1918
J. M. Forsythe - Candidate - September 19, 1918
September 18-19, 1918
Richland Presbytery - Columbia Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Columbia, Tennessee

Churches Represented: Mt. Moriah by J. M. Forsythe

The Committee on Literature and Theology made report, which was on motion adopted.
Moderator and Brethren of Richland Presbytery. We your Committee on Literature and Theology beg to submit the following report. We have had before us Bro. J. M. Forsythe, who is asking admittance into the sacred cause we represent. We assure you that your committee is conscience of the great responsibility laid upon us. We have examine Bro. Forsythe on his experimental religion and internal call to the ministry and feel satisfied that the Lord has called him to preach. Your committee is of the opinion that there are great possibilities before Bro. Forsythe and his usefulness is in a measure in the hands of this Presbytery.
We therefore, recommend that Bro. Forsythe be received under the care of this Pres. a probationer, we further recommend that he shall give careful study to Confession of Faith and Blake's Cond. Theology in connection with his literary studies in Massey School at Pulaski, until the next meeting of Presbytery. We also assign him a test John 3:16 from which to prepare a brief written discourse to be read in open Presbytery at its next session.
S. H. Eshman
T. H. Porter
W. A. Blades
[Source: Minutes of Richland Presbytery of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, September 18-19, 1918, pages 50 & 55]

1919
April 23-24, 1919 - Richland Presbytery - Santa Fe Cumberland Presbyterian Church - Maury County, Tennessee

J. M. Forsythe - Licentiate - April 24, 1919

The Committee on Examinations made a report, which was on motion adopted and is as follows: We your Commitee on Examinations, would submit the following report. We have had before us candidate J. M. Forsythe, and have examined him carefully on Natural & revealed Theolgoy and in the Confession of Faith. And find him proficient in these branches of study. We therefore recommended 1. That he continue in these studies and also take up the Study of Origins & Doctrines of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church by Christman. 2. That he be assigned Ezel. 5:4 for a text upon which to prepare a written discourse to be read at the next meeting of Pres. 3. That Bro. Forsythe be licensed to preach the Gospel at this meeting of Pres.
. . .
Respectfully Submitted,
T. H. Porter
W. A. Blades

On motion the Pres. voted to carry out the recommendations of the Com. on Examination in Licensing Bro. Forsythe at the close of the 11 o'clock service today.

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At the conclusion of this service the Pres. proceeded to carry out the special order in licensing Bro. Forsythe. The Moderator presiding and propenned the constitutional questions. Rev. S. T. Neeley led the prayer. [April 24, 1919, pages 61-63]

[Source: Minutes of Richland Presbytery of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, April 23-24, 1919]

Rev. J. M. Forsythe Passes Away

Word reaches us that Rev. J. M. Forsythe, pastor at Hohenwald and Watertown, Tennessee, died suddenly Monday morning while in a revival at Watertown, where Rev. and Mrs. Vaughn Fults were assisting. The funeral was in the Murfreesboro church Wednesday.

[Source: The Cumberland Presbyterian, September 3, 1942, page 23]

Rev. J. M. Forsythe, Tennessee

"And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, blessed are the dead which die in the Lord, from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors; and their works do follow them."

The above scripture seems to fit the passing of one of our beloved ministers, Rev. J. M. Forsythe of Hohenwald, Tennessee. I had known him intimately since he became a minister. He was one of the best, conscientious men I have ever had association with. He was very sincere, energetic, seeking always after the lost and the salvation of their souls. Brother Forsythe was a God-called preacher and preached what he believed the blessed Word of God taught, reproving and rebuking all sin.

Besides being a good minister of the gospel, he was a splendid father and one of our best citizens.

We do not think of him as being dead--only living in that blessed, happy condition where God has prepared for His people a place of rest, where his loved ones and great hosts of friends expect to meet him in the sweet by and by.

Knowing their great loss, his precious wife and children have our love, prayers, and sympathy. May God bless and keep you all. We shall pray, in a very special way, for the boy who is in the service of our country.
        --W. S. Marshall

[Source: The Cumberland Presbyterian, September 24, 1942, page 20]

Report of the Committee on Mortuary

J. M. Forsythe, Hohenwald, Tenn., Richland Presbytery, died 1942.

[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1943, page 152]