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owing to tlie efibrts of the missionary society. 
The colleges have exerted a vast influence, both 
in adding to. the sum total of the intelligence of 
the Church, and the spirit of beneflcence, that 
have surpassed the highest expectations of the 
most sanguine. But making due allowance for 
the influence of the colleges, the Printing Estab- 
lishment, and other agencies not necessary to 
mention, it still remains true that the missionary 
society has, under the blessing of God, wrought 
an untold and incalculable amount of good, both 
in the work of evangelization itself, and in culti- 
vating the graces of a Christian character on the 
part of the membership at large. 
The sixteenth General Conference, which met 
in May, 1873, in Dayton, Ohio, was the largest 
ecclesiastical body ever assembled in the denom- 
ination. There were forty-two organized annual 
conferences in the connection at this date. . Of 
this number, thirty-eight were represented by dele- 
gates on the floor of the General Conference; 
namely, Alleghany, Auglaize, Canada, Central 
Illinois, Colorado, East Des Moines, East German, 
East Pennsylvania, Erie, Fox Piver, Illinois, In- 
diana, Iowa, Kansas, Lower Wabash, Miami, 
Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Muskingum, 
l^brth Iowa, Korth Ohio, Ohio German, Oregon, 
Osage, Parkersburg, Pennsylvania, Rock River, 
