Presbyterians : a popular narrative of their origin, progress, doctrines, and achievements . Presbyterian Churchis The Presbyterian CJmrch of Brazil. The Calvin-istic faith was first carried to Brazil by the Huguenots,m 1555, but only to be destroyed by persecution. Thepresent Church organization originated in the labors ofmissionaries sent out by the Presbyterian Church in theUnited States of America, the first of whom was theRev. A. G. Simonton, who landed in Rio de Janeiro inAugust, 1859. Missionary work has been also carriedon in Brazil by the Presbyterian Church in the UnitedStates (South
Presbyterians : a popular narrative of their origin, progress, doctrines, and achievements . Presbyterian Churchis The Presbyterian CJmrch of Brazil. The Calvin-istic faith was first carried to Brazil by the Huguenots,m 1555, but only to be destroyed by persecution. Thepresent Church organization originated in the labors ofmissionaries sent out by the Presbyterian Church in theUnited States of America, the first of whom was theRev. A. G. Simonton, who landed in Rio de Janeiro inAugust, 1859. Missionary work has been also carriedon in Brazil by the Presbyterian Church in the UnitedStates (South). The missionaries of these twochurches came together, in 1888, at Rio, and organized,with the full consent of the General Assemblies inter-ested, the Synod of the Presbyterian Church of : 32 ministers, 67 churches and 3000 commu-nicants. 53Q PRESBYTERIANS. ASIA. In addition to the Colonial Reformed Dutch Church,with its 240,000 adherents, in the East Indies, and thenumerous Presbyterian missions scattered from Syria toKorea, there are two native Churches in Asia, which. SYRIAN PROTESTANT COLLEGE, BEIRUT, SYRIA. are the first fruits of foreign mission work on that con-tinent. The first to which attention is drawn is The Evan-gelical Svriac Church of Persia. This Church is theoutgrowth of American missions among the Nestoriansin that country, beginning in the year 1835. The firstformal organization was accomplished in 1862, and in1878 a Confession of Faith and a form of governmentwere adopted. The system of polity is essentially Pres- THE PRESBYTERIAN COMMUNION. 531 byterian, with one or two points of difference. Nativeministers, for instance, insist upon the maintenance ofthe tliaconate as a preaching order. The prospects ofgrowth for the Church are encouraging. It has atpresent 50 ministers, 25 churches and 2290 communi-cants. The second denomination is the United Church ofChrist in Japan. This Church originated in missionsestablished, in 1859, by the Presbyt
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