Edith H. Allen

Capitolo 9

helps from the members of the first Church in Portland.

 "In an only year of its history has offered winds thousand
dollars to House Missioni, and it is because of the great action in the
Job of Mission of house of the Presbytery in Portland taken within the first one
Church that that Presbytery was able to suppose same-sustains, and this way
becomes the Presbytery first same-sustaining in the great Northwest.

"This church also raised the instructive affairs of the
Northwest. The university of Albany in Oregon owes its existence in great
you measure to his/her generosity. Academy in Portland was taken ended soon
you give his/her members, and to-day is equal to some secondary school in the
country. The Theological San Francisco Seminario came in a height
action of help and care. The professorate of Ladd is a durable test
of the spirit of that church.

"The numbers in increase of Chinese attracted the attention of the
church and the first mission to the Chinese of the Presbyterian
Church was established in 1885 on petition of the shepherd of the
Before the Church.

"His/her job of mission foreigner has been wide. You/he/she has not only sent
out his/her his/her own members to the field of mission foreigner, but you/he/she has been
to start a liberal supporter of Foreign Missions.
The first Mission Foreign company of Oregon was organized in this
church and the north splendid Board Pacifico of Missions, wide
enough he/she minded to see the whole assignment of the church, you/he/she was organized
here, and it is to-day an anxious supporter of House, Foreigner and
The missions of Freedmen.

"Neither the church has been forgetful of its debt to this that keeps on growing
city of Portland." [The footnote:  the Turn.  Charles L. Thompson, D.D.]

It is probable that illustrations of similar service are multiplied a lot of times
from the history of other denominations.

With this whole glorious service, Christ-full, House Missioni has
administered to only a small part. On sixty millionses of the almost
one hundred of our population are not-Christian and allied without