeton, Ill.
Bascom, John, Williamstown, Ms.
Bassett, Edw. B., Westmoreland,
N. H.

Bassett, J., Neenah, Wis.

Bassett, William E., Warren, Ct.
Bates, Alvan J., Lincoln, Me.
Bates, Henry, Grass Lake, Mich.
Bates, James, Granby, Ms.
Bates, S. L., Underhill, Vt.
Bates, Philander, North Truro, Ms.
Batt, William J., Bedford, Ms.
Bayliss, Samuel, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Bayne, Thomas, Irasburg, Vt.
Baxter, Benjamin S., Bangor, Wis.
Beach, Aaron C., Millington, Ct.
Beach, L. B., Andover, O.
Beach, Nath'l, Little Compton, R.I.
Beals, David, Jr., Hartland, Ct.
Beaman, Charles C., Salem, Ms.
Beaman, Warren H., North Hadley,
Ms.

Bean, David M., South Malden, Ms.
Bean, Ebenezer, Grey, Me.
Beane, Phineas A., Hampden, 0.
Beane, Samuel, Norton, Ms.
Beard, Augustus F., Bath, Me.
Beard, Edwin S., Warren, Me.
Beard, Spencer F., Andover, Ms.

Beardsley, Bronson B., Bridgeport, Bliss, Thomas E., Memphis, Tenn.
Ct.
Beardsley, Nehemiah H., Somers, Ct
Beardsley, William, Wheaton, Ill.
Becker, George L., Powbattan, Kan.
Beebe, Hubbard, New Haven, Ct.
Beckwith, E. G., San Francisco, Cal.
Beckwith, Geo. C., Boston, Ms.
Beckwith, John H., Norfolk, N. Y.
Beckwith. T. D., Pierpont, O.
Beecher, Charles, Georgetown, Ms.
Beecher, Edward, Galesburg, Ill.
Beecher, Fred. W., Kankakee, Ill.
Beecher, Geo. H., Newton, Io.
Beecher, H. Ward, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Beecher, Thomas K., Elmira, N. Y.
Beecher, Wm. H., N. Brookfield, Ms.
Beechthold, A. H., Boston, Ms.
Beekman, J. C., St. Charles, Min.
Belden, Henry, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Belden, Wm. W., E. Attleboro', Ms.
Bell, Hiram, West Chester, Ct.
Bell, James M., Ashby, Mass.
Beman, Amos G., New Haven, Ct.
Bement, William, Elmira, N. Y.
Benedict, Lewis, Lawn Ridge, Ill.
Benedict, Thos. N., Cen. Lisle, N. Y.
Benedict, Wm. A., Plainfield, Ct.
Bennet, É. O., Crawfordsville, Io.
Bennett, H. S, Wakeman, 0.
Bennett, Joseph L., Lockport, N.Y.
Benson, Almon, Cent. Harbor, N.H.
Benson, Henry, Jamestown, N. Y.
Benson, Homer H., Beloit, Wis.
Bent, George, Burr Oak, Io.
Bent, Joseph A., Hoyleton, Ill.
Bentley, Charles, Willington, Ct.
Benton, John E., Folsom, Cal.
Benton, Jos. A., San Francisco, Cal.
Benton, Samuel A., Anamosa, Io.
Benton, William A., Mt. Lebanon,
SYRIA.

Bliss, Zenas, Amherst, Ms.
[R. I.
Blodgett, Constantine, Pawtucket,
Blodgett, Edw'd P., Greenwich, Ms.
Blood, Charles E., Wataga, Ill.
Bloodgood, Abraham L., New Hart-
ford, N.Y.

Berney, Daniel, Farmers, Mich.
Berry, Augustus, Pelham, N. H.
Bessom, Wm. H., Boston, Ms.
Bicknell, Simon S., Milton, Wis.
Bigelow, Andrew, Medfield, Ms.
Bigelow, Asahel, Hancock, N. H.
Bigelow, Warren, Mazeppa, Min.
Billings, Rich'd S., Shelburne, Ms.
Bingham, Hiram, New Haven, Ct.
Bingham, Joel S., East Boston, Ms.
Birchard, Wm. M., Collamer, Ct.
Bird, Isaac, Hartford, Ct.
Bird, William, Abeih, SYRIA.
Birge, E. G., Jericho, Vr.
Bisbee, John H., Worthington, Ms.
Biscoe, G. S., Cottage Grove, Min.
Biscoe, Thomas C., Grafton, Ms.
Bishop, Nelson, Windsor, Vt.
Bissell, Chas. H., Poquonnock, Ct.
Bissell, Edwin C.,Westhampton, Ms.
Bissell, Oscar, Dublin, N. H.
Bissell, Samuel B. S., Norwalk, Ct.
Bittinger, John Q., Yarmouth, Me.
Bixby, Solo'n, Westmoreland, N. II.
Blagden, Geo. W., Boston, Ms.
Blaisdell, Joshua J., Beloit, Wis.
Blake, D. Hoyt, Princeton, Ill.
Blake, Geo. H., Atkinson, Ill.
Blake, Henry B., Belchertown, Ms.
Blake, Jeremiah, Pittsfield, N. H.
Blake, Jos., Gilmanton, Cent., N. H.
Blake, Mortimer, Taunton, Ms.
Blakely, Quincy, Campton, N. H.
Blakeman, Phineas, Marseilles, Ill.
Blakeslee, S. V., San Francisco, Cal.
Blanchard, Amos, Lowell, Ms.
Blanchard, Amos, Meriden, N. H.
Blanchard, Edm'd II., Warwick, Ms.
Blanchard, Jona., Wheaton, Ill.
Blanchard, Silas M., Wentworth,

