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Title: The Iowa band
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Adams, Ephraim, 1818-1907
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Publisher: Boston, Chicago, The Pilgrim press
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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s the lU^ok of Chronicles opened that night 1)\ thepastor among his people. l^)Ut all that was said, all that was thought or con-ceived of. by any or all, — what was it in comparisonwilli the true history of the twenty-five years thereunder review? To give that history, one must tracethe workings of prayers and prayer-meetings, — eventhose little church prayer-meetings of the olden timesthere, held in the afternoon, because Deacon Lucas,(Mie of the three brethren who were to sustain them,lived five miles out in the country. He must tell thestory of the sermons from week to week prayed over,studied and preached; of the good seed sown, in whathearts it took root, and how it grew. He must tellhow children grew up, were trained and moulded bychurch and Sabbath-school; what souls were borninto the kingdom of Christ in the progress of theyears. He must relate the history of those souls intheir Christian development in this world, and tellhow spme w^ho have gone over the river were fash-
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iSq5First Church, Decorah RESULTS 77 ioned and ripened for heaven. He must portray thedays of anxiety and soHcitnde on the part of bothpastor and people in days of weakness, when thatchurch was among the Httle home missionary churchesof Iowa. He must show what was the part of eacliand all the home mission workers, who, by their pray-ers, labors, gifts and sympathies, sustained it, till,by the blessing of God, its liberty and Christ-lovingprinciples were triumphant, and it became a tower ofstrength among sister churches in the state. But, if such things as these are to be fully and truth-fully told, who is to be the chronicler? And yetnothing short of this, and more than this, would bea complete history. Over and above the few factsand figures which we can put down in connectionwith the history of any one church, as the results ofhome missions in Iowa, there are in the divine Mindand as eternity will reveal them, other results just asdefinite and tangible, greater, and more in number.T

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