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Title: The Presbyterian Church in America.
ID3944
CollectionIrish Emigration Database
File1841-50/6
Year1849
Senderunknown
Sender Gendermale
Sender Occupationunknown
Sender Religionunknown
OriginCarbon Co., Penn., USA
Destinationunknown
Recipientunknown
Recipient Genderunknown
Relationshipre the Presbyterian Church in America
SourceThe Belfast Newsletter, Tuesday, February 13, 1849
ArchiveThe Central Library, Belfast
Doc. No.9504009
Date13/02/1849
Partial Date
Doc. TypeEMG
LogDocument added by LT, 04:04:1995.
Word Count346
Genre
Note
TranscriptTHE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN AMERICA.- The
following interesting facts, respecting the Presbyterian Church in America, are taken from a letter written by a gentleman
residing in Carbon County, Pennsylvania, to a correspondent:
"The Presbyterian Church in the United States has many
missionary schemes in operation, and the demand for
labourers and funds is steadily increasing. You have some
idea of the immense territory which we have yet unoccupied.
The poor and oppressed of Europe find, in this country, an
asylum; and the great West is fast filling up with Germans,
French and Irish. In fact, we have people here from every
Government in the world, and there is a new demand for
money every week from our churches. By the Board of
Domestic Missions there are 460 missionaries employed in 26
States and territories; 1,200 mission stations supplied with
Divine Ordinances; 2,000 members added, in these missionary
stations, to the Church, on examination; and 1,500 members
added on certificates from other churches. Within the
last twelve months, 60 new churces were organised, and 100
new churches erected. This great increase is owing to
immigration from foreign countries, and many of our own
citizens moving from the Eastern and middle States to Illinois,
Ioura, Wisconsin, and Michigan. You will, from these few
statistics, see what the Presbyterian Church has to do at
home. Our Jewish and Foreign Missions have also to be
sustained, so that you need not wonder if the Irish
deputation should return with a less amount than you had
anticipated. In my immediate locality, there are multitudes
of Roman Catholics, who have come from almost all counties
in the South and West of Ireland, and some, too, from
Donegal - an ignorant and degraded race of people, who,
by their bad conduct, disgrace their country. The institutions
of this country are by no means favourable to Popery. The
system is tolerated, as all persuasions are, but the priests
are complaining most bitterly that they have not the control
over their flocks that they were wont to have. All Papists,
natives of Ireland, will probably remain so in the United
States, but the next generation, it is observed, imbibe the
notions of liberty that are the grand characteristics of the
American, and cast off the Roman Yoke."