Presbyterians : a popular narrative of their origin, progress, doctrines, and achievements . neral Assembly of the Presbyterian Churchin the Confederate States of America was consti-tuted. It would not, however, be consistent with its charac-teristic principles, nor true to the facts of history, to fixsuch day as the beginning of this Church. That datechronicles merely the integration into one body ofthose scattered Presbyteries, separated from the motherChurch, the cause of whose independence will be here-inafter related. Their glorious heritage, and no lessglorious tenets, linked them with h
Presbyterians : a popular narrative of their origin, progress, doctrines, and achievements . neral Assembly of the Presbyterian Churchin the Confederate States of America was consti-tuted. It would not, however, be consistent with its charac-teristic principles, nor true to the facts of history, to fixsuch day as the beginning of this Church. That datechronicles merely the integration into one body ofthose scattered Presbyteries, separated from the motherChurch, the cause of whose independence will be here-inafter related. Their glorious heritage, and no lessglorious tenets, linked them with historic Presbyterian-ism. The golden chain of their story led back throughtwo centuries of struggle and progress in this mightyRepublic, whose unexampled growth and marvelousdevelopment have been even eclipsed by the advance-ment of that Church, which has ev^er proven an en-lightenment of its citizens and thus a bulwark of itsliberties. Bound by ties of blood to the sturdy peo-ples of Northern Ireland and rugged Scotland, enrichedby noblest types from Holland, France and Switzerland, 473. JAMES H. THORNWELL, D. D. THE SOUTHERN PRESBYTERTAX CHURCH. 479 they trace the gleaming lineage of their principles farback through ages of darkness and trial, illumined bythe saintly zeal and purity of Columba and Waldo, andthe consecrated ability and sacred learning of Calvinand Augustine, to that Scriptural Presbyterianism thatfinds its ablest and fullest exposition in the writings ofPaul. The story of the planting of Presbyterianism in thisland, and of its development, has already been told inthese pages. As early as 1642, according to Briggs, in his essay on Earliest American Presby-terianism, Rev. Francis Doughty, an English Presby-terian minister, preached in Long Island, and subse-quently labored in Eastern Virginia and 1683 Rev. Francis Makemie, a native of Ireland,came from Ulster, and preached in Eastern Virginiaand Maryland. Southern Presbyterians have alwaysreg
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