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26-792: The immediate cause of withdrawal by the ministers was that the Synod of Kentucky had censured the Washington Presbytery for the following: They gave the following reasons for withdrawing from the jurisdiction of the Synod: Based on those reasons, the ministers said that they chose to withdraw from the jurisdiction of the Kentucky Synod rather than be prosecuted under the authority of the Confession of Faith, which they could not acknowledge. But, they said they did not desire to break from communion with

52-479: A local barn, where it had served as a hay loft for more than a century. The meeting house continues to be used as a living church. A curator is available for guided tours by appointment. The Barton Warren Stone Museum contains artifacts of the congregation, Barton W. Stone and his family, the Stone-Campbell movement , and antique farm and household equipment. The museum is open only in the summer. It also houses

78-515: A new denomination or "party". Ultimately convinced that their newer Springfield Presbytery was sectarian, the six ministers dissolved it on June 28, 1804. To publicize the dissolution, they signed a document entitled The Last Will and Testament of the Springfield Presbytery. This tract willed that "this body die, be dissolved, and sink into union with the Body of Christ at large." It expressed

104-679: A series of continual camp meetings from 1801 to 1804. In Kentucky, David Purviance, at first a farmer, engaged in significant debates with John C. Breckinridge over the proper relationship between church and state. After separating from the Presbyterian church and persuading numerous Presbyterians and Baptists to join the Christian Church movement, David Purviance moved in about 1807 from Bourbon County near Paris to "New Paris" in Preble County, Ohio , for two principal reasons: to help spread

130-478: A stone shrine to surround and protect it. The restoration of the original slave gallery in the meetinghouse was the oldest documented such restoration in the United States. In the 1820s, the congregation had removed the slave gallery, because they supported abolitionism . When preservationists began restoration work in the 1930s, they re-installed the original cherry-railed gallery. It was found and returned from

156-549: Is among the largest in the country. A Christian church congregation met on the site for many years after the 1801 revival meeting, and the congregation's leaving the Presbyterian Church in 1804. Barton W. Stone was its minister and one of the leading ministers of the Christian Church. This place was so dear to him that at his request, several years after his death, his remains were reinterred there. Led by Barton Stone,

182-643: The Churches of Christ and the Evangelical Christian Church in Canada , and several smaller groups. The Christian Church used a log building as their meeting house ; it was modernized many times. When the congregation ceased to meet there regularly in the 1920s, the building fell into disuse. Later, historically minded persons, predominantly from the Disciples, restored the building and preserved it by building

208-497: The Disciples of Christ and the Churches of Christ , due in no small part to this document. The document titled Last Will and Testament of The Springfield Presbytery was signed by Robert Marshall, John Dunlavy, and Richard McNemar on June 28, 1804, in the presence of B. W. Stone, John Thompson, and David Purviance, who served as witnesses. David Purviance David Purviance (November 14, 1766 – August 19, 1847)

234-655: The Restoration Movement . Thompson wrote the Remarks on the Confession , arguing that, since creeds served to divide the church, even if a perfect creed could be found, it should be rejected as the standard for Christian fellowship. The unstated implication was that unity was preferable to orthodoxy. By 1804 the Springfield Presbytery had attracted 15 congregations in Ohio and Kentucky. The leaders of this newer presbytery became concerned by its growth, as they did not want to create

260-489: The bluegrass near Paris, Kentucky . The "scalping" in 1792 caused the Purviance family to consider Sumner County temporarily unsafe for white pioneers, although the parents would return to Sumner County, from which Wilson County, Tennessee , would be carved in 1799. The parents were Revolutionary War "colonel" John Purviance (1743–1823)--son of another John Purviance and wife Margaret McKnight (Purviance), of county Donegal in

286-838: The 1685 revocation of the Edict of Nantes (Edict of Toleration) by Louis XIV, David's 2nd-great-grandfather, Jacques (Jacob) Sr, and his three sons joined with Huguenots who fled France for Britain and the American Colonies. The two younger sons went to the American Colonies, where they capitalized financially from the mistaken assumption, which they did nothing to correct, that they were Huguenots. Their father, elder brother, Jacques (Jacob) Jr, and four nephews travelled to Ulster where they settled, first in Lisburn then in Castlefinn with Scottish cousins who had settled there previously. One well-known brother of

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312-632: The 20th century became more associated with the Pentecostal movement. Cane Ridge is located in Bourbon County, Kentucky , near Paris . The ridge was named by the explorer Daniel Boone , who had noticed a form of bamboo growing there. The Cane Ridge building and grounds had many unusual aspects. The 1791 Cane Ridge Meeting House is believed to be the largest single-room log structure in North America. The burial ground contains an unmarked section that

338-551: The Cane Ridge Revival is associated with the development of what became known as the Restoration Movement . Stone and several other ministers left the Presbyterian Church in 1804 and established the Christian Church . Another element of the Restoration Movement was Alexander Campbell's Disciples of Christ . In 1832, Stone and Campbell agreed to combine their efforts in the Restoration Movement. Later groups developed as

