Presbyterians : a popular narrative of their origin, progress, doctrines, and achievements . AMERICA. The history of several of the Presbyterian Churchesin the United States has been discussed at length inother portions of this volume. The limitations ofspace have forbidden the presentation in the work ofcomplete accounts of the remaining denominationalorganizations found on the American Continent. It ishoped that the brief sketches which follow will beaccepted as a slight though inadequate effort to recog-nize and appreciate honored and highly esteemedChurches of Christ. The United States.—Th
Presbyterians : a popular narrative of their origin, progress, doctrines, and achievements . AMERICA. The history of several of the Presbyterian Churchesin the United States has been discussed at length inother portions of this volume. The limitations ofspace have forbidden the presentation in the work ofcomplete accounts of the remaining denominationalorganizations found on the American Continent. It ishoped that the brief sketches which follow will beaccepted as a slight though inadequate effort to recog-nize and appreciate honored and highly esteemedChurches of Christ. The United States.—There are three ChristianChurches at present existing in the United Stateswhich originated on the European Continent. Thefirst of these is : The Reformed Church in Church was founded in New Amsterdam as THE PRESBYTERIAN COMMUNION. 525 a colonial Church by the Reformed Church of Hol-land. The first congregation was organized in 1628with the Rev. Jonas Michaelius as pastor. In 1664the colony was captured by the English and its namechanged to New York, but the connection of the. SEMINARY HALL, WESTERN THEOLOGICAL SKMINARY, ALLEGIIKNY, PA. Reformed Dutch Church with Holland was main-tained and continued until about 1770, when twobodies, one called the Coetus (1747), and the other theConferentie (1755), united in forming a self-governingcourt. The formal and full organization as an Ameri-can Church took place in 1792, when the first GeneralSynod met. Emigration from Holland to the Atlan-tic region ended about 1750, and the 1 hitch languageceased, in New York and New Jersey, to be the vernac- 526 PRESBYTERIANS. ular of many of the people during the first years ofthe eighteenth century. In 1867, the name by whichthe Church had been legally known for three-quartersof a century, The Reformed Protestant DutchChurch, was changed to read The ReformedChurch in America. A liturgy is provided for use inpublic worship, but is not obligatory. The forms forbaptism, communion, ordina
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