The Savannah morning news., 1902-05-21
INFANT SALVATION
.srroN TROUBLES SOUTHERN
PREsBYTERIANs.
MANY ovERTURES At JACKSON
,,oDIFICATIoN OF THE CONFESS
SION THE RESULT.

xoss Not Teach That Any of Those
who Die in Infancy Are Damned,
-. THAT Those Who Are in Infan-
Are saved in n Different Man.
ar From AduIts-HOly Scriptures
,,,.rrant the Belief That All Who
ME in Infancy Are Saved-A Mis-
.i.sippi Presbytery Charges That
welI-Known Hymn Is an Exagger-
alton.
Jackson. Miss. May 20.-In the gen.
.ral assembly of the Presbyterian
church to-day the clerk read COM
..rnication from L. r. Cams, the
convenor of the foreign board of mis-
sIons of Australia, which was accom-
nanied by a memorial to President
roosevelt to prevent the sale and use
of firearms on certain islands.
The overtures committee reported
o1even Overtures on infant salvation,
demanding a positive statement as to
the certainty of salvation of all in
fants dying in infancy and calling for
declaration which will clear the
church of a false charge that it holds
hat some infants may be lost The
committee declined to recommend re-
scinding the action of the last assem-
blv as to certain foot notes on page
70 and recommended a change of Ian
ouaee in Section of the confession
nf faith in order that it may read:
"Au infants dying in infancy are in
cluded in the election of grace and are
regenerated and saved by Christ
through the Spirit, Who worketh when
and where He pleaseth."
Modification Agreed to.
The following substitute to Section
of the report was offered by DR..
Hemphil and adopted by the assembly:
"In answer to an overture asking for
the resembling of the action, in whole
or in part of the general assembly at
Little Rock, concerning chapter 10,
section of the confession of faith,
the assembly does hereby rescind the
fifth reason of the last assembly for
declining to amend the confession.
The reason of the resembling being
as follows: Because, while we have
well-g grounded hope, founded on Scrip
lure. that all infants dying in infancy
are saved yet the confession of faith
goes as far as Scriptures to justify a
positive creedal statement upon this
point
The second section of the report,
which was unanimously adopted,
reads
This assembly is fully persuaded
that the language employed in section
of our confession of faith towards in
fants dying in infancy does not teach
that there are any infants dying in in
fancy who are damned. but this sec
ton is only intended to illustrate that
those who are in infancy are saved in
different manner from adults who are
capable of being outwardly called to
salvation by the ministry of the word.
Furthermore, we are persuaded that
the Holy Scriptures, when fairly in
terpreted, amply warrant us in believ-
ing that all infants who die in infancy
are included in the election of grace,
and are regenerated and saved by
Christ, through the Spirit"
Want Noted Hymn Eliminated.
An overture was filed with the COM
mittee from the Bonneville, Miss,
presbytery demanding that the hymn
beginning, There is a fountain filed
with blood" be eliminated from the
Pre- sbyterian hymn book, or else the
line reading And sinners plunged be-
meath that flood lose all their guilty
stains"
The overture sets forth that this
sentence is an exaggeration of truth
IN representing that the blood of
Christ ever flowed in such quantities
In which one could be immersed.