The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-05-24
UNIVERSITY
 WITHDRAWAL A Live Subject Before
 Presbyterians. GEN.. YoUNGS COMPLAINT Institution Would Leave Church
 to Secure Money. Pies to Jsrfsdiction of Geaerai Assem. ply is Characterised ss an "EccIes- iasticaI Impropriesy"--Many
 Ministers Preach.

Savannah. Ga. May 23.--A contest that bids fair to he sharp is promised for tomorrow afternoon at o'clock when the General Assembly of the Southern Presbyterian Church. in ses- sion here, will consider the complaint ot General Bennett H. Young, of Ken- lucky. and others. over the withdrawal of Central University of Kentucky from the control of the church.
 The controversy arises over a Ques- ton of Jurisdiction. The Central uni-. versity was taken from the control of the church In order to qualify for . donation from Andrew Carnegie. This. 1t is contended. was the action of the Kentucky Synod and an appeal was taken from the Synod to the General Assembly by General Young and oth- CTS. e4
 Colonel T. W. Bullitt, one of the commissioners to represent the Synod of Kentucky, presented a plea to the jurisdiction of the Assembly in the matter of the complaint. The Synod of Kentucky contends in this plea that the matter has passed from the control of the highest church body and that It has already been irrevocabiy settled So far as the church acting alone is concerned
 General Young and those with him seek a reconsideration of the amend ment to the University's charter, through which 1t was made possible for Carnegie endowment to be obs tatned.
 It having been stated that copies of the plea to the Jurisdiction of the As- senbly had been distributed among the delegates. General Young referred ta the methods of the opposition as ''ec- clesiasticai Impropriety." and termed il ''buttonholins" delegates. He as serted that the distribution of the copies of the plea was improper.
 Helm Bruce, one of the Kentucky synod's commissioners, and an attof- ney. will be heard in favor of the plea.
 It has become evident from the pre- limsnary fencing that the feeling lB tense and the decision of the Assenhbly sitting as court may be regarded sa one franght with great inapeftanes to
 It is announced that ex-uossr1ox Glenn, of North Caf0iinas who is trAt~ cling ln the interest of home nlisslons of the church, VIII deliver an addfeea to the Assembly. He probably will speak tomorrow.
 In the churches of the city this morn ing and tonight the pulpits were niied by the visiting ministers Large audi ences heard the sermons. At the host church. the First Presbyterian. to- night, Rev. pr. James Orr, of Glasgow. preached. At the morning service at the Independent Presbyterian Churchs Rev. c. M. d'Aubigne was heard.
 In all, twenty-four sermons were preAched by the Visitors today. Much Interest centers in Rev. Mir. d'Aubigne, of France. whose sermon embodied an explanation Of the present religious troubles in France in connection with the severance of church and state.
 Tomorr0w's program. besides the dis. cussIonkof the Central University mat. ter. will include tspo addressea that at noon by pr. A. M. Fraser, Staunton. Va. How May the Principles of Cal. der Modern Conditions" and that in the evening by Dr. R. A. Webb, Louis. vile. Ky, on "Caivin's Doctrine of In. fant Salvation"