A Historical Sketch of the Reformed Presbyterian Church General Synod

‘>0 REFORM !• H I’KI SMVThKIAN CHURCH G 1 N 1 K A L SYNOD Klve you a view of what they were then, as printed In the Min­ utes of General Synod of that year. CHICAGO PRESBYTERY Lima—Milton, Rock County, Wisconsin. Washington — Rev. A. R. Gailey, Elgin, Kane County. Illinois. Chicago — Rev. S. M. Ramsey, 17 N. Curtis St.; Church, cor. Fulton and May Sts. Bloom — Rev. Samuel Young, Bloom, Cook County, 111. Monmouth — iMr. Martin, (Monmouth, 111. Somonauk — Mr. Isaac Kirkpatrick, Sandwich, DeKalb Co., Illinois. EASTERN PRESBYTERY Amherst and Sackville — !Rev. Alex. Clark, D. D., Amhdrst, Nova Scotia. Ohimogue and Port Elgin — Rev. Samuel Boyd, Cbimogue, New Brunswick. Goose River 2nd — Amherst, Nova Scotia. River Herbert —>Mr. James McAleese, River Herbert, No­ va Scotia. Nappan — Mr. Joseph Coates, Nappan, New Brunswick. Goose River 1st — Mr. Keiver Hunter, Goose River, Nova Scotia. In each of these Presbyteries there were six congregations. Chicago had three ministers and the Eastern two. As there was a cause for their organization, there must have been a cause for their disorganization. The Chicago Pres­ bytery is not listed in the Minutes after the year 1876, and the Eastern Presbytery not after 1896. There must be more than one cause for these many changes and failures in keeping up the congregations large and small in the entire church. 1. After the Civil War, there was a wave of emigration to the west that drew away many from the eastern churches. This