There are 3,600,000 Presbyterians in the U.S., and they are divided into eleven denominations. Last week members of the three largest took an important step toward eventual merger. At a conference in Cincinnati, delegates from the Northern Presbyterians (Presbyterian Church, U.S.A.), the Southern Presbyterians (Presbyterian Church, U.S.) and the United Presbyterians†put their signatures on a detailed Plan of Union, to be submitted to their respective General Assemblies.
The plan calls for a new united church : the Presbyterian Church of the United States. Its rules of administration would follow the pattern set by the three member churches, and its first officers...
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