The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1886-11-03
From the Southern Presbyterian.
The PreSbyterY of Macon

Met at Geneva, Ca, October 14th, with
an attendance of five ministers and six
ruling elders. Rev. w. A. Carter being
chosen N oderator.
The group of churches. served of late
by Rev. G. T. Chandler, received leave
to prosecute their call to Rev. E. W..
McCorkle, OF Virginia, before the Pres.
bytery of Montgomery, Presbytery hearth
ly uniting in the request that he be per-
mitted to accept it.
A circular from the Trustees of David
son College was read, and it was unani-
mously resolved to terminate our con-
nexion with that institution, on the
ground that from force of circumstances
it has been and would continue to be
merely nominal.
The appointments made at our last
meeting tor missionary service by our
ministers among our vacant churches
were renewed.
The Committee on the Minutes Of the
Assembly presented a report covering
only those points on which they were un-
animous. and it was unanimously adopted.
After calling attention to matters of or
dinary business, it refers to the action
accepting land in Florida, under pledge
to expend six thousand dollars within
three years in the erection of buildings
thereon, as follows:
Your Committee recommend that
Presbytery utter its most solemn protest
against this action of the General AS
sembly, on the ground that in itself it is
of the nature of a speculation, and is be-
1a. e IL
General Assembly of the Presbyterian
Church in the United States"
A paper was then offered by one not
Of this Committee, which condemned un.
der its first head the Assembly's action
in response to overtures on Evolution, in
its three assertions that the Scriptures
teach-that our Confession, etc, ex-
pounds, and that our Church is convinc-
ed that they do 30 under it's second, the
extravagant claim of supervisory con-
troll under its third, the application of
this claim to the Seminary at Columbia /;
under it's fourth, the use of the deliver
ance on Evolution to condemn professor
in that Seminary without trial and un-
der it's fifth, the partnership in land
speculation and alliance with an educa-
tional and religious enterprise in which
the Assembly has no control of any sort.
The fret head (Evolution) was reject.
ed by six to five; the second (supervis-
ion) was adopted by six to FIVE the
third (Seminary) was adopted by nine to
two the fourth (Professor) was adopted
by seven to four all these votes being by
yea and nay. The fifth (speculation)
having been dealt with in the report al
ready adopted, was withdrawn. The
paper thus amended was then adopted
by yea and nay vote, Of which the note
is not in hand, but as recollected was
either seven to four orseight to three.
A question as to the proper mode OF
record being then started a member
favorir the whole paper asked recon
sideration, which being granted, the
author OF the paper suggested, that as by
any proper record Presbytery must ap.
pear as swallowing the camel Of the As
sembly's virtual amendment of the word
OF God and standards of the Church by
its own deliverance, and strsining out the
gnats OF violation of specific laws, it
might be better to have no record except
on matters dealt with in the Committed 8
report; and this view prevailing, the
mutilated paper was rejected by nine to
two On the question Of the deliverance
on Evolution, the six ministers of the
Presbytery stand three to three, and the
one absent from this meeting is opposed
to the Assembly's position the vote Of
the elders is an uncertain quantity both
in number and kind.
The attendance on public worship was
geod, the attention solemn, and on Sab