Home Missionary, The (May 1890-April 1891) . casionally we have a hard season, but the av-erage North Dakota winter is pleasant. There are abundant supplies oflignite coal in the western part of the State for fuel. Favorable a healthful climate, the best of food products, a population com-ing west along the New England belt, and including a large proportionof the best foreign element—that from the Scandinavian countries; withschools of a high order ; with a location that keeps us in touch with the 1891. THE HOME MISSIONARY. 397 outside world through the great trans-continental
Home Missionary, The (May 1890-April 1891) . casionally we have a hard season, but the av-erage North Dakota winter is pleasant. There are abundant supplies oflignite coal in the western part of the State for fuel. Favorable a healthful climate, the best of food products, a population com-ing west along the New England belt, and including a large proportionof the best foreign element—that from the Scandinavian countries; withschools of a high order ; with a location that keeps us in touch with the 1891. THE HOME MISSIONARY. 397 outside world through the great trans-continental lines of travel on whichwe live, it is hard to find a more advantageously located State than NorthDakota. An us help to make our churches what they should be, and help usbuild up Fargo College—our college—and we will give you men andwomen that you will be glad to get hold of for the work they will beable to do. North Dakota expects to raise up and to send out brave menand noble women to help fight the battles of the FARGO COLLEGE IN THE BEGINNING. The first general meeting of the North Dakota pastors occurred Octo-ber 16, 1886. There were present by invitation a number of pastors fromMinnesota. Secretary Barrows of the A. H. M. S. was there, also , President Strong of Carleton College, and SuperintendentMontgomery, on whose motion the following resolution was adopted: Hesolved, That a Committee of five be appointed by this Conventionto take steps toward founding Christian academies in North Dakota; andthat upon such an undertaking we now invoke the divine blessing. 398 THE HOME MISSIONARY. January, The season of earnest prayer which followed will never be forgottenby these consecrated pioneers. At the next annual meeting they hadsufficient faith to pray for a college ! Before this hour of prayer closed$1,400 was pledged for a college, most of it from the Home Missiona-ries. God blessed these sacred offerings, and inspired two of his loyalste
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