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U. P. CHURCHES UNITE SUNDAYIN ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONSeventy - Fifth Year Of Church Significant Here,Convention Was Held That JoinedAssociate And Associate Reformed ChurchesThe First and Second U. Churches, Xenia, will take partthe seventy-fifth anniversarythe I’nited Presbyterian Church11 North America, to be celebratedSuntl 'v. it js announced bv the pas-I*tors Rev. j. p. Lytle and Dr. H. B. McKlree, who are arranging pro-[grams in their respective churches for the event.Special interest attaches to this anniversary locally, because of the prominent part played by the leaders of that church in Greene County in promoting the union of the Associate and Associate ReformedChurches which was consummated 'ut Pittsburgh. Ph.. In 1858.While these two Presbyteriandenominations for thirty-eight[years contemplated uniting theirforces it was tho desire of the leaders that true unanimity andharmony might be obtained. ForP.inofofFIOntral Pt*a AtaooAtio*Talk, aboutUOW TUROOGlIS A WA'STe-this purpose a convention was called which met in Xenia March 24, 1857. Rev. R. D. Harper, then pastor of the Associate Reformed Church, now the First U. P. Church, declares in his volume,“The Church Memorial’’; “The ef ■feet of this convention was most happy. God was manifestly present and the hearts of the brethrenwere drawn so closely together inthe bonds of fraternal love that from that time forth it wns manifest that no human power could prevent the union.”Spoclal interest in the celebra tion Is also noted in the fact that the first General Assembly of the united church was held in Xenia in 1859. The theological school of the Associate Church which had been moved from Pennsylvania to Xenia was recognized and contln ued its work here for many years. For a time the Home Mission | Hoard of the united church was also located hero. The first Worn an's Missionary Society was organized at Massie’s Creek AssociateChurch, near Xenia, in 1817.In connection with the Diamond ! Jubilee of the church, which willalso he celebrated at a meeting of the General Assembly In Pittsburgh June 28 July ”, the Woman’s General Missionary Society willcelebrate the fiftieth anniversaryI of its denominational work. Mrs. John P. White, editor of the Worncn’s Magazine, and Mrs. Fannie Moore, treasurer, this city, will attend the meetings. Rev. J. P. Lytle, pastor of the First U. P. Church,expects to attend the assembly as the guest of his father in law, Na than M. Logan, a commissioner to the Assembly from the IndianaPresbytery.nADnWCD nCADUAQTbutnod a j inthethait,SUMKnoAtifbCHKBioInstHotYdrh a nthehadwrl| Pa ined IOfheel1 t lieTpint1hadii ased I tow I lRan Ity Ieast a hditionSjandstatiHiportby It heof aonestonlll iv.1
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Xenia Evening Gazette
Xenia, Ohio, US
Sat, Jun 17, 1933
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