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Show WELSH PRESBYTERIANS INVOLVED IN MERGER 'PHILADELPHIA. May 22. Presbyterians Presby-terians accomplished a giant stride toward to-ward church unity today when Lie merger with the Welsh Calvinistic Methodist, also known as the Welsh . Presbyterian5 church, was officially consummated. This action and a decision to wage unceasing war against desecration or legalized attacks on Sabbath observance observ-ance occupied today's session of the general assembly, the governing body jof the Presbyterian church in the United States. The union with the Welsh church transfers 15,000 communicants to the Presbyterian church with 150 churches, 100 ministers, 600 elders, six synods and 1G presbyteries. |