This district is composed of 4 State Conferences, and 1 mission field; namely, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Dakota, and Manitoba. We will first call attention to the comparative standing of the district as a unit, and then to each of the States separately, with their comparative standing. The reader will notice that our report covers two years; namely, 1899 and 1900; and the tithes, offerings, etc., of this biennial period are given, and compared with the two preceding years of 1897 and 1898. GCB April 8, 1901, page 135.1