IMPORTANT CHURCH UNION
PEESB'ttEBIANS AND.METHODIST CONGREGATIONALISM'S. rr By Telegraph-Press Assoeiatibn-Coip yTigWf. : XR-eo. June 17, 1.5 a.m.) . Ottawa, June 16. " The 'Presbyterian Assembly of Canada, l>y 406 to 88, decided to enter into an organic union of Methodists-and' Congrogationalistis.' Dr. Clark (Montreal) declared tliat Pi-esbyterianism stood to lose little or nothing.. It would be a val.ue«..: changed; and a welcome fsign to the entire religious world, and would ba especially.^welcomed.-,by .foreign missionaries. , Dr. M'Kinnon (Regina). said that the change- was the only solution of the many moral, social, and religious problems of .'the age—the result of a partial paralysis arising from the netf of;meat'. - and money. * Dr. Canieron, a 'widely-esteemed vet- 1 eran, who recorded with.4s ministers and 93 .elders iii .their dissent, declared that- \ henceforth they must regard themselves as the true Presbyterian General Assembly. • Under protest, they proposed to continue as usual.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2799, 17 June 1916, Page 9
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143IMPORTANT CHURCH UNION Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2799, 17 June 1916, Page 9
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