Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-17
THE INERRANT BIBLE
Will Be the Title of the First Lecture
in Reply to DR.. Briggs.
DIR. BURRELL TO START THE BALL
With an Address in Behalf of Orthodoxy,
This Evening.
INTERESTING COMPARISONS AHEAD
ESPECIAL TELRGRAM TO THE DISPATCH, I,

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DISPATCH,
NEW YORK, Jan. 16-The course of SUM-
day evening lectures at the Church of the
Covenant, where DR.. Briggs has been ex-
pounding his views, ana where the belief in
the Bibles inerrancy has been so vigorously
assailed by several of the speakers, has
been viewed with great deal of alarm by
that section of the Presbyterian Church
that still holds to the old orthodox views
Rev. d. J. Burrell, pastor of the Marble
Collegiate Church, has arranged for a series
of lectures on the same general plan as
those in the Church of the Covenant and
the Church of the Puritans.
The general topic is "The Bible Under
Fire" and the whole course has been laid
out for the avowed purpose of demolishing
the arguments of DIR. Briggs and his
friends.
The First Lecture Tonight.
The first lecture is to be delivered to-
morrow evening, on ''The Inerrant Bible"
bv DR.. Burrell himself Next Sunday even
ing DR.. William Henry Green, Professor
of Biblical Literature, in Princeton, will
speak on ''The Anti-Biblical Higher Criti-
NiS'i. Auls leckuIe, Ul d pIolSsSoi iIohi
the very stronghold of Presbyterian ortho-
doxy, will be of special interest.
1t Will be interesting to see how the
audiences attending these lectures compare
with those that have been filling the Church
of the Conventant for several Sundays. The
lectures of DR.. Briggs and of the leaders in
the Liberal school are practically under the
direction of the Union Theological Semin-
ary, for DIR. McIlyaine, the church's pastor,
is one of Unions directors, and many of the
speakers are from its faculty. They have
been watched, accordingly, with a Jealous
eye, by the Presbyterians of the West, who
have declared their opposition to the liber-
slism of Union, and thus of Prof. Briggs.
Detroit TO BE Rcpeated at Portland.
Dr. Joseph G. Monfort, of Cincinnati,
said recently regarding these lectures:
We believe the influence OF the action of
the New York Presbytery and the current
lectures will increase the number OF his |
(Dr. Briggs') friends on Manhattan Island; |
United States. nor is the New York Presby- |
terry the Presbyterian Church. The Church |
spoke at Detroit and will speak again at |
Portland. L. DIR. Briggs will only print his |
lectures it will be a great advantage to the |
Church. The palmer the case is made the |
better. When the end come it will be found |
that New York City will be the chief sufferer |
in the explosion and the exodus. Her min
solution, ard in order to cystallization, ac- |
cordlng to their elective af1lnities, every |
church viii have an experience of refners |
IRE and fuller's soap.
The course oflectures now in progress in |
New York will doubtless do some harm in |
other sections OF the church. Its effect upon |
the students of Union will be damaging. |
Young men, under such q pressure, are |
tempted to cut loose from parents, pastors |
and presby teries, and when they get through |
and return home, duties difficult and deli |
cate will REQUIRE the attention of sessions 1
and presbyteries.
Again, the few ministers in the various /
nreSbyterieS who are defenders of the new 1
views and OF the men who hold them, may
wax bolder in view of current utterances in /
New York, and give trouble to presoyteries |
and congregations: but the gain in the whole |
church, when compared with the loss, will /
be as ten to one
lyman Abbott's lecture a Corker.
TIE lecture Of DR.. Lyman Abbott in the
course especially disturbed large number
in he church, and this is what the New
York correspondent of the Herald and Pres
6yter had to say about it last week:
hear that the lectures delivered in the
Church of the Convent are to be published. |
But II is safe TO say that DR.. LYMAN Abbott's |
VIII not be among them. 1t is simply scar |
oalous that such lecture as his, delivered |
there two weeks ago, should be listened to
IN Presbyterian Church, in the presence of
the pastor and number of the New York
1
breach of good taste, that he should attack
the cardinal doctrines of Presbyterian |
ism from a Presbyterian nulpit. So Of
1eHsjve were some of his utterances that
a number of people left the church, where |
up n the lecturer kindly informed the audi |
e ce that he had nc intention of shocking |
but he did not regard the Bible as |
even as a rule of faith and prac- |
tlce. His criticism OF the decalogue as a
code of morals seemed to crafty his audi |
ence, particularly his remark that a man |
might keep the whole law, and yet be unfit |
for decent society in the nineteenth cen
tury. The successor ofHenry Ward Beecher |
Is likely TO be an excellent substitute for |
Moses. DR.. Abbott's contemptuous refer
ence TO the vicarious atonement of our Lord |
was equally noticeable. Many of those |
present seemed charmed with his original
description of it, as the idea of one GOO suf- |
1erlng in order to propitiate another God, or |
words to that effect. Other tests of the lee |
tJrer fused no more than a smile but those |
= ho had found Prof Briggs Il trif1e dull felt |
nat they had hada delightful evening.