The Conquerors Author:A. Atwood 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: A Great Work, Involving A Large Expenditure Of Money. The undertaking and the plans outlined for missionary work in Oregon were extraordinary. It required a m... more »ighty faith at that period to project an enterprise of such immense proportions, that embraced so many difficulties, and that demanded so large an expenditure of money. Dr. Nathan Bangs, the corresponding secretary of the Missionary Society, said: The projection of this important mission had a most happy effect upon the missionary cause generally, as the funds of the society up to this time had not exceeded $l8,coo a year; and, as this mission must necessarily cost considerable, with a view to augment the pecuniary resources of the society, a loud call was made through the Christian Advocate and Journal to the friends of missions to come to our help in this emergency. The Messrs. Lee were instructed to travel as extensively as possible, hold missionary meetings, and take collections. The Flathead Mission, as it was called, possessed a charm around which clustered the warm affections of the friends of this great missionary enterprise, and special donations for the "Flatheads" were sent to the treasury with cheering liberality and avidity. Dr. H. K. Hines says of this statement of Dr. Bangs's: If this was true of the inception of the mission in 1834, it was true in a much larger sense in the great expansion of the work in 1839. So rapidly had it grown and so completely had it been fixed in the public mind, that it came to have the character of a national propagandism on the shores of the Pacific, as well as that of a religious evangelism among the Indians. That the public sentiment of the Methodists and of the people of the United States heartily approved of the action of the Missionary Society in establ...« less