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Cumberland Mountains

in Tennessee, part of a range of the Appalachian system, rarely exceeding 2,000 feet in height.

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 CUMMINS curriculum, but whose services the presbytery regarded as demanded for the ministry by the exigencies of the time.

In 1916 the church had 1,317 organizations with 72,056 members; 969 Sunday Schools with 6,618 teachers, and 53,431 pupils. Their form of government is Presbyterian, though they have added a system of itinerating like the Methodists.

In doctrine they approach Arminianism, denying unconditional election and predestination, and they believe in the universality of the atonement.