The sun., 1893-10-06
BEyJytIIsT PREsBYrERIANs.
Prede stiuntion IL Rejected by thc Cumber-
land Church. which DR.. Briggs May Join.

Predr r,tiuntIon 4. Rejected by thc Cumber-
land Church. which DR.. Briggs May Join.
The Cumberland Presbyterian Church. OF
which It Is reported DR.. Briggs will become a
Nom Der. was born Of the first great schism in
the Presby terlan Church In this country. The
schism grew out OF the great Western revival
OF 1907 revival that some ecclesiastical
writer's esteem rs having secured the Missis-
sippt Valley to Protestantism.
So great was the demand for Presbyterian
ministers In southwestern Kentucky aftor the
|. revival that the practice grew up OF appoint
ing lay exhorters. These men had not pur-
sued the classical and theological studies re-
auired OF candidates for the Presbyterian min
istry. and some OF them were even permitted
to except to that part OF the Calvinistio belief
that seems to some persons to involve fatal
ism. Because OF the presence OF these lay
exhorters In part OF the Presbytery OF Transyl-
vania. that Presbytery was divided In 1902
and the Presbytery OF Cumberland was cre-
ated. This new Presbytery included within
it's bounds most Of the lay exhorters and some
unlearned licentiatos.
The new Presbytery ordained to the regular
ministry in 1903 two OF tho licentiates. Finis
Ewing and Samuel King and at the same time
licensed other uni learned persons to preach the
GospeL Ordination In the Presbyterian Church
is the solemn ceremony whereby candidate
for the ministry is invested with full clerical
powers. The Synod to which the Presbyteries
OF Transylvana and Cumberland belonged re-
ceived at its session OF 1905 omplaints touch
ing Irregularities upon the part OF the latter
Presbytery and the Synod appointed com
ritory rHia Of the Presbytery and investii
end Favored to induce the newly ordained min
isters to submit to an examination touching
their faith and scholarship. and at length for;
Sade them to exercise clerical functions until
they should submit themselves to the order OF
the synod. The rival members OF the Pres.
terial acts. and appealed directly to the Synod.
The reply Of the Synod was to exhort the re-
end ss sS Synod the
Cum berand and reincorporated it with the
Presbytery OF Transyvanla.
and nale then Taf IN iso. Finis Ewing samuel King.
and samuel an AGED ordaipee F minis
isas Prssbytoran &c ch1reh for prompt.
~ suspended az schismatic by the Presby-
byterianism SO commend d ed itself to the south
west that in three years it had grown into three
ranzsd General in and
nss t4 s55 S hs church sna ss' nsaIs SS fssSs
s9'''S",e" at mSre than ss5o6.ooO. and it is the
Southwest. 1t still clngs to the revival sys-
tenn out OF which it was born. and looks with
approval upon camp meetings 1t has improv-
now controls many academies. colleges. and
universities in the Southwest. coored Cum
berland Church. an amicable offshoot OF the
original body. has considerable strength in
Kentucky and Tennessee.
The Cum berland Presbyterians reject SO
much OF the Calvinistic faith as teaches that
God has preordained any part o; the human
race to eternal da,nnation. They hold that the
irin nfn IT, nj
should accept it. and that the operation OF the
Holy Spirit is coextensiye wi III the atnnement
They hold by the Calvinistic doctrine as to
the necessity Of the Holy Spirits work in re.
generation. and as to the perseverance, OF
saints. Theo!ogans regard the belief OF the
mberland Preshyterians as an attempt to
steer between Calynism and Arminianism.