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VOL. LXXXVII. RICHMON
Church Exten
Several years ago the Women's Home Missionary
Union of New Orleans Presbytery, realizing
;ne neea 01 an aggressive city missionary work,
undertook to raise the money for the support
of a city missionary. The Union was doubtless
well aware of the fact that not a single English
speaking Presbyterian church had been organized
in the city of New Orleans in over fifty
years. The history of Presbyterianasni in New
Orleans also showed that during the first fifty
years of our Ghurch in this city, the most notable
advances were made by an aggressive city missionary
propaganda.
In the early part of 1910 the work of the
Women's Home Missionary Union toward securing
a city missionary
tery that a call^ynm^ ex
ponunea to continue
in that work; but the
appeal from New Orleans
grew so strong y? Hj
that in January, 1011, H
he accepted the call I
and entered upon the I
work of City Mission- I
and Church Extension
Secretary.
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On the night of Feb- * ffA.,..,,.. <?
ruary 14, 1911, at the
First Presbyterian
church, Dr. Browne
addressed the Presbyterian men on "Church Extension
in New Orleans," bringing out some surprising
facts as to our opportunities here, and
urged the organization of a Presbyterian Men's
Union.
Steps were taken that night for an organization,
and the Presbyterian Men's Union was
soon an accomplished fact. This Union now has
a membership of two hundred loyal and liberal
Presbyterian men, who desire, alone with the
Women *8 Home Missionary Union, to see the
borders of Presbyterian ism in New Orleans enlarged.
.
Along with ranch purely City Missionary work
l>r. Browne made a careful canvass of many
parts of the city, and on October 29th 1911, organized
a Sunday School in the home of Mr. D.
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vi uviiviii^ i rrmce, a move neaniuni
and rapidly prowincr suburban residence section
of the city, and two weeks later, November 12th,
South
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D. NEW ORLEANS, ATLANTA. FEBR
sion Wnrh It,
1911, he organized a Sunday school in the (home
of Mr. Wm. A. Porleous, at Lake View, another
very choice and growing suburb. In the case
of Gentilly Terrace the Rev. Dr. Theodore F.
Hahn, pastor of the Second German Presbyterian
church, and hia people, have been constant from
the beginning in their oo- operation and help in
the development of the work there, and in the
case of Lake View, the Rev. C. S. Sholl, pastor
of the Canal Street Presbyterian church, and
uin peopie, nave Deen most taathful in carrying
on the work at that point, and both, of these
pastors have hefld services in their respective
sections, during the absence of Dr. Browne.
Within three and four months, respectively,
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LAKE VIEW PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
ct4-wv?* t? ?1 1?? aj-?
anujig jji-ununs were sent up to me rresDyrery
for the organization of churches at Lake View
and Gentilly Terrace. In the meantime the
Presbyterian Men's Union had set as their goal
for 1912 the raising of ten thousand dollars for
Church Extension in New Orleans. Between six
and seven thousand of this amount has actually
been raised in cash, or good subscriptions, by
the Finance Committee, Dr. Geo. Summey cooperating
and leading in this part of the work,
and it is confidently hoped that the goal will be
reached by the end of the church year.
ine petiTJonR sent up to f resbvtery were
granted, and on Sunday, May 2, 1912, exactly
six months from the date of the organization
of the Sunday school. Presbytery's Commission
organized the Lake View Presbyterian church
of Now Orleans, with twenty-one members, two
elders and two deacons and a fine Board of Trustees
of as fine men as can be found anywhere.
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thern Presbyter/an
UARY 5. 1913. NO.?
New Orleans |
jjikewiBe on dunuay, June lb, 1912, a commission
of Presbytery organized the Oentilly Terrace
Presbyterian church of New Orleans, wibh%
forty-eight members, three elders, three deacons
and a fine Board of Trustees.
Choice and centrally located lots were secured,
and on Sunday, November 10, 1912, the Lake
View church building was formally dedicated
in the presence of eight hundred to one thousand
people, and without a dollar of debt on it.
Br. Browne announced at the dedication that
the Lake View church organization was two days
short of six months old, and that the membership
had increased in that time 120 per cent.,
now having a membership of forty-seven. Only
nine of this number
_ are from other Pres/y
byterian churches in
this city, the remain"*1?
thirty-eight being
m" clear gain to Presbym
terianism. Of this 33
W clear gain, eighteen
M are by profession of
Taith and twenty by
I statement or re-affirjb
i mation. Twenty-two
fi families are represent4
Mt ed in this church, and
% 29 heads of families.
The property now held
by the Board of Trus-iP?^
tees of" View
I church is easily worth
five thousand dollars,
* aiLuoug^n it nas cost the
Presbyterian M e n'e
Union only three thouI
sand dollars.
^ .... ? fKfipSS) On Sunday, Novem
J bcr 17, 1912, in the
presence of another
fine crowd of eight
hundred or one thousand
people, and just five months after the
church was organized, the corner-stone of the
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vieuiiuy ierrace l'resoyterian church was laid
by Dr. S. L. Morris, of Atlanta, Ga. Dr. Browne
announced on this occasion that the Qentilly
Terrace church was just five months old and
had grown in membership from forty-eight to .
sixty-nine with others to come as soon as the
church building was completed. This work i?
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i-uouru xujjiuiy ?? pousioie, ana tnougn
unfinished the first service was held in this new
church on Sunday, December 29, 1912, with a
fine attendance in spite of a downpour of rain.
There are twenty-seven families represented in
in Gentilly Terrace ehuroh and forty-one heads
cyf families.
The nmnerfv wTi(*n +V10 --
_ I 1 J , ...v VUU1V.U ISUIlUIllg ta
completed, will bo worth approximately five
bhon&and dollar*, and no debt on it, and this
at an ontlay of only thirty-two hundred and