The Scotch-Irish Presbyterians in Monroe County, Indiana, a Paper Read Before the Monroe County Historical Society November and December, 1908
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ISBN10: 1235763668
ISBN13: 9781235763663
Publisher: General Books
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Height: 0.06 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781235763663
Publisher: General Books
Weight: 0.15
Height: 0.06 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1910 Excerpt: ... SCOTCH-IRISH PRESBYTERIANS IN MONROE COUNTY, INDIANA i. It is not the purpose of this paper to deal with the whole of Presbyterianism in Monroe county, but rather with the psalm-singing Presbyterians of Bloomington and the immediate vicinity. In the first place, I shall leave out of consideration the Cumberland Presbyterians, who, in the earlier days, formed small congregations in Harrodsburg and Ellettsville. They are now reunited with the larger branch of the Presbyterian Church, and, as they were mostly Arminian rather than Calvinistic in faith and practice, they do not naturally fall within the view of this paper. The period with which I propose to deal was one of Presbyterian divisions, and when one contemplates the number and extent of these divisions he sees the necessity for a still further limitation of this subject. Within the memory of many men now living, almost within my own memory, there were not fewer than six distinct and rival Presbyterian churches in Bloomington, viz., --the Old School and the New School Presbyterian Church; the Old Side and the New Side Covenanter, or Reformed Presbyterian, Church, --sometimes called the Old Light and the New Light; the Associate Presbyterians, called Seceders; and the Associate Reformed Presbyterians. This array of Presbyterian sects is confusing and discouraging to start with, but happily time has reduced these six divided bodies to three; and since Old Father Time is still at work, we are not without hope of still better things to come in the way of reunion. Old School and New School were merged into one by the Presbyterian reunion in 1870; Associate and Associate Reformed Presbyterians have merged into United Presbyterians, into whose fold, also, have been gathered, for the most pa...