The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1890-05-25
PROGRESS TOWARD REVISION
TEE REPORT or THE COMMITTEE
ADOPTED BIZ THE ASSEMBLY

trine Not to be ChanEed-A Committes
Annotated 10 Name tho Committee on
Revision RESOLUTIONS in Favor of "
Consensus Greed and Church Unity
RevIyinE the Order of DeRconesSes.
sAnAroGA. May 24-The Revision battle is
lost and won. 1t has been won by the Revis-
ionists. but their triumph ia shorn TO great
degree Of the fruits OF victory. They have
achieved their object in securing revision, but
they have secured 1t under restrictions which
in some respects nulliiy this result. The
Committee on Revision. whose appointment is
secured is limited to lines which curtail
changes greatly desired by the ultra revision-
ists, but not By all. Thus far shall you 20
and no further" say the anti-revisinR King
Canutes to the waves OF revision. and their
dictum is embalmed in the very act which au-
thorises changes In tho Confession OF Faith.
As yesterday the time occupied by the bust
ness which took precedence OF the all-Rbsorb-
ing topic was manifestly Rrudged by the As
sembly, although to-day an address by the
venerable DR.. McCosh on subject ordinarily
OF much interest, formed part OF the prelimi-
nary proceedings There was a palpable ex-
preston OF relief when these proceedings we're
finally concluded. and tho Rev. DR.. Ersklne,
Chairman OF the Committee Of Seven, to which
had been conflded the three propositions Of
Prof. McCraoken. DR. Patton and Elder Day with
respect to the appointment OF q Revision Com
mlttee. mounted the platform. After ANNOUNCE
ing the pleasure 1t gave him to present the re-
port the committee had prepared. he sketched
the process OF it's preparation. Each member
OF the committee. he said. first made out q
statement OF his individual views. which he
submitted to the rest. After mutually con-
sidering these several statements. the commit
teemen compared the propositions OF Drs. Nc
Cracken and Patton and Elder Day. section by
section. After O thorough comparison, they
considered the alterations and eliminauons
proposed. and finally came to q unanimous
agreement as to every section OF the report he
was about to present He hoped the General
Assembly would be, equally unanimous. and
adopt It without a dissenting voice. DR.. En-
Skne then read tho report as follows:
Tone hOderatoy and hsme.Ts q ts G..e,St 4;ssmoy
resolutions The ADOPTION Of which ,hey recommend
.uIo TO be transmitted to the rrss4ytery IN these
Fs6 q III So in what respects and to what
Commits. spP6EHsd IRON @ SFi
% s @ tn@t on Ss4 have
Resotu:d That committee composed OF one member
@n n and ten elders be appointed BY the Moderator
SfteSn ministers and ten elders which shall be called
The Assembly, on FSy hs OF e EonfsS
The General Assemey shall consider the ssggs,tions
to the General Assembly, q isSI such alterations ana
I udSnens may Do deemed desiTagle; "-,m.
2 This Committee on revision shall meet at the call Of
.temporary chairman to be named by the Moderator
point their own permanent Chairman and shall have
at an early date, later than Oct 81 ls.l and am
no 81 tho Assembly
Whereas, sixty.e9ht rresbyteres have answered
p 70 sSs r Of q ts sy
Of
the system Of doctrine taught therein; therefore
hereby arc nstruoed that they shall not propose any
the or
fdGGrns taught in the ,S S0RfssOp Of Faith
Fnec + FnSn aaa KsnX
mittoe.
The report was received with applause. which
was repeated when DR.. McCraeken said: i
heartily move to accept and adopt the report
and Ioin Dr.. Erskine n the hope that it will be
Cries Of 'Questionw were Immediately
raised. and. without needing them DR.. Erskine
Tin answer to our prayers believe the Di-
vine. guidance has been youchsafed to this As
ona neaTy to 'G The
questions which have been brought before 1t;
As by hs bs hsGa
proposed no further Instructions to the hey
contained In the last paragraph OF the, report.
mittee which the Assembly is asked to adopt,
hope We will all unite IN the ad9ution OF this.
vii 90 forth 10 the world that the Presbyterian
Church has not renowned the system OF doc
Urine, which It has held nom the beginning,
Emove YOU, sir the question be now taken"
FORMALLY said one delegate,
Before 1t was seconded the Rev. DR.. Booth
arose to q question OF privilege. apd the Rey.
William Brent9n Green, Jr:: OF fhlladeiphIa
%Ss assae aY BY SUCH storm Of de@sHds Tor
o vote that after looking doubttully at the
Ehoutipg delegates, he beet a retreat d.
orator now put the question on the, adoption OF
the report. The vote was standing one so
almost the first 70 rise when the yeas were
called for. Everybody else except, perhaps.
pr Patterson arose WIZ NM tb ana g as VIZ It
nanded. there were no votes in the negative.
The =, %Doxologt. was now sung, and Moder.
continued to mark the proceedings. When he
had finished his prayer he said:
have already selected the nineteen, ministers
are to nominate 10 thls Assembly ths commit;
Tho Eoy; DR.. Wp. Henry, Roberts then an
the synods they represented. as follows;
Baltimore the Kew. Or. BttinRor. CAtAWba tho koV
william A Alexander, Cairo the Rev. frAnh V. Mills
Colorado B!der Robert douglas Columbia Eder Curtis
e S!IoPG; LIin1n. no Roy Dr; william Robers
Ayer Ind3n Territory tGe Rev John almonds lowe
$
EGysss M!S'S2uT.: RIasr Frank Bard SsersshA,
krd Ksmp'hSlI Esv Mexico the Rev Samuel p Fulton;
PANEL il Evans Synod q DO FsslhS the Rev Henry n
p. Gage; Pennsylvania, the Rev Dr. EboneLer BrBkne;
louth Dakota the Rev Elliott T. Dresser; Tennessee
The Rnv. samuel T. wilson Texas the Rev Dr. Henry
d Little; Wisconsin, Elder Everett C. Eastman
DR.. W. c. Roberts was named as Chairman OF |
lhs Nominating Committee, which set to work
In the Town Hall soon after its appointment
The Assembly then considered the (oncen-
Bus Greed, which had come before 1t orl ginally
COMMITTEES, on Bills aud Overtures as the |
knswer OF the Assembly to the overtuTes OF tho |
different pEesbyteries on the subject The fol-
lowing Ii the proposed an-wor OF the Assembly !
In the form In which 1t first appeared:
All oyertur.s on new creed shall no referred to a |
he PRESBYTERIAN and Reformed Churches prepare
lboTt creed containing the essential articles OF tho
Westminster Confession to be used as the common |
creed of these churches not az substitute for the
Breed OF any particular denomlnaton but TO supple