Birmingham state herald., 1896-05-29
AT HIGH NOON THIS DAY The Assembly Will in All Proba-
 biIity Dissolve. DEBATE ON SANCTIFlCATl0N Ended in Adoption of Committees Report. Location of Orphans Home Entrusted
 to Committee of Five.
DEBATE ON SANCTIFlCATlON

| the clerk said twelve reports were yer | to be presented. The moderator said | the members ought to stay and finish the business; that the presbyteries were pay | ing their expenses and business should | be attended to-
 | The assembly resumed consideration of | the report of the committe on overtures | concerning the doctrine of sanctifieation. | The moderator ruled that the substitute | offered by MT Cooper to take the place | of the report and the substitute by MT. Buquo were out of order, as they did not l cover the case.
 l Dr. Halsell resumed his speech. He | said the general assembly had at a | former meeting spent two days on this \ subject of sanctificatlon without giving l a succinet definition. He called for the
 main question, which cut off substitutes, 1 the main question being the report of the l committee. A rule was read to the ef- | feet that a call for the main question | cuts off amendments, but not substi- I tutes. The moderator decided MT. Blu | quos substitute was an amendment. l An appeal was taken from the decision ! Of the chair. The assembly sustained | the moderator.
 The report was reread (The committee l took issue with those who hold that sanc-
 tihcation is distinct work of grace. | The confession of faith declares that the l doctrine of holiness, or state of sinless 1 perfection, is not authorized inthe scrip l lures. It is not a second blessing con I ferred after conversion. The committee
 recommended that those who teach diff
 ferently should be dealt with.) Dr. De- | witt said the report of the committee
 was in the nature of compromise. The 1 report of the committee was adopted. A memorial from several presbyteries
 was read objecting to irregular methods
 of raising money.
 The question of installation of pastors | was discussed, but no change made
 The committee approved the action ta-
 ken toward making an exhibit at the | Tennessee centennial. Rev. Ira Lan- | dreth was appointed chairman of the
 committee. Messrs Hunter Binkley, | Gaut, Holmes and Beard were made ad- l ditional members.
 | The committee on finance recommend | ca tax Of 10 cents per capita for ex- 1 penses of the commissioners to the gen.
 eral assembly. The cost of the assembly
 is about $13.000 and the tax would raise | about $15,000
 | Judge Gaut said that 10 cent tax had
 not paid the contingent expenses. l A lively discussion took place on this
 new method of raising money to pay the
 expenses of the assembly. It was said
 that the 10 cents tax would help the weak
 presbyteries and would be otherwise ad- | visable
 The report of the committee was voted | down.
 Dr. Harris moved to suspend the regu-
 lar order and take up the question of TO- | tation in elderships Lost.
 The complaint of Rev. H. H. Buchan-
 an of Ewing presbytery, Arkansas, in | the matter of suspension from the minis | try was dismissed.
 The committee on ministerial relief
 made report on the orphans home.
 The majority report wanted to locate it | at Columbia and open up debate The | minority report desired to locate at Co., | lumbia and shut off debate. Dr. Tyler said the honor of the assem- l ply was involved. There were different | towns bidding, and if it was decided to l locate the home at one place and then l change it to another because of a better
 bid it would be acting in bad faith. The
 assembly can't go back on Columbia | morally.
 Rev. W. B. Holmes said he had in his pocket a proposition from McMinnville
 to give the buildings of female college
 worth $30,0O0.
 Dr. Bell said he had voted for Colum-
 bia; had not heard of McMinnville; be- lieved the committee had a right to To- | cate 1t.
 The debate Was prolonged and warm.
 Dr. Russell, chairman of the commit l tee, didn't act in haste, and regarded the | Columbia offer as the best | Dr. Hawkins didn't think the commit l tee had the right to locate the home, and
 that it had not advertised for bids. | A motion was made that the matter of | the location of the orphans home be re- l ferred to a committee of five to be ap- pointed by the moderatoy; that this com
 mittee advertise for bids in the church l papers and report to the general assem- ply next year. Carried.
 ! Judge Gaut suggested that the Me | | few days and that the committee be empowered to act without reporting to | the general assembly, as was done in To- l eating the publishing house. | A member suggested that vote be l taken on the appointment of the commit | tee of five, and the motion was put and | carried the second time.
 | pr. Dewitt offered the following reso- lutions, which were adpoted: l Resolved, That the thanks of the gen. 1 ernl assembly are here rendered to the l pastor and members of this church and | the entertainment committee and the | citizens of Birmingham for the magnifi- | cent manner in which the assembly has l been entertained; to the pastors of the l Central Presbyterian and the First Meth odist Episcopal church, south, for cour- 1 tesies extended to the assembly; to the State Herald and the Evening News for i elaborate and extended reports of the l assembly's proceedings, also to the re- porters of these papers, especially to l Mir. R. F. Johnston, city editor of the ! News, who has been constant in his at- | tendance upon and intelligent and cour- 1 teeus in his attentions thereto, and to l MT Grace, reporter for the State Herald; l to MT. J. c. Foster and his faithful as- 1 sistants in handling the assemblys mail; | to the railroads for special rates granted l to commissioners and visitors, and final l Iy, to the moderator for the impartial 1 manner in which he has presided over 1 this body and to the stated clerk and his 1 assistants for the faithful manner in | which they have discharged their duties. l On motion the Assembly adjourned un- l til S:30 this morning.
 l The business for today will be the re- | ports of the committees on American | Bible society. theological seminary, min | isterial relief, education, Sabbath ob- | servance and Christian Endeavor. The l business will probably be finished by