History of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church #226613

At two different periods in my life I have been called upon to travel over the church. In the last period of travels I spent twelve years, visiting more than four. Fifths of the entire denomination; and though neither of these extensive tours had any reference to collecting materials for a history, yet that old habit of keeping memoranda was all the time unintentionally furnishing matter for such a work. So, too, did that old habit furnish me the onlv existing records which I can now find of the proceedings of the conventions held by our people in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in 1863, and in Selma.