The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-07-21
DIR. ELLIS AGAIN.
More Charges Preferred-Pris0n
Management.

al luookiuS VI tilo IToSDy J6Iy
| was held yesterday in Calvary Church. The
Moderator. Rev. DR.. T. c. Easton, presided
until the matter OF the charges preferred
| against him by DR.. Ellis were reached, when
the Rev. W. L. Smith took the chair.
The Rev. DR.. A. P. Happier of the Pre- shy
| terry of Canton was invited to sit as CORE
| spending member, and addressed the Presby-
| terry on the luminosity displayed against the
| missionaries from time to time.
The committee appointed to investigate
the alleged charges of SANDER against DR..
| Easton reported that further investigation
| is unnecessary. The report was unanimously
| adopted. DR.. Ellis flied notice of appeal to
| the synod against the action of the Presb y
| terry.
The Judicial Committee recommended
! that charges be preferred against DIR. Ellis
OF conduct unbecOmlng minister of the
| PresbyteIi ian Church. This action was taken
! in consequence of the charges sworn to by
DIR. Ellis, alleging that the Presbytery had
tried him on charges that they knew to be
false and malicious.
The report was adopted and charges n
| accordance with the recommendations pre-
Sented. The prosecution was fixed tor
August I'd, and the Rev. A. j. Kerr ap-
pointed prosecutor.
While the charge is pending DR.. Ellis is
debarred from speaking or voting in the
Presbytery. lie is also. in accordance with
report of the Committee on Bills and
Oyertures, restrained from exercising his
ministerial Office.
The last recommendation was oecasioned
by letter of DR.. Ellis to the Trustees of
the Central Tabernacle. in which he offers
to resume his duties as pastor in opposition to
the action of the Presbytery already taken.
Samuel Jones was accepted as candi-
date for the ministry, and the Rev. Mr..
Kerr appointed Moderator of the session OF
the Chinese Church.
Congreg ational Ministers.
AT the CODgregatonaliSt Ministers Club
the Rev. DIR. I. ID. Hill of Pasadena read n
paper on what Is Our Relation to Crime
and Criminals ?" The paper dealt principally
with prison management and reform, sub
ject to which DIR. Hill has evidently given
considerable attention for years. In no
civilized country, ne declared. Is crime in
creasing so rapidly rs in the United States.
The ratio of criminals 10 population had in
creased from TO 3400 in 1850 to l to Go in
1890.
In Great Britain the proportion of erimi-
nails to population had in the same time been
improving. The criminals, too, were of
American manufacture, and were not Euro
pean Importation. Not % per cent of the
criminals were foreigners. The essayist
then passed to an analysis Of the causes of
the increase, and laid these to want allied
to desire TO get rich quickly, TO popular
atheism, to the ease with which rich men
break the law, to the sentimental sympathy
for condemned criminals, the last reaction
from the harsh feeling formerly entertained,
and to the maintenance at public expense OF
seminaries of crime.
DIR. Hill advocated the classification and
division OF prisoners, and protested against
the system OF sen attending man for definite
term of years. Imprisonment" he asserted.
should not depend on the character of the
OffeuSe but on the character of the offender
The prisoner who was fit for release should
be set at liberty, and the criminal who re-
manned dangerous to society should be kept
in prison.