The facts do not bear out the remark of Bro.

S.T.Dodd, that "from 1856 to 1865 anything like church work was as good as thrown away." With seventy-nine churches organized, and with upwards of three thousand church members in the State, work could scarcely be said to be "as good as thrown away." 3.

Notwithstanding, the facts bear witness that there were grave imperfections in our work.

After a heroic battle, fought under insuperable difficulties, and when there was every promise of still more brilliant triumphs, the cause went into an eclipse, from which it emerged only after many years of disaster.
From and after the year 1875, the churches spread themselves over a territory of two hundred miles in width and four hundred miles in length, and a great number of men became responsible for the good or the evil that should come on the cause of primitive and apostolic Christianity.

It is probable that since the period of which we are speaking, 100,000 Disciples have located somewhere in these Western Territories.