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                        BY C. SUTYDAM SCOTT.
    [The following sketch was originally prepared at the request of the
 Session of the First Presbyterian Church, to be filed in the records of the
 West Lexington Presbytery on the occasion of the Centennial Celebra-
 tion of Presbyterianism in October, 1897.]

 THE material for this sketch of the First Presbyterian Church of
 l   Lexington, Kentucky, has been found to be astonishingly meagre.
       Some help has been derived from Collins' History of Kentucky,
from Ranck's History of Lexington, and from Davidson's History of the
Presbyterian Church in Kentucky. But the references in the first and
second are not of course very full, and the latter work stops at a date
now fifty years old Much might be hoped from Sessional records-the
diary of the Church's life, but all earlier than 1869 are lost, said to have
been destroyed by fire.
   It seems best to attempt such a narrative in chronological order as
these few data render practicable, and to follow it by a few statistics
showing this Church's comparatively recent growth and its present posi-
tion and prospects, so far as figures hastily and imperfectly compiled
can do so.
   Presbyterianism in Lexington antedates by a number of years the
century whose completion by this Presbytery has elicited this and other
memorials of the Churches under its jurisdiction. It was in 1784 that
the original Mount Zion Church was organized, having its place of wor-
ship at the south corner of Walnut and Short streets, where one of the
city schools has stood for many years. The pastor was Rev. Adamn
Rankin, a Pennsylvanian by birth, but arrived in Kentucky from
Augusta county, Virginia. He is chiefly known in history for his eccen-
tricities and his endless controversies, remarkable even in those days of
strange spiritual phenomena and of bitter contests over trivial points.
He always professed to be guided by divine revelation through dreams;
and the very last enterprise of his life was an attempt tc visit Jerusalem
in obedience to some such supposed guidance, but he only reached Phila-
delphia to die. His controversial bent was specially directed to the then
burning question of psalmody-whether Watts' version was admissible
or only Rouse's older one-which he is said to have carried to the atro-
cious length of excluding from the communion those who favored the
more recent form.



 











































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   Such tactics could have but one result, and in 179.5 the Church split,
Mr. Rankin and his party retaining the old building, in which, though
not in the Presbyterian connection, he labored for some thirty years
longer. The more liberal party took the new and unfinished structure
at the south corner of Mill and Short streets and became the original
First Presbyterian Church.
   Rev. James Welsh became its pastor, was ordained as such in the
following year, 1796, and retained that position till 1804. But the lack
of funds, of devotion, or of both in the Church at that time, is painfully
evident from the record that he was obliged to practice medicine for the
support of his family. It was during his pastorate in 1802 that the first
meeting of the Synod of Kentucky was held in Lexington, David Rice
being moderator, and Robert Marshall, clerk.
   From 1804 to 1807 the Church seems to have been without a regular
pastor, but enjoyed the ministry of Dr. James Blythe, the acting presi-
dent of Transylvania, of Rev. Robert Stuart, the long-time pastor at
Walnut Hill, and of the well known John Lyle.
   In 1807 began the ministry of Rev. Robert Cunningham, the first of
the four long pastorates with which this Church has been so signally
blessed, lasting as it did until 1822. Very early in this period, in 1808,
the new house of worship at the west corner of Broadway and Second
street was opened for use. In 1811 came the trial of Dr. James Fishback
for adopting the Pelagianisni of Craighead, which resulted in his suspen-
sion by the Session, affirmed by the Presbytery; but the judgment was
reversed by the Svnod and the matter allowed to drop. This noted Lex-
ingtonian seems to have changed his profession in both senses of the
word with equal facility and frequency; for, while he started as a lawyer,
changed to a doctor, and ended his career in the ministry, he belonged
successively to the Presbyterian, the Baptist and the "Cantpbellite" comI-
munions. It is unnecessary for the writer to suggest which scale was an
ascending one.
   After a brief interval, in which the Church availed itself, among other
"supplies," of the services of the gifted Dr. John Poage Campbell, Mr.
Cunningham was succeeded in 1823 by Rev. Nathan H. Hall, who con-
tinued in charge of it until 1847, His great forte seems to have been in
exhortation of the "revival" type, though his methods were disapproved
by some of his brethren of different tastes. This gift, used as he used
it, produced the usual result of great numerical additions to the member-
ship of the visible Church, numbering, it is said, over one hundred at a
time. In the latter part of his ministry, however, there was a consider-
able secession from  his congregation to the "McChord" or Second
Church, and his resignation soon followed. That he was far in advance
of most of his contemporaries is shown by the resolutions reported by
the Synodical Committee of 1834 on Slavery, of which he was a member.
   His successor in 1847 was the earnest, brilliant, powerful and dis-
tinguished "Robert Jefferson Breckinridge, Minister of the Gospel"-to



