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33d sessions on the 5th of April, 1816. Between these es, on the 25th of September, 1812, a call was presented Presbytery, from Bradaway, for one-half the ministerial ors of Mr. Thomas Dickson Baird, then a licentiate, which i presented to him and accepted. At Varennes a pro re z meeting was held for his ordination. Dr. Waddell ached on the occasion. Rev. Hugh Dickson preached ordination sermon from Mark xvi. 15 : "Go ye into all world, &c." The candidate was set apart to the sacred ce of the ministry, and a suitable charge given to the tor and people. Mr. (afterwards Dr.) Baird was dismissed the Presbytery of Lancaster, in the State of Ohio, at his . n request, on the 8th of April, 1815.
A call from Bradaway for one-half of the ministerial services Mr. Richard B. Cater, then a licentiate (the time to be ally divided between Varennes and Bradaway) was laid ore the Presbytery on the 18th of November, 1815, and him accepted. He was ordained at the regular meeting ove mentioned, the services being held on the 6th of April, 16. The ordination sermon was preached by Rev. Hugh ckson. He was solemnly set apart to the work of the spel ministry by prayer and the imposition of hands, and charge was given to the newly ordained minister and the : ople by Rev. William H. Barr, who presided on the occa . n. In October, 1819, Mr. Cater applied for a dismission in his pastoral charge, but there being no commissioners esent from the congregations composing it, Presbytery d'e- ned action at that time, but directed Rev James Hillhouse cite those congregations to appear by their commissioners fore that body at its next sessions, to show cause, if any ey have, why such dismission should not be granted .*
GOOD HOPE AND ROBERTS .- Rev. James McElheney sup- ed these churches until his death, on the 4th of October.
12. The next supply was the Rev. Thos. H. Price, of mes Island. The Rev. Thomas Dickson Baird, afterwards D., was the next. Of his earlier history we have already ritten.
In 1809. he entered the Willington Academy, of which r. Moses Waddell was the principal. " I heard this eminent
* A discourse of Mr. Cater's before the " Varennes Religious Tract So- ety " may be found in the Evangelical Intelligencer of January 1st id 15th, 1819, published by request of the Society.
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THOMAS D. BAIRD, D. D.
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Preceptor say : " says Rev. David Humphreys, also his pupil, that of all the students who passed through that Academy. but one, George McDuffie, ever made such rapid pro- gress-especially in the study of the languages. This was very complimentary when we recollect Calhoun, Craw- ford, Longstreet and Pettigrew, with many others from that Institution, who have graced the Bar, the Bench. the Halls of Congress, and the Cabinet of the United States He was licensed, ordained and installed at Bradaway, near Varennes, as we have already recorded. where, in connection with his pastoral office, lie conducted a large and popular classical school. In 1815, he obtained a release from his pastoral charge and removed to Newark, in Ohio. The sup- ply given to Roberts and Good Hope churches, was only for a short time. It was about two years, that he had the care of the Bradaway church
While Mr. Baird was a member of this Presbytery he at- tended the General Assembly as its delegate and became per- suaded that the churches of New England were exerting an injurious influence on Presbyterianism. At Newark, he was engaged for five years as pastor and teacher. In 1817, he received overtures as to the presidency of the University of Ohio, an office which he declined. In 1320, lie became pas- tor of the church in Lebanon, Alleghany Co. Pa., when he was disabled from preaching by laryngitis. He had an impor- tant influence in establishing the Western Foreign Missionary Society. In 1831 he took the editorial charge of the Pitts- burg Christian Herald, He sat in the Assemblies of 1837 and 1888, and was President of the Convention that met in connection with it. He removed to Cannonsburg, Pa., in 1838 during which year on the 21st of November he left home on a visit to South Carolina and Georgia the scene of his former ministrations and trials. On his return, a cold from traveling in the stage coach at night, brought on an inflama- tion of the kidneys of which he died in Duplin County, North Carolina, at the house of Rev. Henry Brown, after a few days of intense suffering, but in the triumph of faith, on the 7th of January, 1839, in the 66th year of his age.
