Unavoidable Failure: Oscar Elmer's Frontier Mission Work in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, 1869—1871
The Reverend Oscar Elmer's home missionary work in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, 1869—1871, was deemed a failure because his assigned congregations did not grow. However, Elmer's work was doomed to fail by forces beyond his control. His daily journal reveals his training, skill, and firm dedicat...
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| Language: | English |
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2004
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The journal of Presbyterian history
Year: 2004, Volume: 82, Issue: 2, Pages: 89-107 |
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| Summary: | The Reverend Oscar Elmer's home missionary work in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, 1869—1871, was deemed a failure because his assigned congregations did not grow. However, Elmer's work was doomed to fail by forces beyond his control. His daily journal reveals his training, skill, and firm dedication to the difficult work of frontier missions. But Elmer's situation became a node of conflict for denominational politics in the Presbyterian Church, and economic forces governing railroad-building and settlement patterns in Minnesota. Exacerbated by ambivalent reinforcement from support networks and the phenomenon of “overchurching," these conditions made Elmer's failure in Sauk Centre unavoidable. |
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