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Morton H. Smith‘s comprehensive book surveys the theological principles and writings of various scholars and preachers from the Southern Presbyterian Church. In the first chapter, Smith provides a brief history of the Southern Presbyterian Church’s origins in the United States during the eighteenth century. The following chapters highlight the fathers of Southern Presbyterianism in chronological...

Union, and established a government of their own.”46 According to Charles Hodge, this resolution virtually declared that the allegiance of the whole Presbyterian Church, North, South, East and West, “is due to the United States, anything in the Constitution, ordinances or laws of the several States to the contrary notwithstanding,” and not only decides the “political question referred to, but makes that decision a term of membership in our Church,” thus usurping the “prerogatives of the Divine Master.”47
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