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'■/ DECEHASE IN NUMB2E. By-TeleeraDh—Frees Association—Copyright London, April 17.Tho Wesleyans in England number 488,595, a decrease of 2267 for the year. [A decline was reported in the. statistics for Methodism last year,., but it was pointed out that the figures were quite misleading . from a. very simple cause, which operates again, in the lease of the present figures. The Rev. T. Fee, ; who was consulted on the point last evening, explained that the olass meeting was formerly a great institution of Methodism; and it was then; the rule to put members on the church roll who had joined the class. But the class nieetingi, which used, to be the test of' ohuroh membership, has been falling into disuse, and bj&nies are not added to the church, rolls in the old matineT. No new system of enrolment has. been adopted, and a great many people who ought to be counted as members according to the testa of other churches are not included in the membership totals. "In short," said Mr. Fee, "the test of membership is in a chootio state. The annual statistics quoted do not indicate any decadence in the ohuroh at alii-"]
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 795, 19 April 1910, Page 5
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195ENGLISH WESLEY ANS. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 795, 19 April 1910, Page 5
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