---
title: 'Progress Towards Self-Sustentation'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'David Fulton McFarland'
date: 1857-08-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Domestic Missions'
- 'Money, Possessions, and Stewardship'
scriptures:
- 'Matthew 28'
- 'Psalms 122'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/mcfarland-1857-progress-towards-self-sustentation
---

# Progress Towards Self-Sustentation

1857 Presbyterian reports on domestic missions: church debts burden congregations and hinder self-sustenance; urge prudent church-building and describe frontier missionary labors, Sabbath-schools, and prayer meetings.

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