Identifier: spiritofmissions74epis (find matches)
Title: The Spirit of missions
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Episcopal Church. Board of Missions Episcopal Church. Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society
Subjects: Episcopal Church Episcopal Church Missions
Publisher: Burlington, N.J. : J. L. Powell
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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d,still out of his own pocket, hired ateacher. He has now a parochial schoolof 200 children besides the Sunday-school, and has only recently asked forhelp. This tale, though unique in theamount of self-sacrifice, has more thanone analogy in spirit and in effort. The third answer is the fact that threeministers from other bodies have comeinto the Church with their congrega-tions, and have served over two yearswithout pay, though they have hadoffers of larger salaries if they would re-turn to their former allegiance. Thisincident is illustrative of a devotion tothe Church which is characteristic of alarge number of our people. The fourth answer is that the Negrocommunicants of the Diocese of Georgia,numbering 696, contributed during theyear 1908-1909 $3,829.91 for Churchpurposes; and the 799 parochial and in-dustrial school students contributed fortheir own education $3,395.40, making atotal contribution from the colored con-stituency of the Church in the Dioceseof Georgia of $7,225.31.
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THROUGH WYOMING WITH BISHOP THOMAS 1. First fruits of the visitation—taptism at halfway stage house 2. The bishop rambling through Rambler, over the continental divide 3. A very pretty church at Cody 4. The Big Horn canon, the site of one of the great irrigation projects 5. Sundance church, boarded up for three years 6. We did find snow on the divide 7. Across the river in a flat boat (934) WALCOTT, WITH ELK MOUNTAIN TWENTY MILES DISTANTTo reach Walcott was quite a relief FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF WYOMING Bj/ the Right Reverend N. S. Thomas THIS is a great state. In areaonly seven are greater, in popu-lation only one is smaller.Statistically we have 97,914square miles with a population in 1900of 92,531—less than one person to asquare mile. This proportion, however, israpidly changing, but so great is our areathat even a most rapid proportionategrowth makes little appreciable differ-ence in the configuration of the land-scape as one swings along mile aftermile with stops every two hours

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