A popular history of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America . cle headed Caution/the people were warned against himself. They were toldthat a missionary society in New England was about tosend out preachers to the West, but that it was done fora political purpose, and, moreover, the project had itsorigin in the Hartford Convention! The latter was afavorite bugbear at the time, and used on almost everyoccasion on the stump or in the newspapers by a certainclass of demagogues. The motive of the latter was, nodoubt, to prejudice the Southern people against thoseof New England. Mr
A popular history of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America . cle headed Caution/the people were warned against himself. They were toldthat a missionary society in New England was about tosend out preachers to the West, but that it was done fora political purpose, and, moreover, the project had itsorigin in the Hartford Convention! The latter was afavorite bugbear at the time, and used on almost everyoccasion on the stump or in the newspapers by a certainclass of demagogues. The motive of the latter was, nodoubt, to prejudice the Southern people against thoseof New England. Mr. Giddings spent the first year in visiting a numberof settlements and preaching in the Territory. He soughtout the Presbyterians and organized a church in theBelleview settlement some eighty miles southwest ofSt. Louis (August 16, 1816). This was said to be thefirst Presbyterian church organized in the is a special interest attached to this church, inas-much as in 1807 there migrated to Missouri from thesame church in North Carolina four Presbyterian elders. Rev. Lyman Beecher, D. D. (244, 268, 321, 395, 408-413, 415.) RELATION OF CHURCHES TO CERTAIN PRESBYTERIES. 371 and their families, who found homes at this they had no preaching, they were careful to keepup a weekly prayer-meeting and to meet together onthe Sabbath and read sermons. After some time the set-tlement was visited by a Methodist circuit rider, and theyworshiped with them until Mr. Giddings came, when heorganized a church consisting of thirty members. \Rev. Timothy Flint.—The same year (1816) came theRev. Timothy Flint, commissioned by the ConnecticutSociety. He traveled much as an itinerant, directing hisattention to the settlements up the Missouri river. Hewrote a graphic description of the country as to itsfertile soil and salubrious climate, and also described theTerritory as a most important field for missionary in great numbers were coming in and settlingon f
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