The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-01-16
REMOVES DOCTRINAL TESTS
SIGNIFICANT ACTION OFF CHURCH
OFCHRIST IN YALE UNIVERSITY.

Taken ut Its Annual Meeting Yesterday
Afternoon Broadening Tendency
Noted In the Religious Life of tn.
University-Report of Successful
Years Work of Dwight Hall Given by
Secretary IL. Il. Wright.
The annual meeting of the Church OF
Christ In Yale university was held yes
terday afternoon a o'clock in Dwight
hall. Henry B. Wright, secretary of the
Yale Y. M. c. A., gave a brief and in
teresting abstract for the year and an
important matter was brought up and
acted upon for broadening the terms Of
| admission to the church.
The meeting was called to order by
the moderator, President Hadley, and
DIR. Brastow led in prayer. The first
in the order Of business was the report
| by Professor Bernadotte Perrin, clerk
! and treasurer of the church. He re-
ported the total number of commune
cants or the church books as 1902, there
being ITS nonresident graduate men,
bers. During the year ten members
have been admitted on confession Of
faith, six by letter. and fifty-siX have
been admitted to communion only. The
contributions Of the church amount to
| $S46, which have been distributed
among the various missions of the town
and university. A balance of $37 re-
mains in the savings bank. Professor
Richards was appointed auditor Of this
report, which was duly accepted.
Upon motion, Professor Perrin was
authorized to change the title on the
official paper of Church of Christ in
Yale college to the Church of Christ in
Yale university. DR.. Hadley said in re-
gard to this change of name that there
would be no legal difficulty, since the
same institution that was Yale college
when the church was first named is
now Yale university.
A significant action by the meeting
was taken in regard to broadening the
requirements of admission of members
to the church by removing all doctrinal
objections. Professor B. w. Bacon, in
opening the discussion on this matter,
declared that the restrictions of admis-
SIOn pGCulldT 10 the 1OIS
church were introduced at the begin
ming of the nineteenth century, and
were innovations upon the original
principles of Congregationalism. In
the foundation of the church was in
cluded the principle that no person
whatever testifying faith in Jesus
Christ should be excluded from its
membership. 1t was with the intention
of clearing away the doctrinal tests
since imposed that the following reso-
luton was introduced by Professor
George Il. Ladd:
Voted, that a committee be appoint
ed to prepare and recommend to the
church form for the admission of
members in the Church of Christ of
Yale university upon the confession of
their faith, and statement of belief
be placed on the records of the church"
A committee of five was appointed in
accordance with the above motion, as
follows: Rev. DR.. Lewis C. Brastow,
ex- President Timothy Dwight, Profess
sor George T. Ladd and Professor Ber-
nadotte Perrin.
1t was further moved that pending
the report of the committee the acting
DdSLDT VI llle tIlulCll DC 'IusicAi "SN ~ !
receive members Of the church with the |
use of the covenant
An especial feature of the meeting |
was the report of the successful work |
of the Yale Y. M. G. A. from July l, |
1900, to January /, 1901, and was read |
by the secretary, Henry B. Wright. The |
report, which showed the same broad ,
ening tendency that has so affected the |
church, was in part as follows:
At the meeting held June last In |
Dwight hall, which began the current
years work, the general guiding prln-
ciples were for the union of all evan
pelical denominations under one head,
the equality of privileges of all Yale
men in Christian work, whether aca-
demic, scientific, graduate, law or medl-
cal whether rich or poor, Whether
members of societies or not, whether
upper classmen or under classnen
In the early part of July 125 yale
fifth of the entire gathering
were present at the Worlds Students
conference at Mortified, Mass, which
was attended by over one hundred In
situations of learning in the United
States.
The work of the fall term Included
the locating of a large NUMBER Oh
members of the entering freshman class
In city boarding houses, and the an
nual receptions to the entering 1fesh-
man classes in the academic and scien-
tific departments, which were ATTENDED
by practically every man In each class.
Through the kindness of MOTIFS 4.
TYLER treasurer of the university, the
quarters of the scientific de-
oartment at 143 College street, were
handsomely fitted up and occupied at
he opening of the term.
The law school reception was attend
al bv about 100 members and brief adj
1resses were made by President Had
ey, Dean Wayland, Judge Townsend
Rogers and Wurts SINH
ar reception for graduate and medical
men called out about 1876 members, and
vas addressed by Dean Phillips, Rev,
Mr.. Cutten and w. H. Sallman. A
Bible class for members of these three
schools meeting Sunday noon and led !
w MI Sallman averages thirty five
nen. ;
The membership committee reports | 4,
0S members from the present academic
freshman class out of a total of 1923, ! !
With fifty men yet to be heard from. A |
similar interest in the association Is
,oted in Sheffield. The total member ,
41,o tio,, will ho I1lxy Ia |