Show 1 PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHES UNITED After a Division of ol Nearly Neary a Hun Hundred Hundred Hundred dred Years They Come Together UNION FORMALLY RATIFIED I of ot lIh Adopted To Hold HoldIn In Ill 1107 IU of The l Ie Split St t Louis Dec 2 After a it division 1 of almost years steps were consummated mated today In jim tho Joint session RJ of oC 4 general which formally wilt will unite tho thu Northern Pres Presbyterian church thuri oC ot the tito United States of America und tOut the Cumberland Pros church two days have harp 1 f been lieen consumed by Iy tees In arranging details for the union Their reports wore ivern to the general committees each church this afternoon Within two bourn tho tito two committees met In joint session l and upon n a basis haIs for thu tho union f of oC tho two hOllies bodies Tills This I agreement will he be imported to the KIm eral na embly of oC tho th Presbyterian 1 church meeting sit III Des Mollies la lu un Ott May tay 17 1906 und of or the thu Cumberland church meeting iii eting In lit Do Dc III on the mime date for formal ratification by these thc o two executive as us assemblies Ii which will he be followed by hy tho tito official announcement that the union of oC oCth the th two churches churche hns has dually been eon con consummated on summated The general committee of ot the Cum Cumberland berland Presbyterian church had hUll Its lIs full ful of of 21 present tho the 1 chairman being Rev novo Dr W V II 11 1 I 11 of Marshall Mo 10 16 of oC the tho 21 1 JP members of oC tile tho Presbyterian general committee committe were vere Tte ne Dr W 1 t t if II n Huberts of Philadelphia was chair chairman man i f manThe The Tue Joint session was executive In InI j I character It Jl was vas stated 1 that th t on all the tho Joint ballot on the tho question of oC the tho pro trU proposed posed union there thero woe was but Jut ono one dissent dissenting dissenting ing vote ote that being east cast by hy Elder L LW I IV LL L W IV V Keller of ot Knoxville a I taunt mem member I tier her of the Cumberland committee It was wan further stated that thit when the thu Cum Cuin berlund berland committee appointed sev seven seven I Ien en men known to he ha In opposition to the tho proposed union lotion were placed on le e committee Tho Iho voto yoto today Indicated I that six had Itati changed their minds dur during log ing In tho the deliberations In committee 1 Tho Tue report ruport adopted In III the tite Joint ses session Ion sion of ot tho Joint committee declares that tho the confession of faith of nC the Presbyterian terlan church of tho tile States of fir America n nf as revised In 1903 the tho other doctrinal and nini cat eni standards of ot that church havo been constitutionally adopted d by h the Cum Cant Cumberland berland herland church Chuich iw us lies him also tho the Joint report prepared by b thaw two i L general committees two years yearn ngo ugo that the reunion oral union of oC the two churches has been tully fully agreed to liy by IY both and It Is b recommended recommend ell that Im Ito Immediately mediately after the foregoing effects effect of ot the tho steps thus tar fur taken have been an tin announced tho the confession llon of or faith and nud the theother 4 other doctrinal and atI ecclesiastical L standards of t the thu Presbyterian church of Ot the United States of America shall shull bo ho binding upon Vie tio ministers ruling I riders elders deacons churches churchell ad adjudicators hoards boards committees und and till all other agencies of the Cumberland Presbyterian church It In Is further provided that when this the announcement hns has been heon by b the tie moderator of oC the tile control assembly of oC the Cumberland Presbyterian church tint that body butt holl shall shah have adjourned adno tilO j as all separate and bo ho fore tore the general assembly of ut the Pies Pres leM h church United States of at America shall adjourn sine elite die Ille the moderator of oC the tho latter assembly nR shall shaH that all of the Presbyterians of oC the two churches shall elect com cotti commissioners missioners to tho titi united general as of oC 1907 1 OT Oi on Ott IL a basis of oC ono one minis millis I ter and on one ruling elder for COl every 24 ministers mIlliliters or Ly that hat t until tin the new moderator of oC the thu united ns us notably shall shah be lie elected the moderator of or the tho Presbyterian general KeIll assembly shall preside over the united general assembly of 1007 1001 and It Is In II recommend recommended ed eel that tho the moderator of oC the Iha Cumber Cumberland land Pre h of ot 1906 1 06 4 shall preach tho the opening sermon neimon of uC the united general assembly alls of oC 1307 1907 tho the stated clerk of oC the liS as assembly with the state clerk of ot the 3 Cumberland Presbyterian terlan assembly n making up the tho role rolo of or tho the united as us assembly ft Finally 1 n that when the foregoing hits has nil been iteen adopted and anti announce taunt of ot the telegraphed by each of oC the assemblies to tho thu other othor the moderator of each Ilch assembly shall be he beI I I empowered to announce that the re reunion reunion reunion union and union of oC the Northern Ire Pres H n church of the United States of oC America anti and th Cumberland Pres Presbyterian church has hns been bee II fully con cost consummated summated und and will he be henceforth In full force torce and anti effect the history art 1111 records of both holh churches to be he pro pre served as ns the tho history and records ol the tho united church It Il In If provided by tho the general commit committees committees tees teM that thai nil 1111 boards board committees trus trull trustees trustees tees and anti other agencies of oC tho the Cumber Cumberland land Presbyterian church that have hitherto been hellI required to tt report rop rt to the guttural assembly of oC that church chulch shall report to the united assembly In 1907 anti thereafter until oath or unless thieve these boards tind other Institutions shall be he united with similar existing Presby Presbyterian terian organizations All hi other details us UI to property ll rights right of oC boards hoal s col coi colleges leges etc the Iho question of recommend recommending Ing the pinto of oC meeting of the united assembly suggestions as ns to 11 lIb and arid I members and linos Ii floe and other adjustment that thai may tany be become become come collie necessary were referred by b the general committee to tho the subcommittees tees for tor further consideration and final Html report to 10 the tho general assemblies nl meeting In Decatur and amid Des Dell Moines next May III In the Cumberland Presbyterian church WAH ns as organized In Dixon county Tenn by hy three Presbyterian lre minis ministers ministers who had withdrawn from the Presbyterian church on February 4 of that year vear ear The division Arose concern concernIng I lug Ing In the tho extreme doctrine of oC predestination arid and certain other questions of o practices lu in ordination of ministers who vho did not riOt fully Cully conform to classical standards of oC the Presbyterian church those who protested insisting that tim till exigencies of or If frontier life demanded occasional exceptions to the tho established rule rull |