Outagamie County WI Archives Church Records.....Review of the Field
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Review of the Field

WE HAVE given in brief the history of the pastors and their work during the half
century of this church.

    A review of this field since the organization of the church reveals several
noteworthy facts. Beginning as a mission church with less than a score of
families, and organized with seven members, it has increased a hundred fold. At
this date it has received into membership an aggregate of fifteen hundred and
thirty-five members, and has a present membership of seven hundred and nineteen.
The greatest loss of members in any one season was in 1870, when many whose
early affiliations had been in the Presbyterian fold were led to form a church
home more in harmony with their preferences, and with a God-speed they were
given the necessary help in the formation of the Presbyterian church of this city.

    Our first pastor came from the ranks of the missionaries in the service of
the American Home Missionary Society, and from the succeeding pastors this
church has furnished three superintendents in that work, of whom one served
twenty-five years, and of the other two, one continued in the work fifteen years
till the time of his death, and the other, having already served seventeen
years, is still in the field. In addition to these, there have gone out from
among the laymen other persons who devoted their time and talents to that work
in mission churches; while the home church has displayed the same mission spirit
in establishing and sustaining Sunday schools in its immediate vicinity, having
at one time no less than nine under its care, some of which have since developed
into churches. As intimately related to this, it may be remarked that from the
laymen of this church three have been commissioned for work by the American
Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, and six by the American Missionary
Association, and Freedman's Aid Society, while a score more have entered upon
the work of the ministry.


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THE FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH.
APPLET0N, WIS.

PREPARED FOR THE
SEMI-CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY, DEC. 18, 1900.
BY
J. F. FULLER, A. M., Compiler of the "Fuller" Genealogy.

1850—1900.
APPLETON PRINTING CO.,
APPLETON, WIS.


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