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1823-A. S. Mountain, Jonathan B. Smith, William H. Brown, John H. Hopkins, Dorsey B. Pentecost, John C. Campbell, Roswell Marsh, James R. Pentecost, Thomas Ustice White. 1824-James C. Simonson, Richard Bid- dle, Thomas L. Rodgers, James Todd, George Watson, W. W. Fetterman, Charles H. Israel.
1825-William W. King, John Londen Gow, James W. MeKennan. H. B. Tomlinson, Richard Bard. 1826- Alexander Wilson, Isaac Leet, Charles Coleman. 1827- Edward D. Gazzam, Edward McFarland. 1828-George Selden. 1829-John Glenn, Benjamin S. Stewart, Sam- uel Creigh, Ethelbert P. Oliphant. 1830-Samuel Gorm- ly, Francis C. Campbell, Griffith J. Withey, George A. Acheson.
1831-William R. MeDonald, Nathaniel P. Fetterman, Joshua B. Gowell, Thomas L. Shields, James Watson. 1832-Alexander W. Acheson, Charles W. Kelso, Thomas S. Humrickhouse, Samnel Cleavinger, David Walker. 1833-Benjamin Patton.
1834-James Veech, Thomas J. Gass, Richard H. Lee, Thomas B. Beall. 1835-R. F. McConnauhey, William Allison. 1836-David Blair. 1837-William McKennan, Thomas J. Bingham. 1838-Daniel Baldwin, T. J. Fox Alden. 1839-Samnel Frew, Daniel M. Edgington. Dan- iel Leet, .Joseph Henderson, J. P. Avery.
1840-Lewis Roberts, Isaiah Steen, Robert Woods, Robert H. Koontz, Peter F. Ege, Thomas R. Hazzard. 1841-Ross Black, John H. Deford, Thomas McGiffin, Seth T. Hurd, Samnel Kingston, Simon Meredith, Will- iam Montgomery.
1842-Robert F. Cooper, John Watson, Jr., Francis G. Flenniken. . 1843-Obadiah B. McFadden, George Acheson, Solomon Alter, Alesander Murdock, William F. Johnston, Jonathan D. Leet. 1844-Uriah W. Wise, James Dunlop, John D. Creigh, J. W. F. White, Henry H. Clark, William Wilson, Ebenezer Boyce, G. W. Me- Ilvaine, R. F. MeIlvaine. 1845-Job Johnston, Alex- ander Miller, Richard J. Allison, J. Bowman Sweitzer.
1846-Thomas H. Baird, Jr., R. C. Ingall, David Reed, George Scott Gart, William Grayson, Elbridge G. Crea- craft, George E. Appleton, Wilson McCandles, George
W. McGiffin, John P. Penny. 1847-Joseph S. Morrison, John McKee, Andrew Hopkins.
1848-David Craig, R. S. Moody, John J. Pierson, W. M. Farrar, William S. Moore, George H. Oliver, J. A. F. Buchanan. 1849-Thomas W. Porter, Daniel Donehoo, Daniel M. Stockton, William Baird, David S. Wilson, Daniel Kaine, John C. Flenniken. 1850-William Linn, Samuel G. Pepper. 1851-Ellis Gregg, Harvey J. Van- kirk, Alfred Howell, John M. Stockdale, Huston Quail, J. Lawrence Judson. 1852-Marens W. Acheson, D. W. Bell, William L. Bowman, Jacob F. Slagle.
1853-Alexander Wilson, George W. Miller, John D. Braden, John B. Krepps, Robert M. Gibson, Samnel M. Semmes, George A. Peare. 1854-Charles Naylor, A. S. Ritchie, A. P. Morrison, A. S. Fuller, John C. Messenger, John Nicholls, Robert F. Stean, B. W. Lacy, 1855- Samuel N. Cochran, Samnel Cole, Jr., Peter B. McMahon, William Mills, Eugene Ferero. 1856-John H. Craig.
1857-Jasper E. Brady, Addison Oliver, Alexander M. Gow. 1858-Thomas Ewing, John R. Donehoo, William A. Stokes, Ira J. Lacock, Francis F. Fitzwilliams, Jona- than W. Mott. 1859-William E. Gapen, R. P. Lewis, Archibald McBride, James Lindsey.
