The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-05-22

DETROIT, May 21.-The hundred ane
third annual meeting of the Presbyterian
general assembly convened here this morn
ing. Rev. DR.. Randcliffe, of Detroit, in
voked the divine blessing. After singing
Rev. DIR. Hatton, president of Princeton
read the sixteenth chapter of Isaiah. Rev
DR.. Moore, of Cincinnati, moderator of the
assembly, delivered the opening assembly
sermon from John, II: s'For God sent no
His Son into the world to condemn the
world, but that world through Him NIGH
be saved" DR.. Moore said:
"God gives eternal life to individuals be
levlng here and now, but the salvation OF
the world is accomplished through the per.
sonal salvation Of husbands, wives
parents, children, masters, servants
rulers, subjects. The unprotected are
seduously oppressed, and therefore, 8
dangerous servile class is elevated
to The position of brethren in Chris,
and labor is made honorable. Before
He came enjoyment and self-induleence
were the objects of human aspiration. For
this the early church substituted helpful.
ness. The Presbyterian church has in the
main been in helpful touch with the needs
OF this world. Agitation, unheaval is no,
necessarily ruin. Like the heaving of the
sea, it may purify. Compulsion, legislation
Will not do this unless there is an active
leaven purified in the individual difused
through society Law was never so good
as now, although there is too much of it;
| but were 1t perfect as to quantity and quail
| ity, 1t is useless or worse unless rightly in
| terpreted, administered and enforced, and
| for this there must be such work as only
! religion can effect.
Hopeful am there is what l nav call s
cody dissatisfaction with our efficiency ir
leavening society. The family, the state
and the church are the three great factors
for alternating social, political and econom
lcal evils. All three are of divine institu
ton and can never do their best work ex.
cept as the life of Christ pervades them ),
After prayer by DR.. Moore the organiza
zion OF the assembly was perfected. The
committee on arrangements reported anC
the assembly took recess till D. IN. DIR
Green, OF Princeton, was elected moderate,
by acclamatlon at the opening of the after
! noon session Of the general assembly.
AT the afternoon session nominations
for moderator being in order, Rev. DIR
Dlckey, OF Philadelphia, nominated Rev
Prof William Il. Green, of Princeton
Theological college. DIR. Barr seconded
the nomination, and DR.. Green was elected
by reclamation. The newly elected mod
orator was then escorted to the platform
where the retiring moderator WELDON ed
him in a brief speech.
Moderator Green replied thanking the
assembly for the distinguished token OF
confidence. He accepted it with deer
sense of his untitness, but feeling that the
task OF presiding over such an assembly as
this must be comparatively light, where all
the members are animated by one spirit
seeking one great end, and have as their
supposed desire the protection of the glory
OF God and the advancement of the king
dom of our blessed Savior.
DR.. Wallace Radcliffe pastor of the De-
troit Fort Street church, welcomed the as
sembly on behalf OF the reception committee
and he presented the moderator with a
Michigan gavel made of wood from the
Pontiac oak that witnessed the massacre of
637 and from the old fort
The committee on concensus of creed re-
ported 1t had held meetings and sent q cir
cular to the reformed churches, holding the
Presbyterian system, throughout the world.
The death OF DR.. Howard Crosby was
spoken OF as great loss to the committee.
and DR.. Dickey was recommended as a
suitable man to take his place.
Mr.. Macintosh reported as to the Mis-
siondry Magazine in the church at home and
abroad. 1t IS winning favor and other de-
nominations are coming to appreciate il
greatly. There is great neglect, however,
to heed the recommendation of the assem-,
bly, that Presbyterian families should take
IT. IL could be made quarter or half cheaper
if $4,000 who could well afford 1t would sub.
scribe for it.
MIR. Lowery. chairman of the committee
OF proof texts, stated that last year the
committee reported to the assembly it had
finished the revision of the proof texts OF
the confession of faith. Since then the
same had been done for larger catechism.
Adjourned till tomorrow.
The case OF DR.. Briggs may involve q
curious dilemma. Either the assembly
must prejudice the impending trial OF Prof.
Briggs before the Presbytery by veto of
his transfer to the chair of biblical the.
ology, or it must endanger the validity OF