THE PACIFIC DISTEICT. 
91 
and for missions |1,078.02. These figures show 
real growth. Kansas is destined to become the 
stronghold of the United Brethren Church west 
of the Mississippi River 
MINNESOTA CONFERENCE. 
This conference was set apart by the General 
Conference in May of 1857, and organized by 
Bishop L. Davis in the autumn of the same year. 
It had three itinerants at that time; namely. Rev. 
J. W. Fulkerson, Rev. E. Clow, and Rev. John 
Haney, and a membership of nearly two hundred. 
A scarcity of laborers was then,. and always has 
been, the crying want of Minnesota Confer- 
ence. Nevertheless, we have always had a few 
earnest and most faithful itinerants in that new 
and fiourishing state, notwithstanding the severity 
of the climate and the tendency of the people to 
Congregationalism. 
It now numbers twenty-five preachers and 996 
members. It has paid to its ministers in 1885, 
$3,356.76, and $231.37 to the cause of missions. 
It has made slow but substantial progress. 
WISCONSIN CONFERENCE. 
The first mission-work in the State of Vv^iscon- 
sin by the United Brethren Church was begun by 
ministers from Illinois, chief among them Rev. 
James Davis. The General Conference of 1857, 
