THE BASIS OF UNION
SCHEDULE A.
AS PREPARED BY THE JOINT COMMITTEE OF THE PRESBYTERIAN, METHODIST AND
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHES, AND APPROVED BY THE SUPREME COURTS OF THESE
CHURCHES.
GENERAL
1. The name of the Church formed by the union of the Presbyterian,
Methodist, and Congregational Churches in Canada, shall be "The United
Church of Canada."
2. It shall be the policy of The United Church to foster the spirit of
unity in the hope that this sentiment of unity may in due time, so far as
Canada is concerned, take shape in a Church which may fittingly be
described as national.
DOCTRINE
We, the representatives of the Presbyterian, the Methodist, and the
Congregational branches of the Church of Christ in Canada, do hereby set
forth the substance of the Christian faith, as commonly held among us. In
doing so, we build upon the foundation laid by the apostles and prophets,
Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner-stone. We affirm our belief in
the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments as the primary source and
ultimate standard of Christian faith and life. We acknowledge the teaching
of the great creeds of the ancient Church. We further maintain our
allegiance to the evangelical doctrines of the Reformation, as set forth in
common in the doctrinal standards adopted by the Presbyterian Church in
Canada, by the Congregational Union of Ontario and Quebec, and by the
Methodist Church. We present the accompanying statement as a brief summary
of our common faith and commend it to the studious attention of the members
and adherents of the negotiating Churches, as in substance agreeable to the
teaching of the Holy Scriptures.
ARTICLE I.-Of God.-We believe in the one only living and true
God, a Spirit, infinite, eternal and unchangeable, in His being and
perfections; the Lord Almighty, who is love, most just in all His ways,
most glorious in holiness, unsearchable in wisdom, plenteous in mercy, full
of compassion, and abundant in goodness and truth. We worship Him in the
unity of the Godhead and the mystery of the Holy Trinity, the Father, the
Son and the Holy Spirit, three persons of the same substance, equal in
power and glory.
ARTICLE II. -Of Revelation.- We believe that God has revealed
Himself in nature, in history, and in the heart of man; that He has been
graciously pleased to make clearer revelation of Himself to men of God who
spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit; and that in the fullness of
time He has perfectly revealed Himself in Jesus Christ, the Word made
flesh, who is the brightness of the Father's glory and the express image of
His person. We receive the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments,
given by inspiration of God, as containing the only infallible rule of
faith and life, a faithful record of God's gracious revelations, and as the
sure witness to Christ.
ARTICLE III. -Of the Divine Purpose. .-We believe that the
eternal, wise, holy and loving purpose of God so embraces all events that
while the freedom of man is not taken away, nor is God the author of sin,
yet in His providence He makes all things work together in the fulfilment
of His sovereign design and the manifestation of His glory.
ARTICLE IV. -Of Creation and Providence. .-We believe that God is
the creator, upholder and governor of all things; that He is above all His
works and in them all; and that He made man in His own image, meet for
fellowship with him, free and able to choose between good and evil, and
responsible to his Maker and Lord.
ARTICLE V. -Of the Sin of Man. .-We believe that our first
parents, being tempted, chose evil, and so fell away from God and came
under the power of sin, the penalty of which is eternal death; and that, by
reason of this disobedience, all men are born with a sinful nature, that we
have broken God's law and that no man can be saved but by His grace.
ARTICLE VI. -Of the Grace of God. .-We believe that God, out of
His great love for the world, has given His only begotten Son to be the
Saviour of sinners, and in the Gospel freely offers His all-sufficient
salvation to all men. We believe also that God, in His own good pleasure,
gave to His Son a people, an innumerable multitude, chosen in Christ unto
holiness, service and salvation.
ARTICLE VII. -Of the Lord Jesus Christ. .-We believe in and
confess the Lord Jesus Christ, the only Mediator between God and man, who,
being the Eternal Son of God, for us men and for our salvation became truly
man, being conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary, yet
without sin. Unto us He has revealed the Father, by His word and Spirit,
making known the perfect will of God. For our redemption He fulfilled all
righteousness, offered Himself a perfect sacrifice on the cross, satisfied
Divine Justice and made propitiation for the sins of the whole world. He
rose from the dead and ascended into Heaven, where He ever intercedes for
us. In the hearts of believers He abides forever as the indwelling Christ;
above us and over us all He rules; wherefore, unto Him we render love,
obedience and adoration as our Prophet, Priest and King.
ARTICLE VIII. -Of the Holy Spirit..-We believe in the Holy
Spirit, the Lord and Giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the
Son, who moves upon the hearts of men to restrain them from evil and to
incite them unto good, and whom the Father is ever willing to give unto all
who ask Him. We believe that he has spoken by holy men of God in making
known His truth to men for their salvation; that, through our exalted
Saviour, He was sent forth in power to convict the world of sin, to
enlighten men's minds in the knowledge of Christ, and to persuade and
enable them to obey the call of the Gospel; and that He abides with the
Church, dwelling in every believer as the spirit of truth, of power, of
holiness, of comfort and of love.
ARTICLE IX. -Of Regeneration. .-We believe in the necessity of
regeneration, whereby we are made new creatures in Christ Jesus by the
Spirit of God, who imparts spiritual life by the gracious and mysterious
operation of His power, using as the ordinary means the truths of His word
and the ordinances of divine appointment in ways agreeable to the nature of
man.
ARTICLE X. -Of Faith and Repentance. .-We believe that faith in
Christ is a saving grace whereby we receive Him, trust in Him and rest upon
Him alone for salvation as He is offered to us in the Gospel, and that this
saving faith is always accompanied by repentance, wherein we confess and
forsake our sins with full purpose of and endeavor after a new obedience to
God.
ARTICLE XI. -Of Justification and Sonship. .-We believe that God,
on the sole ground of the perfect obedience and sacrifice of Christ,
pardons those who by faith receive Him as their Saviour and Lord, accepts
them as righteous and bestows upon them the adoption of sons, with a right
to all the privileges therein implied, including a conscious assurance of
their sonship.
ARTICLE XII. -Of Sanctification. .-We believe that those who are
regenerated and justified grow in the likeness of Christ through fellowship
with Him, the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, and obedience to the truth;
that a holy life is the fruit and evidence of saving faith; and that the
believer's hope of continuance in such a life is in the preserving grace of
God. And we believe that in this growth in grace Christians may attain
that maturity and full assurance of faith whereby the love of God is made
perfect in us.
