The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1868-07-04
Terms of Reunion Between the
Old and New School General
Assemblies.

efficiency of the Church and the inter
ests of the Redeemer's kingdom, the
Committee propose
l. The Reunion shall be effected on
the doctrinal and ecclesiastical basis of
our common standards; -. the Con-
fession of Faith shall continue to be
sincerely received and adopted, 'as
containing the system of doctrine
taught in the Holy Scriptures" it
being understood, that this Confession
!. is received in its proper, historical
that is, the Calvinistic or Reformed
sense; it is also understood, that va
rious methods of explaining and illus
trating the doctrines of the Confession
which do not impair the integrity of
the Reformed or Calvinistlc system,
are to be freely allowed in the United
Church, as they have hitherto been al
lowed IN the separate Churches: and
the Government and Discipline of the
Church shall be approved as contain
ing the principles and rules of our
polity.
2. All the ministers and churches,
embraced in the two bodies, shall be
admitted to the same standing in the
united body; Imperfectly organized
churches shall be expected to become
thoroughly Presbyterian within five
years.
3. The boundaries of the several
Presbyteries and Synods shall be adj
justed by the General Assembly of the
United Church
4. The official records of the two
Branches of the Church, for the period
| of separation shall be preserved and
held as making up the one history OF
the church; and no rule or precedent,
which does not stand approved by both
the bodies, shall be of any authority,
until re-established in the united body.
5. The corporate rights, now held by
two General Assemblies, and by their
Boards and Committees, shall, as far as
practicable, be consolidated.
6. There shall be one set of Com
mittees or Boards for Home and For
eign Missions, and the other religious
enterprises of the Church.
I AS soon as practicable after the
union shall be effected, the General
Assembly shall reconstruct and consol-
idate the several permanent Commit
tees and Boards, which now belong to
the two Assemblies. in such manner
as to represent the views and wishes
of the two bodies constituting the
United Church.
8. The publications of the two
churches shall continue to be issued
as at present, leaving it to the Board
of Publication of the United Church
to revise these issues, and perfect a
catalogue for the JOINT church, so as
to exclude 1nvidious references to the
past controversies
9. In order to q uniform system Of
ecclesiastical supervision, those Theo-
logical Seminaries that are now under
Assembly control, may, if their Boards
Of direction so elect, be transferred tC
the watch and care of one or more o.
the adjacent Synods; and the other
Seminaries are advised to introduce. az
far as may be, into their Constitutions,
the principle of Synodical or Assembly
supervision; in which case, they shall
be entitled to an official recognition
and appreciation on the part of the
General Assembly.
10 1t is agreed, that the Presby-
teries possess the right to examine
ministers applying for admission from
other Presby teries; but each Presby-
terry shall be left free to decide for
itself when it shall exercise the right
IL. 1t shall be regarded as the duty
of all our judicatories, ministers, and
people in the United Church, to study
the things which make for peace
II. The Terms of union, if they
are approved by the General Assem-
blies of 1868, shall be overturned to
the several Presbyteries under their
care, and shall be of binding force, if
they are ratified by three fourths OF
the Presbyteries connected with each
Branch of the Church, within one year.
Is. If the two Go
of 1890