Why the Secession of 1834?

The Reformed believer esteems highly the unity of the church. "I believe an holy, catholic church," we confess. The Reformed church rightly condemns schism -- division in the church body. The form for adult baptism demands that members reject all heresies and schisms repugnant to the doctrines they confess. Upon the Reformed minister is laid a greater responsibility -- he mustrefute all schisms and heresies repugnant to pure doctrine (Formula of Subscription). One of the gross sins for which an...