CHURCH UNION IN CANADA.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1551, 21 September 1912, Page 9

CHURCH UNION IN CANADA.

For several years there has been a definite effort toward- Protestant Church union in , Canada. The plan has been to unite the Congregational, Methodist, and Presbyterian Churches in a single cohesive church organisation, and it is very nearly assured. The Presbyterian Assembls , , which met recently at Edmonton, Alberta, took action-which is almost decisive. Already the Congregational Church, by a vote of. 82 per cent, and the Methodist Church by a vote of 800 out of 810 official units, had virtually settled the ouestion so far as those two denouiinaCions we're concerned. When the Presbyterian Assembly met, its Committee on Church Union, basing its views on statistics which had been submitted to it, reported' that the Presbyterian Church was not prepared to proceed in the matter. At the Assembly, however, fuller statistics were demanded j and the vote by Session and Presbytery showed almost as large a percentage in favour of union as was in the two other denominations. The Committee on Chinch Union was , thereupon enlarged; and,its subsequent report was so decided and so binding (hat it appears impossible that Church union in Canada can bo much longer delayed. The report was adopted by vote of the Assembly, under circumstances of solemnity.