"Cumberland Presbyteriansim in Southern Indiana"

CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIANISM

SOUTHERN INDIANA:

BEING A

HISTORY OF INDIANA PRESBYTERY AND AN ACCOUNT OF THE

PROCEEDINGS OF ITS FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY HELD AT

PRINCETON, IND., APRIL 13-18, 1876, TOGETHER WITH

VARIOUS ADDRESSES AND COMMUNICATIONS,

AND A SERMON ON THE DOCTRINES OF

THE CHURCH.

COMPILED AND ARRANGED BY

REV. W. J. DARBY AND REV. J. E. JENKINS.

PUBLISHED BY THE PRESBYTERY.

1876.

PRINTED AT THE

PRINTING AND PUBLISHING HOUSE,

INDIANAPOLIS.

INDIANA PRESBYTERY.

OFFICERS.

Moderator	Rev. W. M. MEDCALF
Stated and Permanent Clerk	Rev. W. J. DARBY
Treasurer	Rev. W. B. CRAWFORD
Financial Agent	Rev. W. M. MEDCALF
Educational Agent	Rev. W. J. DARBY

STANDING COMMITTEE ON MISSIONS.

Rev. J. E. JENKINS, Chairman.        H. J. SCHLAEPFER, Treasurer.

Rev. W. J. DARBY, Secretary.         Rev. L. L. LORIMOR.

SAUNDERS B. SANSOM.

BOOK COMMITTEE.

Rev. J. E. JENKINS.                                                              A. J. CALKINS.

WILLIAM KURTZ, Depository, Princeton, Ind.

MEMBERS.

Rev. J. J. BALLEW	Boonville, Ind.
Rev. W. B. CRAWFORD	Union, Pike co., Ind.
Rev. W. J. DARBY	Evansville, Ind.
Rev. J. B. HADLOCK	Cynthiana, Ind.
Rev. S. L. HARRISON	Vincennes, Ind.
Rev. MASON HEDRICK	Oakland City, Ind.
Rev. A. F. HUTCHINSON	Petersburgh, Ind.
Rev. J. E. JENKINS	Princeton, Ind.
Rev. L. L. LORIMOR	Newburgh, Ind.
Rev. P. B. MCCORMICK	Princeton, Ind.
Rev. W. M. MEDCALF	Patoka, Ind.
Rev. THOMAS WALKER	Owensville, Ind.

LICENTIATE.

O. E. HART

Evansville, Ind.

CONGREGATIONS.

*Name.*	*Clerk.*	*Address.*
Bethel	W. B. KNOWLES	Owensville, Ind.
Bethlehem	JEREMIAH HILLMAN	Union, Pike co., Ind.
Boonville	W. J. L. HEMENWAY	Boonville, Ind.
Chandler	T. P. MEDCALF	Chandler, Ind.
Ebenezer	H. H. MCCLURE	Oaktown, Ind.
Evansville	W. G. RALSTON	Evansville, Ind.
Fort Branch	GEORGE BELOAT	Fort Branch, Ind.
Hermon	ISAAC SMITH	Lovely Dale, Ind.
Mt. Zion	WILLIAM SHELTON	Cynthiana, Ind.
Newburgh	F. MACY	Newburgh, Ind.
Oakland City	W. H. COLEMAN	Oakland City, Ind.
Patoka	W. J. HALL	Patoka, Ind.
Petersburgh	J. H. MILLER	Petersburgh, Ind.
Princeton	A. J. CALKINS	Princeton, Ind.
White River	A. L. CASE	Otwell, Ind.

EXPLANATORY.

At the meeting of Indiana Presbytery, held at Owensville, in April, 1875, the undersigned were appointed a committee to make arrangements for the suitable celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Presbytery, which would occur in the succeeding year. According to instructions, invitations to join in the celebration were extended to all ministers who had been connected with the Presbytery at any time since its organization. A programme for the occasion was prepared and reported to the Presbytery in October, which was accepted as satisfactory, and at the recent anniversary was substantially carried out.

When the committee set about preparing a history of the work of the past half century, with a view of its being printed in connection with the minutes of the anniversary, they had no thought of its being extended beyond the limits of a score of pages, but the work has grown upon their hands, until the following pages are the result. As they have progressed with their work, they have become more and more impressed with their unfitness for so solemn a duty, and with a consciousness of the fact that there were giants in those early days, the grandeur of whose heroic deeds their successors had failed to appreciate. While our thoughts during the past months have mingled with them in scenes of labor, hardship and triumph, we have felt a fresh inspiration coming upon us, and have gathered new zeal for the Master's work. This was the experience of very many who were privileged to participate in the exercises of the recent anniversary, and it is hoped that a like blessing may, in some measure, at least, descend upon all who may read these pages. It were useless thus to study the past, unless we are to be thereby fitted the better to do the work of the future.

Much that is here written can only be of local interest. It is simply designed for distribution among the congregations composing this Presbytery, a fact that the general reader, not specially interested in our work, must bear in mind.

May the record of the half century now upon us be replete with noble deeds, humbly, faithfully performed in the name and to the glory of our common Lord!

"Our vows, our prayers, we now present
Before thy throne of grace;
God of our fathers, be the God
Of their succeeding race."

W. J. DARBY.
J. E. JENKINS.

EVANSVILLE, IND. May 20th, 1876.

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