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 JOHN G. DOUGHTY, PRINTER, CORNER MERIDIAN AND CIRCLE STREETS. 
 1876. 
 
Extract from the Minutes of the Presbytery of In- 
 dianapolis, in session at Greenwood, September, 1875 • 
 
 " Rev. A. Y. Moore was chosen to prepare a History of the 
 Presbytery, to be read at the Spring meeting." 
 
 Extract from the Minutes of Presbytery, in session 
 at Southport, April, 1876 : 
 
 " Rev. A. Y. Moore read a i^art of the History he had prepared 
 of this Presbytery, and he was requested to complete the History, 
 and prepare it for publication." 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 Church at Bloomington — Eev. Isaac Reed — Bible Society — 
 First Preaching in Indiana — First Churches — Early Times 
 — The State Cai^ital is located and named — Organization of 
 Church at Indianapolis — Chronological Comparisons 1 
 
 CHAPTER II. 
 Louisville and Salem Presbyteries — Indianapolis as a Mission- 
 ary Field — First Ordination in the State — Ordination and 
 Installation at Bloomington — Organization of Churches at 
 Columbus, Franklin, Greencastle, and Greenwood — Pres- 
 bytery of Wabash— Synod of Indiana — Difficulties with 
 Mr. Bush — Presbytery of Crawfordsville — Difficulties in 
 Presbytery — Difficulties Allayed 16 
 
 CHAPTER III, 
 Presbytery of Indianapolis — First Statistical Report — The 
 Field and its Occupation in 1830 — Decision of Pre.sbytery 
 on Representation, Presbytery Resisting Division — Com- 
 plaint against Presbytery — Dissensions from Diversity in 
 Doctrine — Items — Hopewell — Industrial Aspects and In- 
 terests — Southport, Danville, Greencastle, Shiloh, Bethany 
 — The Field at the time of the Great Division of the 
 Church 27 
 
VI CONTENTS. 
 
 CHAPTEK IV. 
 Action of the Presbytery of Indianapolis in the Great Division 
 of the Church — Action of the Presbytery of Crawfordsville — 
 Greencastle First — Greencastle Second — Putnamville, Pop- 
 lar Spring, Baiabridge, Carpentersville, Bloomington, Co- 
 lumbus 43 
 
 CHAPTER V. 
 Second Church of Indianapolis — Indianapolis Presbytery, N. 
 S. — Enlargement of Presbytery — Ministerial Changes — 
 Changes in Churches — Missionary Work — Pastoral Relation 
 — Report to General Assembly 50 
 
 CHAPTER VI. 
 Presbytery of Indianapolis, 0. S. — Churches Organized — Min- 
 isterial Changes — Lessons from the History of Franklin 
 Church — Ministerial Support — Missionary Work — Organi- 
 zation of White Water Presbytery, and Changes in the 
 Boundaries of the Presbytery 59 
 
 CHAPTER VII. 
 
 View of the Field from Reports of Indiana Gazetteer — Num- 
 ber of Old and New School Churches, and their Increase 
 in Membership — Progress and Prosperity of the Country.. 71 
 
 CHAPTER VIII. 
 Indianapolis Presbytery, O. S. — Changes in Churches — Minis- 
 terial Changes — State of Religion — Missionary Work — Pres- 
 byterial Authority — First Church of Indianapolis — Second 
 Church of Greencastle — Numbers 74 
 
 CHAPTER IX. 
 Indianapolis Presbytery, N. S. — New Churches — Second Church 
 of Indianapolis — Fourth Church of Indianapolis — Green- 
 wood — Ministerial Changes — Missionary Work — Danville, 
 White Lick, Greencastle, Putnamville, Bainbridge, Bloom- 
 ington, Columbus 83 
 
CONTENTS. vu 
 
 CHAPTER X. 
 Numbers — Census Report of the Statistics of the diflferent De- 
 nominations in the Field of the Presbytery 92 
 
 CHAPTER XI. 
 Indianapolis Presbytery, N. S. — Greenfield Church — Kingston 
 and Clarksburg — Edinburg — Sixth Church of Indianapolis 
 — Shelby ville — Ministerial Changes — Progress — Reunion — 
 Adjournment sine die — Hendricks County — Putnam Ceunty 
 — Bloomington — Columbus — Numbers 96 
 
 CHAPTER XII. 
 Indianapolis Presbytery, 0. S. — Changes in Churches — Ministe- 
 rial Changes — Deaths^ — State of the Country — Revivals — 
 Reunion — First Church at Indianapolis — Seventh Church 
 at Indianapolis — Brown.sburg and Clermont — Greencastle, 
 Carpenters ville, Bloomington — Numbers 107 
 
 CHAPTER XIII. 
 Indianapolis Presbytery — Its Boundaries, Members and 
 Churches — Changes in Churches — Ministerial Changes — 
 Missionary Work — Woman's Presbyterial Society — Revivals 119 
 
HISTORY 
 
 PRESBYTERY OF INDIANAPOLIS. 
 
 CHAPTER I 
 
 Church at Bloomington — Rev. Isaac Reed — Bible Society — 
 First Preaching in Indiana — First Churches — Early 
 Times — The State Capital located and .named — Organiza- 
 tion of_ Church at Indianapolis — Chronological Compar- 
 isons. 
 
 1805—1823. 
 
 The Presbytery of Indianapolis comprises within its 
 limits the following counties : Putnam, Hendricks, Ma- 
 rion, Hancock, Johnson, Morgan, Monroe, Brown and 
 Bartholomew. 
 
 The oldest Presbyterian church within this district is 
 that of Bloomington, Monroe county. This church was 
 organized the 27th of September, 1819. One year be- 
 fore this all the rest of the territory now included within 
 the bounds of the Presbytery of Indianapolis, except 
 Monroe county, was in the possession of the Indians. 
 At St. Mary's, Ohio, a treaty was made upon the 3d of 
 October, 1818, by the government of the United States 
 
2 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 with the Delaware Indians, who then occupied this ter- 
 ritory, b}- which they transferred it to the United States. 
 In the treaty, the right was reserved to the Indians of 
 remaining in the country, and occupying it as a hunting 
 ground for three years; after this they were to be re- 
 moved by the government of the United States to terri- 
 tory assigned to them west of the Mississippi.* This 
 tract of countr}" purchased from the Delawares was 
 called, in the settlement of the country, the Xew Pur- 
 chase, and known as such. 
 
 The county of Monroe was partly within the limits of 
 the ISqw Purchase and partly within the limits of a pur- 
 chase made of the Indians by General Harrison at Ft. 
 Wayne in 1809 ; a purchase which was one of the chief 
 causes that stirred up the hostility of Tecumseh and his 
 brother, the Shawnee Prophet, and led to the Indian 
 war, which was begun with the battle of Tippecanoe, 
 :N"ovember 7th, 1811. 
 
 The enabling act of Congress which made Indiana a 
 State in 1816, devolved upon James Monroe, the Presi- 
 dent of the United States, the duty of setting apart a 
 township of land for University purposes, in addition to 
 the township that had been already granted to the Uni- 
 versity of Vincennes. The President designated for the 
 State University a township of" land in what afterwards 
 became Monroe county. Doubtless this assignment of 
 land for University purposes led to the speedy settle- 
 ment and organization of Monroe county. The county 
 of Monroe, which was previously a part of Orange 
 county, with the county seat at Paoli, was organized by 
 the Legislature of 1818. The countj^ seat was located 
 April 11th, 1818, and named Bloomington. This was 
 
 * Dillon's Indiana, p. 575. 
 
PRESB YTER Y OF INDIA NAPOLIS. 3 
 
 six months before the acquisition of the New Purchase 
 from the Delawares. 
 
 The first entrance of a Presbyterian or Congrega- 
 tional minister within the boundaries of this presbytery 
 was, in all probability, made in the fall of 1818. The 
 Rev. Orin Fowler, who spent a year in the State under 
 the direction of the Connecticut Missionary Society, 
 visited Bloomington in the fall of 1818. Mr. Fowler 
 thus writes from Carlisle, in Sullivan county, to Rev. 
 Isaac Reed, then preaching at I^ew Albany : " I have 
 been on a tour to Monroe county, (Bloomington county 
 seat), which was very fatiguing; have been up the Wa- 
 bash river to Fort Harrison (Terre Haute), and preached 
 in nearly every neighborhood in these several direc- 
 tions."* 
 
 In the fall of 1819 the Rev. Isaac Reed, who was then 
 preaching for the church of New Albany, made a mis- 
 sionary tour into the interior of the State to distribute 
 Bibles and to preach. The Bibles, he says, were the re- 
 mains of a society which had been formed at Jefferson- 
 ville b}^ the agency of the Rev. Samuel J. Mills and the 
 Rev. Daniel Smith, during the days of the territorial 
 existence of Indiana, and while Colonel Posey was Gov- 
 ernor. In 1814, SamuelJ. Mills and Daniel Smith, under 
 the combined patronage of the Connecticut and Massa- 
 chusetts Missionary Societies, made a journey through 
 the States and Territories of the southwest, preaching 
 and organizing Bible and other benevolent societies. In 
 November of this year, these men visited St. Louis, and 
 " preached the first sermons ever heard from ministers 
 of their denomination in that French village."! It was 
 to distribute the Bibles of this Bible Society, organized 
 
 ^Reed's Christian Traveller, p. 97. 
 
 fSprague's Annals of the Presbyterian Pulpit, Vol. IV, p. 506. 
 
4 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 at Jeffersonville by Samuel J. Mills and his colaborer, 
 Daniel Smith, and to preach the gospel " in the regions 
 beyond," that the Rev. Isaac Reed made, in the fall of 
 1819, a missionary t()nr " as far as to the frontier coun- 
 ties of Monroe and Owen." By this thread of influ- 
 ence, slight, yet real, and most interesting and precious, 
 the organization of the oldest church of the presbytery 
 becomes associated with the life and labors of one 
 " whose praise is in all the churches," and to whom is 
 largely due the organization both of the American 
 Board of Missions and the American Bible Society. 
 
 The church at Bloomington was " the first church," 
 says Mr. Reed, " formed by my ministry."* Mr. Reed 
 became a veteran missionary, and probably organized 
 more churches in the State than any other man.f 
 
 The first record we have of a Presbyterian minister 
 preaching within the limits of Indiana, is of Thomas 
 Cleland, of Kentucky. In the Life of Dr. Cleland we 
 find the following : 
 
 " Transylvania Presbytery had no definite limits in a 
 southern direction ; it also included Indiana, etc., on 
 the north. In the spring of 1805 I was directed to visit 
 Vincennes and the adjoining regions. It was an unin- 
 habited route I had to go. A small wilderness trace, 
 with only one residence on the way, in the most desti- 
 tute part of the way, to entertain me during the night. 
 Here was my poor animal tied to a tree, fed with the 
 grain packed in a wallet from Louisville, and myself 
 stretched on the puncheon floor of a small cabin, for the 
 night's rest. All passed off", however, without any det- 
 riment or discomfort. The next evening made up for 
 all previous privations. I was welcomed and agreeably 
 
 *Christian Traveller, p. 93. 
 
 ^Historical Discourse, by Rev. J. H. Johnston. 
 
PRESBYTERY OF INDIANAPOLIS. & 
 
 entertained at the Governor's palace during my stay in 
 Vincennes. The late William Henry Harrison, then a 
 young man, with a Presbyterian wife, was Governor of 
 the Indiana Territory, as it then was. He had recently 
 held a treaty with a certain tribe of Indians, who as- 
 sembled at Vincennes. 
 
 " The first sermon I preached — and it was the first 
 ever preached in the place, at least by a Presbyterian 
 minister — was in the council house, but a short time 
 before occupied by the sons of the forest. I preached 
 also in a settiement twenty miles up the "Wabash, where 
 were a few Presbyterian families, chiefly from Shelby 
 -county, Kentucky."* 
 
 It is possible that in Clarke county, which Governor 
 Harrison established by proclamation February 3, 1801, 
 there may have been preaching, either by some Presby- 
 terian or other minister, earlier than the time mentioned 
 by Mr. Cleland, when he preached at Vincennes. 
 
 Id the Minutes of the General Assembly for 1805, we 
 find that about the time Cleland is threading his way 
 through the wilderness to Vincennes, Mr. Thomas Wil- 
 liamson, a licentiate of the Second Presbytery of South 
 Carolina, is appointed to spend three months in mission- 
 ary services, '' in the lower parts of the State of Ohio, 
 and in the Indian Territory as low as Kaskaskia." 
 
 By Indian Territory in this minute of the Assembly 
 we must understand Indiana Territory, which was or- 
 ganized in 1800, and embraced all the territory of the 
 country west of Ohio, and north of the Ohio river. 
 When, in 1803, the Lousiana purchase was made, all of 
 the territory west of the Mississippi, and as far south as 
 the southern boundary of Arkansas, was added to the 
 
 * Life of Dr. Cleland — Moore Wilstach, Keys & Co., Cincinnati, 
 1869, p. 87. 
 
b HISTORY OF THE 
 
 territorial government of Indiana. In 1805, the terri- 
 torial governments of Missouri and of Michigan were 
 organized. But it was not until 1809, that the Territory 
 of Illinois was established by detaching from the Ter- 
 ritory of Indiana the country which is now embraced 
 in the States of Illinois and "Wisconsin, and that part of 
 Minnesota which lies east of the Mississippi. In the 
 Minutes of the Assembly for 1806, we lind this resolu- 
 tion : " That Mr. Samuel Scott, of the Presbytery of 
 "West Lexington, be a Missionary for three months, in the 
 Indiana Territory, and especially at "Vincennes." 
 
 In Mr. Dickey's Brief History, this is the year of 
 the date of the organization of the Indiana church, the 
 first Presbyterian church organized in Indiana The 
 second church organized, was one in the vicinity of 
 Charlestown, Clarke county, called Palmyra. It was con- 
 stituted in 1807, by the Rev. James "Vance, with about 
 twelve or fifteen members. When the Charlestown 
 church was organized, in 1812, the Palmyra church had 
 become almost extinct, and the few remaining members 
 were embodied in the Charlestown church. The 
 Charlestown church was thus the third church organ- 
 ized in Indiana. The fourth was that of Washington, 
 Daviess county, with seventeen members, in 1814. The 
 fifth, that of Madison, with fifteen or twenty members, 
 in 1815. The sixth, that of Salem, in Washington 
 county, in 1816. The seventh, that of Blue Piver, in 
 Washington county, with seven members, in 1816. The 
 eighth, that of Pisgah, in Clarke county, with fifteen 
 members, in 1816. The ninth, that of Graham, in Jen- 
 nings county, with seventeen members, in 1817. The 
 tenth, that of New Albany, with ten members, in 1817. 
 The eleventh, that of Hopewell, in Sullivan county, in 
 1817. The twelfth, that of Jefifersonville in Jefferson 
 
PRESB YTER Y OF IXDIA XAPOLLS. 7 
 
 couuty, with fourteeu members, in 1818. The thirteenth, 
 that of New Lexington, Scott county, with twenty mem- 
 bers, in 1818. The fourteenth, that of Corydon, with 
 seven members, in 1819. The fifteenth, that of Carlisle, 
 in Sullivan county, with nine members, in 1819. 
 
 The church at Bloomington was the sixteenth Pres- 
 byterian church organized in the new and growing 
 State. It consisted at its organization, of nine persons, 
 Henry Kirkham, Mary Kirkham, Dr. David H. Max- 
 well, Mary Dunn Maxwell, John Ketcham, Elizabeth 
 Ketcham, Elizabeth Anderson, Elizabeth Lucus and 
 Patsy Baugh. Of these persons, Dr. David H. Maxwell 
 and John Ketcham were, during their lives, prominent 
 and influential citizens. They both took an active part 
 in the Indian war that begun with the battle of Tippe- 
 canoe. Their families were obliged to seek shelter in 
 forts. Ketcham's fort, in Jackson county, the region 
 of country in which he had first settled when he came 
 from Kentucky into Indiana, was considered far out 
 from the settlements, and greatly exposed to the savages. 
 The fort itself was never attacked by the Indians, though 
 invested one night by a party, who succeeded in driving 
 off the horses belonging to those in the fort. Ketcham 
 and a comrade, on an errand to a neighboring farm, 
 were waylaid by the Indians, and Ketcham received two 
 severe gun-shot wounds, and his comrade was killed. 
 In a scouting party under Gen. Bartholeraew, he is again 
 in imminent peril. Again a comrade falls at his side, 
 fatally wounded, and he escapes only by being quicker 
 with the fatal aim of his rifle than the savage foe, who 
 has singled him out for his victim. 
 
 It was in April, 1818, that John Ketcham moved to 
 Monroe county. He built the first mill that was built 
 in the county. The meal his family used while the 
 
8 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 mill was built, was prepared by a hand mill, the only 
 kind at the time in the county. He was, in time, hon- 
 ored with a Colonelcy of the State Militia, because of the 
 reputation he had gained in the Indian war. He be- 
 came an associate Judge, and served several times as 
 Representative in the Legislature. He died February 
 7th, 1865, at the age of eighty-three. 
 
 Dr. David H. Maxwell, moved to Bloomington in the 
 spring of 1819. He was much in public life. He was 
 a member from Jefferson county of the Convefttion of 
 1816, which framed the constitution with which Indiana, 
 in December, 1*816, was admitted as a State into the 
 Federal Union. He was the mover in the convention 
 of the clause in the constitution, which prohibited 
 Slavery, for the introduction of which, into the new 
 State, as shown in Dillon's History of Indiana, strong 
 and persistent efforts had been made. Dr. Maxwell fre- 
 quently represented the county of Monroe in the Legis- 
 lature, and was the eighth Speaker of the House of Rep- 
 resentatives. He was for twenty-five years a member 
 of the Board of Trustees of the State University, and 
 almost constantly the President of that Board. He was 
 elected an elder of the church in June, 1823, and served 
 the church as such until his death in May, 1854, at the 
 age of sixty -eight. 
 
 Of the original members of the church of Blooming- 
 ton, two still survive, Mrs. Mary Dunn Maxwell, the 
 widow of Dr. D. H. Maxwell, and Mrs. Elizabeth Ketch- 
 am, the widdow of Col. John Ketcham. Mrs. Maxwell 
 was born in March, 1788, one year before the adoption 
 of the Federal Constitution. Mrs. Ketcham was born in 
 Rockingham county, Virginia, November 27th, 1781, six 
 weeks after the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown. 
 Uniting with the church when about twenty years of 
 
PRESB YTER Y OF INDIA NA POL IS. 9 
 
 age, she has been a member of the church militant for 
 seventy-five years, and in faith and hope, is waiting for 
 her admission into the church triumphant.* 
 
 The church at Bloomington was organized in the 
 Court House, a log building erected for temporary use, 
 and of which a pen photograph remains in the contract 
 for its erection, now to be found in the records of the 
 county. It was, according to the terms of the contract, 
 to be built after the manner of double cabins, the first 
 ten feet square, and the second, twelve by twenty, built 
 ten feet apart, with an entry between. It was to be ten 
 feet high, of round logs, all to be neatly butted, then 
 hewed inside and out; the whole to be covered under 
 one roof with four courses of boards on each side; the 
 floors to be out of half timber, well hewed and jointed, 
 and two and a half inches thick when they lay on the 
 sleepers ; one door (doorway) in each apartment of said 
 house, with one window in the largest, the doors to be 
 fronting the entry, and shutters made to all and hung 
 on good wooden hinges, the house to be chinked with 
 short blocks, after the manner with stone, and well 
 daubed inside and out and made smooth. 
 
 The dwellings of Bloomington were in harmony with 
 its court house. They were log cabins, and dense for- 
 ests occupied most of its streets and lots. In this same 
 year Fort Wayne was vacated by the United States 
 Government as a frontier military post, and it was left a 
 small trading post for bartering with the Indians for 
 their peltries, the same purpose for which it had been 
 first occupied by the French more than a hundred years 
 before. 
 
 In 1810, the population of the Territory of Indiana was 
 
 * Mrs. Ketcham, since the above was written, has entered into 
 rest, departing this life on Sabbath morning, July 9th, 1876. 
 
10 HISTORIC OF THE 
 
 24,520. But the streams of immigration were beginniug 
 to flow in rapidly upon the new country, and a commit- 
 tee had been appointed by the Legislative Council to 
 locate a permanent Capital for the State. This Council 
 also petitioned Congress for permission to locate a cer- 
 tain quantity of the public lands " lying on the main 
 fork of White River," for this permanent seat of gov- 
 ernment. The war with the Indians hindered the con- 
 summation of this work begun by the Legislative Council. 
 In the enabling act of Congress for the organization of 
 the State, four sections of unsold land were donated for 
 a permanent Capital. In January, 1820, a committee 
 was appointed by the legislature to fix the location of 
 the State Capital. They located it in June of the same 
 year. On the 6th of January, 1821, the Legislature con- 
 firmed the action of their commissioners, and on motion 
 of Judge Jeremiah Sullivan, of Madison, afterwards, if 
 not at the time, an elder of the Presbyterian church, the 
 newly established Capital received its name, Indianapolis. 
 In the spring of the same year, 1821, in which the Cap- 
 ital was located, the man, who but two years before was 
 the first settler in the vicinity of Indianapolis, was mur- 
 dered by the Indians upon the place upon which he had 
 settled, and the horses he had owned were driven off by 
 them. 
 
 In the course of a few months after the location of 
 the Capital, a population of some hundreds gathered 
 upon the site of the future city. For this population, 
 flour and meal were packed on horses through a path- 
 less wilderness from the White Water settlement at Con- 
 nersville, a distance of sixty miles. This was necessary 
 for several reasons. The season was an exceedingly wet 
 one, and malignant fever and ague so prostrated the in- 
 habitants of the new settlement, that they were unable 
 
rRESB YTER Y OF INDIA NAPOLJS. 1 1 
 
 to tend the coru which had been phanted, and which 
 choked by the rank growth of weeds, had brought no 
 fruit to perfection. Indianapolis was not destined to a 
 rapid growth in its early days. George Stephenson had 
 not yet succeeded in securing the device for rapid trav- 
 elling by railway, though working ver}^ earnestly and 
 hopefully for it. Indianapolis, before the days of rail- 
 roads, was too inaccessible a point for rapid growth. 
 The first sale of city lots occurred in October, 1821. In 
 1831, three-fourths of the town site and donation of the 
 government remained unsold. Among the names of the 
 first arrivals of citizens after the locatian of the Capital 
 of the State, are the names of Dr Isaac Coe, Caleb 
 Scudder, James Blake and James M. Ray, names that 
 will ever be held in honored remembrance in the history 
 of the Presbyterian church in Indianapolis. 
 
 It is a matter of record, that the Rev. Ludlow G. 
 Gaines, of Ohio, a missionary of the General Assembly, 
 preached in a grove upon the site of Indianapolis, sev- 
 eral months before the lots now covered by the city had 
 been offered for sale. The first settlers of the new city 
 had the gospel preached to them only when some travel- 
 ling minister, overtaken by the Sabbath, paused in his 
 journey. This lack of gospel privilege, it is said, was 
 rapidly tending to obliterate the distinction between the 
 Sabbath and other days. One among the settlers be- 
 came deeply engaged in finding means to arrest the 
 growing desecration. This was Dr. Isaac Coe. His first 
 effort was to organize a Bible class of Christian people. 
 This class first met February 20th, 1822. A Sabbath 
 school was organized April 6th, 1823. It was adver- 
 tised in the Indianapolis Gazette, as the Indianapolis 
 Sabbath School. So it was for five years, the Indian- 
 apolis Sabbath School, the only one. It was organized 
 
12 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 with thirty scholars, its numbers increasing during the 
 year to ninety-eight, with an average attendance of 
 forty. James M. Ray was its first Superintendent, al- 
 though he was not yet a member of the church. Like- 
 wise, James Blake, an active co-laborer in the Sabbath 
 School, and in all the outward work of the church, was 
 not yet a member of the church. It was in a revival 
 in 1830, that these men became by profession of their 
 faith, members of the church. 
 
 The Rev. David C. Proctor, a missionary under the 
 •direction of the Connecticut Missionary Society, entered 
 the State late in the fall of 1821. In the fall of 1822, 
 although there was yet no church organization at Indi- 
 anapolis, arrangements, were made with him to preach 
 three-fourths of his time at Indianapolis, while every 
 fourth Sabbath he preached to the little church at 
 Bloomington. Thus the way was prepared for the or- 
 ganization of the Presb^'terian church at Indianapolis. 
 The church was organized July 5th, 1823, in Caleb 
 Scudder's cabinet shop, the same place in which the 
 Sabbath School had been organized. The Rev. Isaac 
 Reed, who in the fall of 1822 had moved to Owen coun- 
 ty, writes in his Christian Traveller: 
 
 " My first visit to Indianapolis was through many 
 perils of waters by the way, in company with Mr. Proc- 
 tor, the 3d of July. On the afternoon of the 4th, I 
 preached to the Presbyterian friends at a cabinet ma- 
 ker's shop ; and at the same place, on the morning of 
 the 5th, I preached as moderator in the formation of the 
 church of Indianapolis. The same day two other min- 
 isters arrived. The next day was the Sabbath, and there 
 were four ministers with this new formed church. The 
 church was organized with fifteen members. Dr. Isaac 
 Coe and Caleb Scudder were elected elders. A church 
 
PRESBYTERY 01 INDIANAPOLIS. 13 
 
 edifice had been begun in May before the organization 
 of the church, and was so far completed that it was oc- 
 cupied at the sacrament of the Lord's Supper on the 
 Sabbath, the next day after the organization of the 
 church." 
 
 The building committee that carried through 'the 
 erection of this edifice, were Dr. Isaac Coe, James Blake, 
 and Daniel Yandes. This church building was thirty- 
 four feet by fifty-four. Its cost was fifteen hundred dol- 
 lars. The cost of the lot was one hundred dollars. 
 
 CHRONOLOGICAL COMPARISONS. 
 
 This church building was erected on the frontiers. Only 
 a hundred years before this the foundations of the first 
 Presbyterian church building in the city of New York 
 had been laid, a building sixty by eighty feet, on Wall 
 street, near Broadway, and although contributions for the 
 building were solicited and obtained in Connecticut and 
 Massachusetts, from the infant church in Philadelphia, 
 and also from Scotland, yet for twenty years the church 
 strug-gled on in poverty, assembling in a house without 
 galleries, six out of its eight windows being closed with 
 boards, poverty preventing their being glazed, and the 
 fraction of light being enough for the handful of peo- 
 ple.* The churches of Cincinnati and Louisville had 
 been organized sometime before the church at Indiana- 
 polis. Cincinnati had been laid out in 1789, its first 
 Presbyterian church organized in 1790, and its first 
 Presbyterian church edifice erected in 1792. Louisville 
 had been laid out still earlier. In 1780 the legislature 
 of Virginia passed "An act for the establishing the town 
 of Louisville, at the falls of the Ohio," naming the town 
 in honor of Louis XVI., whose troops were then aiding 
 
 * Webster's History of the Presbyterian Church, pp. 120, 329. 
 
