First Presbyterian Society v. Markley

This controversy grows out of an attempt by the Presbytery to unite into one church, to be known as “the Presbyterian Church of the Covenant,” the First Presbyterian, the Second Presbyterian and the Central Presbyterian Congregations.

As was said by Roby, J. in Ramsey v. Hicks (a church uniop case), 87 N. E. Rep., 1091-1099, “Union means agreement, concord, harmony.”

But from the very outset of this hearing', the court could not but be impressed with the wide-spread discord and dissatisfaction over this union manifested not only by members of Presbytery, but by the people who compose the First…