The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-06-01
WHAT PENALTY?
The Committee Appointed TO De-
eide That 10 Be Imposed
On Dr.. Briggs.

WASHINGTON. June 81. 1898 The final
stage in the progress of the Briggs case,
before the Ge neral Assembly OF tae Pres
byterian Church, was preceded this
morning by half hours devotional ex-
ercises, conducted by the Rev. j. 7.
Smith of Baltimore, Moderator of the
Centennial Assembly.
The Moderator then announced the
committee, the appointment of which was
authorized last night, to formulate
minute expressing the sehse OF the
Assembly as to the vote taken last
Judgment OF the New York Presbytery
by vote of :; ne Assembly Rev. Thomas
A. Hoyt, d. D.. of Philadelphia, was
made Chairman; the other members are
as ioilows:-
Ministers w. Conglon of New
vim w. Stewart. Nebraska; w, w.
Harsha, Nebraska; J. J. Lucas, Indie;
George D. Baker. Pennsylvania; e. 2.
Whallon, Indiana. and Thomas u.
Ewing, Iowa.
Elders-Jchn Randolph, Baltimore,
Thomas McDougall. OHIO; David Jacks,
California: Edward I. Greene, New Jer-
sey; James A. Curry. Kent ucky. and E.
D. Wartield, Pennsylvania.
The Committee Were given leave to re-
tire for consultation. and the Assembly.
as court, adjourned, to be reconyened at
the call of the Moderator.
The committee appointed today will
recommend action OF The Assembly as to
the reversal OF the verdict OF acquittal,
and as to the penalty, if any, which
shall be imposed. II penalty
is recommended it may take the form OF
an admonishmeut, rebuke, suspension.
or deposition from the ministry, or ex-
pulsiou from the Church.
Elder Franklin shepherd. chairman of
the committee ou mileage and accounts,
| made an exhaustive report. 1t thowed
| receipts amounting TO SOL 057; ex-
| penditnres on the account OF
OF mileage. So, ,952: entertain
ment. Sll,426; contingent and
| miscellaneous, Sl2 1872: halance on hand,
| s., ,447. There were 221 Presby teries rep
| resented il the Assembly OF 1898. four
| more than at Portland; Ten PresDyteries
were not represented. The number of
| Commissioners on the roll was 56I,
| eight more than on the roll of 1892,
| thirty-four presbyteries are exempt from
assessm ants for mileage aud entertain
| ment, but thirteen of them either in full
or in part, voluntarily forwarded the
| pro rate amount for which they would
| have been responsible. There were IT'S
presbyteries only that paid in full the as
sessments for mileage and entertain
meDt.
| The Rev. James NJ. Maxwell presented
| the report of the Judicial Commission
appointed to hear and issue the complaint
of Jonn G. McCook aud others against
| the action of the Synod of
| New YORK, in finding in or
der comnlaint of the Rev. Ffancis
| Brown. u. D., against he action Of The
/ PresbYtery OF New York on November 4.
| 1891, in sustaining the rniing of
| the Moderator as to the status
of the prosecuting committees 10
| which the names of 1l3 members had
| by the book of discipline had expired.
| The commission found the complaln5 TO
be in orde~, and it ordered that
the decision complained OF be sus-
| pended until the record is produced on
| whicn tha issue clu be fairly tried, aud
thar the Synod Of New York be directed
| to send no all the papers relating to this
| complaint. with the record, to the next
| General Assembly, and that the Syned
appoint one or more of its number TO rep
resent it at said General Assembly.