METHODIST UNION.
A BASIS AGREED WON.
During the past, two days a joint committee of the Wesleyan Methodist Church and the Primitive Methodist Church has been sitting in conference drafting proposals having in view the adoption by mutual consent of a basis of union between those two religious bodies. The rapprochement between the Wesleyan Methodists and the Primitive Methodists has been of slow but steady development, and the present conference marks another step towards the ultimate consummation of desire of the two for organic union. In 1012 llm Methodist Church of New Zealand will emerge from the Australasian Conference a« an independent body, free to direct its own policy. This event will remove from the present situation one of the constitutional obstacles, in the way of a union between the two Methodis. Churches in New Zealand. The Primitive Methodist body in New Zealand, for its part, will require to move through the British authority—a formal proceeilWhen the conference adjourned last evening, after an all-day sitting, it was announced that a basis of union had i>een agreed upon, unanimously, and that 11 full report of the details of this agreement would be issued shortly.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1149, 9 June 1911, Page 6
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