Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1910 — CHURCH MERGER VALID [ARTICLE]

CHURCH MERGER VALID

Union of Cumberland and Presbyterian Upheld. The supreme court of Indiana affirmed the case of James W. Ramsey and others against Joseph P. Hicks and others, appealed from Vanderburg county. This is the famous Presbyterian and Cumberland Presbyterian church merger case. The court’s decision holds the general assembly of the Cumberland church had authority to rctate the faith of the church. The court says in relation to the claim 'that the mergeh means death of the Cumberland church, every congregation, presbytery or synod of the church, with possibly some changes of constituent membership and geographical boundaries, will continue its existence and accustomed work vithout interruption.