
Excerpt from Why Am I A Cumberland Presbyterian?Has permitted this great spiritual family to be divided into different subordinate families. Of course, in establishing our relations to the Church for ourselves, a choice is to be made. We select one family, one branch of the Church, rather than another. We have reasons for such a choice. These reasons may be wise and weighty; on the other hand, they may deserve but little considera tion; still they are reasons with us. We consider our action intelligent, and they are reasons which in?uence that action.