1860-Andrew A. Pnrman, Freeman Brady, Wilson N. Paxton, William F. Templeton, Charles MeClure Hays, H. G. Rogers.
1861-"John G. Ruple, Leroy W. Little, *Isaac Y. Hamilton, Mordecai B. Massey, James R. Rnth, #Boyd Crumrine, Thomas Boyd, William J. Patton, James Mur- ray Clark.
1862-David Crawford, Robert A. McConnell, William C. Lindsey, Isaac Bailey, George W. Caldwell. 1863- Hill Burgwin, James S. Rntan, Samuel B. Wilson, Wes- ley Wolf, Samuel O. Taylor, A. W. Wilson, Simon Buck- ingham, Daniel W. Leet, Eugene Tarr. 1864-A. W. Aiken, Samuel F. White.
1865-Marshal Swartzwelder, David F. Patterson, #Henry Gantz, R. Galy Barr, David S. Smith, Joseph Hays. 1866-John L. Gow, Ianthus Bentley, *Charles M. Ruple, John S. C. Weills, David T. Watson, J. W. Kirker.
"1867-M. L. A. MeCracken, George L. Gow, William Owens, Ebenezer Williams, Jr., George Shiras, Jr., Bis- hop Crumrine, "John W. Donnan, ** John A. MeIlvaine, John W. Wiley, W. C. Moreland, John W. Mc Williams, J. G. Wood, Solomon Bell, John W. Donaldson, R. B. Patterson. 1868-A. G. Cochran, R. L. Morrison, R. C. Hoffman, Alexander M. Todd, George R. Cochran, W. M. Nickerson.
1869-Marcus C. Acheson, Henry M. Dongan, *Joshna R. Forrest. Cicero Hasbrouck, *James W. McDowell, David W. Brown, L. MeCarrell, James L. Black, James P. Sayer, John Aiken. 1870-Franklin Ezra Oliver,
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John Milton Oliver, Clark Riggle, George Fetterman, Osear L. Jackson, HI. P. Mueller, William MeEurne.
1871-Jacob Davis, Joseph MeK. Acheson, Daniel N. McCracken, B. F. Lueas, *Georgo O. Jones, Leopold Beeker. 1872-W. G. Guyler, G. W. G. Waddle, S. A. MeClung, William S. MeFadden, William Blakely, B. C. Christy. 1873-J. Hanson Good, Nathaniel Richardson, E. G. Creacroft, *John H. Murdoch, JJohn MeCracken HIoon. 1874-Edgar Galbraith, John Dalzell, William H. White, J. B. Jones, Thomas Henry, John R. Brad- doek.
1875-John M. Kennedy, David M. Martin, *T. Jef- ferson Dunean, Charles W. McCord, James L. Berry, George A. Hoffman, Jr. 1876-John W. Morehead. Esaac S. Van Voorhis, Jolin A. Moninger, B. Frank Montgomery. William O. Crawford, John H. MeCreary, A. S. Miller, Julian B. Crenshaw. 1877 -* Alvan Don- nan, William F. Wright, John M. Davis, *J. Carter Jud- son, James M. Sprowls, *Ralph C. MeConnell, John F. O'Malley, David F. Enoch, Joseph S. Haymaker, Will- iamı Archibald Barr, *Earnest F. Acheson, W. C. Still- wagen, William M. Boggs, J. B. R. Streator. 1878-I. N. Patterson, Charles C. Montooth, Louis R. Smith, J. H. S. Trainer, George C. Burgwin, John Barton, William M. Watson, *James Irwin Brownson, *. Joseph Fulton MeFarland, W. MeBride Perrin, James MeFadden Car- penter.
1879-Samuel C. Cook, John M. Braden, John S. Mar- quis, Jr., William Reardon, William H. Playford, Thomas J. Lazear, John D. MeKennan, Julius P. Miller, *Albert S. Sprowls, ** James Franklin Taylor. 1880-Samuel C. Clarke, Thomas MeK. Hughes, *Thomas Fleming Birch, William G. Stewart. 1881-Hugh A. Rogers, Joseph M. Swearingen, *Robert Wilson Irwin, *Joseph T. Noble.
