Excerpt from Addresses Delivered at the Celebration of the Centennial of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church: In the Academy of Music and Horticultural Hall, Philadelphia, on May 24th, 1888 The Old School Assembly held together for four years longer. But their turn came in 1861, when the historic cannon-shot of Fort Sumpter, after piercing the Federal Union, ricocheted into the Old School organization and cleft it asun der. Within twenty-four years a single national Presbyterian body had been divided into four bodies; two of them in the North, and two of them in the South! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.