Call number
Publication
Due West, SC: A.R. Presbyterian Publishing Co., 1958.
Physical description
160, 8 p.; 16 cm
Notes
Other editions of the ARPC Constitution available at the PCA Historical Center:
—1908. Constitution of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Synod of the South. Columbia, SC: The R.L. Bryan Company, 1908. Hb, 141 p.
CONTENTS:
PREFACE.
By action of the Synod in 1949 a committee of three was appointed to be known as "The Committee on Revision of the Constitution." It was at the same time instructed to prepare and to print the revised Constitution at as early date as possible.
The Committee was instructed to insert in the new book, and in their proper places, all such actions of Synod taken after 1937 as had thereby become the law of the Church; to prepare a specific order of business procedure in all congregational meetings—both ecclesiastical and business meetings; and to include a very specific and complete index of the contents of the book.
BOOK OF GOVERNMENT.
I. The Church.
II. Ministers of the Gospel.
III. Ruling Elders and Deacons.
IV. Particular Congregations.
V. Election of Church Officers.
VI. The Session.
VII. The Presbytery.
VIII. The Synod.
IX. Officers of Church Courts and Their Duties in General.
X. Ecclesiastical Commissions.
XI. Matters Unprovided For.
BOOK OF DISCIPLINE.
I. General Principles.
II. Offenses.
III. Process in Personal and Private Offenses.
IV. Process in Public Offenses.
V. Process in Judicial Cases.
VI. Process Against Ministers.
VII. Church Censures.
VIII. Withdrawals.
IX. Restoration of Offenders.
X. Dissent and Protest.
XI. Ways of Carrying a Case from a Lower to a Higher Court.
XII. Jurisdiction.
XIII. Limitation of Time.
XIV. Matters Unprovided For.
RULES OF ORDER (See Index)
BOOK OF WORSHIP
I. The Design of this Directory.
II. Worship in a Particular Congregation Defined.
III. Assembling of Congregations and Their Behavior in Public Worship.
IV. Extraordinary Days for Public Worship.
V. Secret and Private Worship.
Appendix A. — Forms.
Appendix B. — Forms.
Appendix C.
— Article I : Congregational Societies.
— Article II : The Solemnization of Marriage.
— Article III. Burial of the Dead.
Appendix D. — Suggested By-Laws of the Congregation.
Index.
—1908. Constitution of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Synod of the South. Columbia, SC: The R.L. Bryan Company, 1908. Hb, 141 p.
CONTENTS:
PREFACE.
By action of the Synod in 1949 a committee of three was appointed to be known as "The Committee on Revision of the Constitution." It was at the same time instructed to prepare and to print the revised Constitution at as early date as possible.
The Committee was instructed to insert in the new book, and in their proper places, all such actions of Synod taken after 1937 as had thereby become the law of the Church; to prepare a specific order of business procedure in all congregational meetings—both ecclesiastical and business meetings; and to include a very specific and complete index of the contents of the book.
BOOK OF GOVERNMENT.
I. The Church.
II. Ministers of the Gospel.
III. Ruling Elders and Deacons.
IV. Particular Congregations.
V. Election of Church Officers.
VI. The Session.
VII. The Presbytery.
VIII. The Synod.
IX. Officers of Church Courts and Their Duties in General.
X. Ecclesiastical Commissions.
XI. Matters Unprovided For.
BOOK OF DISCIPLINE.
I. General Principles.
II. Offenses.
III. Process in Personal and Private Offenses.
IV. Process in Public Offenses.
V. Process in Judicial Cases.
VI. Process Against Ministers.
VII. Church Censures.
VIII. Withdrawals.
IX. Restoration of Offenders.
X. Dissent and Protest.
XI. Ways of Carrying a Case from a Lower to a Higher Court.
XII. Jurisdiction.
XIII. Limitation of Time.
XIV. Matters Unprovided For.
RULES OF ORDER (See Index)
BOOK OF WORSHIP
I. The Design of this Directory.
II. Worship in a Particular Congregation Defined.
III. Assembling of Congregations and Their Behavior in Public Worship.
IV. Extraordinary Days for Public Worship.
V. Secret and Private Worship.
Appendix A. — Forms.
Appendix B. — Forms.
Appendix C.
— Article I : Congregational Societies.
— Article II : The Solemnization of Marriage.
— Article III. Burial of the Dead.
Appendix D. — Suggested By-Laws of the Congregation.
Index.