In our own day, efforts towards reunion among Reformed and Presbyterian churchs will succeed to the degree that the truth of Scripture, faithfully echoed by the Confessions, are truly experienced amoung God's people by shaping thier obedience and motivating their piety. But these efforts will succeed, as they did in 1892, also to the degree that we avoidelevating thoelogical (and historical) differences to the level of the Confessions. Reformed and Presbyterian church history is replete with examples of this tragic mistake. It happens in two ways, at least: some who are "in" get pushed "out" by extra confessional pronouncements, and some who are "out" are kept out by those who insist on elevating these differences to confessional status.
