Excerpt from A History of Missouri, Vol. 3: From the Earliest Explorations and Settlements Until the Admission of the State Into the Union Early Protestant Ministers and Churches Spanish Authorities Op posed to Protestantism Religious Qualifications Required of Immigrants - First Protestant Ministers in Spanish Territory, now Missouri - First Protestant Baptism west of the Mississippi - Religious Decadence ot early American Settlers - First German Protestant Minister in upper Louisiana on Whitewater First Protestant church west of the Mississippi - Its Members - First Baptist church north of the Missouri river Its Members Pioneer Baptist Preachers and Laymen - Adventure of Elder David mclain with Indians Rev. John Mason Peck Peck's Ministry in St. Louis and the Territory Peck's Observations Baptist Congregations and Associations Pioneer Missionary society Opposition to Missionary society Early Ministers poorly Compensated - Noted early Baptist Preachers - Women's Mite societies - First Sabbath school at Chariton Religious Conditions Prevailing in St. Louis and the Territory in 1812 Distribution of Bibles Rev. Timothy Flint Observations of Flint Pioneer Presbyterian Ministers Members of first Presbyterian church west of the Mississippi - Noted early Presbyterian Ministers - Presbytery of Missouri, 1817 - Pioneer Bible societies First Episcopal Minister at St. Louis, 1819 Members of first Episcopal church at St. Louis First Methodist church west of the Mississippi - Noted early Methodist Preachers - Early Methodist Circuits and Stations - First Methodist Conference, 1810. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.