Author: Roy Janssen

GS 1968 ARTICLE 48 Rev. J. Mulder requests Synod to sing Hymn 31:1,2,3,4, and leads in thanksgiving.

GS 1968 ARTICLE 47 The Chairman recalls the fact that today it is 350 years ago that the National Synod of Dort 1618 – 1619 began its sessions. We are bound to be grateful to the Lord that it has pleased Him to protect His Church and to bring her back to the truth.

GS 1968 ARTICLE 46 Committee IV presents: Material: Agenda IV, 2: Request of Mr. M. Hoogerdijk, Taber, Alta, “dat in elke dienst waar het Heilig Avondmaal wordt bediend, het formulier tot het houden van het Heilig Avondmaal wordt voorgelezen en het niet aan de vtijheid der kerken wordt over­ gelaten”. Recommendation: Synod decide to inform…

GS 1968 ARTICLE 45 Regarding Revised Standard Version, Committee III presents: (See Supplement 2) 1.   Materials: 2. Recommendations: I. That from the several later versions of the Bible the Revised Standard Version be chosen. Grounds: ADOPTED II. The Committee therefore advises Synod not to follow the suggestion of Mr. H. Stassen, to give “clear directions as to ……

GS 1968 ARTICLE 44 The Chairman requests Synod to sing Psalm 66:5,8, reads Psalm 66, and leads in prayer.

GS 1968 ARTICLE 43 Rev. L. Moes requests Synod to sing Hymn 15, and leads in thanksgiving.

GS 1968 ARTICLE 42 Regarding the Finances of Synod Edmonton 1965 Committee IV presents: Materials: Information: The receipts of Synod 1965 were $5,659.70; the expenses $4,286.91; the expenses of Deputies appointed by Synod $1,341.04. Cash on hand $31.75. The committee was informed that of the $713.64 advanced to Deputies for Contact with the Orthodox Presbyterian…

GS 1968 ARTICLE 41 Re Overture III,1, Committee I presents the following recommendation: Synod having taken note of the overture of the Church at Chatham, Ont., “to decide that the reports for Synod of which copies are sent to the churches, should be in on or before February l of the year wherein a General…

GS 1968 ARTICLE 40 Regarding overture III,39 of the Church at Smithers, B.C., requesting not to deal with a report re Correspondence with Foreign Churches because of its unofficial character and its lateness of arrival, Synod decides to deal with the report referred to in the letter of the Church at Smithers because it has…

GS 1968 ARTICLE 39 The following decisions are made re a communication of Rev. C. de Haan, Win­nipeg. Man. dated November 5th, 1968 (11,4):