14 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 the Americans in the war of Independence. The first 
 Presbyterian church in Louisville was organized in 1816, 
 and its iirst church edifice erected in 1816. At the time" 
 of the organization of the Presbyterian church at Indi- 
 anapolis, the Rev. Gideon Blackburn had just been set- 
 tled as pastor over the Presbyterian church at Louisville. 
 In the spring of 1823, the presbytery of Louisville re- 
 ported to the General Assembly eleven ministers^ thirty- 
 five churches, and nine hundred and ten church mem- 
 bers. Of tbese thirty-five churches, twenty -four were 
 in Indiana, the church of Indianapolis being the twenty- 
 sixth organization of that large portion of the State, 
 which was included within the bounds of the presbytery 
 of Louisville. 
 
 At this time, July, 1823, the Presbyterian church at 
 St. Louis was still without a church edifice. A Presby- 
 terian church, consisting of nine members, had been 
 organized by the Rev. Salmon Giddings in St. Louis in 
 November, 1817. A brick church building, forty by 
 sixty feet, was commenced in 1823, but was not finished 
 and dedicated until June, 1825. Its cost was eight thou- 
 sand dollars. The debt upon it, it is said, was reduced 
 in 1826, by contributions and proceeds of sale of pews, 
 to five thousand dollars.* In Detroit, on the 5th of 
 August, 1816, an informal organization of citizens of 
 Protestant faith was effected by Rev. John Monteith, a 
 missionary of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian 
 church. In 1819, a church edifice was erected at a cost 
 of seven thousand dollars, more than eleven hundred 
 having been obtained by the solicitation abroad of funds. 
 In January, 1825, the church, consisting of forty-nine 
 members, was reorganized, adopting Articles of Faith, 
 
 *Sprague's Annals, Vol. IV, p. 507. 
 
PBESB YTER Y OF INDIANAPOLIS. 1 5 
 
 which fully committed the society to the Presbyterian 
 doctrines and form of government.* 
 
 It was not until ten years after the organization of the 
 church of Indianapolis, (in June,) 1833, that the first 
 Presbyterian church of Chicago was organized, with 
 twenty-five members ; sixteen of these members of the 
 garrison of Fort Dearborn, and nine citizens of the new 
 city which had been laid out three years before. The 
 Rev. fleremiah Porter, who came with troops from Green 
 Bay to Chicago in May, 1833, organized the church. 
 Its first edifice for worship was a frame, twenty-six by 
 forty, and was opened for worship January Ist, 1834. 
 
 * Manual of First Presbyterian Church of Detroit. 
 
16 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 CHAPTER II. 
 
 Louhville and Salem Presbyteries — Indianapolis as a Mis- 
 sionary Field — First Ordination in the State — Ordination 
 and Installation at Bloomington — Organization of Churches 
 at Columbus, Franklin, Greencastle and Greenwood — 
 Presbytery of Wabash — Synod of Indiana — Difficulties 
 with Mr. Bush — Presbytery of Crawfordsville — Difficulties 
 in Presbytery — Difficulties Allayed. 
 
 1823—1830. 
 
 In 1815, upon petition of the Synod of Ohio, the Gen- 
 eral Assembly made the Ohio river the dividing line 
 between the synods of Ohio and Kentucky. This placed 
 Indiana Territory within the boundaries of Miami pres- 
 bytery. In 1817, upon petition of the Louisville Presby- 
 tery, it was granted by the General Assembly that so 
 much of the Synod of Ohio as was west of a line 
 drawn due north from the mouth of Kentucky river, 
 should be attached to the Synod of Kentucky. In Octo- 
 ber, 1823, the Synod of Kentucky constituted all that 
 part of its territory lying within the boundaries of the 
 State of Indiana into a new presbytery, denominated the 
 Salem Presbytery. In October, 1824, the synod added 
 to this presbytery all that part of the State of Illinois 
 which is north of a line running due west from the 
 mouth of White river. At the same time, that part of 
 the State which lies south and west of a line beginning 
 at the mouth of Green river, running due north twenty 
 
PRESS YTER Y OF INDIA NA POLIS. 17 
 
 miles, thence north-westward to the mouth of White 
 river, "^as attached to the Presbytery of Muhlenburg. 
 
 INDIANAPOLIS AS A MISSIONARY FIELD. 
 
 In the fall of 1823, the Rev. D. C. Proctor removed to 
 Kentucky, "From this time," writes the Eev. Isaac 
 Reed, then preaching to the Bethany church, in Owen 
 county, " the particular care of the church of Blooming- 
 ton and of Indianapolis fell upon me, and neither sacra- 
 ments nor baptism were administered in either except 
 by my ministry, until the arrival of Rev. Mr. Bush, at 
 the latter place, in the summer of 1824, and of Mr. Hall 
 at Bloomingtou, near the same time." * 
 
 While Mr. Reed was thus, through the latter part of 
 1823 and the first half of 1824, supplying the church at 
 Indianapolis, he wrote thus of it to the United Domestic 
 Missionary Society, a society which in 1826 became 
 merged with the American Home Missionary Society : 
 " Indianapolis, the new and permanent seat of govern- 
 ment for the State, is a place of great need and high 
 hope for a located missionary. I was lately there, and 
 the session of the church showed me a written resolution 
 of their society, which they design to forward to you. 
 This resolution requests the location of a missionary 
 there. I encouraged them to forward it. There are 
 many reasons why this location should be made. A 
 church is commenced there, which has eighteen mem- 
 bers, four of them are male persons. A meeting-house 
 is built, at least raised and covered in. The congrega- 
 tion is willing to raise for your missionary two hundred 
 dollars a year. There is a little Baptist church and a 
 little Methodist society ; and there is no church of our 
 order near enough to unite with these to obtain a minis- 
 
 * Christian Traveller, p. 145. 
 2 
 
18 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 ter ; the nearest is fifty-two miles. It is thought by the 
 session, if they can have a missionary for one yoar, they 
 can support him after that time, they have such pros- 
 pects from those who are expected to move there within 
 a year. Now they look to you, brethren, to appoint 
 them one; and he ought to be there as soon as possible. 
 They w^ant a man of such talents as are favorable to col- 
 lecting and embodying society ; one who would be 
 willing to become settled. He should appropriate his 
 Sabbaths to the town, and have week day appoint- 
 ments all about that part of the country." * This 
 communication of Mr. Reed to the United Domestic 
 Missionary Society was published in their report for 1825. 
 
 In March, 1824, the session of the church at Indianap- 
 olis wrote to Mr. George Bush, a licentiate of the Pres- 
 bytery of New Brunswick, to secure his services as 
 their minister. Mr. Bush came to Indianapolis July 9, 
 1824, as a missionary of the Assembly. September 18^ 
 1824, he was called to the pastorate of the church upon 
 a salary of three hundred dollars, and as much more as 
 they could raise. 
 
 In January, 1825, the legislature met at the new capi- 
 tal for the first time. The State ofiices had been trans- 
 ferred from Corydon to Indianapolis in the November 
 preceding. 
 
 FIRST ORDINATION IN THE STATE. 
 
 On the 4th of March, 1825, a called meeting of the 
 Presbytery of Salem was held in Indianapolis. At this 
 meeting of the presbytery Mr. Bush was received, and 
 also Mr. Baynard Rush Hall, a licentiate of the Presby- 
 tery of Philadelphia. The next day Mr. Bush was 
 ordained and installed as pastor of the Presbyterian 
 
 * Christian Traveller, p. 165. 
 
PRESBYTERY OF INDIANAPOLIS. 19 
 
 church of Indianapolis. This was the first ordination of 
 a Presbyterian minister in the State. The church build- 
 ing being still unfinished, the ordination and installation 
 took place in the building that was used for the State 
 capitol, a large brick court house. The Rev. John F. 
 Crowe preached the ordination sermon. The Rev. John 
 M. Dicke}' presided and gave the charge to the pastor, 
 and the Moderator of Presbytery, the Rev. Isaac Reed, 
 gave the charge to the people. 
 
 ORDINATION AND INSTALLATION AT BLOOMINGTON. 
 
 At an adjourned meeting of the presbytery at Bloom- 
 iugton on the 12th of the following April, Baynard R. 
 Hall, who had charge of the State Seminary at Bloom- 
 ington, was ordained and installed pastor of the church 
 at Bloomington. As the church at Bloomington had no 
 edifice, the ordination and installation services took 
 place in the State Seminary building. The Rev. Isaac 
 Reed preached the ordination sermon. The Rev. W. 
 W. Martin presided and gave the charge to the pastor ; 
 and the Rev*. John M. Dickey gave the charge to the 
 people. The sermon was from II Corinthians 5 : 18. 
 <'And hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation," 
 The sermon was published. 
 
 The church at Bloomington, besides having had Mr. 
 Proctor to preach for them one-fourth of his time du- 
 ring one year, had had previous to that occasional mis- 
 sionary supplies. Among these had been W. W. Martin, 
 from Livonia, Francis McFarland, a missionary of the 
 Assembly, and Archibald Cameron, of Shelbyville, Ken- 
 tucky. In the fall of 1822, the Rev. C. C. Beattie, now 
 of Steubenville, Ohio, then laboring in the Wabash val- 
 ley as a missionary of the Assembly's Board of Missions, 
 preached in Bloomington, also in the spring of 1823. 
 
20 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 At the time of Mr. Hall's settlement the church had ia- 
 creased to a membership of thirty. A Sabbath school 
 was organized in 1823, and has been held every Sabbath 
 morning since. 
 
 COLUMBUS. 
 
 The third church organized within the present limits 
 of the Presbytery of Indianapolis, was the church at 
 Columbus. This was organized- by Rev. John M. 
 Dickey, July 3, 1824. It consisted of eighteen members. 
 Mr. Joseph Hart was the first ruling elder. Bartholo- 
 mew county had been organized in 1821, and Columbus 
 was laid out and made the county seat the same year. 
 In 1824, the population of the county was 2,690. The 
 population of Marion county at this time was about the 
 same. That of Monroe county at the same time was 
 3,400. 
 
 The church of Columbus, it is said,* existed many 
 years before it had any settled pastor, or even regular 
 preaching. Mr. Dickey, who organized it, supplied it 
 at an early day, one Sabbath a month for six months. 
 For many years, once each year, he held meetings for 
 several days, including the Sabbath, baptized children? 
 received members to the church, and administered the 
 communion. 
 
 FRANKLIN. 
 
 November 30th, 1824, the church of Franklin, John- 
 son county, was organized by Rev. John M. Dickey. 
 The church was constituted with the following five 
 members : George King, Joseph Young, David W. 
 McCaslin, Elenor King and Nancy Young. George 
 King and David W. McCaslin, were chosen elders, and 
 after a sermon by the Rev. George Bush, they were or- 
 
 * Historical Discourse of Rev. N. S. Dickey. 
 
PRESBYrEBY OF INDIANAPOLLS. 21 
 
 <3ained to the office of ruling elder. The session then 
 received Jane McCaslin, a member of the church on ex- 
 amination. 
 
 Johnson county was organized in 1822. The popula- 
 tion of the county in 1824 was 910. The Franklin 
 church was the fourth church organized within the pres- 
 ent boundaries of the Presbytery of Indianapolis. 
 
 GREENCASTLE. 
 
 The church at Greencastle, the county seat of Put- 
 nam county, was organized with twelve members, by 
 the Rev. Isaac Reed, August 12th, 1826. Putnam coun- 
 ty was organized the last day of the year, 1821. In 
 1824, it had a^-population of 1,700. Yet, in 1825, from 
 Oreencastle west, along one of the main routes to Illi- 
 nois, there was a stretch of dense forest unbroken for 
 seventeen miles, save by one hut and its adjacent clear- 
 ing. " To form this church," writes Mr. Reed, "required 
 much previous labor in preaching, visiting and traveling." 
 
 GREENWOOD. 
 
 On the last day of the year 1825, the Rev. Isaac Reed 
 organized another church in Johnson county. It was 
 the Greenwood church, then called Greenfield. It was 
 organized with nine members. The formation of the 
 church was effected just two years and three months 
 after the arrival of the first two families in the settle- 
 ment. The day after this church was organized was 
 both New Year's day and Sabbath day. A sermon was 
 preached, which was afterwards published with this title: 
 " The Foundation Stone," 1 Cor. iii: 2. Tlie sermon, 
 when printed, was dedicated to the Rev. Thomas Cle- 
 land, D. D., of Kentucky, in these words: 
 
 Every member, sir, of the Greenfield church, has come from your 
 bounds, and has been a worshipper in one or the other of your con 
 
22 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 gregations. This fact, together with my long acquaintance with 
 and friendship for you, as a man, a christian, a gospel minister, and 
 your pen having so often and so ably moved in defence of that 
 fundamental doctrine, which is the subject of the sermon, are my 
 apology for using your name in this dedication. 
 
 [Signed,] Isaac Reed. 
 
 Cottage of Peace, February 3d, 1826. 
 
 The Rev. George Bush, as commissioner from Salem 
 Presbytery, was a member of the General Assembly of 
 1825, the first representative from Indiana in that 
 body. 
 
 WABASH PRESBYTERY. 
 
 By an act of the Synod of Kentucky, October 1825, 
 Salem Presbytery was divided, and two presbyteries, 
 Madison and Wabash, formed. The Columbus church 
 fell within the bounds of Madison Presbytery. The 
 Wabash Presbytery consisted at its formation of five 
 ministers : Samuel T. Scott, Isaac Reed, George Bush, 
 Baynard R. Hall and Stephen Bliss. It had under ite 
 care nineteen churches. Among these were Bloming- 
 ton, Indianapolis, Franklin and Greencastle. 
 
 SYNOD OF INDIANA. 
 
 In 1826 the General Assembly constituted the Presby- 
 teries of Missouri, Salem, Wabash and Madison into a 
 synod denominated the Synod of Indiana. This synod 
 met in Vincennes October 18th, 1826. There were present 
 from churches witjain the bounds of the present Presby- 
 tery of Indianapolis, Baynard R, Hall, minister of the 
 church at Bloomington, George Bush, pastor of the 
 church at Indianapolis, and John Orchard, elder from 
 the church at Bloomington. 
 
 DIFFICULTIES WITH MR. BUSH. 
 
 In December, 1826, Mr. Bush, in a sermon preached in 
 
PRESB YTER Y OF INDIA XA POLLS. 23 
 
 the oburcli at Indianapolis, attempted to prove at length 
 that the Presbyterian form of church government was 
 not scriptural, but that the scriptural form of church 
 government was more like that of Independency. The 
 elders of the church remonstrated with him. They 
 thought it was inconsistent with his ordination vows. 
 They labored and bore long with him, but Mr. Bush 
 could not change his viewtj, neither could he cease from 
 propagating them. The church therefore felt con- 
 strained to apply to presbytery for a dissolution of the 
 pastoral relation. This they did in March, 1828. Mr. 
 Bush resisted the application of the church. At an ad- 
 journed meeting of the Presbytery of Wabash, held in 
 Indianapolis, June, 1828, the request of the church was 
 granted, and the pastoral relation was dissolved. Mr. 
 Bush appealed from the decision of the presbytery to 
 synod, A portion of the church and congregation sym- 
 pathized with him, and to these he preached at the 
 court house. The synod afiirmed the decision of the 
 presbytery, but with resolutions breathing the spirit of 
 fraternal kindness for Mr. Bush, and also blaming in 
 some measure the church. The church carried up a 
 complaint to the General Assembl}^ of 1829 against the 
 synod. When the complaint was taken up, " after con- 
 siderable discussion and mature deliberation, it was re- 
 solved that this business be dismissed on account of in- 
 formality, and that the papers be returned to the respec- 
 tive parties." 
 
 The Rev. John R. Moreland, of the presbytery of 
 West Lexington, was called October 27, 1828, to the 
 pastorate of the church of Indianapolis. Before the in- 
 stallation of Mr. Moreland, a new presbyter}' had been 
 constituted by the synod in October, 1829. 
 
24 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 PRESBYTERY OF CRAWFORDSVILLE. 
 
 The new presbytery was that of Crawfordsville. The 
 north line of Vigo, Clay, Owen and Monroe counties 
 was the dividing line between the Crawfordsville and 
 Wabash Presbyteries. Samuel Baldridge, John R. 
 Moreland, Samuel H. McNutt, George Bush, James 
 Crawford, James Thompson, Jeremiah Hill and John L. 
 Thompson, were the ministers constituting the new 
 presbytery. Thirteen churches were reported to the 
 General Assembly of 1830 within the presbytery. Indi- 
 anapolis was included in this presbytery. It was to 
 have met November 25, 1829, at Delphi, Carroll county, 
 but owing to an extraordinary fall of rain, and the 
 swollen and impassable state of the streams, the presby- 
 tery failed to meet. The moderator called the presbytery 
 together at Indianapolis, March 25, 1880. At this meet- 
 ing of presbytery, the Rev. John R. Moreland was 
 installed pastor of the church at Indianapolis. The Rev. 
 James Thompson preached the installation sermon, the 
 Rev. Samuel Baldridge presided and gave the charge to 
 the pastor, and the Rev. S. H. McNutt gave the charge 
 to the people. 
 
 DIFFICULTIES. 
 
 At this meeting of the presbytery a committee was 
 appointed to examine and give certificates during the 
 intervals of presbytery, to any ministers from other 
 presbyteries who might come within the bounds of 
 Crawfordsville presbytery and seek to labor in any of its 
 churches. An examination by either one of a commit- 
 tee of three, and certificate of approval, seemed to be 
 deemed sufficient guarantee to the churches that they 
 would not be led astray. The Rev. Jeremiah Hill and 
 Elder Cornelius Smock protested against this action 
 of the presbytery. Presbytery also requested the Rev. 
 
PRESB YTER Y OF INDIA NA POLLS. 25 
 
 W. W. Woods, a member of Union Presbytery, Tennes- 
 see, to desist from preaching in the churches of the 
 presbytery, on account of erroneous views, which it was 
 supposed he held. 
 
 These, and other things left on record, indicate that 
 difterences and divisions were springing up among the 
 brethren and the churches. 
 
 The second meeting of the presbytery was with the 
 Coal creek church, in Parke county, September 30, 1830. 
 At this meeting of presbytery the name of George Bush 
 was ordered to be dropped from the roll, he having ab- 
 sented himself from the meetings of presbytery, and in- 
 formed the presbytery that he had renounced the juris 
 diction of the Presbyterian church.* 
 
 DIFFICULTIES ALLAYED. 
 
 At this second meeting of the Presbytery of Craw- 
 
 * There doubtless should be added to this record the well known 
 facts of Mr. Bush's future career. He had determined to consecrate 
 his life to literature, and, as the best field for his exertions, made 
 his residence in New York city, and in 1831 he was elected profes- 
 sor of Hebrew and Oriental literature in its University. In 1840 he 
 commenced the publication of his " Notes, Critical and Explana- 
 tory, " on the Old Testament. Eight volumes were issued, embrac- 
 ing Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Joshua, Judges and Numbers. De- 
 voting himself in 1844 to the publication of a monthly magazine, in 
 which he discussed the nature of prophetic symbols, he soon mani- 
 fested a disposition to recede from the rules of interpretation and 
 opinions commonly received in the Protestant churches. In 1844 
 Dr. James W. Alexander wrote to Dr. Hall : " Bush is going fast 
 over to the New Jerusalem. In the Tribune, he challenges all the 
 world to prove the resurrection. He has a book coming out on the 
 soul. He practices Mesmerism. He told me of a lady, who can 
 read any one's character by feeling a paper on which he has written, 
 and read me a copy of his own character thus deduced. His talk 
 is mild, self-complacent -and fascinating. He has a man translating 
 the Germen account of the famous Clairvoyante of Prevorst. You 
 can imagine nothing of the sort too big for his swallow." What 
 Dr. J. W. Alexander perceived in 1844 did not, however, occur till 
 1848, when he consented to receive the rite of ordination privately, 
 and it was administered to him privately by Dr. Lewis Beers, an 
 aged clergyman in the New (Jerusalem) Church, at Danby, New 
 York. — [_Inde.v Volume Princeton Review, p. 121. 
 
26 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 fordsville, the action of the presbytery at its first meet- 
 ing concerning Rev. W. W. Wood was, upon application 
 of the church at Greenwood, reconsidered and reversed, 
 and Mr. Wood received as a member of presbytery by 
 letter from the Presbytery of West Union. 
 
 At an adjourned meeting of presbytery, held in Octo- 
 ber, 1830, at Madison, during the session of the synod, 
 the following members were present : Samuel H. Mc- 
 Nutt, James Crawford, Jeremiah Hill, W. W. Woods, 
 James Thotopson and M. M. Post, ministers, and John 
 Covert and James M. Ray, elders. 
 
 The following action was taken : 
 
 Whereas, Harmony of feeling is especially desirable amongst 
 brethren, in order to secure union of effort, and thus promote e^ch 
 other's usefulness as well as happiness ; and. 
 
 Whereas, There are differences of sentiment existing amongst 
 the brethren composing the General Assembly, which, by common 
 consent, are borne with ; therefore, 
 
 Resolved, That it is inexpedient for this presbytery to enforce the 
 resolutions adopted at the last spring meeting on the subject of ex- 
 amining ministers, credentials, etc., and that said resolutions be and 
 are hereby rescinded. 
 
 With this manifestation of the spirit of peace, there 
 was a manifestation of the spirit of missionary zeal. 
 Every minister of the presbytery was requested to spend 
 ten days of missionary labor, including one Sabbath, in 
 the vacancies somewhere in the presbytery, and report 
 at the next stated meeting. 
 
 At this same meeting of presbytery, the Rev. David 
 Monfort, although not present, was received b}^ letter 
 from the Presbytery of Chillicothe. Also, the Rev. M. 
 M. Post, reporting the prospects of organizing a church 
 at Logansport, presbytery advised him to continue his 
 labors if he could be sustained, and organize a church 
 as soon as he deemed it expedient. 
 
PEESB YTER Y OF INDIA NA POLLS. 27 
 
 CHAPTER III. 
 
 Presbytery of Indianapolis — First Statistical Heport — The 
 Field and its Occupation in 1830 — Decision of Presbytery 
 on Representation, Presbytery resisting division — Com- 
 plaint against Presbytery — Dissensions from diversity in 
 Doctrine — Items — Hopewell — Industrial aspects and in- 
 terests — Southpoii, Danville, Greencastle, Shiloh, Bethany 
 — The field at the time of the great division of the Church. 
 
 1830—1838. 
 
 At the meeting of SjDod in Madison, October, 1830, 
 the presbytery of Indianapolis was organized.* The 
 action of synod, as recorded in the Minutes of Synod, 
 was this : 
 
 Overture No. 4 was taken up, and the following reso- 
 lutions were adopted : 
 
 Resolved, That Kevs. Messrs. John R. Moreland, David Monfort, 
 W. W. Wood, and Jei-emiah Hill, of the Presbytery of Crawfords- 
 ville, and Eevs. Messrs. S. G. Lowry and Wm. Sickels, of the Presby- 
 tery of Madison, be and they are hereby constituted a new presby- 
 tery, to be known by the name of the Presbytery of Indianapolis, 
 including the counties of Marion, Johnson, Bartholomew, and 
 Decatur, and all the territory lyii^g north of those counties ; it 
 being understood that the west line of Hamilton, carried north, 
 shall be the line between the presbyteries of Crawfordsville and 
 Indianapolis ; and further 
 
 Resolved, That said Presbytery of Indianapolis be directed to 
 hold its first meeting at Greensburg on the first Thursday in April 
 
 * The first volume of the Records of the Presbytery is lost. Ex* 
 isting records begin October, 1837. 
 
28 HISTOR Y OF THE 
 
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 pointed to open the presbytery with a sermon, and preside till a 
 moderator shall be chosen ; and in case of his absence, the senior 
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 Upon the opposite page is a copy of the statistical re- 
 port made to the General Assembly of 1831, by the Pres- 
 bytery of Indianapolis at its meeting at Greensburg. 
 The Eev. Samuel G. Lowry was its first commissioner 
 to the General Assembly, representing the presbytery in 
 the General Assembly of 1831. 
 
 At this first meeting of the presbytery the Rev. Eliph- 
 alet Kent was received and enrolled. 
 
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 ZO HISTORY OF THE 
 
 Of the counties included within the present Presbytery 
 of Indianapolis, Monroe continued in Wabash Presby- 
 tery, and Putnam, Hendricks and Morgan counties in 
 connection with the Presbj^tery of Crawfordsville. 
 Brown county was still a part of Monroe, and was not 
 organized until 1836. In 1830, the population of the 
 counties now included in the Presbytery of Indianapolis 
 was thus reported in the United States census : 
 
 Monroe 6,577 
 
 Putnam 8,262 
 
 Hendricks 3,975 
 
 Morgan 5,593 
 
 Marion 7,192 Total 42,470 
 
 In Marion county was the church at Indianapolis. Its 
 membership had been increased from thirty at the time 
 Mr. Moreland canie to it, to one hundred by 1830, forty 
 having been received upon examination. At Greenwood, 
 the Rev. W. W. Woods was preaching, the church num- 
 bering in 1830 sixty-five. 
 
 The church at Franklin had increased by 1830, to 
 eighty-one. In 1829, twenty-one had been received by 
 examination. In 1830, twenty-seven were added by cer- 
 tificate, and three by examination, making the whole 
 number eighty-one. Until November, 1830, those who 
 had ministered to the church at Franklin, had been 
 with the church as missionary supplies^ each for a short 
 time only. Those who had thus ministered to the church 
 were Isaac Reed, William. Duncan, John F. Moreland, 
 Jeremiah Hill and W. W. Wood. In November, 1830, 
 the Rev. David Monfort " commenced labors as a stated 
 supply or missionary." 
 
 The church at Columbus was reported by the Presby- 
 tery of Madison to the General Assembly of 1829, as 
 having eighteen members. 
 
 The church at Greencastle, left in its feebleness with- 
 
PRESB YTER F OF INDIA NA POLLS. 31 
 
 out supplies, and without a house of worship, had be- 
 come extinct. 
 
 In 1829, a church was organized by Rev. Isaac Reed, 
 at Poplar Spring, Putnam county. 
 
 In November 1830, a church consisting of ten mem- 
 bers was organized by the Rev. Isaac Reed, at Putnam- 
 ville. 
 
 The church at Blooraington, having built a comfort- 
 able brick edifice, and entered into it in 1829, was in a 
 prosperous condition, having a membership in 1830, of 
 fifty-eight. The Rev. Baynard R. Hall, who had been 
 installed as pastor of the church, after a pastorate of 
 one year, had asked for a dissolution of the pastoral 
 relation, because of his relations to the State Seminary, 
 of which he was the first Professor. He was released 
 from the pastoral care of the church, but continued its 
 stated supply until 1830. 
 
 In 1828 the State Seminary became Indiana College, 
 and the Rev. Andrew "Wylie, D. D., was elected its first 
 president. In 1830, he became the stated supply of the 
 church at Bloomington. 
 
 In 1830 the Rev. Isaac Reed w^as also residing at Bloom- 
 ington, having returned to Indiana from Moriah, New 
 York, where he had been, for a short period, pastor of 
 a Congregational church. He was endeavoring to es- 
 tablish a Female School at Bloomington, while also 
 laboring as a missionary in the abounding destitutions 
 of the rapidly settling country. A bird's-eye view of 
 the field at this time shows then, in a population of 
 more than forty thousand s<5attered over these counties, 
 seven Presbyterian churches, the strongest containing a 
 hundred members, the weakest ten, and all only a few 
 over three hundred. There is one pastor, J. R. More- 
 jand at Indianapolis, and there are two stated supplies, 
 
32 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 W. W. Wood .at Greenwood, and David Monfort at 
 Franklin, who are wholly given to the work of the 
 ministry. One of these, David Monfort, the last month 
 but one in the year, has just entered the field. There 
 are three other ministers at Bloomingtou engaged in 
 the work of education, but giving a part of their time 
 to the work of preaching, the Rev. Andrew Wylie, D. 
 D., President of Indiana College, and Bayuard R. Hall, 
 Professor in the College, and Rev. Isaac Reed, who is 
 seeking to establish a school for young ladies, while he 
 also gives himself in part to missionary labors. Thus 
 contemplating the field, we very clearly perceive that 
 the Presbyterians are a feeble folk, yet we have the as- 
 surance that they are building in the rock, even the Rock 
 of Ages. 
 
