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The following table is taken by permission from Social Progress, New York, 1906, ed. J. Strong, W. H. Tolman, and W. D. P. Bliss. No later figures than these of 1904 have been tabulated.
a moment's hesitation the missionary organizations of the East and Middle West, with the loyal support of the churches, threw themselves into the breach. Emigration from the East and the Middle West began at once, and the missionary was not slow in following the trail. The order of missionary progress through the Louisiana Purchase bas been strictly along the lines of immigration and settlement. There is not a State in that vast tract which the home missionary did not enter while it was yet a
STATISTICS OF HOME MISSIONS. ip ~ 18321824 1877 1845
1828 1848
1853 1814
1849 1834 1882 1880
1819 1885
18890 1849
1818 1878 1844
18211831 1854
18531872 1885
Baptist: American Baptist Home Missionary Society .. ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . American Baptist Publication Sooletx.. Women's American Baptist Home Mission Society . . . . . . . Women's Baptist Home Mission Society .. .. .. ...... .... . . Southern Baptist Convention .......... National Baptist Publication Board ... . Con~re gational: Home Missionary Society ........ .. American Missionary Association . . . . . . . Sunday-school and Publishing Society . Church Building Society . .. .. .. ... . . . . Education Society ... Cumberland Presbyterian ................. Disciples of Christ: American Christian Missionary Society .............. .... . . Free Baptist ....................................................Free Meodist..................................................
Mennonites .....................................................
Methodist Episcopal Miseionary Society of Methodist Episcopal Church .. . .... . . . . . . . . Church Eatenaion Board ..................................... Freedmen's Aid Society ......................................Women's Home Missionary Society of Methodist Episcopal Church. Moravian',...................................................... Presbyterian:
Board of Home Missions of Presbyterian Church, U. 8. A. . . . . . . . . Women's Board of Home Missions of Presbyterian Church . . . . . . . .Board of Church Erection .................................... Southern Presbyterian ....................................... Examining Committee General AesemblY ....................... Protestant Episcopal ............................................ Reformed Church:
Board of Domestic Missions .. . . . Church Building Department .... Board of Publication . . . . . . . . . . . United Brethren ..'.............. United Presbyterian: Board of Home Missions . .. .. . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Board of Freedmen's Mission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1458.771
134,012
43.484
87.283
109,870
27,520
570,829
441,938
89.889
207.493
12,189
100,000
385,000
31,888
3,148
10,000
534,452
148,103
124,710
308.998
11,003
479,812 346,883 193,570 180,000 40,000
539,989395,600 23,600
500 85,000
105,000 67,530
Mission- aries. 1,144
72
1793
301,918
784
43
14
65
628
9
8 4.0001 34 1,180 484188 1,140
186 180 245 225 Added on Confession. 8,000 1,078 b,787 1,134 1,0001,860 919
20 422 7,378 1,153 1 Churches sided. 2 Work carried on by the church, not by a society. s In addition to the amount expended there were given for diocesan missions during the three years ending Sept. 30, 1904, 11,413,117.Another mighty impulse in the same direction as
that resulting from the opening of the Northwest
Territory followed the purchase of g. Effect Louisiana in 1803. While the North of the west Territory was still in the first
Louisiana stages of occupation, even before the
Purchase. earlier settlers had obtained peaceful possession of the soil, the area of the nation was suddenly doubled. The Louisiana Pur chase gave us the mouth of the Mississippi and un disturbed possession of its entire course. It carried
our western boundaries from Lake Superior to the
Rocky Mountains. Fourteen States and Territories
have been carved out of this imperial 'tract. They
include the vast corn and wheat belts of the United
States, which are capable of feeding the world, while their underground treasures are among the richest on the globe. Here was a new and mag
nificent opportunity for home missions, and without
Territory, and always in the first and feeblest stages of settlement. From Missouri to Iowa, from Iowa to Minnesota, Kansas, and Nebraska, thence to the Dakotas, and on from these points to Wyoming and 'Colorado and Montana, and, last of all, to Oklahoma until every square mile inhabited by men has been sown with Sunday-schools, churches, and other institutions of education and religion. Something of the volume of this work may be gathered from the fact that on the one hundredth anniversary of the Louisiana Purchase, by a careful investigation, about 30,000 Protestant churches were enumerated within the bounds of this purchase, holding property valued at $58,000,000, sad having, approximately, 2,000,000 communicants. With rare exceptions this church growth was the fruit of home missionary culture, begun and maintained and ceasing only when the need ceased, or continuing to-day in the
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