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The New Dominion
Morgantown, Monongalia County, West Virginia
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Rev. George C. Wilding reflects on the growth of the Methodist conference in West Virginia since 1872, highlighting increases in members, churches, parsonages, Sunday schools, benevolent collections, and pastoral salaries.
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Rev. George C. Wilding, D. D., in writing to the M. E. Times says:
Last evening as I was studying your recent copy of minutes, thanks to your kind secretary, my mind was filled with romantic memories of twenty-five years ago in West Virginia. How the conference has grown since I went to my first circuit in the mountains of Nicholas, in the spring of 1872. Since then fifty of your heroes have gone up to their coronation. Then you had less than 29,000 members and probationers. Now there are more than 52,000. Then you owned 336 churches and 34 parsonages, worth, all told, only $500,000. Now you possess 636 churches and 129 parsonages, worth $1,066,000. Then you had 383 Sunday schools with 18,000 scholars in them. Now there are 787 schools, containing 46,000 scholars. Then your entire benevolent collections amounted to but $5,000. Last year they aggregated the handsome sum of $18,000. Then you paid your pastors and presiding elders but $60,000; now it amounts to $91,000, and many more have parsonages than they used to. The gain in rentals would push this salary figure far above $100,000.
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West Virginia
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Spring Of 1872
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growth from less than 29,000 members and probationers to more than 52,000; from 336 churches and 34 parsonages worth $500,000 to 636 churches and 129 parsonages worth $1,066,000; from 383 sunday schools with 18,000 scholars to 787 with 46,000; benevolent collections from $5,000 to $18,000; pastoral and elder payments from $60,000 to $91,000 plus rentals exceeding $100,000; fifty heroes deceased.
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Rev. George C. Wilding recalls the Methodist conference's expansion in West Virginia since his first circuit in Nicholas mountains in spring 1872, based on recent minutes, noting romantic memories and statistical growth over twenty-five years.