 DECISION OF PRESBYTERY ON REPRESENTATION. 
 
 In October, 1831, the Synod of Indiana greatly re- 
 duced in size, the presbyteries of the States of Illinois 
 and Missouri having been erected by the Assembly of 
 1831 into the Synod of Illinois, met in Bloomington. 
 At this meeting of Synod the roll of synod shows no 
 changes in the membership of the Presbytery of Indian- 
 apolis. During the sessions of synod, a resolution passed 
 by the Presbytery of Indianapolis was brought up by 
 overture before synod. The presbytery in the overture 
 asked an answer to the constitutional questions involved. 
 The following was the resolution : 
 
 Resolved, That in this presbytery every church be considered 
 as vacant, and entitled to a representation in presbytery, where a 
 regular pastoral relation has not been formed, according to the 
 book of Discipline in the Presbyterian church. 
 
 The overture was not answered until the next meeting 
 of synod at Crawfordsville, when it was answered ad- 
 versely. The interpretation given by the resolution. 
 
PRESBYTERY 01 INDIANAPOLIS. 33 
 
 respecting the representation of churches, has, however, 
 since become the law of the church, having been 
 adopted by both Assemblies before the reunion ; by the 
 0. S. Assembly in 1847, and the N. S. Assembly in 1851 * 
 
 In the statistical report of the presbytery to the Gen- 
 eral Assembly of 1832, two new names appear on the 
 roll of ministers, James R. Wheelock, stated supply at 
 Greeusburg and Mill Creek, and John Todd. 
 
 At the meeting of synod at Crawfordsville, just re- 
 ferred to, in October, 1832, from the records of synod, it 
 appears that S. G. Lowry had been dismissed from the 
 Presbytery of Indianapolis to unite with the Presbytery 
 of Crawfordsville. 
 
 October 19, the second day of synod, this record is 
 made in the minutes : " The synod then solemnly paused 
 to record the death of one of their members, the Rev. 
 John R. Moreland, who was taken from this world of 
 trial and suffering on the 15th inst." 
 
 Mr. Moreland had, a short time previous to his death, 
 been released from the pastoral charge of the church at 
 Indianapolis. 
 
 PRESBYTERY RESISTING DIVISION. 
 
 Two matters of importance to the presbytery were 
 brought before synod. One was a petition by the mi- 
 nority of the presbytery to have the presbytery divided. 
 The petition was referred to the committee on bills and 
 overtures, who reported in favor of the petition and 
 recommended the formation of a new presbytery, to be 
 called Union, consisting of the counties of Decatur, Bar- 
 tholomew, Shelb}' and Johnson, reserving to John Todd 
 and his congregation, and David Monfort and his con- 
 gregation, the privilege of remaining connected with the 
 Indianapolis Presbytery. 
 
 Moore's Digest, pp. 138-139. 
 3 
 
34 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 After considerable discussion, the subject was indefi- 
 nitely postponed. 
 
 Mr. Wood then obtained leave to bring in the follow- 
 ing resolution : 
 
 Resolved, That it is the duty of this synod to furnish the petition- 
 ers from Indianapolis Presbytery the information called for in rela- 
 tion to the previous steps required of them by the constitution, in 
 order that the synod may regularly and constitutionally act on the 
 subject of their petition. 
 
 The subject was referred by synod to a committee of 
 three, Messrs. Matthews, Williamson and Dunn, J;o 
 report upon before the rising of synod. 
 
 The committee reported the following resolution, 
 which was adopted, viz: 
 
 That said members of the minority of Indianapolis Presbytery be 
 directed to bring the request for a division directly before the pres" 
 bytery, and if the presbytery refuse to concur with them in petition- 
 ing the synod for a division, then they may bring up their petition 
 to synod by way of complaint, when the synod will consider it 
 regularly before them. 
 
 COMPLAINT AGAINST PRESBYTERY. 
 
 Another matter of importance before the synod per- 
 taining to the Presbytery of Indianapolis, was a com- 
 plaint against the presbytery by Rev. W. W. Woods and 
 Eev. J. R. Wheelock. The complaint was against a 
 standing rule of presbytery, requiring an examination on 
 theology of every minister proposing to connect himself 
 with said presbytery, provided any two members should 
 require it. After the complaint was heard, the synod 
 passed the following resolution, viz: 
 
 Resolved, That without censuring the Presbytery of Indianapolis, 
 the complaint be sustained, so far as regards the expediency of the 
 standing rule complained of. 
 
 To this resolution Messrs. Williamson, Martin and 
 Hummer entered their dissent. 
 
PRESBYTERY OF INDIANAPOLIS. 35 
 
 The next meeting of synod was at Indianapolis, Octo- 
 ber 10, 1833. No change appears to have occurred in 
 .he ministers of presbytery during the year. 
 
 DISSENSIONS FROM DIVERSITY IN DOCTRINE. 
 
 Among the first items of business before synod was 
 the presentation of a petition to synod by the Rev. John 
 S. Weaver, that synod would attach him to the Presby- 
 tery of Indianapolis, as he had been dismissed to said 
 presbytery and had as 3^et had no opportunity to unite 
 with it. Synod thereupon ordered : " That the Presby- 
 tery of Indianapolis be directed to meet to-morrow 
 morning at eight o'clock to afibrd to Mr. Weaver, and 
 also to Rev. Hilary Patrick, an opportunity to present 
 their certificates for admission into said presbytery." 
 
 The record states that Mr. Patrick was from the Synod 
 of South Alabama. It is not stated what the previous 
 ecclesiastical relation of Mr. Weaver was. 
 
 An exception was also made to the records of presby- 
 tery, that the application of Mr. Weaver to be received 
 into presbytery had been refused without any reasons 
 being assigned for the refusal. 
 
 Upon the morning of the second day of synod, the 
 stated clerk of the Presbytery of Indianapolis reported to 
 the synod that, agreeably to the direction of the synod, 
 a meeting of presbytery had been held, and Messrs. 
 Patrick and Weaver received. 
 
 The clerk of synod likewise reported that there had 
 been put into his hands an appeal from a decision of In- 
 dianapolis Presbytery by Rev. James R. Wheelock, also 
 a complaint signed by other members of the presbytery 
 against such decision. 
 
 The case in issue, concerning which this appeal was 
 taken, was remanded by synod to the presbytery for the 
 bringing in of a definitive sentence, and as tnis defect in 
 
36 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 the proceedings of presbytery occurred in consequence 
 of a disorderly withdrawal of the friends of Mr. Whee- 
 lock from the presbytery, it was directed, as the readiest 
 and most orderly way in the unhappy and difficult case, 
 that Mr. Wheelock reserve the prosecution of his ap- 
 peal until presbytery had passed a definitive sentence, 
 and that the presbytery meet during the recess of synod 
 and issue the case of Wheelock or refer said case ta 
 synod. 
 
 The case was referred by presbytery to synod. It oc- 
 cupied the whole of synod for two days. On the morn- 
 ing of the third day a committee was appointed to 
 express the judgment of synod. The committee con- 
 sisted of Andrew Wylie, J. Thompson, John F. Crowe, 
 B. C. Cressy, ministers, and William Alexander, elder. 
 
 The committee made the following report, which was 
 adopted : 
 
 " That having taken the subject under then- serious considera- 
 tion, they have agreed to recommend to synod, for their adoption, 
 the following resolutions, viz : 
 
 "Itesolved, That it is well known throughout the bounds of the 
 Presbyterian church, in the United States, that a difference of 
 phraseology and mode of illustration, with regard to the doctrinal 
 points referred to, in the charges referred to by Mr. Hopkins, 
 against the Rev. J. R. Wheelock, has for a long time prevailed in 
 our church, and to a certain degree ought to be tolerated. That in 
 using this liberty of expression, ministers of the gospel ought to be 
 very careful not to vary from the form of sound words contained in 
 the standards of our church, since want of due caution in thi» 
 respect is calculated to give offence, and to awaken unpleasant and 
 injurious suspicions in the minds of many people. And that it 
 appears from the tesdmony, that Mr. Wheelock has noi, in hi» 
 public ministrations, been sufficiently guarded in this respect. 
 Nevertheless, the testimony, together with Mr. Wheelock's written 
 confession of faith with regard to the points alluded to, does suffi- 
 ciently shew that Mr. Wheelock does not hold doctrines essentially 
 variant from our standards. 
 
 " In regard to the sixth specification, the synod decide that 
 
PBESB YTER Y OF INDIANAPOLIS. 37 
 
 though Mr. Wheelock is not proved to have uttered a wilful false- 
 hood, his language was highly indecorous and offensive ; especially 
 as uttered from the pulpit and on the Lord's day. 
 
 "As it respects the prosecutor, the synod are of opinion that there 
 is no evidence or reason to believe that he was actuated, in exhib- 
 iting charges against Mr. Wheelock, by any other motives than 
 such as become him and all other officers and members of the Pres- 
 byterian church, who are solemnly bound to be watchful of its 
 purity and peace ; yet he appears not to have taken such previous 
 steps in the case as the spirit of the standard of Discipline requires. 
 Therefore, in view of the whole case, it is further 
 
 ''Resolved, That Mr. Wheelock be solemnly and aflfectionately 
 admonished, and he is hereby admonished, in his future public 
 ministrations, that he give 'good heed,' and seek to 'find out good 
 and acceptable words;' and further, that the prosecutor and all 
 other members of our church should be admonished to observe the 
 rules prescribed in the Word of God and the standards of our 
 church, respecting commencing process against a gospel minister." 
 
 From the foregoing decision the following dissent was 
 presented, and ordered to be entered on the minutes, 
 viz : 
 
 " The under^gned dissent from the decision of the synod, by 
 which they declare that ' testimony, together with Mr. Wheelock's 
 written confession of faith, in regard to the points alluded to, does 
 not sufficiently shew that Mr. Wheelock does not hold doctrines 
 essentially variant from those of our standards,' inasmuch as they 
 do firmly believe that the testimony adduced clearly shewed that 
 on the subjects of Federal representation, imputation, and the 
 atonement of Christ, Mr. Wheelock does vary materially from the 
 standards of our church ; and moreover, this testimony was abun- 
 dantly confirmed by Mr. Wheelock's written confession. 
 " Alexander Wn.UAMSON, Wm. Sickels, 
 " John Finley Crowe, Henderson Bell, 
 
 "John Campbell, William Beale, 
 
 " John Llst, David McClure, 
 
 •' John Hendricks, John S. Weaver, 
 
 " Matthew G. Wallace, Wm. 0. Koss, 
 
 " David Monfort, James H. Thompson." 
 
38 • HISTORY OF THE 
 
 ITEMS. 
 
 At the meeting of the synod at New Albany in 1834, 
 three new names appear upon the roll of the presbytery, 
 Thomas Barr, Samuel Hurd and W". A. Holliday. 
 
 In September, 1884, the church at Indianapolis called 
 the Rev. James McKennan, of the Presbytery of Wash- 
 ington, Pennsylvania. He was installed pastor June 
 16, 1835. 
 
 In October, 1835, J. R. Wheelock was received into 
 Crawfordsville Presbytery by letter from the Presbytery 
 of Indianapolis. 
 
 From the roll of Synod at Crawfordsville, in 1836, it 
 appears that Wells Bushnell was received into the Pres- 
 bytery of Indianapolis during the year. David M. 
 Stewart is also reported in the Assembly's minutes as a 
 licentiate of the presbytery. In 1837, Mr. Stewart is 
 reported pastor of the church at Rushville, and David 
 V. Smock is added to the roll of members as pastor of 
 the church at Knightstown. In October, 1837, W. W. 
 Woods is received into Crawfordsville Presbytery by 
 letter from Presbytery of Indianapolis. 
 
 HOPEWELL. 
 
 Returning now to the history of the cuurches of the 
 presbytery, we find thatinMay, 1831, the church of Hope- 
 well was, by order of presbytery, organized with forty 
 members from the Franklin church. In October, 1831, the 
 Rev. D. Monfort was installed pastor of the Franklin and 
 Hopewell churches, upon a salary of threehundred dollars. 
 In explanation of this meagre salary. Judge Banta, in 
 his Historical Address at the Semi-centenary Anniver- 
 sary of the Franklin church, makes some statements 
 which are of general interest, as giving to us a picture 
 not only of the industrial aspect* and economies or 
 household management of Johnson county, but of this 
 
PRESBYTERY OF INDIANAPOLIS. • 39 
 
 entire interior region of country, with its base of snp- 
 splies upon the Ohio river, and the farmers, with their 
 teams loaded with the produce of their farms for the 
 exchange of merchandise, threading their way at suita- 
 ble seasons to the distant river towns. The Judge says : 
 " The people were still without a market in which to 
 sell their surplus produce nearer than Madison, on the 
 Ohio river, sixty-five miles away. Wheat was worth 
 from twenty-five to thirty-five cents per bushel ; corn 
 ten, and oats eight. Good work horses sold at from 
 thirty-five and forty dollars per head, to fifty and sixty; 
 cows, at from five to ten dollars each ; while all cotton 
 and imported woolen goods, and groceries of all kinds, 
 cost at least double the present prices. Those in the 
 entire county, who were not compelled to toil for daily 
 bread and raiment, you could have counted off" on the 
 fingers of your right hand. The men tilled the soil 
 during the tilling season, and cleared land for themselves 
 or others during the fall and winter seasons, and spent 
 the long winter evenings in making and mending shoes 
 for their families, or other domestic labor ; while the 
 women not only looked after the ordinary and daily 
 aff'airs of the household, but spun flax, carded and spun 
 the wool, and wove linens, flannels and jeans, with which 
 all were clothed." 
 
 SOUTHPORT. 
 
 The church at Southport was organized March 30th, 
 1883, by W. W. Woods, with twenty-four members dis- 
 missed for the purpose from the church at Greenwood. 
 The church was named New Providence at its organiza- 
 tion. Otis Sprague and John S. Sebern were elected 
 elders. Rev, Hilary Patrick labored for the church for 
 a short period. The Rev. John Todd also ministered 
 to the church for several years. Its membership in 1838 
 was forty-one. 
 
40 • HISTORY OF THE 
 
 DANVILLE. 
 
 The church at Danville, Hendricks county, was organ- 
 ized by S. G. Lowry in December, 1832, with nineteen 
 members. Daniel McAuley, Stephen Mahood and 
 Alexander Morris, were elected elders. Mr. Lowry 
 preached for some months for the church once a month. 
 The church was without any stated ministry until 1835, 
 when Rev. Moody Chase removed to Danville, and took 
 charge of the church. A church edifice was erected 
 in 1837. Its membership at the time was thirty-eight. 
 
 GREENCASTLE. 
 
 The church at Greencastle was reorganized July 14th, 
 
 1833, with fourteen members, by S. G. Lowry. In 
 
 1834, W. W. Woods commenced his labors with the 
 church and remained until 1837. In that year J. R* 
 Wheelock took charge of the church and continued 
 with it a year and three months. The church wor- 
 shipped until 1836 in a log house that had been built 
 by the Methodists. In this year they erected a brick 
 edifice forty by fifty feet. In 1836 the membership was 
 forty-nine, in 1837, it was seventy-five. 
 
 PUTNAMVILLE. 
 
 The church at Putnamville after its organization in 
 
 1830, enjoyed the labors a part of the time for nearly 
 four years of Revs. Jeremiah Hill, James Shields and 
 S. G. Lowry. At a communion season in August 
 
 1831, nineteen persons were received by letter. In less 
 than four years the church had increased to sixty-five. 
 W. W. Woods ministered to the church in connection 
 with his lators at Greencastle. His labors at Putnam- 
 ville continued for nine years. 
 
 BLOOMINGTON. 
 
 At Bloomington, the Rev. Ransom Hawley had be- 
 
PRESBYTERZ OF INDIANAPOLIS. 41 
 
 come stated supply of the church in 1834. Prof. Hall 
 had removed to Bedford, Pennsylvania. Mr. Eeed not 
 succeeding in his efforts in building up a female school, 
 had gone to Hanover. A personal difficulty between 
 Dr. "Wylie, President of the State College, and John H. 
 Harney, Professor in the college, who was also a mem- 
 ber of the church, led to a church trial, which caused 
 no little trouble to the church. The case was widely 
 known in its day, passing through presbytery and synod 
 to the General Assembly, and sent back by the General 
 Assembly, again occupied the time of presbytery and 
 eynod with all its details. The alienations and divisions 
 thus originated in the church at Bloomington could not 
 but hinder its prosperity. The membership reported to 
 the Assembly in 1838, was seventy-two. 
 
 From the minutes of the General Assembly, we find 
 the Shiloh church first reported in 1836, but without 
 the number of its members. In 1837, its membership 
 is reported as thirty-seven. 
 
 The Bethany church is first reported in 1837, with 
 thirty members. 
 
 The names of South Marion, Sugar Creek and Eagle 
 Creek are in the minutes of the Assembly for 1832. 
 Eagle Creek has then a membership of twenty-five, in 
 1836, of only nineteen. 
 
 In 1830, the church of Columbus was supplied for a 
 time by the Rev. Hilary Patrick. In 1834, the Rev. 
 Michael A. Remley resided at Columbus, and supplied 
 the church. In 1837, Rev. Windsor A. Smith took charge 
 of the church, and supplied it for two and a half years. 
 But there was yet no church edifice. The number of 
 members reported to the General Assembly in 1838, was 
 thirty-five. 
 
42 
 
 HISTOR Y OF THE 
 
 Danville 35 
 
 Greencastle 75 
 
 Putnam ville 65 
 
 Bloomington 72 
 
 Columbus 35 
 
 Poplar Spring 90 
 
 Total 1,042 
 
 From the minntes of the Assembly for 1837 and 1838, 
 
 we have the membership of the churches as follows : 
 
 Franklin 114 
 
 Hopewell 106 
 
 Indianapolis 172 
 
 Greenwood 132 
 
 New Providence 41 
 
 Shiloh 28 
 
 Bethanv 30 
 
 Eagle Creek 28 
 
 South Marion 19 
 
 On this field are the following ministers : John Todd, 
 David Monfort, Eliphalet Kent, Wm. Sickels, W. A- 
 Holliday, James W. McKennan, Moody Chase, W. W. 
 Woods, Ransom Hawley, Andrew Wylie, D. D., and W". 
 A. Smitli. Of these, Dr. Wylie is President of the 
 State College, and wholly occupied with its duties. Kev. 
 W. A. Holliday is also engaged in teaching. 
 
 In this field of the present presbytery, there was, two 
 years later, a population of more than 84,000 ; by coun- 
 ties as follows : 
 
 Monroe 10,143 
 
 Brown 2,364 
 
 Bartholomew 10,042 
 
 Total 84,364 
 
 Marion 16,080 
 
 Johnson 9,352 
 
 Hancock 7,535 
 
 Hendricks 11,264 
 
 Putnam 16,843 
 
 Morgan 10,741 
 
 In this growing population the Presbyterians are still 
 
 a feeble folk, and unhappily divided. How will they 
 
 grow when they are no longer quarreling factions in the 
 
 same church, but divided into two difierent bodies, each 
 
 harmonious with itself? We shall see, if we follow on. 
 
PRESB YTER Y OF INDIANAPOLIS. 43 
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 
 Actioyi of the Presbytery of Indianapolis in the Great Divi- 
 sion of the Church — Action of the Presbytery of Crawfords- 
 ville — Greencastle First — Greencastle Second — Putnam- 
 ville, Poplar Spring, Bainbridge, Carpentersville, Bioom- 
 ington, Columbus. 
 
 1838—1850. 
 
 In May, 1838, occurred the division of the General 
 Assembly, by which the Presbyterian Church became 
 divided into two denominations. The division accom- 
 plished in Philadelphia in May, 1888, was accomplished 
 in the lower judicatories of the church as they were suc- 
 cessively convened. Upon the 31st of July, 1838, the 
 Presbytery of Indianapolis met at Franklin, at the call 
 of the moderator, Eliphalet Kent, for the purpose of at- 
 tending to any business which the peculiar state of the 
 church at the time, and especially within the bounds of 
 the presbytery, might demand. 
 
 We, happily, now have the records of the presbytery. 
 
 ACTION OF INDIANAPOLIS PRESBYTERY. 
 
 The result of this called meeting was that the presby- 
 tery adhered to the O. S. Assembly. Against this ac- 
 tion the Rev. Eliphalet Kent, the moderator, the Rev. 
 John Todd and Elder Simon Smock, of H^ew Provi- 
 dence, protested, declariog their belief that the New 
 School Assembly was the true Assembly of the Presby- 
 
44 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 terian church. The churches of Greenwood, South 
 Marion and Eagle Creek united with these brethren in 
 their adhesion to the New School Assembly. 
 
 ACTION OF PRESBYTERY OF CRAWFORDSVILLE. 
 
 A few days previous to the action of Indianapolis 
 Presbytery, in regard to the division of the church, the 
 Presbytery of Crawfordsville had been convened to hear 
 the report of their commissioners to the Assembly and 
 take such action as might be deemed necessary. The 
 Crawfordsville Presbytery, by a very large majority, ad- 
 hered to the New School Assembly; and among the 
 churches adhering to the New School Assembly, were 
 the churches of Danville, Greencastle and Putnamville. 
 The church of Bloomington, within the Vincennes Pres- 
 bytery, adhered to the 0. S. Assembly. 
 
 It was a sad thing that irreconcilable differences 
 should divide into two bodies the Presbyterian church, 
 and make it two denominations. But it was doubtless 
 far better that the churches in which such irreconcilable 
 diff'erences existed, should be divided into two denomi- 
 nations, each in harmony with itself, and having frater- 
 nal regard for the other, and each gradually eliminating 
 from itself the hindrances to a true and lasting union to 
 be consummated in due time, than to continue in a state 
 of unceasing internal strife, in which there was more of 
 nominal than real union, and in which the zeal and 
 strength of the church were more expended in strife 
 upon its diff'erences than in pushing forward steadily the 
 work of evangelization, in saving the perishing and in 
 gaining from the world still wider provinces for the do- 
 minion of the Redeemer. Blessed are our eyes, which 
 have seen the repellant differences eliminated and the 
 reunion consummated. Blessed will be the work of our 
 hands as laboring together in the unity of the spirit, 
 
PBESBYTERY OF INDIANAPOLIS. 45 
 
 this union, thorough and complete as it is, becomes 
 more and more efficient in accomplishing the work 
 which the Lord has given His church to do. 
 
 GREENCASTLE FIRST. 
 
 After the division of the Assembly in 1838, the Green- 
 castle church continued with the New School Assembly. 
 At the time of the division, the Rev. J. R. Wheelock 
 was ministering to it. But very soon after this, he with- 
 drew from connection with the Presbyterian church. In 
 the minutes of the Crawfordsville Presbytery (N. S.) 
 there is this record, made in March, 1839 : 
 
 Resolved, That the name of James R. Wheelock be discontinued 
 on our records, he having left our bounds without a dismission and 
 become connected (as we learn) with another ecclesiastical body. 
 
 In the fall of 1840, the Rev. James Shields, who had 
 been previously supplying for several months the church 
 at Greencastle, became its pastor. This relation contin- 
 ued only until 1842. In 1842 an addition was made to 
 the church of fifty-six persons. Rev. Ransom Hawley 
 was stated supply from February, 1843, to the fall of 
 1845. The church continued to increase in numbers du- 
 ring these years. In December, 1845, Rev. Thomas S. 
 Milligau became .stated supply of the church and con- 
 tinued in that relation until 1850. Nineteen were ad- 
 ded to the church 1847. The number of members 
 reported to the General Assembly as in connection with 
 the church in 1850 was one hundred and ten. 
 
 GREENCASTLE SECOND. 
 
 In 1849, the second church of Greencastle was organ- 
 ized in connection with the Presbytery of Crawfordsville, 
 O. S. It was organized by Rev. W. Y. Allen, with thir- 
 teen members, some of whom were dismissed by letter 
 from the first church. 
 
46 HISTOB Y OF THE 
 
 PUTNAMVILLE. 
 
 On the 26th of i^ovember, 1841, the Rev. Ransom 
 Hawley commenced his labors in the church at Putuam- 
 ville, in connection with the church of Bethany, Owen 
 county, for one-half his time. In 1849, a new house of 
 worship was erected at Putnamville. In,1850, the mem- 
 bership reported to the Assembly was fifty- seven. 
 
 POPLAR SPRING, BAINBRIDGE AND CARPENTERSVILLE. 
 
 The church of Poplar Spring had been divided in the di- 
 vision of the church. The majority adhered to the 
 New School body. The name of the church was 
 changed in 1843 to Bainbridge. It reported in 1850, a 
 membership of forty-three. The Old School portion of 
 the church were organized into a separate body in 1839. 
 They numbered at the time of organization, seventeen 
 members. This became the Carpentersville church. It 
 reported in 1850, a membership of twenty-seven. 
 
 BLOOMINGTON. 
 
 The Rev. Ransom Hawley, who, as stated supply took 
 charge of the church at Bloomington in 1834, contin- 
 ued in that relation to the church until the tall of 1841, 
 when he removed to Putnamville. During Mr. Haw- 
 ley's ministry at Bloomington, eighty- three persons were 
 received into the membership- of the church, thirty-sev- 
 en upon profession, forty-six by letter. At this time the 
 church of Bloomington was receiving aid from the Board 
 Missions to the amount of a hundred and a hundred and 
 fifty dollars a year. 
 
 In the spring of 1843, the Rev. W. W. Martin removed 
 from Livonia to Bloomington, and became stated supply 
 of the church. He remained two years, and then re- 
 turned to Livonia. During these two years, twenty- 
 six persons were added to the church, sixteen by pro- 
 
PRESBYTERY OF INDIANAPOLIS. 47 
 
 fession of faith, ten by letter. The number of members 
 reported to the Assembly in 1845, was eighty-four. In 
 the report of 1846, this number was reduced to sixty- 
 eight. 
 
 Upon the return of Mr. Martin to Livonia, the Rev. 
 Alfred Ryors, Professor in the State University, the 
 college having fjecome the State University in 1839, was 
 invited to supply the pulpit for a year, or until a pastor 
 could be secured. Mr. Ryors accepted the invitation, 
 and ministered to the church for a little more than two 
 years, until July, 1847. These were years of great bless- 
 ing to the church. The members of the church had a 
 mind to work. They sought and obtained the labors of 
 a colporteur to distribute tracts and religious books 
 among the people. The congregation was divided into 
 districts by the elders, and a persona) responsibility for 
 each district laid upon the elder to whose oversight it 
 was entrusted. The spirit of the Lord moved upon the 
 hearts of the people, and one and another was added to 
 the church. For more than a year this spirit of earn- 
 est work was manifested by the people. Doubtless with 
 this spirit of work there was a spirit of prayer. In the 
 meantime the Synod of Indiana met with the church in 
 1846, no doubt strengthening and confirming the church. 
 In the spring of 1847, there was a deepening and grow- 
 ing interest. At this time the minister and session 
 sought for help. Upon the 21st of May, the Rev. Dr. 
 Nathan R. Hall, of Kentucky, came to Bloomington by 
 invitation to assist in a protracted meeting. Dr. Hall 
 preached for ten days, preaching at 9 a. m., having an 
 inquiry and prayer meeting at 3 p. m., and preaching 
 again at 7 p. m., with a meeting for prayer, exhortation 
 and inquiry following. During these meetings thirty- 
 eight persons were received upon profession of their 
 faith. A number were received a short time afterwards. 
 
