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THE PACIFIC DISTRICT. 
Lisbon, Iowa, commencing May 12th, 1881. Forty- 
five annual confereimes elected delegates to this 
body. Of these, fourteen were mission-confer- 
ences. In their quadrennial address the bishops 
gave the following statements and statistics: 
Members 
Increase 
Houses of worship 
Increase 
Number in Sabbath-schools.*. 
159,362 
18,486 
2,242 
333 
189,714 
MISSIONS. 
In the past four years the prospects of our 
foreign missions have very greatly improved. 
Germany, first a very discouraging field, has be- 
come a very hopeful one. The Lord has raised 
up several indefatigable German itinerants to 
assist our devoted pioneer missionaries, and the 
field is wide open and ready for the harvest. Rev. 
D. K. Flickinger, acting under the direction of 
the Executive Committee, organized a mission- 
district in Germany in December, 1879, with six 
ministers, and another in Africa early in 1880 
with the same number of ministers. Our work 
in Africa, under a most faithful band of mission- 
aries, includes about fifty towns. 
The Woman’s Missionary Association of the 
Church has begun quite hopeful missions in the 
foreign field — at Rotufunk in Africa and at 
