CHURCH UNION.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 787, 9 April 1910, Page 9

CHURCH UNION.

PROPHECY BY- DR. A. WHYTE. i Dr. Alexander Whyte, on being presented with the Freedom of Edinburgh,' made a striking prophecy of Church Union in Scotland. He said there wasr 'being carried-on a conference between, the two great Presbyterian Oburch<a % .Sewt-land; they would, bv God's ordination' and providence, take one another by tho hand for tho first-tim* tor many a- dreary year in history, andl - laying /.their best heads and purest) hearts together in continualconferenca and prayer, bring these two' great' ; branches- of the Presbyterian Church, m Scotland into ono great Church:.';.-- : $1 ,P resent occupant, of. the chair : would.have many shining pages in thei '.' history of .his Provostship, but as ai Churchman;, looking forward to the his-! Tory of; his' own community, let - himi say he thought it would perhaps, be" ai. great,; far-shining pago when, this, great!'. consummation would be attained'' Ttfwould be' a great day for fathers ■ahdJ " brethren, when from John o'/ Groats -to" - Maidenkirk there was one great, free '■ efficient, evangelical, spiritual, devoted! Church, holding dear old Scotland', fori' bod and for.God's people in- Scotland, ' answering tho prayer, the daily prayer] of Samuel. Rutherford, and answering] the prophetic' forecast of John Knox.''' He .himself might not live to see'.it,!/ but .he was sure tho Lord Provost ■ would, and he was-sure'it would be on< of tho most far-shining in the history . of the citv.. '