PRESBYTERIANS AND CONGREGATIONALISTS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 4815, 12 March 1918, Page 6

PRESBYTERIANS AND CONGREGATIONALISTS.

CLOSER CO-OPERATION URGED. Press Association Telegram.CHRISTCHURCH. March 11. The following motion, moved by Rev. W. Saunders ('Dunedin), was passed by the Council of the Congregational Union to-day:—“This Council, having had placed before it an account of the co-operating in social service in the Otago Congregational Churches with the Presbyterian Church of that province, expresses its hearty appreciation of the action of the Presbyterians in inviting such co-operation >nnd stionglv commends Congregationalists in other parts of the Dominion of New Zealand to enter on similar co-operation, if the opportunity offers. The Council declares its willingness sympathetically to consider any proposals from the Presbyterian Church for yet closer cooperation in Christian work, and even expresses its hope that everincreasing co-operation may eventually issue in such a practical federation as will make the ultimate union of the two historical churches both natural and easy if such union is for the glory of God and the extension of His kingdom. That a copy of this resolution be sent to the chairman of the Presbyterian Social Service Committee in Otago and the Moderator of. the Presbyterian. Church of New Zealand.”