ARTICLE XIII. -Of Prayer. .-We believe that we are encouraged to
draw near to God, our Heavenly Father, in the name of His Son, Jesus
Christ, and on our own behalf and that of others to pour out our hearts
humbly yet freely before Him, as becomes His beloved children, giving Him
the honour and praise due His holy name, asking Him to glorify Himself on
earth as in heaven, confessing unto Him our sins and seeking of Him every
gift needful for this life and for our everlasting salvation. We believe
also that, inasmuch as all true prayer in prompted by His Spirit, He will
in response thereto grant us every blessing according to His unsearchable
wisdom and the riches of His grace in Jesus Christ.
ARTICLE XIV. -Of the Law of God. .-We believe that the moral law
of God, summarized in the Ten Commandments, testified to by the prophets
and unfolded in the life and teachings of Jesus Christ, stands forever in
truth and equity, and is not made void by faith, but on the contrary is
established thereby. We believe that God requires of every man to do
justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with God; and that only through
this harmony with the will of God shall be fulfilled that brotherhood of
man wherein the kingdom of God is to be made manifest.
ARTICLE XV. -Of the Church. .-We acknowledge one holy Catholic
Church, the innumerable company of saints of every age and nation, who
being united by the Holy Spirit to Christ their Head are one body in Him
and have communion with their Lord and with one another. Further, we
receive it as the will of Christ that His Church on earth should exist as a
visible and sacred brotherhood, consisting of those who profess faith in
Jesus Christ and obedience to Him, together with their children, and other
baptized children, and organized for the confession of His name, for the
public worship of God, for the administration of the sacraments, for the
upbuilding of the saints, and for the universal propagation of the Gospel;
and we acknowledge as a part, more or less pure, of this universal
brotherhood, every particular Church throughout the world which professes
this faith in Jesus Christ and obedience to Him as divine Lord and Saviour.
ARTICLE XVI. -Of the Sacraments. .-We acknowledge two sacraments,
Baptism and the Lord's Supper, which were instituted by Christ, to be of
perpetual obligation as signs and seals of the covenant ratified in His
precious blood, as means of grace, by which, working in us, He doth not
only quicken, but also strengthen and comfort our faith in Him, and as
ordinances through the observance of which His Church is to confess her
Lord and be visibly distinguished from the rest of the world.
(1) Baptism with water into the name of the Father and of the Son and of
the Holy Spirit is the sacrament by which are signified and sealed our
union to Christ and participation in the blessings of the new covenant.
The proper subjects of baptism are believers, and infants presented by
their parents or guardians in the Christian faith. In the latter case the
parents or guardians should train up their children in the nurture and
admonition of the Lord, and should expect their children will, by the
operation of the Holy Spirit, receive the benefits which the sacrament is
designed and fitted to convey. The Church is under the most solemn
obligation to provide for their Christian instruction.
(2) The Lord's Supper is the sacrament of communion with Christ and with
His people in which bread and wine are given and received in thankful
remembrance of Him and His sacrifice on the cross; and they who in faith
receive the same do, after a spiritual manner, partake of the body and
blood of the Lord Jesus Christ to their comfort, nourishment and growth in
grace. All may be admitted to the Lord's Supper who make a credible
profession of their faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and of obedience to His
law.
ARTICLE XVII. -Of the Ministry. .-We believe that Jesus Christ,
as the Supreme Head of the Church, has appointed therein a ministry of the
word and sacraments, and calls men to this ministry; that the Church, under
the guidance of the Holy Spirit, recognizes and chooses those whom He
calls, and should thereupon duly ordain them to the work of the ministry.
ARTICLE XVIII. -Of Church Order and Fellowship. .-We believe that
the Supreme and only Head of the Church is the Lord Jesus Christ; that its
worship, teaching, discipline and government should be administered
according to His will by persons chosen for their fitness and duly set
apart to their office; and that although the visible Church may contain
unworthy members and is liable to err, yet believers ought not lightly to
separate themselves from its communion, but are to live in fellowship with
their brethren, which fellowship is to be extended, as God gives
opportunity, to all who in every place call upon the name of the Lord
Jesus.
ARTICLE XIX. -Of the Resurrection, the Last Judgment and the Future
Life. .-We believe that there shall be a resurrection of the dead,
both of the just and of the unjust, through the power of the Son of God,
who shall come to judge the living and the dead; that the finally
impenitent shall go away into eternal punishment and the righteous into
life eternal.
ARTICLE XX. -Of Christian Service and the Final Triumph. .-We
believe that it is our duty as disciples and servants of Christ, to further
the extension of His Kingdom, to do good unto all men, to maintain the
public and private worship of God, to hallow the Lords' Day, to preserve
the inviolability of marriage and the sanctity of the family, to uphold the
just authority of the State, and so to live in all honesty, purity and
charity that our lives shall testify of Christ. We joyfully receive the
word of Christ, bidding His people go into all the world and make disciples
of all nations, declaring unto them that God was in Christ reconciling the
world unto Himself, and that He will have all men to be saved, and come to
the knowledge of the truth. We confidently believe that by His power and
grace all His enemies shall finally be overcome, and the kingdoms of this
world be made the Kingdom of our God and of His Christ.
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POLITY
The Joint Committee, after an examination of the forms of church
government of the negotiating Churches and the practical working thereof,
is greatly gratified to find:
1. That while the officers and courts of the negotiating Churches may
bear different names, there is a substantial degree of similarity in the
duties and functions of these officers and courts.
2. That, engaged in the same work, with the same object in view, and
earnestly endeavouring to meet the conditions confronting the Churches in
Canada, the negotiating Churches have been steadily approximating more
nearly to each other, both in forms of church government and methods of
administration.
3. That there are distinctive elements in each which would add to the
efficiency of a united Church, and which can be preserved with great
advantage in the form of polity to be adopted for The United Church.
4. That in this view it is possible to provide for substantial local
freedom, and, at the same time secure the benefits of a strong connexional
tie and co-operative efficiency.
The following recommendations are submitted as setting forth the Polity
proposed for The United Church of Canada.
I.-THE CHURCH
1. The members of The United Church shall be the members of the
negotiating Churches, and such others as may hereafter become members.
2. The unit of organization for The United Church shall be The Pastoral
Charge. A pastoral charge may consist of more than one local church; a
local church is a body of persons meeting for public worship in one place.
3. The governing bodies or courts of the Church, higher than those of the
pastoral charge, shall be:
(a) The Presbytery.
