Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1886-11-10
The Board OF Visitors Accept tn
Amended Charges.

Amended Charges.
BesToN, Nov. 9.-The board of visitors of
Andover seminar, have accepted the amend
ed charges against the accused professors,
and sent over to them ordering them to file
an answer by Saturday. November 81. When
their answer is filed the visitors will fix a
time for the public hearing The charges
are substantially the same as before, but are
little more specific in detail, and are drawn
against the professors individually instead of
jointly as before. The professors will meet
the charges by general denial. They say
that for fifty years it had been conceded that
the Andover creed should be accepted with
interpretations; that the visitors are them
selves committed to this view, and that the
latest professors elected, Messrs. Harris,
Hincks and Taylor, accepted Office with the
understanding that the same Interpretation
of the mode of carrying out the requests
should be followed in Andover as in other
cases If the charges should not be sustain
ed, they expect that the agitation of the
matter will cease; but if the charges should
be sustained they believe serious consequent
ces would follow to the denomination, be-
cause they have evidence that large body
of the leading clergy and laymen are with
them.
A Portland letter to the Record says: 1.-THE
80 called sAndover controversy has awaken
ed considerable interest here as we'll as else
where. Prof. Hinckes, one of the 'heretics,
was formerly pastor of the State street church
in this city. His personal worth and marked
ability were recognized by all, but still he
was not wholly popular as preacher. There
were complaints that he was too rigid and
conservative in theology. In fact he was
looked upon as the stiffest kind of an ortho-
dox and any suggestion of looseness of doc
triue in his case would have been taken as
Joke by those who regularly listened to him.
Of course there are wide differences of
opinion in regard to the merits of
the controversy, but those who may be
supposed to know say that majority of the
leading clergymen and perhaps a still larger
majority of the laymen of the denomination
may be classed with the conservative rather
than with the liberal or 'Andover element
There are some notable exceptions, however.
Rev. DR.. Hyde. the young and progressive
president of Bowdoin College, is counted as
an adherent of the new school 1t will be
remembered that Maine has Congregational
divinity school-the Bangor Theological SEM
maryland while the professors there have
not perhaps taken publicly definite position
upon this question, it is said that several of
them are quite liberal in their theological
views The Maine Congregationalists have
also a newspaper organize Christian Mirror
which may be considered as in some sense
a rival of the Congregationalist, and it is I'M
derstood that its editor, Rev. DIR. Warren, al
though conservative in his views, by no
means endorses the course of DR.. Dexter in
the Andover matter. On the whole ID would
probably be not far out of the way to say
that while the larger part are not in agree
ment with the position of the Andoyer pro-
fessors, Maine Congregationalists body
do not think it advisable to make fight
over the question"