 




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quote his epitaph-whose genius and zeal for whatever he believed have
written his name too large oln both the ecclesiastical and political pages
of American history to require for it any further tribute in this place.
He filled this pulpit-as he did every place lie ever held-until 1853,
when he removed to a professorship in the Seminary at Danville, which
he held until nearly or quite the end of his long life. His pastorate was
coincident in date and duration with his terms, by gubernatorial appoint-
ment, as Superintendent of Public Instruction of the State.
   He was succeeded in both positions in 18;53 by Rev. Dr. John D.
Matthews, who served the Church with great acceptance until the gen-
eral reorganization in 1869. One of the great years of this period was
1857, being memorable for the opening of the new building at Broadway
and Second street, and for the General Assembly meeting in Lexington
-the latter being a date-mark for many years for the Presbyterians of
this community.
   The division of both of the Lexington Churches. after the war, upon
issues which had been settled as to secular organizations by that conclu-
sive conflict, and the consolidation of each pair of sympathizing congre-
gations, are matters too recent and well known to need much comment.
   The First Church name remained to the organization which in time
became connected with the Presbyterian Church in the United States-
or, in comnion parlance, the Southern Presbyterian Church. It also
obtained the First Church building under an agreement whereby it fixed
the value on both the buildings, and the Second Church had the choice
at said values. This choice was instantly made for its own buildings on
Market street, though it involved the raising of a very large sum of
money instead of the receipt of it, and the necessary funds were
promptly subscribed, collected and paid over. The First Church, being
dissatisfied with the old building at Broadway and Second street, soon
disposed of it to a "Christian" congregation.
   Here, then, on July 22, 1869, we are at the beginning of the Sessional
Records of the First Presbyterian Church as now extant, showing the
consolidation above indicated and the dissolution of the pastorate of Dr.
Matthews. The official organization and membership of the Church at
or about this time will be referred to later under the appropriate heads
and in the statistics.
   This organization proceeded promptly with the purchase of ground
and the erection of a house of worship on Mill street, between Church
and Second streets, which was completed in 1872 and is still in use, the
parsonage being on the Market street end of the same lot.
   In 1870 Rev. William Dinwiddie became pastor and remained until
the close of 1873 or beginning of 1874, when the pastoral relation was
dissolved on account of dissatisfaction of a large minority of the congre-
tion, the nature and causes of which seem now quite obscure and had
better remain so.
   During this pastorate an attempt was proposed-but either not made



 




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or not consummated-to reorganize the Sunday-School on the compre-
hensive though simple plan said to be in use in the Scotch Churches, by
inducing the entire Church to attend and co-operate in some way; a
plan akin to which is even now under consideration by some of the
officers of the Church.
   In December, 1874, the Church came under the pastoral care of the
Rev. Wm. F. V. Bartlett,, a few words as to whose still progressive work
are an essential requisite of this paper. A native of Maine-a graduate
of Yale and of the Union Seminary in New York an acting Confederate
chaplain---a professor in Southern colleges-Dr. Bartlett had been for
some time traveling in this country and Europe in search of health, but
his life and work seemed destined for an early end. Feeling that he
would rather die at work than otherwise, he accepted the call to the
pulpit of the First Church, and in a lew months his health was restored
almost altogether.
   The causes and effects of the removal of his predecessor made his
position one of very great delicacy; and the manner in which he won
the devoted love and trust of his whole people and has held them in
growing measure and deepening intensity for nearly a quarter of a cen-
tury, is the best proof of his judgment and his heart. The faithful
work he has done cannot be told here in either words or figures, nor will
a tithe of it be known till viewed in the light of the Throne. His out-
side work in the evangelistic and other operations of the Kentucky
Church is too well known to this Presbytery to need recapitulation here.
He is by many years the senior minister of any creed or color in contin-
uous service in Lexington, and it is safe to say that no other has the
respect, the admiration, the gratitude, the affection of its people of all
churches and of no church to a greater degree, to say the least, than the
veteran and courtly First Church minister.
   In 1883 the Southern General Assembly met in the First Church,
Lexington.
   In 1888 began to be agitated a movement for a Mission Church to do
a line of work not easily done in the home Church, and while this work
failed of its special purpose by the erection of the Mission into a sepa-
rate and independent Church, it is good to know and feel that that
Church is growing and doing effective work.
   In the years 1889 and 1890 the "old Presbyterian graveyard," which
had been abandoned, abused and degraded for many years, was sold by
the First and Second Churches, the bodies reinterred in different ceme-
teries, consulting when possible the wishes of surviving friends, and the
funds applied to Church purposes or held for such application in future.
   In 1892 the Mission Church was separately organized as the Maxwell
Street Presbyterian Church, with an original membership of seventy-
seven, dismissed from the First Church for that purpose at their own
request.
   In 1895 plans began to be mooted for improvement of the First



