ound in Illinois only four so-called Presbyterian

n over the river, and in Missouri soon came under the care of the new National Society In 1833 the New York Evangelical Society sent to Illinois from Audover, Rev David Tenney; and, in 1824, from the same Seminary, the United Domestic Missionary Society sent John II Ellis, who was located at Kaskaskia, and the Connecticut Society sent B S Howe Those men went on to organize the first Presbyterian churches of Alton, Carrollton, Vandalia, Springfield, and others of like grade There is a fascination in this unselfish prodigality, with which Now England was thus pouring her life into the West, and, all the time, into a rival ecclesiastical systemDuring this period, the Presbyterian Board of Domestic Missions sent nine men to labor in Illinois, mostly as itinerants In 1821, Uev Dr Gideon Blackburn, a pastor in Louisville, Kentucky, came over and held, at Shoal Creek, a camp-meeting, which resulted in a great revival He Prada Outletalso purchased, in 1835, 15,050 acres of land in the State, and made it the foundation for the Blackburn University at CarlinvilleUp to the time of the organizing of the National Society, the policy, both with the Societies and the Presbyterian Board, had been to send out missionaries as itinerants, for two, four, six months or longer Pastors were sometimes relinquished for such special service These men would plunge iBurberry Outletnto the wildCheap Beats By Dreerness, look up the people, preach, organize churches, and then go elsewhere This process was found to be very unsatisfactory The churches did not thrive uMichael Kors Outletpon such random preaching Becoming interested in a man, they were only doomed to disappointment by his hasty leaving Under this experience the sentiment had grown up in favor of a permanent ministry; and so, when the new society was set up, the people on tho ttold besought a new policy And so there is nothing new under the sun It was an illustration of ths working of the old style, that when the National Society was formed, it found in Illinois only four so-called Presbyterian ministers—Revs J M Ellis, E G Howe, John Brick, and Stephen Bliss, and the last two were men who fiad been, preachers The new society did start off with a " new policy "—one gained from the practical working of the missionary scheme —a policy which, with flexibility, its own experience of fifty years has confirmed In our courts, the accumulation of precedents and of the wisdom of predecessors is what secures them the weight of judgment And this it is that gives accuracy and stability and effectiveness to the resultant regulations of mission Boards and SocietiesL?t us now for a moment set ourselves back to the year 1826, and take our stand at the old capital, Kaskaskia, looking northward and eastward Up the Mississippi, on the left, is the French village of St Louis, with Salmon Giddings working there, and not another minister beyond him to the North Pole On the right, settlements are thickening; Herve Leger DressesJacksonville and Quincy are just coCeline Bagsming into existence as villages, and all beyond, toward the north, is wild, wild wilderness of bo

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