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Show SAYS GAMPS ARE GODLESS Bishop fflordand Declares Mining: Communities ; Have No Ministers. NEW TORK, Dec. 6. Bishop More-land More-land of Sacramento preached here in the Church of Heavenly Rest on church work in California. He pleaded for an endowment fund which, he declared, it was the duty of Easterners to help raise because they largely controlled the mining mi-ning camps. In 92,000 square miles of northern California Cal-ifornia and western Nevada, the bishop said, the population has dwindled to 42,-000. 42,-000. In six counties there is not a Christian Chris-tian church. In one of the largest counties the only place of worship Is a Chinese Josshouse. Scores of mining camps In northern California Cal-ifornia are without a minister. |