New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-05-31
THE BRIGGS CASE REMANDED
TRIAL MUST BE HAD BEFORE THE NEW
YORK PRESBYTERY.

General Assembly Commissioners in trim for rapid
disposition Of business to-day The Briggs heresy
case rmanded to New-York for a trial
without dsbate Following this came another phase
Of the same question, and in many respects OF
vital interest than the mere question OF DR.. Briggss
orthodoxy. This the question Of the relation
Of Union Seminary to the Assembly. The Theo-
logical Seminaries Committee recommended that the
question OF the transfer of professor be submitted
TO a committee of arbitration, while the minority
report recommended that the seminary be allowed
to withdraw from the agreement Of 1870. Many
speeches were made. but discussion was reached
at the morning session. and 1t decided to take
up the matter at nightrand take the vote at .
o'clock.
Besides these two questions the Assembly disposed
OF the temperance report and the report Of the Com
mittee on Sabbath Observance. and referred the over
ture, protest and resolution relating to the election Ct
DR.. W. c. Roberts senior secretary in the Home
Mission Board 1t feared at one time that all
the facts bearing on this including the protest of
DIT. Irwin his letter TO feow-mnisters and their
piles. which have been printed and distributed pri
vately, would come before the Assembly, but DR.. Nc
fherSon succeeded In preventing it by speech. in
which he favored moderation.
This morning DR.. Young introduced Mayor Mason, Of
Portland, who made brief speech OF welcome.
After an appeal had been read from the Presby
terian Church of Wellington, Kan. which de-
stroyed by storm last Wednesday, the Briggs matter
special committee appointed to prepare paper. Judge
Ewing, of Pennsylvania, read this report:
Your committee appointed 10 draft q form Of iudg-
ment to BE- entered in the case of The Presbyterian
Rev. Charles A. Briggs ID. d.. respectfully report and
recommend for adoption the accompanying form of
The General Assembly having. on the 2sth Of Nav.
1892 fully sustained all the specifications Of errors
IN @ e se it mow Nav 60 s or" ordered that h
Judgment Of the Prcs1ytery of New York entered No
IN 4 tla nf Dn
terrain Church in the United states of America against
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bytery OF New-lOrk for trial. with directions 70
Sn a Se nc of c cSaIc s and o sps Sq
In form and legal effect. and permit the Prosecuting
changing the general nature of the same. If in the
firtherance Of justice II be necessary 10 amend, so
that the may be brought 90 issu" and tried on the
Ii IS further ordered that the stated clerk of the
proceedings had thereon, with the papers
relating thereto, TO the Presbytery of NewYork.
Having efecually disposed Of perplexine
problem, another taken up. &. W. Kctcham. of
Newark. spoke in favor Of the minority report favor
Ing the withdrawal Of Union Seminary from the com
pact of 1870. The Rev. NJ Earnshaw of Lowvlllc,
n. Y, followed on the same side. saying that the
seminarieS Committee, IN It's report, censured the
seminary directors. DR.. Mutchmorc called upon
the speaker to produce a single sentence from the
report in support of that statement.
Although speeches limited by rule TO five
minutes the Moderator allowed DR.. TAYLOR, Of Rome
to speak tweDty minutes, he had read the minority
report. Dr. Taylor, the Trainer Of the minority
port said there lad been good deal of mixing Of
ideas. lie felt that the only link of connection be
tween this Assembly and the ono Of last year
the committee OF fifteen. Last year there was
difference OF opinion about the matter Of arbitra-
ton, and II comes up again. Committees werc ap-
pointed last year bI, It found fnprr'iclbe.
Now there come, a report from six OF The forty
IN, no "a he NVl say
can AAIre. Lft us judge Of the weight this report
should have. Half Of don't know what this
question OF status means 1t means that the
Assembly must tolerate the lack OF weight OF the
veto power and the SEMINARY must tolerate DR..
Briggs. The seminary not in rebellion and had n
right to retain Or. Briggs ISL the Assembly meets
again. We have no rightsto annu the compact All
the seninaries do that But 30 far as Union
seminary T. concerned, it can be accomplished ana
she has hight to ask it. Union seminary has found
that the compact fraught with danger and that she
has suffered and that others may suffer. For twenty
wears she has made tran and supposed rghtfuly
that she was right. The report last year wa rem
dered without the slightest consultation. The axe
was raised the fell and Union Seminary qiivered
in every nerve. she the first TO surrender her
Independence 70 form the compact The best way
% keep Union Seminary IS TO let her out Of the
compact
DR.. Patterson, OF Philadelphia, offered substitute
In resolution form. declaring HAT since Union Sem
inarc had IGNORED the veto power ~ the Assembly II
had already broken the compact. and that com
nittce Of ministers be appointed 10 investigate the
case d.. MoNatt, Of Baltimore, said Union semi
nary trcnbled because she conscious OF having
done wrong. II justice were done, Union Seminary
would be cut bose and discarded from the list OF
Summaries OF the Presbyterian Church. d.. Lewis
Lampnian said that under the majority report none
Of the candidates from Union could secure liccSes
~ the letter Of the report followed, since the
report recommends that licenses be issued subject to
the approval OF the professors.
"What object to- said Dr. Lamprnan as he left the
PLATFORM is that the committee should come here with
fag OF truce In hand and club In the other, "a
beat out the brains OF this institution.
This brought the house 10 Us fee. and retract1n
WAS asked for The statement read by the stem
ographer The moderator decided that the .emark wa,
merely figure OF speech.
The report in the Unioa seminary case Is a rcitefa
ton OF the original with few exceptions. recon
mcndailon which absent from tie Others. was MAZE
to enjon Presbytcrics to see that students undeF
their care be prepared their sacred Office In sem
naries and by teachers who under the direction oi
the Assembly and that the Board u Educatloh Dc
directed to resict the appropriations for the education
OF students to those who are pursuing their s'nu''9
under the above named Institutions under private
Instructors" This aimed the CrOn seminary ana
II mis- ON the boycott" as forcibly stated ON the
floor The only change iU the resolution with re-
gard 10 the Union Seminary was made t0"aru inc emu
where noncompliance" Of directors Is called ="
failure to comply with the obligations contained IN inc
compact OF I57O@ The resolution 10 the necessity
Of the maintenance Of the veto COVER IS luchuc'"
throughout With regard TO the IDENTIFY OF iIdhsic's
sind i cinal sppoinmens In the Of professors The
following f. recommended The General Assembly l.
constrained TO insist upon its Interpretation OF the
terms Of the compact rs given by the assembly at
Detroit
The report recommends negative answer 10 inc
memorial of the Union Theological Seminary dcctoF''
asking the cooperation OF the General Assembly, l."
ovcrnc lis Connection and It recommends the adop-
ton OF the following;
INF Assembly IccOg-