THE PACIFIC DISTRICT. 
89 
Missions, |1, 709.43. But the infant conference 
had already paid to the Board of Missions and to 
their own missionaries $1,076.57, so that, as a 
matter of fact, Canada Conference had only 
cost the Board $633.43! It now had a member- 
ship of 400. 
This conference has increased to 1,113 members 
and sixteen ministers, and paid to her preachers,, 
in 1884, $3,260.48, and $638.60 to the cause of 
missions. 
KANSAS CONFERENCE. 
Rev. S. S. Snyder and Rev. John Gingerich of; 
Alleghany and Rev. W. A. Cardwell of White 
River Conference, were the first missionaries 
sent to this fair young territory. Having a 
mild climate, a soil of unsurpassed fertility, and 
immigrants pouring into it by the thousand, it was 
supposed to be a very inviting missionary field. 
Alas for human expectations! It proved for 
several years to be the theater of strife and blood- 
shed. It was not yet determined whether it should 
be a free or a slave state. The immigrants from 
the South were resolved that its fair plains should 
be set apart for the expansion and rapid growth 
of the peculiar institution,^^ as slavery was fondly 
termed by the South, and the immigrants from 
the Horth were equalh^ determined that this noble 
territory should be consecrated to freedom. 
