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Excerpt from A Discourse on the Life and Character of Rev. William R. Dewitt, D. D., Late Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Harrisburg, Pa At a meeting of the Presbytery of Carlisle, held at Big Spring, October 6, 1818, leave was granted to the congrega tion to prosecute the call before the Presbytery of New York. The call is signed by the four Elders of the Church: Messrs. Samuel weir, moses gilmore, john stoner and william graydon, and by sixty-one other members of the congrega tion. The latest living of those four venerable men, Mr. William graydon, preceded his pastor into the eternal world by over twenty-seven years. Of the remaining Sixty-one signers of the call, but one outlived the youthful pastor. Among them were men who afterwards occupied high posi tions in Civil life, or were called to offices in the Church Chief Justice gibson, of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania; william findlay and francis R. Shone, Governors of the State; and Messrs. Sloan, agnew, mcjimsey and nielson, who were subsequently ruling Elders in the Church. Of the Board of Trustees then in office - george whitehill, Presi dent, james trimble, Secretary and Treasurer, william mur ray, robert harris, richard M. Crain, william allison and andrew mitchell - not one survives. The spirit in which the call was accepted by Mr. DE witt was indicated by his letter of acceptance; in which, expressing his reliance on the grace and strength of the Lord Jesus, he besought the earnest prayers of the pious among them, that he might be brought among them'in the fulness of the Gospel of Peace, determined to know nothing but Christ Jesus and him crucified, the power of God and the wisdom of God unto salvation. 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.
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Irish Presbyterians and the Shaping of Western Pennsylvania, 1770–1830 is a historical study examining the religious culture of Irish immigrants in the early years of America. Despite fractious relations among competing sects, many immigrants shared a vision of a renewed Ireland in which their versions of Presbyterianism could flourish free from the domination of landlords and established church. In the process, they created the institutional foundations for western Pennsylvanian Presbyterian churches. Rural Presbyterian Irish church elders emphasized community and ethnoreligious group solidarity in supervising congregants’ morality. Improved transportation and the greater reach of the market eliminated near-subsistence local economies and hastened the demise of religious traditions brought from Ireland. Gilmore contends that ritual and daily religious practice, as understood and carried out by migrant generations, were abandoned or altered by American-born generations in the context of major economic change.