Organized, 1849, by union of the American Protestant Society, Foreign Evangelical Society, and the Christian Alliance, to convert Catholics to Protestantism. It worked in North and South America and Europe, for a number of years, withdrew from France, 1866, and from all Europe, 1873, and ultimately limited its efforts to supporting an American church in Paris.
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