THE PACIFIC DISTRICT. 
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Let us recapitulate. In 1853 the United Breth- 
ren Church numbered fifty thousand communi- 
cants, and probably four hundred itinerant and 
three hundred local preachers. These figures are 
as nearly correct as can be now obtained. These 
members and ministers are included in fourteen 
annual conferences. But, as already shown, four 
new conferences were set apart at this time; name- 
ly, the Ohio German, the Michigan, the Au- 
glaize, and the Oregon. But these new confer- 
ences did not increase the number of members or 
ministers, all of whom were included in the pre- 
vious reckoning. 
Such is a brief statement of the numbers in the 
United Brethren Church in 1853. 
Of the Home, Frontier, and Foreign Mission- 
ary Society, J. J. Glossbrenner, senior bishop of 
the Church, was elected president; Rev. J. H. 
Kumler, jr.. Rev. D. Edwards, and Rev. L. Davis, 
vice-presidents; Rev. J. C. Bright, corresponding 
secretary; Rev. John Kemp, jr., treasurer; Rev. 
Wm. Longstreet, Rev. D. Shuck, T. K. Sowers, 
Esq., Rev. D. B. Crouse, and John Dodds, Esq., 
manager or the Board of Directors. 
