Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1906 — INION IS ESTABLISHED [ARTICLE]

INION IS ESTABLISHED

It Also Duly Announced Between Old School and Cumberland Presbyterians. Des Moines, la., May 25.—With only two votes in the negative the Presbyterian general assmbly upon receiving word that the Cumberland assembly at Decatur, HL, had fully completed its part of the matter, adopted a resolution declaring the union of the two bodies. The negative votes were cast by Dr. William Laurie, of Bellefontaine, Pa,, and Rev. Roger F. Cressey, of Jacksonville, 111. The Cumberland assembly at Decatur, 111., had adopted a similar resolution and adjourned sine die. The moderator of the "old school’’ assembly then announced: “I do solemnly declare and here publicly announce that the basis of reunion and union Is now in full force and effect, and that the Cumberland Presbyterian church is now reunited with the Pre«byterian church in the United States of America as one church.”