Gospel pioneering: reminiscences of early Congregationalism in California, 1833-1920
Book digitized by Google from the library of Harvard University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. The son of a Maine Congregational leader, William Chauncey Pond (b. 1830) sailed around the Horn to California as a "home missionary" in 1853. Gospel pioneering (1921) presents highlights of his career in the West: creation of San Francisco's Greenwich St. Church; ministry in the Sierra County mining town of Downieville; story of The Pacific, a Congregationalist-Presbyterian journal; founding of the Pacific School of Religion; and Pond's ministry to Chinese immigrants, centered on San Francisco's Bethany Church
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