Attempts to alter "Fundamentals."

For many years past there has been an insistent agitation, fostered mainly by the clerical section of the Church, for a change in Clause Six, so as to provide power for Synod to alter the Fundamental Provisions. Indeed, in 1892, an Act was passed by the Genera] Synod in this direction, providing for the addition to Clause Six of the words, "Save in the manner hereinafter provided." The provision consisted in it being required that for an alteration of a Fundamental Provision, legislation in that direction, by any Synod, must be confirmed by the following Synod But it did not need the declension by the Synod of 1905 to confirm the action of the Synod of 1902, to render such action null, it was ultra vires from the start.