Memoir of Sylvester Scovel, D. D., late president of Hanover college, Ia., and formerly domestic missionary and missionary agent in the West

James Wood

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'^"7 LIBRA^RY OF THE TheologiealSeminary, PRINCETON, N. J. r BVCas 2765.5 .S3 W66 1851 Wood, James, 1799-1867 She. Memoir of Sylvester Scovel, D. D., late presidentBoo of ',jc^,'^/'/t?/?i.ji^J^'^»ti^^^ 'ttii-Uili^J' Kyt/yo^4^^x^' May 1st, 1840. \ Dear Brother McDowell—It is known to the Board that the Western Agency comprises a very wide field. It extends from three to nine hundred miles in different directions from Louis- ville; and while the travel that annually compas- MEMOIR. 85 field, is excessively laborious, itses this has been attended with greater dangers the last year than But I have beenkindly permittedever before. to and return safely through storms, cold and ice.go The greatest embarrassment in the time is the unparalleled "pressure" which has fallen upon the country. By vu'tue, of a of annualsystem calls, and by the principle in the con-force of your receipts in the nottributors, West have fallen short, but will be shown, by the Treasurer's four hundredReport, to have increased some dollars in the year, beyond the receipts for any similar period. with the above fact, I would sayIn accordance with gratitude, that our voluntary agencies are trustbecoming decidedly more effective; and we show thethe experiment in the West will fully wisdom of the Board in sustaining only its com- and thus drawparatively small number of agents, the Board, in still greater measure, thetowards ouraffectionate confidence of the members of Church.

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• Missionary

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• Langue: English
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'^"7
LIBRA^RY
OF THE
TheologiealSeminary,
PRINCETON, N. J. r
BVCas 2765.5 .S3 W66 1851
Wood, James, 1799-1867
She. Memoir of Sylvester Scovel,
D. D., late presidentBoo of',jc^,'^/'/t?/?i.ji^J^'^»t<^r'<:v>i^^^ 'ttii-Uili^J'
Kyt/yo^4^^x^'<f^^c^^
^/M E M R1
OF
^SYLVESTER SCOVEL, D.D.
i^— LATE
PRESIDENT OFHANOVERf COLLEGE, lA.
AND FORMERLY DOMESTIC MISSIONARY AND MISSIONARY AGENT
IN THE WEST. .
BY JAMES WOOD, D. D.
PROFESSOR NEW ALBANY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY.
NEW ALBANY:
JOHN B. ANDERSON, PUBLISHER.
1851.Entered according to the Act of Congress in the Clerk's Office of the Dis-
trict Court of the United States, for the District ofIndiana, by John B. An-
derson, Proprietor, in the year 1851.
HULLS & SHANNON, PRINTERS,
8*rOURTH STREET,LOUISVILLE.