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Originally Posted by VirginiaHuguenot "Though we quit the Establishment, we go out on the Establishment principle; we quit a vitiated Establishment but would rejoice in returning to a pure one. We are advocates for a national recognition of religion — and we are not voluntaries." -- Thomas Chalmers, during the Disruption of 1843 |  A fundamental Free Church distinctive. |
The Disruption, strictly speaking, was a secession! (cf. the Signing of the Act of Separation; the painting by David Octavius Hill is, of course, inaccurate) Of course, there is now official dialogue between the two Presbyterian bodies. What Chalmers would have made of this is any one's guess.