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Author: Nevin, Robert P. (Robert Peebles), 1820-1908
Title: Black-robes: or sketches of missions and ministers in the wilderness and on the border
Print source: Black-robes or sketches of missions and ministers in the wilderness and on the border
Nevin, Robert P. (Robert Peebles), 1820-1908
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1872
Publication Info: Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh, Digital Research Library
1999
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Subject terms:
Missionaries.
Missions--United States.
URL: http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/t/text/text-idx?idno=00afq9179m;view=toc;c=pitttext

Contents
Black-robes: or sketches of missions and ministers in the wilderness and on the border
[Titlepage]
Contents
The Jesuit \\ Chapter I. The Priest and the Parson of Two Hundred Years Ago
Chapter II. The Missionary Among the Savages of Superior
Chapter III. Marquette, His Contemporaries and Successors, and What They Accomplished
Chapter IV. The Legend of the Defeat of the Eries
Chapter V. The Faith of the Pennsylvania Border and in the Valleys of La Belle Riviere
The Moravian \\ Chapter I. The Moravians in Eastern Pennsylvania
Chapter II. The "Place of Hogs" on the Upper Alleghany
Chapter III. The "Village of Peace" on the Beaver
Chapter IV. The Journey through the Wilderness
Chapter V. Trouble at Work in the Tents on the Muskingum
Chapter VI. Captain Pipe Plans New Mischief, and What Came of His Schemes
Chapter VII. The Dispersion of the Congregation; Its Restoration, and Its Return to the Muskingum
The Methodist \\ Chapter I. The Methodist Preacher of the Border -- Nascitur, Non Fit
Chapter II. The Arrest, Awakening, Conviction, Conversion, and the Call of the Preacher
Chapter III. The Preacher in the Pulpit
Chapter IV. In the Saddle and on the Circuit
Chapter V. The Cane-Ridge Revival
Chapter VI. Mentionable Men among the Preachers of the Border
The Presbyterian \\ Chapter I. Old Redstone -- Its People and Its Presbytery
Chapter II. The Parson of Seventy-Five Years Ago
Chapter III. The Sabbath-Day and How It Was Sanctified
Chapter IV. The Long Sabbath, and the Great Buffalo Sacrament
Chapter V. The Early Laborers in the Border Vineyard
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