[Minutes, 1898-1924] / Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary Society of the Presbytery of Brooklyn.
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Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Presbytery of Brooklyn. Woman's Home and Foreign Missionary Society.
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The widespread emergence of religious organizations devoted to philanthropy in New York City began with the revival of Protestantism in the early 19th century. The reemergence of Protestantism encouraged its followers to provide spiritual and material aid to those in need, and evangelicals responded by establishing a number of benevolent organizations, such as the American Tract Society and the American Bible Society, which were dedicated to the distribution of the scriptures, and t...