(b) The Conference.
(c) The General Council.
II.-THE PASTORAL CHARGE (CIRCUIT OR CONGREGATION)
A.-Charges existing previous to the Union
4. In the management of their local affairs the various churches,
charges, circuits or congregations of the negotiating Churches shall be
entitled to continue the organization and practices (including those
practices relating to membership, church ordinances, Sunday schools and
Young People's Societies) enjoyed by them at the time of the union, subject
in general affairs to the legislation, principles and discipline of The
United Church. Their representatives in the next higher governing body or
court shall be chosen as at present.
5. The plan of organization prescribed for pastoral charges to be formed
subsequent to the union may at any
time be adopted by any church, charge, circuit or congregation existing at
the time of the union.
6. Subject to the provisions of the next succeeding paragraph hereof, all
property, real and personal, under the jurisdiction of the Parliament of
Canada held in trust for or to the use of a church, charge, circuit or
congregation of any of the negotiating Churches, shall be held by trustees
appointed by or on behalf of such church, charge, circuit or congregation,
upon trusts set forth and declared in a Model Trust Deed. This Model Trust
Deed should be a schedule to the Act, and should contain, among others, a
provision to the following effect: That the property is held for the
church, charge, circuit or congregation is a part of The United Church, and
that no property so held shall be sold, exchanged, or in any manner
encumbered, unless the Presbytery shall, at the instance of the church,
charge, circuit or congregation, have given its sanction, subject to an
appeal, if desired, to the Conference.
7. Any property or funds owned by a church, charge, circuit or
congregation at the time of the union solely for its own benefit, or vested
in trustees for the sole benefit of such church, charge, circuit or
congregation, and not for the denomination of which the said church,
charge, circuit or congregation formed a part, shall not be affected by the
legislation giving effect to the union or by any legislation of The United
Church without the consent of the church, charge, circuit or congregation
for which such property is held in trust.
8. Churches, charges, circuits, or congregations, received subsequent to
the union, into The United Church, with the approval of Presbyteries, shall
be entitled, if they so desire, to the privileges of sections 4, 5 and
7.
B.-Charges to be formed subsequent to the Union
9. The liberty of the pastoral charge shall be recognized to the fullest
extent compatible with:
(a) The oversight of the spiritual interests of the charge by the minister
(or ministers) and a body of men specially chosen and set apart or ordained
for that work, who shall jointly constitute the session;
(b) The efficient co-operation of the representatives of the various
departments of the work of the charge by means of a meeting to be held at
least quarterly;
(c) The hearty co-operation of the various pastoral charges in the general
work of the Church, and
(d) The exercise by the higher governing bodies or courts of their powers
and functions, hereinafter set forth.
10. New pastoral charges or local churches shall be formed with the
consent of a Presbytery by persons residing within its bounds, who declare
their adherence to the principles of The United Church, and their desire
for the formation of such charge or church. Missions may be organized as
pastoral charges by Presbytery of its own motion, or on the suggestion of
the Missionary Superintendent or the Minister, under such regulations as
the General Council may pass.
Before sanctioning the formation of a pastoral charge or local church, the
Presbytery shall be required to hear and consider the representations of
any pastoral charge that may be affected by the proposed action.
11. (a) The members of the Church entitled to all church privileges are
those who, on a profession of their faith in Jesus Christ and obedience to
Him, have been received into full membership. The children of such persons
and all baptized children are members of the Church, and it is their duty
and privilege, when they reach the age of discretion, to enter into full
membership. Admission to full membership, and granting of certificates of
removal, shall be by the action of the session, and by the action of those
in full membership where desired by the pastoral charge.
(b) The members of a local church who are entitled to vote at all meetings
are persons in full membership, whose names are on the roll of the church.
With the consent of these, adherents who contribute regularly to the
support of the church may vote on temporal matters.
12. The members of a local church shall meet annually, and more frequently
if they deem it advisable.
13. The Session shall have oversight of the spiritual interests of the
pastoral charge. The management of its temporal and financial affairs
shall be entrusted to a Committee of Stewards. The Official Board,
consisting of the Session and Committee of Stewards, with representatives
in full church membership of such other departments of church work as may
be agreed upon by the General Council, shall meet quarterly, and, more
frequently if they deem it advisable, for the consideration of matters of
joint interest.
14. The members of the session, other than the minister, shall be chosen
by those in full church membership, and shall hold office under regulations
to be passed by the General Council.
15. (a) It shall be the duty of the session to have the oversight of:
(1) The admission of persons into full membership, and the granting of
certificates of removal.
(2) The conduct of members, with power to exercise discipline.
(3) The administration of the sacraments.
(4) The religious training of the young, and the organization of meetings
for Christian fellowship, instruction and work.
(5) The order of public worship, including the service of praise and the
use of the church edifice.
(6) The care of the poor, and the visiting of the sick.
(b) It shall also be its duty:
(7) To receive and judge petitions, etc., from members.
(8) To transmit petitions, appeals, etc., to Presbytery.
(9) To recommend suitable laymen to Presbyteries for license to preach.
(10) To recommend suitable candidates for the ministry.
16. The stewards shall be chosen by the local church, and, wherever
practicable, should be persons in full membership.
It shall be the duty of the Committee of Stewards to secure contributions
for the purposes of the local church, and to disburse the moneys received
for these purposes.
17. It shall be the duty of the Official Board:
(1) To secure contributions for missionary and other general objects of
the Church.
(2) To select representatives, in full church membership, of the pastoral
charge to the Presbytery.
(3) To submit to the pastoral charge or local church for its consideration
reports on life and work, including a full statement of receipts and
expenditures, of indebtedness and of estimates for the ensuing year.
(4) To transmit from the pastoral charge, through the Presbytery, to the
Settlement Committee, representations concerning the pastoral relation.
(5) To attend to matters affecting the pastoral charge not assigned to any
of the other bodies.
18. All lands, premises and property acquired for the use of a local
church or a pastoral charge of The United Church, shall be held, used and
administered under the trusts of the above Model Trust Deed. (See "Polity,"
par. 6).
III.-THE PRESBYTERY
19. The Presbytery shall consist of:
(1) The ordained ministers within the bounds-
(a) Who are engaged in some department of church work; and
(b) Who have been placed on the roll by special enactment of the
Conference in accordance with regulations
to be made by the General Council.
(The rights to membership in Presbyteries, District Meetings, and
Associations enjoyed by ministers at the time of the union, shall be
conserved.)
