Gospel pioneering
Subtitle: reminiscences of early Congregationalism in California, 1833-1920
By: by William C. Pond, D.D.; with an introduction by Professor John Wright Buckham ...
Publisher: The News printing co.]
Published: 1921
Place of publication: [Oberlin, O
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
Subjects: Congregational churches -- California.; Ethnic groups -- California.; Law and politics -- California.; Mines and mineral resources -- California.; Religion and ethics -- California.; California -- Church history.
Description: The son of a Maine Congregational leader, William Chauncey Pond (b. 1830) sailed around the Horn to California as a "home missionary" in 1853. Gospel pioneering (1921) presents highlights of his career in the West: creation of San Francisco's Greenwich St. Church; ministry in the Sierra County mining town of Downieville; story of The Pacific, a Congregationalist-Presbyterian journal; founding of the Pacific School of Religion; and Pond's ministry to Chinese immigrants, centered on San Francisco's Bethany Church.
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