(Each synod shall be at liberty to solicit and hold correspondence with its neighboring synod or synods in such manner as they shall judge most conducive to general edification.)*
*Articles 47 and 48 are retained in the body of the Church Order because they belonged to the original Church Order of Dordrecht. They are, however, put in parentheses because the Protestant Reformed Churches do not have particular synods. (Synod of 2000, Art. 28, M.)