. Christian herald and signs of our times. below has had for its field of opera-tions a territory extending almost from theequator to the Arctic zone, and is one thatabounds in interest and momentous results. Rev. Sheldon Jackson, D. D., has forthirty-seven years been one of the mostprominent pioneer ministers of the Presby-terian Church of the United States. Bornat Minaville, N. Y., in 1834, he graduatedat Union College in 1855, and PrincetonTheological Seminary in 1858. Ordainedto the ministry by the Presbytery of Al-bany, May 5, 1858, he, with his wife, wentas missionary of the Foreign Boar
. Christian herald and signs of our times. below has had for its field of opera-tions a territory extending almost from theequator to the Arctic zone, and is one thatabounds in interest and momentous results. Rev. Sheldon Jackson, D. D., has forthirty-seven years been one of the mostprominent pioneer ministers of the Presby-terian Church of the United States. Bornat Minaville, N. Y., in 1834, he graduatedat Union College in 1855, and PrincetonTheological Seminary in 1858. Ordainedto the ministry by the Presbytery of Al-bany, May 5, 1858, he, with his wife, wentas missionary of the Foreign Board to theIndian Territory on the frontier of health failed in that malarious climate,and he became a Home Missionary forWestern Wisconsin and Southern Minne-sota, from 1859 to 1864. with headquartersat La Crescent, Minn. He afterward hadgeneral charge of the mission work inSouthern Minnesota, and later was appoint-ed Superintendent of Missions for Northernand Western Iowa, Dakota, Nebraska, andthe regions beyond, comprising one-. AN ALASKAN INDIAN CANOE CONVEYING MISSIONARIES. and covered by the territories of Montana,Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizonaand Utah. He remained in this work untilJanuary, 1882, when he spent a short timein the East. Dr. Jacksons field of workbeing among the exceptional populations ofthe country, he became the originator andone of the chief promoters of the WomansExecutive Committee of Home organized the first Presbyterian mis-sions or churches in the Territories of Wy-oming, Montana, Idaho, Utah, Arizona andAlaska, and he founded the Alaska Mis-sion. He assisted in the organization ofthe Svnods of St. Paul in i860, and Colo-
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