Excerpt from The Presbyterian Churches: Divisions and Unions in Scotland, Ireland, Canada and America

It is not the purpose of the author to record a complete history of the various Presbyterian and Reformed churches in Scotland, Ireland, Canada and the United States of America. He has resisted the temptation to make a thick book. His object is to give a brief outline only, by statement and diagram, of the origins, divisions and unions, which will enable the reader readily to trace the continuity of these various bodies. Almost everyone who undertakes to study the history of these organizations, as related one to another, would be grateful for a plain, simple statement, written with the purpose of keeping the identity of each church clearly in view. It is to this task that the author has set himself.

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