In the early fifties, the San Joaquin Presbytery began looking for a property to purchase to establish a camping program.
This is usually called Synodal government by the continental Reformed, but is essentially the same as Presbyterian polity, with the elders forming the consistory, the regional governing body known as the classis, and the highest court of appeal being the general synod.
Robert Burns published a brief irreverent poem, On A Celebrated Ruling Elder, as an elegy for a Scottish Presbyterian.
Uniting Church, Presbyterian, Baptist, Lutheran, Pentecostal and other religions were reported with smaller numbers.
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