Contributions to the Historical Society of Montana . abolishthe parsonage and put the present Sunday school in itsplace. The corner of the Sunday school was laid August 5,1891, and the first service held here March 13, 1892. Fornearly two years preeeeding we had been worshipping Sun-days in the district court-room and Wednesday evenings inour cozy church parlors, first in the Grandon and then inthe Denver buildings, which we still remember with delight. This period ended, as it had begun, in a remarkable re-vival under the leadership of Francis Murphy, the notedgospel temperance worker, who ca
Contributions to the Historical Society of Montana . abolishthe parsonage and put the present Sunday school in itsplace. The corner of the Sunday school was laid August 5,1891, and the first service held here March 13, 1892. Fornearly two years preeeeding we had been worshipping Sun-days in the district court-room and Wednesday evenings inour cozy church parlors, first in the Grandon and then inthe Denver buildings, which we still remember with delight. This period ended, as it had begun, in a remarkable re-vival under the leadership of Francis Murphy, the notedgospel temperance worker, who came here in the summer of1891 **** PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH HISTORY. 349 PERIOD IV. CONSOLIDATION.(March, 1892 to June, 1897.)The five years we have worshipped in this building, sinceMarch 13, 1892, I have called the period of consolidation. Three new organizations of the greatest importance havebeen added to the machinery of our church work in thisperiod. On April 6, 1892, a work was begun among thesmaller children in the form of a Mission Band, which a. THE HELENA PRESBYTERIAN CHTRCH. DEDICATED IN 1905 vear later was chaiioed into the Junior Societv of (UiristianEndeavor, under the efficient leadership of Mrs. J. W. Com-mon, who has been in charge of it ever since. On Januarv10, 1895, the Helping Hand Society was organized, and hasever been a most valuable assistant to the pastor in his pas-toral work, especially in visiting strangers in the city andnew members of the church. The third organization wasthe Finance Committee. This was formed under the leader-shi]) of Mrs. George K. Reeder, ably supported by severalother ladies and gentlemen, in the summer of 189-1: for theIDurpose of providing the pastors salary **** asO IIISTORICAT. SOCIETY OF MONTANA. Comjilete statistics of what our clmrch has done in thesetwenty-five years are not obtainable. But partial statisticsshow that there have been gathered into our membership atleast 641 persons, 257 on confession of Christ and the restb
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