them as incorporated into our regular work, and forming what is known in our Minutes as the "Rocky Mountain District" of the Kansas and Nebraska Conference, and embracing six appointments, besides the presiding elder. It will be satisfactory, perhaps, to have a sample out of six hundred or a thousand reports which might be given, to show how our domestic mission work within the Conferences is conducted. DOMESTIC MISSIONS.-Of these we have three. First. B., which is a settlement situated in the immediate neighborhood of a celebrated community, and is a neighborhood having but few wealthy families. The members of society are, with one or two exceptions, poor, but are mostly earnest, devoted Christians. They have a church and parsonage worth twelve hundred dollars. On these there is a debt with which they have been struggling for a number of years. The prospect now is that by a united and vigorous effort they will throw this off the present year, after which we trust they will be able to stand and go alone. Ours is the only religious society in this whole region, which, were it not occupied by us, would be a moral waste. Religion has already raised this whole region, from a moral state little less than heathen, to order and respectability. After this year I think this mission will be self-supporting. The society numbers at present only forty members. Second. S., W., and a country appointment, at which place we have a small church worth six hundred dollars. S. is an old settlement, having a house of worship which belongs to the Presbyterians, which they do not use, and which we are permitted to occupy. W. is a thriving village, where we have a small class and preaching every Sabbath. The point is one of importance, and of chief interest. Our little society here have just purchased a very eligible site for a church, and have succeeded in paying for it, and have their deed. The prospect now is that the people of the place will aid liberally in erecting a church, which, when completed, will lead the way for making this a pleasant and an important appointment. A number have been converted during the past year and added to the Church. Our membership numbers fifty-seven, not more than two or three possessing much of this world's goods. The prospect now is that this field, after a year or two, will become not only self-supporting, but a liberal contributor to our missionary treasury. Third. L. Many years since the territory covered by this name formed one of the most interesting and important circuits in our conference. Many stations have been formed from its territory, which are now holding a commanding influence in the Church. The territory now covered by the name has been nearly depopulated of our people by emigration to the West, and the field has been taken to some extent by the Universalists, ours being the only evangelical denomination, or nearly so, which now occupies the ground. In this region we have three churches, but they are old, and one of them nearly unfit for use. The other two are very common, and are worth no more than three or four hundred dollars each. At one of the appointments on this mission their church burned down a few years since. They are now trying to rebuild. But for our doing it this whole section would be without moral and religious culture. We hope it may soon be redeemed, and again be the place of songs, and prayers, and religious triumphs. Our whole membership on this charge is eighty. Last year they were blessed with a pleasant revival, which gave them great encourage ment and some pecuniary strength. We hope they will be able to get along without an appropriation another year. Our missionaries in this field are earnest and laborious men; men abundant in labors. The people are harmonious, and striving to reach the time when they will become helpers instead of being helped in this great work. All, I think, are trying to do something, and I hope the great day of eternity will reveal that the appropriations of our parent Society to this work have not been in vain. THE MINUTES OF THE CONFERENCEs do not show what the treasurer of the Missionary Society receives. Those who would know what amount of money is received by the treasurer of the Missionary Society from each conference, and in the aggregate, must look at his report. Some of the reasons for the difference between these two accounts are: 1. It sometimes happens that a given amount is reported at conference as having been received for missionary purposes, which was true, but that amount never reached the treasury, because the local society voted away a part of the collection taken on the credit of the missionary cause to help some feeble society, as they thought, to erect a church, or to supply a preacher in a feeble charge; or, 2. A portion of the money raised on the credit of the missionary cause has been voted away to some Church or local missionary society, having under their care one or more Churches. 3. Sometimes it happens that the trustees or stewards have taken a part or the whole of the collection raised on the credit of the missionary cause. TREASURER'S ACCOUNT. Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church in account with T. CARLTON, Treasurer. 1860. Jan. CR.-BY CASH RECEIVED FROM SUNDRIES, viz. : BALTIMORE CONFERENCE. "A Lady of Baltimore," by R. G. Armstrong... $6.00 Feb. Female China Missionary Society, Baltimore, by Mary Smith, tr.. 1,140 00 March Baltimore Conference, by W. J. Carlton.. Alexandria, by W. N. Berkley... West River Circuit, by Rev. T. Myers.. April Summerfield Circuit, by Rev. A. J. Myers.. May Georgetown, D. C., by J. S. Blackford... June Baltimore City Station, by T. Armstrong, tr.. 4,368 72 250 00 193 00 500 00 215 00 693 93 Nov. Charles-street Church, Baltimore, by S. Landstreet, tr. 1,586 72 April. Black River Conference Missionary Society, by S. J. Goodenough.$2,920 00 Black River Conference, additional, by Rev. O. P. Pitcher Aug. Mrs. C. Russell, Bombay, Black River Conference, by W. S. Chase 51 03 166 66 100 00 5 00 2.00 15 00 $3,259 69 CALIFORNIA CONFERENCE. 1860. Oct. California Conference Missionary Society, by Bishop Ames...... .$2,382 58 250 00 $2,632 58 DETROIT CONFERENCE, 1860. Oct. Detroit Conference Missionary Society, by Rev. W. G. Stonex, tr.$3,068 15 |