Cumberland Presbyterians

Cumberland Presbyterians, a religious denomination which sprang up in 1810 in the state of Kentucky, in consequence of a dispute between the presbytery of Cumberland in that state, and the Kentucky Synod of the Presbyterian Church in America, concerning the ordination of persons who had not passed through the usual educational curriculum, but whose services the presbytery regarded as demanded for the ministry by the exigencies of the times. In 1887 this church had 26 synods, 1538 ministers, 150,000 members, and several colleges and seminaries. Their form of government is presbyterian, though they have added a system of itinerating like the Methodists. Arminian in doctrine, they deny unconditional election and predestination, and believe in the universality of the atonement.