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Página 295 - Enlarge the place of thy tent, And let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations : Spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes ; For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left; And thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, And make the desolate cities to be inhabited.
Página 278 - Church for the period of separation shall be preserved and held as making up the one history of the Church, and no rule or precedent which does not stand approved by both the bodies shall be of any authority until reestablished in the united body.
Página 277 - ... moderator of the last Assembly, if present, or in case of his absence, some other minister, shall open the meeting with a sermon, and preside until a new moderator be chosen. No commissioner shall have a right to deliberate or vote in the Assembly, until his name shall have been enrolled by the clerk, and his commission examined, and filed among the papers of the Assembly.
Página 279 - It should be regarded as the duty of all our judicatories, ministers, and people in the united Church, to study the things which make for peace, and to guard against all needless and offensive references to the causes that have divided us; and in order to avoid the revival of past issues by the continuance of any usage in either branch of the Church, that has grown out of...
Página 344 - Gospel ; what and how much agency has been employed : together with all such other facts and suggestions as will show, from year to year, what has been accomplished, and what may need to be undertaken, to bring all the churches to a proper degree of effort to promote the kingdom of Christ. As the Narratives are not to be publicly read, less care may be given to their style, and more to the detail of particulars, such as will aid the Committee of the Assembly in preparing their Annual General Narrative...
Página 272 - ... especially when constituted for judicial business, that there be a presiding minister. When, therefore, a church is without a pastor, the moderator of the session shall be, either the minister appointed for that purpose by the Presbytery, or one invited by the session to preside on a particular occasion.
Página 283 - Presbytery shall, before the first day of November, 1869, forward to the Stated Clerk of the General Assembly with which it is connected, a statement of its vote on the said Basis of Reunion. 4. The said General Assemblies now sitting shall, after finishing their business, adjourn, to meet in the city of...
Página 342 - in order, as far as possible, to procure a respectable and full Delegation to all our judicatories, it is proper that the expenses of ministers and elders, in their attendance on these judicatories, be defrayed by the bodies which they respectively represent.
Página 278 - Church, which the churches shall be encouraged to sustain, though free to cast their contributions into other channels, if they desire to do so. 7. As soon as practicable after the union shall...
Página 276 - ... the responsibility of the work assigned us, and having earnestly sought Divine guidance and patiently devoted ourselves to the investigation of the questions involved, agree in presenting the following for the consideration, and, if they see fit, for the adoption of the two General Assemblies. Believing that the interests of the Redeemer's kingdom would be promoted by healing our divisions ; that practical union would greatly augment the efficiency of the whole Church for the accomplishment of...

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