Lusk was, again, continued as moderator. The papers being read, Lusk, and ruling elders, Thomas Ralston and Thomas Steele were appointed to a committee to report on the first paper. It was a request that Presbytery formally acknowledge the "Historical part of the Testimony." It was signed by Thomas Ralston and James Williams, Sr., elders at Brush Creek. On May 7, Presbytery met and constituted by prayer in the Associate Reformed Presbyterian meeting house, at Georgescreek. The committee on paper No. 1 reported. The committee warned about the effects "from innovations made on former habits of "thought" and of "action"." This is especially true when it "affects the thoughts and the actions of the witnesses of Christ." How can the faithful remain faithful in the face of these changing "habits"? They point to the fact that "the testimony of the Church of Christ has embraced "declaration of doctrine, argument and history," each in its kind." Embodying this "testimony", the Church has been "a witnessing community, and her children,--"Witnesses"." "Reformation Principles Exhibited" had "despoiled" the ""testamentary" character" of "history and argument." Consequently, the committee asserted, "from habit of thought and of practice, individual opinion in the community, was directly opposed to their public profession." Therefore, they conclude, "the historical part of the book" ["i.e., Reformation Principles Exhibited"] be formally approved, and "be recognized in the formula of the terms of communion." The Presbytery was approving the "Historical part," but "only so far as it accorded with other standards of the church." This qualified approval would fade, as Presbytery discovered more and more conflicts between "Reformation Principles Exhibited", in America, in 1806, and the "Act, Declaration and Testimony," emitted in North Britain, in 1761. For Lusk, the "original" Covenanters were to be preferred. The old paths were safer. On the last day of Presbytery, May 8, Lusk was appointed with John French, a ruling elder, to prepare causes of fasting and thanksgiving for the next meeting. They had many causes to fast, but the causes for thanksgiving were, from their perspective, increasing with each meeting of Presbytery. When Presbytery met, October 23, in Logan County, Ohio, Lusk was continued as moderator.