will prove a valuable mine of
facts. The discussions are clear and generally convincing. We commend
the book highly.

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THE SOUTH.

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THE GEORGIA CONGREGATIONAL ASSOCIATION.

_Rev. S.C. McDaniel and others, Committee of the United Congregational
Conference of Georgia._

DEAR BRETHREN.--Having been appointed by the Georgia Congregational
Association as a committee to confer with you in reference to a union of
the two bodies represented by you and us, we desire to express to you
our gratification at the receipt of your request for such a conference,
and our earnest desire that such a union should be consummated. With
this end in view, we would respectfully submit for your consideration
the following propositions:

1. We cordially invite the churches composing the United Congregational
Conference to become members of the Georgia Congregational Association.
Upon the acceptance of this invitation by the United Conference, we
agree to recommend to the Association the passage of a vote immediately
placing upon the roll of the Association the names of all the churches
of the United Conference.

2. In case the foregoing proposition should not be acceptable to you, we
propose that each of the bodies represented by us should pass a vote
disbanding its organization, with the understanding that all the
churches of both bodies should then come together and form a new
organization. Upon the agreement of your committee to recommend to the
United Conference the adoption of this proposition, we agree to make a
similar recommendation to the Association.

3. If neither of the foregoing propositions should be acceptable to you,
we propose that the United Conference place upon its roll the names of
all the churches and ministers of the Georgia Association. Upon the
agreement of your committee to recommend such action to the United
Conference, we agree to recommend to the Association the adoption of a
vote declaring its organization disbanded as soon as the churches
composing the same are received by the United Conference.

With reference to the foregoing propositions we would say further:

It is our conviction that any union between the organizations
represented by our respective committees should be as comprehensive and
thorough as possible, and that to this end the churches of the Georgia
Association should be enrolled as members of the Dis