The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-09-27
DISSENTING pRESBYTERlES.
,y,rpo yOr AGREE WITH TEE
MANI ,,v,,,rTiE on REVISION.
,,,s. proportion of oHs..'0 , CS.s,nas s: A.
ri. the Committee w NJ Ss.,. ~

nthe ~ ,,,,,,m,ttee VIII Probably Have
n' ~. WorL All over Again.
, ,h, Committee on Revision OF the
s,i,.,or Confession mado its report to the
VEST VEST -, s.,r,lly Of the Presbyterian Church
uen, ..aj. In 4 May il was decided to send this
W.. AVN TO the 2l6 Prcsbyteries for ortiz
Is ,., r,h the proposed alterations and adj
U.s. 20 the Confession. The action OF the dif-
W. W.. preshytcrics on the report are to be
ho,,rc Doc. next to the Rev. DR.. w. G.
%',.rt. IN, committees Chairman. The COM
~, will then discuss thoroughly all sug-
H.,,ons offered. and prepare its Anal report to
=. rresented to the General Assembly OF 1892.
rrsat many Of tho Presbyteries have post
...od action on this report until the October
ys..ne. but a sufficient number have already
...sod upon it to make a comparison Of their
-. rery interesting. Twenty -four Presbyte-
w nom New York to Wisconsin have already
MA on the report at their meetings this
~.,,b Seven New York Presbyteries have
h..r heard from. four Of the Michigan Synod.
.A,as each OF the Ohio and Iowa Synods, two
=, wisconsin. Indiana, and Illinois, and one
p,s.hytery Of the Pennsylvania Synod.
n ia very significant fact that only four
pr.sbytcries announce their unqualified ap-
,,,val OF the report. Seven others give their
,,nsral approval O: the report, but suggest
,nors or less unimportant changes. The other
thirteen all have important changes to recon-
m.nd. several differing radically from the
nosition taken by tho committee on the doc
t-ns Of predcstiration and election. while one
or tao disapprove OF the committees work as
kEhols. u
al, meeting last week. has q number Of very
vital changes to make in the revised Confess
,sn. as shown BY The SuSs dispatches pub
d yested5sy Ihs thisd chapter r Of sss
sy.he General Assemblys committee, was the
principal point Of attack &C j.; Section Z Of this
s!''fs'' stool in the original. Roches-
s bSya be- 0 stSfsn ta. .ad s T TSss
among its reasons that the doctrine there set
forth Is not taught By Scripture, that its loss to
he Church BY its omission would not be great,
low mockery the universal offer Of salvation as
yet forth in the now chapter ON that subject.
Rochester presbytery would substitute this
The DEGREES Of God concerning all mankind
are to be SO construed as to be in harmony with
ss liar "a sertutSs viz That
whole world. and that, God is not willing that
any should perish. byt that all should come to
The Prestytery also voted to strike out seq
ton 8 Of the same chapter. which dilates on
The importance Of the doctrine Of predestina-
ton This had been retained in fI by the
along the same lines were made in other por-
tons Of the committees work. In their dis
custom Of the report the members Of Rochester
hesbytery showed clearly that they did not
believe that the Revision Committee had gone
far enough. 1t was the general sentiment that
the harsh doctrine q predestination and fore
In other places it had been allowed to stand in
il x a. Albany ssRsGal commit
vision. and their action. which was approved
By the :. Presoytery. is one the post striking Of
., The iPlss6ytsry 81 Albany has carefully re.
THsS 81 shs bSyy
Ing been executed in as satisfactory as its com
pr?nse eea raeter will allow. Inthe Judgment
added to satisfy the demands Of extreme I re-
bthe. eyes: q. those who desire it t.. remain
ofthis committee satisfies neither the revis-
i9nists nor the anti-revisionists. Moreover. this
Preshytery believes that the time is not yet
The biblical and theological controversies in
Nj dsc II At present engaged
men: however able Or scholarly, to decide
tined t. endure. In view Of these facts the
Resbytery Of Albany declines to approve the
Etion Of the General Assembly's committee
and rencwS its demand for brief and evan :
gellcal creed which may be used alternately
With the present confession as a basis of sub
"'iba prcshyterv fhinks fha fnjiowino hama
its would result thereirom:
i. The maintenance OF the Westminster
Confession in its integrity as a grand histor-
Teal document.
- IN. famiiariZing Of our church men,
bers. and especially the young with the doe
tribes Of the Church by means OF a creed that
shall be more easily received and more readily
Ggested than the Westminster confession
3 The introduction by such a process OF
the faith Of the Church into our cultus. uniting
rgytional elements.
II. The granting within confessional limits
o many worthy minister's and elders Of one
Church crave for the sake OF conscience and
demand on the score OF right"
Tho Presbytery Of Chcmung, New York, ap-
proves the work of the committee with few
verbal lamentations. Int mt the same time its
Members renffirmod a resolution PASSED last
Year that it was their deliberate opinion that q
thf and simple eSpression OF the system OF
doctrine containe cd in the confession would be
much better than a revision Of tho old creed.
Another Presbytery which has come out in
TINT ~ ch"ltpr p VI lie conini''ee FepoF'iS
These are some OF tho criticisms which were
agreed upon in Presbytery by a Unanimous
VIE:
l. Some of the changes suggested, II finally
edopteL will max a tbN 3,on fesSion soif-contrn-