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Old 12-10-2007, 06:53 PM
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Originally Posted by Dieter Schneider View Post
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.
The fact that a body assumes the name of "The Free Church of Scotland" does not automatically entitle it to be regarded as "The Church of Scotland Free."
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