 







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Church property, and the plan that was finally adopted is now in process
of being carried out and will doubtless increase the Church's facilities
for service, including as it does an enlarged auditorium, an exceptionally
fine new organ, better accommodations for the Sunday-School, etc. In
1895 also an important work was undertaken in the shape of a Mission
Sunday-School under the superintendence of one of the elders.
   In 1896 a "Manual" of officers, societies and members of the Church
was compiled and issued by the Session.
   The best thing thus far in 1897 has been the Course of Lectures by
Dr. Bartlett on the Westminster Assembly and its Work, delivered as a
part of this year's celebrations of the 250th anniversary of that epoch-
making convocation. The historical research, the scholarly treatment,
and the interesting style of delivery combined to make these lectures
worthy at once of their subject and their author; and the co-operative
and alternating course on the great Leaders of the Reformation on the
Continent and in Great Britain, by Rev. W. S. Fulton, D. D., the able
and earnest pastor of the Second Church, served not only to convey
much valuable information in an agreeable form, but especially to show
most plainly the cordially fraternal relations existing between the two
Churches and their pastors-also recently and delightfully exhibited by
the offer of the use of the Second Church during the repairs of the First
Church building.
   The foregoing narrative gives sufficiently the succession of the pastors
over this people, and of the houses of worship occupied by them from
time to time; and the following items of statistics for the period since
the reorganization in 1869 are appended, though the available records are
not such as to give much assurance of completeness, to say nothing of
probable errors in quotation or computation froni them. It is especially
evident that the financial showing in the Sessional records is by no
means so full as it might be.
   The Ruling Elders at the time of the reorganization mentioned were
six, viz: George B. Kinkead, Isaac C. Vanmeter, David Bell, James
Headley, C. Shryock and B. T. Milton; those elected, ordained and
installed as such since then have been H. B. McClellan, Samuel P. Barr,
P. S. Rule, J. T. Davidson, W. B. Cooper, R. S. Bullock, J. H. Beau-
champ, W. S. Rule, E. M. Norwood, James A. Head ley, C. Suydam
Scott, F. H. Clarke and John Pew; and those now in office are I. C.
Vanmeter, B. T. Milton (non-resident), H. B. McClellan, R. S. Bullock,
J. H. Beauchamp, E. M. Norwood, James A. Headley, C. Suydam Scott,
F. H. Clarke and John Pew.
   The Deacons of 1869 were W. B. Cooper, WV. S. Rule, J. R. Morris,
J. T. Davidson, R. H Prewitt, E. L. Duncanson, Sr., 0. W. Price and
S. P. Barr. Those who have since been placed in this office are J. S.
Vanmeter, J. B. Roddick, R. M. Redd, E. S. De Long, J. M. Greenway,
J. A. Headley, J. F. Scott, W. 0. Eastin, W. E. McCann, R. D. Nor-
wood, William Worthington, John W. Coleman and R. H. Courtney;



 




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 and the present board, who are by the constitution of the Church ex-
 officio Trustees of its property, are Messrs. Redd, De Long, Greenway,
 Scott, McCann, Norwood, Worthington and Coleman who have recently,
 by request of the congregation and for greater facility of business, been
 incorporated as "The Trustees of the First Presbyterian Church of Lex-
 ington, Kv ." of which Mr. Scott is Chairman, Mr. Greenway, Secre-
 tary, and Mr. De Long, Treasurer.
   The membership of the Church, as reported to Presbytery in spring
of 1870, was 269; the additions since, E. and 0. E., about 1,080; the
dismissals since, say 499; the deaths since, about 200; and the present
membership, about 650.
   With regard to finances, no approach to accuracy is claimed, the face
of the Sessional records showing that many items are omitted; but the
figures shown by them since 1869 are not less than as follows:

