Excerpt from Manual of the First Presbyterian Church of Indianapolis: Together With a History of the Same, From Its Organization in July, 1823, to November 12, 1876 Mr. Gaines appears to have spent but one Sabbath with the infant settlement, and the next ministerial visitor was Rev. David C. Proctor, who came in May7 1822, as a Missionary of the Connecticut Missionary Society. He spent one week here, preaching several times, and so far to general acceptance, that measures were taken to secure his services for one-half the time, from the first of October following. During this inter val, Rev. Isaac Reed, a Missionary under the Presby terian Board of Missions, visited the locality and preached on several occasions. He was a man of very moderate abilities, but of commendable zeal and in dustry in the Master's work. He was much addicted to publishing narratives of his tours and other autobi ographical matter, and left two or three small volumes of such literature. 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.