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Issues quite apart from race now divide the two denominations. The Northern church, the 2.8-million-member United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., is three times the size of the Southern denomination, the 900,000member Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Many Southerners feel that in a merger they could be swallowed up by the Northerners, who are both less conservative in doctrine and more committed to social action. The reunion plan reflects this liberalism. At their ordination, for example, Southern Presbyterian ministers would no longer be required to accept the Bible as "the infallible rule of faith and practice...
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