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becoming one of the most stimulating and inspiring histories within the whole circle and compass of Christian annals, jThis is not only the Jubilee of the American Home Missionary Society, but the fiftieth year of its operations in Illinois "And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year" When this Society was borti, Illinois was only eight years old After the founding of Kaskaskia by the French in 1707, the first American settlement in the State was made by Kentuckians in 1788 In 1820 the census reported 55,211 In 1820 the new Society came to its work in Illinois for 70,000 people; and at the end of half Prada Outleta century it looks back upon what it has done in this State now containing 3,000,000 souls, as many as the colonies numbered a hundred years agoThe same year in which this Society began its work, the first railway was started in the United States And to-day Illinois has 7,109 miles of railroad—1,400 miles more than any other State When, six years after this Society began its work in Illiuois Abraham Lincoln went forth as Captain of militia in the Black Hawk war, only 3,000 men were mustered in the State for a summer campaign BuBurberry Outlett when, thirty years later, he was chosen to serve as Commander-in-Chicf of the Army and NCheap Beats By Dreavy of the United States, his calls were responded to in Illinois by 258,217 three years men, of whom 28,842, along with him,'laid down their lives for their country At the time of that Black Hawk war, the settlers who had ventured out from Fort Dearborn twenty miles had to flee back—one of those families being that of Judge Blodgett, of the United States Court And now around Fort Dearborn stands ChicagoIn 1826, Illinois had one Representative in Congress; in 1876, she has nineteen In 1819 the first two Sabbath schools were set up in this State, and now there are 6,000 of them In 1793, the first common school in the Territory; now there are 11648 free public schools When this Society was born, Illinois had cast but two presidential votes; now she has furnished two double-term PresidentsThe first Protestant preaching in Illinois resulted in a revival of religion, and in a Baptist church organization—1706 -with rules opposed to slavery As late as 1812, Rev Samuel J Mills, on his tour through the West and Southwest, in behalf of the Missionary Society of Connecticut and of a local Bible Society, reported that in the Illinois Territory there was not a Presbyterian or Congregational minister—that there were five or six Methodist preachers, with about six hundred members, and Michael Kors Outletfive Baptist churches with one hundred and twenty members To-day the Protestant church organizations of Illinois number 4,298Turning from these general contrasts, let us look at that specific missionary work in Illinois with whiHerve Leger Dressesch our churches have been associated As there were reformers before the reformation, so there were PCeline Bagsuritan missionaries1 in Illinois before this Society One of the most thrilling chapters in the religious history of our country is yet to be written of the far-reaching plans and beneficent accomplishm

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