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Title: The North Carolina Presbyterian
Year: 1858 (1850s)
Authors: Fayetteville, N.C. : Geo. McNeill
Subjects: Presbyterian Church in the U.S Presbyterians Presbyterian Church
Publisher: Fayetteville, N.C. : Geo. McNeill & Bart'w Fuller
Contributing Library: Duke Divinity School Library, Duke University
Digitizing Sponsor: Institute of Museum and Library Services, under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered by the State Library of North Carolina. Grant issued to Duke University for the Religion in North Carolina project.

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ntaiDed for our factory poinilution, recently result-ing, as dtscvibed in our columns, inthe organization of Immanuelchurch. Great emphasis has been laid onthe missionary work of the church.The church has contributed forHome Missions including the workat Immanuel, $24,520.88, and forForeign Missions, $15,665.50. Forother objects of benevolence, outsideof its own expenses, $32,620.45.Total, $72,796,83. At the same time, the necessityhas been recognized of ample andworthy equipments for the worshipand work of the church itself. Thechurch has expended on its own im-provement in these ten years about$20,000. Its audience room isnow one of the most beautiful in theState, and its arrangements for theSunday-school, for the societies ofthe church, for its social gatheringsand other entertainments, probablythe most complete in the South,though excelled by a few in one ormore of these features. Including these improvements thecontributions of the church for itsown expenses have been $72,545.74.
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bestowed A total for all pufposes of $145,342.57. Great pains have beenupon the organization of the churchfor Christian work, especially fortraining the young in personal ser-vice. The Ladies Foreig;n Mission-ary Society has supported a ladymissionary for about sejven years,while Dr. Edgar Woodt has beensupported by the gentle^n. TheYoung Lidies Missionary Societycarries on the various clafses at Im-manuel ; the Ladies Aid Societyhelps in the care of the poor, andvisits them in their ho;mes. TheWestminster League is enlisting allthe young of the church iU Christianwork, and brings them together forsocial intercourse. The Sunday-school brings all the younger por-tion of the church together forBible study, while the Immanuelschool employs the eDere:ies ofothers. One of the most interestingdevelopments of the missionaryspirit in the church is tha consecra-tion of three of its members to per-sonal work in the foreign field—Dr. and Mrs. Geo. C. Worth atWusih, China, and Mrs. LillianJohns

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