Presbyterians : a popular narrative of their origin, progress, doctrines, and achievements . eneral Assembly to the organiza-tion of a separate African Cumberland Presbyterian 476 PRESBYTERIANS. Church. This church has its own General Assembly,and in 1891 reported about 15,000 communicants. Itthen had 22 Presbyteries, 5 Synods, 200 ordained minis-ters, 175 licentiatesand 190 Cum-berland Presbyte-rians adhere withgreat firmness totheir doctrinalviews and denomi-national usages,yet they have evershowed a liberalspirit of fraternitytoward otherChris-tian communions,and have favo
Presbyterians : a popular narrative of their origin, progress, doctrines, and achievements . eneral Assembly to the organiza-tion of a separate African Cumberland Presbyterian 476 PRESBYTERIANS. Church. This church has its own General Assembly,and in 1891 reported about 15,000 communicants. Itthen had 22 Presbyteries, 5 Synods, 200 ordained minis-ters, 175 licentiatesand 190 Cum-berland Presbyte-rians adhere withgreat firmness totheir doctrinalviews and denomi-national usages,yet they have evershowed a liberalspirit of fraternitytoward otherChris-tian communions,and have favoredthe utmost prac-ticable union a-mong the denomi-nations. It wasthis spirit that ledthis church to seekadmission to theWorlds Presby-terian Alliance and prompted the more recent actionby which the Cumberland Presbyterian missionariesin Japan united with other Presbyterians in formingone Japanese Presbyterian Church. Denominational-ism is regarded as a means, rather than an end ; andwere the obnoxious features of the Presbyterian creedremoved, Cumberland Presbyterians would not be found. C. P. PUBLISHING HOUSE, NASHVILLE, TENN. THE CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 477 averse to counsels looking to the reunion of the dif-erent members of the Presbyterian family. From the first this Church has grown, not by acces-sions from other Churches, but by additions from theoutside, by making converts rather than making pros-elytes. Two of the three ministers who organized thefirst Presbytery were brought into the ministry as theresult of the revival, and but three of those who formedCumberland Synod in 1813 had entered the ministrybefore the great revival began. The new Church wasnot the result of a schism so much as the growth of anew body. The great aim of the revival preachers wasto win souls to Christ, not to build up congregations ;and thousands of the converts have joined other com-munions. Instead, therefore, of being the result orcause of schism or division, the Cumberland Presbyt
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