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title: 'Here’s what an Associate Reformed Presbyterian thought of the New and Old Schools in 1860…'
type: post
author: 'Caleb Cangelosi'
date: 2017-10-14
url: https://confessional.org/blog/2017-heres-what-an-associate-reformed-presbyterian-thought-of-the-new-and-old-schools-in-1860
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# Here’s what an Associate Reformed Presbyterian thought of the New and Old Schools in 1860…

If you’ve ever seen a map of American Presbyterianism from the 1700s till today, you understand why it’s often called “Split P soup,” and you also perhaps scratch your head in confusion as to what kept all these different groups from uniting as one large Presbyterian body en masse. Alexander Blaikie (1804-1885) was an Associate Reformed Presbyterian minister who was familiar with the differences between the various denominations of Presbyterians, and his 60-page pamphlet entitled “The Schools” (written in 1860) is helpful in sorting out who believed what in those days. [Check it out](/authors/alexander-blaikie) - and if anyone knows where we can find a picture of Blaikie, let us know!