48 HISTOB Y OF THE 
 
 The mimber received during Prof. Ryors' ministry was 
 seventy-two, sixty-three upon profession of faith, nine 
 by letter. 
 
 In July, 1847, the Rev. Levi Hughes was invited to 
 supply the church for a year. Mr. Hughes had been 
 received into the church of Bloomington upon profes- 
 sion of his faith not quite four years before. He was 
 at that time studying law. His convictions of duty turned 
 him to preparation for the ministry. After he had 
 completed a three years' course of theological study in 
 the Seminaries at New Albany and Princeton, he was 
 invited to become the stated supply of the church at 
 Bloomington. He accepted the invitation, and after 
 this term of service he was called and settled as pastor. 
 This pastorate only continued, however, until the spring 
 of 1851, when Mr. Hughes removed to Logansport, hav- 
 ing accepted a call to the first Presbyterian church of 
 that place. 
 
 In 1850, the membership of the church at Blooming- 
 ton as reported to the General Assembly, was one hun- 
 dred and twelve. 
 
 COLUMBUS. 
 
 The historical records of the church at Columbus are 
 very meagre. The Rev. B. M. Nyce supplied the church 
 during a term of years between 1840 and 1850. Under 
 his ministry, the first Presbyterian church edifice was 
 erected in Columbus. It was built about the year 1841, 
 mainly as a result of Mr. Nyce's persistent and indom- 
 itable energy. The church was then very feeble, and 
 considered itself too poor for such an undertaking, Mr. 
 Nyce himself, aided by a few ladies, solicited subscriptions 
 in material, work and money, and when they could get 
 no more commenced the work and pressed it until the 
 means were exhausted. Then it stood still and the pro- 
 
PRESBYTEBY OF INDIANAPOLIS. 49 
 
 cess of procuring means and then expending was again 
 repeated. Thus the work progressed until it was final- 
 ly completed, without debt, at a cost of about twelve 
 hundred dollars. 
 
 Mr. Nyce's labors in building the church, in teaching 
 in the county Seminary, which he did for several years, 
 and his preaching were spoken of in the highest terms 
 by those who knew him and his work. The church 
 paid him a salary of one hundred and seventy-five dol- 
 lars, all they could raise. Several seasons of religious 
 interest were enjoyed during his ministry. Mr. !N"yce 
 left Columbus in 1849. In the fall of 1849, Mr. Charles 
 Merwin was called to supply the pulpit for one year. 
 During this year several were added to the church. 
 The number of members reported to the General Assem- 
 bly of 1850, was ninety. 
 
50 HISTOB Y OF THE 
 
 CHAPTER V. 
 
 Second Church of Indianapolis — Indianapolis Presbytery, N, 
 S. — Enlargement of Presbytery — Ministerial Changes — 
 Changes in Churches — Missionary Work — Pastoral Rela- 
 tion — Report to General Assembly. 
 
 1840—1850. 
 
 SECOND CHURCH OF INDIANAPOLIS. 
 
 One of the first important eft'ects within the Presbytery 
 following the great division in the Presbyterian Church, 
 was the formation of the Second Presbyterian church 
 of Indianapolis. This was organized by Rev. James H, 
 Johnson, November 19, 1838, in the Marion county sem- 
 inary, a small brick building standing, until 1860, at the 
 south-west corner of University Square. The original 
 members of the church were fifteen in number. Their 
 names are as follows : Bethuel F. Morris, Daniel Yandes, 
 Luke Munsell, Lawrence M. Vance, Mary J. Vance, 
 Sidney Bates, William Eckert, Alexander H. Davidson,. 
 Robert Mitchell, William S. Hubbard, Joseph F. Holt^ 
 Margaret R. Holt, John L. Ketcham, Jane Ketcham and 
 Catherine Merrill. On the 20th of IsTovember, the day 
 after the organization, they issued a call to Rev. Sylves- 
 ter Holmes, of New Bedford, Massachusetts. The call 
 was declined. Some weeks later, January 15, 1839, they 
 invited Rev. John C. Young, of Danville, Kentucky, ta 
 become their pastor, but this overture also was unsuc- 
 
PRESBYTERY OF INDIANAPOLIS. 51 
 
 cessful. The Rev. Elihu Baldwin, president of Wabash. 
 College, was solicited to take charge of the new church. 
 He likewise declined. On the 13th of May, the Eev. 
 Henry Ward Beecher, then of Lawrenceburg, Indiana, 
 was called to the pastorate. He accepted the call, and 
 entered upon his work in the church July 31, 1839. At 
 this time the church had increased to a membership of 
 thirty-two. The county seminary was occupied for one 
 year as a place of worship. The church then went into 
 its own edifice, occupying at first the lecture room. 
 Soon, however, the house was completed, and its dedica- 
 tion occurred October 4, 1840. 
 
 INDIANAPOLIS PRESBYTERY, NEW SCHOOL. 
 
 A second effect of importance following the division 
 of the Presbyterian church into Old and New School, 
 was the formation of the New School Presbytery of In- 
 dianapolis. 
 
 The Rev. Eliphalet Kent, and the Rev. John Todd, 
 with the churches within the bounds of Indianapolis 
 Presbytery adhering to the N. S. Assembly, had, in the 
 adherence of the majority of that presbytery to the 0. 
 S. Assembly, become connected with the Presbytery of 
 Madison. In October, 1839, the synod of Indiana, K. 
 S., passed the following : 
 
 Resolved, That the Presbyteries of Madison and Crawfordsville be 
 divided, and the Presbytery of Indianapolis formed, embracing the 
 following territory, viz : The counties of Morgan, Johnson, Shelby, 
 Rush, Hancock, Henry, Marion, Hendricks, Hamilton and Madison. 
 Said presbytery to meet at Franklin, on the last Thursday of March 
 (1840), at 11 o'clock a. m. The Rev. John Todd, or in his absence 
 the next oldest minister present, shall preach the opening sermon, 
 and preside until another moderator be chosen. 
 
 In accordance with the above order of synod, the 
 Presbytery of Indianapolis (N. S.) met at the appointed 
 time at Franklin. The Rev. John Todd havino: de- 
 
52 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 ceased, the sermon was preached by the Eev. Moody- 
 Chase. The presbytery was opened with prayer by the 
 moderator fro tem. The Eev. Moody Chase was chosen 
 moderator, and Henry Ward Beecher, temporary clerk, 
 and subsequently stated clerk. The members present 
 were: Ministers, A. G. Dunning, Moody Chase and 
 Henry Ward Beecher; elders, Garret Sorter and E. N. 
 H. Adams. Rev. E. Kent, another member, was absent. 
 A.t an adjourned meeting of the presbytery, held at In- 
 dianapolis the next month (April), the Kev. P. S. Cle- 
 land was received by letter from the Salem Presbytery. 
 The churches included within the original limits of the 
 presbytery were the following : Danville, Brownsburg, 
 New Winchester, Second Indianapolis, New Providence 
 or Southport, Greenwood, South Marion, afterwards Mt. 
 Pleasant, Eagle Creek, Highland, Sugar Creek and 
 Batavia. 
 
 At the meeting of the General Assembly (N. S.) in 
 1840, the territory in south-east Indiana, which had be- 
 longed to the Synod of Cincinnati, was attached to the 
 Synod of Indiana. At the meeting of the synod in Oc- 
 tober, 1840. so much of the territory added to the synod 
 by the act of the Assembly as was north of Decatur and 
 Ripley counties was added to the Presbytery of Indian- 
 apolis. 
 
 ENLARGEMENT OF PRESBYTERY. 
 
 In October, 1845, the presbytery was enlarged by the 
 following action of synod : 
 
 Resolved, That the county of Boone, embracing the Rev. Thomp- 
 son Bh'd and the churches of Lebanon, Bethel and Thorntown, be 
 detached from the Presbytery of Crawfordsville and attached to the 
 Presbytery of Indianapolis; and that the county of Decatur, em- 
 bracing the Rev. Jonathan Cable and the church of Sand Creek, be 
 detached from the Presbytery of Madison and attached to the Pres- 
 bytery of Indianapolis. 
 
PBESB YTER Y O F INDIA NA POLLS. 5 3 
 
 Previous to this enlargement of the presbytery, there 
 was frequent faihire of a quorum at appointed times of 
 meeting. 
 
 MINISTERIAL CHANGES. 
 
 In October, 1841, William N. Stimson, who had been 
 received as a licentiate from the Presbytery of Cincin- 
 nati, was ordained as an evangelist at a meeting of the 
 presbytery in Highland church. 
 
 At this meeting of presbytery, Rev. Alvah G. Dun- 
 ning was dismissed to the Presbytery of Cincinnati. 
 Presbytery also appointed Messrs. Cleland and Chase to 
 visit and spend one Sabbath at Noblesville before the 
 next stated meeting Likewise W. N. Stimson and 
 Henry Ward Beecher were to visit and hold communion 
 service with the church at Danville, spending a Sabbath 
 with the church. 
 
 In April, 1842, Rev. Moody Chase was dismissed to 
 the Presbytery of Crawfordsville. 
 
 Presbytery in session at Danville, April, 1843, re- 
 ceived from the Presbytery of Cincinnati and ordained 
 Mr. H. Hanmer, who was ministering, as stated supply 
 to the church at Danville. " Mr. Hanmer," writes one 
 of the elders of the church concerning him, " was a 
 young man of talent and piety, and much beloved by his 
 people. Before the close of the first year of his minis- 
 try, he became insane and was taken to his home in 
 Connecticut by his friends." In 1859 his name was 
 dropped from the roll. 
 
 In August, 1843, presbytery, in session at Indianapo- 
 lis, licensed Mr. Charles Beecher. In September, 1844, 
 he was dismissed to the care of the Presbytery of Lo- 
 gansport. 
 
 In November, 1845, Rev. Benjamin M. Nyce was 
 received from Salem Presb3'tery. April, 1846, Rev. 
 
54 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 James McCoy was received from Logansport Presbytery. 
 Also B. F. Stuart, a licentiate, was received from the 
 Presbytery of Cincinnati and ordained. November, 
 1847, he was dismissed to Salem. 
 
 April, 1847, Rev. Theophilus Lowry was received 
 from the Presbytery of Crawfordsville. He was with 
 the church of Danville until the spring of 1849. In Sep- 
 tember, 1850, he was dismissed to the Presbytery of 
 Crawfordsville. 
 
 In September, 1847, the labors of Henry Ward Beecher 
 in the Second church of Indianapolis closed, and in Oc- 
 tober a letter of dismission was granted to him by pres- 
 bytery " to join the body with which the Plymouth 
 church, Brooklyn, New York," was connected. From 
 the beginning of Mr. Beecher's ministry in the Second 
 church there was a gradual and hopeful growth. In the 
 beginning of 1842, a very precious revival was experi- 
 enced. At three communion seasons, held successively 
 in February, March and April, 1842, nearly one hun- 
 dred persons were added to the church on profession of 
 their faith. Early in the following year, at the March 
 and April communions, the church had large accessions, 
 as it had also in 1845. During this pastorate of more 
 than eight years, the membership of the church had 
 increased to two hundred and seventy-five. 
 
 From September, 1847, to April, 1848, the Second 
 church of Indianapolis was temporarily supplied by 
 Rev. Shubert G-ranby Spees. 
 
 In September, 1848, Rev. Abraham S. Avery, who 
 had been employed by the missionary committee as the 
 missionary of the presbytery, was received from Patas- 
 kala Presbytery, Ohio. 
 
 Mr. Avery was soon prostraited by sickness, and unable 
 to continue his missionary labors. In his sickness he 
 
PRESB YTER Y OF INDIANA POLIS. 55 
 
 was not forsaken by his brethren, but received their 
 sympathies and substantial aid, while the funds contrib- 
 uted to missionary purposes were employed in securing, 
 during the summer of 1849, at twenty dollars per month, 
 the labors of Mr. George Davis, a licentiate of the Pres- 
 bytery of Cincinnati. 
 
 October, 1848, Clement E. Babb, a licentiate of the 
 Presbytery of Dayton, was received. A call from the 
 Second church of Indianapolis having been placed in his 
 hands, and having signified his acceptance, he was or- 
 dained and installed pastor of the church. 
 
 October, 1848, Rev. W. H. Rogers was received from 
 the Presbytery of Cincinnati. 
 
 April, 1849, Amos Jones, a licentiate of the Presby- 
 tery of Cincinnati, was received. At an adjourned 
 meeting of presbytery in May, he was ordained. He 
 was stated supply of the church at Danville until 1853. 
 
 September, 1849, Rev, Sylvanus Warren, of the Pres- 
 bytery of Athens, Ohio, was received. His labors were 
 connected with the American Tract Society. In Sep- 
 tember, 1850, he was dismissed to Salem. 
 
 Also, in September, 1849, Rev. Benjamin F. Cole, of 
 the Presbytery of Crawfordsville, was received. A call 
 from the churches of Thorntown and Bethel was put 
 into his hands, and, having accepted the call, a commit- 
 tee was appointed to install him. His installation was 
 reported at the next meeting of presbytery. 
 
 April, 1850, James McCoy was dismissed to Presbytery 
 of Salem. 
 
 CHANGES IN CHURCHES. 
 
 In August, 1842, the New Pisgah church was organ- 
 ized. 
 
 In September, 1844, the organization of Stoney Creek 
 church was reported to presbytery in session at Nobles- 
 
" 56 \HISTOR Y OF THE 
 
 ville. Also the organization of a church at Edinburgh 
 was reported, and it was further ordered that the mem- 
 bers of the church of Batavia, in the neighborhood of 
 Edinburg, be enrolled among the members of the church 
 at Edinburg, and the name of the church of Batavia be 
 dropped from the roll. 
 
 April 1846, the organization of the church of Ander- 
 sontown was reported, also of the churches of Pendle- 
 ton and Upper Sugar Creek. Thes^ two last churches, 
 however, seem to have never been fully organized, and 
 they had but a short and sickly existence. April, 1847, 
 the organization of a church at Greenfield, Hancock 
 county, was reported. 
 
 September, 1850, the Sand Creek and Clarksburg 
 churches sent a request to the presbytery for permission 
 to unite with the Felicity Presbytery of the Free Pres- 
 byterian church. The request was complied with, and 
 the names of these churches dropped from the roll. 
 
 MISSIONARY COMMITTEE. 
 
 April, 1848, Rev. J. Cable, Rev. E. Kent and Dr. W. 
 H. Wishard, were appointed a committee to employ a 
 missionary. A co-operating committee of one from 
 each church in the presbytery was appointed to raise 
 funds for the support of the missionary. This mission- 
 ary committee was more than a nominal one. It suc- 
 ceeded in accomplishing missionary work. 
 
 REPORT OF HOME MISSIONARY COMMITTEE. 
 
 September, 1849, the Committee on Home Missions 
 made the following report, which was adopted : 
 
 "The survey of our field of labor awakens painful feelings. So 
 much territory lying waste, nominally under our care yet never rep- 
 resented at our meetings. Your committee recommend a more sys- 
 tematic effort to meet the wants of the perishing souls, which Prov- 
 idence has ci-owded around us. And to secure this object, they sug- 
 
PRESB YTEB Y OF INDIANAPOLIS. 57 
 
 gest, that presbytery elect annually a Board on vacancies, sup- 
 plies and destitutions, to consist of two ministers and one elder, 
 which shall meet as often as once in two months, and may meet 
 oftener in case of special business. That this Board be instructed 
 to secure men for our vacant churches and destitute territory as 
 fast as possible. That this Board have no power to pledge the pres- 
 bytery for money without a special vote, but that the presbytery 
 recommend them and their work to all our churches, and will vol- 
 untarily aid them in raising funds for such objects as they present. 
 That the churches that have no stated preaching be directed to apply 
 to the Board between the meetings of presbytery for supplies, and 
 that the Board secure members of presbytery to visit those places 
 occasionally. 
 
 COMMITTEE ON PASTORAL RELATION. 
 
 The presbytery, with its increasing strength, and gird- 
 ing itself for presbyterial mission work, took also the 
 following action respecting the pastoral relation : 
 
 Presbytery believes that it is the policy and interest of the Pres- 
 byterian church, and that it would be for the glory of God and the 
 good of the community at large, to establish a permanent relation 
 between the preachers and the people, according to our excellent 
 form of government, Chapters 15 and 16, which provides for and 
 enjoins the settling of a pastor over every church, when it shall be 
 practicable. That for the want of such permanent relation, the 
 churches are suffering, not onlj^ the want of the stated means of 
 grace, but all the interests of the church are languishing. Semina- 
 ries and schools. Sabbath schools, Tract distribution. Missionary 
 operations, and all the means of building up an intelligent church 
 and evangelizing the world, are entirely wanting or are in a lan- 
 guishing condition. Therefore 
 
 Resolved, 1st, That we advise every church to secure a permanent 
 pastor as speedily as possible. 
 
 Resolved, 2d, That this presbytery will not, unless for very pecu- 
 liar reasons, agree to grant the relation of stated supply between a 
 minister and church longer than one year. 
 
 REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON PASTORAL RELATION. 
 
 September, 1849, the Committee on the Pastoral Rela- 
 tion made the following report : 
 
58 HISTOB Y OF THE 
 
 That the churches of Greenwood, New Providence and South 
 Marion have been enjoying the labors of Brother Cleland for many 
 years without installing him pastor, and they recommend that pres- 
 bytery appoint a committee to meet those churches and confer with 
 them on the subject between this and the first day of December, 
 and secure, if they can, a compliance with the rule of presbytery 
 on the subject. 
 
 Messrs. Babb and McCoy, were appointed a committee as above 
 recommended. 
 
 As the result of this action, a call for the pastoral ser- 
 vices of P. S. Cleland was made by the churches to 
 which he had been so long ministering, and in May, 
 1850, he was installed by a committee of presbytery. 
 The pastorate was happy and endured for many years. 
 
 REPORT OF 1850 TO GENERAL ASSEMBLY. 
 
 The Presbytery reported to the Assembly of 1850, 
 thirteen ministers, twenty-one churches and eight hun- 
 dred and twenty-one members. Of these churches, ten, 
 containing six hundred and twenty -five members, were 
 within the boundaries of the present Presbytery of 
 Indianapolis. 
 
PBESB YTER Y OF INDIANAPOLIS. 59 
 
 CHAPTER Yl. 
 
 Presbytery of Indianapolis, 0. S. — Churches Organized — 
 Ministerial Changes — Lessons from the History of Frank- 
 lin Church — Ministerial Support — Missionary Work — 
 Organization of Whitewater Presbytery, and Changes in 
 the Boundaries of the Presbytery. 
 
 1838—1850. 
 
 PRESBYTERY OF INDIANAPOLIS, OLD SCHOOL. 
 
 We turn now to the Presbytery of Indianapolis, Old 
 School. 
 
 In the fall of 1838, the pastoral relation between the 
 church of Hopewell and Rev. D. Monfort was dissolved, 
 that Mr. Monfort might give his undivided labors to the 
 church at Franklin. Application was made through 
 the presbytery to the Board of Missions for aid to the 
 amount of two hundred dollars. The salary was five 
 hundred. The presbytery returned the application to the 
 church with directions that they make a vigorous effort 
 to increase the amount subscribed for their pastor's sup- 
 port. This vigorous effort resulted in cutting down the 
 application to the Board of Missions to one hundred and 
 fifty dollars. 
 
 CHURCHES ORGANIZED. 
 
 May 18th, 1838, Rev. David V. Smock organized a 
 church at Greenfield, styled Hancock church. Wm. T. 
 Templeton, an elder from said church, was admitted to a 
 
60 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 seat in presbytery. Supplies were appointed for several 
 successive years for this church. A new church was 
 organized in connection with the New School Presbytery 
 in the spring of 1847. 
 
 September, 1839, the organization of a church at An- 
 dersontown was reported to presbytery. Rev. Robert 
 Irwin was appointed to supply it one Sabbath. In June, 
 1846, the name of this church was dropped from the roll. 
 In 1846, the organization of a church at Andersontown 
 was reported to the New School Presbytery. 
 
 The Presbytery of Oxford having organized the 
 churches of Muncietown and Stony Creek, supposing 
 said churches to be within their territory, and having 
 reported these facts to the Presbytery of Indianapolis, 
 these churches were taken under the care and placed 
 upon the roll of presbytery in 1839. 
 
 The organization of the following churches is reported 
 in successive years: 
 
 New Burlington, April, 1841, 
 
 Middletown, April, 1842. 
 
 Union, Decatur county, April, 1843. 
 
 Amity, Hamilton county, April, 1844. 
 
 Windsor, Randolph county, April, 1844. 
 
 Newcastle, April, 1844. 
 
 Yorktown, September, 1845. 
 
 Concord, Rush county, September, 1845. 
 
 Georgetown, Brown county, December, 1845. 
 
 Napoleon, September, 1846. 
 
 Harmony, Bartholomew county, April, 1848. 
 
 New Prospect, Johnson county, September, 1850. 
 
 MINISTERIAL CHANGES. 
 
 Mr. Joseph G. Monfort was received October 1838, as 
 a licentiate from the Presbytery of Oxford, He became 
 supply of the Greensburg and Sand Creek churches for 
 
PRESB YTER Y OF INDIA NA P0LI8. 61 
 
 six months, giving to each church one half his time. 
 April, 1839, he was ordained and installed pastor of these 
 congregations. October, 1842, he was released from the 
 pastoral care of these churches to prosecute an agency 
 for the endowment of the Theological Seminary at New 
 Albany. May, 1845, he was again installed pastor of the 
 church at Greensburg. 
 
 W. G. Holliday was dismissed to Crawfordsville Pres- 
 bytery, October, 1838. 
 
 April, 1839, Rev. Robert Irwin and Rev. Michael Car- 
 penter were received from the Presbytery of Oxford. 
 
 Rev. Robert Irwin was supply of the church at Mun- 
 cietowu. He received a call to the church in 1843, for 
 one half of his time, and was installed pastor. The 
 name of the church was changed in 1846, to Muncie, 
 
 April, 1839, the pastoral relation between J. W. Mc- 
 Kennan and first church at Indianapolis was dissolved. 
 By request of the church, Mr. McKennan was appointed 
 supply of the church until next meeting of presbytery. 
 
 September, 1839, a call having been given to Rev. 
 James W. McKennan by the congregation of Cross 
 Roads, Washington Presbytery, and he having stated 
 his acceptance of the call, it was ordered "that he be 
 furnished with the proper testimonials and be required 
 to repair to the Presbytery of Washington, that the 
 proper steps may be taken for his regular settlement." 
 
 September, 1839, Wm. Sickles became supply of Shi- 
 loh for one half of his time. April, 1843, he was dis- 
 missed to the Presbytery of Oxford, again received from 
 Oxford September, 1844, and in June, 1846, dismissed to 
 the Presbytery of Madison. 
 
 April, 1839, J. S. Weaver was dismissed to the Pres- 
 byter}'^ of Oxford. 
 
 April, 1840, Rev. Sayrs Gazely was received from the 
 Presbytery of Cincinnati, a call having been presented 
 
62 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 to him by the church of Hopewell. Having accepted 
 it, he was installed the third Saturday of May, by W. 
 Sickles and D. Monfort, a committee of presbytery. 
 In April, 1842, this pastoral relation was dissolved. 
 
 November, 1840, Mr. Colvin McKinney, a licentiate of 
 Oxford Presbytery, was received, and it being deemed 
 necessary that he should be invested with full ministerial 
 power in the churches of Shelbyville and St. Omar in 
 which he was laboring, he was ordained as an evangel- 
 ist. Of his examination we find these records: "Mr. 
 McKinney delivered his sermon, which was not deemed 
 satisfactory, it being partly extemporaneous. Resolved, 
 that Presbytery require of Mr. McKinney a written dis- 
 course on the subject assigned as a part of trial with- 
 out regarding the unwritten sermon preached before us 
 yesterday as any part of trial. Mr. McKinney presented 
 a written sermon on the subject assigned, after which 
 he was further examined on Theology, which sermon 
 and examination were sustained." June, 1843, Mr. Mc- 
 Kinney was dismissed to Oxford Presbytery. 
 
 In December, 1840, Mr. Phineas D. Gurley, a licenti- 
 ate of the Presbytery of jSTorth River, was received, or- 
 dained and installed pastor of the First church at In- 
 dianapolis. In June, 1842, the church determined to 
 build a new house of worship. It was occupied in 
 May, 1843, and completed in 1846, at a cost of between 
 eight and nine thousand dollars. In the second year of 
 Mr. Gurley's ministry, forty-two members were received 
 upon profession of their faith. For four successive 
 years the church was increased with goodly numbers on 
 profession of their faith. In November, 1849, the pas- 
 toral relation of Mr. Grurley to the church was dissolved. 
 There was received into it during his ministry, two hun- 
 dred and seventeen persons, one hundred and fifty-eight 
 
PRESB YTER F OF INDIANAPOLIS. 6 3 
 
 of these upon profession of their faith, and fifty-nine by 
 letter. The total membership reported to the General 
 Assembly in 1850, was two hundred and six. 
 
 In February, 1843, the pastoral relation between D. V. 
 Smock and the church at Knightstown was dissolved. 
 June, 1843, calls from the churches of Hopewell and Shi- 
 loh were put by presbytery into his hands. He accept- 
 ing, was installed by committee of presbytery. This 
 pastoral relation was dissolved in July, 1850. 
 
 September, 1845, John Dale, a licentiate of Salem 
 Presbytery, was received, ordained and installed as pas- 
 tor ot the church at Knightstown, for two-thirds of his 
 time. This pastoral relation was dissolved in March, 
 1850, and in April following, Mr. Dale was dismissed to 
 the Presbytery of Logansport. 
 
 August, 1843, George S. Rea, who had previously 
 been received as a licentiate from the Presbyter}/ of Ox- 
 ford, was ordained and installed as pastor of the church 
 of Ebenezer. This pastoral relation was dissolved April, 
 1844. Mr. Pea was dismissed September, 1846, to the 
 Presbj'tery of Iowa. 
 
 The Rev. T. A. Hendricks, who had been licensed by 
 the presbytery April, 1841, was ordained and installed 
 pastor of the churches of St. Omar and Shelbyville. 
 This pastoral relation was dissolved April, 1845, on ac- 
 count of ill health of the pastor, disabling him for his 
 work. Mr. Hendricks was dismissed April, 1847, to the 
 Presbytery of Vincennes. 
 
 In October, 1846, the Rev. Francis Monfort was re- 
 ceived from the Presbytery of Oxford and installed over 
 the churches of St. Omar and Concord. 
 
 September, 1847, J. M. Wampler, a licentiate of Ox- 
 ford Presbytery was received. He ministered to the 
 church of Shelbyville, and was ordained June, 1848. 
 
