St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-05-26

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sustained by the general assembly at
| Portland and the ordering of the new
| trial. The public good, he insisted. re-
quired an end to the litigation. His
argument went deeply into the technical
points Of the case, and he insisted that
| it is against the policy OF the Presby--
terian church that there should be a
| leaping of the court of synod.
eff you should entertain this appeal.
you would deprive the defendant of his
right to appear before the court OF the
synod.
The DEFENDANT has reason to believe
that the appellants fear to bring their
case before the Synod of New York.
They have reason to dread lest their APP.
peal against the verdict of acquittal will
not be entertained by the synod. The
defendant has great confidence In the
Synod of New York, and its decision was
Just and right. 1t is his right to go be-
fore the synod. He wanted refuge
against these prosecutors. The general
assembly has
No Constitutional Right
to obstruct him from seeking refuge
with the synod. He casts himself into
the arms of the Synod of Now York. in
the confidence that the synod will shield
him from any injustice and wrong that
you may do him."
DR.. Briggs further declared that If
the appeal should be entertained it
would be a violation of the constitu
tional rights of the presbytery OF New
York and deprive him of his right OF
complaint guaranteed in the conStltu-
ton. Just for argument sake, SAID
the defendant. his presbytery may be
wrong in this matter, and that the APP
pellants are right, yet they would still
have no reason to leap the synod OF
New York. Was not the case OF Albert
Barnes fully as important from the
point of view of 1882 And yet DR..
Junkin. the private prosecutor, never
carried il to the synod. Was not the case
of DR.. Lyman Beecher, the professor
of theology in the Lane Theological
seminary. fully as important from the
point of view of 1891? And yet DR.. Will
son, the private prosecutor, did not
the general assembly. If the cases of
Albert Barnes and Lyman Beecher had
to go on gradim in the midst
of the controversies of the church
in 1851. why should the case
of DR.. Briggs be per saltum i'll the
last decade of the nineteenth cent
ury. Continuing his address DR.. Briggs
agreed to the principle fiat Justltia
cRlum, but he was not willing that the
celum of the Presbyterian church
should fall in the interest of injustice
and Wrong.l
Stars Of Shame.
DR.. Briggs finished his set remarks at
o al nd
raneously until the end of his address.
He called the attention of the assembly
to the stars at the bottom of page
six, in the brief of the prosecutor.
They were not stars . OF glory,
he said, but stars of shame, for
they indicated an omission which
should not have been made. What right
had these appellants to omit such mat
tiers as they pleased from an official or
semi-officlal document? DR.. Briggs
asked this question with some feeling,
as if he felt that an attempt had been
made to strengthen the case of his OPP
ponents by emitting something in his
behalf. He then supplied the omitted
part, which consisted of the eight queS-
tons put to DR.. Briggs to test his faith
and his answers to them. He wished,
he said, to make an explicit denial Of
trines against the fundamental doc
trines of the church.
II believe" he said, with Outstfetched
arms to the audience. "the Holy Script
'ure to be the work of Cod"
He affirmed that he upheld the doc
trine taught by the council Of the West
minister conference. Anything that he
might have said that might conflict
with these statements was dine to mis-
interpretations. DR.. Briggs closed with
all appeal, touched with
A Suggestion of Pathos,
that it might go to the synod of New
York. Ii that were done he would aid
in the full solution of the case, and il 1t
were sent back to the general assembly
he would abide by its decision, whatever
it might be. He regretted il he had
said anything that had caused trouble
in the church. No one re-
GREETED it more than he did.
He had taught for twenty years
at the Union Theological seminary. he
said appealingly. almost pathetic
ally. Only four other teachers OF Pres
byterian theology had taught longer
than he: only two had been the instruct
ors of more ministers OF the church than
he. OF all persons that had been taught
by him, he challenged any of them to
say that he had taught them anything
that had interfered with the true dis
charge of their holy duties AS he took ]
his seat wave of applause rose from
the rear of the chair, which evoked an
indignant rebuke from the moderator.
Col. j. M. McCook then began the
closing argument for the prosecuting
committee. Col. McCook, in his argu-
ment, also recited the history of the
case in its various stages and main
tanned the regularity of the several
steps. Gen. McCook spoke for All
hour. closing few minutes arter 9
o'clock. The assembly then adjourned
until tomorrow morning at $3.50 o'clock,
at which time the Briggs case will
again have the right of way until con-
cluded.