The religious denominations in the United States: their history, doctrine, government and statisticsWith a preliminary sketch of Judaism, paganism and Mohammedanism . ent. And though ithas had to sustain several very severe trials, it has continued to in-crease even till now. The Associate Presbyterian Church is strictly Calvinistic in herdoctrine ; rigidly adhering to her standards of Theology, the West-minster Confession of Faith, and the Larger and Shorter government it is strictly Presbyterian, and in conformity with theusages of that body in Scotland and the United States. I
The religious denominations in the United States: their history, doctrine, government and statisticsWith a preliminary sketch of Judaism, paganism and Mohammedanism . ent. And though ithas had to sustain several very severe trials, it has continued to in-crease even till now. The Associate Presbyterian Church is strictly Calvinistic in herdoctrine ; rigidly adhering to her standards of Theology, the West-minster Confession of Faith, and the Larger and Shorter government it is strictly Presbyterian, and in conformity with theusages of that body in Scotland and the United States. In their formsof worship, too, they usually conform to the different sections of the 694 Presbyterians. Denomination, excepting, perhaps, in the use of the Old Psalms ofDavid in metre, to which they firmly hold. They are remarkable fortheir devotional improvement of the Sabbath, and for their high stand-ard of morality. The body has one Theological Seminary, in Canonsburg, Penn.,with two professors, thirty-three students, and two thousand volumesin the Library They have 1 General Synod, 13 Presbyteries, 250churches, 168 ministers, and about 19,000 John Knoxs House. THE CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIANS. The Presbyterian bodyhas always been remark-able for its constant andpunctilious regard for goodorder. Forming a solid opin-ion as to what is right, theyseek to do it in the right as a whole, its mem-bers have always appearedto be governed by princi-ple rather than feeling. Itmay have been the fact, thatin some instances their planshave been better adapted fora settled state of society thanfor a new country; so as-suredly some of their ownnumber have thought, and tosuch a view of the mattermay be ascribed the originof the section of the bodyof which we have now towrite. About the year 1797, theStates of Kentucky and Ten-nessee presented to the trueChristian a painful moral as-pect. Thirty years beforethat period, Daniel Boone,Daniel Boone. ^he extraordinary pionee
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