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Show Ae he et iG ALD PROTESTANT CHURCHES IN NEW MEXICO 353 In 1866 the Presbyterians purchased from the Baptists the church edifice of the latter at Santa Fé. In 1867 a school was established at Santa Fé under the Presbyterian Board of Home Missions, followed, in 1872,?"8 by another at Taos, which was in charge of Rev. J. M. Roberts. In 1876, early in the year, the Rev. John Menaul established a school at the pueblo of Laguna, which was continued for upwards of twenty years. Rev. Menaul obtained a printing press and with his own hands printed tracts and other documents in the Spanish language, distributing them throughout all parts of the territory. In this year was commenced the publication of a newspaper called the Revista Evangelica, which, however, went out of existence in 1879. In the fall of 1876 a mission school was established among the Zufii. In 1877, the secretary of the Board of Home Missions visited all of the church missions in New Mexico and in the following year Dr. Menaul ?”° began the publication of a newspaper called “™ Stewart, Robert Laird, D. D., Life of Sheldon Jackson, New York, 1908. Rev. Sheldon Jackson visited New Mexico in 1870, at which time the territory of New Mexico was almost as distinctively Mexican in its language, customs, civilization, and methods of accomplishment in every field of labor, as when it A 6 SY a part of the United States a quarter of a century before. He found “field itself, throughout its vast extent, was distinctively foreign missionground, its population being alien in faith, language, customs, education and sympathies. It was also included within the bounds and under the care of a newly organized presbytery and synod, every rood of which was recognized a home mission territory. It was in a word, the meeting-place of both Peties and departments of the missionary work of the Church.’’ son NieAs the advance agent of the Home Board, and of the synod, Sheldon Jack- Concerned mainly with the magnitude of the work before him and the duded zect methods of accomplishing it. His first trip tc New Mexico infound Santa F €, the ancient capital of the Territory. . . At Santa Fé, he cP Pe eeal associates and a cordial welcome at the home of the Rev. D. the e and, who opened the first mission in the Territory, under commission . ~Sa of Domestic Missions (0. S.), November 22, 1886. F. of In October, 1871, as tesbytery of Santa Fé, which covered the entire Territory, reported only arm napa and five churches. One of this number was a chaplain in the to ths ae were pastors of home mission churches, and two were missionaries other ¢ ‘avajO Indians. Beside these, there were six ministers belonging to Tepreg onnections or denominations, making in all a missionary force of eleven ives of the Protestant Church.’’ Pregh . 1870 Rev. John Menaul had been sent by the Foreign Board of the of io Church to the N avaj6 Mission, where he remained until the spring : the experience which he had among the Navajés, and later, for a f the a among the Apaches, was a valuable preparation for his work at In 1852, Rev. Samuel Gorman, a Baptist missionary, ou a of Laguna. h Only si his way to the pueblo of Laguna. For almost a year he met with h ed wccess: _ Through the efforts of Captain H. L. Dodge of the army, eded in making some headway, and finally, the Indians adopted him and EE AOR DE Tl |