The intermediate Presbytery met
in the bounds of Mount Moriah, on the second Friday of February,
it being the twelfth of said month, 1813, agreeably to appointment,
for the purpose of attending to the trials of Messrs. Barnett
and Chapman
preparatory to their ordination.
Members
present: Messrs. Ewing,
Harris,
and Calhoon.
Mr.
Ewing was chosen moderator and Mr.
Calhoon clerk. Constituted by prayer.
Mr.
Chapman delivered a discourse from Rom. V,
7, Mr.
Barnett from John III, 16, which
were sustained; after which the Presbytery proceeded to examine
them on Natural and Moral Philosophy, Geography, Astronomy, and
English Grammar.
Ordered, that
there will be a recess until to-morrow morning, sunrise.
SATURDAY MORNING.
The Presbytery resumed the examination
and examined on Church History and Divinity, all of which were
sustained. Mr.
Calhoon proceeded to preach the ordination sermon, from
Mal. II, 7, after which Mr.
Ewing, agreeably to the forms in the discipline and constitution
of the Cumberland Presbytery, proposed the necessary questions,
all of which being satisfactorily answered, the Presbytery proceeded
and set apart the said William
Barnett and Alexander
Chapman to the whole work of the ministry, by imposition
of hands and solemn prayer. Afterwards a solemn charge was given
them by Mr.
Ewing, the whole concluded by prayer. FINIS
EWING, Moderator.
Feb.
13, 1813.
THOMAS
CALHOON, Clerk.