UNION OF CHURCHES

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 91, 28 November 1928, Page 5

UNION OF CHURCHES

PRESBYTERIAN DESIRES, COMMITTEE SET UP. AUCKLAND, Last Night, At the Presbyterian General Assembly the Rev.,, Dr. Gibb moved thajtj in view of the piercing call tq unity in the Mbderational address, and of the need for union among the churches most nearly alike, tht» assembly should set up a small committee to consider whether the time had not arrived to resume union negotiations with the Methodist and Congregational Churches, the committee, to report to the present assembly. Dr. Gibb was convinced that some day the. union would) be accomplished. They might set up a committee whose duty would be to institute a series of inquiries as to the state of feeling in the churches concerned. The Rev. James Aitken, seconded. The Be.v. J. M. Brodie moved an amendment that the. assembly, in the absence of any overture of the church uttioffi, should jtake no action meanwhile. The amendment, which was seconded! bv the Rev. D. N. MacKen/ie, was lost by a large majority and the motion was carried,