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THE PACIFIC DISTRICT, 
CHAPTER VI. 
Increase in Numbers — Improvement in Book-keeping — Finan- 
cial Bxhibit of Twenty Years — Sixteenth General Conference, 
in Dayton, Ohio. 
If the reader has scrutinized the foregoing 
tables, he has been impressed with two conclu* 
sions of great importance. The first is that the 
United Brethren Church has steadily increased 
ever since the organization of the missionary 
society, if not at a rapid, yet creditable and reli- 
able rate. In some localities the progress has 
been quite slow; in others there has been an 
actual decline; but in the aggregate the increase 
has been much more noticeable and permanent 
than it was prior to 1853. The second conclusion 
is, that while the Churoh has increased rapidly in 
numbers, wealth, and benevolent contributions, 
she has also advanced in the art of book-keeping, 
and collecting, systematizing, preserving, and pub- 
lishing statistics. Of course, the reader must not 
think that all the increase and improvement the 
Church has made in the last two decades is wholly 
