Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1901-05-27
PRESBYTERIAN
CREED REVISION
The Iasue is Settled for the Present With
out Friction and Satisfactory
to All Those Interested.
NEXT ANNUAL SESSION AT NEW YORK

NEAT ANNUAL SESNlUN al MEM 1VhA
Philadelphia, May 27-It was decided
terian general assembly adopted the re-
vision committees report.
WILL MEET NEXT YEAR AT NEW
YORK.
Philadelhia, May 27.-It was decided
by the Presbyterian general assembly
: to hold the assembly next year in the
Fifth avenue church, New York City.
The amendment was adopted by
viva voce vote, not one voice being
raised in opposition. The question was
then on the adoption of the majority
report DR.. Johnson moved that the
three recommendations in report be ta-
ken up separately. The motion car
ried. Recommendation A, which calls
for the appointment of revision COM
mittee, was adopted with only few
voices against it. Recommendation B,
as amended, went through without
sign of opposition. Recommendation
C, on motion of DR.. Baker, was amend
ed so that amendments to be prepared
by the committee for several chapters
of the confession of faith shall be made
"either by modification of the text or
by a declaratory statement but as far
as possible by a declaratory state
ment." This recommendation was also
adopted with but little opposition. The
question then required to the adoption
of the report as whole. The modera-
tor put the question, and there was
one great roar of "aye." Instantly the
assembly rose en- masse, and sang the
doxology. The moderator then led In
prayer. The end to the great discus
sion, which had continued into the
fourth day, came so quickly that it
took every one by surprise. DR.. Mof-
fat, who introduced the harmonizing
amendment to recommendation B, was
surrounded by crowd which con-
graduated him on his success. After
the assembly again settled down, DR..
Baker offered resolution that the
present revision committee be contin-
ued, that committee to be increased to
81, that Moderator Minton be a MEM
Der thereof and that he appoint the
additional members. This was also
adopted. On motion of DR.. Dickey the
tary of the revision committee, DR.. w.
III. Roberts, of Philadelphia, who is al
so stated clerk of the assembly
Rev. James D. Moffat president of
Washington and Jefferson University,
quieted the opposition to recommended
ton B of the revision report by offer
ing an amendment substituting the
word Statement" in place of "sum-
mary" The amendment was as fol-
lows: I'VE recommend this committee
be instructed to prepare and submit to
the next general assembly for such dis
position as may be judged wise, brief
statement of the reformed faith, .ex-
pressed as far as possible, in untechni-
cal terms. Said statement is to be pre-
pared with view to it's being employ
ed to give information and the better
understanding of our doctrinal be-
liefs, and not with a view to it's becom-
ing a substitute for or alternative of
our confession of faith.'
DR.. Nichols of st. Louis, a leader of
the minority party, heartily seconded
the amendment. Other seconding
speeches We're made by the commission
ers, who represented all shades of opin-
ion in the assembly including DR.. w.
H. Boyle, of Pueblo
The committee on place of meeting
recommended to the next assembly the
selection of Los Angeles for the assem-
bly, in 1903. When the order of the day
the revision of the confession of
faith-was reached, the moderator ad-
vised against hasty action today. The
motion to limit speeches to ten minutes
was unanimously carried.
PRESBYTERIANS ON WOMANS'
SUFFRAGE.
Des Moines, Ia, May N.-The United
Presbyterian general assembly placed
it's seal upon the question of approving
woman suffrage by formally accepting
the report Of the judiciary committee,
to the effect that the question was a
purely civic one and therefore not
one that properly can come before an
ecclesiastical legislative body.