He was married to Esther, eldest daughter of Samuel Thompson, a ruling elder of the First Presbyterian Church in Pittsburg, in 1817, and was the father of thirteen children, seven by the first marriage, all of whom died in infancy or
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aly childhood ; six by the second marriage, five sons and me daughter. Three of his sons Samuel J. Baird, D. D., Benezer Thompson Baird. D. D., Secretary of the the Com- ittees of Education and . Publication of the Presbyterian Durch, and James Henry Baird, are ministers of the Gospel. frague's Annals, IV, p., 476.) The Rev. Richard B. Cater, [ D., was the next who laboured as supply or pastor in these churches. He was born in Beaufort District, South Carolina, I 1791. His parents died while he was young. When he Ws sixteen years old he was placed under the instructions of I . Moses Waddell at Willington. His literary and theolog- inl course were both under the direction of the same venera- be man. His licensure and ordination have been recorded bfore. His call to Good Hope for the third and from Roberts for the fifth of his time had preceded his call to Bradaway sme six or seven months, and he distributed his labors be- treen these several congregations. Ministers were too few ad the Churches thought themselves too poor to provide ne for each. Mr. Cater continued to minister to them till te close of this decade, the dismission which he asked from le collegiate churches which he served was not granted for e reason before mentioned till the Spring Sessions of 1820. f the character and labors of this excellent brother we hall have occasion to speak hereafter.
We have given in our preceding pages an imperfect history f these churches for near thirty years, for more than half f which time the Rev. John Simpson was pastor ; and the remainder of the time they were partially and sometimes regularly supplied by the Rev. Messrs. Davis, McElhenny rice. Baird and Cater. (MSS. of Rev. David Humphreys. Minutes of Presbytery and Annals of Dr. Sprague, Vol. IV, p. 476 and 520.)
HOPEWELL (Keowee) .- The Presbytery of South Carolina then the Second Pres. of S. C.) met at this church on the d of April, ISIo, on the 27th of August, 1811, on the 6th of April, 1813. At the first of these meetings the Rev. Jas. McElhenny was present, for he was in the land of the living ind was pastor of the church. He possessed a strong and rigorous mind, and his eloquence consisted of strong reason- ng united with persuasive and touching tenderness. Mr. McElhenny was assisted in his pastoral labors by John D. Murphy, who was received as a licentiate from the Presbytery
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of Orange, on the 27th of August, 1811, and for two- thirds of whose ministerial labors a call was presented by the Hope- well Church. Presbytery granted the request, " it being under- stood that Mr. McElhenny, the regular pastor of said church, could not labor among them more than one-third of his time." Dr. E. Smith and Mr. Murphy are said to have created a mill- pond and established rice fields for their mutual benefit, which originated a malarial fever in the summer and fall of 1812. Of this fever Mr Murphy, who was the son-in-law of Mr. McElhenny, died, and he soon followed him to the grave. Mr. McElhenny died on the 4th of October, 1812. The Rev. Thos. H. Price, from James Island, preached a funeral ser- mon occasioned by their death, and it was among the remi- niscences of Rev. David Humphreys, so long the beloved pastor of Good Hope and Roberts, that Mr. Price came up to Rev. Andrew Brown's while he, Humphreys, was there at school. to have him examine the manuscript, a copy having been requested for publication, and that while there he as- sisted Mr. Brown at a communion season at the Bethel Church, greatly to the edification of the people there as- sembled. The following is the inscription in the graveyard at " the Stone Church," in memory of Mr. McElhenny :
" Sacred To the Memory of THE REV. JAMES McELHENNY. Senior pastor of the PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF HOPEWELL IN PENDLETON DISTRICT, Who died October 1st, 1812, Aged 44 years.
