Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-12-07
ASPhYXIATED.

| Ice have fair and even chance with men
they win their full share of the more lucra-
tive and responsible positions.
AsPHYxIATED.
Two swedes Found Dead In a
Hotel.
| NEW York, Dec. 6-Two men were
found this afternoon asphyxiated in a
room of the homemade hotel on Green
witch street. They we're registered as
"Henry Burg and Peter Lund of Canada 5"
The deceased came to the hotel with three
others on Monday. The three men re-
| ferred to left the hotel o>day at p. m.
The police are looking for them. The
room in which the men were found was
full of gas, escaping from an open burner.
| The room bad no outside windows. The
| only means of ventilation was by means
of small transom. The dead men and
their companions were undoubtedly
Swedes. 1t is thought that they were en-
route from western Canada to their homes
| in Sweden.
PROFESSOR BRIGGS, THEORY
Combatted by DR.. Birch Citing
acknowledgements of the Prose-
cution.
NEW YORK, Dec. Elm the Briggs trial
to day DR.. Birch continued his argument.
He joined the two charges 1 and 2, which
get forth DR.. Briggs theory that the
church and the reason are sources of
divine authority equal with the bible and
attacked them contrary to the teachings of
the Presbyterian standard that the bible is
the only source of divine authority.
DR.. Birch said: "The inaugural ad-
dress co-ordinates the authority of the
bible, tho church and the reason. It.
avails nothing to say that the authority of
the church and the reason are fallible,
while the bible alone is infallible, for if
all are from God they stand or fall to-
gether."
DR.. Birch then read nine passages of
scriptures to which, he asserted, Dr.
Briggs doctrine of salvation through the
light of reason is in direct conflict. The
texts are recorded in Isaiah $40, Matthew
"a, Luke 1929 81, John $50, John 1916,
Galations $40. II Timothy 5:15-17, and
II Peter 1:192l These citations, the
speaker declared, proved the charges be-
yond question.
four scriptursl witnesses to the stand and
examined them on the question at ISSUE
The witnesses were the Ethiopian eunuch,
the centurion Cornelius, the scholarly
Bereans and Apollos, the friend
and coworker with st. Paul. All
these found the scriptures essen
tial for salvation. TO deny the
necessity of the scriptures, said DR.. Birch,
is to deny the integrity of God. Having
attacked the authority of the scriptures
there is no escape from the heresv that er
rors may have existed 10 the original text |
of the scriptures and this forms the basis |
for charge 3. The higher criticism as
represented by the inaugural uses the same |
processes as those rsbuked by Christ. The |
bible frequently speaks of itself as the ora
cles of God. The church is only the trus- |
tee and guardian of the bible. If DR.. |
Briggs alleges that errors exist in the |
bible he denies the principle that God can |
not lie. DR.. Briggs says that the |
bible is inspired by God, therefore, he must |
believe God capable of double dealing and |
The autocrscy of the |
scripture is SO absolute that we cannot |
add to nor take from it anything without |
destroying it's unity and completeness.
The argument of the prosecution on the |
other charges remains to be printed. Then |
DR.. Briggs will be called upon to answer |
accusations.
THE SMITH TRIAL.
CINCINNATI, Dec. CDR. Lowe closed |
his argument for the prosecution in Pro-
fessor Smiths trial for heresy, and Profess |
sor Smith began his last speech in his own |
defence. The main question he declared |
to be inspiration of such nature that |
the holy spirit overcsme the natural bias |
of the human writer's of the bible so |
as to preclude all possibility of error, even
of fact. The committee held that it was of |
such nature. but he maintained that the |
confession of faith did not require such a
belief. He quoted from Warfeld and
Hodge to show that the scriptures bore in |
delible traces of human error.
The argument will be continued to-mor-
row.