60 years ago — June 18, 1956
Dear Brethren:
Our thoughts turn to you in affectionate remembrance as we assemble together in the city of Philadelphia. The presence and greetings of your representatives have made our hearts glad. In the name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, the great Head of the church, we send you hearty greetings in return.
Two events in particular make us think of you. Our Assembly is meeting in this historic city where years ago the first General Assembly convened to which you and we look back as the mother of our two churches. We are met also to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the occasion when Presbyterianism took an organized form in this country. With deep gratitude to God, we recall the day when your ancestors and ours, the Presbyterian fathers of that early period, formed themselves into a presbytery and so constituted the basic authority in the Presbyterian pattern of church order. …
It is our earnest prayer, brethren beloved, that God may bless you in the deliberations of your Assembly.
From a letter to the PC(US) General Assembly from the leadership of the UPCUSA
