APPENDIX.

PIKE'S PEAK AND CHERRY CREEK.

The immense numbers crowding, one year since, from the states and territories to the newly discovered mining regions at the eastern base of the Rocky Mountains, attracted the attention of the authorities of our Church. Many of them were known to be of our communion. Those would need the ministry and ordinances of religion. Religious instruction and influences would be needed in the forming stages of the new community; or without it vice must prevail, society prove lawless, and many precious souls be lost. So reasoned our bishops. Application was accordingly made by one of their number to the Missionary Board at New York for a special appropriation from the con.tingent fund to enable them to make immediate provision for the wants of the new region. The request was readily granted to the amount of $2,000.

Still, little was known of the real condition of the country. Conflicting reports were daily arriving. "How many missionaries shall be sent?" "To' what points?" "With what instructions?" were questions not easily settled. It was therefore determined by the bishop having charge, to send out one who should visit the country, make a thorough exploration, ascertain its real condition and wants, and, on his return, present to the bishops and General Mission Committee such a report as would enable them to act understandingly in making provision for a permanent supply of that field; a plan which had previously been adopted with success in the occupancy of other new fields. The undersigned, a member of Kansas and Nebraska Conference, within whose bounds the proposed mission was to be, was appointed to make the exploration; and Rev. J. Adriance, of the same conference, was appointed to accompany him, and to remain during the year in such portion of the field as might be assigned him.

As early as practicable we started for the mines, were favored with a pleasant trip over the plains, and arrived in good season. The fields were found "already white to harvest." Never before, in all my frontier experience, did I enter upon a field so imperiously demanding immediate attention. We visited the principal points in the mountains and in the valley, preached to large and solemn congregations, administered the ordinances of religion, and realized much of the Divine presence and blessing. Societies were formed; two mission fields were organized and supplied, quarterly meetings held, and a firm foundation, we trust, laid for our future work. Arrangements were entered into contemplating the early erection of temporary houses of worship in several of the principal towns. Opportunities were afforded of considerable intercourse with the leading men of the country, and a strong disposition was found manifested to lay the foundation of the rising community upon the basis of morals and religion. My work done, I returned; met the General Committee and Board at New York, and was happy to find a cordial readiness to make sufficient provision for the supply of this inviting field. And before this Annual Report shall meet the eye of the Church there will probably be a full force on their way to the mines, to meet the wants of the members now there, and the vast multitudes that will flock to this land of gold in the spring.

A vast field is here opened up, requiring the watch-care, and guardianship of the missionary society till time is allowed for its development; a field which promises not only to be self-supporting, but largely remunerative. Should the discovery of gold continue, and the mines prove permanently productive, it requires no stretch of credulity to suppose that, as early as 1864, a Rocky Mountain Annual Conference will be formed midway the great desert separating the mighty east and west. These Alpine solitudes will resound with praise; "the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and the people shall flow unto it."

January 16, 1860.

WM. H. GOODE, Superintendent.

AFRICA.

BISHOP BURNS wrote us under date of November 24, 1859, that the year just closing had been a year of revivals in most of the sta tions. We hope they have left an influence behind them that will greatly contribute to the extension of the Church and the increased depth of her acquaintance with the vitality and powers of Christ's great salvation.

Missionary Movement:-The dry season is here, and with its first approach the brethren are starting on tours of exploration and missionary labor among the natives.

Brother Matthews has gone on a two or three weeks' tour among the Veys, with power to do what may be needful for beginning in earnest to give them the Gospel.

Brother Roberts will leave in a week or more to spend a month or so among the Golahs, with authority to act as the times may demand, to establish a mission among them.

Brother Thompson is doing the same in the Kroo country.

Talk of retrenchment! This staying within hearing of the ocean's waves will be the death of us! Christianity, in order to preserve its vitality among any people, requires expansion, and we must spread or die.

ITEMS.

IN 1850, when appropriations were made, California and Oregon were reckoned as Foreign Missions.

In 1850, Germans, Swedes, French, and Indians, all came under one head as Foreign Populations.

Of the OFFICERS and LAY MANAGERS who commenced the ten years' service with us, five "are not," having "fallen asleep;" and five have removed from the city. Twelve have continued to go in and out among us unto this day as faithful, effective laborers, as some of them have been from the very beginning of the society.

At this present writing, but three of the original committee to whom it was submitted to organize this society, remain in the body, namely: Rev. Dr. N. Bangs, Rev. Bishop Soule, and Rev. Dr. Laban Clark. Happy men! their great conception, though but the "least of all seeds" at the beginning, has broken the earth and spread abroad, and many take rest under the shadow of what is now as the cedars of Lebanon.

The following tabular views of the progress of the missionary cause from 1849 to January 1, 1860, including ten years, have been prepared by Rev. D. Terry, the Recording Secretary of the Board.

66

1859..... 104,159

6,650

Totals

45,750 12,375 84,235 $833,842 $107,830 $430,100 $176,750 $826,623

Appropriated for Missions, under the care of the several Annual Conferences, (which is our home work proper,) from May, 1850, to January, 1860, inclusive.....

For Foreign Missions same time.....

$1,541,303 $833,842

The above appropriations do not include the expenditure of the contingent fund of $10,000 per annum, granted to the Board by the constitution to meet unforeseen emergencies; nor incidental expenses,

as printing, etc., nor the expenses of the office of administration, but only the direct appropriations to missions specifically by the General Missionary Committee.

The appropriations for 1860 are included in the above, but not yet expended. The table of receipts include the receipts only up to January 1, 1860.

"According to this time it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What

1849.

hath God wrought?"

THEN AND NOW.

1859.

Receipts of the Treasurer..$104,579 Receipts of the Treasurer..$270,660

The above does not include our American Domestic Missions under the care of the several annual conferences.

It ought to be noted and well considered, that our various missions at home, under the care of the several annual conferences, have in their progress produced numerous self-supporting Churches, and ac

* But Oregon and California are now independent conferences, embracing 146 effect. ive ministers and 6,614 members. Increase from 1849 to 1859, 133 ministers and 6,210 members.