(2) The elders, deacons, leaders or other non-ministerial representatives
of pastoral charges, within the bounds, equal in number to the number of
ministers, and chosen in accordance with regulations to be made by the
General Council.
20. It shall be the duty of the Presbytery:
(1) To have the oversight of the pastoral charges within its bounds,
review their records, and form new pastoral charges, or local churches.
(2) To receive and dispose of petitions and appeals from the lower
governing bodies or courts.
(3) To transmit petitions and appeals to the higher governing bodies or
courts.
(4) To license as preachers laymen who are duly recommended and who after
examinations are approved.
(5) To superintend the education of students looking forward to the
ministry, and to certify them to theological colleges.
(6) To enquire, each year, into the personal character, doctrinal beliefs
and general fitness of candidates for the ministry, recommended by
sessions, official boards or local churches; and, when they have fulfilled
the prescribed requirements, to license them to preach and to recommend,
them for the ordination of the Conference.
(7) To induct or install ministers.
(8) To deal with matters sent down by the higher governing bodies or
courts.
(9) To adopt measures for promoting the religious life of the pastoral
charges within its bounds.
(10) To select non-ministerial representatives to the Conference, of
whom at least a majority shall have been previously chosen by pastoral
charges to represent them in Presbyteries, and to nominate representatives
on the Conference Settlement Committee.
(11) To have the oversight of the conduct of ministers within its
bounds.
IV.-THE CONFERENCE.
21. The Conference shall consist of the ministers on the rolls of the
Presbyteries within its bounds, and an equal number of non-ministerial
representatives of pastoral charges chosen as provided for in subsection 20
(par. 10).
22. It shall be the duty of the Conference:
(1) To meet every year.
(2) To determine the number and boundaries of the Presbyteries within its
bounds, have oversight of them, and review their records.
(3) To receive and dispose of appeals and petitions, subject to the usual
right of appeal.
(4) To see that, as far as possible, every pastoral charge within its
bounds shall have a pastorate without interruption, and that every
effective minister shall have a pastoral charge, and to effect this through
a Settlement Committee which it shall appoint annually.
(5) To examine and ordain candidates for the ministry who have fulfilled
the prescribed requirements and have been recommended by Presbyteries.
(6) To receive ministers from other Churches subject to the regulations of
the General Council.
(7) To deal with matters referred to it by the General Council.
(8) To select an equal number of ministerial and nonministerial
representatives to the General Council.
(9) To have oversight of the religious life of the Church within its
bounds, and to adopt such measures as may be judged necessary for its
promotion.
V.-THE GENERAL COUNCIL.
23. The General Council shall consist of an equal number of ministers and
non-ministerial representatives chosen by the Conferences. Its regular
meeting shall be held every second year. Its presiding officer shall be
the chief executive officer of the Church, and during his term of office he
may be relieved of his pastoral or other duties.
24. The General Council shall have full power:
(1) To determine the number and boundaries of the Conferences, have
oversight of them, and review their records.
(2) (a) To legislate on matters respecting the doctrine, worship,
membership and government of the Church, subject to the conditions: First,
that before any rule or law relative to these matters can become a
permanent law, it must receive the approval of a majority of the
Presbyteries, and, if advisable, pastoral charges also; Second, that no
terms of admission to full membership shall be described other than those
laid down in the New Testament; and, Third, that the freedom of worship at
present enjoyed in the negotiating Churches shall not be interfered with in
The United Church.
(b) To legislate on all matters respecting property, subject to the
limitations elsewhere provided in this Basis of Union, and subject also to
the approval of the Conference in which the property is situated.
(3) To prescribe and regulate the course of study of candidates for the
ministry and to regulate the admission of ministers from other Churches.
(4) To receive and dispose of petitions, memorials, etc.
(5) To dispose of appeals.
(6) To determine the missionary policy of the Church, and to provide for
the conduct of its missions.
(7) To have charge of the colleges of the Church, and to take what
measures are deemed advisable for the promotion of Christian education.
(8) To appoint committees or boards and officers for the different
departments of church work, and to receive their reports and give them
instructions and authority.
(9) To correspond with other Churches.
(10) And in general to enact such legislation and adopt such measures
as may tend to promote true godliness, repress immorality, preserve the
unity and well-being of the Church, and advance the kingdom of Christ
throughout the world.
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THE MINISTRY
I.-PASTORAL OFFICE, INCLUDING TERM OF SERVICE.
Recognizing the desirability of preserving the essence of both the settled
pastorate and the itinerancy, the Joint Committee is of the opinion that a
harmony of both principles is possible, and that, the best features of both
systems may be retained. We, therefore, recommend as follows:
1. The pastoral relation shall be without a time limit.
2. The policy of the Church shall be that every pastoral charge shall
have, as far as possible, a pastorate without
interruption, and that every effective minister shall have a pastoral
charge.
3. There shall be for each Conference a Settlement Committee, consisting
of ministers and laymen, and appointed annually by the Conference. On this
Committee each Presbytery shall be represented. It shall be the duty of
this Committee to consider all applications for settlement from ministers
and pastoral charges within the district over which it has jurisdiction.
For this purpose it shall meet annually before the meeting of the
Conference next after that by which it was appointed.
4. A minister by his own action and a pastoral charge through its
constitutional representatives may, by such a date before the annual
meeting of the Settlement Committee as the General Council shall determine,
seek a change of pastoral relation by means of an application through the
Presbytery to the Settlement Committee. All such applications shall be in
writing.
5. Any pastoral charge, in view of a vacancy, may extend a call or
invitation to any properly qualified minister or ministers, but the right
of appointment shall rest with the Settlement Committee, which shall report
to the Conference for information only.
6. (a) When a pastoral charge about to become vacant at the end of the
Conference year, fails to give a call or invitation within the time
specified by the General Council, the Settlement Committee shall make the
appointment.
(b) When a pastoral charge becomes vacant during the Conference year
through death or other emergency, the Presbytery concerned shall confer
with the charge itself or with its constitutional representatives, and
thereafter may arrange a supply for the remainder of the Conference year.
7. The Settlement Committee shall also have authority to initiate
correspondence with ministers and pastoral charges with a view to
completing arrangements to secure necessary and desirable settlements.
