Presbyterians : a popular narrative of their origin, progress, doctrines, and achievements . XENIA SEMINARY, XENIA, REV. FINIS EWING. CHAPTER XXI. THE CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN Rev. J. M. HOWARD, D. D., and Rev. J. M. HUBBERT, D. D. THE Cumberland Presbyterian Church had a veryhumble beginning. Three Presbyterian ministers,Finis Ewine, Samuel King and Samuel McAdow, onthe 4th day of February, 1810, at McAdows home, alog cabin in Dickson County, Tennessee, organized anew and independent Presbytery. It was named Cum-berland Presbytery and became the organic germ of anew denomination
Presbyterians : a popular narrative of their origin, progress, doctrines, and achievements . XENIA SEMINARY, XENIA, REV. FINIS EWING. CHAPTER XXI. THE CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN Rev. J. M. HOWARD, D. D., and Rev. J. M. HUBBERT, D. D. THE Cumberland Presbyterian Church had a veryhumble beginning. Three Presbyterian ministers,Finis Ewine, Samuel King and Samuel McAdow, onthe 4th day of February, 1810, at McAdows home, alog cabin in Dickson County, Tennessee, organized anew and independent Presbytery. It was named Cum-berland Presbytery and became the organic germ of anew denomination of Christians—Cumberland Presbyte-rians. This solemn act was the crisis of a movementand a controversy which had begun a dozen years be-fore. The movement was the great revival of 1800,and the controversy was between the promoters and theopposers of the revival. The great spiritual awakening that swept through theWestern wilderness was kindled in the experience andthrough the agency of one man, James McGready. Hewas born in North Carolina, but studied under John Mc-Millan in Western Pennsylvania. About 1786 he,
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