Contributions to the Historical Society of Montana . Lodge, Anaconda, Fort Benton, de-ceased, or rather in a state of trance, now revived and ac-tive. Great Falls, White Sulphur Springs, Philbrook, Phil-ipsburg, (I had trouble founding Philipsburg Church, butdoubtless it has been born, the evidence is ample), Missoula,Stevensville, Victor and Skalkaho. This church was thoughtto be dead, probably it was, but shortly after, it rose from PRESBYTERIAN CHTRCH HISTORY. 429 its ashes under a new name, Grantsdale, and conlinues Lnvigor and promise. How many lives a Presbvterian chiireiihas sye do not
Contributions to the Historical Society of Montana . Lodge, Anaconda, Fort Benton, de-ceased, or rather in a state of trance, now revived and ac-tive. Great Falls, White Sulphur Springs, Philbrook, Phil-ipsburg, (I had trouble founding Philipsburg Church, butdoubtless it has been born, the evidence is ample), Missoula,Stevensville, Victor and Skalkaho. This church was thoughtto be dead, probably it was, but shortly after, it rose from PRESBYTERIAN CHTRCH HISTORY. 429 its ashes under a new name, Grantsdale, and conlinues Lnvigor and promise. How many lives a Presbvterian chiireiihas sye do not vnow, but I l^now it is very hard to , the Presbyterian churches in Herculaneum, ifthere were any, perished, with the city. It takes just sucha catastrophe to insure the reliable demise of a Presbyterianchurch. The center of George Edwards parish was White Sul-phur Si)rings, its diameter was seventy-five miles; or, let mesee, wasnt the radius about that! Davis Willson was tryinghis prentice hand in the Clallatin Valley and has been a. THE PHILBROOK PRESBYTERIAN CHAPEL. growing power in it, and blessing to it, all these eighteenyears. Thomas J. Armstrong had just gone to Miles City, aiman of God, influential and beloved. P. M. Stevenson waslaying foundations in Bozeman and reaching out far andwide in abundant labors. T. V. Moore was the new pastorof the Helena church and prospering with the growing city. 430 HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MONTANA. E. J. Groeneveld was closing liis first pastorate in DeerLodge and going to Butte First, where he still continues, theoldest and one of the most honored pastors in the J. Lamont was laying good foundations in Ana-conda. Missoula was vacant. There I preached in thesmallest church building I ever preached in, unless it be thePhilbrook one, which Brother Edwards redeemed, disin-fected, and renovated from a saloon. It was a hath these years wrought in Missoula! John Reid,Jr., was enthusiastically at work in
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