Greatly lamented by his friends, who knew His generous worth. His flesh returns to dust ! His spirit ascends to prove religion true, And wait the resurrection of the just ! "
Hopewell now became dependent upon occasional supplies from Presbytery. In the spring of 1813, Rev. John B. Ken- nedy and Hugh Dickson were appointed to administer the Lord's Supper the ensuing summer. In the spring of 1816, Carmel and Hopewell petition that James Hillhouse may be permitted to officiate as a stated supply between the two con- gregations till the next stated sessions, and their request is granted. This results in a call extended to him through the Presbytery, in November, from Hopewell for two-thirds of
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; time, which he accepted. An intermediate session was Id at Hopewell (Keowee) on the 23 of April, at which Mr. llhouse was ordained and installed, Rev. Richard B. Cater eaching the sermon from 2d Tim., ii. 15, and Wm. H. Barr livering the charge to the newly ordained pastor and ople. During the pastorate of Mr. Hillhouse, the Female ligious tract Society of Pendleton sent its contributions to esbytery, and received its thanks for their generous dona- n.
CARMEL CHURCH .- The history of this church has run rallel with that of Hopewell (Keowee) since its organization. bring the first two or three years of this decade, Mr. James cElhenny was their pastor, and his son-in-law, Mr. Murphy, assistant pastor.
e They were beloved and greatly nented. The Rev. James Hillhouse succeeded them here, he did in Hopewell. A call was presented to him through esbytery for one-third of his time, on the 2d of October, 17, and he was installed on the 4th of April, 1818, during meeting of Presbytery held at that church, the installation rmon being delivered by William H. Barr, from Ezek., iii. and the charge given to the minister and people by Rev. oses Waddell, D. D. During the pastorship of Mr. Hill - use, William McMurray, Robert Lemon, John Dickson, lexander Oliver were ordained elders. Michael Dickson ther of Rev. Hugh Dickson) and William Walker were jo elected. These all died in the faith, having received the omises.
BETHLEHEM, CANE CREEK and BETHEL, still constituted the storal charge of Rev. Andrew Brown. He continued boring for these churches in all faithfulness. The 31st ated sessions of presbytery were held at Bethel on the 6th April, 18:5. Mr. Brown obtained leave from Presbytery travel without its bounds during the summer of 1816, and quested that the churches which he supplied, but were not s regular charge, should be supplied as vacancies by that body. The spirit of missions was increasing in this Presby- ry through the entire period of which we write. It was a anding rule that each member should spend at least four eeks in missionary work in each year. In the spring of 319, the Rev. Andrew Brown was sent to the Alabama eiritory by the committee of Presbytery to labor for three onths as a missionary. At the fall meeting he reported his
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labors to that body. His report was accompanied with an address to Presbytery from a number of the inhabitants west of the Black Warrior River, thanking them for their atten- tions in sending Mr. Brown among them, and requesting a continuance of missionary labors.
NAZARETH (Beaver Dam), was, perhaps, one of those vacant churches of Rev. Andrew Brown's pastoral charge, which he from time to time supplied. James Hillhouse, Thos. Archi- bald, and Joseph Hillhouse were each appointed to visit it for the supply of its pulpit.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. - We have seen, p. , that the corner-stone of the house of worship of this Church was laid on the 4th of July, 1809. The building was completed and solemnly dedicated to the public worship of God on Sunday, May 17th, 1812 The following account of the exercises of the occasion is taken from one of the public journals of the city :
"On Sunday last, the newly erected Presbyterian Church in this place was solemnly dedicated to the service of the MOST HIGH. An impressive dedication sermon was preached by the Rev. Mr. Thompson, the pastor, from the words of David in the S4th Psalm : 'How amiable are thy tabernacles, O, Lord of Hosts.' About seven hundred persons attended this interesting solemnity, and we do not recollect ever to have seen a congregation more seriously attentive to a dis- course than they were an this occasion, which was truly calculated to affect every heart and excite in every bosom the most lively sensations. In the afternoon an excellent dis- course was delivered by the Rev. Dr. Keith. of Charleston, S. C., from the words, 'Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.'
