Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: needed to be more tightly cemented and a greater spirit of thrift and economy instilled. It would be necessary therefore not only to instruct along all the different lines of church work, but in everything that would tend to the upbuilding of a noble manhood and womanhood, as industry, economy frugality, temperance, and godliness, and these would have to be taught as all successful church work is taught not so much by precept, as by practical example. Having reached these conclusions after a most careful painstaking canvass of the field for three months, we concluded to remain and enter upon the work as a permanency, and to put forth every exertion making use of every legitimate means to establish presbyterianism among the colored people in this part of Philadelphia. Our first effort was to effect as speedily as possible the organization of the mission into a church, as this was advised by some in order to secure both confidence in and permanency to the work. Committee Appointed Sy Pressytery. Accordingly on the 3rd, of May 1880, a committee consisting of the Missionary, Rev. M. Anderson, Messrs. Wm. W. Still, John Payn, Seth J. Clark, Gilbert Brown, and Joseph Nichols were appointed to meet the Presbytery of Philadelphia Central, to convene at the George Chandler Mission, now Beacon Church, with a petition from the Gloucester Mission, which was signed by upward of two hundred petitioners praying that the mission be organized into a Presbyterian church. Afer hearing the petition, and the commissioners it was unanimously agreed by the Presbytery to send a committee to the mission and if the way were clear to organize it into a church. The following committee was appointed: Reverends Samuel A. Mutch- more, D. D., W. D. Nicholas, D. D., and L. Y. Graham, D. D., Elders John B...