1882-George W. Guthrie, *William Sanders Parker, James Q. MeGiffin, *Joseph M. Diekson, John L. Rod- gers, *Josiah M. Patterson, George Peyton Miller. 1883 -" Winfield MeIlvaine. 1884-John W. Martindale. 1885 -* James M. MeBurney, *Thomas B. H. Brownlee, *Samnel Amspoker, *Norman E. Clark, Matthew H. Stevenson.
1886 -* Earnest Ethelbert Crumrine, *Andrew M.
Linn, *James A. Wiley, William MeKennan, Jr. 1887- *James C. Ewing, tCharles G. Mellvaine. 1858-David Sterrett, "James S. Nease. 1890-John C. Bane, *Charles W. Campbell, +James E. Barnett, Frank E. Baird, *W. Parkison Warne. 1891 -* James R. Burn. xide, William I. Berryman, Thomas C. Noble, *Odell S. Chalfant. 1892 -* G. Plumber Baker, *Grant E. Hess, * Alex M. Templeton.
1893 -* Bertram E. McCraeken. 1894-Robert Gibson, *Oliver M. Henderson, *Owen C. Underwood. 1895- *Albert G. Braden, *Julius P. Miller, Jr., *Haldain B. Hughes, Charles C. Sterrett, *Bold E. Warne, *Joseph K. Wier. 1596 -* Isaae W. Baum, *Blanchard G. lInghes, *James P. Eagleson, Frank E. Bible, *Robert W. Knox.
1897 -¡ A. H. Anderson, *William N. Butler, Clarence Rehn, *H. Russell Myers, *Byron E. Tombaugh, *Robert W. Parkinson.
1898 -* John C. Hart, *Harry A. Jones, *C. L. V. Acheson, +Robert H. Meloy, *W. A. H. Mellvaine. 1899 -* Willison K. Vance, W. Merwin Craft, Albert T. Mor- gan, *Edgar B. Murdoch.
1900 -* James A. Magill, Maynard R. Allen, *John W. MeDowell, *James P. Braden.
1901-tOliver S. Scott, *James P. Brownlee, *Harry L. Williams, *Blaine Aiken, *Lawrence R. Boyd, *Ver- non Hazzard, *Franeis H. Woods.
1902 -* Carl E. Gibson.
1903-Charles E. Carter, *Frank H. Andrew, *Ralph Martin Allison, *Barton A. Barr, *John N. Patterson, * John H. Donnan.
1904 -* Thomas H. W. Fergus, *John M. T. Hana, *William Anstin Davis.
1905 -* Erwin Cummins, *J. R. MeCreight, *J. Boyd Crumrine.
1906 -* William Reed Dennison, *John I. Carson. *Richard S. Miller, *John R. Pipes.
1907 -* Hugh E. Fergus, *Paul A. A. Core.
1908 -* Harry W. Canon, *Joseph Bell.
* Residing in the county, some of them not in active practice.
¡ Residing in the county, practicing in Pittsburg.
CHAPTER XIV.
RELIGIOUS HISTORY.
History of the Quaker, Episcopal, Presbyterian, Cumberland Presbyterian and United Presbyterian Denominations.
William Penn, in his quaiut Quaker language, in- structed his agents in Pennsylvania, that: "Since there was no other thing I had in my eye iu the settlement of this province next to the advancement of virtue than the comfortable situation of the inhabitants therein, and for that end . ordained that every township con- sisting of 5,000 acres should have ten families at the least, to the end that the province might not be a wilder- ness as-some others yet do by vast vacant tracts of land I do hereby desire my trusty commissioners to take the greatest care that justice and impar- tiality be observed towards all in the disposal of land, as well in reference to quality as quantity, that what is right in the sight of God and good men may always be preferred, for it is the best and lastingest bottom to act and build upon. Given at Worthington Place, in Old England, the 24th day of the 11th month, 1686."'
His agents succeeded in bringing in plain people, who became the small land owners looking for liberty of conscience and worship. These Washington County set- tlers were in early days most zealously illiberal and were originators of much confusion and distraction.
