The Blue Banner: The Presbyterian Church of Saint David and by Barry Cahill;Laurence DeWolfe;Murray Alary

By Barry Cahill;Laurence DeWolfe;Murray Alary

A social heritage of the near-death adventure of Presbyterianism in Halifax.

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Stairs, dean of the Maritimes’ corporate elite and elder of Fort Massey. The first official joint conference of the individual Presbyterian, Methodist, and Congregational committees on church union was held in Knox Church, Toronto, in December 1904. Falconer, McMillan, Stewart, and both Murrays attended. Five joint study committees – doctrine, polity, the ministry, administration, and law – were constituted to prepare the way for developing a basis of union. Walter Murray was named convener of the subcommittee on polity.

58 Its purpose was to vest in the United Church of Canada 30 Origins the entire property in Nova Scotia of the three uniting churches – Presbyterian, Methodist, and Congregationalist. Though technically a private member’s bill, the United Church of Canada Act was a government bill in everything but name. It was based on a template developed by the Joint Committee on Church Union in Toronto for the purpose of vesting provincial church property in an ecclesiastical corporation. The principle of church union was not at stake.

His church, however, did not die with him; it was about to take a new lease on life. 2 The “Union” Disruption the maritimes synod disrupted When Synod met at Fort Massey in September 1921, Robert Johnston, newly appointed president of the Maritimes branch of the Presbyterian Church Association, attempted to obtain approval for an “overture” (petition) calling for a third referendum on church union. By a margin of nearly four to one, Synod refused to adopt the overture, instead deciding to transmit it simpliciter (without prejudice) to the General Assembly.

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