Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-05-29
CHURCH FINDS
FAULT WITH
CIVIL COURT
PRESBYTERIANS RESENT
INTERFERENCE IN AT AIRS
Proposed System of Ministerial
Pensions Meets Objection
From Commissioners to Gen.
eraI Assembly at Denver,

IBy Morning journal Special Leased Wirel
Denver Colo, May 2S.-Presbyter-
ian ministers do not want charity
They made this clear in the general
assembly today when by an almost
unanimous vote the commissioners
DEBATED a resolution prepared by DE-
]. Gray Boltin, of Philadelphia. pro-
vidlng for a graded pension scheme
for disabled or supcrannuated minis
ters
The trouble over the pensioning OF
ministers has been one of long stand
ing being In its inception faction
fight between the board for finance
and minister sustanation
Both have objects much similar anG
Dr. Boltins resolution carried with y
motion to refer the whole matter
in joint action of these boards to-
gether with his scheme to special
committee for recommendation to the
assembly.
In his address on the subject, Or.
charity and Humiliation" and to
these terms the commissioners as a
whole took liberal exception. He was
of the opinion that ministers do not
want to accept charity after they have
been rendered unable to further per-
form their duties and therefore they
should be given pensions at the eX
piration of terms of service graduated
from twenty years upward He be-
lieved this would remove the taint ot
charity from the support thus re-
ceived.
To this proposition Dr. Howard
johnson Of Colorado Springs took eX
ception with the support of a large
majority of the commissioners. He re-
baked those VINO had made use 9f
the term charity" and said that tn
minister who receives aid after hav-
ing given his best efforts to the
church is not an object of charity but
rather richly deserving of the sup
port of the church
The dispute which reached the state
courts Of Tennessee as result of the
union of the Presbyterian church ana
the Cumberland Presbyterian found
utterance in the report of the church
cooperation committee in the morn
ing wherein DR.. William Henry Rob
erts d. D. LID, stated clerk Of the
assembly and chairman of the com
mittee, the venerable law giver OF the
assembly for the last twenty-five
years, he said what he thought of state
courts, that interfere with church doc
trines Upon the union of the Two
branches q number of COMMITMENTS
brought suit upon the plea that they
Were being forced to accept ellurcn
doctrine other than that laid down
by the Cumberland church and, in
this plea, they were upheld by IN
state courts and number of church
were turned over to them
This action, incidentally caused the
assembly few days ago to recon
mend the appropriation Of 100000 |
to build churches for the regular con-
SO dispossessed
The report of the committee re-
bukcd the courts for Interfering with /
a church doctrine The report was F!
upheld.
A resolution from the committee on |
bills and oVertures presented by !
Bishop Fullerton of st. Louis, whicn {
was adopted, provides that a former /
moderator. hortofore cXofficio char
man Of the executive committe and the
committe on bills and overturcs, VIII |
hereafter be chairman only of th2 /
because of the large /
amount of work connected with botn ,
committees.
The politity committee made both /
ma aiority and minority report of me
subject Of reduced representation ~
the assembl ybut because of an I'M
pending lengthy debate it was order
ed that both reports be passed until
tomorrow when the matter VIII be
,hreshed out finally.
Tonight at s o'clock there was q
popular meeting in the interests oil
the temperance in Central Presbyter-
Ian church.