A birds-eye view of the religious settlements shows the Quakers, or Friends, as a small trausient company settling near the sontheastern corner of our county and flitting across its southern border, soon to disappear entirely-the Presbyterians setting their feet firmly on all sides of the central or county seat, and cohesively working outward, covering all the county except the southeast and southwest; the United Presbyterians com- ing up from many distracted bodies and uncertain groups into one large undivided close communion; the Cumberland Presbyterians springing up from a great need, caused largely by the fervor of one young man, James McGrady, whose early studies and theological training was in Hopewell Township; the Baptists mak- ing a most early start along Tenmile Creek and un- willingly giving birth to the Campbellite branch-these same Campbellites in their efforts to set aside all seets and creeds creating a new sect, this new sect giving
instruction to their fellow laborer, Sidney Rigdon, born on Washington County soil, by which he became mis- takenly inspired to create a new religion founded on a fictitious tale, written by a resident of this county, giving a Mormon people, which the inhabitants of Wash- ington County will uot concede to be Christians, and whose practices would not be tolerated within this county. These Latter Day Saints have no organization in the county, yet have an offshoot here of three local associa- tions calling themselves "The Church of Jesus Christ," and have among their number the president of that organization in the United States, and have also the official paper or publication of that body. A heavy sprinkling of Methodists. with two divisions, Episco- palians, Lutherans, Dunkards, Catholics, Jews, Bohe- mians and others teach with freedom in this county.
Carlyle has said, "A man's religion is the chief fact with regard to him." Another has said, "It was the staunch religion of the best of the early settlers that made this country worth coming to." The high re- solves and determination of these early settlers is in- dicated in many instances, two of which we will men- tion. A very remarkable historical paper was signed in 1782 by many of the inhabitants of the western frontiers of Washington County, including James Edgar, of Smith Township, and Hugh Scott, of Nottingham Township. These last named were among the five per- sons who, according to the law erecting Washington County, the year before had been appointed as com- missioners to purchase laud for a courthouse, and both afterwards sat as associate judges ou the bench of Washington County and were leaders in the communities where they resided. It was said in the history of the Presbytery of Washington that the paper is of special historical value, as it did not originate with any of the very few ministers then in the West, but was conceived and written by an elder, Hon. James Edgar, and was numerously signed by the members of the Cross Creek and neighboring churches. It was called a religious agreement and lamented "The many abound-
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ing evils in our own hearts and lives, as also the open and secret violations of the Holy Law of God, which dishonors his name and defiles and ruins our country. . We desire to acknowledge with shame and sorrow of heart before God aud solemnly promise to engage against (the sins before numerated) both in ourselves and others direct. " Several years afterward a supple- mentary elause was added in a better strain: " Wo desire to acknowledge the goodness of God, who hath con- - tinued his precious gospel with us in purity, and es- pecially for his late gracious outpourings of divine influence on many parts of the land, and especially here, where we were so much in earual security and worldly mindedness, floating along with the flood of vanity. And we desire to lament our barrenness and leanness under these gracious favors, and we do now, in the strength of God, relying on his grace, resolve that we will seek the Lord for help . . . and that we will be careful and watchful to perform the anties required by Christian rules in the families we belong to, as we stand related, severally, as parents and children, husbands and wives, masters or mistresses and servants." For the sins enumerated in this paper as prevalent at that time and for the names of the signers in those early days, see History of the Presby. tery of Washington, page 38, note 1 and 2. The total number given as signers in these days in this sparsely settled region, is 116. Historian Creigh, in speaking of them, says many of them filled high and important sta- tions in church and state and have bequeathed to their posterity a precious inheritance. Their descendants linger among us and the rural cemeteries, Cross Creek, Racoon and Burgettstown, contain the remains of those of wson it can truly be said, "Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord."
Another instance of heroic resolution is that of Will- iam Smiley, elder in Buffalo Church, who at 64 years of age, in order to assist his congregation in raising enough money to pay their indebtedness to their pastor, Rev. Joseph Smith, and prevent the community from being without his preaching and teaching, floated down the river with a large load of flour to the market at New Orleans with no assistants but two young men and dared the dangers and hardships of river travel and exposure to the elements and the Indians for the eause of his religion and his community.
Pennsylvania, being a Quaker state, it might be ex- pected that many of these peaceable people would reach the rich lands of Washington County, but the early life here was too warlike for them. So far as is known, they only had four locations in the present limits of this county. These friends were known as connected with or branches of the "Redstone Quarterly Meeting."
THE QUAKERS OR FRIENDS.
