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Title: Reports of the missionary and benevolent boards and committees to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Home Missions. Annual report of the Board of Home Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions. Annual report of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Education. Annual report of the Board of Education of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Publication and Sabbath-School Work. Annual report of the Board of Publication and Sabbath-School Work of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of the Church Erection Fund. Annual report of the Board of the Church Erection Fund of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Presbyterian Board of Relief for Disabled Ministers and the Widows and Orphans of Deceased Ministers. Annual report to the General Assembly Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Missions for Freedmen. Annual report of the Board of Missions for Freedmen of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Aid for Colleges and Academies. Annual report of the Board of Aid for Colleges and Academies of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Special Committee on Systematic Beneficence. Report of the General Assembly's Special Committee of the Presbyterian Church on Systematic Beneficence Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Permanent Committee on Temperance. Annual report of the General Assembly's Permanent Committee on Temperence for the year ending ..
Subjects: Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A
Publisher: Philadelphia : Presbyterian Board of Publication
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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is standard.To meet these and other emergencies, our churches must bemanned with leaders of the largest possible endowment ofintelligence and human sympathy, crowned with the gracesof a Christly life. More and more we must study leadership;for we will find ere long that increasing numbers are becomingsusceptible to leadership of a sane and safe type. Who shouldfurnish it, if not the Church? All the investments of conse-crated men and means will fail of fruitful issue, should we failat this point. The Rev. Josiah McClain is synodical missionary. WYOMING, The total membership of the evangelical churches in Wyomingis estimated at about ten thousand. About one-sixth of theseare in the Presbyterian churches, few of which are self-support-ing, and several are without houses of worship. With onlysix or seven per cent, of the population of the state respondingto the appeals of the gospel, it seems clear that no over-emphasisis laid upon religious life. There is abundant area for all real *j C
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Pc« as r-t o tr >o po- ^ 1913.) BOARD OF HOME MISSIONS. 43 workers, and a proper distribution of church workers willaccomplish infinitely more for the state and for the churchesthemselves than will a partisan attempt to cover the sameground. Much of the discouragement incident to Wyomingwork lies at this point. Within three years the Presbyteryof Cheyenne has more than doubled its members and ministers.This made possible the organization of Laramie Presbyterywithin the year, and furnishes a constitutional basis for theerection of the Synod of Wyoming, when the time is ripe. Ifsuitable men can be obtained, Wyoming furnishes one of themost fruitful and strategic fields in which to expend our energies.The pastor-evangelists are the Rev. L. Harold Forde, forCheyenne and Laramie, and the Rev. J. W. Winder, for SheridanPresbyteries. A glance at the Rocky Mountain District, covering therecords of the last five years, contains suggestion, inspiration,and cause for thankfulness to God. In

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