(a) Any minister shall have the right to appear before the Settlement
Committee to represent his case in regard to his appointment; and any
pastoral charge or Official Board may also appear by not more than two
representatives, properly authorized in writing, appointed from among its
members at a regular meeting,. or at a special meeting of which proper
notice has been given;
(b) When a minister chosen by a pastoral charge cannot be settled, the
charge or its constitutional representatives may place other names before
the Settlement Committee;
(c) While the right of appointment shall rest with the Settlement
Committee it shall comply as far as possible with the expressed wishes of
ministers and pastoral charges.
8. There shall also be a committee for the transfer of ministers from one
Conference to another, which may be composed of the presiding officer of
the General Council of the Church, who shall be the convener and chairman
of the committee, together with the presiding officers of the several
Conferences. This committee shall have authority to transfer ministers and
candidates for the ministry from one Conference to another, in harmony with
the plan outlined in sections 3-7.
9. The minister in charge shall be the presiding officer of the Session
and of the Official Board.
10. Every minister or candidate for the ministry, duly appointed regular
pastor to a pastoral charge, shall have the right to conduct services in
the church, churches or other places of worship in connection with said
charge; and the right of occupancy of the manse or parsonage in connection
with said charge, subject, however, to the rules and regulations of The
United Church.
II.-TRAINING FOR THE MINISTRY
1. No candidate for the ministry shall be received unless he has been
first recommended by a session, official board, or local church.
2. The duty of inquiry into the personal character .doctrinal beliefs,
and general fitness of candidates for the ministry recommended by sessions,
official boards or local churches, shall be laid upon the Presbytery and
such inquiry shall be repeated each year until they are recommended to the
Conference for ordination.
3. (1) The attainment of a B.A. decree including Greek, to be followed by
three years in the study of Theology, is
strongly recommended by the Church. Before ordination every candidate
shall spend twelve months in preaching and pastoral work.
(2) In cases where the B.A.,degree is unattainable, there shall be two
alternative courses, both starting from University matriculation.
(a) Three years, at least, in Arts, followed by three years in Theology.
Before ordination every candidate shall spend twelve months in preaching
and pastoral work.
(b) Two years' preaching under the supervision of a Presbytery, with
appropriate studies, and four years of a mixed Arts and Theological course
in college.
4. Suggested Curricula:
(1) Course of study in Arts under (2) (a). English Language and
Literature, three years. Two languages, one of which must be Greek, two
years in each.
Philosophy, including Psychology, Logic and Ethics two years. Two other
subjects from the Arts curriculum at the option of the student-one year in
each.
(2) Course of study under (2) (b):
(a) While under supervision of Presbytery, and engaged in preaching for
two years:
English Bible; New Testament in Greek; Elements of Theology-Life of
Christ; History of Missions; English Literature; Practical Training,
including preparation of sermons.
(b) Four years of mixed Arts and Theological Course in College.
The Arts Course.-English Language and Literature; Philosophy,
including Psychology; Logic and Ethics; one language; any one option from
the Arts Course.
Theological Course.-Homiletics; Pastoral Theology; Systematic
Theology; New Testament Languages and Literature; Old Testament Literature
(English Bible); Church History; Christian Ethics and Sociology.
5. The following is suggested as a comprehensive course in Theology, from
which may be selected subjects sufficient to constitute the three years'
course in Theology as under 3 (1) and (2) (a):
Old Testament Language and Literature, including Textual Criticism.
Exegesis, Biblical Theology, Introduction, Old Testament History and Old
Testament Canon; New Testament Language and Literature, including Textual
Criticism, Exegesis, Biblical Theology, Introduction, New Testament History
and New Testament Canon; English Bible; Church History, including
Symbolics; Systematic Theology; Apologetics, including Philosophy of
Religion, History of Religion, and Comparative Religion; Christian Ethics
and Sociology; Christian Missions; Practical Training, including
preparation and delivery of sermons, preparation for and conduct of public
worship, administration of the Sacraments, Church Law, the art of teaching
and Sunday-school work, public speaking and voice training. Practical
Training is to be understood to include not only instruction in these
subjects but actual drill wherever the subject admits of it.
6. Provision shall be made in the Theological Colleges for instruction in
the subjects of the above suggested course in Theology as far as
practicable.
7. In every College special attention shall be given to Practical
Training as specified and described above.
8. From the above (5) comprehensive course in Theology the Church shall
prescribe certain subjects as compulsory, leaving others to the option of
the students in consultation with the College authorities.
9. Candidates for the ministry who have entered on their course in
Theology shall be allowed to complete it on the conditions which obtained
when they began, but this privilege shall expire within three years from
the date of the union.
The General Council shall possess the power of ordaining any person to
the ministry if it sees fit so to do.
III.-THE REGULATIONS OF A MINISTER TO THE DOCTRINES OF THE CHURCH
1. The duty of final inquiry into the personal character, doctrinal
beliefs, and general fitness of candidates for the Ministry presenting
themselves for ordination or for reception as ministers of The United
Church, shall be laid upon the Conference.
2. These candidates shall be examined on the Statement of Doctrine of The
United Church, and shall, before ordination, satisfy the examining body
that they are in essential agreement therewith, and that as ministers of
the Church they accept the statement as in substance agreeable to the
teaching of the Holy Scriptures.
3. Further, in the ordination service before the Conference these
candidates shall answer the following questions:
(1) Do you believe yourself to be a child of God, through faith in our
Lord Jesus Christ?
(2) Do you believe yourself to be called of God to the office of the
Christian ministry, and your chief motives to be zeal for the glory of God,
love for the Lord Jesus Christ, and desire for the salvation of men?
(3) Are you persuaded that the Holy Scriptures contain sufficiently all
doctrines required for eternal salvation in our Lord Jesus Christ, and are
you resolved out of the said Scriptures to instruct the people committed to
your charge, and to teach nothing which is not agreeable thereto?
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ADMINISTRATION
The Joint Committee, after careful consideration of the Missionary,
Educational, and other connexional enterprises of the negotiating Churches,
submits the following recommendations in relation thereto:
I.-MISSIONS
1. In the administration of the mission work of The United Church there
shall be two departments: (a) Home, including all the mission work within
the Dominion of Canada, Newfoundland and the Bermudas; (b) Foreign,
including the missions already established or that may be established in
other countries.
2. For the oversight and administration of these two departments there
shall be two Boards to be known as the Board of Home Missions and the Board
of Foreign Missions, to be elected in such a manner and endowed with such
powers as the General Council may determine.
3. In recognition of the very valuable services rendered by the Woman's
Missionary Societies, the union, constitution and lines of work of these
societies shall be determined by the joint action of their Boards, subject
to the approval of the General Council.
