UNION OF PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 259, 2 November 1901, Page 2

UNION OF PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHES.

PUB PBBS3 ASSOCIATION*] Dpw jn, October 81. Thei N'oytharu Synod beld a final meeting to-day. The Rev. Patterson reported con ft rring with the Uniac Committee of the Southern Church, whc agreed to drop the clause embodying ar icles of the Union which the Assembly Committee did not thiul< should appear in the Ac; of Parliament owing to future possible complications. The committee exprassed thankfulness to A'mig'ity God for the successful conclusion of their labours. Ha formally moved the adoption of the Ac*, by the Assembly and Rev No re, Auckland, seconded, expressing pleasure in the consummation of the Union, which was originally inaugu ated at Auokland. The motion wa* carried amid applauie without dissent, the b.-ing sung wi'h much ftrvour, A deputa'ion was tben introduced from the Ocago Synod, and intimated that the latter Lad rep iifed the Assembly's decision i,u the siroe way. The Presbyterian Uni>n w»s con--Bun^attd to-night before a very large a,udienoa jd the Agiicul'ural Qall, the ceremony being a solemn one worlhy of the great o.xas'on. After the two boding had been oon-tifu,tel separately uniting rfocumnntb wire read and then a XJtiicicl Assembly wa£ con tituteJ. The Rev. JliS Gibb was elected Moderator. He delivered an address of an hour's after which resolutions of thanksgiving were passed.