Author: Roy Janssen

GS 1968 ARTICLE 31 Elder J. Medemblik requests Synod to sing Psalm 87: 1,2, and closes the session with thanksgiving.

GS 1968 ARTICLE 30 Advisory Committee I on Printing of the Acts presents the following: Materials: Recommendation: Synod decide ADOPTED

GS 1968 ARTICLE 29 Synod decides, at the request of the consistory of the Church at Chatham, Ont., (III,24) to rescind the decision of the General Synod Edmonton 1965, Art. 142, re Address Death Penalty. Ground: When Synod 1965 decided that on the ground of Art. 30 C.O. it was not allowed to act upon…

GS 1968 ARTICLE 28 A communication of the Church at Chatham, Ont., dated November 4, 1968, re the audit of the accounts of General Synod Edmonton 1965 is added to the Agenda (I,14) and referred to Committee IV.

GS 1968 ARTICLE 27 The Acts of the Third Session are read and approved.

GS 1968 ARTICLE 26 The Chairman requests Synod to sing Psalm 76:1,3, reads Psalm 76, and leads in prayer.

GS 1968 ARTICLE 25 Elder J. Kuik leads in thanksgiving. Synod adjourns until 9.00 a.m. Monday November 11th.

GS 1968 ARTICLE 24 The Chairman reports on the telephone conversation mentioned under Art. 22. He was informed that there is a slight improvement in Rev. J. T. VanPopta’s condition. Synod receives this information with gratitude.

GS 1968 ARTICLE 23 Synod reads a letter dated September 12, 1968 (7c) of Rev. A. B. Roukema on behalf of the Deputies for Contact with the Orthodox Presbyterian Church to allow Prof. Norman Shephard, Associate Professor of Systematic Theology at Westminster Theo­ logical Seminary, to visit the sessions of Synod in which the contact…