UNION OF CHURCHES

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 525, 30 November 1928, Page 13

UNION OF CHURCHES

PRESBYTERIAN ATTITUDE CO-OPERATION DESIRED Closer co-operation with sister Churches is desired by the Presbyterian, and to-day the General Assembly decided to set up a com- ! mittee to further that object. i Reporting on behalf of a committee j appointed by Assembly, the Rev. It. M Kyburn recommended the setting up °f a committee of friendly relations With sister churches to collate information as to the measure of co-opera-i tion already operating between the churches and to promote closer cooperation in every possible way. The I ldea that each church should purI sue its own course and seek in every • ' to >peraie with other churches, 1 UB a die-hard, and I will never , agree to a union of this kind ” deClarod the Rev. D. x. MacKc-nzie Wallacetown). He desired to see ! anything which would foster Christian , unity. He favoured ministers’ assoI ciations, but the approaching of other j churches savoured of unreality, and he j would have nothing to do with it. Ur E. N. Merrington declared that the foregoing statement was “one of the n ?, ost extraordinary he had ever heard” at the Assembly. Surely they all desired co-operation? The saying of Ur. John R. Mott, We can do together many more things man we do,” was quoted by the Moderator, Professor W. Hewitson. When he gave his inaugural address he had ! no idea that they would think of corporate union with other churches. Having obtained a little more unity j themselves, they might lift up j their eyes and see others. The motion was carried, the . committee was elected, to consist of the Assembly’s representatives i on the Religious Education Council.