N. H.

Blanchard, Wm. S., Chicago, Ill.
Bliss, Asher, Corydon, Pa.
Bliss, Charles R., So. Reading, Ms.
Bliss Daniel, Beirût, SYRIA.

Blumer, Adam, Shakopee, Min.
Boardman, H. E., Nottingham, Io.
Boardman, Joseph, Pownal, Me.
Boardman, M. B., Lynnfield, Ms.
Bonney, John R., Batavia, Mich.
Bodwell, Joseph C., Woburn, Ms.
Bodwell, Lewis, Wyandotte, Kan.
Bond, Alvan, Norwich, Ct.
Bonney N. G., Peru, Ms.
Borden, Edwin, Saline, Mich.
Bordwell, D. N., Le Claire, Io.
Borland, T., Eau Claire, Wis
Bosworth, Q. M., Ridgeville, 0.
Boughton, J. J. F., Ransom, Mich.
Bourne, James R., Scarboro', Me.
Bourne, Shearjashub, Harlem, N.Y.
Boutelle, Asaph, Peacham, Vt.
Boutelle, Thomas, Fitchburg, Ms.
Bouton, Nath'l, Concord, N. H.
Boutwell, James, Sanbornton, N.H.
Boutwell, Wm. T., Stillwater, Min.
Bowker, Samuel, Bluehill, Me.
Bowker, Sam'l D., Newmarket, N.H.
Bowler, Geo. W., Westfield, Ms.
Bowler, Stephen L., Orono, Me.
Boyd, Chas. H., Mystic Bridge, Ct.
Boynton, Chas., Watertown, Wis.
Boynton, Chas. F., Fort Dodge, Io.
Boynton, John, Winthrop, Me.
Brace, Jonathan, Milford, Ct.
Brace, Seth E., New Haven, Ct.
Bradford, Dana B., Gilmanton Iron
Works, N.H.
Bradford, B. F., Niagara City, NY.
Bradford, Moses B.,McIndoe's Falls,
[N. H.
Bradford, Samuel C., Francestown,
Bradnack, B. R., Cambria, N.Y.
Bradshaw, John, Crown Point, N.Y.
Bragg, Jesse K., Sandwich, Ms.
Brainard, David S., Lyme, Ct.
Brainard, Timothy G., Halifax, Ms.
Braman, Milton P.,Auburndale, Ms.
Branch, Edwin T., Vernon, Mich.
Brastow, Levi O., St. Johnsbury, Vt.
Bray, John E., Brooklyn, N.Y.
Bray, William L., Aurora, III.
Breed, Charles C., New Rutland, Ill.
Breed, David, Attleboro', Ms.
Breed, Samuel D., Ypsilanti, Mich.
Breed, Wm. J, Brookline, Ms.
Bremner, David, Plymouth, Ms.
Brewer, James. Bristol, Ill.
Brewer, Josiah, Gt. Barrington, Ms.
Brewster, Cyrus, Readville, Ms.
Brewster, Wm. H., Cleaveland, O.
Brice, John G., Winchester, Ind.
Brickett, Harry, Hillsboro' Bridge,

Vt.

N. II.

Bridgeman, Lewis, Middlefield, Ms.
Bridgman, Chester, Ludlow, Ms.
Briggs, William N., Elyria, O.
Briggs, William T., Newbern, N.C.
Brigham, Chas. A. G., Enfield, Ct.
Brigham, David, Wauquoit, Ms.
Brigham, Levi, Saugus, Ms.
Brigham, Willard, Wendell, Ms.
Brinkerhoff, W. H., Providence, 0.
Brinsmade, Horatio N., Beloit, Wis.
Brintnall, Loren W.,Mallet Creek,
Bristol, Ira,

Bristol, Sherlock, Brandon, Wis.
Bristol, Richard C., Farmington, Ill.
Bronson, A., Ticonderoga, N.Y.
Bronson, George F., Kirtland, O.
Brooks, Chas., Newburyport, Ms.
Brooks, Edw. F., Mansfield, Ct.
Bross, H., Carandaigua, Mich.
Broughton, Nathaniel II., East and
West Bridgewater, Ms.