The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-06-01
THE PREsBYTERIANs ADJOURN.


After Advising Heretics to Leave the
Fold and Avoid Expulsion.
PORTLAND, May 3l.-The session of the
Presbyterian general assembly for 1892
adjourned this afternoon. At late hour
last night the assembly selected Washing
ton City as the place of the meeting next
year. The transactions of this mornings
session were mainly routine. The first
topic of general interest concerned the
Columbian fair in disappearing the Sec
ton dubbed the parliament of religions. I"
A number of overtures from presbyteries
and synods on Sunday opening led to the
adoption of resolution that If the fair
shall be opened on Sabbath the exhibition
of the Presbyterian church shall be offered
only on condition that it shall be covered
on that day.
A resolution was adopted saying: sour
church holds that the inspired Word as it
came from God is without error" The
VOW Of ordination recognizes that the
Bible is the 'only infallible rule of faith
and practice" and it was recon.
mended that those officers of the church
who have ceased to hold this view should
seek congenial place outside the pale Of
the denomination without waiting for
discipline. Reports of standing commit
tees upon matters of minor interest con-
tinued till near the close of the morning
session. when the report on systematic
benefcence was presented by DR.. Wallace,
OF Lewiston, Pa.
The slim attendance at the opening of
the afternoon session showed that the con-
Guiding exercises have small interest for
the people of Portland, and that many of
the commissioners have had leave of ab-
sence granted of which they have
on the state of religion and
the programme for the denomina-
tional exhibit at the Columbian fair were
passed over with speed. An earnest plea
for the deliverance of assembly against the
practice of lynching negroes in this coun-
try met with decided approval. During
the proceedings of the afternoon Elder
McCook withdrew his statement of a year
ago concerning donations made to the
Union seminary upon the basis of its doc
trinal soundness. saying that he had no
desire to wound the feelings of any men,
Der of the family of any such donor, and
that he had no intention of characterizing
the intent of any donors.
The committee of conference with theo-
logical seminaries was announced as fol-
lows: Drs. Hays, Young Blayney, Mulch
more, Moore, bartlett. Haley. Holmes,
Wilson. and Elders McDougal, of Cincin-
natl; McCook, of New York; Gray, of
Chicago; Bonner, of Indiana; Joy, of De-
troit; Negley, of Pittsburg, and Knox, of
Minneapolis.
Just at the close of the session an anus
ing scene occurred upon the introduction
of resolutions calling the attention of
minister's, elders and students to the evils
Of the tobacco habit. Each step in the
discussion was greeted with a roar Of
laughter. Finally. however. the resolu-
tons were passed with shout and wav-
ing Of hats. An incident unusual in the
general assembly was the taking of a coll
lection for the benefit of colored minis
ter who was left stranded after coming
from North Carolina to prosecute an APP
peal unsuccessfully and the money, $11O,
thus realized, went far to console his
wounded feelings. A long and tedious
final roll call announced the approach Of
the end, and with a hearty vote of thanks
to the moderator, clerks, pastor of the
church, the committees of the churches
and the people of Portland, and the gener-
GUS hosts Of the assembly, and after happy
speeches by Pastor Brown and Moderator
Young the 104th annual session of the
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