" And, as in the morning, a prospective and affecting view was taken of the future situation of the church thus dedicated to the Almighty, and of the thousands who, under the influ- ence of the Holy Spirit, should be born to God within its consecrated walls, and united to the family of the blessed; so in the afternoon was affectionately and impressively pre- sented to view the sure and certain rest, consolation and peace which all such should inevitably obtain, however weary and heavy laden with the burden of their sin they had previ- ously been. The exercises of the day will no doubt be long and profitably remembered by many who united in them ;
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d we trust and confidently believe that the doctrines which ll be urged and enforced within the walls of the newly dedi- ted building will be made the means of extending the edeemer's kingdom in this place, which we hope will in- ease in piety and holiness as it grows in consequence and creases in population."
The church, at the time of its dedication, was without a eple, and had no pews in the galleries. In the year 1818, e present beautiful spire was added, and the galleries fur- shed with convenient pews.
In December, 1816, the congregation was deprived of its teemed pastor, Rev. John R. Thompson, D. D., whose alth had gradually declined, and who, after ten years of thful and useful labor among this congregation, and while sent for the improvement of his health, was called to enter on that " rest which remaineth to the people of God." His emory was long precious in the hearts of his bereaved and ectionate people. During his ministry seventy-four per- ns were added to the membership of the church.
After the death of Dr. Thompson, the pulpit of the church is supplied by several different ministers, but continued thout a regular pastor for about four years.
The Church of Augusta reported 54 members, 2 adult bap- ms and 20 infant baptisms in 1810, and 85 members and infant baptisms in 1814.
CHAPTER VI.
We enter upon a general review of this decade that we ay give the decisions of the various judicatories on impor- nt matters of general interest.
In November, 1817, the Presbytery of South Carolina ok up the matter of raising funds for the support of digent young men coming forward to the ministry, and r sending forth missionaries to settlements destitute of e Gospel, and Doctor Waddel and Rev. William H. arr were appointed a Committee to draw up a suitable rm of subscription for these objects, and Mr. Barr was pointed Treasurer of Presbytery for these funds. Hiland ulbert and James I .. Sloss, as soon as licensed, were sent
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as missionaries to preach the gospel and congregate so- cieties in the frontiers of Georgia and the Alabama Territory. Their first mission was for two months, at a compensation of forty dollars per month, and Doctor Waddel was appointed to obtain a commission for them from the Board of Missions of the General Assembly for three months longer. They were ordained as Missionary Evangelists, October 3d, 1818. But before this they had made their first missionary journey and brought back an encouraging report, extracts from which were ordered for publication in the Weekly Recorder at Chilicothe, for public information. They were sent forth a second time, and in 1819 the report of the ministers of the Presbytery of South Carolina, in the minutes of the General Assembly, locates James L. Sloss at Jackson, Alabama, and Hiland Hulbert at Claiborne, Alabama .* Thomas C. Stuart was licensed April 3d, 1819, and sent out on a four months mission in the bounds of the Presbytery. At the fall meeting he was sent on a four month's mission to the Alabama coun- try. These missions were not slow in being fruitful in great good. Daniel Humphreys, too, and John S. Wilson, licensed on the 9th of October, were appointed missionaries for three months to labor within the bounds of the Presbytery.
Another item worthy of special notice is the care used in reference to candidates for the ministry. It was " ordered that every candidate under our care state to Presbytery at every stated session, his patron for the ensuing term of study
* At the last meeting of our Presbytery we licensed Mr. Stuart to preach the Gospel, and appointed him to officiate three months within our bounds, and also three months in the Alabama Territory. By let- ters we have received latterly, from the Rev. Messrs. Sloss and Hul- bert, it appears that Mr. Sloss is at Jackson and Mr. Hulbert at Claiborne, in the Territory, They have organized Presbyterian congre- gations at both these places, and administered the sacrament of the supper. We expect it will be in our power to send one or two additional missionaries to the Alabama in the ensuing autumn. At the last meeting of the Synod of South Carolina and Georgia an overture was submitted which is to be considered at their next session, to devise some means by which the Indian tribes on our Southwestern frontier may be taught to read the word of God and have the Gospel preached unto them. The Aborigines of America certainly have as fair claim upon our be- nevolence as any people under heaven. They appear to be cast, by the Providence of God, upon our care, for who will extend their regards to these poor benighted tribes if we do not." ( Letter of a member of the Presbytery of South Carolina to one of the editors of the Evangelical Intelligencer, of Charleston, dated Abbeville, 8th of June, 1819. Probably from Dr. Barr.
