Nor having received the Annual Report of the Superintendent of the Mission in South America, it is not practicable to present so complete a statement of the progress of the work during the year, and its condition at the present time, as is desirable, and as the Church has a right to expect.

The following facts, reported by Dr. Goodfellow at the close of the third quarter of the year 1866, present a synopsis of the work as it existed three months since:

BUENOS AYRES CITY.-The services of Rev. J. W. Shank have been added to my own during nearly all this quarter. But an absence on his part in the country for three weeks, and my own illness for more than twice that time, have been in the way of the full work of two men. There is no abatement of any kind to be reported in any department of our work, but rather an improveOur congregation, in favorable weather, fills the house. Attendance at prayer-meeting and class-meeting has improved, and we have an increase of both teachers and scholars in Sundayschool.

During about two months of the quarter we have held two prayer-meetings a week, in addition to the two of our regular custom, and for two weeks we held a service every night in the church. These services proved highly profitable to the Church.

In numbers, we have to report as follows: Members, 92; probationers, 44-total, 136. Of these, 55 reside outside of the city, the nearest being one league away, and the furthest eighty-two leagues.

In Sunday-school, average number of scholars 90, officers and

teachers 19, number of Bible-classes 1, number of scholars in infant class 30, copies of Sunday-School Advocate taken 40, number of conversions 8.

During the quarter we have held one service a day, whenever practicable, on board a ship in the harbor, and also in the village of Barracas, about one league out of the city. We can report nothing now about the permanency of this arrangement, but we shall make a fair experiment with these places.

FIRST METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN BUENOS AYRES, S. A. Dedicated January 3, 1848. Just the size of the first Methodist Episcopal Church in North America, at John-street, New York, forty-two by sixty feet.

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W. H. Norris, New York Conference, appointed 1842.

"D. D. Lore, D.D., New Jersey Conference, appointed 1846. "G. D. Carrow, D.D., Philadelphia Conference, appointed 1858. W. Goodfellow, D.D., Rock River Conference, appointed 1857. BUENOS AYRES CIRCUIT.-Rev. Francis N. Lett continues to occupy this work, with six regular preaching places, and one occasional. The more effectually to organize this work, Brother Shank made the tour of the circuit in July, administering the sacraments where it was desirable, and in one place organizing a class of three members and seven probationers. The former are included in our report of members for the city, but the probationers are not. The appointments are widely scattered, being from five to twelve leagues apart, and there are grouped at these six places in all

sixty-five Protestant families. But few of these are of our own communion, but they all welcome us cordially. Within the same bounds, ministers of the English and of the Scotch Established Churches visit and preach. We have in the circuit in all eleven members and nine probationers; total, twenty.

ROSARIO.-Rev. Thomas Carter has gathered some fruit of his careful and incessant toil at this place. Three persons are regarded as converted during this quarter, and they have joined our Church on probation. The continual increase of English speaking people is correspondingly increasing the congregation. The Sunday-school has about twenty scholars, and the day-school has forty. Rosario has contributed this year five hundred dollars silver toward the support of our Church there.

METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH AT ROSARIO, PROVINCE OF SANTA FE.

Size, 50 by 40 feet, with a school-room 15 by 80 feet; width of house 30 feet, whole length 55 feet. Dedicated November 13, 1865.

MINISTER-Rev. Thomas Carter, New York Conference, appointed in 1863.

FRAILE MUERTO.-During the quarter Brother Carter has visited and preached at Fraile Muerto, distant one hundred and twenty miles, and now reached by railroad, where there is a very extensive settlement of English speaking people.

A settlement of Californians has been commenced on the border of the Indian territory, to whom we must soon go to preach. The colony is not yet six months old; but they have bought about four

hundred and fifty square miles of land, and expect by themselves and other settlers to occupy it.

ESPERANZA.-Rev. D. F. Sauvain is stationed at this Swiss colony among a Protestant population of about five hundred souls, and he preaches once each Sunday in German and once in French, and during the week he conducts a school in both languages for the children of his charge. The government has agreed to aid the school with $25 Bolivian currency per month, (about $20 silver.) The Church is arranged for school as well as for divine service, and under the same roof is the parsonage. The German portion of the community is the most numerous, and in fair weather they fill the house at worship. Brother Sauvain very much needs an assistant. He also preaches once a month at the city of Santa Fé. At the latter place there is much needed a man to begin preaching and teaching a school.

SAN CARLOS.-Rev. Theophilus Weigle continues at this Swiss colony, where there are about three hundred Protestant persons. We occupy as church, school-house, and parsonage, the old Roman Catholic Church. Brother Weigle is a German, but has lately begun to preach in French also. The people are poor, but would aid to their utmost if we deemed it timely to build.

These last two places are in the province of Santa Fé, and within thirty miles of the city of that name.

VILLA DE URQUIZA.-Rev. J. J. Rau supplies this place. He has received license to preach from our quarterly conference, but an ordained man is much needed at that place. There are about two hundred Protestants at that colony. It is in the province of Entre Rios, about six leagues above the city of Paraná, on the banks of the Paraná River. A house for worship is greatly needed there, and we are about to build. We have obtained over $1,300 silver for the object, and we hope to erect a house convenient for all our purposes, including residence, for about $1,700 silver. Brother Rau preaches in German, and conducts a school.

CORDOBA.-Mr. John Beveridge, a layman, conducts a school in Cordoba, the capital of the province of that name, and he organized a Sunday-school on the first Sunday in August. He distributes tracts and books, and visits among the people. Cordoba

is above all others in this country the strong hold of Jesuitism. Within a year it will be in railroad connection with Rosario, and thence by steamer with this city. It is to us the most important point now unoccupied, and the most difficult one to fill well.

VARIOUS PLACES.-At AZUL, Rev. H. R. Nicholson, a local elder, preaches to his family, and to his neighbors, at his own

Dedicated November 20, 1865.

METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN ESPERANZA, PROVINCE OF SANTA FE. Front of whole building, 54 feet; depth of wing, for residence, 44 feet; width of dwelling, 24 feet; church and schoolroom, 24 feet by 44. MINISTERS.-John Andres, a layman, authorized to preach, appointed April, 1864; Rev. D. F. Sauvain, a local elder, appointed April, 1866