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Enduring Witness: A History of the Presbyterian Church in Canada, by John S. Moir (review)

In this ecumenical age, to write the history of a single religious denomination is considered old-fashioned. Fortunately the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Canada is not inhibited by this notion and commissionedJ.S. Moir to write a history of Presbyterianism in Canada in celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of that church's formation. When the several groups of Presbyterians in Canada united on 15 June 1875 , the new church created thereby with some 6oo,ooo members and adherents and six hundred ministers was the largest Protestant body in Canada. In 1971 there were still 8oo,ooo Presbyterians in Canada but they constituted only 4 per cent of the Canadian population and were concentrated largely in Ontario. This dramatic change was in some measure the consequence of the fulfilment of the first moderator's prophecy: 'I look for a union in the future before which the present [union] ... shall appear slight and insignificant,' (142) on another June day, when The United Church of Canada came into being. It owes much as well to the nature of the tradition to which the Presbyterian community has borne 'enduring witness' throughout Canadian history. The doctrinal and structural bases of Presbyterianism were laid in England between 1644 and 1647 in the form of the Westminster Standards, but they came to full fruition in the Church of Scotland, in which was subtly combined the substance of Calvinism and Scottish nationalism. From the outset the coalescence of faith and