364-460: The Springfield Presbytery eventually became known as the Christian Church . It is estimated that the Christian Church numbered about 12,000 by 1830. The Last Will and Testament became a founding document of the Restoration Movement . The dissolution of the Springfield Presbytery was in part a symbolic act, based on the principle that gave priority to individual autonomy for local congregations. Such Congregational ideals are still fundamental to

390-714: The birth of the Christian Church of the West and became a founding document of the Restoration Movement . David Purviance was born November 14, 1766, in Rowan County, North Carolina (became Iredell County in 1788), an ending point for many colonial pioneers migrating from Pennsylvania down the Great Wagon Road of the 18th century. David Purviance's family, of Scots-Irish lineage, removed westerly from Iredell County, NC, in 1791 to Sumner County in Middle Tennessee to help found

416-634: The decision to the General Assembly. It went on to argue that they had no reasonable hope of redress within the Presbyterian church as long as "human opinions", rather than scripture, were the standard of orthodoxy. Stone wrote the Compendious View of the Scripture. Systematically laying out the doctrines which the Washington Presbytry had condemned, he wrote the first theological statement of

442-522: The desire for Christian union and identified the Bible as the only standard of Christian faith and practice. In addition to signing the Last Will and Testament , the ministers agreed to take "no other name than " Christians, " on the basis that it was "the name first given by divine authority to the disciples of Christ." Soon, they adopted the name "Christian" to identify their group. Thus, former congregations from

468-540: The father of David Purviance was Captain James Purviance of the North Carolina continental line. Although the son, church elder David Purviance, would aid in the formation of the new Restoration Movement and, unintentionally, development of the new Christian Church-Disciples of Christ-Church of Christ denomination, neither of his parents abjured Presbyterianism, although the father ("Colonel" John Purviance II) did join

494-519: The members of the Synod. They formed the Springfield Presbytery two days later. The Springfield Presbytery was a loose association of the dissenting ministers and their congregations. The Presbytery ordained a sixth minister, David Purviance , who joined it after the West Lexington Presbytery of Kentucky had refused to ordain him. On January 31, 1804, the several ministers published a 141-page defense of their actions, in which they opposed

520-587: The new Christian Church movement from its Kentucky base; and because he was an abolitionist in a time when slavery sentiment predominated in Kentucky. David Purviance was a signatory as witness to the Last Will and Testament of the Springfield Presbytery formally dissolving the presbytery , which had previously withdrawn from the Presbyterian Synod of Kentucky. The Last Will and Testament marked

546-636: The new Cumberland Presbyterian denomination founded in 1810 in Dickson County, Middle Tennessee, but the mother (Mary Jane Wasson Purviance) died in the year 1810, and so remained a strict Presbyterian. He died August 19, 1847, and was buried in the Old North New Paris Cemetery in New Paris, Ohio. Cane Ridge, Kentucky 38°12′56″N 84°8′38″W  /  38.21556°N 84.14389°W  / 38.21556; -84.14389 Cane Ridge

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572-696: The north of Ireland—who served in the North Carolina continental line, & wife Mary Jane Wasson (Purviance), also of Scots-Irish lineage. David Purviance's great-grandparents lived in Castlefinn, County Donegal in the north of Ireland, the family having previously been Scottish Protestant (Presbyterian which of course, like the Huguenot faith, is Calvinism) merchants and shopkeepers living and trading in Royan, Charente-Maritime, Poitou-Charentes, France for three generations, from 1598 until 1685, during which time they likely intermarried with French Calvinists (Huguenots). Following

598-595: The old Shiloh Presbyterian Church outside today's Gallatin, Tennessee . In 1792, David Purviance's brother John Purviance III was scalped by hostile Native Americans in full view of the victim's wife, Martha King Purviance (later Mrs. William McCorkle). "Mattie" Purviance watched helplessly as her husband was slain and had to be forcibly restrained from running to aid the hapless John Purviance. David Purviance's family sought refuge from further Indian depredations up in Bourbon County, Kentucky, on farmland near Cane Ridge in

624-527: The use of creeds to determine who is a Christian. The defense was entitled An Apology for Renouncing the Jurisdiction of the Synod of Kentucky. To Which Is Added a Compendious View of the Gospel and a Few Remarks on the Confession of Faith. The Apology was written by Robert Marshall. It argued that the examination of McNemar in 1802 had been conducted without due process, which would have justified an appeal of

650-674: Was a member of the Kentucky legislature , a member of the Ohio legislature , and an important early leader in the Stone-Campbell Restoration Movement . He was also an early trustee (1819–1836) of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio , and often served as its president pro tempore . The religious fervor of the early 19th century U.S. western frontier found its strongest voice at Cane Ridge Meeting House in Bourbon County, Kentucky , site of

676-614: Was the site of a huge camp meeting in 1801, the Cane Ridge Revival , that drew thousands of people and had a lasting influence as one of the landmark events of the Second Great Awakening , which took place largely in frontier areas of the United States. The event was led by eighteen Presbyterian ministers, but numerous Methodist and Baptist preachers also spoke and assisted. Many of the "spiritual exercises", such as glossolalia and ecstatic attendees, were exhibited that in

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