OF LAW AND USAGE. COMPILED FROM THE STANDARDS AND THE ACTS AND DE- OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES BY BENJAMIN F. BITTINGER, D. D., FOURTH EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED, CONTAINING THE ACTS AND DECISIONS OF THE ASSEMBLY TO PHILADELPHIA: PRESBYTERIAN BOARD OF PUBLICATION AND SABBATH-SCHOOL WORK, No. 1319 WALNUT STREET COPYRIGHT, 1888, 1895, 1904, BY THE TRUSTEES OF THE PRESBYTERIAN BOARD OF PUBLICATION AND SABBATH-SCHOOL WORK. Published, October, 1888. Re-Issued Sept., 1895-May, 1904. B62d PREFACE TO REVISED EDITION OF 1904 APPRECIATING the generous favor with which the previous editions of this Manual have been received, I am encouraged to hope that this revised and enlarged edition may prove still more acceptable and useful to those for whom it is designed-the pastors, elders, and communicants of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America. Keeping in view its original design as a book of ready reference to the provisions of our Standards, and to the acts and decisions of our General Assembly, I have embodied in this edition the amendments recently made to the Confession of Faith, the Form of Government, and the Book of Discipline, together with the deliverances of the General Assembly, bringing them to the present time, inclusive of the year 1903. This edition also contains a new, enlarged, and carefully prepared analytical index with references concisely arranged, so that without laborious search and at a glance may be obtained the desired information respecting ques 54601 MAR 29 1933 3 |