Guide to Boston and vicinity, with maps and engravings . the Congregational Churches of the nation, more thanthree thousand in nu».iber, scattered from the Atlantic to ihe Pacilic coasts. lis convocation is regarded as one 156 BOSTON AM) IC1M1V. of the most importaut epochs in tlie history of Congre-gationalisai which has occurred since the landiug of thePilgrim Fathers ou Plymouth Rock, which the couvoca-tioa visited duriug their session.. The Missionary House, No. 33 Pembertou Square,is ail object of interest to many who visit the city ofBoston. It was completed early in 1S39, aiul has sinc
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Guide to Boston and vicinity, with maps and engravings . the Congregational Churches of the nation, more thanthree thousand in nu».iber, scattered from the Atlantic to ihe Pacilic coasts. lis convocation is regarded as one 156 BOSTON AM) IC1M1V. of the most importaut epochs in tlie history of Congre-gationalisai which has occurred since the landiug of thePilgrim Fathers ou Plymouth Rock, which the couvoca-tioa visited duriug their session.. The Missionary House, No. 33 Pembertou Square, is ail object of interest to many who visit the city ofBoston. It was completed early in 1S39, aiul has since BOSTON ANI> VICINITY. 157 been occupied by tbe officers of the American Board ofCommissiouer.s for Foreign Missions. It cost abouttwenty-three thousand dcjHars, and is admirably locatedfor the uses which it subserves. In the third story willbe found a cabinet of curiosities collected and sent homeby missionaries. The society which erected this building was organizedin 1810; and as it is the oldest, so it is the largest ofthe institutions of its class in the United States. It hasmissions in China, India, Western Asia, Greece, SouthAfrica, West Africa, the Pacific Ocean, and among theNorth-American Indians ; and its expenditures, someyears, have exceeded five hundred thousand dollars. Themen sustained by it have reduced some twenty-five lan-guages to writing ; published books at presses owned bythe Board in nearly fifty different