CHURCH UNITY

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 6 August 1919, Page 5

CHURCH UNITY

(BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION.) TIMAKU, Aug. o.

The Timaru Presbytery to-day considered the question of the union of churches. A motion in favor of union, piovided a satisfactory liasis of tinion could be agreed upon, was moved, but was challenged by an amendment lhat, while union i.s desirable, on practicable grounds the denominational system, v Inch has not been without its use.*, cannot be sudOenlv brought to an end without a grave risk of increasing the evils of dissent and disunion, whose removal is chiefly aimed at; that the Presbytery would J'avor a federation of the churches, but at the present time <the churches are too divided, and feels that there is not behind the movement the spiritual impulse which would warrant a change .so great and irrevocable After discussion th 3 amendment was carried by 7 to 5.