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VOL. LXXXVII. RICHMONI
Church Exten
Several years ago the Women's Home Missionary
Union of New Orleans Presbytery, realizing
the need of an aggressive city missionary work,
undertook to raise the money for the support
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ui a cuy missionary. i ne union was aououess
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 Presbyterianism in New
Orleans also showed that during the first fifty
years of our Ohureh 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
fund so impressed the
Home Missionary Com- PipPys f*
mittee of the l'resby- A ,\v - _
tcry that a cali was ox- $$$% ^
tended to l)r. A. Osear ^ *|f| \
Browne, of Texas, to j - ^
the work of City Mis- j _*|j| % \ ''/ '
sionary. Dr. Browne [ W$ki x
was in the employ of \ * "
the General Assem- : ^
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('oirmittce in evangelist
ie work in the West,
portiuied to continue jv>
ruary 14, 1911, at the
First Presbyterian
church, Dr. Browne
addressed the Presbyterian men on "Church Ex
tension 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
ii membership of two hundred loyal and liberal
Presbyterian men, who desire, along with the
Women's Home Missionary Union, to see the
borders of Presbyterian Ism in New Orleans enlarged.
Along
with much 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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vmiiMiii, im vtenuny rerrace, a most Doautnui
and rapidly growincr Ruburban residence section
of the city, and two weeks later, November 12th,
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of Mr. Wm. A. Porleous, at Lake View, another
very choice and growing suburb. In the case
of Gentilly Terrace the Kev. Dr. Theodore F.
Hahn, pastor of the Second German Presbyterian
church, and his people, have been constant from
the beginning in their co operation and help in
the development of the work there, and in the
ease of Lake View, the Rev. C. S. Sholl, pastor
of the Canal Street Presbyterian church, and
1)is people, have been most faithful in carrying
on the work at that point, and both, of these
pastors have held 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.
strong petitions were sent up to the Presbytery
tor the organization of churches at Lake View
and flentilly 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 thus amount has actually
been raised in cash, or good subscriptions, by
the Finance Committee, Dr. Ceo. 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 ehurch year.
The petitions sent np to Presbytery were
granted, and on Sunday, May 2, 1912, exactly
six months from the date of the organization
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or ine onnnay scnooi, rresDyrery s uommission
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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Likewise ou Sunday, June 16, 1912, a commission
of Presbytery organized the Gentilly Terrace
Presbyterian church of New Orleans, with
fort v-nicht. mpmhprs? fliroo nlilorc >!? /?.?
aud a fine Hoard of Trustees.
Choice and centrally loeated lots were secured,
and on Sunday, November 10, 1012, 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.
I5r. 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
nillP nf thie nnmtinr
UM ^ a are from other Pres/.
, byterian churches in
/ this city, the remain"*?
ing thirty-eight being
M-" clear gain to Presbyterianism.
Of this 33
M clear gain, eighteen
) are by profession of
faith and twenty by
?" i 8 statement or re-affir||
-M motion. Twenty-two
?\ g families are renrnsont.
4 M j| eel in this church, and
The property now held
by the Board of Trua
? " "" 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
Gentilly Terrace Presbyterian church was laid
by Dr. S. L. Morris, of Atlanta, Ga. Dr. Browne
announced on this occasion that the Gentilly
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 is
being pushed as rapidly as possible, and though
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 Gentillv Terrace church and fortv-nne heads
of families.
The property, when the church building is
completed, will be worth approximately five
thousand dollars, and no debt on it. and this
at an outlay of only thirty-two hundred and