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Title: Home Missionary, The (May 1890-April 1891)
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: American Home Missionary Society Congregational Home Missionary Society
Subjects: Home missions--Periodicals Missions--Periodicals
Publisher: New York : Congregational Home Missionary Society
Contributing Library: Presbyterian Historical Society
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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well as producing a great increase of the population. Seven times larger than Massachusetts, Georgia had in 1880 only sixcities of 1,000 or more inhabitants; one county in Massachusetts hadeighteen such cities. But the masses are going to town now as neverbefore. Atlanta gained 19,000 in population last year. The rudiments of empire hereAre plastic yet, and warm. The changes are rapid. A crisis of oppoitunity already exists. It isthe nick of time for Home Missions in the empire State of the South.A remarkable providence, in whatever aspect considered, is the union abovereferred to, which is at once an important fact and a mighty factor in thecase. It widely opens a door that otherwise must have remained closed.Herein is Gods hand seen and felt. All told there is a universal andpotent conviction God is on the field. This work is of God, and mani-festly so; otherwise it would have come to naught. The outlook is hope-ful an d inspiriting. God speed the Kingdom ! 1890. THE HOME MISSIONARY
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12 THE HOME MISSIONARY. Mayr Congregational Geoegia.—The map showing the location of the sixty-four Congregational churches which are directly or remotely interested inthe work of this Society was accidentally delayed. The distribution of these churches in the northern and middle por-tions of the State, those sections which are the most populous and con-tain most of the conditions of wealth and prosperity, is an important fact.The distribution is strategic for aggression and growth, and can meannothing less, if wisely used, than the making of the State so Congrega-tional as to be compared in this respect, at no distant date, favorablywith the Western Congregational States. More than half of all these churches have been organized since theappointment by the A. H. M. S. of a Superintendent for its work in theSouthern field. They are young chui-ches, and part of an interestingecclesiastical development, and that, too, independently of the A. H. M. S. Fredonia Church, Barnesville, Georg

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