The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-03-11

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In Pittsburg In er E Sasiras de-
ietvsse1anaad nqs GiTiagAf 3feeestins
facts in the history re- 1hie iipgulal
paaeA fpR sRhjcb we make the fol.
lowing extracts. -
Sixswyt9gvsgoy't ,Io fourth day OF
dgls I10a1A, Rho alssts Prrsbysefy of
t-eur a0hsMebspas segsnizsll inGnasber-
| lai61esqnfy, Geqaksexn thn'ysar SOC
i~Woa6erfnl mdmest gracious, crevi-
xalsefsse}iuiaa bsQke out in the. Pres
i.bytexjap Church Ia. The Mississippi
Valley. This,reyi yal extend ed to Penn.
sylyapiA 5nt fhe Aeat Of the revival
Vas Is Kehtuekev. Itwas not excln.
sfvels confined to the ffesbyterian
denomination, dut it also exteMdcd to
The M6thodlst nid Baptist Churches,
but thesle&0cre I'm CHS revival we're
fehosR seseyteuians. - heIpexivat con-
tinued for five years. The great scry
~ Ne selnaveh4zst that. time was for
more mipisters. T0-snPply the church
es that we're established with min
FietsEs.was almost impossible, Among
the many young men that were
brought into the ministry dnrihg the
fevivaf were King, Ewing aid Ma
cadue. They were men of piety, and
were yefy 6ptiaf WIZ TIVE churches,
The churches se,it up q petition for
/ the iicsiisiny OF stlIese men, which was
granted. They commenced % preach
AND they wefe'w onderfully blessed in
their preaching. Their. ministry was
"a great sucreyy md may churches
we're Organized. They. seemed TO be
= necessity, . necessity that sprapg
out ofaHeVigal. The Presbytery con-
adhered the matter and agreed to- or
dains themsG These three young men,:
when fbeyswere spoken 70 "a the sub
jecf or their ordination, said that they,
'eenA nat with their present views.
fully adept the Westmiaister sConfes-
'sioM Of Faith They asked the Pres
.bytery 80 make IN exception with re-
gard to the article On the subject Of IA
la1ity, and said that ii MI otter re-
specie they were. willing to, receive
the beoksa The Presbytery-coHsiiered;
tlseinatseS, alid agreed sos-dain them
notwfthstandng the di(Ferancc.9 The
Synod of Kentucky, however, called
this Prcsbytery to account and feaui-
red tfeuT stO Eecaasiaer their ssction
and to require the young men to receive
the whole book, or that they should
take their parchments from them, a
The presbytergrcfused to do this, and
separated from the old Presbyterian
Church, and fotfied the denomination
now known as the Cumberland Pres
byterians The Synod, in searching
for reasons for her conduct in relation
to this Presbytery, brought another
objection whichL have.noticed. She
brought up the-question of educa-
tiou i'm refer ence to these men. But
the need ofyouBg men, for the minis
try was so pressing that the Presby-
terry were willing to ordain these men
without a classical education. Al
low me to Remark that while in the
old book tt ere,is requirementsthat
all who enter the ministry must be
educated, yet there have
been many exceptions to this rule in
the history of the Church. Our requi-
rement isthat he should learn all thai,
he possibly CAM. - "a
The speaker then reviewed briefly
the sdocrines-pf the Church, after
which hc1alluded to its great prosper
ity. 81
The denomination has now one AS
sembly rs Sypods, Sc Presbvteries,
l 200 ordained ministers. licentiates
and from1 20, 600 to l25,0OO cOmmuni-
capfs