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Title: Contributions to the Historical Society of Montana
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Historical Society of Montana
Subjects: Montana -- History Periodicals
Publisher: Helena, Mont. : Rocky Mountain Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: Montana State Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Montana State Library

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h the St. Pauls MethodistChurch and they were supposed to be all Methodists, andthey made good Methodists, assisting in all the benevolentwork of the church, the Sabbath School, the Christmas fes-tivals, charities and giving liberally to Foreign Missions. After ten days or a fortnight, a letter was received fromDr. Jackson in which he said that these three names senthim, were the only ones sent him from Montana. It shouldbe said in this connection, that it was a question in the mindsof those early pioneers of our particular system whether itwas right or wrong to multiply churches in these remote andunsettled communities, where one felt that he was awayfrom home, a. stranger, and that what he gathered of thecountrys wealth should go to build where his heart was.This was especially true of the women, who long looked for-ward to going back and as the feeling of homesickness deep-ened, many of them did go back. Doubtless this lack ofpermanency and domestication furnishes a good reason why
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E^RLY WORKERS IN THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF HELENA^1 Mrs. Annie C. Cuthbert. 3. Mrs. Abba Beatrice Creel Walker. 2. Mrs. John E. Pile. 4. Mrs. A. T. Wilhams-Nash. 5. Mrs. Emma Emerson. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH HISTORY. 359 SO few responded to Dr. Jacksons call. However, he de-cided to come, and in his letter fixed a date for starting andfor preaching the Sunday following his arrival in Helena.That was in staging days and one might fix a time for start-ing, but he shonld leave the rest to Providence. In this case,Dr. Jackson arrived too late to preach either morning ore^^ening. Mr. Pyle often went to the stage office hoping to meet him,but not until after we had gone to church and had heard thebetter part of a sermon by Dr. Woolfolk, did he make hisappearance. Having found us away, he brought our son, alad of eight, who had been left at home to direct him to theplace of preaching. They sat immediately back of us and atthe close of the services we were most agreeably surprisedto be introduce

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