The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-05-29

'sWe dIT4.ssS-@ss.s- 70 Tor
bid all legitimate contehuGnsS~salns the
decision of the Assembly. We were a
Presbytery and endeavored to stop the
mouths of gainsayers against the fold.
The truth of God was uttered by the AS
sembly when 1t declared that the Scrip
lures were not silent in regard to the ma
ture of mans creation: The opposition
says the scriptures are silent:-Hces,tS,l. SIX
that it is an error. We hold that they
are not silent. We say that mans body
was created out of dust. DR.. Woodrow
acknowledges in his address, IN 1888,
that the body of Eve was an exception
to the operation of the law of evolution,
and why not the body of Adam2 Scrip
ture gives the creation of Adam, and no
principle of evolution can break the
Word of God. Had we not as guardians
of the church the right to prohibit the
circulation of such false doctrine? After
all this matter comes, to the old ques-
ton, whether We, as church, are to
consider the Scriptures as silent or not
in regard to the manner, of the creation!
The General Assembly said not, the
Charleston Presbytery said not, and l
=lhpe this General Assembly will say the
same. e.~>Yill this Assembly order out a
file and sho0cdoyn this Presbytery for
being little over-zee:se1seeus in defending
Gods teachings
The question was called up on the
adoption of Mr.. Lyons's amendment that
the action OF the South Carolina Synod
in condemning the action Of Charleston
Presbytery forbidding public contend
ing against the decision Of the Baltimore
Assembly be disapproved The vote was
announced--124 yeas and 50 nays. y
recount was demanded and resulted 104
yeas and Sc nays. Every delegate from
South Carolina, except two from
Charleston Presbytery voted no
The final vote to adopt an amendment
to the substitute disappearing the action
Of the South Carolina Synod aud up
holding the Charleston Presbytery re-
suited in 113 yeas ard 81 nays. Thus
was in reality the doctrine Of evolution
again showed under.
The Northern Church.
New YORK, May 24.-The lively dis.
cussion on the question of cooperation
with the Southern Church in yesterdays
session of the General Assembly of the
Presbyterian Church was the cause of
bringing a large audience to DR.. Cros-
by's Church this morning, in anticipa-
ton of hearing the continuance of the
debate Almost the first thing done was
the reading of telegram from the
Stated Clerk of the Southern Assembly,
now in session, announcing that that
body had adopted the majority report
in favor of cooperation in matters Of
publication, etc., by vote of 80 to q.
This statement was received with ap-
plause.
The Rev. John Fox, a kentuckian,
continued his speech in opposition to co
operation. While the people OF this
country during the. past century, he
said, have not observed that Christian
equality between the two races that
they should have observed, they should
now try to break down this lingering
prejudice. and he would therefore vote
against the majority report because 1t
advocated separate churches for white
and coored.
The debate on the third section of the
majority report-co-operation in the
evangelizing Of the colored pcople-waS
continued: The first two sections-co-
operation in home and foreign missions
were adopted yesterday. The report
is the same as that adopted by the South
ern Assembly.
The Rev. DR.. Joseph T. Smith, chair
man of the committee that drew up the
report, held that separate churches were
desired by the colored people themselves;
The Rev. Dr. Striker OF Chicago said
that he would vote for no report that
asked one Christian to stand aside at the
Communion table IN favor of another.
He moved to strike out that part OF the
report which reads: "While conceding
the existing situation, it (the Northern
Assembly, approves the policy of sepa-
rate churches, presbyterles and synods,
subject to the choice of the colored peo-
pie themselves"
The Rev. DR.. Hamlin of Washington
moved that the word practice be sub
stituted for the word ''policy' in this
sentence, and that it be allowed to re-
main in.
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