New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-05-19

This evening the communion was observed. The
new Moderator spent his evening In preparing the
list OF committees. which will be announced tomorrow
and the active work of the Assembly Will begin.
Dr. Young took for the text Of his sermon these
wor's:
And in the days kings shall the God Of heaven
up kingdom which shall never be destroyed ana me
king Ion shall left to other people but 1t shall
break in pieces and all these XII gdoms. and 1t
shall stand foiever.-Danicl. ii, A.
And / say also thee. that :hou art Peter ana
upon this rock will build my church and the gates Of
hell shall not prevail against it-Ma,thew Avi 1S
His sermon was In part as follows:
The title Of his discourse was "Thc Glory OF the
christian Church" lie said that the glory OF the
Church was manifested in three things: Q) The per-
OF its Founder: t2 the charter and constitution
upon which il was founded and (3) It's conqucsts ana
its destiny DR.. Young spoke in part ms follows:
The glory OF the Church is impiessi,cly evil
denccd by fact tlot IL has divine and Therefore
perfect and inaihlc and constitution. charter
authorizes and mparts life; constitution pescrbcs the
way in which that life shall manifest it.ef
The constitution OF Gods kingdom. Ike the model OF
the SANCTUARY known to Moses the Mount was the
workmanship Of His own wisdom and love, prepared
last by iIimsch. Because 90 Impaired that
perfection and infallibliy which israncd TO IL as od
conceived IL adhere TO it still The hum1n channels Z"
sSans divnely directed and guided mat
the finished product. when freed from all changes anu
errors made by transators, transcrbcr' ana prh'f j
the very enactment OF Now thi- constitution, pre-
scrlbnr positively the great condition and pila
cipcs Of the Church's life founded on the Bible In
deed Bible IS simply and ONLY that constitution pu'
the history Of Gods people and Of the facts OF redemption
which acted and reacted upon each other and are VIZ
tuay interviewer together.
Views radically antagonlsc to these are hcld a'a
widely promulgated. Men of acknowledge lc'inine ava
scholarship are busy engaged in Remembering am AIS
sectng Bible. and then rcarranclns AMI n
it upon principles. in the application OF which nes wu
differ some OF critics teachers are utterly de-
s,ructivc both in their methods and results other'
profess reyerent spirit They draw broad distinct Oh
between the revelation when 1t be asceainea AMI M
history in the The former is ACKNOWLEDGE u D.
o. divine origin and authority and Therefore great allow
ance being made for fsibiy In tho human ch,nne- Of
s confesscdly perfect and true WINE inc
latter is marked throughout by human Ignorance ana I'M
perfection.
The Prcsbvtcr an Church the Evangelical Church o.
Jesus Christ throughout world has never In tho Ia
does no nav and will the future. as we MINK.
Indoree opinions The great crced OF '" teho III
honestly and fairly Interpreted, give no cohhehn' W
them Our own beloved Church, while hono'inS -ch'ii
shin counting investigation ana welcoming cft'l-h ~
her standards her dclverances the utteaace. OF Nor
wise.t minister, has again anu ocan o>pfe''c
her firm and settled conviction that no discrmh''"" ~
10 the truthuIncss I've made between dir rent paris
Of the book from beginning 10 end from the ope"n
sentence In Genesis the last verse IN KeNeauohs VI
Bible is the very Word OF God.
run no other theory belief we, a. II seems 70
me- claim divine, infallibe, perfect oo's'''u''' ~
Church. apprehension should be felt a. TO inc Si y
Of the Bible No possible harm can b"ial IL. 1--WE ="
doubt Is dIsloyalty God 10 fear Is to sin IL courts 'h
most searching Investigation. II welcomes the sh'r''
criticism From the flaming ordeal through which II
now passing II viii forth. as 1t has from all o'h :
aery tests in its full integrity. without much a. VI"
smell 1t. And when the very names OF 'ho
radical foreign railroads.&c. critics who are seeking 70
destroy its historical ruhfuncss. its perfect nfilib'
with tc widely hcraldcd productions, shall have been
HIM i'm n oblivion, the Bible. The whoe WIZ
history boc,aphy prophccy and doctrine shall. by In
creasng millions q believers continue 70 he Pc c,ed
read AMI przc1 all earthly 20 sessions as III; very
Word Of Almighty God.