St. Paul daily globe., 1893-05-31

the books of the Old Testament DR..
Lampe's statement is dreadfully wrong.
Another statement by DR.. Lampe in his
argument yesterday was that the faith
OF the Christian church was based solely
upon Scripture. Are you ready to ac-
cept that? l am not. My faith Is based
upon ql%Ss ,ihs LgFa 9ssgs Christ; st.. and q Him
AT the afternoon session. DR.. Briggs
con- tinued his defense.
II now WISH" said he, "to bring
forth my position. l shall adhere to the
policy which have thus far followed
with regard to errors Iii the Holy Script
ure. have refused to accept the dogma
that the original autographs were IN
errant. have maintained that there
in the best texts we can get by the
science of textual criticism, and that it
is improbable that the original texts, II
we could discover them, would be much
different from those we have, in that re-
gard. But have refused to affirm that
there were errors in the original auto
graphs, because it is unScientific, and it
s-unscholarly, and it is against the truth
loving spirit of Christianity, to make
afjrmations of dogma where we have
no certain evidence. Ihave always re-
trained as far as possible from pointing
to errors,in the present text OF Scripture.
But every Biblical scholar admits
them."
Returned to SanctificatiOn.
Returning to his belief in progressive
sanctification after death, Dr. Briggs
said:
1.-THE doctrine of progressive sanctifica-
tion is in accordance with the laws that
God has established in the ethical con-
stituton of man. The church and the
Bible give their potent aid to the con-
science in the ethical elevation OF hui
manity. 1t is always, everywhere, and
in every variety of form and education
or training. Shall all this ethical train
ing cease at death; all the varied stages
of progress in the different periods OF
life, of culture, of racial and national
level and made Of nOn-effect by
mighty transformation that will deal
with the race, father and child,
mother and babe, master and
scholar, self-sacriicing missionary
and pagan convert, the devoted
evangelist and the thief and murderer
there DR.. Briggs shouted his Wordsl,
turning in his last hour to Christ from
the shadow of the gallows all in one
undistinguishable mass? Such doc
trine strikes deadly blow at the Moral
nature of man, the ethical constitution
of society, the historic training Of our
race and the moral government OF God.
1t enables us to comprehend the whole
life of man, the whole history OF our
race and the moral government OF COD;
it enables us to comprehend the Whole
life of man, the whole history of our
race from its first creation until the day
of doom and all the acts Of God i'll crea-
ton and Providence under one grand
conception, the divine Sanctihcatlon OF
| man."
Turning to the assembly and raising
mis- hands soIemnly, Dr.. Briggs con-
cluded his defense as follows:
Challenged to DO Justice.
81 have endeavored to explain my
views. hold them sincerely and with
all my heart. / hope they are set forth
in Holy Scripture. L know many OF
| them are set forth in the Westminster
confession. l challenge you, before
God, to judge me rightly and conscien-
| tiously. l challenge you, before God,
| to Judge me according to the record. l
challenge you, before Jesus Christ, to
| do me justice in your judgment"
| COls hCOOOh plONOSNSV W SAOoO
| the case for the appellants. At the con-
| clusion of Col. McCook's remarks, there
being twenty minutes of the afternoon
session remaining, Dr.. Graham called
up his resolution, offered just at
! the noon recess, amended TO suit
the changed conditions. express
ing the gratitude of the mem
! bers of the assembly to the patriotic
dead for their services, and reverence
of their memories, which was adopted.
Rising to their feet, the assembly sang
l".America." While standing the mod
orator stated that DR.. Moore had called
his attention to the fact that SO far
! there had been no especial prayer for
the president of the United States and
,,...the great government which he repre-
sented-our government" and he
called upon Prof. Brown to lead the
assembly in ''simple-hearted'' prayer
for the president and his official ad-
visers. which Prof. Brown did with
hearty and felicitous phrase. The as
sembly then took recess until 7:45
o'clock,