The laud in all this region was known as the " Red- stone Country" or "Redstone" in the early days. The umue was applied to Redstone Creek (Pierre- Rouge) by the French in the beginning of Monongahela river his- tory and map-making, and is thought to have been first given by the Indians. The burning leaves setting fire to the coal found in the hillside, produced red hot coals or redstone. An queient mound or earthworks, snch as gave rise to the belief that they were the works of a mound-building race superior to the red man whom the settlers found here, stood near the mouth of this ereek. It was known as "Okl Fort," "Okl Fort at Redstone " and "Redstone Old Fort."
This name still elnng to the English fort built there in 1758 or 1759 (The Old Towns, 1883). The name was not only adopted by the Quakers to denote an asso- ciation of eongregations in this region, as "Redstone Quarterly Meeting," but there were the Presbytery of Redstone, the Redstone Baptist Association and the Redstone Methodist Cirenit.
Friends from eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey and northern Delaware, came in about 1787, finding goodly land which the Virginians were eager to leave after they discovered that Pennsylvania would control this Red- stone eountry.
The first purchase of land for a Quaker meeting- house was in 1792, on Two-Mile Creek in East Bethle- hem Township, containing ten aeres conveyed by James Townsend to trustees for the society of the people called Quakers of Westland Meeting for the purpose of a meeting house, burying-ground and other necessary pur- poses for the use of said society. This society of the "Westland Friends" or "Westland Monthly Meeting" held its last meeting and disbanded in 1864, the members being transferred to Salem Monthly Meeting, Ohio, the nearest meeting of the Quaker Society. The names of those so transferred ineluded 49 males and 42 females with the families of fonr of them, for all children of Quaker birth were considered a part of the society. Of the 91 transferred, 21 were Cleavers. The land was sold in 1866 to William Fisher, Amos G. Cleaver and Joseph Farquhar, because the members had been de- creased by death and removals so much as to be unable to maintain a meeting, and the greater part of the ten arres was in 1902 conveyed to the Westland Cemetery Association.
It is possible that some of the persons dismissed were members of an adjoining "meeting" for the Friends had four and a quarter acres in West Pike Rnn Township where they had a "Pike Run Meeting-house" on land purchased in 1797; and a "Fallowfield Meet-
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ing-house" on four and one-quarter acres of land in Allen Township purchased in 1799; and there was a Society of Qnakers having a meeting-house in East Finley Township on one acre and seven perches of land purchased in 1811 from a Quaker named Samuel Eng- land, "on the dividing ridge between the waters of the Ten-Mile and Wheeling Creeks," lying along Ryerson's road. All of these houses ceased to be used by the Society of Friends during the first half of the last cen- tury or shortly after. The cause of much dissension among thie Qnakers was the teaching of Elias Hicks, which divided many of these meetings into what was called the Hicksites and the Orthodox Quakers.
Both the Pike Run Meeting-house, located in Pike Ruu Township, and the Fallowfield Meeting-house, lo- cated in Allen Township, were conveyed away by trus- tees for the special purpose appointed by the "Westland Monthly Meeting" of East Bethlehem Township. The deed from Jesse Kenworthy, Jonathan Knight and Joseph H. Miller, trustees, to Samuel D. Price, made in 1858 conveying the Pike Run Meeting-house and lot, (there being a frame house thereon at that time), stated that the Westland Monthly Meeting was "a branch of and in Unity with Ohio Yearly Meeting of Friends in Unity and Epistolary Correspondence with the ancient yearly meeting of the people called Quakers of London and Dublin and with all the yearly meetings of the said people so in Unity and Correspondence in America."
The Hicksites who were taught that "the devil had no existence, and if we did right onr heaven was here," had a church building on this same lot and it required a special act of Legislature in 1863 and another set of trustees and a new deed to convey the title of "the two divisions of the Society of Friends."
Two of the best known Quakers in this county were Jonathan Knight, the celebrated engineer and states- man of East Bethlehem Township, and Job Johnson, the friend of education of East Pike Run Township, or that part of it now California.
