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Title: Home Missionary, The (May 1890-April 1891)
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: American Home Missionary Society Congregational Home Missionary Society
Subjects: Home missions--Periodicals Missions--Periodicals
Publisher: New York : Congregational Home Missionary Society
Contributing Library: Presbyterian Historical Society
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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tegrace to transform him by creating him anew in Christ Jesus. Just atthis time he met the late Dr. Goodell, of blessed memory, and became amember of Pilgrim Church. Under God he owes whatever of usefulnessthere may have been in his Christian life to the most Christly sympathy andencouragement of Dr. and Mrs. Goodell, and the people of Pilgrim Church.Mr. Scofields first work for Christ was in a colored Sunday-school nearSt Louis. Soon after, he entered the Y. M. C. A. work as Secretary ofthe Railroad Branch at East St. Louis. In due time he was licensed topreach by the St. Louis Association; organized, and was for a time actingpastor of Hyde Park Congregational Church, North St. Louis, and, in 1882removed to Dallas, Texas, to become pastor of the First Church. In thenearly eight years of that pastorate the church has grown from a member- 264 THE HOME MISSIONARY. October, ship of twelve, to nearly three hundred, and is now housed in a beautifuland commodious edifice of brick and stone.
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FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, DALLAS, TEXAS. Besides the labors of the pastorate and the superintendency, Mr. Sco-field is at the head of the Southwestern School of the Bible, a training-school for Christian workers, which has already achieved an honorablefame for the thoroughness of its work and the remarkable blessing whichis attending the labors of its graduates. As President of the Board ofTrustees of Lake Charles College, La., Mr. Scofield takes a deep and activeinterest in the upbuilding of that promising and greatly needed institu-tion. In the forty-fifth year of his age and in the prime of his strength,Mr. Scofield finds his greatest joy in incessant labors for his Savior andLord. 1890. THE HOME MISSIONARY. 265 TEXAS. By Rev. C. I. Scofield, Acting Superintendent, Texas and Louisiana. Sidney Smith used to object to bis name on tbe ground tbat it did notintbeleast individualize bim—tbat to say Mr. Sniitb was just equivalentto saying Mr. Mankind, or Mr. Humanfamily. Something o

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