Omaha daily bee., 1892-12-15
DENIES HE IS A HERETO
DR., Briggs Continues His Argument Before
the New York Presbytery,
INTEREST IN THE TRIAL IS INCREASING
Arguments That win Not he Heard with
Pleasure hy Orthodox rresbS Stcrians
Old Scotch Church Crowded with In
tcrcstcd Listeners Yesterday.

New NoRK, Dee. lI-Dr Briggs resumed
the reading of his lengthy dcfcnsc in his
trial for hercsy at the Old Scotch church
this afternoon. There is evidently no
diminution IN the public interest in the re-
suit of the contest, because the church gall
lerics were filed as usual with spectators
DR. Briggs took up charge two, which
alleges that he co-ordinatci the bible,
church and the reason as sources of Divine
authority, in his celebrated inaugural add
dress. He denied that he was a nationalist.
He recognized that the scriptures are really
the greatest authority of the Chris
tian religion He thought, however, that the
authors of the Westminster confession of
faith had not sufficiently recognized that the
l.ogos was the light of the world, as taught
in the prologue of Jesus gospel. If tho
Presbyterian doctrines as taught by tho
Westminster divines were alone accepted
and the better belief of the moro liberal
modern Presbyterian churches rejected, then
the soldiers of the Salvation army, the menl-
bcrs of the Society of Friends, the unnum-
bered hoathens and the unbaptiAed children
of the Baptists must he considered eternallY
lost. He was not willing, for one, to sub
scribe to any such harbarity. The Salvation
army, he believes to be doing "A great and un-
selfish work in the vineyard of God, vet 1t
took the bible and reason, not the church, as
its source of religious inspiration
Inc concession OF talth dld recognize thao
the world should be Illuminated by the
spirit of Goa in the heart. The illumination
of the spirit of God was the illumination Of
the conscience and the rcligiops feeling,
which he considered to be but forms of red.
son. The heathcn could be saved by the
shining of the LogOs in their mind, and not
by belief in bible they knew nothing Of.
AS the Pharisecs of old were rcbuked by
Christ for maintaining that they alone pos
sessed all goodness, 50 now should these
modern PharisCes of the Presbyterian
church be rebukcd for denying salvation to
the millions whodo not subscribe to theif
narrow belief.
Continuing, he said: THE reason is ac-
linowledged to be the greatest endowment
God has given to man 1t Is the holy Of
holics of human nature; the presence cham
Der of God within the soul, into which the
Divine Spirit enters when he would inilu-
cncc the man and in which our Savior beA
licvCS,n
The doctor said of the Salvation army:
1t Is very significant at the close of our
century that we have Il great military or
ganization outside the Christian church,
without ministry and without the sacra.
ments, which seeks above all things the
salvation of the lost and endeavors to inl-
part full salvation to all people"
At the close of the meeting motion to adj
ioutm tomorrow until after the holidays was
lost. Permission was given DR. Briggs to
print his reply TO charges and D and sub.
init TO the members, who wished TO read it,.
This part of his reply, the doctor said would
require week TO read