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THE ASSOCIATE REFORMED PRESBYTERIAN VOL. 45 NO. 5
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Contents FEATURES
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September/October 2020 Moderator’s Challenge - Opportunities to Be Hearers
and Doers of the Word James provides practical advice for putting our faith into practice. —Rob Roy McGregor, III, Moderator
Synod Emphasis - The Future of the Reformation Where will you stand?—Duncan Rankin
General Synod Coverage With the postponing of Synod 2020, the Executive Board met to cover time sensitive issues.—Susan Tanner
10 Psalm 133 – Christian Unity A brief history of the Psalm.—Betsy Logeman
28 Women’s Ministries Certificates & Pins 2019
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Scripture taken from the Holy Bible, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 International Bible Society. All rights reserved throughout the world. Used by permission of International Bible Society. Scripture quotations marked (ESV) are from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version, copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers. Used by permis- sion. All rights reserved.
AGENCIES Bonclarken
Christian Education Ministries Erskine
Erskine Seminary
23 ARP Foundation 24 Outreach North America 25 World Witness 26 Women’s Ministries
EVERY MONTH
13 News In Brief 15 ARPinterest 16 17 30
Family Pages
Prayer Calendar All in Our Family
Perusing the Past
BY: REV ALLEN DERRICK Retired ARP Minister
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he Centennial History of the ARP Church gives a brief sketch of Rev.
Joseph McCreary. He was born in 1812 in the Cedar Springs community of Abbeville county, SC. After attend- ing school in Abbeville, he wanted to go to college. Several people from the community were moving to Ohio.
They would have used wagons to transport their possessions. McCrea- ry joined them, sometimes helping the drivers, but mostly walking to his destination of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. That would have been at least 400 miles from his home. At college, he did well, and was nicknamed, “the philosopher” by his classmates. After graduating from Miami University in 1834, he enrolled at the Associate Reformed Seminary in Allegheny, PA. (Erskine was not chartered until 1839.) Upon completing his theological studies, McCreary was licensed to preach by Second Presbytery in 1836. His first work in ministry followed a pattern of that time: he accompanied Rev.
James Clark Chalmers on “mission- ary journeys” to communities in Florida, Georgia, Alabama, and Indi- ana. These mission journeys were to explore the potential for establishing churches in those areas. Remember that there were no automobiles, no interstate highways. According to the Centennial History (page 93) one
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