The Mission Order (3)

During the early years of the present century, the struggle continued unabated over the question, "Who has jurisdiction in the calling and sending of the missionary?" The debate revolved about the theory of"centralization" (synod and classes may exercise this right) versus the theory of "decentralization" (this right belongs only to consistories): Our readers will recall that the Mission Orders adopted in 1898 and 1902 both stood definitely on the basis of centralization but that against that...