New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-05-29
GENERAL ASSEMBLY RESULTS
THE THINGS ACcoMPLIsHED-MORE
EXPECTED IN WARsZAwIAK CASE.
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EXPECTED IN WARSZAWIAK CASE.
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Minneapolis May 2S.-Aithough the General
Assembly adjourned yesterday. the hour was
so late that few OF the Commissioners left the
city and many Minneapolis and st. Paul pull
pits were filled by Presbyterian ministers to-
day, as they were last Sunday. At the West
Hotel, the headquarters Of the Assembly. many
Of the Commissioners were seen between the
services. Whenever two or more gathered the
harmonious sessions of the Assembly were dis
cussed and the brighter future OF the Presby-
terrain Church was predicted. So conservative
man as DR.. McKibbin. of st. Louis. said to The
Tribune correspondent yesterday:
II have never believed until this week that
Union Seminary would come again into the
relation with the Assembly which it formerly
sustained, but this Assembly has revealed
many things, and among them the existence Of
a better feeling among the brethren than has
been witnessed in a decade. Some of the friends
here have criticised me for interrupting DR..
Shaw Of New-York. when he was speaking on
the McGnert resolution last Thursday. My
motive wholly misunderstood. The thought
occurred TO me which the Church Will be
asking. Why does DR.. Shaw. holding the views
McGiffert's teaching authority. apparently
sanction his teaching as a seminary professor?
And wanted to give him the opportunity to
say what / felt sure that he could say. that
DR.. McGiffert did not retain the position in
Union Seminary with his approval"
DR.. James G.. Patterson, of NewYork. is still
In town. although Warszawiak. his young He
brew Christian friend, has returned to New
York. When the judicial commission, headed
by Judge Wilson, OF Philadelphia, and the
Judicial Committee. of which Dr. McKibbin was
chairman, had refused to send the case back to
the Fifth Avenue Church. both DR.. Patterson
and WarsZawak were filled with too much
righteous Indignation TO express their feelings
mildly. For hour IL seemed to them
that there no justice in the Fifth Avenue
Church, In the New-York Presbytery or even
In the General Assembly, but after a while
when the meaning of the Assembly's action had
been explained to them by those who framed
II, they things In new light, their brows
cleared and the happest men in the twin cities
these two brothers from New-Y
WarsZawak is as certain Of acquittal as Mr.
Brownell is Of his continued suspension, and
DR.. Patterson is confident Of his innocence
as Mr.. Brownell Is OF his guilt. What makes
this case so important In New-York and else
where the relation of DR.. John Hall to IT,
And many OF Dr. Halls friends. in the present
session OF the Fifth Avenue Church. want to
place the stamp OF innocence on the young man
whom DR.. Hall defended Loyalty against all
the testimony presented against him. What
makes the matter Of special interest here is that
the Rev DR.. d. j. Burrell, OF New York, a
former pastor of the Westminster Church in
this city, also defends Warszawiak whenever
an opportunity presents itself From remarks
made here. not for publication. It is altogether
nrohahe that within p short time the case will
be in the civil or criminal courts we'll as in
the ecclesiastical courts.