The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1886-01-21
CHARLESTON PRESBYlERY.
cstIons for Prcsbyterlans in South Car
olina.

deau's late hypothesis concerning the re-
latiGn of the secular press to ecclesiasti-
cal men and things, now that he and his
brethren have allowed report of their
sacred proceedings TO appear in the un.
sapcti6ed columns of the News and Cou.
rier, and have even come back the next
day to correct and make them more fit
to appear before its supporters and
readers?
2. How can Charleston Presbytery
close confidence in DR.. Woodrow's
fitness 10 teach candidates for the Gospel
ministry" because of his opinion about
certain scientific hypothesis. which
their theological professor said has no
heresy in it, aud yet maintain with
undiminished enthusiasm their conf.
dence in this theological professors
fitness to teach said candidates for the
Gospel ministry, seeing he holds the un-
proved and unprovable, and very danger
Gus, hypothesis that the Bible has two
senses, both binding on our conscience,
the one being what God intended US to
receive" and the other, q different one
which the Church invents2
3. How can The Pfesbytery condemn
Dr.. Woodrow for defending his own in
nocence to the very last by refusing to
resign and pretering to be expelled, as he
may yet be, when they read how Paul
and Silas refused to slip out Of the back
door of the Jail at Philippi as soon as
the magistrates requested it, and preferred
to stand on their rights i? NAY, verify"
(said PAUL to that request, as the Per-
kins professor to the boards. "They
have beaten US openly, uncondemncd,
being Romans, aud have cast us into
prison, and now do they thrust us out
privily? Let them come themselves aud
fetch.us out" The magistrates had TO
come and beseech Paul and Slas and
bring them ru, ard desire them TO de-
part out of the city. Not till his rights
were fully acknowledged did the apos
tie retire; why should DR.. w. do other
wise?
4. How comes it to pass that, with the
intelligent, fair minded and honorable
men who certainly do compose the
Charleston Presbytery, "two synods aud
a powerful sentiment in the other two"
on the Anti- Woodrow side of this lamen.
table controversy should weigh 50 much
more than "two synods aud q powerful
sentiment in the other two" just because
it happens TO be Of an opposite opinion
to their own? Is this venerable body
acting under some excitement and of
what sort3
8. How can DR.. Woodrow be fit to re-
main ir the Gospel ministry at all, how
be suffered to edit a weekly religious
newspaper and Presbyterian quarterly
review, if unfit (whateyer be his abili-
ties and acquirements) to teach candi-
dates for the ministry? ?" This moral
and religious un6tness here signifed as
disqualiIying him, does it not point
logically to his suspension or even his
deposition as minister Charleston
Presbytery takes the first step in this d.
rectiou. Perhaps Augusta Presbytery
may take the second. That being done,
would it not be we'll for some third Pres
bytery to meet and declare that if not
burnt at the stake, his hair and his long
beard should, at the very least, be all
singed Of, in order that We may prepare
our Southern Presbyterian Church 10
assist at the opening of the Goth centu-
ry?
6. If DR.. Woodrow is morally and re-
ligiously unfit TO teach candidates for the
Gospel ministry aud is accordingly unfit
for any of the duties of the ministry, be.
cause he thinks certain scientific opin-
ion is probably true, how is it with DR..
Bracket, who still appreciates the pu.
rity of Dr.. Woodrow's Christian charac-
ter 2" Quite number of US ministers
of the Southern Presbyterian Church see
no harm at all in DR.. Woodrow's hypoth.
esis. What is to be henceforth our
standing amongst our brethren? We
hare supported him down to this mo.
ment, and we mean still to support him
in all this ,oickedness. What is to be
done with US? Have we. too, lost caste 2
Has Charleston Presbytery lost conf
dence in our fitness to preach in her
pulpits? Is that bodS aware what
stigma it has put upon us all? But if
We all, as free Presbyterians, just as free
to form, our own conscientious judgments
as the eighteen brethren that pronounced
our reverend and honored Perkins pro.
fessor morality unfit to be in Columbia
seminary-if we all have as good right
as they to our opinions on this hypothe.
sis, why has not DR.. Woodrow the very
same ?-because, let it not be forgotten,
he has never vet once taught this so
much dreaded but most harmless hypo-
thesis in the Seminary. j. B. A.