64 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 He was dismissed April, 1849, to the Presbytery ot 
 Logansport. 
 
 In September, 1844, B. F. Woods, a licentiate of Sa- 
 lem Presbytery, was received. In May, 1845, he was 
 ordained and installed pastor of the Bethany and New 
 Providence churches. This pastoral relation was dis- 
 solved April, 1848. 
 
 J. C, King, a candidate under the care of the presby- 
 tery, was licensed April, 1844. September, 1845, he was 
 ordained and installed pastor of the church of Sand 
 Creek for one-half his time. 
 
 D. A. Wallace, a candidate under care of presbytery, 
 was licensed April, 1844. In June, 1847, he was or- 
 dained and installed as pastor of the church of George- 
 town for one-half his time. This pastoral relation was 
 not of long continuapce. Mri Wallace was dismissed to 
 the Presbytery of White Water July, 1849. 
 
 In April, 1844, W. A. HoUiday was received from^ 
 the Presbytery of Oxford. September, 1847, Mr. HoUi- 
 day's name was dropped from the roll, he having united 
 with the Associate Reformed Church. April, 1849, be 
 was again received from that body. 
 
 April, 1848, John Koss was received from Presbytery 
 of Oxford. 
 
 September, 1848, D. D. McKee was received from the 
 Presbytery of Alleghany. 
 
 July, 1849, Henry I. Coe, a licentiate of the Presby- 
 tery oi New Brunswick, w^as received. He was ordained 
 March, 1850. 
 
 At the same time, Hugh Marshall was received on 
 probation as a foreign minister from the Presbytery of 
 Armagh, Scotland. A few months afterwards he was 
 dismissed to the Presbytery of Green Brier. 
 
 March, 1850, Isaac L. Lyon, a candidate under the 
 care of Albany Presbytery, was received and ordained. 
 
PRESBYTERY OF INDIANAPOLIS. 65 
 
 September, 1850, lie was dismissed to the Presbytery of 
 Iowa. 
 
 July, 1850, James Gallatin was received from the 
 Presbytery of Iowa. 
 
 September, 1850, the pastoral relation between Dr. 
 David Monfort and the church of Franklin was dis- 
 solved. Dr. Monfort was also granted a letter of dismis- 
 sion to the Presbytery of White Water. Presbytery 
 passed the following resolutions : 
 
 Resolved, 1st, That in dismissing Dr. Monfort, for twenty years a 
 father in the presbytery, we can not do justice to our feelings with- 
 out expressing gratitude to the Head of the church, who has so long 
 spared to us his valuable life, labors and counsels. We shall part 
 with him with sincere regret, and our best wishes and prayers shall 
 follow him to any new sphere to which he may be called. 
 
 2d, That a copy of this minute be sent with the dismission, prop- 
 erly certified. 
 
 3d, That the presbytery sympathize with Dr. Monfort's late 
 charge in their destitution, and hope they may be soon supplied by 
 a regular pastor, and be eminently prospered by the King of Zion. 
 
 FRANKLIN. 
 
 Judge Banta, in his history of the Franklin church, 
 gives succinct statements of the blessed results of this 
 long pastorate. He also gives illustrations in his narra- 
 tive of facts of the baleful and blighting results of bitter- 
 ness, alienations and strifes upon the interests of the 
 church, the salvation of souls, and the glory of Christ. 
 Such teachings from the history of any of our churches 
 ough not to be forgotten. 
 
 In the history of the church of Franklin, alluded to, 
 these statements are made: "During the years of Dr. 
 Monfort's preaching here, the record shows that two 
 hundred and seventy-nine in all united with the church, 
 one hundred and forty-nine on profession, and one hun- 
 dred and forty-eight on certificate. In 1839, from July 
 
66 HISTOR Y OF THE 
 
 21st to 28th, eighteen converts were admitted. From 
 this on to 1842, yearly additions both on certificate and 
 examination were made, but no special manifestation of 
 God's grace appears until January of that year, when 
 from the 5th of that month to the 19th of the month fol- 
 lowing, thirty-seven were taken into the church on pro- 
 fession. This ingathering brought the membership, at 
 the date of the presbyterial report, made in April of the 
 following year, up to one hundred and eighty-seven. 
 But from thence on to 1851, a period of nine years, 
 there was a slow but sure decline." " Right here," says 
 Judge Banta, " one of the most impressive lessons which 
 the history of this church presents may be learned. 
 During the years which mark the decline of this church 
 under Dr. Monfort's pastorate, a bitter and unrelenting 
 personal warfare was waged between certain of the 
 members. I know nothing of the merits of this contro- 
 versy ; I know not who was right and who was wrong. 
 But for an examination of the records, I would not have 
 known of any difficulty at all, and I therefore censure 
 no man, no party ; I only note the fact of the dissension. 
 No doubt during these gloomy years the pastor preached 
 with all the clearness that marked his sermons of former 
 years ; no doubt his appeals were as persuasive and his 
 exhortations as eloquent; no doubt sinners felt the ar- 
 rows of conviction, but the war within the camp went 
 furiously on, and inquirers sought other folds or turned 
 their backs on the church forever. All the actors in 
 that whirl of strife are dead save one. Their bodies have 
 returned to the dust, and their sad difficulties have dis- 
 appeared with them. The merits of their controversy 
 no one now knows or cares to know. How insignificant 
 it must have been, and yet how baleful in its influence 
 upon the cause of Christianity. Brethren, let us take 
 
PRESBYTERY OF INDIANAPOLIS. 67 
 
 the lesson to our hearts. Forever let us sink out of 
 sight and memory every element of controversy, every 
 vestige of discord." 
 
 SUPPORT OF THE MINISTRY. 
 
 From the begining, presbytery was clear and decided 
 in its teachings, and in the use of its authority as to the 
 support of the ministry. In September, 1838, the fol- 
 lowing overture was presented : Should not every 
 church have one or more deacons regularly elected and 
 ordained, to take care of the poor and manage the pe- 
 cuniary matters of the church ? This was answered in 
 the affirmative, and the churches which had not deacons 
 were directed to have that office filled so soon as prac- 
 ticable. 
 
 In April, 1839, the following resolutions are passed : 
 
 Resolved, ] st, That presbytery earnestly recommend to the early 
 attention of their churches the minute adopted at the last session 
 of presbytery as to the election and ordination of deacons. 
 
 Resolved, 2d, That the special and faithful attention of the dea- 
 cons be requested to the prompt collection of the pastor's support 
 regularly ; and that the members of the churches be earnestly so- 
 licited both to subscribe sufficient amounts for the comfortable 
 support of their pastor or supply, and also to make that subscrip- 
 tion available for such purpose by its being regularly paid. 
 
 At this same meeting of presbytery, the churches 
 were called upon to report settlement with their pastors 
 and supplies. All reported full settlement, except the 
 churches of Franklin and Rushville. These were di- 
 rected to settle their arrearages, and present the evidence 
 of a settlement with their pastors at the next stated 
 meeting. 
 
 Th0 following resolution was also passed : 
 
 Resolved, That it be enjoined upon the deacons of our churches 
 to report to presbytery, at its regular meetings, the state of the ac- 
 counts between congregations and their pastors, the nature and 
 
68 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 extent of their pecuniary engagements with each other, shewing 
 the exact amounts unsettled, together with the general character 
 of their respective congregations in meeting all congregational en- 
 gagements. The foregoing is charged as an oflBcial duty, which 
 deacons may not neglect. 
 
 MISSIONARY LABORS OF PRESBYTERY. 
 
 An earnest application was sent to the Board of Mis- 
 sions by the commissioner to the General Assembly, in 
 1840, that at least one missionary should be sent that 
 year to labor within the bounds of the presbytery. 
 
 At the spring meeting of the presbytery in 1841, the 
 presbytery was divided into four districts for missionary 
 labor. Two ministers were assigned to each district, 
 and the duty laid upon them of performing at least two 
 weeks missionary labor in their several districts before 
 the next stated meeting of presbytery. 
 
 This scheme of labor was afterwards modified, but in 
 various ways much missionary labor was done by the 
 members of presbytery. 
 
 MEETINGS OF PRESBYTERY. 
 
 The meetings of presbytery were made meetings for 
 preaching and holding religious services, and reaching 
 the people through them, as well as for the transaction 
 of ecclesiastical business. Special topics were assigned 
 before hand, and several special discourses were fre- 
 quently preached during a meeting of presbytery. Pres- 
 byteries met generally on Thursday, and continued in 
 session until after the Sabbath. At the second meeting 
 of presbytery at Muncie, in August, 1842, which begun 
 on Thursday night and continued until after Sabbath, it 
 was resolved to hold an intermediate meeting before the 
 regular spring meeting. The time fixed for this meet- 
 ing was October. It was held with the Lewisville 
 church in Rush county, a church whose name was short- 
 
PRESBYTERY OF INDIANAPOLIS. 69 
 
 ly afterward changed to Ebeiiezer. The following were 
 the appointments for preaching at this intermediate 
 meeting : 
 
 W. Sickles, on " Faith." 
 
 D. Monfort, on '' Baptism." 
 
 P. D. Gurley, on " Prayer." 
 
 R. Irwin, on " Repentance." 
 
 J. G. Monfort, on " The Judgment." 
 
 These intermediate meetings, with preaching upon 
 special topics, were held for several years. They doubt- 
 less were designed for accomplishing missionary work. 
 
 WHITE WATER PRESBYTERY. 
 
 In 1848, the General Assembly, upon overture from 
 the Synod of Indiana, made the line between the States of 
 Indiana and Ohio the line between the Synods of Indiana 
 and Cincinnati. The Synod of Indiana in session at 
 Hanover, October 1848, ordered the formation of the 
 Presbytery of White Water, embracing the counties of 
 Ohio, Dearborn, Ripley, Decatur, Franklin, Rush, Fay- 
 ette, Union and so much of the counties of Henry and 
 Wayne as lies south of the National road, or in the Pres- 
 bytery of Indianapolis, except the church at Knights- 
 town. 
 
 PRESBYTERY OF MUNCIE. 
 
 October, 1848, the Synod of Indiana also ordered the 
 organization of the Presbytery of Muncie. In 1849, the 
 General Assembly made the I^ational Road the dividing 
 line between the Synods of Indiana and northern Indi- 
 ana. By this action, the First church of Indianapolis 
 and Rev. P. D. Gurley and Rev. W. A. Holliday, were 
 transferred to the Presbytery of Muncie, and the Pres- 
 bytery of Indianapolis, Old School, was without a ghurch 
 in Indianapolis. 
 
70 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 BLOOMINGTON. 
 
 By order of Synod in October, 1848, Monroe county, 
 with the church of Bloomington, then in the Presbytery 
 of New Albany, was added to the Presbytery of Indian- 
 apolis. Levi Hughes, pastor elect of the church of 
 Bloomington, a licentiate of Presbytery of New Albany, 
 was also received. He was ordained and installed pas- 
 tor November 3d, 1848. 
 
 ' OWEN AND PUTNAM COUNTIES. 
 
 The Synod in 1849, further enlarged the presbytery 
 by adding to it Owen county, and the part of Putnam 
 county south of the National Road with the church of 
 Vandalia, and Rev. Thomas Whallon. 
 
PRESBYTERY Of INDIANAPOLIS. 71 
 
 CHAPTER VII. 
 
 Vieio of the Field from Reports of Indiana Gazetteer — 
 Number of Old and New School Churches and their 
 increase in Membership — Progress and Prosperity of the 
 countty. 
 
 Looking at the field occupied by the present Presby- 
 tery of Indianapolis, we find from the imperfect sketches 
 of the Indiana Gazetteer, published in 1849, the follow- 
 ing statements respecting the occupation of this field 
 by other denominations. These statements, combined 
 with the United States census reports of 185Q, will give 
 us a more thorough knowledge of the field and its re- 
 ligious condition than we can perhaps otherwise obtain. 
 There is no statement made of the churches and ministers 
 in Bartholomew county. Its population in 1850 was 
 12,486. In Brown county, " there are six churches, one 
 for each of the denominations of Presbyterians, Metho- 
 dists, United Brethren, Christian, (or Campbellite) Old 
 Christian, (or New Light,) and Baptists." The popula- 
 tion was 4,846. In Hancock county there are " twelve 
 churches, mostly belonging to the Methodists and Bap- 
 tists." There are " five lawyers, fourteen ph^^sicians^ 
 thirteen preachers." The population was 9,686. In 
 Hendricks county, " the prevailing religious denomina- 
 tions are Methodists, Baptists, Christians, Friends, Pres- 
 byterians and Lutherans." There are thirty-six churches 
 
72 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 and twenty ministers of the Gospel. The lawyers num- 
 ber six, and physicians twenty. The populaticfn is 14,083. 
 In Johnson county there are " twenty-two churches, 
 mostly belonging to the Baptists, Methodists and Pres- 
 byterians." There are " five lawyers, twenty-one physi- 
 cians, twenty-nine preachers." The population was 
 12,100. Marion county is described as having " forty 
 lawyers, fifty physicians, forty preachers and thirty-six 
 churches, of which the Methodists are most numerous, 
 then follow 'Baptists, Christians, Presbyterians, Luther- 
 ans, Friends, Episcopalians, Catholics, Seceders, Univer- 
 salists, etc." The population of Marion county in 1850, 
 was 24,103. Of Morgan county it is said " the religious 
 denominations which have erected churches are as fol- 
 lows : Cumberland Presbyterians one, Lutherans one. 
 Baptists five, Reformers or Christians ten, Friends three, 
 Methodists fourteen." There are " seven lawyers, twen- 
 ty physicians, thirty preachers." The population was 
 14,576. Of Monroe county the chronicler facetiously re- 
 marks, there are " nine lawyers, ten physicians, and 
 preachers too tedious to mention." No mention is made 
 of the churches in the county. There were some 
 eight Baptists, nine Christian and twelve Metho- 
 dist churches. One Presbyterian, two Cumberland Pres- 
 byterian, one Associate, one Associate Reformed, one 
 Old Side Covenanter, one New Side Covenanter. The 
 population was 11,286. In Putnam county there were 
 "twenty-nine Methodist, fifteen Baptist, twelve Chris- 
 tian and five Presbyterian churches." The population 
 was 18,615. As to the number of ministers reported in 
 the Gazetteer, the author in his Introduction says : "It 
 may be said that from the number of preachers of the 
 gospel represented to be found in the various counties, 
 it will be supposed there is much more religious instruc- 
 
PRESBYTERY OF INDIANAPOLIS. 73 
 
 tion given than is actually the case. The quality is per- 
 haps the only thing in dispute. A part of it is not in- 
 ferior to any other, but a part too, was correctly de- 
 scribed by one who, when receiving furs and skins for 
 his salary, was asked ' whether it was not poor pay ? ' 
 ' Yes,' he said, 'but he gave poor preaching in return.'" 
 
 In this field there were, in 1850, twenty-four Presby- 
 terian churches; thirteen New School, eleven Old 
 School. In these churches there were eighteen hun- 
 dred and fifty-nine members ; nine hundred and twenty- 
 five New School, and nine hundred and thirty-four Old 
 School. In 1838, the membership was one thousand 
 and forty-two. In 1850, the increase had become eighty 
 per cent. The population had increased from eighty- 
 four thousand in 1840, to something more than one 
 hundred and twenty thousand in 1850, an increase of 
 something less than fifty per cent for that time. 
 
 But the mere increase of population does not mark 
 the real progress and prosperity of this region of coun- 
 try. The construction of railroads and telegraphs opens 
 a new era of activity and enterprise. In 1838, when the 
 great division of the Presbyterian Church occurred, Indi- 
 anapolis, although the capital of the State, was but a 
 good country town with a population of twenty-five 
 hundred. In October, 1847, the Madison and Indianap- 
 olis railroad was completed and the locomotive first en- 
 tered the city. City, Indianapolis had become by vote 
 in March, 1847, and in the actual establishment of city 
 government in May, 1847. Six months after the rail- 
 road reached Indianapolis the telegraph came, and des- 
 patches by the wire were first sent as far east as Rich- 
 mond May 12, 1848. The population of the city at this 
 time was about six thousand. In 1850 it was a little 
 more than eisrht thousand. 
 
74 HISTOR Y OF THE 
 
 CHAPTER VIII. 
 
 JndianapoUs Presbytery, 0. S.-^Changes in Churches — Min- 
 isterial Changes — State of Religion — Missionary Work — 
 Presbyterial Authority — Fii^st Church of Indianapolis — 
 Second Church of Greencastle — Numbers. 
 
 1850—1860. 
 
 Following on the history for the next twenty-five 
 years, of the churches and presbyteries within the 
 boundaries of*the present presbytery, our liraits will for- 
 bid anything more than a suggestive outline with a 
 statement of results. • Within the Presbytery of Indian- 
 apolis, O. S., we find the following 
 
 CHANGES IN CHURCHES. 
 
 April, 1852, the organization of the church of Boggs. 
 town was reported to presbytery, with a membership of 
 thirty- six. 
 
 The Third Church of Indianapolis, having been trans- 
 ferred by the General Assembly of 1852, from the Pres- 
 bytery of Muncie to the Presbytery of Indianapolis, was, 
 in July, 1852, enrolled among the churches of the pres- 
 bytery. This church had been organized September, 
 23, 1851, by a committee of Muncie Presbytery. 
 Eighteen members from the First Church of Indianapo- 
 lis united in its organization. 
 
 April, 1854, the organization of the church of Donald- 
 son, with twenty-nine members, was reported; also, the 
 
PRESBYTERY OF INDIANAPOLIS. 75 
 
 organization of the Union church, with fourteen mem- 
 bers, and of the Greenwood church, with nine members. 
 
 September, 1854, the organization of a church at Ed- 
 inburg, with twenty members, was reported. 
 
 September, 1855, the organization of a church at 
 Greenfield, with eighteen members, was reported. 
 
 MINISTERIAL CHANGES. 
 
 April, 1851, the pastoral relation between Levi Hughes 
 and the church at Bloomington was dissolved, and Mr. 
 Hughes dismissed to the Presbytery of Logansport to ac- 
 cept the call of the First Church of Logansport. 
 
 April, 1851, H. I. Coe was dismissed to the Presby- 
 tery of Muncie. 
 
 James Gallatin was dismissed at the same time to the 
 Presbytery of Cedar, Iowa. 
 
 April, 1851, J. A. McKee was received from the Pres- 
 bytery of Madison. In the following June he was in- 
 stalled pastor at Franklin. April, 1860, this pastoral 
 relation was dissolved, on account of the failing health 
 of the pastor's wife and the necessity of a change of 
 climate. In October, 1860, Mr. McKee was dismissed 
 to the Presbytery of St. Paul. 
 
 April, 1851, David Stevenson, a licentiate, was re- 
 ceived from the Presbytery of Elizabeth town. He was 
 ordained June, 1851. July, 1852, he was installed pastor 
 of the Third Church, of Indianapolis. October, 1860, 
 this pastorial relation was dissolved on account of the 
 failing health of the pastor. 
 
 June, 1851, J. C. Caldwell, a licentiate, was received 
 from the Presbytery of Crawfordsville, and ordained 
 and installed at Shelbyville. He was released from his 
 pastoral charge September, 1856, and dismissed to the 
 Presbytery of St. Paul, April, 1857. 
 
 June, 1851, H. L. Vannuys was licensed, and April, 
 
76 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 1853, dismissed to put himself nuder the care of the 
 Presbytery of Lake. 
 
 June, 1851, R. M. Overstreet was licensed, ordained in 
 September, 1851, and after laboring in the church of 
 Georgetown and elsewhere in the missionary work of 
 the presbytery, was dismissed in October, 1852, to the 
 Presbytery of Palestine. 
 
 July, 1852, C. G. McLain, D. D., was received from 
 the Classis of Montgomery, New York. Dr. McLain es- 
 tablished in 'Indianapolis a large and flourishing school 
 for young ladies, under the name of the McLain Sem- 
 inary. He died in 1860. 
 
 July, 1S52, Thomas Alexander was received from the 
 Presbytery of Crawfordsville. He was stated supply of 
 the church in Bloomington. September, 1854, he was 
 dismissed to the Presbytery of Brazos, Texas. 
 
 July, 1852, Orlando Clark was licensed. September, 
 1857, he was dismissed to put himself under the care of 
 the Presbytery of Miami. 
 
 October, 1852, E. K. Lynn was received from the 
 Presbytery of New Albany. He was installed at Hope- 
 well in the succeeding November. He was released 
 from his pastoral charge in April, 1853, and dismissed 
 September, 1854, to the Presbytery of Palestine. 
 
 April, 1853, Alfred Ryors, D. D., was received from 
 the Presbytery of Hocking. Dr. Ryors was president 
 of the State University at Bloomington. He was dis- 
 missed to the Presbytery of Madison April, 1854. 
 
 September, 1853, J. L. Martin was received from the 
 Presbytery of Louisville. He labored in the churches 
 of Georgetown and Shiloh for a time, and was dismissed 
 to the Presbytery of Vincennes April, 1855. 
 
 December, 1853, David Monfort, a licentiate, was re- 
 ceived from the Presbytery of White Water, ordained 
 
PRESBYTERY OF INDIANAPOLIS. 77 
 
 and installed at Knightstown. He was released from 
 this pastoral charge April, 1858, and in September fol- 
 lowing dismissed to the Presbj'tery of White Water. 
 
 April, 1855, F. H. L. Laird was received from the 
 Presbytery of New Albany. lie was stated supply at 
 Bloomington for a year, and dismissed to the Presbytery 
 of Potosi October, 1856. 
 
 April, 1855, A. C. Allen was received from the Pres- 
 bytery of Crawfordsville, and installed at Hopewell. 
 The pastoral relation was dissolved July, 1859. 
 
 September, 1856, Wm. Sickles was received from the 
 Presbytery of Madison. 
 
 April, 1857, Lowman Hawes was received from the 
 Presbytery of Milwaukee. He was installed at Bloom- 
 ington in May following. November, 1857, he was re- 
 leased, and dismissed to the Presbytery of Madison, to 
 accept the call of the First Church of Madison. 
 
 April, 1857, Blackburn Leffler was received from the 
 Presbytery of Sangamon. He was dismissed to the 
 Presbytery of Vincennes April, 1859. 
 
 April, 1858, John Gilchrist was received from the 
 Presbytery of White Water. He was installed over the 
 church of Sugar Creek June, 1858, for one-half his 
 time. 
 
 June, 1858, E. C. Sickles was licensed, and dismissed 
 to put himself under the care of the Presbytery of St. 
 Louis. 
 
 April, 1859, L. G. Hay was received from the Presby- 
 tery of Allahabad, India. 
 
 J. J. Smythe was received at the same time from the 
 Presbytery of Orange. After serving the church at 
 Shelbyville until November, 1860, he was then installed 
 its pastor. 
 
 April, 1859, T. M. Hopkins, was received from the 
 
78 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 Presbytery of Miami. He was called to the pastorate 
 of the church at Bloomin^^ton. After several failures 
 of committees appointed by presbytery for the installa- 
 tion services, he vv^as finally installed in October, 1860. 
 April, 1860, J. F. Smith was received from the Pres- 
 bytery of White Water. November, 1860, he was in- 
 stalled pastor of the church of Hopewell. 
 
 STATE OF RELIGION. 
 
 In September, 1851, mention is made in the records 
 of presbytery of a deplorably low state of religion in 
 most of the churches. Because of this low state of 
 religion, a day of fasting and prayer was appointed. 
 At the following spring meeting, this record is made : 
 " In view of the statements made by brethren, in their 
 conversation on the state of religion in our bounds, of 
 the gracious dealings of the Lord among us, it was 
 moved that we spend a short season in thanksgiving to 
 God for what he had done for our churches, beseech- 
 ing him at the same time for greater blessings." In 
 September, 1855, record is again made of a very low 
 state of religion in the churches of presbytery. April, 
 1858, mention is made of greatly increased religious in- 
 terest, and of large accessions to some of the churches. 
 
 The Third church of Indianapolis had steadily grown 
 from its original membership of eighteen in 1851, until 
 in 1860, it reported a membership of one hundred and 
 eighty-two. 
 
 The largest church in the presbytery, was the Hope- 
 well church, which reported two hundred and sixty-six 
 members. 
 
 MISSIONARY WORK. 
 
 During this decade, the presbytery for several succes- 
 sive years sought for an intinerant missionary to sup- 
 
PRESBYTERY OF INDIANAPOLIS. 79 
 
 ply the vacancies. Not succeeding in this, the mem- 
 bers of presbytery, with great diligence and zeal, labored 
 among their destitute churches and fields. 
 
 PRESBYTERIAL AUTHORITY. 
 
 Nor was the presbytery lacking in the exercise of its 
 control over the churches, when in its judgment such 
 control was demanded. In April, 1857, Rev. J. A. Mc- 
 Kee applied for a dissolution of the pastoral relation be- 
 tween himself and the church at Franklin. After hear- 
 ing the parties, presbytery took the following action : 
 
 Resolved, 1st, That the request be not granted. 
 
 Resolved, 2d, That the church at Franklin be recommended to 
 strengthen their session by the accession of two or more elders. 
 
 Resolved, 3d, That the session be directed to discipline any mem- 
 ber of said church who shall continue to pursue a course calculated 
 in their judgment to be divisive or destructive to the peace, unity 
 and purity of the church in Franklin. 
 
 Resolved, 4th, That a committee of three be appointed with ad- 
 visory power to aid the session in carrying out this action, and that 
 the chairman of said committee be directed to make known this 
 action to the church on next Sabbath. 
 
 And not only did presbytery resolve, but at its fall ses- 
 sion, upon report of the committee it had appointed, it 
 proceeded to discipline. The benefits of this mainten- 
 ance of the order and discipline of the church by the 
 presbytery, are manifest from the concluding paragraph 
 of a page of Judge Banta's history of the church of 
 Franklin. He thus speaks of Mr. McKee's labors : 
 '' The year following Rev. Mr. McKee's entry upon his 
 labors here, the membership of the church went down 
 to one hundred and fifteen — twenty-nine members hav- 
 ing been dismissed, and seven having died. But in 
 1852, the gains began to exceed the losses, and with the 
 exception of two years, this has been the case ever since. 
 In that year a refreshing revival came to bless the la- 
 
80 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 bors of the new pastor.* The good work seems to have 
 commenced in the last of February, and it continued up 
 to the middle of April, during which interval forty per- 
 sons in all were added on profession of their faith. In 
 the spring of the succeeding year, another shower came, 
 and twenty-five converts were added, which, with the 
 addition of those who joined on certificate, brought the 
 membership up to one hundred and eighty six, the high- 
 est number then ever reached. In 1854, the number 
 was carried up to one hundred and ninety-four, but this in- 
 crease was mostly due to the admissions on certificate. 
 It is evident to one who peruses the records of this 
 date, that a church trouble is again brewing. What the 
 cause was, I am sure I don't know. All I can say is, 
 that in 1854, only five converts were added ; in 1855, not 
 one, in 1856, three, and in 1857, not one! Other work 
 seems to have required the attention of the people du- 
 ring these gloomy years. The younger members of the 
 congregation appear to have been seized about this time 
 with a mania for dancing, while the older brethren had 
 more serious business of their own on hand. A temp- 
 est had arisen — a controversy was up — a first class 
 church quarrel was on the carpet, and while the breth- 
 ren were cutting and threshing this way and that way 
 at each other, no recruits ventured to come from the en- 
 emy without. How eloquently do these mute figures 
 plead iov 'peace within the church ! " 
 
 The paragraph of Judge Banta's history immediately 
 succeeding to these statements, is that which shows the 
 benefits of the watchful care of the presbytery and its 
 maintenance of the order and discipline of the church. 
 " In 1868," continues this historian of the Franklin 
 church, " the smoke of this conflict having disappeared, 
 God smiled again upon the labors of Mr. McKee, and 
 
PRESBYTEBY OF INDIANAPOLIS. 81 
 
 in Febriiar}^, March and April of that year, fifty-eight 
 were added on examination." 
 
