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it. face downward, 20 that If IL does como to
NE It vii! tcratel' dcencr; bnrJine It ont Of
q s s VIC ss eGs i ee ses1s esu
resdy pi for that a'ssl yet ~ ''' '''D" "' 40
i i'm not going Rack on my old friends. II
ior what have always believed TO be tic truth,
] must bear It.. have not Que word To say ae
70 WHO Is not ready for this fra.csnh relation,
hut do not believe both parties are really Upon
the principle hare cnnuneiatcd.
tolsl tho Chairman OF tho Committee on
Correspondence before he brought in this re-
por. {ai"' wish to tell bin now Ia tho face Of
Hr oDisc1Ion 70 rus REPORT or rus CON.
In the frat place, It assumes, ID accordance
With tho utteranees Of the newspapers, and Of
pirate corfespondenee, and public uttc1ances 4
the Assembly At the North has done from 1850
To TIE present time ia iaslncere and therefore In
Nov, sir, in 1870, in paper drawn TIP by my
meant, Or what 1t was intended to Hean),
though the paper was offered BY \ vcnern-
BILE father In tho Church whom I love and
Dr. Marquis-Wil you point out any sssump-
tion Of that kind In tho Feporti
Dr: Van Dyke-1i what was passed was not
insuflslsnt, VIZ pass anything morei The
deliveranccs Of the Assemblies Of which that
was The llneal defendant, Of which the Bouthern
brnthrcn complained, wcre md arc "null add
void" think know shat "nut! and void"
tntaIs; and think know that whcu that As
hetnbly said TINT, II meant Il. And / carried
that mcssagc-beIng honorcd with The office Of
peacCmaker--to the Assembly at Louis
rtl1c. { thought It was blooming
Gl',c oa n,ash c tu't ,ss Of sa,es IKE IKE
- Noah In the Ark. But when catnc back
the leaves of that olive brancl. we're all
stripped ofI; It was rod. tho blows Of which
felt on my buck. Ny Judgment then Was that
th!a Assembly ought Just to stand upon that
declaration. and aaJ nothing Molc, II It took
tcn or twenty years to vinhicate the sounlncss
Of that principle. do nut believe IN the applica
ton .sl.tct, has tecu tnadu by some ouc Of the
poct's lluc5 that
"Nsrcr eau true seeoncilcucnt grow
Where wounds Of deadly latu
Have ptertctt so deep"
But do believe, brethren, that nc do not
Look cnougl, at tie human pature Of this thing
whun VIC suppose that wounds like those lu!jict.
cu durfuC the War eau te healed In one decade.
We arc too i1npatcnt. We Ind better let II
alone.
still, the Assembly Of 1879, In Baltimore, re-
iteratc1 the saulv declaration. Nay morc; add
cd to II tho rcadoptlon Of our old standard. It
tecsncd to nc d strange thing. Under TINT
DECLARATION wns appointed pne u committee
f Baltimore. e /" thai s I: coniereiiyc. I by the
authority of the Assembly, VIC declared to tho
Southern Church, first, that oll the aets of the
Church they complained OF were "null und
vofl y; second, tllat wehau entire confidence 10
theIr Christian character and soundness IN tho
| faith: mud, thtr1 that VIC wrrc willing to enter
Into fratcrnal relations With them GU terms of
pcrfcct equality and frntcrnftJ.. not saying
nuythtng about the oIcuses VIC believed VIC hal
a.ainst them. Int that Committee demanded
still further that this Assembly should mt only
nuiEfy and tnake yoLd tllIs former action, but
that VIC should declare ourselves
! soNAr FoH HAVING TAKEN II.
Now, Mr.. Moderator, II would not bs very dif.
fietilt for me to eay II am sorrY." I was oil The
WHILE. | protested anI voted 'against them.
But have observed thts IN my intercourse with
mcn: y iaayery easy thing to be sorry tyr
Liberal with otl,cr peoples money. | shall not
enter into tlle question now whether H. ia com,
potent for this Assembly to repent for what
s. oss ill., n yyla, 5 not l. say ywtat sast tss
luvt already said, there must be atl
apulngy, by. this Assembly IS not con-
k!stcrt With the dignity Of tllls Court OF Jesus
anpau.ct L Ss consistent ss,,e t n ts M
SECOND place, the report OF this Committee u.s.
s,llnrs, In accordance With whnt has been as-
sumcl by our 6Fct!ircn OH the other sfdo 0t tho
l!ne.-at least b., q largc portion Of theml,-that
| tho apology Ia NIL 0h our Rlde,-that there Is
| nothing to be sorry for on tho other stdc.
/ ntn liz. going to make a war speec!',-if
did, It would nut be agreeable TO this Assembly,
npr, probably, to tle other sIdc,-pot Eo9S II, tc
nut going 70 stir up bitter thinEe ngaiost
wArlu.ieartrd people. or open deeper an,
wounds TINT were n,adc In that tratcrnal striic
s over xt s o 10 ss as5 ss ns
there was to be any apology for harsh and un
generous words, tho apology WAS not due iron
Va after such words were honestly taken away
The Southern. Generul, Assembly put IN till
| repealed. .unrcEretted. unapoiogizetl for-harshe
wnris than any. Northern AseetnGly yeyer uttsres
In regard to them. jAppansul It pains m
10 BE- xnown; a,al want il to Gs known iroi.
Chicago TO Huw Oficals. and from New Yorl
tu San Francisco | read from
TIE ACTION or THE eouTIthax ASSEMBLY Z
| L0UISvlLLA
In 1870, In rcsponae-
Thu Mr. MI Ely-1s that copy of the pro
cectlIngs Of tlc General Assen,bfyt
nr. Van Dyku-So; but It is a correct copy.
n f s y5 5yke@ xeu 1as sS e Z knew as s Sat sa i oev
sclf-tlaughtcr containing oil thosS doe
usncnts. want 70 put tho faets Q
tl's e.ss bsiofs ..,9, yoa .'. r. T. thy l!s ~ ~ ~
III tho minds Of tlose on tho other sfdc of I'll
bortlcF, what they tnay think to bc perhaps
ktranQo course. WO always think man Ia
gnlten very wrong Wien he Ia constituted b
Its conscience to tnke thu oppos!ts slIe frot
,1s- Thus thc Louisville Asautns,ly Ut ISL
aahl, Il, ailswer 70 an overture waItc
the tlcnrtal Assembly In Philadelphia sent t.
them by ihc ha.lds of DR.. Dackut, Mt. Dodg.
and myself;
l. Both ths winga Of tho now united Assembly
during thets repnrnto e1tstonce befnis the fusion
did fatally com,lieate hcp,srlve4 with tbs State
puilttca nttrlancea deliberately uttered year afsc
fraya. of ..s cause and kinsdom Of onr comno
Lufd and l1ead. Va believe i " be toely lncun,
beut apon the Nortlusn Presbyterian Church. ~
~prld. and before our Divine Aaslrf and King, I
rnrxs itself Of this error, and BY public proclana
TIM Of tue truth to ptace tho crown oHcs mot
; upon tho head Of Jesus Christ ~ The atonc kin
Fl 2Ian. i. aefaalt ot which !hs soa,hes
Presbyterian Church., which haa Already hotIsrr
much tn maintaining. tho Independence an
spirituality Of tho Kedeu.ncE'& ki11gdon. upo
against this detection Of opr late associates in tn
truth. Nor eau we, BY othclal correspondent
even. consent to blnnt tho edeo OF this our test
, n,any concerning Tho yrly uature my mission
uleu.