Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1901-05-24
| R[lISIDN ] IHE CREED
Alil-Important Matter Engages the At
tention Of the resbyterian
Assembly.
Deep Interest IS Manifested ID this
Question BY All Sof the Delegates
4. Present. s5&
Majority and Minority Reports Pre-
.s sented ggested that Entire
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Matter Drop.
Philade elphia, May 2 1T The Presby-
terrain general assembly has taken up
the questionsof creed revision and In
tense interest IN the discussion is
shown by the commis sioners # and
bthers Fully an hour before the doors
OF Calvary church were opened crowds
thronged the entrance and when the
devotional exercises began the CALLER
les were filled to overfoWing. After,
the opening hymn, Come Thou, AL
King, ,' ,' prayer was. offered by
Rev. Dr.. David s.. Kennedy Of ALLIE
gheny, Pa n who invoked the divine
assistance ID the consideration Of the
momentous question before the as
sembly s*5ss s5s559s .t5s5 t5ss5:
i55 The debate on revision was. de-
layed by the report Of the committee,
on bills and ventures and other mat
tiers Sof some Importance to the as
sembly. SI ri M 5s% 3.. M
81 Rev. DR.. Asa Fisk Of Washington, D.
q, offered a resolution congratulate
President Mckinley upon the prompt
recovery from an apparently fatal ILL
ness Of 1 Mrs. Mckinley and offering
thanks to God at the prospect Of her
early return to her home. The reso-
luton was unanimously adopted. DIR.
Roberts, stated clerk, announced that
there's still two days business to be
disposed Of after the revision question
is settled. s5$} }$s#@ 81
$ss The Order of the Day Taken Up.
5$5S The order Of the day, the reading of
the report Of the special committee
on revision, began at 10 o'clock. The
Rev. DR.. Dickey, chairman Of the COM
mittee, before reading the report, said.
ss"If it had not been foreorda dained that
the revision movement was to come
to pass IN 1900, you no doubt would
be where I am in / 901. This As my
obligation by no wish Of my own. The,
general assembly }, ia its Kindness, as 1t.
thought, named me chairman OF the
committee which / had already named.
Isay this little word that the commits
=sioners may know that 4 am here by
app ointment and not BY request. ? 5S,$ .$
Dr. Dickey then proceeded to read
the report and was closely followed
by all the com mmissioners who held
copies. NJ Mn Ss$S$
minority report signed by Rev.
Or. MeKibben Of Cincinnati and 81. w,
Humphrey Of Louisville was read BY.
DR.. cKibbin. On tion Of Rev. Dr.
James q. Moffa att of Washing ton (Pa.)
presbytery the reports were received.
Ss Rev DR.. Samuel j. Niccolls OF SIT,
Louis moved that as the first recon-
mendations In both reports were sim.
liar, those ecommendat dations be adopt
ed.
DR.. Dickey claimed that under the
Of the assembly he and Dr.. Ne-
;Kibbin were entitled to speak on their
reports before any motions were pre-!
sented II
Dr.. Niccolls said he made the motion
HI the interest Of fairness. The main
Issue, he added, was the appointment
of committee whose Instructions were
to come later and he believed that by5
adopting the first eeommendatio lion the
assembly would have the whole report
Az better shape for consid Grafton.
hIects TO Proposed Move.
tse9. IT onn aeE ' VIII m 81 q frlncelon
sprang ~ ms Ieet ana ADDRESSING MT:
tsieeoiis sald
\ }ss low do you know we want to aps
Il, ,lia,n Iss the n,at Il - q,,
al II1r II Moffatt moved substitute Em u. II.
ton toI adopt the whole OF the major major,
3ity report. Several An entdn emf . we're
offarad but here was 8so much con.
ian II NJ ~ Niceolls MI t},drew l,is
a. otion. Dr Nj offatt then moved m q
a.dopt tl,e a B aiority report 4 moi m ions
s,yt was then made to substitute the mi.