Presbyterians : a popular narrative of their origin, progress, doctrines, and achievements . heWestern border as early as 1819. Through its presentBoard of Foreign and Domestic Missions, located atSt. Louis, Mo., missions have been established in Japanand Mexico, as well as in the Indian Territory and innumerous towns and cities in our own country. 474 PRESBYTERIANS. The Board of Publication is located at Nashville,Term. Here a large publishing house has recently beenerected, from which books are issued, also a number ofperiodicals, including a quarterly Review, a full series ofSunday-school p
Presbyterians : a popular narrative of their origin, progress, doctrines, and achievements . heWestern border as early as 1819. Through its presentBoard of Foreign and Domestic Missions, located atSt. Louis, Mo., missions have been established in Japanand Mexico, as well as in the Indian Territory and innumerous towns and cities in our own country. 474 PRESBYTERIANS. The Board of Publication is located at Nashville,Term. Here a large publishing house has recently beenerected, from which books are issued, also a number ofperiodicals, including a quarterly Review, a full series ofSunday-school papers, and the central weekly organ, theCumberland Presbyterian. At other points, also, weeklypapers are published in the interest of the Church. The Board of Education and the Board of Minis-terial Relief are, in their respective departments, doingexcellent work. The object of the latter is to providefor the wants of aged and disabled ministers and theirwidows and orphans. To aid in carrying out this pur-pose, a home, known as The Thornton Home, hasbeen established near Evansville, THORNTON HOME, EVANSVILLE, IND. THE CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 475 The work of the Board of Education is to aid youngmen who are pursuing- their studies preparatory toentering the ministry. A Womens Board of Foreign Missions, organizedin 1880, has sent a number of missionaries to Japan,besides contributing largely to the work in Mexico andamong the Indians. Though this Church embraced in its boundaries largeportions of the two sections of our country which werearrayed against each other in the Civil War, it remainedundivided. Whatever differences of opinion had arisenin connection with this conflict, or about the questionswhich led to it, were amicably settled when the warended, and were loner aoo buried as dead issues. Sec-tional lines and distinctions are blotted out and a spiritof fraternity and unity in Christian work prevailsthroughout the denomination. In the years since the war the
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