4. There shall be placed under the administration of the Home Mission
Board of The United Church the moneys now administered under the caption of
the Sustentation Fund, and Church and Parsonage Aid Fund of the Methodist
Church; the Home Mission and Augmentation Funds, French Evangelization
Fund, and Church and Manse Fund (except that under the Foreign Mission
Board) of the Presbyterian Church; the Home Mission Fund of the
Congregational Churches; and such portion of the Mission Fund now raised by
the Methodist Church, and the Foreign Mission Board of the Presbyterian
Church, as is now expended in Canada, Newfoundland and the Bermudas.
5. There shall be placed under the administration of the Foreign Mission
Board of the United Church the Foreign Mission Fund of the Congregational
Churches and that portion of the Mission Fund of the Methodist Church and
of the Foreign Mission Fund of the Presbyterian Church now expended in
other lands.
6. There shall be placed under the administration of the Board of Social
Service and Evangelism and the Board of Sunday Schools and Young People's
Societies of the United Church the funds now raised for the work of the
Departments of Social Service and Evangelism and the Departments of Sunday
Schools and Young People's Societies of the negotiating churches.
7. Inasmuch as certain expenses in connection with the various courts of
the Church will have to be met, the ways and means of raising these funds
shall be left to the General Council.
II.-PUBLISHING INTERESTS.
It shall be left to the General Council of The United Church to determine
how far the publications now issued by the negotiating Churches shall be
amalgamated.
III.-COLLEGES.
The Colleges at present connected with the negotiating Churches exist,
each under its own charter, and in various relations to the respective
Churches. These relations affect, first, the appointment of the Governing
Board, second, the appointment of Professors in the Faculty of Theology;
third, assistance or maintenance from funds controlled by the Church.
1. All the Colleges connected with the three negotiating Churches shall,
as far as possible, sustain the same relation to The United Church as,
under their charter, they now sustain to their respective Churches, until
the General Council shall determine otherwise and necessary legislation
shall give effect to changes made thereby.
2. The policy of the Church shall be the maintenance of a limited number
of thoroughly equipped Colleges, due regard being paid to the needs of
different parts of the country, and in furtherance of this policy
amalgamation shall be effected as soon as possible in localities where two
or more Colleges are doing the same class of work.
3. In addition to the Governing Boards of the several Colleges there
shall be appointed by the General Council a Board of Education, which shall
have such a general oversight of the Educational interests of the Church as
the General Council may assign to it, and carry out such measures as may be
decided in reference thereto.
4. There shall be a general Educational Fund, administered by the Board
of Education, for the purpose of supplementing the revenues of. the
several. colleges and assisting students in their preparation for the
ministry, and for such other purposes and under such regulations as the
General Council may from time to time determine.
5. The several educational institutions shall be encouraged to obtain
permanent endowments for their maintenance, may receive contributions for
this and other purposes at any time, and, upon receiving the consent of the
Board of Education, may proceed to appeal for such funds.
IV.-BENEVOLENT FUNDS.
Whereas there exist, in some form, in all the negotiating Churches funds
to aid aged and retired ministers, and widows and orphans of ministers,
provision for similar purposes shall be made in the constitution of The
United Church by such amalgamation or modification of existing methods as
may be found practicable; and such provision shall embrace the following
particulars:
1. The rights of present and prospective claimants on existing funds in
any of the negotiating churches shall be adequately protected. To this
end:
(1) The present, capital investments of the various benevolent funds of
the negotiating Churches, and the income now contributed to those funds by
publishing interests shall be combined into a "common trust," if
practicable. The rights of present claimants and of prospective claimants
(the latter being computed as of the date of the union) shall be a first
charge on the revenue from this trust. If it be found that differences in
the constitution and administration of the several funds are such as to
necessitate separate trusts, instead of a common trust, this shall be no
bar to the carrying out of the general plan, because in that case their
revenues shall be combined.
(2) The General Council of The United Church shall provide for (a) the
'assessing of each minister who is a member of any of the existing funds at
the date of the union and of all ministers received into or ordained in The
United Church after the union, on the basis of stipend or age, or both
stipend and age, as the General Council may determine, and (b) the
collecting of contributions, which shall be obligatory upon all local
churches, based upon an equitable allocation or assessment under the rules
to be formulated by the General Council, the minimum of such allocation or
assessment being the amount which, together with the revenue from said
trust or trusts and the foregoing assessment upon ministers, is requisite
to make good the claims of claimants upon the Superannuation Fund to be
instituted by the General Council.
2. Claimants on the proposed Fund shall include the following:
(a) All ministers who, at the time of the union, are beneficiaries of
existing funds.
(b) All ministers who, at the time of the union, are regular contributors
to existing funds on the scale provided by their respective denominations.
(c) All ministers' widows and orphans who are now, or may hereafter
become, entitled to participate in the proposed Fund.
(d) All ministers, not members of or contributors to existing funds, who
may signify their desire to become members of and contributors to the
proposed Fund, on the basis of payments sanctioned by the General Council
of The United Church.
Provision shall be made whereby ministers so applying may, by a certain
scale of payments, be entitled to have their claim upon the proposed Fund
date from the time of their reception into the ministry of any of the
negotiating Churches instead of from the date of the union.
(e) All ministers received into or ordained in the Church after the union
inasmuch as they shall be required at the time of their reception or
ordination to become members of and contributors to the proposed Fund.
3. The sources of revenue of the proposed Fund shall be the following:
(a) Contributions of ministers who are members of said Fund at its
inception, or afterwards become such, on a scale to be adopted by the
General Council of the Church.
(b) Offerings in all local churches based upon an equitable allocation to
be made by the Board of Management of said Fund, under regulations
sanctioned by the General Council.
(c) Legacies and donations given for the purpose.
(d) Such grants from the profits of the publishing interests of the Church
as may from time to time be determined under regulations to be framed by
the General Council.
(e) Proceeds of any investments that may be made in the interests of the
said Fund.
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SCHEDULE B.
TRUSTS OF MODEL DEED
AND it is hereby declared that the said Trustees and their successors or
the Trustee or Trustees for the time being acting in the trusts herein
shall hold the said lands upon the following trusts:-
COLUMN TWO
1. For the use and benefit of the said church, charge, circuit, preaching
station or congregation, as the case may be (hereinafter called the
congregation), as a part of The United Church of Canada, as well for the
site of a church, chapel, meeting house, school, manse, parsonage or
minister's dwelling or other place for religious, charitable, educational,
congregational or social purposes, glebe or. burial ground, as the said
congregation may direct, as for the support and maintenance of public
worship, and the propagation of Christian knowledge, according to the
doctrine, discipline, by-laws, rules and regulations of The United Church
of Canada.
