<P> It is unclear when the trouble and differences arose in the Synod of Philadelphia . What is agreed is that by 1737 trouble was undeniable . That year the Synod passed several acts of importance . The first was one forbidding the practice of itinerant preaching by requiring permission from the governing presbytery to agree to the traveling minister . The second was the requiring of a college diploma prior to a candidate being taken on trials for the ministry . For those unable to go to college two committees were set up who would examine the candidate and certify them as ready for trials or not . These first two acts seem aimed at those who supported the First Great Awakening . Gilbert Tennent specifically thought the act about college diplomas was directed at his father, who founded William Tennent's Log College from which the majority of early Awakening supporters graduated . The third act of that year created the Presbytery of New Brunswick . This presbytery was controlled by pro-Awakening men, who would be called the New Side . It was the first presbytery controlled by the New Side . Those who opposed the Awakening would come to be called the Old Side . </P> <P> In 1739, the New Brunswick Presbytery presented a defense of their licensing John Rowland, entitled An Apology of the Presbytery of New Brunswick, against the Education act of 1737, as Rowland had no diploma as his only place of training was the Log College . The Synod considered the Apology, but rejected it and upheld the 1737 act . To this a protest was entered by Gilbert Tennent and other New Side adherents . This protest was renewed the next year and joined by more New Side ministers . This time the Synod agreed to repeal the act . No permanent solution was reached . During the synod, the New Side ministers preached in a pulpit erected for the coming of George Whitefield . Whitefield had befriended the New Side ministers, especially Gilbert Tennent, and they were preparing for his arrival by sermons . The Old Side ministers were not allowed to preach in this pulpit . Gilbert Tennent and Samuel Blair also presented papers to the Synod where they accused ministers within the church as being unconverted, but no names were given despite the request of Synod . </P> <P> The year a formal breach occurred was 1741 after the Presbytery of Donegal failed to discipline one of its New Side members, Alexander Craighead, for violating the Itinerant minister act of 1737 . He had preached in the pulpit of Francis Alison without permission . Alison tried to get a trial against Craighead at Synod, but nothing would come of it as the New Side ministers would not allow it . Craighead read papers in his defense and the New Side presented charges against John Thomson a leading minister of the Old Side . Finally on June 1, Robert Cross presented a Protest against the actions of the New Side . The Protest was signed by the leading Old Side ministers including John Thomson and Francis Alison . The New Side ministers and elders requested a vote to see who was in the majority . The Old Side ministers were in the majority, and the New Side ministers withdrew and formed the Conjunct Presbytery . The Old Side ministers continued as the Synod of Philadelphia . The entire Presbytery of New York was absent from the Synod of 1741 probably in hopes of avoiding taking sides . </P> <P> For the next several years the Conjunct Presbytery and the Synod of Philadelphia battled in print and over reuniting, with the Presbytery of New York standing in the middle . The Presbytery of New York generally favored the revival, but had doubts about some of the extreme and disorderly actions . Finally, in 1746, the Presbytery of New York left the Synod of Philadelphia and joined the New Side . The Conjunct Presbytery then became the Synod of New York while the Old Side ministers continued as the Synod of Philadelphia . </P>

Lead the new side after the presbyterian church split