The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-03-15
MANHATTAN. DISTRICT .

character OF U. y. DeaEbOrn Pre-
siding Elder, passed, when the fol-
lowing report was read by him: =;
DEAR Fathers AND BRETHREN:-
In closing eventful year
on Manhattan District, / wo uld
hereby record my gratitute to, the
great Head of the Church, that !
have been permitted to share with
my fellow laborers the tolls Of the
vineyard another year that we and
our families have enjoyed his pro-
tecting care, and rs q general, thing,
the boon of health. The past win-.
ter has been one of, remark able
severity, and has been very trying
to many of our. preachers. and peo-
pie on the frontieF,r so that our
work has been greatly INSTRUCTED. !;
yet, despite marching flames and
northern blasts, have been able to
meet al my appointments. have
preached Chfistin nineteen, and held
quarterly meetings in seventeen
counties of the State, in person.
Having a territory larger than
several of the Eastern Conferences,
with more preachers employed than
the entire body of some western
ones, have found it necessary, to
economize my travelling, by attend
ing from three to five quarterly
meetings on single trip, and re-
naming away from home two or
three weeks at q time. Yet, with
allmy economy in this direction, my
journeying m the service of the
district during the year, amounts to
q little less than four Thousand five
hundred (4,500) miles, os 81.
70 keep up the work, / have had
to secure as much service from my
Elders as l. have performed my
self, save during the last quarter /;
and desire to express to them my
heartfelt thanks for their cheerful
and efficient aid; rendered some
times to the detriment of their own
work. HeiseI
Before summing up the results of
the year it is proper. 1 should say
that / have experienced no little
embarrassment in securing supplies
for some OF my appointments.
This has happened not because
there were no laborers standing
idle in the market place." but for
the lack of the needful penny" for
their support. With all due def
eren13 to the higher authorities of
the Church, can but regard the
action of our last session, recon-
mended by the presiding Bishop,
withholding all missionary aid to
those fields that could net be served
| with a regular conference preacher,
/. as serious mistake. s.af Il
For the want of a small pittance
by way of encouragement, Pipe
Greek circuit has been vacant the
/ tirst half, Washington the last half
and Concordia Il mean the town, .
ali the year. With q little money
these fields, some of them giving Q
/ good degree of promise, might have
been well improved; for the want
of it, there las been cause for fea.
that they might, one or more, slip
out of our hands.
i Another mistake it seems to me
still higher up, was the failure o
our missionary committee, in its ses
sion of 1870, to set apart a cnnting
emit fund that might be drawn upoI
j in frightening our lines and setting
our stakes still farther out upon ouI
frontier. as&s .
Il q Given the two facts, viz :A-thl
j large area of good land in KansaI
| subject to demonstrating" and thu
general poverty of tshomestead
. ers," preventing them from doiBf
! scarcely anything under the mos
favorable circumstances, for thI
:. first two or three years for the sup
-lpoFt of the Gospel, and I .scarcei,
know how to account for such a
ttOVersiQht. t1s : as@l sslst
When our Episcopal force shall
be 90 augmented that by persona
supervision our worthy superin
tendents will be able 20 see clesrl,
/. throu =, their own eyes, instead o
ldimly through those OF the presid
ling Elders, il is hoped there Will b,
! more correct appreciation of on
II wants. ,-,,r7s. ..<g
D In material improvements, thcuRl
/, several of the preachers have 1leel
bsfled in the efforts they sought q
stmake, and their expectations haF
not been realized, yet, WHIST rs
been done, is worthy of nots, eT1s
: quite creditable under the cirgum
: stances 81 z
: The incubus which The Hclto
9 society has carried so long has bee
!. ccmpletely removed. BY theakill
2 ful management of the brethren j
T conjuncfiof with their pastor, an
the very eGicient dedfcatOry service
{ conducted by Bro. Boynton on one I
the coldest snd most uncomfoFfahl
o | Sabbeths OF the winter, the sum Q
;, fifteen hundred dollars (SI,500
r Iof more WIS raised which, fogethe
I with Eve hundred dollars ts50e:
8 appropriated by the Church exten
d sion society, was snfhcient 70 conct
T fall Indebtedness on the Church
1 leaving littis ensplusaEs thin
b Ijs the banda e. the trnstee1. 81
Q The Chnrch ct WstsryilIe, uel
: frame b9ildings eonysnisnh pleas