In the year 1865 the State meeting was held at Prairie City.

Meantime, however, a vigorous local district organization had been maintained from the first in Northeastern Kansas.

This year its annual meeting was held at Leavenworth City, continuing from the first till the 4th of June.

In addition to the ordinary purposes for which this meeting was held, it undertook to perfect the Missionary Society that had been organized the preceding year at Tecumseh.
Among all the conventions held in Kansas, whether of State or District, this must be regarded as the most notable: 1.

It offers devout thanksgiving to the Lord for the return of peace to the nation: "_Resolved_, That with hearts full of gratitude to Almighty God, we hail the return of peace to our long distracted country." 2.