The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-03-25
A DECISION NOT REACHED
THE EXCITING HERESY TRIAL
 HELD IN MADISON. YESTERDAY.


 Not Given Yet-An Adjourned Meeting at Noon To-day--Evidence Submitted-The Mir. Browns sp'endid Defence-Interest- ing Facts About the Trial.
 The little town of Madison was alive yesterday morning bright and early getting into trim for the trial of Rev. son Congregational chuch, on the charge of heresy. The greater number of the gentlemen composing the coun- cil which was to hear the trial ar rived on the S:45 train from New Haven and were met at the station by Deacon Coe With carriage in which they were taken to the old church in the other end of the town. There were. probably more people on the streets at that hour than at any other time since the big celebration on Fourth of July two years ago, and all were headed toward the church. The sidewalks, which the day before were covered with snow to the depth of five inches, had been all cleaned off, and altogether old Madison presented very orthodox ap- pearance.
 The early trains brought in crowds of people from the nearby towns and crowd of Madisonites were at the depot to see the newcomers and gloat over the sudden importance of the village, As soon as the train pulled into the depot it was evident that there was some thing unusual in the air, and as soon as the passengers began to alight Dea- con Goes stentorian voice was heard shouting Carriages here for members of the council.''
 At o'clock the council was called to order by Rev. D. A. James, the mod orator, pastor of the Fair Haven Sec ond Congregational church, who read the resolutions calling for meeting of the council and then read the five charges enumerated in the resolutions, which were as follows:
 1-Rev. William T. Brown does not hold the doctrine of the atonement, as it is taught in the Scriptures and as it is commonly held py evangelical Congregational churches.
 2-He does not accept the doctrine of the incarnation as taught by the Bible, and is commonly held by evangelical Congregational churches.
 3-He seems to deny the doctrine of the Trinity as evangelical Congrega- tional churches hold it and understand the Scriptures to teach it.
 ;,,ir 1, the authority of the Bible as evangeli- cal churches hold it.
 5-That he has made statements that have a tendency to belittle the Bible and Christ
 The document also gave brief re- sume of the difficulty which has arisen and stated that MT Brown was accused of spreading teachings contrary to the Bible, and the council was called upon to take such action in the matter as was considered best.
 After some discussion of the mode of procedure to be followed, in which MT James, Rev. Dr Munger and Judge Simeon F. Baldwin participated Rev. Frank Countrymen of North Guilford was elected scribe of the council A rollcall of the members of the council was then taken and the following gentlemen responded to their names as called: Branford, Rev. T. s. Dewitt Deacon w. Lindsley: Durham, Rev W. A. Parsons; East Haven, Rev. D. J. Clark, Deacon Fabrique; North Haven Rev. V. c. Lathrop, Deacon F. c. Brad ley; North Branford, Rev MT. Coun- tryman, Deacon E. S. Beardsley; North Guilford, Rev. M. R. Kerr, Deacon l. w. Bartlett; Northford, Rev E. J. Beach, Deacon William Maffatt; North Madison, Rev. w. G. Searles, Deacon Samuel Redfield; Grand avenue Con- gregational church, Rev. J. Lee Mitch ell, Deacon Sumner; Guilford, Rev. G. w. Banks, Deacon E. W. Hill; Fair Ha- ven Second Congregational, Rev. D. w. James, Deacon c. E. Pafmelee; Stony Creek, Rev. G. A. Jeltan, Deacon Smith; Foxon, Rev. Charles Page; Center church, Rev. Dr. Smyth Deacon r. C.. Bradley; United church, Rev. Dr. Nun ger, Deacon Simeon E. Baldwin; How ard avenue Congregational. Rev Mr. Mutch, Deacon J. w. Townsend; First Congregational church of Meriden, Judge Wilcox; Yale Divinity school,
 
 After the roll-call Prof. Brastow of fered a short prayer. Deacon Coe then announced that arrangements had been made for dinner for the members of the council at the Vermont house, and asked when the gentlemen would ad- iourn for dinner At the suggestion of Dr. Smyth, who said Ten o'clock is a good orthodox hour" that time was settled upon for an adjournment Mir Mir. James then arose and said that the connection of Rev. Dr. Blake of New London in the matter under con- sideration ought to be understood, and stated that the charges against Mir Brown were not preferrd by Dr. Blake, as had been understood by some by a minority of the members of the church, but before he, the moderator of the council, would admit the case, he had desired that the charges be submitted to some minister to be examined to- gether with the evidence by him. Dr. Blake was asked to do this and con- sented to act. Dr. Blake then said that when the matter came before him he hesitated before he decided to have anything to do with it. He had written to Dr. Smyth, who he knew was cogni- zant with the facts in the case and Dr. Smyth had advised him to act. Mir Blake said further that he did not like to interfere with other peoples quar- rels. and had he at that time known the under current of affairs which had