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THE PACIFIC DISTRICT. 
The foregoing table shows that the annual con- 
ferences, instead of diminishing their eftorts in 
the home work by the assistance they gave to the 
frontier and foreign fields, were actually quickened 
into far greater activity, thus verifying the prov- 
erb, ^^The liberal soul shall be made fat: ^nd he 
that watereth shall be watered also himself.” 
The bishops’ address to the conference showed 
that there were now 449 itinerant and 417 local 
preachers, in all 866. The membership of the 
Church had swelled to 61,399, an increase of 
6,044 members in one year, and a gain in the four 
years of 11,399. There were now twenty-two 
annual conferences, a gain of eight in four years. 
Such is a statement of the condition and pros- 
pects of the United Brethren Church, in its home 
and foreign mission-work in May, 1857. 
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