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Tested and Not Found: Presbyterians, the Church of God, and the Catholic Test

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Three traditions were tested for a North Liberty seat and not found, at the combined strength of every carrier this section read; the negatives print whole because a small town's absences are facts too. No Presbyterian congregation seated in North Liberty or Liberty Township appears in Chapman, in Howard, in the genealogical society's records index, or on the town's present roll — Presbyterian churches stood nearby, in Greene Township and at Walkerton, and those are other townships' facts, not imported. No Church of God congregation, of any branch of that name, was found in town or township in any carrier read. No further nondenominational congregation beyond the Christian Church of the preceding article — itself Restoration-identified at snippet strength — was found in any read carrier. One Mennonite lead stands unresolved rather than negative: the Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online carries a "Crumstown Mennonite Church (North Liberty, Indiana, USA)" in its category pages, at snippet strength, and lists it among its extinct congregations; the encyclopedia's article itself was not opened, Crumstown's siting was not verified, and the congregation's dates are unknown — it stands as a township lead with its settler, the article opened and read (G-RL-13). Stanislaus Kostka at New Carlisle and at Terre Coupee and the South Bend and Mishawaka parishes — and the town's present roll: no Catholic church, mission, or parish seated in North Liberty or Liberty Township was found, historic or present. The negative prints at that combined strength. The frame around it is geography only: this country lies within the Diocese of Fort Wayne–South Bend, whose bishop is Kevin C. Rhoades, carried at snippet strength from the national bishops' list. And the boundary stands in one line, as it must: St. Stanislaus Kostka at Terre Coupee, the area's Polish parish, is seated in New Carlisle's ground and told whole in New Carlisle's build — not here.

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Source: Tested and Not Found: Presbyterians, the Church of God, and the Catholic Test, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/north-liberty/religion/tested-and-not-found-presbyterians-the-church-of-god/