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recommend the ahaiidonment of this field, and 
would submit the propriety of continuing or dis- 
continuing it to the Executive Committee.’’ 
At this session the corresponding secretary said : 
This work (the Columbus German) was discon- 
tinued soon after our last meeting, and the min- 
ister transferred to another mission, we continuing 
to pay him till the close of the year last March. 
The church is rented to a sister denomination. 
The Ohio German Conference at its late session 
instructed the trustees not to sell said property un- 
less they could get its full value. Our English 
brethren in the city say that our prospects are more 
favorable now for the successful prosecution of that 
work than formerly, and urge that it be resumed. 
This paragraph might have been abbreviated 
by saying our German work in Columbus was a 
failure. Comment is unnecessary. The church 
was sold shortly afterward to the Evangelical 
Association, who have built up a fiourishing con- 
gregation out of the materials we failed to mold 
and use. The Oliio German brethren used the 
money to build churches elsewhere. I record this 
to show that failures must be expected occasionally 
in this as well as in other good works, and, if pos- 
sible, help our people to avoid committing simi- 
lar mistakes in other localities. 
The eighteenth General Conference was held at 
