In the year 1639, Mr. Williams formed the first Baptist Church in America, at Providence. Throughout succeeding years, few changes comparatively were experienced in the movements of the Baptist denomination on this vast continent. Baptist Churches multiplied exceedingly, until they assumed a leading attitude among the religious communities of America. They have amply provided for an efficient and learned ministry, and the extraordinary revivals with which they have been frequently favored, invest them with a moral strength and glory which cannot be contemplated but with astonishment and admiration.

The following TABLE, from Allen's "Triennial Baptist Register," for 1836, exhibits the statistics of the Regular Baptists in the United States, in a perspicuous light:

The Regular Baptists in the United States, have six Colleges, and twenty-eight Theological Institutions, Academies, Seminaries; Manual Labor, and other Schools. Their number of foreign missions, is 23; stations, 34; 132 missionaries, 21 churches; 28 schools, with about 1000 scholars. These missionary establish

ments are principally in Asia, and among the Indians, in North America.

In 1835, the Baptist General Tract Society distributed more than seven millions of pages; for which, and other benevolent objects, $87,348 were expended.

In UPPER CANADA, there are four associations of Regular Baptists, 49 churches, 46 ministers, and 2515 members. In Nova ScoTIA, there is one Association, 33 churches, 29 ministers, and 4610 members. In NEW BRUNSWICK, one Association, 22 churches, 15 ministers.

In England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, there are about 920 Baptist Churches, and 120,000 members. The number of Baptist communicants, in all parts of the world, is estimated at 700,000. That part of the population of the United States, who have manifested a preference to the Baptist sentiments, is estimated at about four millions.

Among the popular and valuable weekly publications of the Baptist denomination, in the United States, we can only mention Zion's Advocate, Portland, Me.; New Hampshire Baptist Register, Concord, N. H.; Vermont Telegraph, Brandon, Vt.; Christian Watchman, Boston, Ms.; Christian Secretary, Hartford, Ct.; American Baptist, New York; Baptist Register, Utica, N. Y.; The Witness, Pittsburg, Pa.; Religious Herald, Richmond, Va.; Southern Baptist, Charleston, S. C.; Cross and Baptist Journal, Cincinnati, Ohio; Baptist Banner, Shelbyville, Ky.; and Pioneer, Upper Alton, Il.

NOTE C.-CALVINISTS.

The following TABLE shows the number of Calvinistic Churches, &c. in the New England States: Besides these, there are many others not belonging to any Conference or Association, and which cannot be enumerated. There is a large number of Congregational Calvinistic Churches in the State of New York; some in most of the other States and Territories, and a considerable number in the British Provinces, but their statistics cannot, at present, be given:

The Orthodox Congregationalists and Presbyterians publish a great number of periodicals. Among those that appear weekly, are: The Christian Mirror, Portland, Me.; New Hampshire Observer, Concord, N. H.; Vermont Chronicle, Windsor, Vt.; Boston Recorder, and the New England Spectator, Boston, Ms.; Connecticut Observer, Hartford, Ct.; New York Evangelist, and the New York Observer, New York; Western Recorder, Utica, N. Y.; The Presbyterian, and the Philadelphian, Philadelphia, Pa.; Christian Herald, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Southern Religious Telegraph, Richmond, Va.; Charleston Observer, Charleston, S. C.; Millennial Trumpeter, Nashville, Tenn. The population of the Calvinistic Congregational Churches in the United States is estimated at 1,300,000.

NOTE D.-CHRISTIAN CONNEXION.

This connexion has three religious periodicals, viz: The Christian Palladium, Union Mills, N. Y.; Christian Journal, Exeter, N. H.; and the Christian Messenger, Jacksonville, Ill.

NOTE E.-DISCIPLES OF CHRIST.

The Editor has been obligingly permitted to copy this article from Fessenden & Co.'s edition of Brown's Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge; a splendid volume of great value, containing 1275 royal octavo pages.

The Disciples of Christ publish several monthly papers, among which are, the Millennial Harbinger, Bethany, Va.; and the Evangelist, Carthage, Ohio.

The Millennial Harbinger, edited by Alexander Campbell, contains a full developement of the rise and progress of this denomination.

NOTE F.-EPISCOPALIANS.

Although Episcopalians were found among the first settlers of nearly all the provinces, which have since formed the United States, yet the number was few in most places, compared with those of other denominations, which, as Bishop White very justly observes, may be accounted for, from the circumstance of the dissatisfaction of the Dissenters, and the contentment of Churchmen, with the ecclesiastical establishment at home.

When the revolutionary war began, there were not more than about eighty parochial clergymen of the English Church to the Northward and Eastward of Maryland, and they derived the greater part of their subsistence from the English society, for the propagation of the gospel in foreign parts. In Maryland and Virginia, the Episcopal Church was much more numerous, and had legal establishments for its support. The inconvenience of depending on the

mother church for ordination, and the want of an internal episcopacy was long and severely felt by the American Episcopalians. But their petitions for an episcopate of their own, were long resisted by their superiors in England; and their opponents in this country objected to the measure, from an apprehension that bishops from England would of course bring with them an authority which would interfere with the civil institutions of this country, and be prejudicial to the people of other communions. But after the United States became independent of Great Britain, a new difficulty arose on the part of English bishops; they could not consistently depart from their own stated forms of ordination, and these contained political tests, inconsistent for American citizens to subscribe. Dr. Lowth, then bishop of London, obtained an act of Parliament, allowing him to dispense with requisitions of this sort. Before this act was passed, Dr. Seabury of Connecticut, was consecrated at Aberdeen, by the non-juring Bishops of Scotland, and not long after, Dr. White, of Philadelphia, Dr. Provost, of New York, and Dr. Madison, of Virginia, were consecrated by the English archbishops. The following TABLE contains the statistics of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States.

Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island, form one Diocese, and have one Bishop. Indiana and Missouri have one Bishop. There are about as many congregations as ministers.

The Episcopalian population in the United Sates is about 600,000. There are two Dioceses in the British Provinces; one at Quebec, with Episcopal jurisdiction in Upper and Lower Canada; and one at Halifax, with Episcopal jurisdiction in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland, and Bermudas. In each Diocese there is a Bishop. The number of churches, clergymen and members is not known.

The following are some of the most valuable weekly publications of the Episcopalians: The Christian Witness, Boston, Ms.; Churchman, New York; Gospel Messenger, Auburn, N. Y.; Episcopal Recorder, Philadelphia, Pa.; Gambier Observer, Gambier, Ohio; Church Advocate, Lexington, Ky.

NOTE G.-FREE-WILL BAPTISTS.

The Morning Star, a valuable religious and miscellaneous paper, is issued weekly, at Dover, N. H. We copy the following statistical TABLE, and other information, from the Free-Will Baptist Register, for 1836, published by DAVID MARKS, Dover, N. H.