. History of all the religious denominations in the United States : containing authentic accounts of the rise and progress, faith and practice, localities and statistics, of the different persuasions .. . condition of the Presbytery, however,was such, the demand for laborers at homewas so great, as to render it impossible todo more than send to the people of Lon-donderry a friendly letter. (McKerrowsHist. Secess. i. 230.) The first minister sentout to America by the Secession Church,was the Rev. Alex. Gellatly, who arrivedin 1751, and after a laborious ministry ofeight years, finished his cour
. History of all the religious denominations in the United States : containing authentic accounts of the rise and progress, faith and practice, localities and statistics, of the different persuasions .. . condition of the Presbytery, however,was such, the demand for laborers at homewas so great, as to render it impossible todo more than send to the people of Lon-donderry a friendly letter. (McKerrowsHist. Secess. i. 230.) The first minister sentout to America by the Secession Church,was the Rev. Alex. Gellatly, who arrivedin 1751, and after a laborious ministry ofeight years, finished his course at Octora-ra, Penn. The Covenanters, or ReformedPresbyterians, sent out the Rev. Mr. Cuth-bertson in 1751 ; he was followed, in 1774,by Rev. Messrs. Lind and Dobbin. Asthe Associate Reformed Church was madeup of these denominations, a very briefsurvey of their history will not be out ofplace. OC the Reformed Presbytery, it is only * Wo Vow. the historian. coTrsp^nded with rrnnvof them for a lone hoped will throw mneh liaht uponthis early period of American Presbyterian Wk of PS Duval. PMai: tfaDBHBS ® HISTORY OF THE AS80CIATE REFORMED CHI R4 ll ir) to observe, thai it original!} con-sisted i those who objected to the termson u li ith the Presb} terjan (Ihurch of Scot-land was re-established at the Revolutionof 1668 j they considered thai she had(alien from the attainments she had made,especially about the year 1649, and to which she was hound by solemn COVe-nants. While they professed to rejoice in the blessings secured to Britain by thebanishment of the house of Stuart, they stillregarded the constitution both of Church and State as imperfect, and hence, Whilethey refused to heroine members of theformer, they at the same time declined torecognise the Legality of the latter. Theirmost distinguishing principles, are thosewhich relate to civil government. As thesewill be fully explained by a member ofthai communion, it is not necessary tostate them in
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