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I at the next stated session the patron be called on to state Presbytery what has been the candidate's attention to the ties prescribed." (Minutes, Vol. 1, p. 197.) " Ordered, it those members of Presbytery who may have candidates the ministry under their care, attend particularly to these tructions ; should they have more than one under their e at the same time, it is required that at stated seasons ty exact written discourses from their pupils on particular ints in divinity, and that on those points the patrons deliver tures. Should they have but one, then frequently to re- ire written discourses from that one and on those dis -. urses make remarks. They shall direct the reading of the dents under their care in theology and frequently examine em on the parts read." P. 199. These directions were ried out. The patrons were inquired of as to the student der their care. "Those members who patronized our can- lates in the course of the last summer were requested to bort to Presbytery the manner in which they discharged ir duty towards their pupils and the way in which the idents attended to their studies. The report was made and things approved." Vol. II. p. 33. One who was a bene- ary was discontinued on account of defect of character. hother, John Bull, was received under the care of Presby- y, but through bodily indisposition failed of going through e trials requisite for licensure. The Rev. Dr. Waddel re an honorable testimony to his ability and progress in idy in his early youth. And since he was debarred from ministry he had desired, by the hand of Him who rules e world, he strove still to be useful to the church and king. m of Christ. In view of his departure, he bestowed by will d testament a large portion of his property to the Theolo- cal Seminary at Columbia, and to other benevolent enter- ises of the church, a portion only of which through the lamities and distresses of our recent war, was realized. The rors of Wm. C. Davis continued to give the Presbytery the eatest solicitude. They passed an order October 3rd, 1810, quiring their churches to deal with all persons under their isdiction who should advocate these errors, " according to e discipline of our church in such case made and provided." hey also resolved that " having used every effort in their wer to suppress those errors of which Mr. Davis has been nvicted and to bring him to retract them, or to have in-
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flicted on him the censure which his conduct seems to them to merit, but having been foiled in all their attempts of this kind, and entertaining no hope of better success in future but still deeming it their duty to bear testimony against error, they have, therefore, unanimously resolved that they cannot conscientiously join in the approaching Synodical communion or take any part in the exercises relating thereto."
The action of the Synod, however, was so decisive that the members of this Presbytery had no occasion to carry their resolution as to non-commission into practice, for the Synod of the Carolinas at their meeting at Fairforest October 4th, 1810, dissolved the First Presbytery and remitted Mr. Davis, with others, to the Presbyvery of Concord, where the required acts of discipline were carried out, notwithstanding the decla- ration of independence on the part of Mr. Davis, as we have rehearsed in the preceding pages.
The Presbytery of Hopewell was shorn of a portion of the terri- tory over which it had held nominal jurisdiction when the Presbytery of Harmony was created, and its line was extended from Augusta, in- cluding that city. to the St. Mary's in Georgia. Its roll of clerical men- bers consisted in 1810 of
Rev. William Montgomery, Pastor of Newhope.
Rev. Francis Cummings, Pastor of Siloam and Bethany.
Rev. Thomas Newton
Rev. Edward Parr, Pastor of Curry's Creek.
Rev. Jolın Hodge.
