CHURCH UNION

Otago Witness, Issue 3415, 29 August 1919, Page 20

CHURCH UNION

UNION PROPOSALS STRONGLY FAVOURED. The last of a series of meetings of laymen that have been held to discuss the question of church union took place in the Y.M.C.A. Assembly Hall on the 18th, and there was an attendance of some 40 or 50 men. Mr A. Burn presided. The Rev. A. Wallace opened the meeting with prayer. Mr Peter Barr moved: "That this meeting of laymen of the Presbyterian," Methodist, and Congregational Churches of Dunedin is of opinion that the three denominations should now be united in one church, and undertakes to welcome and supportany movement by the governing authorities, whether Assembly, Conference, or Union, towards arriving at a basis of doctrine and policy which will be acceptable to each of the parties concerned, and that a copy of this resolution be forwarded to the controlling bodies of each of the churches.' Mr Barr supported his motion by convincing reasons. Mr E. Rosevear seconded the motion, which, after- discussion, was carried with scarcely any dissent. Messrs A. C. Butchers. J. Farquharson, and A. Burn (Presbyterian); E. Rosevear, E. A. Aslin, and W. King (Methodist)," P. Barr. J. A. Wilkinson, and J.. H. Wilkinson (Congregational) were appointed a committee to consider and report on any practical work which the laymen of the three churches could undertake.