---
title: 'Organic Union'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Richard McIlwaine'
date: 1887-05-18
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Congregational-Presbyterian Plan of Union'
- 'American Presbyterian and Reformed History'
scriptures:
- 'John 17'
- 'Ephesians 4'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/mcilwaine-1887-organic-union
---

# Organic Union

An 1887 Central Presbyterian letter urges organic union between Southern and Northern Presbyterian bodies, defending reunion against Dr. Dabney's objections on polity, race, and doctrine.

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