Birmingham age-herald., 1895-05-24
4 BAR ACROSS THE PULPIT. Women Cannot Preach in the
 CE, Church. THUS S.s.S ITS ASSEMBLY. AdjournmS Was Reached Last Night After
 An Exciting Day
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 THE SuCkG0 SCHOOL or DIVINITY
HE SucAGo scHoo. OF DIVINITY
Is Indorsod-The Greer Heresy Case in the Southern Assembly Other Features of Its Work-P Proceedings ofthe
 Pittsburg Assembly.

The question which, above all others, perhaps, has given the Cumberland Pres byterlans more trouble during the past several years than any other was finally and definitely settled by the general as- semby last night. The question as to whether a woman shall be ordained into the ministry of the church, which has been before the past several assem- plies, and which has risen up to perplex the body now in session almost every day since it convened in this city a week ago. has been decided against the woman.
 The question as to whether an invited moderator has the right to vote in church session was decided in the nega- tive. The report of the committee on the theological seminary, which was adopted by the assembly, provides for the ap- pointment of an agent for the endowment of the seminary; confirms the election Of Rev. J. V. Stephens to a professorshil'; provides for the appointment of board of visitors consisting of two ministers and one layman, whose business it shall be to investigate the workings of the school the management of the funds. etc, and report annually to the assembly.
 After devotional exercises led by Rev. z. M. McGhee of Chattanooga, Moder- ator Dewitt called the assembly to order 
 The first business before the assembly was the report of the seminary commit tee, recommending Rev. E. G. Mclean, D. D., w. E. Dunaway, Esq., and B. P. Fullerton as a board of visitors to the theological school. An important question to the church, the in- dorsement of the action of the H. linois synod in foundin a school of divinity in connection with the assembly sustained the establishment Chicago university, the school endowed by MT. Rockefeller was brought before the assembly and discussed at consid- erable length. There was much oppo- sition to the proposition and the assem- bly, for the first time in it's history be- came so confused and tangled in the dis cussion that the main question was al- most lost sight of. The final vote of the assembly sustained the establishment of the Chicago divinity school.
 Another question of supreme impor- tance to the church involving as it does the right of synods to abolish and re- move institutions of fearing under the fostering care of the assembly, was the issue raised in the attempted removal by Professor Eshamn of the Union Fe- male college from Oxford to West Point, Miss. The assembly, by vote that was practically unanimous, declared that the proceedings in this particular case had been irregular, and that the school should remain at Oxford
 The following were appointed delegates to the Pan-Presbyterian council, to be held at Glasgow, Scotland: Rev. w. J. Darby, D. D., Evansville, Ind: Rev. J. M Hubbert, D. D., Lebanon, Tenn; Rev. W. H. Beach, D. D.. Marshall. Mo-; Rev. D. M. Harris, D. D., St. Louis Mo; Rev. J. s. Cooper, D. D., West Point, Miss; Rev. J. V. Stevens, Lebanon, Tenn; Rev. J. W. Laughlin, St. Louis, Mo-; Rev. J. P. Halsell, Danville, Ky; Rev. B. P. Fullerton, St. Louis, Mo-; Rev c. B. Well born, Logansport, Ind; Rev. H. s. Will Hams, D. D., Memphis, Tenn; Rev. T. N. Williams, Bonham, Tex; Prof. A. E. Turner, Lincoln, Ill.,; Judge H. H. Buqueno, Erin, Tenn; Isaac H. Orr. St. Louis, Mo-; Dixon c. Williams, Chicago, H.; H. M. Blewitt, Denton, Tex; M. A. Montgomery, Oxford, Miss; Rev. J. l.. Dickens, Mckenzie, Tenn.
 The assembly held short session to- night and adjourned.