 FIRST CHURCH OF INDIANAPOLIS. 
 
 The Rev. John A. McClung, D. D., of Maysville, Ken- 
 tucky, was installed as pastor of this church December 
 31, 1851. This relation continued until dissolved, Sep- 
 tember, 1855, on account of ill health of the pastor. 
 The Rev. Thomas M. Cunningham, of St. Louis, was 
 called as pastor December 12, 1856, and continued until 
 May, 1860. The membership of the church reported iti 
 1860 was two hundred and thirteen. 
 
 SECOND CHURCH OF GREENCASTLE. 
 
 This church was ministered to by Rev. J. M. Mc- 
 Chord for about four years after its organization. He 
 was succeeded by Rev. E. W. Fiske, who began his 
 ministry with the church in 1854. It reported, in 1860, 
 one hundred and ten members. 
 
 NUMBERS. 
 
 In 1860 the presbytery consisted of eleven ministers 
 and sixteen churches, containing fourteen hundred and 
 forty-one members. Fourteen of these churches, and 
 eleven hundred and ninety members were within the 
 boundaries of the present Presbytery of Indianapolis. 
 In connection with the Old School body, there were also 
 several other churches of Muncie and Crawfordsville 
 Presbyteries, besides the First Church of Indianapolis 
 and Second Church of Greencastle, which are now 
 within the boundaries of the present Presbytery of Indi- 
 anapolis. These were New Hope, Carpentersville and 
 Clermont. There was also a German church in Indi- 
 6 
 
82 ' HISTORY OF THE 
 
 anapolis, which, after appearing for a series of years 
 in the reports of Muncie Presbytery, disappears. The 
 total of the membership of the Old School churches is 
 one thousand seven hundred and forty. 
 
PRESBYTER F OF INDIANAPOLIS. 83 
 
 CHAPTER IX. 
 
 Indianapolis Presbytery, N. S. — New Churches — Second 
 Church of Indianapolis — Fourth Church of Indianapolis 
 — Greenwood — Ministerial Changes — Missionary Work — 
 Danville, White Lick, Greencastle, Putnamville, Bain- 
 bridge, Bloomington, Columbus. 
 
 1851—1860. 
 
 April, 1851, the organization of the Second Church of 
 Franklin, with a membership of twenty two, was re- 
 ported to presbytery. 
 
 In the spring of 1851, because of the blessing of God 
 upon the labors of C. E. Babb, pastor of the Second 
 Church of Indianapolis, the church edifice became too 
 small for the congregation, and it became a question 
 with the church whether to enlarge their building or to 
 colonize and form another church. The pastor advised 
 the latter. In presbytery, which convened September 
 4, 1851, Mr. Babb reported that there was great need of 
 another church in Indianapolis, and that efforts were 
 being made to organize another church. In conse- 
 quence of this report presbytery passed the following 
 resolution : 
 
 That we respectfully recommend to the Second Presbyterian 
 Church of Indianapolis, to take into consideration the propriety 
 and importance of forming another church of our order in that city ; 
 and, that if they should embark in such an enterprise, they shall 
 have our sympathy and co-operation. 
 
84 HISIORY OF THE 
 
 After a full interchange of opinion, September 30, 
 1851, the session of the Second Church resolved that it 
 was desirable and practicable to form a colony and or- 
 ganize another Presbyterian church. On the 30th 'of 
 November, 1851, twenty-four persons, dismissed from the 
 Second Church, were organized info the Fourth Presby- 
 terian Church of Indianapolis. 
 
 September, 1857, the organization of the church at 
 Zionsville, with six members and one elder, was reported 
 to presbytery. 
 
 April, 1860, the Second Presbyterian Church of Madi- 
 son county, with ten members, was reported to presby- 
 tery. 
 
 SECOND CHURCH OF INDIANAPOLIS. 
 
 On account of failing health, the Rev. C. E. Babb was 
 released from pastoral care of this church January 31, 
 
 1853. April, 1854, he was dismissed to the Presbytery 
 of Cincinnati. 
 
 The church remained vacant a full year. January 1, 
 
 1854, Rev. Thornton A. Mills, to whom a call had been 
 extended by th(! church the previous October, entered 
 upon the duties of the pastorate. He was received from 
 the Presbytery of Cincinnati, and installed February, 
 1854. Under the ministry of Dr. Mills the church 
 steadily grew, although there were no seasons of revival. 
 February, 1857, Dr. Mills was released from pastoral 
 charge of the church, to enter upon the duties of Secre- 
 tary of the General Assembly's Committee on Education, 
 to which he had been elected towards the close of the 
 year 1856. August, 1857, the church gave a call to the 
 Rev. George P. Tiudall. Having accepted the call, he 
 was received by the presbytery from the Presbytery of 
 Dayton, October, 1857, but was not installed until June, 
 1859. The year 1858 was a year of revival throughout 
 
PRESB YTER Y OF INDIANA POLLS. 85 
 
 the land. The Second Church, from April, 1858, to 
 April, 1859, received to its membership fifty-three on 
 profession of faith and sixteen by letter. The member- 
 ship reported in 1860 was one hundred and ninety-five. 
 
 FOURTH CHURCH OF INDIANAPOLIS. 
 
 The Fourth Church in the beginning of 1852, secured 
 for its minister the Rev. George M. Maxwell. He was 
 received from the Presbytery of Franklin, August, 1852. 
 He first served the church as stated supply. He became 
 pastor elect April, 1854, and was installed February? 
 1856. On account of failing health, he was released 
 from his pastoral charge, December, 1858, and dismissed 
 to the Presbytery of Cincinnati April, 1860. 
 
 During the ministry of Mr. Maxwell in the Fourth 
 Church, after nearly six years of struggle, the church 
 dedicated its first house of worship at the corner of Del- 
 aware and Market streets. Its membership, at that 
 time, had increased to one hundred and fifteen. In the 
 spring of 1858 a large accession was reported of thirty- 
 three by profession and twenty by letter. 
 
 October, 1859, A. L. Brooks was called to the church. 
 He entered upon his labors immediately, and was re- 
 ceived by the presbytery from the Presbytery of Chicago, 
 April, 1860. The church reported in April, 1860, only 
 eighty-five members. 
 
 GREENWOOD. 
 
 The pastor of the Greenwood church, P. S. Cleland, 
 continued steadily on in his labors through this decade 
 in the history of the presbytery, and the second decade 
 of his labors with the Greenwood church. September 
 17, 1853, the third house of worship erected by the con- 
 gregation, was dedicated to the worship of God. The 
 year 1853 was marked by a season of special religious 
 
86 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 interest. There was also a revival in 1856, resulting in 
 larger additions to the church than at any other time 
 ^during the ministry of Mr. Cleland. Twenty-eight per- 
 sons were received upon profession of their faith. In 
 1860, there was reported a membership of one hundred 
 and twenty-six. 
 
 MINISTERIAL CHANGES. 
 
 To those already nientioued as occurring in this peri- 
 od of the higtory of the presbytery, the following are to 
 be added : 
 
 April, 1851, E. Scofield was received from the Presby- 
 tery of Cincinnati. He was at different times supply of 
 the Highland and Second Franklin churches ; also of 
 Pendleton, Anderson and Greenfield. These were all 
 missionary churches, with a membership of three, in the 
 smallest reported, Pendleton, and of twenty-three in the 
 largest, Highland. Mr. Scofield was dismissed to the 
 Presbytery of Hamilton, September, 1853. September, 
 1858, he was again received from the Presbytery of 
 Hamilton, and ministered to the church at Anderson. 
 
 April, 1851, Mr. Nyce was dismissed to Felicity Pres- 
 bytery. 
 
 September, 1851, J. Fairchild was received from the 
 Presbytery of Crawfordsville. His labors were first in 
 Hancock county. He afterwards was supply of the 
 Highland and Second Franklin churches. September 
 1856, he was dismissed to the Presbytery of Ft. Wayne. 
 
 August, 1852, John Stewart was received from the 
 Presbytery of Lexington. April, 1853, he was dismissed 
 to the Presbytery of Madison. 
 
 April, 1853, W. A. McCampbell was received from 
 the Presbytery of Green River, He became stated sup- 
 ply of New Providence or Southport. He was permit- ' 
 
PRESB YTER Y OF INDIANAPOLIIS. 87 
 
 ted to labor in his new field but a few months. He was 
 removed by death, August, 1853. 
 
 April, 1853, J. Brownlee was received from the Pres- 
 bytery of Madison. He was installed pastor of the 
 church at Connersville, June, 1853. April, 1855, he was 
 released from the pastoral care of the church. Septem- 
 ber, 1859, he was dismissed to the Presbytery of Kan- 
 sas, having previously labored for some time without 
 the bounds of the presbytery. 
 
 September, 1853, B. F. Cole was released from the 
 pastoral care of the churches of Thorntown and Bethel, 
 and dismissed to the Presbytery of Pataskala. 
 
 September, 1854, W. R. Stevens was received from the 
 Presbytery of Trumbull. He became supply of Thorn- 
 town and Bethel. September, 1856, he was dismissed to 
 the Association of Minnesota. 
 
 April, 1855, W. H. Rogers was dismissed to the Pres- 
 bytery of Salem. His principal field of labor in the 
 presbytery had been Noblesville. 
 
 April, 1855, S. E. Wishard was licensed. April, 1857, 
 he was dismissed to put himself under the care of the 
 Presbytery of Schuyler. 
 
 September, 1855, A. S. Avery was dismissed to the 
 Presbytery of Alton. He had been for several years 
 without a charge. 
 
 September, 1855, W. A. McCorkle was received from 
 the Presbytery of Crawfordsville. April, 1856, he was 
 dismissed to the Presbytery of Fox River. 
 
 April, 1856, Philander Anderson was received from 
 the Presbytery of Fort Wayne. He remained in the 
 presbytery without charge. 
 
 September, 1856, E. B. Smith was received from the 
 Presbytery of Harmony. He supplied the church of 
 
88 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 Connersville, and September, 1857, was dismissed to the 
 Presbytery of Clintou. 
 
 September, 1856, George H. White, a licentiate of 
 Fourth Hartford Association, was received. He was or- 
 dained an evangelist ISTovember, 1856, and went as a 
 missionary to Turkey under appointment from the 
 American Board of Foreign Missions. 
 
 October, 1857, Franklin Putnam was received from 
 the Presbytery of Dayton. He became stated supply of 
 Thorntown and Bethel. While engaged in this field, he 
 was removed by death in the summer of 1859, and so 
 ceasing from labor entered into heavenly rest. 
 
 September, 1858, J. 0. Blythe was received from an 
 Independent church of Philadelphia. September, 1860, 
 he was dismissed to the Third Presbytery of Philadel- 
 phia. 
 
 September, 1859, D. A. Bassett was received from the 
 Presbytery of Madison. He became stated supply of the 
 church at Connersville. 
 
 September, 1860, W. ^N". Stimson was dismissed to the 
 Presbytery of Greencastle. He had been for several 
 years without charge, but for several years before supply 
 of New Pisgah and Sugar Creek. 
 
 September, 1860^ Isaac Be La Mater was received 
 from the Presbytery of Crawfordsville. He became 
 stated supply of Thorntown and Bethel. 
 
 MISSIONARY WORK. 
 
 Presbytery labored faithfully to supply the vacancies 
 and destitutions of their field. Strenuous exertions were 
 made to supply vacant churches with the stated ministry 
 of the word at least a portion of the time. The mis- 
 sionaries of the presbytery generally had in charge sev- 
 eral small churches. The larger part of the funds for 
 the prosecution of the missionary work within the 
 
PRESBYTERY OF INDIANAPOLIS. 89 
 
 bounds of the presbytery, was raised within the presby- 
 tery. The balance was supplied through the American 
 Home Missionary Society. 
 
 The salaries paid the missionaries were but meagre, 
 while their hardships were many. One received two hun- 
 dred and seventy-five dollars a year ; one hundred from 
 the Home Missionary Society, and one hundred and 
 seventy-five from two churches. Another missionary 
 had a salary promised of three hundred and seventy -five 
 dollars ; one hundred and seventy-five from the Home 
 Missionary Society, two hundred from two churches. 
 Of this two hundred promised, the churches would fall 
 short fifty dollars. Another brother had five hun- 
 dred a year, paid to him quarterly by a member of the 
 Second Church. Had this good brother of the Second 
 Church continued to be responsible for a series of years 
 for that necessary support of a missionary, which the 
 field itself could not be made to yield, doubtless the re- 
 gion occupied instead of continuing a moral and spirit- 
 ual wilderness to so large an extent as it is at the present 
 time, would have been like a garden of the Lord. 
 
 But while missionaries were thus laboring on scanty 
 stipends, city ministers received but eight hundred dol- 
 lars a year. This, however, was paid quarterly, not as 
 it happened, and all paid, and not simply a considerable 
 portion of it. 
 
 In 1859 the Synod of Indiana transferred the church 
 of Laurel Hill and the county of Franklin from the 
 Presbytery of Madison to the Presbytery of Indianapo- 
 lis. The church of Laurel Hill was a feeble church of 
 ten members, and this transfer of the synod only 
 widened the missionary ground of the synod. 
 
 DANVILLE. • 
 
 In Danville, Hendricks county. Presbytery of Green- 
 
90 ^ HISTORY OF THE 
 
 castle, the Rev. Amos Jones continued his ministry until 
 March, 1853. He was succeeded by Rev. B. F. Cole, 
 who labored in the church for three years. The sum- 
 mer after the departure of Mr. Cole, Rev. S. E. Wishard 
 ministered to the church. Rev. H. L. Dickerson became 
 supply of the church in the fall of 1857. A new church 
 building was dedicated in December, 1858. March 31, 
 1860, Mr. Dickerson was called to the pastorate of the 
 church. The membership reported in 1860 was one 
 hundred and seven. 
 
 WHITE LICK. 
 
 The church of White Lick, which was organized from 
 members of the Danville church, first appears on the 
 roll of presbytery in 1854. Its membership increased 
 from twelve in 1854, to thirty-eight in 1860. 
 
 GREENCASTLE. 
 
 The first church of Greencastle was ministered to by 
 Rev. T. M. Oviatt, from 1851 to 1855. He was succeed- 
 ed by Rev. Henry Rossiter. In 1860, the membership 
 reported was one hundred and six. 
 
 PUTNAMVILLE AND BAINBRIDGE. 
 
 Putnamville was ministered to by Rev. Ransom Haw- 
 ley one-fourth of his time. It enjoyed a season of revi- 
 val in 1852. Its membership in 1860 was forty. 
 
 The Bainbridge church, which was in connection with 
 the Crawfordsville Presbytery, N. S., reported in 1860 a 
 membership of eighty-nine. 
 
 BLOOMINGTON. 
 
 In June, 1852, a Presbyterian church, New School, 
 was organized, with eleven members, in Bloomington. 
 This church was in connection with the Presbytery of 
 Salem. It was ministered to statedly, by Rev. John M. 
 
PRESBYTERY OF INDIANAPOLIS. 91 
 
 Bishop, a portion of his time. After 1854, Professor 
 Elisha Ballantine, of the State University, supplied it 
 for several years upon the alternate Sabbaths, upon 
 which Mr. Bishop was absent. The membership re- 
 ported in 1860 was seventy-seven. 
 
 COLUMBUS. 
 
 The church of Columbus, in connection with the 
 Madison Presbytery, N. S., was supplied from 1850 to 
 1853 by Rev. J. Brownlee. In June, 1853, the Rev. :N'. 
 S. Dickey became its stated supply. It reported in 1860 
 a membership of one hundred and twenty- nine. 
 
92 \HISTOBY OF THE 
 
 CHAPTER X. 
 
 Numbers — Census Report of the Statistics of the different 
 Denominations in the field occupied by the Presbytery. 
 
 In the Presbytery of Indianapolis, N. S., there were, 
 in 1860, twelve ministers, eighteen churches, and eight 
 hundred and three members. Of these eighteen churches, 
 only nine were within the boundaries of the present 
 Presbytery of Indianapolis. Of these nine churches, 
 five were small, aggregating only sixty-seven members. 
 The other four churches contained a membership of four 
 hundred and fifty-seven. The membership of the nine 
 churches was five hundred and four. In the seven other 
 New School churches that were within the bounds of 
 the present Presbytery of Indianapolis, there was a 
 membership of five hundred and eighty six, making a 
 total membership in the New School churches of eleven 
 hundred and ten. 
 
 This number, added to the seventeen hundred and 
 forty of the Old School churches, would make the mem- 
 bership of the Presbyterian churches within the boun- 
 daries of the present presbytery to have been, in 1860, 
 two thousand eight hundred and fifty. 
 
 This is not so rapid an increase of the members of 
 the Presbyterian church upon this field as in the prece- 
 ding ten years of its history. It is only an increase of 
 little more than fifty per cent., while the increase of the 
 preceding decade was eighty per cent. But the rate of 
 
PRESBYTERY OF INDIANAPOLIS. 93 
 
 increase is greater than that of the population. The 
 population of the counties within the presbytery in- 
 creased from a little more than a hundred and twenty 
 thousand (121,736) to something over a hundred and 
 fifty-eight thousand (158,853), an increase of little more 
 than thirty-three per cent. In 1850, the proportion of 
 the membership of the Presbyterian church in the field 
 of the presbytery was about one to sixty-five of the 
 population. In 1860, the proportion is one to fifty-five. 
 
 CENSUS REPORT. 
 
 The United States census report of 1860, more com- 
 plete and accurate than that of 1870, gives the following 
 religious statistics of the field occupied by the presby- 
 tery : 
 
 Bartholomew county, with a population of 17,865, 
 has — 
 
 3 Presbyterian churches, with property valued at $1 ,450. 
 9 Baptist " " " " " 7,750. 
 6 Christian " '' " " " 7,650. 
 1 Friends' " " '• " " 1,200. 
 
 4 Lutheran " " " " " 1,900. 
 1 Moravian " " " " " 3,500. 
 
 25 Methodist " " " " " 17,800. 
 
 Brown county, with a population of 6,504, has — 
 
 1 Presbyterian church, with property valued at $400. 
 9 Baptist " " " " " 600. 
 
 3 Christian " ' " 420. 
 
 6 Methodist " " " " " 2,450. 
 
 Hancock county, with a population of 12,802, has — 
 
 2 Christian churches, with property valued at $3,700. 
 
 2 Baptist " " " " '• 800. 
 6 Lutheran " " " " " 3,750. 
 
 14 Methodist " " " " " 8,000. 
 
 3 Union " " " " " 1,054. 
 1 Presbyterian " no property. 
 
94 
 
 HI8T0RY OF THE 
 
 Hendricks county, with a population of 16,953, has- 
 
 4 Presbyterian churches, with property valued at $10,000. 
 11 Baptist " " " " " 4,750. 
 
 9 Christian " " " " " 6,400. 
 
 4 Friends' " " " " " 14,000. 
 
 11 Methodist " " " " " 3.700. 
 
 Johnson county, with a population of 14,854, has — 
 
 9 Presbyterian churches, with property valued at $15,450. 
 16 Baptist " " " " " 10,375. 
 
 11 Christian, " " " " " 8,300. 
 
 18 Methodist " " " " " 10,125. 
 
 1 Roman Catholic " " " " " 400. 
 
 Marion county, with a population of 39,855, has — 
 9 Presbyterian churches, with property valued at $92,960. 
 
 10 Baptist 
 3 Christian 
 1 Congregational 
 1 Episcopalian 
 5 Friends' 
 
 1 Lutheran 
 32 Methodist 
 
 2 Roman Catholic 
 
 31,200. 
 
 4,600. 
 
 8,000. 
 
 27,000. 
 
 6,500. 
 
 800. 
 
 100,905. 
 
 19,000. 
 
 Monroe county, with a population of 12,847, has — 
 
 2 Presbyterian churches, with property valued at $10,500. 
 9 Baptist " " " " " 3,500. 
 
 " 5,000. 
 
 " 14,100. 
 800. 
 
 " 2,000. 
 
 " 3,200. 
 
 Morgan county, with a population of 16,110, has — 
 26 Methodist churches, with property valued at $23,800. 
 
 10 Christian 
 13 Methodist 
 
 1 Cumb'rl'nd Pr. 
 
 2 Reformed Pr. 
 2 United Pr. 
 
 4 Baptist 
 12 Christian 
 2 Episcopal 
 6 Friends' 
 1 Cumb'rl'nd Pr. 
 1 Rom' n Catholic 
 
 11,800. 
 
 11,800. 
 
 800. 
 
 6,100. 
 
 1,000. 
 
 300. 
 
PRESBYTERY OF INDIANAPOLIS. 95 
 
 Putnam county, with a population of 20,681, has — 
 8 Presbyterian churches, with property valued at $18,700. 
 
 18 Baptist " " " " " " 11,690. 
 
 14 Christian " " " " " 14,700. 
 
 27 Methodist " " " " " 42,350. 
 
 2 Cumb'rl'nd Pr. " " • " " " 3,200. 
 
 The term churches, denoting particular organizations 
 or congregations, gives no definite information concern- 
 ing the strong or weak, the prosperous or declining con- 
 dition of particular organizations. Yet the term church, 
 denoting an individual congregation, has definite ideas 
 of organization, of life, of power, of influence, connected 
 with it. And in the absence of more complete know- 
 ledge, the United States census report of the number of 
 the churches of the difterent denominations in the field 
 occupied by our presbytery, and especially in connection 
 with the value of the property possessed by these 
 churches, gives us much valuable information and per- 
 haps clearer and more accurate knowledge of the whole 
 field than cau otherwise be obtained by us. 
 
96 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 CHAPTER XI. 
 
 Indianapolis- Presbytery, N. S. — Greenfield Church — Kings- 
 ton and Clarksburg — Edinburg — Sixth Church of Indi- 
 anapolis — Shelbyville — Ministerial Changes — Progress — 
 Reunion — Adjournment sine die — Hendricks County — 
 Putnam County — Bloomington — Columbus— Numbers. 
 
 1861—1870. 
 
 Renewing our history of the Presbytery of Indianap- 
 olis, New School, we will find it in the progress of the 
 next ten years growing in numbers, strength and 
 efiiciency. 
 
 February, 1861, it received the church of Greenfield, 
 which was at the time in connection with the Old 
 School Presbytery of Indianapolis. It also received J. 
 T. Iddings, a licentiate of the Presbytery of Kaskaskias, 
 O. S., and installed him pastor of the Greenfield church. 
 But at the next meeting of presbytery, in April, citations 
 were issued for the trial of Mr. Iddings, for forgery of 
 the certificate of licensure, upon which he had been re- 
 ceived into the presbytery. After long and wearisome 
 trials before presbytery, and in synod, he was found 
 guilty and deposed from the ministry. The church of 
 Greenfield was visited by committees of presbytery at 
 various times, but had become alienated from the pres- 
 bytery, and in the spring of 1866 reunited with the Old 
 School Presbytery. 
 
PRESBYTERY OF INDIANAPOLIS. 97 
 
 May, 1863, the Second Church of Franklin was dis- 
 solved, and the stated clerk directed to furnish the re- 
 maining members with letters to unite with such 
 branches of the church of Christ as they might elect. 
 
 April, 1864, the churches of Kingston (formerly Sand 
 Creek) and Clarksburg were received into the presbytery. 
 They had left the presbytery years before, because the 
 General Assembly had not taken such action upon the 
 subject of slavery as they thought should be taken. They 
 had united with the Felicity Presbytery of the Free Pres- 
 byterian Church. The civil war and emancipation procla- 
 mation of the President of the United States, by which 
 the system of slavery was destroyed, took away the 
 standing place and removed the necessity of the exist- 
 ence of a Free Presbyterian Church, and these churches 
 now returned to the old fold with a largely increased 
 membership. 
 
 September, 1864, the reorganization of a church at 
 Edinburg was reported to presbytery. . 
 
 The Sixth Church of Indianapolis, called Olivet at the 
 time of its organization, was established by the Second 
 Church. In June, 1867, a committee was appointed by 
 the Second Church to buy lots and build a chapel in the 
 south-western part of the city. A site was selected at 
 the corner of Union and McCarty streets. A building 
 was begun in September. In October it was completed. 
 The 20th of November a church was organized with 
 twenty-one members. It was reported to presbytery 
 April, 1868. In the spring of 1870 it reported one hun- 
 dred and eleven members. 
 
 April, 1861, presbytery received under its care the 
 First German Church of Shelbyville, with one hundred 
 and twenty-five members. 
 7 
 
98 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 MINISTERIAL CHANGES. 
 
 August, 1861, L. P. Webber, a licentiate of Dayton 
 Presbytery, was received and employed as presbyterial 
 missionary. JSTovember, 1861, he was ordained. Sep- 
 tember, 1863, he was dismissed to the Presbytery of Saa 
 Jose. 
 
 October, 1861, John !S. Craig and John B. Logan, 
 members of the Presbytery of Holston, Tennessee, un- 
 able to get tbeir letters from their presbytery on account 
 of the war, were received without them. 
 
 Anderson was for a series of years the scene of the 
 labors of J. S. Craig ; afterwards Noblesville. J. B. 
 Logan, as stated supply and home missionary, occupied 
 various fields. 
 
 April, 1862, A, L. Brooks, stated supply of the Fourth 
 Church of Indianapolis, and D. A. Bassett, stated sup- 
 ply of the church of Connersville, were dismissed to the 
 Presbytery of Chicago. 
 
 May. 1863, A. A. Jimes(jn was received from tlie Pres- 
 bytery of Dayton. He was pastor elect of the church 
 at Connersville. April, 1865, he was dismissed to the 
 Presbytery of Sciota. 
 
 May, 1863, A. T. Kankin was received from the Pres- 
 bytery of Ripley. H« was stated supply of the Kingston 
 and Clarksburg churches. 
 
 September, 1863, C. H. Marshall was received from 
 the South Congregational Association of Illinois. He 
 was stated supply of the Fourth Church of Indianapolis. 
 
 September, 1863, T. A. Steele was received from Salem 
 Presbytery. He labored as home missionary for one 
 year, and was dismissed September, 1864, to Salem 
 Presbytery. 
 
 September, 1863, G. P. Tindall was released from the 
 
PRESBYTERY OF INDIANAPOLIS. 99 
 
 pastoral care of the Second Church of Indianapolis, and 
 dismissed to the Presbytery of Washtenaw. 
 
 September, 1864, H. A. Edson was received from the 
 Presbytery of Niagara. He was called to the pastorate 
 of the Second Church of Indianapolis November 5, 1863 ; 
 began his ministry in the Second Church January 17, 
 1864, and was installed April 26, 1865. 
 
 April, 1865, Joseph Swindt was licensed. He was or- 
 dained June, 1866, and dismissed to Ripley Presbytery 
 September, 1866. 
 
 March, 1866, W. L. S. Clark was received without 
 credentials. He had been laboring for some months 
 under direction of the Committee on Home Missions. 
 September, 1867, he was dismissed to the Presbytery of 
 St. Louis. 
 