    For Foreign Missions.............................................S 14,733 45
    For Sustentation, etc., including Assembly and Pres-
        bytery's Home Mission .........  .........................  6,704 40
    For Presbyterial Assessments ...................9..............  90 00
    For Congregational Expenses ................................ 111,106 78
    For Education, including Colored Seminary ... ........  3,196 OR
    For Publication .............................................  953 63
    For Invalid Fund .............................................  1,32 22
    For State Evangelistic Fund ................................... 12,323 19
    For Miscellaneous ........................ .....................  3,015 3.5

        Total thus itemized.7..............           14,155 08
   Besides which some 7,000 is in hand for present improvements.

   There are a number of active and well organized societies in the
Church, as "The League," "The Pastor's Aid Society," "The Foreign
Missionary Society," a circle of "The King's Daughters," all composed
of ladies; a "Young People's Society," recently permitted by the Ses-
sion under its suggestions to become affiiliated with the "United Society
of Christian Endeavor." and the children's "Loving Service Society."
   In closing, while it is admitted that the religion and record of this
Church are, like those of the often quoted old Christian, "nothing to
boast of," the modest doubt may be indulged whether any other Ken-
tucky Church can show a longer or more earnest career of devoted
service of the Master.



                       SUPPLEMENTAL.
   By way of supplement to the recent Historical Sketch of the First
Presbyterian Church of Lexington, Kentucky, it has seemed best to add
a few lines in recognition of two ministers who were dear to many of its
members, and who rendered most valued service to it, though not offi-
cially connected with it.



 



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   After the division of the old First and Second Churches in conse-
quence of the Civil War, the "Southcrn" portions of both held their
meetings together for some time in the Courthouse and other assembly
rooms of the city, and were ministered to by the late Rev. Robert G.
Brank, D. D., who had been for many years the honored and beloved
pastor of the Second Church, which furnished the larger portion of this
new congregation. To us who knew him in that pastorate, nothing need
be said of his worth and power. The point of his connection with our
present Church was his admirable holding together of the two con-
gregations from which it was formed. It may be fairly and truly said
that he had more than any other one person to do with the organization
of the First Church, and it was in grateful recognition of this fact, as
wtil as on account of his former relation to many of its members, that
he was called from his new home in St. Louis to preside at the dedica-
tion of the present Church.
   In the interval between the pastorates of Mr. Dinwiddie and Dr.
Bartlett the pulpit was supplied for several months by the late Rev. J. W.
Pratt, D. D., he even driving over from Richmond for the Sunday ser-
vices after his connection with the University at that place. His great
power seems to have been that of a sermonizer; and the form and
beauty of his discourses will ever be remembered by those privileged to
hear him here or elsewhere.
   A small explanation of detail may perhaps be pardoned in this place
as to the original seventy-seven members of the Maxwell Street Presby-
terian Church. Forty-four of these had been received there by the
Session of the First Church while it was conducted as a mission of the
latter, and only thirty-three were colonized from former members of the
First Church.
                           C. SUYDAM SCOTT, Clerk pro temn.



 




