CHURCH UNION
PRESBYTERIANS AND CONGREGATIONALISTS,
(BI TELBORAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.)
DUNEDIN, 21st November. At the session of the Presbyterian General Assembly to-day the articles of the basis of union between the Presbyterian Church and the , Congregational Church were, ordered to be sent down to tho Congregational Church as provisionally approved by the Assembly. They were also ordered to be sent down to presbyteries for consideration and report through the Union Committee to the next Assembly. ' • The Assembly placed on record its " desire to emphasise the sincerity and eagerness :with which they seek' ther'accomplish'ment of this union,-and to assure their brethren of the Congregational Church that they will carefully and sympathetically consider any further proposals that the Corigregationalists may deem it desirable to make to them." Itf was also resolved, in connection witli the union proposal, that the Assembly empower the Union Committee to send down to presbyteries any suggestions from any source as to the name that may come officially from the Congregational Church.
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Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 124, 22 November 1921, Page 4
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162CHURCH UNION Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 124, 22 November 1921, Page 4
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