1809-1909 Centennial Souvenir

VIEW OF CEDARVILLE CLIFFS Cuthbertson arrived from Scotland, and for twenty years labored alone among the scattered people." The Reformed Presbytery of America was constituted in 1774, and dissolved during the Revolutionary war for lack of ministers. Twenty years later, the arrival of four ministers from the home churches led to the reorganization of the Presbytery in 1798., fo 1806 this body ratified the Testimony of the Reformed Presbyterian church in the United States of America, previously prepared by a !com– mittee. The Presbyteries of Scotland and Ireland now raised themselves to the rank of Synods, and to avoid the anomaly of a seeming but otherwise unavoidable subjection to either or both of them, the American Presbytery also constituted itself the Synod of the Reformed Presbyterian Church in the United States of North America, which became a delegated body in 1823. The enforced complicity of the Northern States with slavery in the matter of the return of fugitive slaves, brought up the question of the rightfulness or wrongfulness of a church mem– ber's takfr1g part in civil affairs, and led to a division of the 26