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THE PACIFIC DISTEICT. 
Walla and Soutliern Illinois were the only ones 
of the conferences that had no delegates present. 
Of the forty-seven conferences in the Church six- 
teen were mission-conferences, nearly all of which 
were in the far W est. 
The bishops’ address, a very able one, contained 
the following important facts and figures: 
Members 168,573 
Traveling preachers 
lyocal preachers 920 
Houses of worship 2,454 
Value of church-property 13,603,251 00 
Preachers’ salary 1,588,853 27 
Paid for all purposes 3 > 342 , 7^9 36 
Sabbath-schools 3,228 
Scholars 195,022 
Another encouraging and important fact is the 
report related to our foreign mission-work. They 
say, ^‘In 1883 the American Missionary Associa- 
tion transferred to our Board of Missions the 
Mendi Mission on the west coast of Africa, which 
has greatly enlarged our field of operation on that 
dark continent. Including the YComan’s Mis- 
sionary Association of the Church, we now occupy 
320 towns with a membership of 1,547; and from 
2,000 to 2,500 people. Sabbath after Sabbath? 
receive instruction in the divine word from- the 
lips of the forty consecrated preachers and teach- 
ers who are now in. that field. 
