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Preface
v
Introduction
3

PART I--DEVELOPMENT OF CHURCH LIFE

CHAPTER I
 
The field
9
Congregational pioneers
13
     Gov. Richardson
13
     Dr. Geo. L. Miller
13
     Rev. G. G. Rice
15
     Reuben Gaylord
16-18
The Congregational Association of Iowa
19
Development of Church life
20
     Historic date
21
     Temperance work
23
     The Fremont Church
23
The State Association of Congregational Churches in Nebraska
25
Some Discouragements
28
Early declarations
30

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A new era in Church development
34
     Railroad extension
34
     New towns and churches
35
Gaylord as Home Missionary Superintendent
36
     First visit of National Secretary A. H. M. S.
37
     The American S. S. Union
37
     Memorial to Pres. U. S. Grant, in behalf of Nebraska Indians
38
     The Pawnee Indians
43
Removal of the capital
46
     Mr. Gaylord's report
46
     The Fremont Church
47
Rev. O. W. Merrill, Superintendent
48
     Father Gaylord
48
     The prayer-meeting
50
     The Pilgrim's idea and practice
50
     Amos Dresser
51
     Supt. Merrill's report
52
     Rev. J. B. Chase as acting superintendent
53
     Organization of woman's work
53
Rev. H. N. Gates, Superintendent
54
     The ravages of locusts
56
     Rev. Lewis Gregory
57


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xi

Sunday school development
58
Letter from Superintendent Stewart
58
Translation of Reuben Gaylord
60
Letter from Mrs. A. N. Goddard
62
Rev. C. W. Merrill, Superintendent
63
     Modern development of Congregationalism
63
     Nebraska Congregational News
65
     Organization Nebraska Home Missionary Society
65
     Superintendent Merrill's report
67
     The Nebraska Sunday School Assembly
68
     The German work
68
     Letter from Rev. C. W. Merrill
68
Rev. J. L. Maile, Superintendent
71
     Rev. H. Bross, General Missionary
71
     Church activity
73
     Church polity
73
     Letter from Dr. A. F. Sherrill
74
     Letter from Rev. J. L. Maile
75
Rev. Harmon Bross. D.D., Superintendent
81
     Letter from Dr. Bross
81
     Reports from Superintendents Bross and Stewart
85, 86
     The frontier
86
     Revs. G. J. Powell and George E. Taylor appointed General Missionaries
87
     The drouth
87
     The translation of Isaac E. Heaton
88
     A typical meeting
90
     The second drouth
91
     Dr. Crofts on the watch tower
92


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Recent declarations
94
     Army chaplains
94
     The Crete assembly
95
     Divorce and desertion
96
     Polygamy
97
     The New Jersey Plan of Union
98
     Dr. A. H. Bradford's letter
99
     The National Council (1904) on church union
99
     Obstacles in the way
99
     The Geneva meeting and church union
100
     Other declarations 100-102
Centralization
103
The State Advisory Board
104
The Nebraska Idea
107
The ecclesiastical standing of churches and ministers
107
Evangelism
109
The outlook
110
The Lincoln convocation
112
The incorporation of the Nebraska Home Missionary Society *
115
The responsibility of the churches
116
Phases of Church growth
117
Congregationalism in Lincoln,-
Rev. Lewis Gregory
118
The growth of churches
121
The German work in Lincoln and in the state
122
The German Pro-Seminary
123
Congregationalism in the Elkhorn valley-
Col. S. S. Cotton
124


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Congregationalism in the Republican valley-
Rev. W. S. Hampton
134
Rev. Geo. E. Taylor
134
Congregationalism in western Nebraska-
Rev. A. E. Ricker
143
Ogalalla, Nebraska
144
Julesburg, Colorado
145
Pioneer experiences
147
Mrs. E. G. Platt, missionary teacher among the Pawnee Indians
147
Rev. C. S. Harrison
154
The liquor war
156
Rev. A. A. Cressman
158
Dr. George Scott
161
Rev. John Gray
164
Rev. A. E. Ricker
169
"Father Barrow's Story"--Rev. J. B. Storm
188
Woman's work in Nebraska, Rev. Laura H. Wild
191
List of presidents and secretaries, Mrs. H. Bross
196
The Fontanelle school
201
Letter from C. G. Bisbee
206
Causes operating against Fontanelle
207
Discussion of new location for a Congregational school
209
College located at Crete
211
The end of the Fontanelle school
212


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Doane College
213
Dr. Willard Scott's address at the fifteenth anniversary
213
Founding of Crete Academy
215
The founding of Doane College
216
Financial struggle
218
Thomas Doane
219
The Head of the college
226
The deliberation of the trustees
231
Foreign population
232
President Perry's reports
233
Education in the state
237
The attitude of the General Association
238
The minute of Chancellor Manatt
238
The Pro-Seminary at Crete
239
A Committee on Education
240
The college question
241
Gates College
241
Vote to recognize defeated
242
Dr. Duryea's resolution
243
Proposed consolidation of Doane and Gates
243
An educational commission
244
The attitude of Doane College
244
Trouble at Gates College
245
A third school - "Norfolk College"
245
Gates becomes an academy
245
Results of the controversy
245
The standing of Doane College
.246
Attitude of the churches
248


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Congregational academies in Nebraska,
Rev. G. W. Mitchell
254
A comparative study
259
Santee Normal Training School
265
     Character of the training
265
     Pupils in the school
270
     The Riggs family
271
     Arternas Ehnamani
272
     The oversight of the Santee school
275
     Missionaries at Santee
275

PART III

TABLES

I
 
Sessions of the General Association
280

II
 
Superintendents of home missions
281

III
 
Corporate members of the American Board
281

IV
 
On the foreign field
282

V
 
Delegates to the National Council
283

VI
 
List of churches dropped
286

VII
 
Land grants
290


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