UNION OF CHURCHES.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 May 1921, Page 5

UNION OF CHURCHES.

ACTION BY PRESBYTERIANS. TO JOIN OONGREGATIONALISTS. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. The proposals for a union of the Presbyterian Church and Congregational Church are taking more definite form. In accordance with a resolution of the Presbyterian General Assembly, the union committee of that body recently met the union committee of the Con* gregational Ohv.rch to consider suggestions made by the latter towards a basis of union. Subsequently the assembly’s committee drafted a basis of union, and this is now being submitted to the Presbyterians throughout New Zealand. The General Assembly at its next meeting is in no way bound to accept the basis proposed, as a whole or any part, but it is hoped that either the basis now submitted, or’ as amended by the Presbyteries, will b<j definitely adopted and sent down to the Presbyteries under the Barrier Act. Assuming that the ohurohes of the Congregational Union approve of the Assembly’s finding and returns under the Barrier Act, a satisfactory union may be an accomplfched fact. The first meeting of the united churches takes place, states the convenor of the assembly’s committee (the Rev. Dr. James Gibb), in 1923, but no union can or will be effected until a Bill has been carried, through Parliament giving the united church full right and and title to its properties.