Category: CanRC

GS 1968 ARTICLE 153 Synod, having received the sorrowful tiding that the Rev. J. T. VanPopta has passed away, decides to request the Board of Governors to meet as soon as possible to reconsider the matter of appointment of a professor of Systematic Theology in his place (Art. 158).

GS 1968 ARTICLE 152 The Acts of the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Session inclusive are read and adopted, the Articles 108, 116, 131 (Executive Session) excepted.

GS 1968 ARTICLE 151 The Chairman addresses Synod as follows: Brethren, Yesterday morning we received word that it pleased the LORD to take away brother Jules Taco Van Popta. And although we had been prepared for this moment, yet something in us changed when the expect d tidings finally were received. It would not attest…

GS 1968 ARTICLE 150 The roll call indicates that all the members are present.

GS 1968 ARTICLE 149 The Chairman requests Synod to sing Psalm 103:5,6,7, reads 1 Cor.15: 12-29, and leads in prayer.               

GS 1968 ARTICLE 148 Rev. H. Scholten requests Synod to sing Psalm 118:9, and leads in prayer.

GS 1968 ARTICLE 147 Synod deals further with the report of Committee I on the Contact with the Orthodox Presbyterian Church. The recommendations are referred to Committee I for reconsideration (Art. 154).

GS 1968 ARTICLE 146 The roll call indicates that all the members are present.

GS 1968 ARTICLE 145 The Chairman requests Synod to sing Psalm 141:1-4, reads Psalm 141. and leads in prayer.

GS 1968 ARTICLE 144 Rev. L. Selles requests Synod to sing Psalm 89:1,6, and leads in thanksgiving.