The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-05-19
E[ECTEOAMOD[RATOR
Meeting of Presbyterian General
Assembly In Minneapolis.
DIR. R. F. SAMPLE CHOSEN
STRONG FIGHT BETWEEN CON-
SERVArIVES AND LIBERALS.
DR.. McGlfert Has Sent Letter Con-
corning His Recent Statements
Regarding Lords Supper and 1t
Is Believed Heresy Charges
Against Him Will Be Withdrawn.

Minneapolis. Mimi, May 1S.-The
Rev. DR.. R. E. Sample of Westminster
church, New York, was elected rioder-
ator of the one hundred and eleventh
annual assembly of the Presbyterian
church in the United States, which con-
vened in Westminster church today.
Immediately after roll call in the af-
ternoon the election of a moderator was
taken up, and DR.. Sample was elected
on the first ballot, receiving 33S votes.
800 being necessary for choice, to 127
for the Rev. Matthias Haines of First
church. Indianapolis, and 1S3 for the
Rev. DIR. R. Z. Coyle of Oakland, Cal.
The contest was spirited one, and
DR.. Samples election is regarded as a
triumph for the conservative element.
The morning session was devoted to
religious services. which were at
tended by about 600 commissioners and
so many spectators that the 1900 seats
of the church were not sufficient to ac-
commodate them. DR.. Henry Branch
of Ellicott City, Nd, pronounced the
invocation. The Rev. Pleasant Hunter
of Minneapolis led in responsive read
ing; a number of hymns were sung, and
DR.. Douglas p. Putnam of Logansport,
Ind, read the Bible lesson. DR.. r. f.
Sample of New York made the prayer.
L
firing moderator, the Rev. DR.. Wallace
Radcliffe of Washington.
Election of Officers.
In the afternoon the permanent sec
rotary, w. E. Moore, called the roll and
Immediately afterwards the election OF
a moderator was declared to be in or
der. DR.. McKibbon of Cincinnati.
hitherto prominent candidate for the
place himself, got the floor and nom
mated the Rev. r. F. Sample. This
was regarded as a move to concentrate
the conservatives on a single candidate.
He appealed to the assembly to elect
DR.. Sample unanimously.
DIR. H. p. Carson of Brooklyn placed
in nomination the Rev. Matthias
Haines of Indianapolis, whom he char
acterized as a man of keen, ripe judg-
ment, Sagacious, methodical, and OF
the most honorable purpose.
DIR. Z. B. Wright of Austin, Tex,
the Rev. Williams of Phil
adelphia, because, he said, he always
made it a point to nominate an elder.
knowing, he said, that the assembly
would not elect an elder.
The Rev. John Dinsmore, in the
most eloquent of all the nominating
speeches, put forward DR.. r. F. Coyle
of Oakland, Cal, who was regarded as
the liberal candidate. Mr.. Dinsmore
described Dr. Coyle's merits, and
begged the assembly once more to
name a moderator from the Pacific
coast, which felt itself isolated and in
need of the inspiration that would flow
from such choice.
DR.. Sample Is Chosen.
1t took almost an hour to take the !
ballot with the result as given above. !
1t was greeted with great applause.
Messrs. McKibben, Shaw and Graham |
were appointed to escort DR.. Sample to |
the chair. The new moderator ex-
pressed his gratitude that the assem- !,
bly, Should have chosen him to so high |
a place in his old pastorate of West |
Mimi. and among his own |
people of other days. He spoke of the |
problems that confront the church and !
IF the urgent necessity of carrying the |
gospel into the new lands opened by |
he Spanish-American war.
The Rev. Pleasant Hunter welcomed |
he assembly to Minneapolis, and pre-
;ented DR.. Sample with a gavel of Gu
pan, Porto Rican and Philippine woods.
A resolution was adopted, directing
he moderator to send to NJ. de Staal,
president of the international peace
conference, a message invoking the
blessing of Almighty God on your de-
iberations'
Temporary clerks were appointed as
ollows: Thomas E. Kirkwood, Pueblo
Colo; Z. T. Swiggett, Cincinnati; p. H.
Brooks, Wilkesbarre. Pa; H. w. Jes-
up. New York.
John Balcolm Shaw, a director of
Union Theological seminary, in which
Dr.. Arthur c. McGiffert is a professor,
confirms the statement that DR.. Nc
iiffert has sent letter anent the So
allied heresy case. 1t is believed that
his letter contains a satisfactory ex-
lanation of DIR. McGiffert's statements
bout the Lords supper in his book,
The Christian Church in the Apostolic
Age" and that, therefore, no heresy
PROCEEDINGS will be taken against him I