Eastern Times

American Methodism.-The Zion's Herald in a review of the progress of Methodism in this country, remarks, that in the short space of eighty-seven years it has built four thousand two hundred and twenty churches, which is a little less than one for every week of her existence, at a cost of $14,730,571. It has also erected and endowed its colleges and numerous academies with large sums.— It has built innumerable parsonages, and supplied itself with church and Sabbath school literature. Now, most of these churches have been newly erected, re-built, or remodelled, and most of these vast outlays having been made within the last quarter of a century, we think it no exaggeration to estimate the expenditures of Methodism in the U. S., for home purposes, at an average very little short of $1,000,000 per annum for the last twenty-five years, in addition to that, it has paid for the support of its ministry.