New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-04-18
WHATA PASTOR SEES AND HEARS

ITEMS OF INTEREST TO CHURCH PEOPLE.
The New-York Presbytery, by Its action OF honday,
has placed itself in peculiar position, by the appoint
ment Of committee to examine the inaugural ADDRESS
Of DIT. Briggs of Union Seminary. The orthodoxy Oh
the professor has been called In question, and yet tho
Presbytery In the same meeting, voted to SEND Dr.
Briggs as a commissioner to the General Assembly,
The committee Is expected to bring In It's report on
May IL, ten days before the Assembly meets. ehoulo
the report favor judicial action, it Will be Impossible
TO secure trial before before the Assembly meets ana
the singular spectacle will be presented OF commis
soner himself accused of heresy, sitting In Judgment
On another report favorng revision OF the Confession
of Faith Should the committee decide that no trlal
is Necessary that the inaugural address Is perfecuy
orthodox then the professor and the Presoytery Will
he alike exposed to the cannonade which the moro
conservative Presbytees are preparing for Deero''
One member of the committee appointed to nvestl-
gate Dr. Briggss orthodoxy has already resigned d.
van Dyke was absent from the room when he was ap'
pointed on Monday, and soon as he saw In the pa
pers that his name had been suggested he seht lete
to DR.. Shearer, tho moderator Informing MIN 'hae
would be impossible for him to serve owing 70 pressing
engagements connected with his pastoral work.
friend suggests that the work set before this commtoee
belongs more properly to men whose theological III
terests are larger and more intense than d. VAL
Dykes which are chiefly in the direction Oh very
simple and practical religion. Dr. shearer mas noO
| filed the vacancy caused Dy tIlS roSlSn"uo-'
Professor William Henry Green, Of Princeton Semi
nary and Professor W. G. Shedd have strong artl-
Giles in @The Observer" this week against the views
set forth in Dr. Brggs's address Dr. shedd does mol
speak of his colleague by name, but refers 10 JUS ~
dress in this way, as one ASSERTS his uloo oD'SN
nons 10 the fragmentary theory Of the origin OF inc
scr,ntnres are: II is wholly modern, wholly con-
,ectI,ra and fatal 10 their Inspiration. Dr. Green'
also q commissioner of the General Assembly, speaks
of Dr. Brggs's defiant inaugural and says: JUGS
tons which should be settled by calm, schoEry us
cusson ought not to have been forced upon ecceAS'
cal tribunals But the extreme partisan atutuoe 80
unwsely taken by Dr. Briggs at TINS 'uno.no
no discretion 1t compels the Church. noiens Voiens'
10 face the alternative of ndorsing OF refusing TO H.
dorse the sentiments Of his inaugural"
! George P Morris, for number OF years writer
nm RELIGIOUS subjects, has been added to the edtorai
| ~ 90 UTbe ConQrecationsist,n in Boston. Few
r,nn not clerVymen have had 50 good an opportunity
A. no for studyng religious questions, and ne mas haa
an additional advantage in attending lmpor"n' 70
| urious conventions as layman. He is Ofieh'
urter and q very agreeable companion. during ING
utnter he has been taking special studies IN SOCIOLOGY
| in Johns Hopkins University. Wmle Ihe Nonsiesa'
iionalistY has lost its able head, Dr. Dexter IL mas
sd oral new men to the editorial staff in the last
vor or two and the verdict Of New-fork pastor oi
anotber denomination may still stand: III Is ole u
+no host .around' religious journals that comes 10
my table,
Treasurer Ward. Of the American Board OF Commis
oncrs for Foreign Missions reports that the recep'
tr March we're Ss2, esq., an increase OF about @o'ooo
| Tho increase for the seven months OF the cuieh'
| financial year has reached almost S25'Ooo. Ins' TX
| saws ais gratifying but not satisfying"
Anniversary meetings Of the New-York City Chufcn
rvtenslon and Missionary Society will be held IN soVer
Methodist churches tomorrow evening and In Others Oh
the following sunday evening. Bedford street, CH'''
and ST. Luke's churches chosen for tomorro" o'o
ing and Allen Street, st. Andrews and Eas1 sN',
first Street for April &C. Bishop Andrews VIII preSo'
tomorrow in St. Lukes Church in West for'y'nf'"'
Speaking OF the recent debate on the wonicn auo'
tion at Yonkers The Christian Advocate says Liz
debate In the New-York Conference on the admission
women TO the Electoral and General conferences wa
able and AlgniGed. The Conference did itseH circuit
giving annie time to the subject The suggestion H1
fhe Vote be taken without any debate met Win oojeo
lion and large part OF two sessions was ne'E9 f mnri
discussion. The speeches showed cledIy V h .bn Cd
thought had been given to the subject DoS Wy II wa
vOcaGes of the measure and their opponents ~ 5rssT
also manifest that sober and th0ughtlul men nd so
the question one of profound lmpVrUi.S0 Al 90 IN,
conference displayed itself In vigorous h ttS,g9ed IN
The dignity ana Christian spirit when % ~ me dis
debate were admirable No one coulu s % stTen 9TH
cussion and fail to be impressed Wlsi wv conSnicu
| LOYALTY and devotion to MethOdism winch aIe I'N
out in this noble body Of Christian nlll7'oi'