The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-30
OVERTURE REJECTED.
Southern Presbyterians Declined to
 Change Articles of Faith.

Southern Presbyterians Declined to
 Change Articles of Faith.
 Lexington, Va. May 29.-The Southern Presbyterian General Assembly this morning discussed at length the report of the Standing Committee on Home Mis- sions but reported no conclusion. Stand- ing committee reports on systematic be- neficence, Sabbath and church and Chris tian education were submitted and placed on the docket. The report of the Bible and Cause Auditing Committees were adopted The committees appointed to ex- anime records of the synods of Louisi- ana, Virginia. North Carolina, South Car olina. Alabama, Mississippi Georgia and Florida reported the records to be cor rect.
 The overture of the Fayetteville Presby- tery asking changes in the requirements requiring Latin thesis was denied by the Assembly.
 In response to the overtures from the Presbyteries of Atlanta, Bethel, Chero- kee, Concord, East Hanover, Hardings Mountain, Montgomery, Pee Dee. a per- manent committee cpnsistings of Revs. Drs. Thomas H. Law! John S. Watkinse. J. T. PIunkett, T. J. Moore and George B. Harmon was appointed on the Bible Committee.
 The following Auditing Committees were appointed by the Assembly for the year 1902-03:
 For Executive Committee on Foreign Missions-George G. O'Brian, Eugene Rollins. T. D. Webb.
 For Home Mission-J. B. Daniels, w.. E. Hoyt, Charles K. Martin.
 Publication-H. Swineford. B. c. Wher- ry. Edwin Pleasants.
 Education-George c. Maxton, H. M. Neely. A. B. Hill.
 Colored Evangelization-W. E. Brig ham. E. B. Nusam, W. c. Harris
 Home and Schools. G. Hodgson. s. N. Barney, George C. Morrison.
 Ministerial Relief-James Whittsett George L. Christian. O. B. Morgan.
 For Treasurer of General Assembly-B H. owen, H. c. Merritt, J. M. MacRae.
 Trustees of the General Assembly for term of three years were elected as fol- lows: Dr. Eugene Hutchinson, P. NJ Brown, George F. Bason.
 The afternoon session of the General Assembly was devoted entirely to dis cussion on an overture from Tuscaloosa Presbytery. touching on change in the wording of the Confession of Faith rela- tive to infant salvation. in which the word ''eIect" was asked to be omitted before infants The committee recom- mended a negative answer to the over ture, ana UT. W ohui4 4uCSS OA bOhAS- vile. Ky, offered the following substi- tute
 We recommend that the request of the Presbytery of Tuscaloosa be answered in the negative for the reason that the sec ton as thus amended would not fully state and properly correlate the doctrines of grace as held by our church in rela- ton to the salvation of infants"
 This was adopted by the Assembly with few dissenting voices. This, with some foot-notes which Dr. Marquess proposed to be inserted in the Confession of Faith which were to besent to each Presbytery in the Assembly for the future consider ation and vote, brought forth many elo- quent appeals for and against the same from some of the leading commissioners. The foot notes were as follows:
 T. This language is not properly con strued as teaching that any infants dy- ing in infancy are not saved
 '2. Holy Scripture, when fairly inter pTeted. warrants us in believing that all infants who die in infancy are included in the election of grace and are regener- ated and saved by Christ through the Holy Spirit"