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Show The decrease in their numbers, as ! shown by atatiitic?, atirprtcs and alarm the British ffealeyana. Though upwards o( oO.OX) new members mem-bers were received last year, there it a net decrease ol S.30S, which U shared by nearly all. the districts. The agricultural sections and manu facturing centres show me largest losses. Emigration on account of financial depression and etrifces, is regarded as the chief cause of the falling 08. The Wesleyana continue their activity in London, where, in twenty years, they have built chapels enough to bring their church r.ccom modation from 40,000 sittings to 100,000. |