The Case of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, Before the Supreme Court of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Impartially Reported by Disinterested Stenographers: Including All the Proceedings, Testimony, and the Arguments at Nisi Prius, and Before the Court in Bank, with the Charge of Judge Rogers, the Verdict of the Jury, and the Opinion of Chief Justice GibsonA. M'Elroy, 1839 - 628 strani Trial involved "the question at issue of whether the respondents in this case are entitled to hold their office of Trustees of the General Asembly of the Presbyterian Church of the United States of America. The secondary issue is whether that body which elected these relators was truly the General Assambly of the Presbyterian Church..." : p. 268. Concerns the church's split into old school and new school. |
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