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Last week's Makemie pilgrimage began at Manokin Church, Princess Anne, with Historian William Parker Finney as speaker. At Rehobeth Church, Princeton Seminary's Dr. Joseph .Ross Stevenson, onetime Northern Moderator, said: "Presbyterianism makes its appeal to thoughtful minds." But he experienced surprise that, "with its superior resources and superb opportunities," Presbyterianism has been outstripped by such later sects as the Methodists, unknown in Makemie's time. Explained Dr. Stevenson: "We have been afraid of emotionalism-enthusiasm -and as a result have leaned more to formality and restrained respectability...