New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-05-30
ORGANIC UNION DROPPED.
ACTION OF SOUTHERN pREsBYrERrANa
THE REV. DR.. sMooT CHARGING THE roHThsAS
BRETHREN WITH rREJUpIcISd
THE "NIGdERs"
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baltimore May o9.-In the Southern Presbyterian
General Assembly tho order OF the day, was tho 10
port of the Committee Of Bills and ovcrtures on
Organic Union and tho Rev. S. A. King, Of Texas
promptly called 1t up The recommendations Oh tho
committee wore that the subject Of organic union DO
dropped, that the Committee Of Inquiry DO dscon-
tInued and that Joint committee OF co-opcrsuon IN
the common work Of tho Church DO appointed py Iho
two assemblies The Rev. Dr. Campbell onored
substitute for tho report OF the committees n'
substitute was that while tho tmo for organic union
was not yet, the Committee OF inquiry should %
continued. This brought up tho whole question ana
Dr. King said IL was plain to him and IL oe0s.i'
palmer every day that organic union Is impractos'
Hwo love and honor our brethren OF the Nor'n' D"
said but there arc principles honestly heia oy o.on
that arc Numerically opposed and that arc III 's
irreconcilAble The question should be oroppoa, iol
/. It is dividing our own brethren OF the SOUTH
are already two camps, one consisting OF snoso
look forward to organic union and ths 3asrments
who believe that organic union would DO oe'r'n'"'
to the interests of the Church" .,.,.s.,.a,Iv ex.
,,nS vas Is, solder SG IN 'e ci Kentucky Kent
muskct for four years as high pryae s%I M the
God the war am ospGs c organic 70 union
s not ye In eons Sa lot f spirit
s Sss has r esRr hand our 3, p ~
mstely to union Of the two bodies, ... said that
the difference between the two papers before the s
sembIy was that the one opposed organic union ana
tbe other was in favor Of the continuance OF the ~
FotatiOns looking to unity ae iva, WAS said Is an
obstacle On that point It Is time we should atsroSc
ourselves Of our oldme prejudice and go nto tbe
field with as much vim, at least, as We g0 ln.o ,e
foreign missions. AS 1t fs now, what mas Doch uomo
in twenty yearsf There Is not coioreo freso'''''
in the SOUTH r.. rno,,r. y Az
Eyes. there is good ons in South Carolina" OK
planned the Rev F. &. wbon.
Truep shouted the Rev. DR.. smoot OF , IeNSSs'
excitedly,' and thcre would be more u tne fTssny
terIans OF the North had not pre1rdcod tho hgsers
against u.s." -, ..,h., trou,
This remark caused a scene and the MEMBER Iro 9
Texas was called TO order But he got the moor again.
and waving his right arm his head, shoutco
You might well try to unite the pemocrac d h
Republican parties to try TO unto tho two prespy
terian Assemblies Of this country. II tho wsr had
never come the two assemblies would have oiVioeo
The Rev r. S. Campbell, Of Missouri, said: The
question before us Is not organic union as s1nS S 81
the other day. and TO think that It Is neces
sary TO XIII everything organic because or some In.
herent evil Uaughter.) But the paper presented
docs not advocate organic union. Nevertheess'
think the time will como when the assemDnes VIII 10
united. 1t IS not for us to throw any obstacle Ia
the way Of organic union in the hlture" me SUD
stue was defeated by two votes, tho vote peing "
to co. The question then came up on the repor. OF
the Committee on Bills and Overtmres Ihroe U. w
recommendations were adopted. The first was thas
organic union out OF the question the secona
that the Committee Of Inquiry should be dscontlnuca
and the third that IL the wish OF tho Assembly
that a chosen fellowship should result nom tne CEN
tennal Of the two bodies Dr. Smith, OF New-oricas,
which provided for Joint committee OF cooperation
TO be appointed by the two assemblies on the common
work Of the Church II was voted down and tho
original paper was adopted