St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-05-30


able to give men, without or above the
Bible, saving knowledge OF God and
divine assurance. This. he averred,
would be complete abandonment of
the reformation position; and for the
Presbyterian church it would mean de-
nominatiunal suicide. Whether or
not DR.. Briggs would regard
this as in any sense a
calamity, could not be determined with
certainty, for he regarded it to be the
duty of the hour to destroy all denomi-
national barriers which separated Prot
estants, and to form an ALLIANCE be-
tween Professionalism and Romanism
and all other brancher of Christlen-
DOM" Quotation from the writings of
DR.. Briggs.)
"The position taken in his inaugu
ral," SAID DR.. Lampe, certainly en-
title him to the dignity of chief apostle
in such movement"
DR.. Lampe affirmed the inerrancy of
the Bible, saying: 1T is impossible
for God to lie. The word of God is
truth from the beginning. To sum up.
the teachings of DIR. Briggs constitute
an offense against the book of discipline.
II they are to be accepted we shall
have to relinquish our belief that the
Bible is the word of God, but believe in
stead that it simply contains the word
of Cod"
An Offensive Doctrine.
At the afternoon session Dr.. Lampe
took up the charge that DIR. Briggs
taught that the processes of redemption
extended to the world to come in the
cases of many who died in sin, and as
serted that this doctrine was an offense
according to the book OF discipline. In
conclusion. DR.. Lampe appealed to the
assembly to reject the verdict OF &C
quittal by the New York synod and to
set the church right before the world.
Dr. Briggs then began his defense.
He said that he had been accused OF
teaching that many of the Old Testa-
ment predictions had been reversed by
history and that the great body
of the Mosianic prediction had not
been and would not be fulfilled, which
was contrary to the essence of Holy
Scripture and of the standards of the
church that God is true, omniscient
and Interchangeable. This he had repudi-
ated, and would ask the assembly to
hear exactly what he had said. but this
the committee on prosecution mad
omitted. He had said this:
"Kuenan had shown that if we insist
upon the fulfill ment of the details OF
the prophecy of the old Testament,
many of the predictions had been re-
versed by history. and the great body of
the sMosianic prediction has not only
never been fulfilled, but cannot now be
fulfilled, for the reason that its own
time has passed forever"
Depended on 'sIf.o
/ All depended on the word ''if." which
the committee had omitted. He had
disclaimed the charge before and dis
claimed it now. He also disclalmed
that he was guilty of teaching as
charged in Charge that the process OF
redemption extended to the world to
come in the case of many who died in
sin, stating that he had repudiated the
Roman Catholic doctrine of purgatory,
also the doctrine of future probation
and regeneration after death, or any
beginning of Christian life after death.
Continuing on this subject Dr.. Briggs
said:
You have here attributed to me the
dreadful doctrine Of race redemption.
But il you will look into my inaugural
you will see that all 1 have to say
on that subject IS connected with
the incarnation of Jesus Christ. The
trouble with these brethren Is that they
are taking too narrow view of the doc
trine. would that could teach such