Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-04-22
| N T HE CHI u r c. HE S

According to information received here
the general assembly of the Presbyterian
Church. which is soon to convene at Min
neapOlis, Mimi. will be asked to consider
one of the most important cases that has
come before it in many years-that of Dr.
McGiffert of Union Theological Seminary
A letter on the subject says: 1.-The Nc
Giffert case has more irritating phases
about it than 1t had this time one year ago
Precisely the same condition of affairs ex-
lists now as did then. so far as heresy to
Westminster standards go, and TO the first
offense is added contempt for the highest
legislative and governing body in the de-
nomination, a body to which Prof McGif-
fert has sworn to be amenable.
at will be remembered that Prof. McGif-
fert issued a History of the Church in the
Apostolic Age, in the pages of which he
stated. among other things that which did
not please the strict constructionsts of the
Westminster standard, that the meal in the
upper room of John Marks house was
naught but an ordinary meal, and denying
that Jesus Christ intended in it what has
come to be the Lords supper. The presby-
terry of Pittsburg, perhaps the most con-
sentative and at the same time the most
wide-awake in the denomination, overturn-
ed the general assembly upon the matter.
The outcome was a compromise, in which
the conservative element clearly had the
power to push matters to an extremity, but
deferred in order to give Prof. McGiffert a
chance to explain or retire.
'All we want is honesty. If Prof. Nc
Giffert no longer agrees with the Westmin-
ster standards, let him retire from the
Presbyterian Church. as honest men do.
Double dealing hurts him. hurts the church
and hurts the cause of Christ
Bishop Hurst. according to a letter re-
ceived in this city, was the central figure
In what is likely to be considered an I'M
portant event in the history of Methodism
and which took place at the meeting of the
ST. Louis conference a few days ago. The
letter. in part. says: "On Saturday of the
session most remarkable scene was wit
messed. Three of our bishops were seated
on the observation-disclosures Hurst Vincent
and McCabe-when Bishop Hendrix of the
church south entered. He was received by
Bishop Hurst with marked evidences of
pleasure, and In a most cordial manner he
assured him of the love they had for our
common Methodism. Bishop Vincent Incl
dentally said he. was very glad to meet
BISHOP Hendrix of the church south but
was not particularly DESTROYS that there
should be any organic union.
This brought the most magnetic man of
American Methodism to his feet. and Bishop
McCabe. with that peculiar voice of mel
ody and deep pathos. stirred the vast
throng with his tender words, until all re-
straints gave way, and the conference and
the congregation shouted, clapped hands
and cried Amen for q number of minutes
In his speech he said: There are some
things l would be willing to die for and
hope to the day when there will be hut
one Methodism in all this land. and that
some day the good Bishop Hendrix will
hold a conference in Massachusetts, and
Bishop Hurst one in South Carolina This
should make the blood Jingle in the veins
of every Methodist. Nothing like it has oc-
CURED in our history. 1t is the dawn of a
coming day of fellowship, fraternity and
| union between the two branches of Meth
odism."
The program to be observed during the