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Title: Contributions to the Historical Society of Montana
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Historical Society of Montana
Subjects: Montana -- History Periodicals
Publisher: Helena, Mont. : Rocky Mountain Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: Montana State Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Montana State Library

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ainter on the building. Tt cost about$5,000.00. A Ladies Aid Society was organized. Ice creamand strawberry festivals, baked beans suppers and churchfairs were more of a novelty in those days than now andbrought better returns, and they raised some $2,000.00.A like amount was subscribed in cash, labor and material.The Board of Church Erection gave $800.00 and $200.00were raised by friends out of town, chiefly among the officersof the Fort Ellis garrison. The first service in the new building was held October 24,1880, and the church was opened free of debt. Meanwhile the church had grown slowly in numbers, butconsiderably in strength and influence in the community. On December 5, 1880, a congregational meeting was heldfor the election of additional elders and deacons. Messrs.Edward M. Gardner and William W. Wyhe were electedelders, Messrs. Davis Willson and John Craig deacons.They were ordained and installed into office March 1, 1831. In March, 1883, Mr. Bichards left us. He had done a
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PASTORS OP THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF BOZBMAN. 1. Robert M. Stevenson, D. D. 4. David S. McCaslin, D. D. 2. Joseph W. Sanderson, D. D. 5. John Norman Maclean. 3. William M. Jack. 6. Robert M. Donaldson, D. D. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH HISTORY. 311 good work. The church had grown to .1 inerabcrship of 77,and where he had found a feeble folk, homeless and j.hnostwithout organization, barely holding the fort, he lefta strong, active church, owning its home, active in ditierentlines of church work, a spiritual prayer meeting, a strong-Sunday school, and a))ove all, a church closely knit togetherand self reliant. This was shown during the next fourmonths, while the pulpit remained vacant, and yet theofficers kept up the regular services, setting an examplewhich the church has followed ever since, whenever itbecame necessary. With the arrival of Rev. Robert M. Stevenson in July,1883, the third period of the history of this church begins.Up to this time ours had been a home mission church, thatis,

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