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Minutes of the Western Congregational Convention
Minutes of the Western Congregational Convention Author:Unknown Author Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: APPENDIX. Concerning Agents of the Home Missionary Society. The following meager notes of the remarks made by most of the speakers on the resolution in... more » regard to Agents of the Home Missionary Society, will afford some idea of the adverse interference referred to. Mr. Kirby expressed a strong desire that the facts should come out. From his own observation, he was convinced that the impression prevails extensively, that it is the business of the Home Missionary Society to build up Presbyterianism. It is expected of agents that they will do it. And yet he was sure that the Executive Officers of the Society intended to act with entire impartiality. They had indeed authorized him to declare their readiness to redress any wrongs in this matter, as soon as they should come to their knowledge. Mr. Laird also expressed a hope that the facts would come out. He had himself some evidence in point. He had not been long in Michigan before an officer of the State Committee urged him to join the Presbytery, and told him that it would greatly affect his influence. Mr. Lockwood related the case of a Congregational church in Dundee, Michigan, which had recently been visited by Presbyterian brethren. Nearly all the members were called upon and soJicited to unite with the Presbytery- -- -the principal motive presented, being that they could not otherwise obtain aid from the Home Missionary Society. He also alluded to the fact that in the little village of Clinton, there is besides the Congregational church, which sustains itself, a small Presbyterian organization, which for several years has been kept in useless existence by help from the Home Missionary Society. He said that to very many in the community, this appeared to be a misappropriation of funds, and yet the facts are fully ...« less