. The Orange blossom . forty-threechurch buildings and forty-one parsonages. The valuation of this property was $125, was raised that year for missions $758, and for education $26. At this session theMissionary Society appropriated $4,500 to assist in the work. In ministerial support theclaims were $50,832, of which only $34,277 was paid. At the session of the Conference held in 1882 at Burlington, at which Bishop Warrenpresided, a new Conference was formed to be known as the Southwest Kansas Confer-ence. This took practically 300 miles in length from the west end of the Conferenceter
. The Orange blossom . forty-threechurch buildings and forty-one parsonages. The valuation of this property was $125, was raised that year for missions $758, and for education $26. At this session theMissionary Society appropriated $4,500 to assist in the work. In ministerial support theclaims were $50,832, of which only $34,277 was paid. At the session of the Conference held in 1882 at Burlington, at which Bishop Warrenpresided, a new Conference was formed to be known as the Southwest Kansas Confer-ence. This took practically 300 miles in length from the west end of the Conferenceterritory, the dividing line being the west line of Chautauqua, Elk, Greenwood, and Chasecounties. This left the South Kansas Conference with a territory practically 100 milessquare in the southeast corner of the state of Kansas, and embracing the counties ofCherokee, Labette, Montgomery, Chautauqua, Elk, Wilson, Neosho, Greenwood, Chase,Crawford, Bourbon, Linn, Allen, Woodson, Anderson, Coffey, with the south parts of 17. EMPORIA DISTRICTPresiding Elder, W. H. Mulvaney. Lyon, Osage, Franklin and Miami, and an appointment in Morris. This is the presentterritory of the Conference. A comparison of the figures of the first session 1874, andthe ninth in 1882, the year of the division, shows in 1882 a membership of 20,167, a gainof 7,446; church buildings 133, a gain of 90; parsonages 92, a gain of 50. Value of both$348,788, a gain of $233,043. That year there was raised for Missions, $2,698-—a gain of$1,940, and for Education, $586, a gain of $560. That year the Conference received fromthe Missionary Society to aid in the work, $5,500. The Board of Church Extension as-sisted in building twenty-seven churches with donations of $4,725, and granted loans tothe amount of $9,600 to twenty-nine churches, some of them being the same to which do-nations were made. This was a period of rapid development in the West and nobly did our connectionalsocieties come to the relief. In matter of mini
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