2. And upon further trust, out of all moneys received by them for that
purpose, to build, erect, add to, alter, repair, enlarge or rebuild any of
the buildings aforesaid from time to time as they may deem expedient, and
where they deem it necessary, to take down and remove any of said buildings
for any of the purposes aforesaid
3. And upon further trust, that they shall and will obey, perform and
fulfil and suffer. to be obeyed, performed and fulfilled with respect to
the said lands, and to any building or buildings at any time thereon, or to
any burial grounds, the lawful orders and directions respectively of the
Official Board of the said congregation, the Presbytery and Conference
respectively within whose bounds and under whose ecclesiastical
jurisdiction the said congregation shall from time to time be, and of the
General Council of The United Church of Canada.
4. And upon further trust, to permit, in conformity with the doctrines,
discipline, by-laws, rules and regulations of The United Church of Canada
and not otherwise, the following:-
(a) The use of the said church, chapel or meeting-house, as a place of
religious worship by a congregation of The United Church of Canada and for
meetings or services of religious or spiritual character or such benevolent
or congregational purposes as may be approved by the Session of such
congregation, and the conduct of public worship and the various services
and ordinances of religious worship therein by the minister of the said
congregation or, with the approval of the Session or of the said minister,
by any other minister of The United Church of Canada or by any minister of
any other religious denomination.
(6) The performance of burial services in any burial ground or cemetery
belonging to or under the control of the congregation;
(c) The use of the manse, parsonage or minister's dwelling or dwellings
with the appurtenances thereof by the minister or ministers of the
congregation free from payment of any rent;
(d) The use of any church, chapel, meeting-house, school or other building
for the purposes of a Sunday school at such hours and times as will not
interfere with public worship, and
(e) The use of any buildings erected upon the said lands, other than a
church, chapel or meeting-house, for such purposes as may from time to time
be approved by the Session of the congregation.
5. And upon further trust, to let any pews and seats at a reasonable
rent, if so authorized by the Official Board of the congregation, with
power to delegate any such letting to any person or persons whom they may
appoint for that purpose; to let any buildings, not required for purposes
of worship, at a reasonable rent; and if there shall be a burial ground or
cemetery, to sell or let vaults, tombs or burial plots at a reasonable
price or rent; and to account for and pay all moneys received in respect of
any such letting or sale, less any expense incurred in the execution of
these trusts, to the Treasurer of the congregation, or should there be no
Treasurer, then to the Committee of Stewards of the congregation, or such
person as shall be designated by the said Committee for the purpose of
receiving the same. In case the Trustees are of opinion that any manse,
parsonage or minister's dwelling is not required for the use of the
minister or ministers of the congregation, or is not desirable for the use
of such minister or ministers, they may, with the consent in writing of
minister or ministers, let the same and use and apply the rent derived
therefrom towards paying the board and lodging of such minister or
ministers or the rent for a more suitable and convenient residence for such
minister or ministers.
6. The Trustees or a majority of them may, but only with the consent in
writing of the Presbytery within the bounds of which the lands are situate
(such consent to be under the hand of the presiding officer or secretary or
clerk thereof), sell the said lands or any part thereof either by public
sale or private contract and either for cash or upon credit and upon such
terms as to price and for such price and upon such terms as to payment or
otherwise as they may deem expedient; mortgage, hypothecate or exchange the
said lands or any part thereof; let any church, chapel or meeting-house
upon the same for such rent and upon such terms as they may deem expedient;
and make all such conveyances, mortgages, leases and assurances as may be
required to complete any such sale, mortgage, hypothecation, exchange or
lease. The said Trustees after first paying or otherwise providing for all
indebtedness of the Trustees shall apply the moneys arising from such sale,
mortgage, hypothecation, lease or exchange for the purposes of such
congregation as the Official Board thereof shall direct, but should such
congregation cease to exist as an organized body, such proceeds, less any
expense incurred in the execution of these trusts, shall be paid to The
United Church of Canada to be applied for such purposes for the benefit of
The United Church of Canada as the Conference within the bounds of which
the said lands are situate may determine under the by-laws, rules and
regulations of the General Council. Every application by Trustees for the
consent of a Presbytery as aforesaid be in writing and shall state the
purpose for which the moneys arising from such intended sale, mortgage,
hypothecation, lease or exchange will be applied. Any decision of a
Presbytery with regard to the sale, mortgage, hypothecation, lease or
exchange of the said lands or any part thereof shall be subject to appeal
to the Conference within the bounds of which the said lands are situate, at
the instance of not fewer than any five members of the congregation
affected thereby. In every ease where the consent of such Presbytery or
Conference has been obtained as aforesaid it shall not be incumbent upon
the purchaser, mortgagee or lessee of the said lands or of any part thereof
to enquire into the necessity, expediency or propriety of any such sale,
mortgage, hypothecation, lease or exchange, or to see to the application of
the moneys paid to the Trustees. A certificate of the secretary, or clerk
of any Presbytery or Conference that any such consent has been given shall
be sufficient and conclusive evidence of such consent.
7. The said Trustees shall keep a proper book or books of account showing
all moneys received and disbursed by them, and a book or books of minutes
showing correctly all minutes of their meetings and of resolutions passed
and proceedings taken thereat, and such book or books shall at all
reasonable times be open for inspection by the minister, in charge of the
congregation and by the Chairman of the Committee of Stewards, and any
person or persons named by them or either of them, and the said minister or
the said chairman and any person named by them or either of them as
aforesaid shall have the right to make such copies or abstracts of or
extracts from the said accounts or minutes, as he or they may desire, and
upon request from the Committee of Stewards the Trustees shall submit all
books of accounts and minutes, and all vouchers, receipts, papers and
documents relating to the said accounts, for audit by the Committee of
Stewards, or such person or persons as the said Committee may appoint for
the purpose.
8. Every meeting of Trustees for considering the making of any alteration
of or addition to any building on the said lands, or any part thereof, or
for considering the sale, mortgage, hypothecation, lease or exchange of the
said lands, or any part thereof, except the letting or sale of pews, seats,
tombs or burial plots, or for considering any litigation or legal
proceedings in connection with the trust estate, shall be deemed a special
meeting, and each member shall be entitled to seven days' notice in writing
thereof, specifying the time, place and purpose of such meeting. Such
notice shall be either personally delivered to each Trustee, or mailed to
or delivered to his or her at his or her usual place of abode or business.
