A Hundred Years - Ago The General Assembly of the Church
of Scotland met on Thursday week. Dr. W. Thomson, of Perth, was chosen Moderator ; and his first act was to express to the King's Commissioner his delight at the proposal in his Majesty's speech to extend the foundations and enlarge the usefulness of the Scottish Church. One of the questions which will come before the Assembly, is that of adniitting into their body, or rejecting, those lay elders who do not regularly practice family worship twice a day. The Assembly have rejected the invitation of the Genevese Church to join it in celebrating, on the 23rd of August next, the third centenary of the Reformation, and to send a deputation to Geneva for this purpose. Dr. Macfarlane reported, that the Genevese Church has lapsed into errors and heresies, and that the Church of Scotland cannot accept of her invitation. What says our friend the Standard to this
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