A popular history of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America . hat plan in Western Pennsylvania; nor werethere any such in the eastern portion of that State, tak-ing Philadelphia as a center, nor south of that on theAtlantic slope; the same may be predicated of SouthernOhio, having Cincinnati as a center. There were, how-ever, numerous churches thus constituted in the WesternReserve section of Northern Ohio, and these were in con-nection with the presbyteries and synods of that portionof the country. The latter judicatures bordered on thoseof Western Pennsylvania; to these chur
A popular history of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America . hat plan in Western Pennsylvania; nor werethere any such in the eastern portion of that State, tak-ing Philadelphia as a center, nor south of that on theAtlantic slope; the same may be predicated of SouthernOhio, having Cincinnati as a center. There were, how-ever, numerous churches thus constituted in the WesternReserve section of Northern Ohio, and these were in con-nection with the presbyteries and synods of that portionof the country. The latter judicatures bordered on thoseof Western Pennsylvania; to these churches must beadded those formed on the plan of union in WesternNew York State. In regard to church polity, the ten-dency was more for Congregationalists to fall in withthat of the Presbyterians, than for the latter to combinewith the former. Says Dr. Lyman Beecher: Three-fourths of the churches formed under the plan of unionbecome Presbyterian. ... It was in this way thatthe New School element increased in the PresbyterianChurch, wholly, wholly. {Autobiography, II., p. 340.). ?% ^^ Rev. Albert Barnes.(399, 401-407, 415-) MEASURES LEADING TO THE DIVISION. 417 The New and the Old School.—How are we to definethe New Schoolism of the time of which we write?Wherein did it differ from Old Schoolism? We mightcharacterize the latter as conservative, and the former asliberal; yet that distinction does not give a clear concep-tion of the difference. Many of those who were termedNew School were Calvinist in doctrine j were fervent inspirit when preaching the gospel, and the Master blessedtheir labors. Some of the most successful revivalists ofthe period were Calvinists, while some, strictly speaking,were not; of the latter class was reckoned Charles , and of the former, Asahel Nettleton. They bothappeared to preach with an earnestness similar to thatof Saint Paul, the original Calvinist. Thus an ardentpreacher or revivalist was usually characterized as a NewSchoolman, while those
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