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THE PACIFIC DISTRICT. 
maiiitaiiied its existence, but its growth was ratner 
sloWo A.t the meeting of the General Conference 
in 1861, its statistics showed that it had eight 
classes and 135 members, five Sabbath-schools and 
160 scholars. A lack of laborers appears to have 
been the chief cause of delay in the hfebraska 
mission-work. 
The tables following will give the reader a 
better understanding of the missionary society’s 
operations in the frontier than could otherwise be 
obtained. 
The htew England mission was projected, and 
thus far supported, by Sandusky Conference for 
several years. On the 7th of February, ,1859, 
Bishop Davis dedicated the first United Brethren 
chapel ill Alassachusetts., 
It is difiicult to obtain reliable statistics at this 
date. 
The field of labor which was occupied as a 
mission one year became self-supporting the next, 
and was dropped from the list of missions,” and 
the field served as a circuit one year was divided 
the next, thus making two missions, or one self- 
supporting work and one mission. All, therefore^ 
that can be done toward showing the statistics of 
the home work, is to give the aggregates as pub- 
lished by the bishops at the general conferences ; 
and, on the whole this may be more sa-tisfactory 
