---
title: 'Boards in the Northern Church'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Richmond Kelley Smoot'
date: 1888-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Revival History'
- 'Presbyterian Polity'
- 'American Presbyterian and Reformed History'
scriptures:
- 'Acts 2'
- 'Habakkuk 3'
- 'Joshua 24'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/smoot-1888-boards-in-the-northern-church
---

# Boards in the Northern Church

Two 1888 Presbyterian essays: one surveys historical revivals as resuscitations of church life; the other decries Northern 'Boards' as unscriptural intrusions on Presbyterian church government.

[Download](https://media.confessional.org/archives/smoot-1888-boards-in-the-northern-church.pdf)