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The Old School Assembly passed resolu- 

 tions looking toward organic union, and 

 appointed a committee to act with a similar 

 committee of the New School Assembly. 

 It was a thrilling moment in the history of 

 the Church of God when the Rev. Dr. 

 Phineas D. Gurley, of Washington, and 

 the lion. Lincoln Clark, of Detroit, walked 

 into the New School Assembly bearing 

 these overtures. With equal cordiality 

 and readiness the New School Church met 

 the advances of the Old School brethren. 

 In 1867 a plan for reunion was submitted 

 by this committee to both assemblies for 

 discussion during another year. At this 

 juncture an ominous voice in dissent was 

 heard. In the Princeton Review for July, 

 1867, Dr. Chas. Hodge objected to the 

 plan on the ground that the New School 

 Church does not now receive and never 

 has received all the doctrines of the Cal- 

 vinistic system in their integrity, and that, 

 therefore, union would not only be inexpe- 

 dient, but morally wrong. This was met 

 by an article in the American Presbyter- 

 ian Review for October, 1867, by Dr. 

 Henry B. Smith, denying this charge, and 

 attempting to prove that the sense in which 



