Morning journal and courier., 1890-10-15
THE PHEsnxrEa1AN CREED.

Radical Changes in the Chapter on Foreordfnat1on-Som of the Cues. lions Referred to Committees to Report at the Adjourned Meeting in Warrington.
 PITTsBURG, Pa. ,. Oct. 14.-The revision committee of the Presbyterian general as- sembly closed it's first session to-day to meet again in Washington February A. The method of the committee has been to read the entire confession, chapter by chapter, marking for consideration such sections or paragraphs as were suggested by the Presbyteries or by the committee itself. The chief discussions were upon chapters 3, 6, 9 and 10. Many of the questions were referred to committees to report at the adjourned meeting in Wash ington. Changes were made, subject to revision, in chapter 3, sections 3, 4, and ?; in chapter 4, section 1; in chapter 6, sec tion 4; chapter z, sections 4, and 6; chap ter 10, sections 3 and 8. The dis cussions of the committee have been thor oughly harmonious and the agreements reached thus far practically unanimous. The committee believe that a report will be finally adopted which will receive the approval of the general assembly to be adopted by the presbyreries. During the interval from now until the session at Washington the committeeman will care fully consider all the changes made and will reach final conclusion. A sub-com- mittee will then be appointed to draft 8 confession in conformity with the general desire. They will put it into clear, terse and concise English, and report to the whole committee at it's meeting just prior to the meeting of the general assem- ply.
 PARTIES NOT AN ACCIDENT. An Address by Hon. Thomas B. Reed
 at Rochester-The Speaker Clearly
 Defines How Party Lines are Laid
 in the South.
 ROCHESTER, Oct. 14.-Speaker Thomas B. Reed and Senator Frank Hiscock ad- dressed an audience of $500 people at the Washington rink this evening" Mr. Reed said:
 Parties are not an accident The lines are laid very deep in the south. One man follows in the footsteps of his grandfather. He does not believe he knows any more than his grandfather. Another man be- ieves in progress, believes that the world is going forward. One man is democrat, the other is a republican It is unfair to speak of the history of this country. It is unfair because the demo- crats have had very little to do with it. We have to go ahead and drag them after us do not say this in partisan spirit. If any man thinks what have said has flavor of self-assertion on our part he has only to take up the principal events of the last thirty years and show what principles have been enunciated and where the different conventions have ratified them The democrats in congress allowed the ad- ministrative tariff bill to pass for the sake of testing the constitutionality of the house in passing it without a quorum voting. It will soon go to the supreme court, hope. But we are to have decision by a power more supreme than the supreme court-by the people of the United States. This coun- try is not going to be contented with the governmental system of a century ago. shall be glad of the position the republi- cans took, whether the next house is democratic or republican. If the people of the United States are so misguided as to want democratic house of representatives let them have one, with all it implies. If we get a republican house we want control. If they get democratic house let them have control. The democrats do not they are The republicans want to sit a little higher up, nearer the pulpit. If you voters want to do your duty at the coming election you will vote with the party which upholds the rule of the majority.
 Senator Hiscock followed, speaking on the tariff question and favoring the federal o1action hill