Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-05-24
FOR A NEW CREED.
Report on Revision to the
Presbyterian Assembly.
MOST IMPORTANT CHANGES NOTED.

pressions Regarding the Roman Church
softened - A Proposition Regarding
Indian Schools In Line with the Meth
odist Position-Union Seminary Wants
Release-Dr. Briggs and Editor Shep-
ard Hand-The Methodists to Ad-
journ Thursday.
PORTLAND, Ore, May 24-There we're
number of reports presented in the Pres
byterian assembly yesterday. probably
the most significant being lin view of the
action on the same subject taken by the
Methodist conference) the report on In
dian schools. In this report it was recon-
mended that henceforth all public moneys
for Indian education should be expended
by government officials, and that appro-
priations for sectarian schools should abso
lutely cease. The tutional amend
ment now pending loo = to this end was
heartily approved. DR.. Bartlett addressed
the assembly in support of the recon-
mendations, Another report, that was
encouraging, was the report on the mis-
sions to freedmen. The most important
business, however, was the report of the
revision committee presenting an amend
ed confession of faith.
Features of the Report.
The report is a long document, but
the sections of the revision of the
confession of most interest as being
most freely amended can be briefly given
One of these is in the third chap
ter and is as follows, the brackets iudi-
natl ha
mankind God Twas pleased saw fit, ac-
cording to the unsearchable counsel of His
own will whereby He extendeth or with
holdeth mercy as He pleaseth flor the
glory of His sovereign power over His
creatures to pass byl and to ordain them
to dishonor and wrath for their sin, to the
praise of his glorious justice; yet neither
Is any limitation put upon the offer of sal
walton to all upon condition of faith in
Christ, nor is restraint laid upon the free
dom of any one to hinder his acceptance
of this offer; yet hath He no pleasure in
the death OF the wicked nor is it his decree
but the wickeGness of their own hearts
which restraineth and hindereth them
from accepting the free offer of His grace
made in the gospel
AS to the Election of Infants.
The section relating to elect infants is
worthy of mention. BY the old confession
the inference was left that some infants
went to hell, as the wording select in
fants" implied that there were mon -elect
infants" The new section clears that
mystery, reading as follows: "Infants dy-
ing in infancy and all other persons who
are not guilty of actual transgression are
included in the election of grace and are
regenerated and saved by Christ through
the spirit who worketh when and where
and how he pleaseth; SO also are the per
sons who are not outwardly called by the
ministers of the word
With Reference to Rome.
The other essential change is in a sec
ton relating to the Roman Catholic
church in the unrevised confession.
In the revision the section reads as fol
lows: "The Lord Jesus Christ is the only
head of the church and the claims of the
pope of Rome or any other Roman
authorit y to be vicar of Christ and head
of the church universal is without war.
rant in scripture or fact and is a usurpa.
ton dishonoring to the Lord Jesus Christ
In another chapter where reference is
made to the Roman Catholic church the
change is from "popish sacrifice of the
Mass" to "Roman Catholic doctrine of the
sacrifice of the mass
The Union Seminary Case.
up during the day, the committee report
ing in favor of referring to arbitration the
disputed point of transfers with which
the Briggs case is involved), while Ezra
Kingsley, treasurer of the seminary, gave
the views of the board of directors in wit
ing to the effect practically that the semi
nary wanted release entirely from the
compact of 1870. Briggs was present, hav-
ing Travelled Sunday night to get here in
time So was Editor Shepard, who wants
the assembly to pass resolution against
opening the Worlds on Sunday. 1t is
not known whether the colonel travelled
in his special car Sunday.
Proposal from the Methodists.
He says he will go from here straight to
the Minneapolis convention. A communi-
cation from the Methodist conference was
read asking the assembly to cooperate in
aid of the proposed sixteenth amendment
to the United States constitution abso-
lutely forbidding anything squirting in
the direction of connection between church