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this wonderful development has been achieved
within the last sixty years, most Of 1t IN haf
century, it seems more like .,.-
| AN ARABIAN TALE
than the sober, vell-authentlcated history OF the
| times.
Iudiaaa aud Illinois had been erected as Terrific
| ries ont of the Wild country known as the North
west, and were admitted as States in 1916 and
| 1878. Louisiana Was purchased in 1903. aud q
| portion of it, called By the same name, WAS ad-
'nnitted as state in 161a; and Missouri, carved
cut of it also. was admitted in 1921. During the
| oarly part Of the second decade Of the century,
| TIE MISSIONARY SOCIETIES
Of Massachusetts and Connecticut sent the Rev.
through Pennsylvania, and down the Ohio
aud Mississippi Valleys to Now Orleans,
on tour OF observation. and in 1914 the Massa-
chusetts Society sent Mills aud Daniel Smith on
3 second missionary tour. They were very Kind
" received by Judge Grisuold st Shawneetown,
Gov, Edwards At haskaskia Gov. Posoy, OF In
diana, Gov. Clark at st. Louis, and many others
whose names are prominent in the early history
of the West.
Was then town Of 1900 inhabitants. threE
fo,lrths Of whom we're French Catholics. Il ia
described BY one who then saw it ~ +" q tumble
down French village, built mainly OF wooden
slabs and polos set vertically. and we'll daubed
with mortar mixed with straw. though there
were many Lighthouses" BE 1t remembered that
OF tho great railway bridgo,-one OF tile most
splendid structures uroo the continent.
On the goth Of December, 1915. the Rev. Sal
mon Giddinea, cousin OF Joehua d'ddiut,s, OF
Congressional and Abolition fame, and
grad1ate of Williams College, received COM
mission from the Connecticut Missionary So
cety to labor in the West, having ST. Louis as
the centre Of his operations. He left Hartford
at once on horseback. and did not arriye in st.
Louis till the 9Th of April. 1876. DR.. Roy says:
hn
walked lonely from house to house to find d
resting place, and took quarters at small hotel
Composing himscK, and taking up st. Louis
paper, the first article that met his eye Was
headed Caution and was warning to tho peo-
pie, Of the city. against man who
from New England as q political
OF the Hartford Convention He
found there no Protestant organization, or
house Of worship, OF minister"
MK. G1DDINus TouED On
amid every Encouragement, travelling On horse
back for hundreds OF miles III this State and
Missouri st. Louis Was at that limo the least
promising preachins-place he had: A rear and
q half after he arrived,-in Noyember, 1sl7.-he
VAS able to organize the first Protestant church
First Presbyterian) of any kind in St. Louis. |
In January, 1919, be called the people together !
for the purpose OF deyising measures to build =
church.
THOMAS II. BENTON
VAS the clerk Of the meeting. Not till NoVem- |
Der, 1929, did the society venture to buy a lot;
n August, 1929 the cornerstone Was laid, and |
n June, 1925, the house, built Of brick,
md costing $4,000, was dedicated
Among the contributions WAS $25
rhus tho first Protestant house of worship in
It. Louis was dedicated leas than half \ century
lgo!
But the facts in regard to the
AND RELIGIOUS GROWTH or CHICAGO
.t,,3
it. Louis WAS large and prosperous city when,
Il 1929, James Thompson WAS employed to sur-
'ey aud lay of the Town OF Chicago. His first
nap bears date Aug, 4. 1880. In 1929, the fam
hes Of JOHN kinzie, DR.. Wolcott, John Miller,
who kept \ log tavern" and John B. Beauhien,
og cabins On the West Side" constituted, with !
he soldiers in Fort Dearborn. the entire popu-
ston ct Chicago. The total receipts for taxes and
evenue from all SOURCES for Cook County in 1882
only forty-t"o JaaEs aso-*ere $357:7a. Our
Common Council have t41ed us this
ear, for the Cisy Of Chicago alone, Is. 432 343.
THE FIRST 7EEs3sTE curRcH,
le oldest in the city, was organized June 49,
3s3, tortJ-one years Ego. Its i:sr pastor, the
ey. Jarsiniah Porter, and oue Of IT'S first Elders,
hilo Carpenter, Esq, still live, and are by no
Issns broken down with age or iucapac.tated
>r the duties OF life.
THE METHoo1sIs.
the person of the 1ssv. Jepse Walker, wore |
1e first to preach the Gospel here, but THAR
surch organization came later than the praspy-
,rian.
We might multiply facts and comparisons be-
yeen St. Louis snd Chicago, but this is uuucc-
,Eary. The able article ot DR.. BOY shows that
le commercial, social, and religious ioterasts At
). Louis wero we'll established and highly p:os-
,rous before the plat Of the Town of Chicago |
~ surveyed. Though our sister city had large |
the start the CENSUS Of 1880 will give her COM
'ttor on Laae Michigan the unlisputea su-