The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-10-22

iication views OF 1887. By this time
900 Pre- sbyterian clergymcn have read
DR.. Patton's expressions, probably with
surprise and some CONSERVATION. Very
likely what DR.. Patton said is to have
us far reaching effects as what DR.. Briggs
said.
Judging from tho tone OF tho discus.
sion that has already sprung up If any
other Presbyterian had uttered DR..
Pntton's reported views he would be in
sure danger OF investigation. DR.. Pat
tons orthodoxy Is not likely to be
officially questioned. but what he said
ut Princeton i'll 1887 is to be used by tho
defence in tho Briggs trial, and it will
be formidable weapon. Itmay acquit
him. II it docs not it can easily be used
TO show the majority in an undesirable
light-expelling one man and retaining
another Tor holding the same opinions.
This is supposing DR.. Patton to have
been correctly reported. He says he
was not. The Rev. Mr.. Mcqueen, who
/ was the stcnographcr, positively attests
the correctness Of his notes. The Rev.
Mr.. Frank Hyatt Smith, who took tho
address in long hand, corroborates Mr..
Mcqueen. Both shy they are ready to
make oath to their statements.
MR.. SMITH RECALLS THE ADDRESS.
Mr.. Smith. who is now pastor OF
prosperous Congregational church in
Cambridge, Mass, came to New York
yesterday and gave out the following
account OF the address and his conncc-
ton with it.:
"fhe philadelphian society ut Prince
ton," said Mr.. Smith, published a pc
riodical called the Phhddciphian Mayo
zine, oil which was the senior editor III
1857. We published, every ISSUE the
address OF some professor before the So
ciety. After DR.. Patton's remarks Dr.
Duilicld came to me and said:-
Those views OF DR.. Patton werevery
broad. You had better not print them
without showing him the proofs
Accordingly, when the report had
been written out and set up took the
proofs to DR.. Patton, with request to
be allowed to print the address. He had
no reason to be surprised at the request
He knew very well whatthe custom had
been. Nevertheless he exhibited an
noyance and excitement and said: 'Oh,
no; you mustn't print that. 1t would
injurc the church. l was speaking as
DR.. Patton and not as Princeton pro-
lessor. can't allow you to print
word OF it,
81 notice that DR.. Patton'says in his
interview with the Herald that he OBJ
jcctcd to the publication on the ground
that the address lacked literary form
He said nothing OF that kind in my
hearing. The only objections he men
toned to me were the possible injury to
the church and the fact that he was
about to write IN article on the same
subject for New York magazine.
PROMISED NOT TO PRINT IT.
"Of course promised not to print
the address if he wished it suppressed,
but without my knowledge one OF the
other editors OF the magazine inserted
paragraph to the effect that Dr.. Pat
toms address had been held over for an
other issue Thereupon Dr.. Patton
called me before him and took me Sc
verely to task Tor the paragraph. Now
he said, the public will be expecting
the address to be printed and would
not haveit printed for any considera-
ton. 1t would injure the church.
81 kept my proofs. 1 believe they
were the only evidence in existence. 1t
was l who sent them to the Erangclia.
| had no personal feeling against Dr.
Patton, but it seemed to me outrageous
that he should be forcing the prosccu-
ton OF DR.. Briggs for views which he
himself had publicly ayowcd. / thought
it was time Tor the truth to be known.
AS said on Saturday, the first para
graph in the quotation which it gave
from the address expresses the doctrine
OF future probation, pure and simple.
see that DR.. Patton says he was dctin-
ing the doctrine of purgatory, and not
his belief in it. He says that colon
should be inserted before the first SEN
tencc i'll the paragraph. Then it will
appear that the paragraph you quote is
only IN exclamation Of wha has gone
before. II DR.. Patton's orthodoxy has
got to where it hangs by colon it must
be frail. Examination OF the address
will show that the foregoing sentence
and the first sentence OF tho quotation
Z cannot well be connected by 4 colon or
anything else.
There may have been persons in the
audience that night who got the i'm
preston that DR.. Patton now tries to
give, but never heard OF them The
address was freely commented upon
among the students. All whom l heard
speak OF it had exactly the idea that
Mr.. Mcqueen and had-namcly, that
DR.. Patton had clearly given in Ills adj
florence to the doctrine OF sanctiiication
after death-thc same doctrine for
which Dr. Briggs is now being tried.
If BRIGGS is HERETIcAL so is PATTON.
"Thcrc is no doubt that if Dr. Briggs
is herctical then DR.. Patton is hcrtical
also ON the strength OF that first para
graph. That is not all. Ii l or any
other student in Princeton had upon
examination protested other views
given in that address we would not
! have been allowed to be graduated. Hc
says: i am pretty sure that there is no
doctrine that is put in jeopardy by the
simple affirmation OF this belief inSiu-
ture probation That is q direct con.
tradiction OF the theology taught at
Princeton. AT the end OF his address
he says:
Those who hear the gospel in this
world will not have another chance
hereafter; those who do not hear it or
have no opportunity hero will have
some chance in the future.
5 Our own Confession Of Faith, which
some think very straitlaced, does hold
3 out that hope, although it does say that
, thu hno hon rnpnnt hn co,,od h., fr,,,,z !