The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-06-14

though his rule had been, and again he
was called to the work in that city- IL
was while here that he got into MS con-
trOVersy with Servetus. in wnlch ne lol-
warded certain documents to the roman
Catholic church which served TO identity
Servetus, and aided in his convlct0n OF
heresy- Calvin did what ne tollu 70
prevent the noted hereto from oeihs
burned at the stake, but was unsucc2ss-
full To the victims girdle was attached
the very manuscript which Calvin mad
sent. 1t may be said Of Calvin that ne
was no more bitter toward SerNetuS Ildn
were others, even the gentle Melanehthon
seeing nothing but occasion for rejoicing
In the fate of Servetus-
Calvin was pre-eminently the theolog1an
Of the reformation. He systematiZed the
doctrines Of Professionalism and gave II its
ecclesiastical discipline. When death APP
preached he requested that no monument
should be erected TO his memory, prefer
ring the monument Of service rendered
rather than one Of stone. His wish was
Loyalty respected and today men have
nOught but uncertain tradition to guide
them as to the exact spot where MS NOR
tai remains were laid. During the week
from the second to the tenth Of July
the city of Geneva will honor the four
hundredth anniversary Of his birth by
the unVelllng of "A monument to his MEM
DRY, monument representing the O;fer-
ngs Of the whole civilized world. Yet
the exact spot of his burial will not be
known The chair in which he sat and
the pulpit in which he preached ar pre-
served in Geneva, and viii figure in the
ceremonies of the occasion.
Calvanism had its heroic age and its
martyrs IN the days Of the French HUI
guenOts, the Dutch republic. the Scotch
covenanters and the English Puritans.
Their blood was freely spilled in he
cause they held sacred, and they vel
coined America as "a city Of refuge from
the relentless prosecutions of Europe. The
historian Bancroft. who was not CAL
r-frr Tsn 49,
itself might be traced directly to the st
tie republic of Geneva, and through il to
Calvin.
The doctrines of the Geneva theologian
fight found footing on American soil
through the Huguenots brought to the
Carolinas and to Florida in 1852 and 1850
through the efforts Of Admiral Coligny.
The Carolina project was early abau-
doned, and Of those at St. Augustine. the
Spaniards left only enough to tell the
tale. The second attempt to give Calvin
ism secure footing in the New World
was at New Amsterdam. and in this eff
fort the foundations Of the city Of New
/ York were laid. The first congregation
| holding to the Presbyterian system of
| doctrine and polity to be organized on
! American soil was the Dutch Reformed
church at New Amsterdam, in 1923. Jonas
Michealius was the leading spirit of the
organization. From this little church has
grown the Reformed church i'm America
which IS said to give more money to
other church in the world. The Puritans
! Of England became the Presbyterians and
! COngregat iOnalists Of America. In the
parlanCe of that day. the Congregation
alists were the Pilgrims" and the Pres
| byterians were the "Puritans"
| The first presbytery organized on Amer
/ lean soil was that Of Philadelphia. in 1905.
with Francis Mackenzie as moderator The
| first synod was that Of Philadelphia, with
! seventeen ministers, organized in 1716.
! The first synodical schism in the Pres
| DyteTian church occurred in 17E SUBJ
| scripuon to the Westminster standards
/ being the point at issue. The Philadelphia
synod divided into the New Side Synod
| of New York" and the "Old Side synod
| of Philadelphia" Another point of diff
! ference was William Tennent's log col
lege' the old Sides opposing its influ-
ence. The New Sides upheld it. and
/ brought about the foundation of Prince
ton university with the log college as its
base The schism OF the Sides was
! healed after seventeen years
/ For years the fire of controversy has
! ragged over the question Of who founded
| the first religious paper in the United
/ states. The two principal claimants for
first place in religious journalism were
| sydney r. Morse and Nathan Willis both
Of Boston, and the year was 1916. Learned
/ literary men investigated the question
! conclusions were reached At last there
| happened TO be discovered by a historian
/ the tombstone marking the grave OF John
! Wildwood Scott i'm the old Pine Street
! cemetery. in Philadelphia This grave
stone bore the statement that Scott had
/ founded the first religious newspaper I'm
| the world. the Religious Remembrance
/ first published in 1873 Search for comics
| of this paper was instituted. and they
have been found. showing beyond ali
| doubt that Philadelphia. and not Boston
was the home Of the first religious news
paper. and that the Presbyterian church
can lay claim to It, since Scott was q
/ Presbyterian.
! Copyright, 1909 by Frederic J. Haskin.
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