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Excerpt from History of the Presbytery of Washington: Including a Brief Account of the Planting of the Presbvterian Church in Western Pennsvlvania and Parts Adjacent, With Sketches of Pioneer Ministers and Ruling Elders; Also Sketches of Later Ministers and Ruling Elders A History of the Presbytery of Washington has long been felt by its members and by many others, to be an urgent want; and more than once, action has been taken in Presbytery, looking to the preparation of such a history, but no individual member of Presbytery could, at any time be found, who felt himself sufficiently at leisure to undertake so onerous a task. Attention was recalled to the subject recently, by the action of the General Assembly, recommending to Churches and Presbyteries to put on record their respective histories, as one of the ways by which to honor the Centenary of the Assembly's organization. Acting under this recommendation, Presbytery arranged to hold a special memorial and historical service, and assigned to several of its senior members the preparation of papers relating to the various phases of the Presbytery's history, and also provided for the preparation of concise statistical histories of all its individual churches. At a meeting held in the church of Upper Buffalo, September 25-26, 1888, this special service was observed: - Presbytery was opened with a sermon from Ecc. iii. i, by the Moderator, Rev. Joseph S. Pomeroy. Interspersed with the reading of the historical papers which had been prepared, were addresses on cognate themes, by Rev. J. A. Donahey, Rev. W. H. Cooke, D. D., Rev. J. D. Moffat, D. D., who were under appointment to this service, and by Rev. G.W F.Birch, D. D., of New York City, a son of the Presbytery, who happened to be present. It was the mind of the Presbytery, to have these oral discourses, as well as the written papers, published, and a committee, consisting of Rev. Drs. Brownson, Woods and Hamilton, Rev. J. H Snowden and J. I. Brownson, Esq., was appointed to carry the same into effect. This original purpose, however, was afterwards modified by reason of an expressed preference on the part of those who had made addresses, to surrender all the space to the publishing of matter that was strictly historical. It was found, moreover, that the papers read were of such a character, and so related, that with certain emendations which the committee were empowered to make, they would constitute a well-connected history of the Presbytery, including the antecedent period during which its churches had belonged to previously existing Presbyteries. It is in this way that the present volume has come into existence. A growth, rather than a creation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
