Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1904 — PRESBYTERIANS TO UNITE [ARTICLE]

PRESBYTERIANS TO UNITE

Cumberland* and Old Sclnol People Agre# on a Ituli of Union at a St. Louis Conference. St. Louis, Feb. 19. Official announcement that the union of the Presbyterian and Cumberland Presbyterian dhurches had been effected after the labors of the committees representing the two churches for the past two days was made at a banquet tendered the members of the two committee's by the Presbyterian Social Union, of St. Louis. The basis of the union was not given out. The banquet was held in the Southern hotel, and Rev. Dr. W. H. Black, of Marshall, Mo.,chairman of the. Cumberland Presbyterian committee, precipitated prolonged cheering when he arose and said: “The great work has been accomplished.” The Presbyterian church had planned wiser than lx knew, he said, in the days of the revision movement. "Thirty yeans ago,” he continued, “we trii-d to affect a union that was first proposed over a century ago. hut the doctrine kept us apart. We have been successful this time, and there is « good solid reason for our hope that in two years, after the matter has been referred to the general assemblies and the presbyteries, the two churches will be one."