The Historical Development of the Book of Church Order
Chapter 25 : Congregational Meetings
Paragraph 3 : On Defining a Quorum
25-3. The quorum of the congregational meeting shall consist of one-fourth (1/4) of the resident communing members, if the church has not more than one hundred (100) such members, and of one-sixth (1/6) of the resident communing members if a church has more than one hundred (100) such members.
DIGEST: Except for the addition of numerical equivalents in parentheses, the current PCA text remains unchanged from 1973 and dates to PCUS 1925.
BACKGROUND & COMPARISON:
1. PCA 1973, 26-3, Adopted text, as printed in the Minutes of General Assembly, p. 143
2. Continuing Presbyterian Church 1973, 26-3, Proposed text, p. 35
3. PCUS 1933, XXVIII, 154
4. PCUS 1925, XXVII, 154
A quorum of the congregational meeting shall consist of one-fourth of the resident communing members, if the church has not more than one hundred such members, and of one-sixth of the resident communing members if a church has more than one hundred such members.
No comparable text in the following editions:
1. PCUS 1879
2. PCUS 1869 draft
3. PCUS 1867 draft
COMMENTARY:
F.P. Ramsay, Exposition of the Book of Church Order (1898)
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