| Title: | The Presbyterian Church in America. |
|---|---|
| ID | 3944 |
| Collection | Irish Emigration Database |
| File | 1841-50/6 |
| Year | 1849 |
| Sender | unknown |
| Sender Gender | male |
| Sender Occupation | unknown |
| Sender Religion | unknown |
| Origin | Carbon Co., Penn., USA |
| Destination | unknown |
| Recipient | unknown |
| Recipient Gender | unknown |
| Relationship | re the Presbyterian Church in America |
| Source | The Belfast Newsletter, Tuesday, February 13, 1849 |
| Archive | The Central Library, Belfast |
| Doc. No. | 9504009 |
| Date | 13/02/1849 |
| Partial Date | |
| Doc. Type | EMG |
| Log | Document added by LT, 04:04:1995. |
| Word Count | 346 |
| Genre | |
| Note | |
| Transcript | THE 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." |