 September, 1866, Isaac De La Mater was dismissed to 
 the Presbytery of Hamilton. He had labored for several 
 years as stated supply of the church at Thorntown, and in 
 1863 was commissioned chaplain of the seventy-second 
 regiment of Indiana volunteers. 
 
 December, 1866, the pastoral relation of P. S. Cleland 
 and the church at Greenwood was dissolved, after a 
 ministry of twenty-six years, ten as stated supply and 
 sixteen as pastor. The reason for the dissolution of the 
 pastoral relation urged by Mr. Cleland was impaired 
 health, that made it perilous for him to continue his 
 l)astoral labors, and impossible for him to discliarge the 
 duties of pastor. Mr. Cleland, who had become stated 
 clerk of presbytery in 1859, continued to discharge the 
 duties of stated clerk until April, 1869. In September, 
 1869, after laboring thirty .years within the bounds of 
 the presbytery, his labors at Greenwood antedating the 
 organization of the presbytery, he was dismissed to the 
 Presbytery of Smoky Hill, Kansas. 
 
100 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 April, 1867, Alexander Parker was received from the 
 Presbytery of Madison. He was stated supply of the 
 church at Connersville. 
 
 April, 1867, George D. Parker was licensed. He was 
 ordained October, 1867, labored at Ediuburg, and was 
 dismissed to Vincennes September, 1869. 
 
 April, 18'')7, Thomas G. Bartholomew was licensed, 
 ordained April, 1869, and dismissed to the Presbytery of 
 Lansing Appil, 1870. 
 
 September, 1867, Horace Bushnell, Jr., was received 
 from the Presbj'tery of Madison, and ^^ecame stated sup- 
 ply of the Southport church. 
 
 April, 1868, J. B. Brandt was received from the Pres- 
 bytery of Wabash. His first work was in connection 
 with the Sixth church of Indianapolis. 
 
 Rufus Nutting, -fr., was received at the same time 
 from the Presbytery of Illinois, and G. H. White dis- 
 missed to Windsor Association, Vermont. 
 
 April, 1868, Alexander Keid was received from the 
 Presbytery of Madison, and installed pastor of the 
 church at Anderson. 
 
 April, 1868, Frederick F. Friedgen was received from 
 the Presbytery of Madison. He was stated supply of 
 the First German Church of Shelbyville. 
 
 December, 1868, Luman A. Aldricb was received from 
 the Presbytery of Cincinnati, and installed pastor of 
 the Sixth Church of Indianapolis. 
 
 September, 1869, II. L. Dickerson was received from 
 the Presbyter}' of Grsencastle. He became stated sup- 
 l»ly of the church at Edinburg. 
 
 July 2, 1870, J. H. Eschmeier was received from the 
 Indiana Classis of the German Reformed Church, and 
 installed pastor of the First German Church of Shelby- 
 ville. 
 
PRESBYTERY Oi INDIANAPOLIS. 101 
 
 DEATHS. 
 
 September 9, 1866, Claiborne Young, one of the oldest 
 members of the presbytery, died at his own residence in 
 Boone county, at the age of sixty-six, 
 
 June 19, 1867, Thornton A. Mills, D. D., Secretary of 
 the General Assembly's Committee on Education, fell 
 dead from a stroke of apoplexy as he was stepping from 
 the ferryboat at Hoboken, New Jersey. So, absent 
 from the body, he entered into the presence of the Lord. 
 
 PROGRESS. 
 
 During this period of ten years, the years 1866, 1867 
 and 1870 were marked with the greatest increase to the 
 churches. The narrative for 1866 says : " We desire 
 to express our gratitude to God for the increased pros- 
 perity of many of our churches since the last report to 
 presbytery. The influence of the numerous revivals du- 
 ring the last winter is apparent in the large and atten- 
 tive congregations, the earnest prayer meetings, and the 
 growing Sabbath schools, of which not a few are able to 
 speak." The revivals of 1868 prevailed in a larger num- 
 ber of the churches, and resulted in large additions. In 
 1870, two of the churches of the presbytery were blessed 
 with very large additions. The church of Kingston re- 
 ceived one hundred and twenty-two upon profession of 
 faith ; the Second Church of Indianapolis one hundred 
 and twenty-six. 
 
 Daring this period, the Second Church of Indianapo- 
 lis began and completed its second house of worship. 
 Ground was broken for the structure at the corner of 
 Pennsylvania and Vermont streets in the spring of 1864. 
 The corner-stone was laid May 14, 1866 ; the chapel was 
 first occupied December 22, 1867, and the completed ed- 
 ifice was dedicated January 9, 1870. The entire cost of 
 
102 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 the property was about one hundred and five thousand 
 dollars. 
 
 REUNION. 
 
 The first mention made of reunion in the records of 
 presbytery is in April, 1865. Then, Rev. Wm. Phelan 
 is present as a delegate from White Water Presbytery, 
 and presents to the presbyter}^ a series of resolutions 
 from the White AYater Presbytery on the subject of the 
 reunion of the two branches of the Presbyterian church. 
 The following resolutions were passed by the presbytery : 
 
 First. That the presbj'tery cordially reciprocate the sentiments 
 and action of the White Water Presbytery on the subject of the 
 union of the now divided Presbyterian church. 
 
 Second. That we instruct our commissioners to the next General 
 Assembly to co-operate in any measures which may be proposed in 
 the Assembly which, in their judgment, may have a tendency to 
 bring about a harmonious and honorable blending of the two 
 branches of the Presbyterian church. 
 
 Third. That Rev. A. A. Jimeson and Elder P. H. Roots be 
 appointed to convey to the White Water Presbytery, either in 
 person, or otherwise, our sincere Christian salutations, and our 
 willingness to co-operate in bringing about a union so desirable. 
 
 Fourth. That Rev. C. H. Marshall and Elder W. N. Jackson be 
 appointed delegates to the Indianapolis Presbytery, O. S., which is 
 to meet in Indianapolis next week, and extend to that body our 
 fraternal greetings and our readiness for an organic union with 
 their branch of the church as soon as in the providence of God the 
 way is open. 
 
 The final action of the presbytery on the subject of 
 reunion is in September, 1869. 
 
 An overture on the reunion of the two branches of 
 the Presbyterian church, O. S. and N. S., was received 
 from the General Assembly, through its stated clerk, 
 propounding the following question, and directing that 
 a report to the Assembly of the answer given should be 
 made before November 1, 1869 : 
 
PRESBYTERY OF INDIANAPOLIS. 103 
 
 " Do you approve of the reunion of the two bodies 
 claiming the name and rights of the Presbyterian church 
 in the United States of America, on the following 
 basis, namely : 
 
 ' The reunion shall be effected on the doctrinal and 
 ecclesiastical basis of our common standards : the Scrip- 
 tures of the Old and New Testaments shall be acknowl- 
 edged to be the inspired word of God, and the only 
 infallible rule of faith and practice; the Confession of 
 Faith shall continue to be sincerely received and adopted 
 as containing the system of doctrine taught in the Holy 
 Scriptures ; and the Government and Discipline of the 
 Presbyterian church in the United States shall be 
 approved as containing the principles and rules of our 
 polity.' " 
 
 The vote being taken on this overture, it was answered 
 in the affirmative b}' a unanimous rising vote, and pres- 
 bytery directed that a special record should be made of 
 the names of all voting. The list follows : 
 
 Ministers. Churches. Elders. 
 
 Philips. Cleland 
 
 John S. Craig Noblesville H. F. Chappell. 
 
 Charles H. Marshall Indianapolis, 4th Samuel Merrill. 
 
 John B. Logan Edinburg Henry Ewing. 
 
 Rufus Nutting, Jr 
 
 Philander Anderson 
 
 Alexander Parker 
 
 Henry L. Dickerson Thorntown John Higgins. 
 
 Archibald S. Reid Anderson, 1st Jacob Beachler. 
 
 Arthur T. Rankin Kingston J. B. Hopkins. 
 
 Francis F. Friedgen Shelbyville, Ger Henry Burkher. 
 
 Han ford A. Edson Indianapolis, 2d Edwin J. Peck. 
 
 Horace Bushnell, Jr Southport Samuel Moore. 
 
 Greenwood Garret Sorter. 
 
 Luman A. Aldrich Olivet C. P. Wilson. 
 
 John B. Brandt 
 
104 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 FINAL ADJOURNMENT. 
 
 July 3, 1870, at the close of installation services in the 
 First German church, in Shelbjville, " the Presbytery of 
 Indianapolis, N. S., as existing prior to the reunion, 
 adjourned sine die, with thankfulness to God for all the 
 good it had been permitted to do, and for that union, 
 which gives hope for greater good in the future." 
 
 HENDRICKS COUNTY. 
 
 The Banvflle church enjoyed the ministry of W. L. 
 Dickerson until February, 1868, when the pastoral rela- 
 tion was dissolved by the Presbytery of Greencastle. 
 W. L. Lee succeeded to the pastorate of the church 
 July, 1868. The number reported in the church, 1870, 
 was one hundred and forty-four. 
 
 The church at White Lick reported at the same time 
 sixty-three. 
 
 PUTNAM COUNTY. 
 
 The Rev. Henry Rossiter ministered to the church at 
 Greencastle until December, 1868. W. A. Bosworth 
 became, in 1869, supply, and was supply for one year. 
 
 In Januar}^, 1864, a new house of worship, begun some 
 years before, was dedicated to the worship of God. The 
 membership in 1869 was one hundred and four. Organic 
 union with the Second church had been completed in 
 the spring of 1870, and a membership of two hundred 
 and fifty is reported in connection with the Presbytery 
 of Crawfordsville, 0. S. In the Second church there 
 was, in 1869, one hundred members. 
 
 The Bainbridge church reported in 1870, seventy 
 members. 
 
 In 1865, the Rev. Ransom Hawley ceased his labors in 
 the Putnamville church as stated supply. When he 
 ceased his labors, he had been ministering to the church 
 
PRESB YTER Y OF INDIANA POLLS. 105 
 
 one-fourth of his time for twenty-four years. Hev. 
 John Hawks became stated supply of the Putnam ville 
 church for one-fourth of his time. The membership 
 reported in 1870, was eighty-nine. 
 
 BLOOMINGTON. 
 
 The church at Bloomington was supplied by Rev. 
 John M. Bishop one-half of his time until 1865, when 
 he was installed as pastor by the Salem Presbytery. 
 Until this installation, Prof. Ballantine supplied the 
 church one-half the time. In the fall of 1867, Mr. 
 Bishop was released from the pastorate of the churchy 
 to accept a call to the church at Rockville. Prof. Bal- 
 lantine at this time, became stated supply of the church 
 and ministered to it for two years. In the fall of 1869, 
 this church, the Second Presbyterian church of Bloom- 
 ington, made arrangements for united services with 
 the First church. These services continued until April^ 
 1870, when the organic union of the First and Second 
 churches was consummated. The Second church had at 
 the time of this union, a membership of sixty-eight. 
 
 COLUMBUS. 
 
 This church was ministered to by Rev. J^. S. Dickey, 
 until November, 1870, when he terminated his labors 
 with the church, closing a ministry to it of seventeen 
 years. The membership reported in 1870, was one hun- 
 dred and seven t}'. 
 
 At the time of the final adjournment of the India- 
 napolis Presbytery, i!s^. S., there were connected with it,, 
 fifteen ministers and nineteen churches, with a member- 
 ship of nineteen hundred and fifty-nine. Of these 
 churches, eight are within the bounds of the present 
 presbytery, and had a membership of one thousand and 
 
106 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 thirty-six. The other seven churches that were in con- 
 nection with New School presbyteries, had a member- 
 ship of six hundred and seventy three. The total mem- 
 bership of all the churches, was seventeen hundred and 
 seventeen. 
 
PRESB YTER Y OF INDIANAPOLIS. 107 
 
 CHAPTER XII. 
 
 Indianapolis Presbytery, 0. S. — Changes in the Churches 
 — Ministerial Changes — Deaths — State of the Country — 
 Revivals — Reunion — First Church at Indianapolis — Sev- 
 enth Church of Indianapolis — Brewnsburg and Clermont 
 — Grreencastle, Carpentersville, Blooniington — Numbers. 
 
 1861—1870. 
 
 In this last decade of the history of this presbytery, 
 we uote first the changes in the churches. 
 
 In April, 1861, the Edinburg church was dissolved, 
 and by request of its members they were united with 
 the church at Franklin. 
 
 April, 1865, the name of New Providence church was 
 changed to Acton. 
 
 April, 1865, the church of Greenwood was dissolved. 
 
 April, 1866, the Greenfield church, reporting a mem- 
 bership of one hundred and thirty-eight, was received. 
 
 October, 1867, the organization of the Fifth church 
 of Indianapolis with eighteen members, was reported to 
 presbytery. 
 
 October, 1867, the church of Bloomington, with its 
 pastor, T. M. Hopkins, was transferred to the Presbytery 
 of New Albany. 
 
 MINISTERIAL CHANGES. 
 
 April, 1861, A. B. Morey, a licentiate of the Presby- 
 
108 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 tery of Albany was received. The succeeding month of 
 May he was ordaihed and installed at Franklin. 
 
 April, 1861, J. B. Vawter was licensed. March, 1868> 
 he was dismissed to put himself under the care of the 
 Presbytery of Dubuque. 
 
 September, 1861, Charles Axtel was received from the 
 Presbytery of Rock River, He was installed at Knights- 
 town in the following October. April, 1864, he was re- 
 leased from his pastoral charge. In September, 1865, 
 he was dismissed to the Presbytery of Dubuque. 
 
 September, 1861, P. R. Vanatta was received from the 
 Presbytery of Hillsboro. His labors were in the Bible 
 cause. 
 
 September, 1861, G. C. Heckman was received from 
 the Presbytery of Milwaukee. October, 1871, he was 
 installed pastor of the Third church of Indianapolis. 
 This pastoral relation was dissolved in October, 1867, 
 and Dr. Heckman dismissed to the Presbytery of Albany 
 to accept a call from the State Street Church, Albany. 
 
 June, 1862, B. F. Wood was released from the pas- 
 toral care of the Bethany church. 
 
 June, 1862, F. Senour was received trom the Presby- 
 tery of Louisville. March, 1863, he was dismissed to 
 the Presbytery of Chicago. 
 
 June, 1862, J. H. Vannuys, a licentiate of the Pres- 
 bytery of Donegal, was received. April, 1863, he was 
 dismissed to put himself under the care of the Presby- 
 tery of Rock River. 
 
 September, 1862, Levi Hughes was received from the 
 Presbytery of St. Paul. This brother losing his hearing, 
 and becoming entirely deaf by exposure while preach- 
 ing in Minnesota, became, notwithstanding this great 
 affliction of being totally deaf, an earnest and successful 
 evanerelist. He labored for some time as evangelist and 
 
PRESBYTERY OF INDIANAPOLIS. 109 
 
 missiouary in the presbytery, and then became agent 
 for Hanover College. He was dismissed to the Presby- 
 tery of New Albany in October, 1867. 
 
 April, 1863, W. W. Sickles was received from the 
 Presbytery of New Albany. 
 
 April, 1864, J. Q. Mclveehan was received from the 
 Presbytery of Madison. May, 1869, he was dismissed 
 to the same presbytery. 
 
 C. H. Raymond was received at the same time from 
 the Presbytery of White Water. April, 1866, he was 
 dismissed to the Presbj^tery of Oxford. 
 
 April, 1865, S. E. Barr was received from the Presby- 
 tery of New Albany. May following he was installed 
 at Hopewell. 
 
 April, 1865, N. S. Palmer was received from the Pres- 
 bytery of Orawfordsville. His labors were principally 
 in connection with the American Tract Society. 
 
 April, 1866, James Gilchrist was received from the 
 Presbytery of White Water. He was stated supply of 
 \he Bethany church. April, 1870, he was dismissed to 
 the Presbytery of Orawfordsville. 
 
 April, 1866, P. B. Abbott was received from the Pres- 
 bytery of White Water. He was stated supply of the 
 church at Knightstown. In April, 1867, he was dis- 
 missed to the Presbytery of St. Paul. 
 
 April, 1866, J. J. Smythe was released from the pasto- 
 ral care of the church at Shelbyville. April, 1867, he 
 was dismissed to the Presbytery of Erie. 
 
 September, 1866, P. M. Overstreet was received from 
 the Presbytery of Central Texas. 
 
 April, 1867, C. P. Jennings was received from the 
 Presbyter}' of Logansport. He labored in connection 
 with the church at Shelbyville. Dissatisfied with the 
 reunion of the Presbyterian church, he united with the 
 
110 HISTOB.Y OF THE 
 
 Protestant Episcopal church, and his name was dropped 
 from the roll of the presbytery April, 1870. 
 
 April, 1867, Isaac W. Monfort was received from the 
 Presbytery of White Water. His labors were in con- 
 nection with the church at Greenfield. 
 
 September, 1867, W. B. Chamberlain, a licentiate ot 
 the Presbytery of Madison, was received. He became 
 stated supply of the Fifth Church of Indianapolis, and 
 was ordained, October, 1867. 
 
 April, 1868, L. B. W. Shryock was received from the 
 Presbytery of New Castle. He was installed at Knights- 
 town in the fall of 1868. 
 
 September, 1868, Robert Sloss, a licentiate of the 
 Third Presbytery of New York, was received. Receiv- 
 ing and accepting a call from the Third Church of Indi- 
 anapolis, he was ordained and installed. 
 
 April, 1869, J. C. King was dismissed to the Presby- 
 tery of Iowa. 
 
 April, 1870, J. R. Walker was received from the In- 
 diana Presbytery of the United Presbyterian church. 
 
 DEATHS. 
 
 The death of John Gilchrist, pastor of Sugar Creek 
 church, is recorded in the minutes of the sessions of 
 presbytery in April, 1863. 
 
 In the minutes of the sessions of presbytery, in Sep- 
 tember, 1864, the death .of William Sickles, at the age 
 of three score and ten, is recorded. Also the death of 
 John F. Smith, in the prime of his life, and pastor of 
 the church at Hopewell at the time of his decease. 
 
 STATE OF THE COUNTRY. 
 
 September, 1861, the presbytery passed the following 
 resolution : 
 
 Resolved, That this presbytery hereby expresses its cordial ap- 
 proval of the resolutions adopted at the late meeting of the Asaem- 
 
PRESBYTERY OF INDIANAPOLIS. HI 
 
 bly, in regard to the state of the country, and express the hope that 
 the churches under its watch and care will continue instant in 
 prayer, that the constituted authorities of the nation may be sus- 
 tained in their efforts to suppress this rebellion, and bring the con- 
 flict which has been precipitated upon us, to a speedy and suc- 
 cessful issue. 
 
 The following resolutions were also passed : 
 
 Resolved, That we are sensible of the evil efifects of the present 
 state of our national affairs upon the kingdom of Christ, and we do 
 earnestly urge upon the churches under our care the necessity of 
 frequent and persevering prayer for the presence of the Holj^ Spirit 
 to withstand those worldly influences which threaten to secularize 
 the church and render ineffectual the preaching of the word. 
 
 Resolved, That we recognize higher relations and duties than those 
 imposed by civil governments, and would therefore earnestly ap- 
 peal to our brethren in the Southern States to unite with us in sup- 
 plications to our common King and Saviour, that he may bless our 
 country with a speedy, righteous and permanent peace. 
 
 Resolved, That we recommend to all our ministers and churches 
 the propriety of observing the day of prayer appointed by the PreS- 
 ideivt of the United States. 
 
 April, 1863, the following resolutions were passed : 
 
 Resolved, 1st, That presbytery enjoins upon all the churches under 
 its care the full and faithful observance of the day of fasting and 
 prayer, as recommended in the recent proclamation of the Presi- 
 dent of the United States. 
 
 2d. This presbytery, as an ecclesiastical court, called to witness 
 for Christ before the world, cannot refrain a public expression of its 
 gratification that the resolution of the Senate of the United States, 
 asking the appointment of a day of fasting, makes such distinct 
 mention of our Lord Jesus Christ as the heaven-appointed way of 
 access to God the Father. This recognition of our Divine Mediator 
 by our national authorities is as gratifying as it is rare. Our hope 
 for our country grows strong as we see our rulers giving heed to the 
 divine injunction : Be wise, now, therefore, oh, ye kings ; be 
 instructed, oh, ye judges of the earth ; serve the Lord with fear and 
 rejoice with trembling. Kiss the Son, lest He be angry and ye per- 
 ish from the wav when His wrath is kindled but a little. 
 
112 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 REVIVALS. 
 
 In the year 1862 a quiet, but efficient work of grace 
 was wrought in many of the churches. Christians were 
 revived. This was the especial feature of the work, a 
 deepening of the piety and a quickening of the activity 
 of Christians. Sinners also were converted. In the 
 church of Hopewell forty were added to the church on 
 the profession of their faith. 
 
 In the year 1866 " blessings of more than ordinary 
 magnitude and preciousness " were bestowed upon the 
 majority of the churches. One church received into its 
 membership, upon examination, forty-eight, another 
 thirty- eight, another thirty, another twenty-seven, other 
 churches less numbers. 
 
 Of the beginning of 1869 it is said : " During the 
 latter part of April the city of Indianapolis was visited 
 by a remarkable outpouring of God's spirit. During the 
 refreshing which followed in the month of May, June 
 and July, the churches in that city under the control of 
 this presbytery received a special blessing, both in the 
 ingathering of new members and in a general quicken- 
 ing of spiritual life among the members." ^ 
 
 In the spring of 1870 it was reported that in nearly all 
 the churches there had been a deep religious interest, 
 and in many of them most remarkable works of grace. 
 In the churches of Franklin and Hopewell, immediately 
 following the week of prayer, God's spirit had been 
 poured out above what they could ask or think. 
 
 In the Franklin church one hundred had been 
 received on examination ; in the Hopewell church, sev- 
 enty-seven ; in the Fifth Indianapolis, thirty-five; in 
 the Third, one hundred and thirty-two. 
 
 REUNION. 
 
 April, 1865, Rev. C. H. Marshall and Elder W. N. 
 
PRE8B YTEB Y OF INDIANAPOLIS. 113 
 
 Jackson, of the Indianapolis Presbytery, N. S., appeared 
 in the Old School Presbytery, and presented the action 
 their body had taken on the subject of reunion. The 
 following action was taken : 
 
 Resolved, 1st, That this presbytery hail with unusual pleasure the 
 presence in our sessions of the brethren, Rev. C. H. Marshall and 
 Ruling Elder W. N. Jackson, corresponding delegates to this body 
 from the Presbytery of Indianapolis, N. S. 
 
 2d, That we heartily reciprocate the action of that presbytery 
 looking to a harmonious and honorable blending of the two 
 branches of the Presbyterian church in the United States. 
 
 3d, That the Rev. George C. Heckman and Ruling Elder James 
 Blake be appointed principals, and Rev. A. B. Morey and Professor 
 Daniel Kirkwood their alternates, as delegates to convey our 
 Christian salutations and brotherly love to the Presbytery of 
 Indianapolis, N. S., at its next stated meeting at Edinburg, on the 
 15th of September next, with the expression of our earnest, prayer- 
 ful desire for an organic union between our respective bodies, when 
 su^h shall be the will of our Lord Jesus Christ. 
 
 As the subject of reunion came up time after time in 
 its progress toward consummation, there were various 
 discussions, and various resolutions were passed. The 
 record of the linal and decisive vote in September, 1869, 
 in response to the action of the General Assembly, is : 
 Resolved, That we answer the overture of the General 
 Assembly on the subject of reunion of the two bodies 
 claiming the name and rights of the Presbyterian church 
 in the United States, in the affirmative. Ayes, 15 ; 
 nay, 1. 
 
 FIRST CHURCH OF INDIANAPOLIS. 
 
 The Rev. J. Howard Nixon, of the Presbytery of 
 Troy, was called to the pastorate of this church, Decem- 
 ber 17, 1860. This pastoral relation was dissolved April 
 14, 1869. The Rev. R. D. Harper, D. D., was called 
 April 22, 1869. The membership of the church in 1870, 
 was three hundred and fifteen. 
 
114 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 In the fall of 1864, the foundation of the third church 
 ediUce erected by this church was laid at the corner of 
 Pennsylvania and New York streets. The following 
 year the chapel, containing a lecture room and Sabbath 
 School rooms, was erected. The corner stone of the 
 main portion of the building was laid July 23, 1866. 
 The edifice was completed and opened for the worship 
 of God, December 29, 1868. The cost of this building 
 was between one hundred and four and five thousand 
 dollars. 
 
 SEVENTH CHURCH OP INDIANAPOLIS. 
 
 One Sabbath day, early in the year 1865, Wm. R. 
 Craig, a resident of ihe south-eastern part of Indiana- 
 polis, was much disturbed by a rude and lawless troop 
 of boys. Their repeated and flagrant violations of the 
 Sabbath, and unruly conduct generally, had often out- 
 raged the feelings of the staid old Scotchman, but never 
 to such a degree as on this occasion. He now for the 
 first time began seriously to debate with himself the 
 question of a remedy. He finall}' decided that a Sab- 
 bath School, by reaching the consciences of the ofienders 
 would, in the course of time, eftect a thorough and last- 
 ing cure. Being an elder of the First Church, he ap- 
 plied to his brethren for help. They willingly co-oper- 
 ated with iiim. A Sabbath School was established. Its 
 first session was in the room of a carpenter shop, be- 
 longing to Peter Routier, on Cedar street. The number 
 of scholars at the first session was seven. The school 
 rapidly increased. Through the exertions of James M. 
 Ray of the First Church, a site was secured in Fletcher's 
 addition, donated by Calvin Fletcher, Sr., A. Stone, W. 
 S. Witt, Elisha Taylor and James M. Hough. The 
 Board of Church Extension pledged five hundred dol- 
 lars to the erection of a building, and the First Church 
 
PRESB YTER Y OF INDIA NA POLLS. 115 
 
 took upon itself the responsibilty of carrying the enter- 
 prise through. A building was erected at a cost of over 
 three thousand dollars, and December 24, 1865, dedica- 
 ted to the service of God. The First Church appropri- 
 ated five hundred dollars to the support of a mission- 
 ary in the field. W. W. Sickles first undertook the 
 work. Becoming discouraged, he resigned in the spring 
 of 1866. Thomas Gait, a licentiate of Chicago Presby- 
 tery and member of the Theological Seminary in Chi- 
 cago, labored in the field during the summer of 1866. 
 September, 1866, C. M. Howard, from the Presbytery of 
 St. Paul, was invited to occupy the field. November 
 27, 1867, a church was organized with twenty-three 
 members. Six of these, including an elder, W. R. 
 Criig, were from the First Church. Mr. Craig was the 
 first elder of the Seventh Church. Mr. Howard served 
 the church as stated supply until October, 1869, when, 
 on account of failing health, he withdrew from the field. 
 He was succeeded by Rev. J. B. Brandt, who served one 
 year, when being elected Superintendent of the Young 
 Men's Christian Association of the city, he resigned. 
 He was succeeded by Rev. L. G. Hay. From April, 
 1868, to April, 1869, sixty-three were added on profes- 
 sion of their faith, and a membership of one hundred 
 and twenty-two reported in the spring of 1869. The 
 membership reported in 1870, was one hundred and 
 forty and four. 
 
 BROWNSBURG AND CLERMONT. 
 
