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Title: Contributions to the Historical Society of Montana
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Historical Society of Montana
Subjects: Montana -- History Periodicals
Publisher: Helena, Mont. : Rocky Mountain Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: Montana State Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Montana State Library

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jfe50 and days of weariness, weappreciate it. We feel that it is good to take a brotherminister by the hand at least once a year. We studied andreasoned together about our plans of work—^liow the littlehandful could reach the most men and do the most good.We sent Brother Russel to Butte; made Hewitt PrebyterialMissionary; elected Hewitt Commissioner to the GeneralAssembly. We asked the Board to help pay the expenses ofthe man who should supply the pulpit at Helena and advisedthat church to make the next man they chose pastor.For we own with sorrow that we have no installed pas-tors in Montana. In 1878, he wrote: One evening Iwas called upon to visit a man supposed to be dying. Hewas raised in Texas, and lias been on the frontier all hislife. Just before his sickness he had bought a Testament,and found that he was a sinner, but that He was merciful.He told me his life of sin. Before leaving we prayed to- 2 JOri-ff P 72 H 72 (D oo • 3 W to K; H W 3 ^ tn fo fa 3 cS* O 3 O QO 72 -? 33
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PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH HISTORY. 393 getlier. I think that if anyone could have heard thatprayer they must have 1)elieved that the man had faith. Thelanguage was equal to any of Bret Hartes, or MarkTwains, as he asked in the strong western way for pardonand peace, for stronger faith and more light. Tears cameto my eyes, and I came home through the frosty night feel-ing that it was good to walk a mile to see such faith, andhear such a prayer.) EAELY HISTORY OF THE CHURCHES OF THEBITTER ROOT VALLEY. By Rev. Edwin M. Ellis. 1. Stevensville.—I reached Stevensville in October,)884. Rev. George M. Fisher of Missoula took me up thevalley in his ))uggy, there being no railroad there at thetime. I found at Stevensville that a Presbyterian churchhad been organized on May 9, LS80, in the hall over theMissoula Mercantile Companys store, then Eddy and Ray-monds, I think. Rev. J. L, Henniug preached the sermon.Rev. M. L. Cook, who had visited Stevensville and othervalley points from Missoula for more

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