Ordinary meetings may be called at any time by giving at least one day's
notice in writing to each Trustee in the manner aforesaid, or by public
announcement at a service for public worship at least one day prior to such
meeting. Meetings may be called by the minister in charge of the
congregation, or by at least two of the Trustees. Notwithstanding anything
herein contained no meeting or any business transacted thereat shall be
invalid by reason of any lack or defect of service of notice arising from
inability to ascertain the usual place of abode or business of any Trustee.
All questions shall be determined by the majority vote of the Trustees
present at a meeting, and the Chairman shall have a casting vote in the
event of a tie. The minister of such congregation shall have the right to
preside as Chairman at all meetings of the Trustees and may appoint a
deputy to act in his place in his absence, and in the absence of the
minister and of any such deputy the Trustees present may elect a Chairman
from among themselves.
9. The number of said Trustees shall not be fewer than three or more than
fifteen provided that where the number of existing Trustees is more than
fifteen all such Trustees shall remain in office but that no vacancy in the
office of trustee shall be filled until the number of Trustees is reduced
below fifteen, in which case the number shall not again exceed fifteen. In
case any of the said Trustees or any Trustee appointed under this provision
shall, during his or her term of office, die, resign or, having been, cease
to be a member of The United Church of Canada in full communion, or remove
to such a distance, or fail to attend meetings for such period not less
than one year, as shall in the opinion of his or her co-trustees expressed
by a two-thirds vote of said co-trustees, render it inexpedient for him or
her to remain a Trustee, or in case the said congregation shall think
proper to remove a Trustee from his or her office as Trustee, it shall be
lawful for the said congregation, at any meeting called by notice from the
pulpit during public worship, on each of the two next preceding Sundays on
which public worship is held, to declare by the votes of two-thirds of the
members then present that such Trustee has ceased to be a Trustee of the
said congregation, and such person shall thereupon cease to be a Trustee,
and at the same meeting it shall be lawful for the said congregation by a
like vote to appoint a successor to such Trustee provided, however, that no
Trustee who is personally liable for payment of any indebtedness in
respect of the property of a congregation shall be removed without his
consent unless indemnified to his satisfaction in respect of any such
liability and unless at least eight days' notice in writing of such meeting
shall have been mailed to each of the Trustees at his or her last known
address, which notice shall state the business to be transacted at such
meeting. If no successor shall be appointed at such meeting a meeting may
be called in like manner for the purpose of filling such vacancy, and at
such meeting a new Trustee or new Trustees (as the case may require) shall
be appointed by the votes of the majority of the members then present. The
notice calling a meeting for the purpose of declaring or filling a vacancy
or vacancies in the office of Trustee shall be read from the pulpit by the
minister or person officiating as minister, at the request of any Trustee,
or of any seven members of the congregation, and every such meeting may be
adjourned from time to time by the vote of the majority of the members
present. During any vacancy in the office of Trustee, the remaining
Trustees, not being fewer than three in number, shall have all the powers
of the full board. A majority of the Trustees shall form a quorum save
when the number of Trustees exceeds nine, in which case five shall form a
quorum. The majority of the Trustees shall be members of The United Church
of Canada.
A minute of every such appointment shall be entered in a book to be kept
for the purpose, and signed by the person presiding at the meeting, and
such minute so signed shall be sufficient evidence of the fact that the
person or persons therein named was or were appointed and elected at such
meeting, but any omission or neglect to make or sign such minute shall not
invalidate such appointment or election.
And it is hereby further declared that in case there shall be at any time
fewer than three Trustees, the presiding officer or clerk of the Presbytery
within whose bounds and under whose jurisdiction the said congregation
shall be, shall, with the remaining Trustee or Trustees, be the Trustees
under these presents until the full Board is duly appointed, and at any
time thereafter the Presbytery may cause notice to be given from the pulpit
on two consecutive Sundays requiring the said congregation to proceed with
the appointment of new Trustees. And if the said congregation shall not in
the meantime have appointed new Trustees in the manner hereinbefore
provided, it shall be lawful for the said Presbytery at any time after four
weeks from the last giving of such notice, by resolution duly entered in
the minutes of the Presbytery, to appoint new Trustees. Such appointment
shall be communicated to the congregation by notice from the pulpit as soon
as conveniently may be thereafter, and from the time of such communication
the Trustee or Trustees so appointed shall be a Trustee or Trustees
hereunder.
And it is further declared that if at any time there shall cease to be an
organized congregation entitled to the use, benefit and enjoyment of the
said lands, it shall be lawful at any time or times for the said Presbytery
to fill any vacancy in the number of Trustees, and the said lands shall
thenceforth be held subject to such trusts and for such purposes for the
benefit of The United Church of Canada as the Conference within the bounds
of which the said lands are situate may determine under the by-laws, rules
and regulations of the General Council.
10. A Trustee shall not be responsible for the failure of any investment
or security made or taken by the Trustees or for anything done in
connection with the trust estate except for his own acts and to account for
any moneys coming into his own hands, and shall not be liable for injury
done by others to the said trust premises, or to any part thereof.
11. In congregations existing previous to the Union which have not adopted
the plan of organization prescribed for pastoral charges as provided by the
Basis of Union, the words "Official Board" and "Committee of Stewards" and
"Session" in this schedule shall mean such Board or Committee or other body
respectively discharging similar functions in such congregations, as to
which in case of doubt the opinion of the Presbytery to which such
congregation belongs shall be final and conclusive.
SCHEDULE C.
THE COLLEGES.
Westminster Hall.
Robertson College.
Presbyterian Theological College at Saskatoon.
Moose Jaw College.
Manitoba College.
Knox College.
Queen's Theological College.
The Ottawa Ladies' College.
The Presbyterian College, Montreal.
The Presbyterian College, Halifax.
Columbian Methodist College.
Ryerson College.
Alberta College North.
Alberta College South.
Mount Royal College.
Regina College.
Wesley College.
Victoria College.
Albert College.
Alma Ladies' College.
Ontario Ladies' College.
Wesleyan Theological College.
The Stanstead Wesleyan College.
The Mount Allison University.
The Mount Allison Ladies' College.
The Mount Allison Academy.
The Congregational College of British Columbia,
The Congregational College of Canada.
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