 The church of Brownsburg was organized in 1867, 
 with seventeen members. It was ministered to by Rev. 
 George Long. It erected a substantial brick edifice, and 
 reported in 1870, a membership of thirty. The neigh- 
 boring church of Clermont, reported m 1870, a mem- 
 bership of fourteen. 
 
116 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 GREENCASTLE. 
 
 The Second Church of Greencastle continued under 
 the ministry of Dr. Fisk until the reunion. He then 
 became stated supply of the united church, which re- 
 ported in 1870, as has been ah-eady stated, a member- 
 ship of two hundred and fifty. The membership of the 
 Second Church reported in 1869, was one hundred. Du- 
 ring the winter of 1869 and 1870, eighty persons were 
 received upop profession of faith into the united church. 
 
 CARPENTERSVILLE. 
 
 The church of Carpentersville reported, in 1870, a 
 membership of seventy-one. 
 
 BLOOMINGTON. 
 
 In 1863 a new church edifice was dedicated to the 
 worship of God. This church edifice was built under 
 the ministry of T. M. Hopkins, whose energy and zeal 
 in the work were untiring. During the ministry of Mr. 
 Hopkins one hundred and seventeen members were 
 added to the church, sixty-one upon examination, fifty- 
 six by letter. In January, 1869, Mr. Hopkins, accept- 
 ng a call to the First Church of Fiqua, Ohio, was 
 released from the pastorate. In March, 1869, A. Y. 
 Moore, of the Presbytery of Lake, was called to the pas- 
 torate. As pastor elect of the First Church and stated 
 supply of the Second, he ministered to the united con- 
 gregation from October, 1869, to April, 1870. During 
 this time the Spirit of God was poured out upon the 
 people, and thirty-two persons were received into the 
 two churches upon profession of their faith, twenty-five 
 to the First Church, seven to the Second. In April the 
 two churches became united as the Walnut Street Pres- 
 byterian Church of Bloomington. A. Y. Moore was 
 called to the pastorate, and installed by the Presbytery 
 
PBESB YTER F OF INDIA NA POLLS. 117 
 
 of New Albany. The Second Church, during its his- 
 tory, had received into its communion, up to the fall of 
 1869, one hundred and four persons by examination and 
 seventy-four by letter. At the time of the union of the 
 two churches it had a membership of sixty-eight. Up 
 to October, 1869, there had been received into the com- 
 munion of the First Church, from the time of its organi- 
 zation, four hundred and eighty-nine persons. Of these, 
 two hundred and sixty were received upon profession of 
 their faith, two hundred and twenty-nine by letter. The 
 membership of the First Church at the time of the union 
 was one hundred and sixty-eight. In the spring of 1870 
 the Walnut Street Church had a membership of two 
 hundred and thirty-six. 
 
 NUMBERS. 
 
 In the Presbytery of Indianapolis, 0. S., there w^ere, 
 in 1870, eleven ministers and fifteen churches, with a 
 membership of two thousand one hundred and sixty- 
 seven. Of these churches twelve were within the bounds 
 of the present presbytery. They had a membership of 
 eighteen hundred and thirty-one. The other Old School 
 churches in the bounds of the present presbytery aggre- 
 gated a membership of nine hundred and twenty-six, 
 making a total membership^in the Old School churches 
 of two thousand seven hundred and fifty-seven. The 
 membership of the New School churches, within the 
 bounds of the present presbytery, seventeen hundred and 
 seventeen, added to the membership of the Old School 
 churches, gave a membership of four thousand four hun- 
 dred and seventy-four to the churches within the bound- 
 aries of the present presbytery at the time of its organi- 
 zation, July 5, 1870. 
 
 The population of the counties within the presbytery 
 was, in 1870, 188,729. It was, in 1860, 158,534. The 
 
118 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 increase was between twenty-five and thirty-five per 
 cent. The membership of the churches in 1860 was 
 2,850 ; in 1870, 4,474. The increase is between forty 
 and fifty per cent. And the proportion of membership 
 to population in 1870 is a fraction less than one to forty- 
 five. In 1860 it was one to fifty-five; in 1850, one to 
 sixty-five. Our church is thus seen to have been grow- 
 ing, not only with the growth of the population of the 
 country, but also at a steady rate of progress more rap- 
 idly than that of the population of the country. 
 
PRESBYTERY OF INDIANAPOLIIS. H 
 
 CHAPTER XIII. 
 
 Indianapolhi Presbytery — Its Boundaries, Members and 
 Churches — Changes in Churches — Ministerial Changes — 
 Missionary Work — Women's Fresbyterial Society — Hevi- 
 vals — Progress. 
 
 1870—1876. 
 
 PRESBYTERY OF INDIANAPOLIS. 
 
 After the reunion of the Old and New School branches 
 of the Presb^^terian church, the Presbytery of Indianap- 
 olis, as established by the Synod of Indiana, South, met 
 in the Third Presbyterian church of Indianapolis, at 9 
 p. M., July 5, 1870, and was called to order and consti- 
 tuted with prayer b}' Rev. Ransom Hawley, according 
 to the following order of the Synod : 
 
 " That the chui-ches located in the counties of Putnam, Hen- 
 dricks, Marion, Hancock, Johnson, Morgan, Monroe, Brown, Bar- 
 tholomew, containing about thirty-two ministers, be constituted in 
 the Indianapolis Presbytery. 
 
 " That the Presbytery of Indianapolis, as this day erected and 
 defined by this Synod, is declared to be, and is the legal successor 
 to the Presbyteries of Indianapolis, 0. S., and Indianapolis, N. S., 
 formerly occupying in greater part the same territory ; and is enti- 
 tled to succeed to, and does succeed to all the legal and ecclesiasti- 
 cal rights, privileges, franchises, records, books, papers and property 
 of each of said other presbyteries. And that Rev. R. Hawley be, 
 and he hereby is, appointed convener, to convene, open and consti- 
 tute said Presbytery of Indianapolis, in this house, this evening at 
 9 o'clock." 
 
120 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 Rev. R. Hawley was elected Moderator, and A. B. 
 Morey Clerk. 
 
 The following was the roll of presbytery : 
 
 Ministers Present. — B. F. Woods, A. C. Allen, L. G. 
 Hay, A. B. Morey, C. H. Marshall, H. A. Edson, S. E. 
 Barr, N. S. Palmer, H. Bushnell, Jr., W. B. Chamber- 
 lain, J. B. Brandt, R. Nutting, L. A. Aldrich, R. Sloss, 
 IST. S. Dickey, A. Y. Moore, R. Hawley, A. R. Naylor, 
 R. D. Harper, D. D., E. W. Fisk, D. D. 
 
 Ministers Absent. — J. B. Logan, "W. W, Sickles, J. W. 
 Monfort, George Long, W. J. Lee, E. Ballantine, J. 
 Greene, E. Wright, C. K. Thompson, John Scott, M. A. 
 Remley. 
 
 Churches Represented. — First Indianapolis, W. Sheets; 
 Columbus, C. H. Paddox ; Walnut street, Bloomington, 
 James Small ; Southport, S. Moore ; Greencastle, J. 
 Allen; Second Lidianapolis, C. F. Smith; Brownsburg, 
 E. D. Selent ; Carpentersville, G. H. McKee ; Bain- 
 bridge, J. Brown ; Third Indianapolis, J. Blake ; Fourth 
 Indianapolis, R. M. Stewart; Fifth Indianapolis, E. A. 
 Cobb ; Olivet, C. Wilson ; Seventh Indianapolis, H. C. 
 Husted. 
 
 Churches not Represented. — Franklinj Greenwood, Hope- 
 well, Shiloh, Acton, Highland, Bethany, Danville, 
 Georgetown, New Pisgah, New Prospect, Boggstown, 
 Union, Greenfield, Edinburg, Donaldson, Oak Grove, St. 
 Louis Crossing, New Hope, Clermont, White Lick, Put- 
 namville. 
 
 CHANGES IN CHURCHES. 
 
 September, 1870, the churches of New Pisgah and 
 New Prospect were consolidated under the name of 
 New Pisgah. 
 
 September, 1870, presbytery, by request, provided sup- 
 plies for Stilesville, in Hendricks county, where a Sab- 
 
PRESB YTER Y OF INDIA NA POLLS'. 121 
 
 bath school had been organized, but where there was no 
 church of Presbyterian order. At the meeting of pres- 
 bytery, April, 1871, the organization of a church near 
 Stilesville was reported. It was enrolled as the Hen- 
 dricks County Church. The name has since been changed 
 to Hebron. A church edifice has been built, and a mem- 
 bership of forty-five was reported April, 1876. 
 
 September, 1871, presbytery appointed a committee to 
 organize a church at Indianola. It has received the 
 name of Eighth Presbyterian Church of Indianapolis. 
 The field of this church was first occupied by the Meth- 
 odists. It was an exceedingly hard field. Having been 
 abandoned by the Methodists, three young members of 
 the Third Presbyterian Church, H. H. Fulton, E. L. 
 Williams and John G. Blake, established a mission Sab- 
 bath school in the building that had been occupied by 
 the Methodists. Out of their labors and this mission 
 school grew the Eighth Church. The first report to 
 presbytery, April, 1872, was a membership of twenty - 
 four, eighteen received upon profession of faith and six 
 by letter. April, 1876, the membership was one hun- 
 dred and twenty-eight. 
 
 At a special meeting of presbj^tery, February, 1872, a 
 committee was appointed to organize the Ninth Presby- 
 terian Church of Indianapolis. April, 1872, the organi- 
 zation of this church was reported, with a membership 
 of twenty. Fourteen had been received by letter, and 
 six upon profession of their faith. The field of this 
 church was first occupied with a Sabbath school organi- 
 zation. It was known as the " Saw Mill Mission." The 
 first school was not prosperous, and becoming extinct, 
 another was established in July, 1870. The leading 
 spirits in the new organization were Gen. Ben. Harrison, 
 Dr. C. C. Burgess, Ebenezer Sharpe, Capt. E. P. Howe, 
 
122 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 I. C. Hays and others, all members of the First Presby- 
 terian Church. Rev. L. G. Hay took charge of the mis- 
 sion, and after the organization of the church was its 
 stated supply for several years. The membership re- 
 ported April, 1876, was one hundred and thirty. 
 
 April, 1872, the church of St. Louis Crossing was dis- 
 banded. 
 
 September, 1872, the Highland church was disbanded. 
 
 The Memorial Church was organized March 12, 1873, 
 with thirty-one members, thirty received upon certifi- 
 cate, one upon examination. The origin of Memorial 
 Church is to be traced to the action of the session of the 
 Second Presbyterian Church, in the winter of 1869-'70. 
 It was the desire to signalize the memorial year of Pres- 
 byterian reunion by another mission. Lots were pur- 
 chased and a chapel erected in the north-east quarter of 
 the city, and a Sabbath school established. The enter- 
 prise was not at first successful, and it was proposed at 
 one time to sell the property and abandon the mission. 
 But better counsels prevailed. The Young Men's Asso- 
 ciation of the Second Church was entrusted with the 
 work, and it was prosecuted with vigor, resulting in the 
 organization of the church. April, 1873, Rev. H. A. 
 Edson, released from the pastoral charge of the Second 
 Church, entered upon the labors of the field of the Me- 
 morial Church. A site was at once purchased for a per- 
 manent church edifice, and contracts let for the building. 
 The corner-stone was laid for the new structure April 7, 
 1874. The chapel and Sabbath school rooms of the new 
 building were occupied for worship for the first time 
 Sabbath, March 7, 1875. The church has been self-sus- 
 taining from the first. It reported April, 1876, a mem- 
 bership of two hundred and eighty-eight. 
 
 April 18, 1875, the Eleventh Presbyterian church of 
 
PRESBYTERY OF INDIANAPOLIS. 123 
 
 Indianapolis was organized. It reported, April, 1876, a 
 membership of forty, twenty-three had been received by 
 letter, seventeen upon profession of their faith. Rev. 
 B. F. Woods has been stated supply of the church. 
 
 June 14, 1876, the Twelfth Presbyterian church of 
 Indianapolis was organized. 
 
 MINISTERIAL CHANGES. 
 
 The Emperor of Brazil, Dom Pedro, when he saw in 
 Machinery Hall of the Centennial Exposition, the record 
 of the number of the revolutions of the great Corliss en- 
 gine, more than a million, that had been made from the 
 beginning of its working wittily remarked, "that beats 
 the South American Republics for revolutions." The 
 frequency of changes among the ministers of Indianap- 
 olis Presbytery, is a fitting subject for imperial wit. An 
 acknowledged evil both to churches and ministers, it 
 manifestly demands a remedy. We note these changes 
 from 1870 to 1876. 
 
 September, 1870, I. W. Monfort was dismissed to the 
 Presbytery of St. Paul. 
 
 September, 1870, W. J. Lee was released from the 
 pastoral care of the church at Danville. April, 1873, 
 he was dismissed to the Presbytery of Osage, Missouri. 
 
 September, 1870, L. A. Aldrich was released from the 
 pastorate of the Sixth church of Indianapolis. Septem- 
 ber, 1871, he was dismissed to the Presbytery of Cin- 
 cinnati. 
 
 September, 1870, J. G. Williamson was received from 
 the Presbytery of New Albany. He was supply of the 
 Bethany church until failing health disabled him from 
 preaching. 
 
 In the fall of 1870, E. W. Fisk, D. D., was installed 
 pastor of the church at Greencastle. This pastoral re- 
 
124 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 lation was dissolved April, 1872, that Dr. Fisk might 
 devote his labors to the Female College of Indiana. 
 
 October, 1870, W. B. Chamberlain was installed pas- 
 tor of the Fifth Church at Indianapolis. October, 1872, 
 he was released from this pastoral charge, and dismissed 
 April, 1873, to the Presbytery of Mankato, Minnesota. 
 September, 1875, he was again received from the Pres- 
 bytery of Mankato, leave given him to labor without 
 the bounds of presbytery, and September, 1876, he was 
 dismissed to the Presbytery of Council BluiFs. 
 
 April, 1871, R. D. Harper, D. D., was released from 
 the pastoral care of the First Church of Indianapolis, 
 and dismissed to the Third Presbytery of Philadelphia. 
 
 April, 1871, Joseph E. Scott was received from the 
 Presbyteiy of West Jersey. He was stated supply of 
 the Sixth Church ot Indianapolis for one year, and then 
 entered upon the field of Foreign Missions in eastern 
 Turkey. 
 
 April, 1871, Alexander Parker was received from the 
 Presbytery of White Water. October, 1871, he was in- 
 stalled pastor of the church at Columbus. 
 
 April, 1871, II. L. Dickerson was received from the 
 Presbytery of Crawfordsville. After laboring as stated 
 supply for two years with the Edinburg church, he was 
 dismissed April, 1873, to the Presbytery of Crawfords- 
 ville. 
 
 April, 1871, N. S. Dickey was dismissed to the Pres- 
 bytery of Mattoon. 
 
 April, 1871, Ambrose Dunn was received from the 
 Presbytery of New Albany. His field of labor since, 
 has been the Greenwood church. 
 
 April, 1871, R. B. Herron was received from the Pres- 
 bytery of Cincinnati. He labored for a season as pas- 
 
PRESBYTERY OF INDIANAPOLIS. 125 
 
 tor elect of the Danville church, is now stated supply 
 of Brownsburg and Shiloh. 
 
 April, 1871, the pastoral relation between A. B. Morey 
 and the Franklin church was dissolved, and he was dis- 
 missed to the Presbytery of Cincinnati, to be installed 
 pastor of the Fifth Church of Cincinnati, a call from 
 which church had at a previous meeting of presbytery 
 been placed in his hands. 
 
 June, 1871, C. H. Raymond was received from the 
 Presbytery of Dayton. In the following July, he was 
 installed pastor of the Seventh Church of Indianapolis. 
 
 September 1871, J. P. E. Kumler was received from 
 the Presbytery of Vincennes, and in October following, 
 installed pastor of the First Church at Indianapolis. 
 July, 1875, application was made to presbytery by Mr. 
 Kumler, for release from this pastoral charge that he 
 might accept a call to the Third Church of Cincinnati. 
 The First Church of Indianapolis resisted the appli- 
 cation of their pastor to the presbytery, and it was not 
 granted. In September the application was renewed by 
 the pastor, and was granted, and he was dismissed to 
 the Presbj'tery of Cincinnati. 
 
 April, 1871, James Williamson was licensed to preach 
 the gospel. October following he was ordained and 
 installed pastor of the churches of Acton and Boggs- 
 town. October, 1875, he was released from the pastoral 
 care of the Boggstown church. 
 
 April, 1872, S. E. Wishard was received from the 
 Presbytery of Sangamon, and installed pastor of the 
 Franklin church. 
 
 April, 1872, J. B. Logan was dismissed to the Presby- 
 tery of Crawfordsville. September, 1873, he was again 
 received. 
 
 April, 1872, S. S. Bergen was licensed to preach the 
 
126 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 gospel. November, 1872, he was ordained an evangel- 
 ist. April, 1872, he was dismissed to the Presbytery of 
 Austin, Texas. 
 
 May, 1872, J. B. Brandt was installed pastor of the 
 Sixth Church of Indianapolis. 
 
 May, 1872, John Dixon was licensed to preach the 
 gospel. May, 1873, he was dismissed to put himself 
 under the care of the Presbytery of Boston. 
 
 June, 1872, Robert Sloss, accepting a call to the Four- 
 teenth Street Church of New York city, placed by pres- 
 bytery in his hands, was released from the pastoral care 
 of the Third Church of Indianapolis, and dismissed to 
 the Presbytery of New York. 
 
 April, 18,73, Augustus L. Williams, a licentiate, was 
 received from the Presbytery of Lansing. He was 
 stated supply of the church at Greencastle for eighteen 
 mouths. September, 1875, he was dismissed to the Cen- 
 tral Presbytery of Philadelphia. 
 
 April, 1873, J. A. Williams was received from the 
 Presbytery of Austin. He became supply of the church 
 at Edinburg. September, 1875, he was dismissed to the 
 Presbytery of White Water. 
 
 April, 1873, J. R. Mitchell was received from the 
 Presbyter}' of White Water, and installed pastor of the 
 Fifth Church of Indianapolis. 
 
 April, 1873, the pastoral relation of H. A. Edson and 
 the Second Church of Indianapolis was dissolved, and he 
 entered upon his work in the Memorial Church. 
 
 September, 1873, E. B. Mason was received from the 
 Puritan Association of Ohio, and installed pastor of the 
 Fourth Church of Indianapolis. 
 
 October, 1873, J. L. Withrow, D. D., called by the 
 Second Church of Indianapolis, was received Irom the 
 Central Presbytery of Philadelphia, and installed. This 
 
PRESB YTER Y OF INDIA NA POLIS. 127 
 
 pastoral relation was dissolved June, 1876, that Dr. 
 Withrow might accept a call to the Park Street Church, 
 Boston. 
 
 December, 1873, G. W. F. Birch was received from 
 the Presbytery of Ebenezer, Kentucky, and installed 
 pastor of the Third Church of Indianapolis. This pas- 
 toral relation was dissolved June, 1876. 
 
 April, 1874, George Long was dismissed to the Pres- 
 bytery of Logausport. 
 
 May, 1874, Lucius I. Root was received from the 
 Presbytery of Mattoon, and installed pastor of the 
 church at Greencastle. This pastoral relation was dis- 
 solved, January, 1876, and a letter of dismissal given to 
 Mr. Root to the Presbytery of Alton. 
 
 Ma}', 1874, Charles T. White, D. D., was received 
 from the Presbytery of Chemung. He became stated 
 supply of the church at Greenfield, and was dismissed 
 June, 1876, to the Presbytery of White Water. 
 
 May, 1874, William Armstrong was received from the 
 Presbytery of Portsmouth. 
 
 May, 1874, John R. Sutherland, a licentiate, was 
 received from the Presbytery of Chicago, ordained and 
 installed pastor of the Eighth Churdh. He was released 
 from this pastoral charge JSTovember, 1875, and dis- 
 missed to the Presbytery of Grand Rapids. 
 
 June, 1874, S. E. Barr was released from the pastoral 
 care of the Hopewell Church, and dismissed to the Pres- 
 bytery of Fort Wayne. 
 
 September, 1874, N. F. Tuck was received from the 
 Presbytery of Louisville. 
 
 January, 1875, E. L. Williams was licensed. June, 
 1876, he was ordained and installed pastor of the Eighth 
 and Twelfth Churches of Indianapolis. 
 
 April, 1875, L. F. Walker was received from the Pres- 
 
128 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 b3'tery of Mattoon, and in May following installed pas- 
 tor of the Ninth Church of Indianapolis. 
 
 April, 1875, Edwin Black was received from the Pres- 
 byter}' of Mattoon, and installed pastor of the Hopewell 
 church, 
 
 April, 1875, M. M. Lawson was licensed to preach the 
 gospel. September, 1875, he was dismissed to put him- 
 self under the care of the Presbytery of Marion. 
 
 April, 1875, Henr}- L. Nave was licensed. June, 1876, 
 he was ordained and installed pastor of the church at 
 Edinburg, 
 
 December, 1875, R. J. L. Matthews was received from 
 the Presbytery of Cairo. 
 
 April, 1876, E. H. Post was received from the Presby- 
 tery of San Jose. He became supply of the church at 
 Danville. 
 
 April, 1876, John H. Harris was received from the 
 Presbytery of Cincinnati. He became supply of the 
 Bethany church. 
 
 DEATHS. 
 
 Since 1870 four of the members of presbytery have en- 
 tered, through the gates of death, into the presence and 
 joy of their Lord. 
 
 Charles H. Marshall died at Indianapolis, January 27, 
 1872, at the age of forty- eight. 
 
 Charles K. Thompson died at Carlisle, Eebruary 8, 
 1872, at the age of sixty-one. 
 
 Edward Wright died at Bloomington, November 10, 
 1872, at the age of sixty-eight. 
 
 N. S. Palmer died at Franklin, November 24, 1873, at 
 the age of tiftj^-two. 
 
 MISSIONARY WORK. 
 
 Rev. J. B, Logan was employed in 1870-71 as presby- 
 terial missionary. By instruction from the presbytery, 
 
PRESB YTER Y OF INDIA NAPOLIS. 129 
 
 one result to be aimed at by the missionary was the 
 grouping of feeble churches and combining them in the 
 support of a minister, so that they would require no 
 aid from the Board of Missions. This object having 
 been attained, and the churches supplied with ministers, 
 no new fields outside of Indianapolis opening for occu- 
 pation, the services of the presbyterial missionary were 
 discontinued at the close of September, 1871. 
 
 September, 1876, but two churches were reported as 
 receiving aid from the Board of Missions, the Eleventh 
 Church of Indianapolis and the church of Georgetown. 
 
 The amount annually contributed to the cause of 
 home missions, since 1870, has been, on an average, a 
 little more than $3,250. A large portion of this has 
 been expended on mission churches within the city of 
 Indianapolis. 
 
 The work of Foreign Missions has not received so large 
 an amount from the churches. The annual contribution 
 from the churches of the presbytery to the cause of For- 
 eign Missions, has been about $2,000. 
 
 woman's mission work. 
 
 September, 1872, a resolution of presbytery earnestly 
 commended the Women's Board of Missions to the ses- 
 sions and women of the churches of presbytery. In a 
 number of the churches, missionary organizations of the 
 ladies of the churches were formed. September, 1874, 
 the following resolution was passed by presbytery : 
 
 Resolved, That we request a committee of three ladies, members 
 of our church, to communicate with all the chui'ches of the presby- 
 tery, requesting them to effect the organization of a Woman's Mis- 
 sionary Society, and to secure the appointment of one or more del- 
 egates from each church to be present at the next meeting of 
 presbytery. 
 
 Mrs. J. P. E. Kumler, of the First Church of Indian- 
 
 
 
130 HISTORY OF THE 
 
 apolis, Mrs. J. Clark, of the Fraukliu church, and Mrs. 
 C. H. Raymond, of the Seventh Church of Indianapolis, 
 were appointed this committee. 
 
 At the next stated meeting of the presbytery at Indi- 
 anapolis, April, 1875, a number of ladies, delegates from 
 their missionary societies, assembled and organized a 
 presbyterial society. Thirteen societies were reported 
 to them as organized within the bounds of the presby- 
 tery. Upon invitation of the Ladies' Presbyterial Soci- 
 ety, the Woman's Board of the North-west met in Indi- 
 anapolis, April, 1876. The meeting of this board, 
 through the presence of the Spirit of the Lord, was a 
 glorious occasion, and great good was accomplished. 
 The ladies are quietly but earnestly pursuing their work 
 in the different churches, meeting also in their presby- 
 terial society at the time of the stated meetings of pres- 
 bytery. 
 
 REVIVALS. 
 
 Every year since 1870 there have been revivals in 
 some of the churches of the presbytery. The year of 
 1872-'73 seemed to be most barren of results in the con- 
 version of souls and additions to the churches. The 
 year of 187o-'74 was a year of revivals, and additions 
 were made in good!}* numbers to many of the churches. 
 The year of 1874-'75 was also a year of blessing, and 
 still more signally the year of 1875-'76. During this 
 last named year six hundred and sixty-one were added 
 to the churches on profession of faith. The next largest 
 accession to the churches was in 1873-'74, when five 
 hundred and two were added on profession of faith. 
 The least number added was in the year 1872-'73, when 
 two hundred and twenty were added on profession of 
 faith. 
 
PRESB YTER Y OF INDIANAPOLIS. 131 
 
 PROGRESS. 
 
 One church a year has been added since 1870 to the 
 roll of the churches of presbytery. All of these churches 
 have a promising future. Five are in Indianapolis. 
 One, the Memorial Church, is already one of the strong 
 churches of the presbytery. Several new church build- 
 ings have been erected. According to the United States 
 census report the value of church property held in 1860 
 by the Presbyterian churches within the bounds of the 
 present presbytery, was a little less than $150,000. The 
 estimated value of property now held by the churches is 
 about $600,000. 
 
 During the last six years, the churches have received 
 into their communion, upon profession of their faith, 
 two thousand four hundred and seventy-six (2,476) mem- 
 bers, and by letter, one thousand eight hundred and fif- 
 teen (1,815.) The present membership of the church is 
 five thousand eight hundred and nineteen (5,819,) an in- 
 crease in membership since 1870, of more than thirty- 
 three per cent. The number of churches is thirty-eight, 
 the number of ministers forty. Of these ministers ten 
 are without charge, some by reason of the infirmities of 
 age, others for other reasons. One is a Professor in the 
 State University, another is a Foreign Missionary. The 
 eftective ministerial force of the presbytery, is twenty- 
 eight ministers. The field is rich and will become richer 
 and more productive with cultivation. It is the central 
 region of the State in which it lies. From Indianapolis, 
 the Capital of the State, streams of influence will go 
 forth constantly to all parts of the State. And through 
 the great missionary organizations of the churchy the in- 
 fluence of this field, in common with that of all other 
 parts of the Presbyterian church in our laud, is to go 
 
132 PRESBYTERY OF INDIANAPOLIS. 
 
 forth into all the world. But in the field itself, there are 
 many spiritual wastes to be made, through the blessing 
 of the Lord upon labor, to blossom as the rose. "Arise,, 
 O Lord, into thy rest, thou and the ark of thy strength. 
 Let thy priests be clothed with righteousness, and let 
 thy saints shout for joy." 
 
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