The religion of such people was quiet and unob- trusive, but stern and unyielding in the government of themselves. They were opposed to fighting and slavery and to display of dress or wealth. It is said that the first generation of their descendants was not quickly aroused to sympathy with and to become members of other religious organizations. This was not strange, for the austere manner of form in worship, seating male and female separated by the aisle of the church, the silent and long waiting for the spirit to move some ono to speak or lead in other devotion, all tended to repress sympathy and excitement.
EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
The Episcopal Church has never secured a fast hold and widespread influence in Washington County. Rev. Joseph Doddridge, M. D., who came from Bedford County and who in the western part of Washington County with his father in 1773 was a moving spirit in this section. His life was spent in constant missionary service in this county, West Virginia and Southern Ohio. He is said to have served on the circuit of the Methodist Church visiting Pittsburg in 1790. His book, "Doddridge's Notes,"' shows the yearning of the church people for religious services in those early days. They inquired of him with bitterness of heart, "Must we live and die without baptism for our children and without sacrament for ourselves?" Rev. Doddridge pleaded with the Episcopal authorities east of the moun- tains to establish churches for those of this faith west of the mountains, which he says amounted to thousands, but in vain. There were members here from the churches of England as well as from Virginia. The first Epis- copal church west of the mountains was organized in 1790 by Gen. John Neville, and his son Col. Pressley Neville, Maj. Isaac Craig and others. The building called St. Luke's Chinreh was built that year and fur- nished a year or two later, and stood on lands near Neville's plantation called Woodville, along Chartiers Creek, near the present Allegheny County Home. Francis Reno, educated by the aid of Gen. Neville, officiated there until the agitation caused by the whiskey riots disturbed the peace and drove the supporters of the church from the locality.
The location of this church and later record of its existence is given in "Doddridge's Memoirs," where he reports a convention of four clergymen, himself and Reno, included at St. Thomas' Church in West Pike Rnn, September 26, 1803, where they adjourned to again meet ou the Saturday before Whit-Sunday, at the church near Gen. Neville's old place on Chartiers Creek.
The St. Thomas' Church referred to was erected in West Bethlehem Township near the Crook's Graveyard, about a mile south of Hillsboro, where Col. Thomas Crooks, on a part of whose lands it had been erected, was buried in 1815. This and the old Doddridge Chapel in Independence Township, which may have been older than any of the others, are the early landmarks of the Episcopal Church in the county. The ritual and services disappeared from all the country locations in early times because of the wars with England and the removal from Pennsylvania of those who were Virginia adherents.
* History of Allegheny County, Pa. (1889), page 350.
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PRESBYTERIANS.
The best known of the early leaders of Presbyterians in this county was Rev. John MeMilles. He resembled the Quakers in dress, at least during his early residence here. He is best known and most spoken of because he long outlived his early cotemporaries, the three others who started in the permanent work here alnost with hint. The Presbyterian ministers, Joseph Smith, Thadeus Dodd and the earliest minister of the Associate Church, Matthew Henderson, all died within three years of each other (1892-5) after a dozen years or so of influence here, while MeMillon lived to November 16, 1833, covering a period of almost sixty years of service and preaching 6,000 sermons.
The valuable work of Dr. George P. Hays, late Presi- dent of Washington and Jefferson College on "Presby- terianism in America," defines Presbyterians as those who believe that the management of the New Testament Church is in the hands of representatives of the people. These representatives are called presbyters. They hold that the language of the New Testament and especially of the 15th chapter of Aets authorizes this method of the management of a large district by the representa- tives of a group of congregations. The final authority over the whole is in the representatives of all the con- gregations. This method of organizations is not held to be exclusive but is greatly to be preferred. Both King James I and his son Charles objected to Presby- terianism because it was "a form of government fit only for republies, and intolerable to kings." English tories blamed all their American troubles on the Presby- terians.
Episcopas is the Greek word for overseer. In the Episcopal churches of that day, such as the Roman Catholic Church and the Church of England, all au- thority was in the bishop or overseer. Episcopacy was the state religion in Virginia. "When a form of religion is adopted by a state, substantially three things occur. Taxes for it are levied on all persons. The ministers of the religion are paid their salaries out of the pro- ceeds of these taxes. The appointment of the ministers thus supported is a part of the duty of the state gov- ernment. Ecclesiastical and theological tests are there- for applied in the determination of the qualifications of the persons who shall vote or hold office. The worship of other denominations may or may not be allowed by the state.
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