23-3. A minister, being medically disabled or honorably retired, may be elected pastor emeritus by a congregation which seeks to honor his past earnest labors among them.

DIGEST: The current text dates to 1982 [M10GA, 10-89, Item 5, p. 113].

BACKGROUND & COMPARISON:
No comparable text in these editions:
1. PCA 1973, Adopted text, as printed in the Minutes of General Assembly
2. Continuing Presbyterian Church 1973, Proposed text
3. PCUS 1879
4. PCUS 1869 draft
5. PCUS 1867 draft

COMMENTARY :
F.P. Ramsay, Exposition of the Book of Church Order (1898)
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