The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-11
PRESBYTERY is BY ITSELF.
PUBLTC, AND REPORTERS EsPEoIAE-
FL, BARRED OUT HEREAFTER

Meetings Have Beeo Tempestuous Lately. ana
IL Deemed Best 60 Lock the Desrs on,
Them-stated Clerk wInnows the Proceed.
inEs Now for tho Excluded Universe.
At yesterdays meeting OF tho New YORK
Prcsbytcry in the First Presbyterian Church
the newspaper reporters were informed that the
Prcsbytery had decided "to:sit by itself until
further notice" This means that n sergeant
alarms will guard tho door and see that none
but members of tho Prcstytcry gets in. Mem.
bors Of other Presbytcrics must DO formally In
vited by vote Of the Presbytery TO cit as corrc-
spending members before they are admitted.
Numbers OF Prcsbytorians who are not mem.
bcrs of tho Prcsbytcry have been wont TO sit in
tho galleries and observe and profit by the do
alterations and prccipitations OF the ministers
and elders. They cannot do 30 any moro. Such
rs came yesterday were ruthlcssly turned out,
and the gallery doors were locked behind them.
A number Of the members OF tho Presbytery
are enthusiastic controvcrsialists The case q
Warszawiak has recently given them tho great
est chance to differ that they had had since the
day of DIR. Briggs. The discussion in the Ware
zawiak case took a personal tone that irritated
the Presbytery greatly. Debates were hot and
fierce. Charges Of misconduct and oppression
were openly made. and brethren spoke TO one
another with unseemly heat and sharpness.
Finally, at the instance OF DIR. John Baicom
Shaw the Moderator's Council advised the
sfie5 t The p gsS g. t"E X, r. ysfSit esSl T:, ThS s sssss
agent and was authorized TO give out TO re-
porters excerpts from the minutes showing what
business had been passed upon by the Prcsbys
tory. Motions and amendments that are OF.
fered but not passed are not entered upon the
minutes.
The committee on the troubles of DR.. John
Wilds's church, the. seventh Presbyterian, re-
were full by asking tho Presbytery to appoint
three additional committeeman and 10 provide
q stonographor to take the evidence.
William Flack, u Commissioner from the New
York Presbyterian Church, Mt Seventh avenue
and.l2sth street, asked that the Presbytery ao-
cede to DR.. G. s.. 1tobinson's request that his
pastoral relations with the church DO dissolved.
The Prcsbytery voted to comply with the re.
ing DIR. Robinson:
That the Presbytery recognizes the fidelity, abil.
ity and generosity with which DR.. Robinson has. I'M.
der trying rircum -tances, discharged the pastoral
ofce In the New York Church during the past nve
years; and It expresses its %prayerful and hearty hope
that the future pian OF hts life may be moro and
more nllcd with the peace Of God and with the spiriu
OF praise which he has so greatly promoted in Chris
tian worship OF our land.
The last few lines refer to DIR. Robinson'e
hymn books. of which 5000. 900 havo been sold.
Warszn wiak's counsel. because he told the news.
papers that king Moneybags was in the saddle
in the pTesbytery," was withdrawn by Elder
II. W. Jessup, its author. DIR. Patterson re,
fused TO say after the meeting how this had
come about. 49, 2
60 pump the Stated Clerk" he said; I'm
dry, dry, dry"
What this Presbytory needs is more prayer
and more religion. III they would stop every
half hour and pray and contemplate the glorious
mercy of God, II would cool off the machine and
mako\thc. bearings work without any squealing
and cracking. Then there wouldn't be any.
thing unfit for reporters to hear"