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THE PACIFIC DISTRICT. 
The reader will observe that the Columbus, 
Ohio, German Church had cost to this date 
$3,269.02. Ill addition to this, a neat little house 
of worship had been built on Town Street, chiefly 
through the aid of moneys gathered by Ex-bishop 
Kumler, who collected for this purpose $1,308.00. 
Ill 1871 the Board of Missions passed the fol- 
lowing resolution: 
AY e congratulate the Cliurch upon the grati- 
fying fact that the debt of this church has been 
paid, for which we are mainly indebted, under 
God, to the indefatigable and almost gratuitous 
labors of our venerable and beloved brother, 
Henry Kumler, as well as to the friends in the 
places where he visited. We hereby tender to 
God our thanksgiving, and to the persons named 
our sincere thanks. We recommend an appro- 
priation of $600. Adopted.^’ 
A class of believers was organized, and a good 
Sabbath-school was in successful operation. Rev. 
F. List was the pastor at this period. 
‘ Soon after, some secret-society men were re- 
ceived into the church; and in ejecting them the 
authorities ejected the church itself! So that the 
Board at its meeting in 1872, one brief year, 
passed the following: 
The prospects of success at Columbus, Ohio, 
are far from encouraging; yet we do not willingly 
