Religion: In Canada

It became certain last week that Canada will continue to contain Presbyterians.

After long years of debate, Canada’s Parliament passed a bill, last spring, officially uniting the Dominion Presbyterians, Congregationalists, Methodists. But each and every church in each of the denominations may decide for itself whether or not to accept the union. It now appears that the number of Congregational and Methodist churches which will vote to remain outside the union will be insufficient to warrant the perpetuation of those two denominations in Canada. But of Presbyterians there are irreconcilables aplenty. Nearly a third of the Presbyterian churches will probably hold aloof from the union.

Meanwhile, the example of Canada is being preached throughout the world by advocates of church union.