Morning journal and courier., 1886-12-31
THE TRIAL. OF THE PROFESSORS.

case this morning, Mir. Charles Theodor' ! Russell concluded his address for the re | spondent, occupying but a few minutes Ex-Governor Gaston followed for the re- | spondent. He said that when Dr. Egbert c Smyth stood before the board of visitors 1T all the full proportions of noble and Chris tian man, and made his defence, when his last words were uttered, and the day of his trial was over, then, said the speaker, "what need of further speech from me or anyone Yet there are some questions which have not at length been presented, which desire to sabmit to your consideration. In the first rises up to high moral and religious plane and yet we have not had anything in the na- ture of an opening. It seems to be the policy on the other side that we should not have anything from them in the nature of an opening. Why have ordinary customs been departed froms We suppose somebody would be brought here to testify that he had heard heresy from Prof. Smyth's lips. h. stead of that they rested their case upon these extracts, these garbled extracts torn from their true meaning, and that is their evidence. Why was there no one who had ever been student in Prof. Smyth's class room to testify to having heard him teach heresya Why no one who had listened to him in the pulpit to testify to his heretical doctrine?" Reference was made to the fact that Rev. Newman Smyth was in 1879 elect. ed to the professorship of systematic theolo- gy at Andover after the publication of his book ttOld Faiths in a New Light" !" and that although the board of visitors by majority vote reversed the action of the trustees, they distinctly stated that they did not reject Dr. Newman Smyth on account of any error in his theology. Counsel read extracts from his book with reference to future probation, and then said if his honored brother had used yet been cited. Reading the celebrated "Doxology," which the founders composed and placed on record at the time of the establishment of the institutes, counsel said: 'fIt is sometimes the case that God gives to large hearts large views. It was so here. Suppose words of yours could bring them back to life to behold this trial; suppose that in the spirit in which they made that utter ance they should look on the prosecutors and then at Dr. Egbert c. Smyth, would they not say to Dr. Egbert O. Smyth, Proceed with your learning, your grand spirit, and your devotion to God to lead men upward and onward?' and to these prosecutors Get if you can some of the spirit under which we laid this foundations'"
 With ex Governor Gaston's address the arguments for the defense were ended. hay ing occupied something over nine hours In answer to an inquiry by Professor Dwight President Seelye stated that it was under stood that the complainants would conclude about noon on Friday. Professor Dwight said that the other accused professors would be willing after having few minutes to state their case to rest on the arguments all ready made. Then President Seelye said if possible on Friday afternoon the other cases would be taken up; if not then on Monday at 10 8. m.
 Judge Asa French at 10:3O a. m. rose to open the arguments for the prosecution. He was followed by Dr. Wellman. He said that the founders set forth in their creed that the Bible in its entirety was the word of God while Professor Smyth be- lieved that portions of the book were not in spired and did not teach that it was the only perfect rule of faith. Dr. Wellman was in the midst of his argument when, at one o'clock, an hours recess was ordered.
 Professor Baldwin then submitted for nal motion for the dismissal of the com plaint and the recess was taken.
 At p. m. the Rev. Dr. Wellman resumed his arguments. He said that the views of the scriptures as set forth by Dr. Smyth and his colleagues made them dependent on the spiritual life and we'll doing of man rather than the word of God. They had departed from the orthodox view of the inspiration and treated it as in certain sense the his torical relation of God. The professor as judged by his writings does not believe in any inspiration of the scriptures that has ever, to his knowledge, besn defined, but holds that Ghrist teaches to auaend and super sede the holy scriptures. He also maintains that the Christian faith is not necessarily commits sd to the infallibility of the scrip lures. He and the adherents of the progres sive orthodoxy had sought to erect in our minds and hearts standard of revelation equal if not superior to the scriptures. Hold ing such views they could not be sou nd and consistent Calvinists according to the Hop kinsian school. Another ground of complaint against Prof. Smyth and those associated with him was that they believed that Christ in his humiliation was 8 finite being and omniscient. They asserted that no one can satisfy himself that Christ claimed to be omniscient. Unless God is finite and change able he had all knowledge and divinity when he was God in man other times. It will not do to say that Christ as man was limited but as God was unlimited. They represented that the one person Christ was finite being in his earthly life, but when glorifed was an unlimited being. Their theory appears to be that the second person of the Trinity in his incarnation was q dwarfed and contracted being but that he subsequently reassumed the attributes of his divinity. His theory is discordant with the belief and traditions of Andover seminary. It is complained further that Prof. Smyth holds that no man has Ao edge of God in Christ. The faith of the founders was that man under all eircum- stances had the full power to repent and to obey the commands of God. Prof. Smyth in his Progressive Orthodoxy" maintains that man has not always the power to repent, which is requisite for a full accountability.
 MT. Russell arose to say that the defense would claim the right to reply to new cita- tions.
 Dr. Wellman, resuming, charged Professor Smyth with the saying that man of himself can repent, but the orthodox creed held that man as man has full powers and facili- ties to enable him to save himself. The new theology affirms that man as man has not the power to repent except as far as Christ by redemption gives it to him. The two theologies are irreconciiably inconsistent. The new creed afirms that man of himself has not sufficient motive to repent, whereas "Orthodoxy" holds that he has all the re- generate motives ana the only Gnlng GO De overcome in effecting his conversion is his unwillingness. The creed afirms that the sinners aversion to holiness is the only thing that prevents his salvation. If the new the ology is correct, then none of the races that had lived before Christ had power to repent Having no power to repent they would not be accountable. The object of such teach ings is to force the belief that God gives power to repent in Hades to those who do not have it here.
 Professor Blaisdel of Michigan, one of the original complainants against the Andover professors, has accepted their answer to the amended complaint ss satisfactory and has formally withdrawn from the prosecution. He says he thinks he ought to do this as 8 duty to the professors.
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 Three Men Thrown from an Engine
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 Weather Forty Below Zero.
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