The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-05-23
The Presbyterians.

PHILADELPHIA, May 22.-At the morn
ing session of the Presbyterian con-
ference. to-day, the Rev. Adelber
Vanderlippe advocated the appoint
ment of a German missionary board
but the assembly, after q somewhat
| heated debate, voted for the appoint
ment of a committee of five to consider
| the relation of the general assembly to
| the foreign population, to report on the
question to the assembly of 1889. The
committee of thirteen ruling elders
who have been aiding the labors of the
home board during the year, was con-
tinued.
at the afternoon session resolution.
offered By Rev. John Il. Thompson, of
Puget Seund, heartily seeonding the
efforts to secure q suppression Of Sun
day WORK in the mail and military
service Of the United States govern
ment, was unanimously adopted.
The unfinished business of tbs
morning. session, the report OF
the standing committees on the board
OF home missions, was taken up aud
the resolutions accompanying the re-
port adopted. a considerable portion Of
the discussion was taken up by the COM
m;ssioners from the Pacific Coast, who
set forth the necessity of missionary
work in that section. The report of
the standing committee on the board
Of aid for the colleges recommended
that not less than $40 600 be raised for
its WORK. Rev. Harry D. Gouse, D.
D., of Chicago; secretary of the board
of aid, made an lmpassioned speech
urging the importance of The fos, ering
of religious feeling among the young
men by means of q thorough religious
education. Rev. Francis A Horton,
d. D., of Oakland California, president
of the board of directors of the San
Francisco theological seminary, sdvo-
Gated the proposition in the report,
AID it was unanimously adopted. ADJ
journed until tomorrow.
BALTIMORE, May 22.-Dr. Woodrow
made forcible address in his own de-
tense, saying that the presbytery of
Augusta could not find conviction
against him because he had not an
ragonized the Bible. He had not
taught that God had performed his
work superuaturaily, that will have TO
be determined by. each individual
mind. To sustain the synod of Georgia,
would besto condemn those who believe
there may be some truth in
evolution. It was a fact that the church
had never fsilsd. in deciding on science
to decide wrong. After DIR. Woodrow
concluded his opening address. Rev.
DR.. Adams, of Augusta, prosecutor be-
gan his argument on the part of the
Synod of Georgia. He denied that be
was actuaaed by unworthy motives in
the prosecution. Whether Woodrow
taught evolution in the school or not,
was immateriai. In bis address TO the
alumni be thought and in his writings
he taughs it, and before the general
assembly he Advocated and Taught it.
Complainant clainlsd that in the Bible
he finds nothing to contradict his
theory.
Woodrow. the speaker. said that he
believed that man was, as the horse,
form, because he said, "the Bible
did not contradict it." The church
was a conSeryator of truth. aud is now
asked to engrsft upon itself this theory.
They were not 10 determine whether
evolutian IS false. they were to deter
mine on the action OF tie body OF Adam
as understood by standards OF the
church.
Judge Heiskel addressed the assent bly,
in behalf OF DR.. Woodrow. lie de-
clared the doctrine of evolution was
not new. Bishop Butler believed it
long before Darwin announced it. 1t
behooVed them, as wise men, TO move
slowly. 1t might be Woodrow is
right and those opposed to him wrong.
Gould they convict man upon such a
charge without making themselves a
laughing stock?
Adjourned until tomorrow morning.