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the New School Church received the Con- 

 fession was precisely that claimed as the 

 true one by Dr. Hodge ; viz., the Calvin- 

 istic or Reformed. Both articles were 

 published in pamphlet form, and scattered 

 far and wide, and both, says the late Dr. 

 Wm. Adams, " tended to the same result, — 

 the conviction of the substantial oneness of 

 both bodies in the receiving and adopting 

 the Confession of Faith in the true, honest, 

 liberal, common-sense and Presbyterian 

 significance of those words." The bases 

 for reunion as amended were adopted by 

 the assemblies in New York in May, 1869, 

 and were submitted to the presbyteries. 

 At an adjourned meeting of the two as- 

 semblies the next November in Pittsburg, 

 the returns from the presbyteries showed 

 an overwhelming majority in favor of re- 

 union, and in May, 1870, the first reunited 

 assembly met in Philadelphia amid the 

 rejoicings of innumerable saints and the 

 congratulations of sister churches all over 

 the world. 1 



1 Presbyterian Reunion Memorial Volume, N. Y. 

 1870, esp. pp. 246-406. This volume gives all the facts 

 and documents, and selections from addresses, etc. See 

 also J. F. Stearns, Historical Sketch of the Reunion, in 

 the American Presbyterian Review, July, 1869. 



