Excerpt from A History of the Presbytery of Kittanning, Its Churches and Schools The following compilation was undertaken by the Presby tery in compliance with a suggestion made by the General Assembly in 1886, that in View of the Assembly's Centennial to be celebrated at the meeting in 1888, Churches, Presby teries and Synods which have not recently done so, arrange for the collection and publication of the facts of their history. Presbytery at its meeting October 13th, i8s6, referred this suggestion or request to its Permanent Committee on History, consisting of Rev. A. Donaldson, D. D., D. H. Sloan and D. Hall, D. D. To this committee, 'and with reference to this special work entrusted to them, Rev. S. W. Miller, D. D., was added June 29th, 1887. This committee offered a report October I2th, 1887, which was adopted, setting forth the features deemed desirable in the contemplated work, and containing suggestions to pastors, sessions, or other persons preparing histories of churches, so as to secure, as far as possible, uniformity of method and of matter. 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.

Excerpt from History of the Presbytery of Columbia, Tennessee There was great difference of opinion among the Presbyterians as to how the new sect should be treated. The conservative element in the Church protested both against the sensational methods used by them, and also against their refusal to submit to the rulings or the decisions of our Church Courts. In spite of considerable opposition on the part of those who sympathized with the revivalists, a decree was passed by our General As sembly declining to recognize the Cumberland Church, and refusing them admittance to our communion services. 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.

Excerpt from A Record in Pictures and Statistics of the Churches of Presbytery and the Work of the Church Extension Committee and Presbyterian Union: Years 1919-20, 1920-21 Synod Of Ohio - Appropriation Payment Of Loan, less discount Miscellaneous. 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.

Excerpt from The Presbytery of Washington and the Churches Under Its Care: Prepared for the Centennial of the General Assembly, May 17, 1888, by Order of the Presbytery, in Response to the Resolution of the Assembly; 1888 Within the arrangements for this Observance, adopted by the Assembly Of the Church North, is the presentation by each Synod, Presbytery, and Church, of a history of its founding and growth. 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.

Excerpt from History of the Presbytery of Indianapolis The church at Bloomington was organized in the Court House, a log building erected for temporary use, and of which a pen photograph remains in the contract for its erection, now to be found in the records of the county. It was, according to the terms of the contract, to be built after the manner of double cabins, the first ten feet square, and the second, twelve by twenty, built ten feet apart, with an entry between. It was to be ten feet high, of round logs, all to be neatly butted, then hewed inside and out; the whole to be covered under one roof with four courses of boards on each side; the floors to be out Of half timber, well hewed and jointed, and two and a half inches thick when they lay on the sleepers; one door (doorway) in each apartment of said house, with one window in the largest, the doors to be fronting the entry, and shutters made to all and hung on good wooden hinges, the house to be chinked with short blocks, after the manner with stone, and well daubed inside and out and made smooth. The dwellings of Bloomington were in harmony with its court house. They were log cabins, and dense for ests occupied most of its streets and lots. In this same year Fort Wayne was vacated by the United States Government as a frontier military post, and it was left a small trading post for bartering with the Indians for their peltries, the same purpose for which it had been first occupied by the French more than a hundred years before. 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.