Congregationalists, through their National Council, have invited Presbyterians to merge with them. There are no immediate prospects of the consummation of this union, which would create probably the strongest Protestant denomination in the U. S.; but there is every reason to believe that the union will be effected within two or three years.
The basis of union is the so-called "Cleveland Plan," developed by a committee of Congregationalists and Presbyterians in that city. It provides that no creed shall be binding upon the entire membership, but that all individual churches in the union denomination...
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