Rev. John R. Thompson had been set off to the Presbytery of Har- mony, and Hopewell consisted of the same number that it had origi- nally when it was created in 1797. At its meeting, April 5th, Carinel Church, lately organized by Thomas Newton, was received under its care. At its meeting at Bethsaida, Sept. 13th, 1810, the Church of Per- gamos in Morgan County, was received under the care of Presbytery. At Siloam, Sept. 13. 1811, Rev. John Brown, D. D., then President of Athens College and Ezra Fisk, then missionary of Harmony Presbytery were present as corresponding members July 31, 1812. Archibald Bowie was received as a licentiate from Orange Presbytery. April 1, 1813, Rev. Dr. Brown was received as a member by dismission from Harmony. On the 3d the Rev. Nathan S. S Beman lately a pastor in Portland, Maine, was received from the Cumberland Congregational Association Sept. 14, Rev. Francis Cummins was dismissed at his own request from the pastoral charge of the Bethany congregation. April 1 1815, the Rev. Henry Reid was received by dismission from the Pres- bytery of South Carolina, and at the same session Eli Smith, a graduate of Dartmouth College, was received as a candidate and licensed to preach the Gospel. On the 6th of May, 1816, Benjamin Gildersleeve, a graduate of Middlebury College, Vermont, then engaged in teaching in connection with Rev. N. S. S. Beman was received under the care of Presbytery and was licensed at the meeting at Thyatira, on the 9th of
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ember, 1815. At Washington, Wilkes County, on the 4th of April, Ira Ingraham, a graduate of Middlebury and rector of an Academy owelton was received as a candidate for the ministry, and at this ting Archibald Bowie, or Buie, a licentiate, was dismissed to the bytery of Fayetteville. At Washington, November 9th, David Root aduate of Middlebary was received as a candidate. Mr. Buie, who been remitted from the Presbytery of Fayetteville to that of Hope- was suspended from the ministry, and Mr. Orson Douglas, a grad- of Middlebury College, was received as a candidate. At then ting in Pisgah, Madison County, April, 1807, measures were adopted enrolling the members of the several churches and obtaining from n regular contributions for evangelistie labors, and making the duty ne Moderator of Presbytery for the time being to see that the sacra- it of the Lord's Supper should be administered in every congrega- at least once in the year. At the meeting in September, 1817, zo Church, a graduate of Middlebury College wasreceived as a can- ite. At the same meeting a project was set on foot for the establish- t of a Theological School, and Drs. Cummins, Brown and Finley e appointed to draft a plan for the same and report it at the next ting of Presbytery. The Rev. Robert Finley, D. D., who succeeded Brown as President of the college at Athens, united with the Pres- ery at this meeting on a dismission from the Presbytery of New nswick, New Jersey. The father of Dr. Finley emigrated from tland under the advice of Dr. Witherspoon, his personal friend, and led in New Jersey. His son Robert began the the study of Latin ight and joined the Freshman class in Princeton College when he eleven years of age. He was graduated in 1787. He was a teach- or some years first of the grammar school at Princeton, then at entown, then in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1791 and 1792. From B-1795, he was a tutor at Princeton College. He was settled as lister at Basking Ridge, New Jersey, in 1795 where he was the inti- e friend of Dr. Kollock. He was the founder of the American Col- zation Society in December, 1816. He was elected to the Presidency he University early in 1817, embarked with his family from New k for Savannah early in May, presided at the commencement in ens in July, founded the Presbyterian Church in that place, and now received into this Presbytery as a member. But his work on th was done. He returned from Presbytery to Athens, sickened and l on the 3rd of October, 1817. His four sons graduated at the College New Jersey and all became ministers except the youngest, who was udent of Theology at the time of his death. Another committee was pointed consisting of Drs. Cummins, Brown and Beman. This com- tee reported at length at the meeting held at Siloam church in Sep- ber, 1819. Their report was in part considered but not adopted. unt Zion and Athens were put in nomination as to the site of the posed Seminary, and Athens was chosen. Here the project was ught to its termination. "To Hopewell belongs the honor of taking initiative," says Dr. John S. Wilson, in his work, "The Dead of the od of Georgia ;" "in establishing a Theological Seminary in the th." Union went into operation in 1822. Columbia made its first inning at. Lexington, Georgia, in 1828. Mr. David Root was licensed probationer for the holy ministry at Athens on the 7th of February 8. Notice of the death of Rev. John Hodge, was given at the ineet- of Presbytery at Mount Zion on the 5th of April, 1819, At the same eting the licentiate Eli Smith, was dismissed to the Presbytery of
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