This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 edition. Excerpt: ...preached 27 times, regular diBCOurces, founded five branch Bible Societies, attended four Baptist Associations, two Methodist Camp-meetings, besides making a number of addresses and preparing the way for other Bible societies hereafter. This has occupied 45 days." This was one of his less successful ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 edition. Excerpt: ...preached 27 times, regular diBCOurces, founded five branch Bible Societies, attended four Baptist Associations, two Methodist Camp-meetings, besides making a number of addresses and preparing the way for other Bible societies hereafter. This has occupied 45 days." This was one of his less successful trips, yet what a record for a month and a half! And much of the time was consumed in slow riding over rough forest roads, a fearful waste of energy and hours according to our modern railway and automabile standards. CHAPTER VII Awakening the East IMPORTANT political and social questions were now beginning to agitate the minds of the people. Public-welfare movements were being inaugurated. Into the discussion of all these Mr. Peck entered with vital vigor. He became an agent of the Colonization Society, a mighty advocate of temperance, a student of the intricate problems of immigration, a stout opponent of the effort to make Illinois a slave state. There was one subject, however, which underlay all others, and which tended to shape and determine their character. It was that of education, better education, higher education. During his years in the West he had used his influence unceasingly in establishing local schools and importing competent teachers. Much more needed to be done. In 1826 there was not a single institution west of the Ohio River, with a standard in advance of that of the ordinary district school. His own schools at St. Louis and St. Charles might have been made abundantly successful had the men in the East shown any practical sympathy for these enterprises. He now determined to visit the Eastern States. He had two motives in view, to impart to others his own zeal for the evangelization of the western country, and to...
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