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THE ENLARGEMENT AND REPAIRING OF THE FIRST

          CHURCH BUILDING COMPLETED IN

                          MARCH, 1898



    At a congregational meeting of the First Presbyterian Church, Lex-
 ington, Ky., held on the 4th day of September, 1896, a committee was
 appointed to consider and report to the congregation, plans for the
 enlargement and improvement of our church building. The committee
 consisted of Dr. F. H. Clarke, Chairman; C. B. Ross, Secretary; E. S.
 DeLong, Treasurer; Jas. F. Scott, and H. B. McClellan; and power was
 given the committee to fill any vacancy which might occur in their
 number.
    Under authority from the congregation some work was done in the
 fall of 1896, in building the foundation for an extension of the church
 building; but it was not until April 25, 1897, that a congregational meet-
 ing finally adopted definite plans for extension and improvement, and
 ordered their execution by the building committee. The plan of exten-
 sion directed an addition of the church building of sixteen feet toward
 Market street; a further extension, sixteen feet deep and twenty-two feet
 wide, for the reception of a new organ; and the construction of
 additional rooms on the ground floor for the use of Sunday School
 classes, for meetings of the Session and of Church Societies, and for the
 social gatherings of the congregation. The improvements ordered were
 the purchase of a new organ; new furnaces, including the introduction
 of a system of ventilation; new pews; new carpet; new art-glass windows;
 the painting of the church within and without; the introduction of
 electric lights, and the introduction of water.
   At this same congregational meeting, an advisory committee of ladies
was appointed, consisting of Mrs R. S Bullock, Mrs. J. Hull Davidson,
Mrs. Jas. F. Scott, Mrs. C. Suydam Scott, and Mrs. Bettie T. Bryan.
Miss Mary Kinkead, Miss Sarah S. Bullock, and Miss Georgia M.
McClellan were subsequently added to this committee. To this advisory
board the building committee delegated the selection of the art-glass
windows, the tinting of the walls and ceiling of the auditorium, and the
purchase of a new carpet.
   During the prosecution of this work the committee has twice suffered
loss by death. In March, 1897. Mrs. J. Hull Davidson was taken from
us; and in November, 1897, Mr. James F. Scott was called to his reward.
Mr. C. Suydani Scott was elected to fill the vacancy in the building
committee.
  In the exercise of the discretion given to them, the building



 



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committee decided to locate the rear furnace in a sub-basement, thus
securing three additional rooms on the ground floor. The work of
excavation and foundation building began early in July, 1897, and
proved more laborious and expensive than had been anticipated. The
excavation and a part of the stone work were let to J. W. Bess. The
foundation for the church walls was built by Thomas Sheehan.
  The contract for carpenter's work, brick work, plastering, roofing and
tin work wvas given to F. Bush  Son; who sub-let the brick work to
Tandy  Bird; but this last nanmed firm transferred the execution of the
greater part of their work to Cozine  Weigott, of Lexington. The
plastering was sub-let to M. J. Scully; and, the roofing and tin work to
Ed. Jarrell, both of Lexington.
   The plumbing contract was given to the Lexington Plumbing
Company.
   The contract for painting was awarded to Diamond  Poer. of Lex-
ington, who sub-let the tinting of the church to L. Tomor  Co., of
Cincinnati.
   The contract for electric lights was given to the Central Electric Co.,
of Lexington, and the electric bells were arranged by F.  B. Shely, of
Lexington.
   The two new furnaces were purchased from th- Peck-Williamson
Heating and Ventilating Company, of Cincinnati, through L. P. Mil-
ward, of this city.
   The art-glass windows were ordered from G. C. Reordan  Co., of
Cincinnati; and wire screens for these windows, and iron railings and
steps were ordered trom the Dow Wire Works Company, of Louisville,
Ky.
   The new pews were obtained from the Manitowoc Seating Company,
of Manitowoc, Wis.
   In April, 1897, a contract for the new organ was made with the W. W.
Kimball Company, of Chicago. The stone foundation for the hydraulic
motor of this organ was built by Govan  Dalton, of this city.
  The architects were H. W. Aldenburg and Jas. R. Scott, of Lexington.
  At the beginning of this great work the building committee
thought that it might be accomplished in about four months; and
although nearly twice that time has been consumed .in it, the committee
are conscious that the delay has been caused by no want of diligence on
their part, but bv obstacles and difficulties which they could not have
foreseen nor prevented. The whole of this work has been done in a
substantial and satisfactory manner, such as could not have been secured
had greater haste been made.
  The committee wish to acknowledge their indebtedness to Mr. Wm.
E. Bush, of the firm of F. Bush  Son, for valuable assistance and
suggestions concerning work not included in his own contract.



 







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A REVIEW OF TWENTY-SIX YEARS OF THE LADIES'

      FOREIGN     MISSIONARY       SOCIETY      OF THE FIRST

      PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.



  I T has been said that the history of any Christian enterprise when
     traced to its source will be found in the call of God to the heart of
     one man-of one woman-and their obedient response. The origin
 of this Societv is no exception to the rule. Twenty-six years ago God
 spoke to an earnest Christian woman, Mrs. Emily Dinwiddie, wife of
 the pastor of the Church, calling her, and through her the women of the
 Church, to aid in the work of Foreign Missions, and she was obedient
 to