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THE PACIFIC DISTRICT. 
Wisconsin, Fox River, Rortli Micliigan, Canada,. 
Kentucky, Tennessee, and Parkersburg. The 
General Conference added Osage Conference ta 
the list, which, was organized by Bishop Dick- 
son in April, 1870, with twenty-one preachers. It 
includes in its territory a portion of southern 
Missouri, and southern Kansas. But Korth 
Michigan Conference was made self-supporting, 
and denominated Michigan Conference, and the 
hitherto Michigan Conference was now named 
^^Korth Ohio Conference.’’ Thus the Board 
commenced the quadrennial term with twelve 
mission-conferences. In these conferences, and 
independent or detached missions, it employed 
eighty-seven missionaries, and three in the foreign 
work. There were also employed by the confer- 
ences on home fields, one hundred and ninety- 
three missionaries, making an aggregate of two 
hundred and eighty-three missionaries employed 
by the Church. These missionaries received an 
average salary of $294.63. This included all that 
was paid them by the missionary society, and the 
fields which they served. It can not be claimed 
that our missionaries work only for money. There 
is, perhaps, no equal number of men in the world 
who do so much work for so little pay. 
The bishops’ address at this General Confer- 
ence showed that there were 89,811 members con- 
