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Excerpt from A History of the Harriet Hollond Memorial Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia, Pa The Moyamensing Mission School, of which the Hollond Memorial Church is the outgrowth, was organized by members of the old Tenth Presbyterian Church, and first met in a small hall on Christian street, near Tenth. The Rev. A. P. Happer, D. D., who was afterwards known throughout the entire Presbyterian Church by his nearly fifty years of missionary service in China and who died in Wooster, Ohio, October 27, 1894, at the age of 76, was one of the first superintendents. In a letter dated October 17, 1893, Dr. Happer wrote: "In November, 1842, at the request of the teachers, I commenced the duties of superintendent. The hall in which we met was used on week-days for all kinds of secular purposes, often till late on Saturday nights. Some of the teachers had to go on Sunday before school-time to clean it up, and get it ready for the scholars; and then had to go through the streets to gather in the children." 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.