The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-02-22
PLANS FOR FEDERATION OF THE
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHES
IN WALLA WAllA.
Subject Now in the Hands Of a Com
mittee Which Will Make
Report.

urday the two Presbyterian churches
will undoubtedly be merged into one
organization in a very short time and
become united under one head. Last
Wednesday the officers of the First
Presbyterian and Cumberland churches
held a joint meeting at which time the
following resolution was unanimously
passed: Resolved. That it is the sense
of this meeting that the two churches
here represented enter into a feder-
alton.
This resolution will now be Submit
ted to the congregations of the two
churches for ratification or rejection.
There is hardly possibility of it being
rejected, as it is said a ma jority of
the members of the two churches are
very much in favor of uniting as one
religious body.
a committee, consisting OF \. NJ.
Cation and Marvin Evans from the
Cumberland and Prof. James w. Coop
CT and y. *. Dice of the First Pres
byterian church, was appointed to
draft plans of the federation, which
the two churches as soon as the com
mittee can complete the work.
1t is understood that the plan will
be to merge the two congrega tons and
hold union services hereafter in the
Brick church. corner of First and Birch
streets
The report of the committees from
the general assemblies of the two,
which will be submitted TO the general
this year. The action of these COM
,, mittees. if ratified by the general as
semblies. will make the Presbyterian
church national in character. with a
membership approximating 1,250,ooo.
1t is recommended that the united
churches shall be known as the Pres
byterian church in the United States
of America. The union shall be eff
fected on the dOctrinal basis of the
confession of faith of the Presbyterian
church in the United States of Am
erica. as revised in 1908. and of its
other doctrinal and ecclesiastical
standards. The various Presbyteries
will vote on the proposed basis of I'M
ion and submit their decision to the
respective assemblies. The agreement
provides:
All the ministers and churches in
the two denominations shall be admit
ted to the same standing in the united
church which they may have held in
their respective connections up to the
consummation of the union.
The boundaries of the several Pres
byteries and synods shall be adjusted
by the general assembly of the united
church.
THE official records of the two
churches during the period Of separa-
ton shall be preserved and held as
making up the history of the one
church.
The general assembly shall recon-
manent committees and boards which
now belong to the two assemblies. so
as to represent with impartiality the
views and wishes of the two bodies
constituting the reunited church.
The institutions of learning. togeth-
er with the endowment and other prop
erty owned by them. which are now
under the control of the Cumberland
Presbyterian church. shall remain in
charge of and he controlled by the
boards of trustees or other managers,
respectively. now in charge of such in
situations. endowment and property.
or by their successors similarly APP
pointed or elected"
1t is recommended that SUCH a
change be made in the form of gov
eminent of the Presbyterian church in
the United States of America as will
allow additional or separate Presby-
teries and synods to be organized in
exceptional cases wholly or in part
Within the territorial bounds Of exist
ing Presbyteries or synods respectively
for particular race or nationality II
desired by such race or nationality.