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Excerpt from A Directory of the Sacramento Ave. M. E. Church of Chicago, Illinois In February, 1874, a Mission Sunday School was organized by members Of the Western Avenue M. E. Church, and others, taking the name of The Western Ave. M. E. Jackson St. Mission Sunday School. Its first Superintendent was Brother S. Cload, and its ses sions were held in the basement Of the house of Bro. Charles Steers, at 1320 Jackson Street. In the winter Of 1876 - 7, gospel meetings were held here Sunday evenings. Talk Of Church building led to a division in the school, a considerable number withdrawing to organize another school. A little band remained, but soon received fresh accessions and proceeded with their building enterprise. A Church thirty by fifty feet was completed on the corner of Jackson and Francisco Streets and occupied before the church organizationgwas perfected. The register shows that thirty-four persons were received by letter October 6, 1878, and as there is no earlier membership recorded we take that as the birthday Of the Church. It began as a mission Church, but at the end Of five years the missionary relation. Was discontinued and the first pastor sent from the Annual Conference was received. (a list Of pastors is. 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.