New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-05-31
IS DIR. BRIGGS A HERETO!
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through which authority comes. Not even thc
Bible is a source. God alone il the source ne
read from several of his books, or rather his
friend Dr. Brown, read for nlil' siio"is ,. Mnn.
he really did believe rcgarnhs IN Ii"n amJ
nj higher criticism progressive SahcuhTd'ioli an,
,h. nther SUBJECTS IN the charges lie WISHED
IN sneak about some remarks maze oS III; D !
field last week. but the Mou,l","Ih t,
.nying TO Dr. Briggs and the Asscnioly Ihtt 'l'rr
Is = solemn compact between the app,ilcc ana
the Moderator 10 the effect 'ha' i'le Monsraaor
woHlo NV n, nm0;cld DIR. Dutiield, the innocent
nanse Of the controversy. asked TO nave pr
Prggs explain ms posII ow him 70 do "" n. tba
saiu .i."O had been withdrawn and DIR. Briggs
LII r.cJ 10 abide by the decision. Then cam"
the closing sentences % s",ylv anI halGu" hi,
IHehh.' hand toward the heavens, he challenged
liz commissioners before God to Judge righteous
;mdgment. lie challenged them i'll the name oil
ITaSs hrist to Judge him according TO the Con-
fession and the bioie'
COLONEL. M'cOoK TAKES THE FL"""
Following DR.. Briggs came Colonel John J.
,,cCook. for the appellants. Colonel Met Ook
is an elder in DR. John Halls church in New
Work n member of the legal firm of Alexander
e. Green and has an extensive legal practice
Eut no one at the Presbytery and the Assembly
for the last two years doubts his knowledge OF the
olorv. and when the final records of the case are
written his name Will be associated with that OF
Ur Patton. of Princeton, as leading the great
hattie for religious truth and liberty as they
understand it. He has given great deal OF
time 10 the study of the legal aspects OF the
case and the conservatives feel that III INN they
have a champion whom it will be hard for any As
senbly TO vote against.
HI. argument to-day was not long. and was
more effective for that reason. Many think that
IL DIR BRIGGS had closed last night h" would have
had q stronger case than he has tonight. Colonel
ucCo,k does not concede that all the liberty
lie. on the side of those who are crticising the
Bible He expressed sympathy. in common with
every true Presbyterian. with those VINO nave
erred and are deceived, but loyalty to the Church
and 20 the Bible, and TO the ordination vows
are. to his mind, higher standards of action than
svmnathy. Every Presbyterian minister repre-
~nts his Church. If he teaches errors he teaches
them in the name of the Church whose orders
he hears In answer to the authorities quoted
by DIR. Briggs as holding views similar to his
own. Colonel McCook said, throwing all the force
which he controlled into the words:
AS a citizen loyal to the American ConStltn-
tim do not regulate my loyalty according to
tho conclusions of foreign dociinarles. oNford
Eniscoualians and German Rationalists do not
;nternret for lis the Presbyterian constitution
and doctrine"
AT THE EVENING SESSION.
A little more than two hours We're taken oy
fhe members Of the New-lOrk Presbyteiy this
evening Professor Brown was the iirst speaker
His address strong one IN favor Oh III"
Judgment given by the Prcsbytery. No speaker
in the Assembly commands greater attention thah
Professor Brown. He was followed ny br i"o'u
who took the ground that because oil the 'echhi-
ca,ites raised in the lower court the trial was
al andf ne,
reduced when the vote was taken He held that
the final vote did not represent inc uuc J""9-
ment of the Presbytery.
Dr. Alexander pleading for charity. DR. Spinins
for Justice and DR.. Thompson for liberty loi-
lowed in the order named, all supporting the
judgment of the Pre-bytery, though none OF them
announced himself "a holding the peculiar Hl,'W7
oninions in relation to the matterHSnder az.
mite. they held that DIR. Briggs was not hcretl-
cal and that the judgment OF the lower court
should stand
OPPOSED TO DR.. BRIGGS.
DIR. Chambers was the next speaker. In most
hmphatic speech he opposed the action taken
In New-York. and asked for a reconsideration
NJ the decision Mr. BegCs said that he had sat
for twenty years under the teaching Of his pastor;
DR. Hall, who opposed II tine teaching Vi
the higher criticism. " -,
The sneaker thought that men should be placed
IN tLe chairs Of the educational institutions VINO
snYe able TO the English language ln'tllsI1IS ~,
The next speaker reminded one strongly oil i ,r
Howard Crosby, who, by the way. was Mr.
Sterrys pastor and devoted friend for many years
lie said that not having been TO a college or
theological seminary, he should have to us the
English language, and for ten or fiftecn minutes
he used 1t in the plainest terms, telling lac's 1
Wbicb had come TO his attention. lie clafe'N
the defendant with teaching un-Biolical the 'I1sy
and called upon the Assembly to give 'he rre
hytery of New-York deliverance by reversing us
Judgment Mr.. Ycarance closed with an eHec'Ne
sprch on the same line.