Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-02-17

to assert that God created some for eternal
death for His own pleasure. The destruction Of
sinners, he maintained. was not the end nor
object Of their creation.
DIR. Craighead then proceeded to explain the
changes that he was in favor OF, quoting the
sections with the proposed verbal changes The
members Of the presbytery. with their confess
sion before them. followed his remarks and
noted the alterations that he suggested
LISTENING TO FATHER cHISToUr.
After DR.. Craighead concluded his address
the presbytery listened to q brief speech from
Father Chiniquy, who said that he was an ex-
priest Of the Catholic church. He spoke OF
idolatry in the church Of Rome. Upon the con-
ciusfon OF his remarks the presbytery took .
sumed
After recess the discussion Of the proposed
revision OF the Confession Of Faith" was con-
unued by Rev. DIR. Ramsdell, who first spoke
on the constitutionality Of the present method
OF bringing about revision, and expressed the
opinloI that II was unwise for the
3 ,,,. assembly to take sction
the form in which the questions were nut and
tnought that 1t was unfortunate to require an
answer as to whether a revision was wanted
before directing what revision should con-
sist or He thought that there was no
on this subject Instead of throwing open TO
the church the general question OF revision spe-
cific changes should have been suggested 20 the
presbyteries, and their action upon them
would have
CAUSED NO DISTURBANCE IN THE CHURCH.
He cited the case of Congress if the question
Of revision of the Constitution should be pre-
sented.' A multitude of changes would at once
be suggested. The business-like way is to
bring out the specific changes proposed and
have them considered. In regard to changing
the confession he said that he had no respect
for it simply because ii was old. He thought,
however, that the confession was more
modern than the criticisms of a
good many people who were talking
about it. He defended the statement Of theo-
logical belief as given in the confession and
said that he preferred these statements to the
ones made by theological professors. The
trouble was, he said that the confession was
not taught and read as much as it should
be, and for that reason people had begun TO
think that it was old aud antiquated The
speaker then went on to explain in detail the
various sections Of the confession.
CHANGES FAVORED BIZ DIR. cRAIaHHAD.
DR.. Craighead in his speech before recess
favored change In the part of the confession
where the final condition of infants is consid-
cred. The speaker strongly advocated in ad-
dition to the entire recastng of chapter third,
the addition Of section declaring that Christ
made full and free salvation for all men; the
onioeion VI tue "oru eject before INFANT, IN
chap. 10, section g. leaving it to read all
infants. In conclusion he urged that
this was a favorable time to enter
upon this needed work of revision; that
no embittered theological controversy dis
tracted the church, that the suspicious OF fifty
years ago no longer existed, but that spirit OF
tolerance and brotherly love had taken their
place. He appealed to conservative, orthodox
men, instead of trying to check this movement
for revision, to lake part in it and give the
church at large their maturest thought and
their highest scriptural wisdom