Survey Of Huntingdon Presbytery PDF Download

Excerpt from Survey of Huntingdon Presbytery: Consisting of Centre, Clearfield, Bedford, Blair, Huntingdon, Juniata and Mifflin Counties, Pennsylvania The Presbytery felt that a special investigation of the entire area should be made, and an invitation was extended to the Department of Immigration of the Board of Home Missions to conduct a careful and scientific survey of the field. The territory offers an opportunity for a number of special investi gations. The growth and decline of many country churches; the influence of the movement cityward; the buying up of farms from the native born American by either foreign born or those born of foreign parents and its great influence on the country church; the replacing in the soft coal mines of the American and Irish miner of twenty or thirty years ago, by the Slav and the Italian, and its influence on the social and economic life of the Presbytery as a whole, all would have furnished excellent material for exhaustive studies, and even in a specific study of the foreign problem, these factors must not be lost sight of, as they have a direct bearing upon this question. Interest ing studies might be made of counties separately, ascertaining the causes of the decrease of population in certain counties within the past ten years and the growth in others. 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.