The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-05-29
CHARITY IS NOT
WHAT IS WANTED
Presbyterian Ministers Long in
Harness Entitled TO
Support.
DEBATE IN THE ASSEMBLY
REPORT or COMMITTEE ON
CHURCH PoLlTY IGNORED.

Denver, Colo. May 2s.-Presb yteTian
ministers do not want charity. They
made chis clear i'm the general assem-
bly, TO-DAY when by an almost unani-
nous vote the commissioners defeated
a resolution. prepared by Dr. }. Gray
Boiten Of Philadelphia providing for a
graded pension scheme for disabled OF
superannuated ministers.
She trouble over the pensioning Of
ministers has been one of long stand
ing, having started in friction between
the board OF ministerial relief and the
beard for ministerial sustentation. Both
have similar objects and DIT. Bolten's
resolution carried with il "a motion 10
refer the whole matter Of joint action
OF these boards To a special committee.
Exceptions at once Taken.
In his address on the subject DIT. Boil
ten made frequent use of the words
charity" and humiliation. and 10
these terms the commissioners as a
whole took liberal exception. He was
of the opinion that ministers do not
want charity after they become unable
10 work, and that they should be given
pensions after twenty years service.
He believed This would remove the
faint Of charity from the support thus
received.
To this proposition DIT Howard Ag-
new Johnston ef Colorado Springs took
exception, with the support of a large
majority % the commissioners He re-
buked those who had made use Of the
term charity" and said that the min
lister who receives aid after he has Civ
en- his best efforts 70 the church is not
an object Of charity. but rather richly
deserving of the support of the church.
He said the plan first suggested 10 the
assembly that the sustentation board
should look ~ wealthy isymen for con-
trioutions 10 tho fund for such relief
vas the most uubusiuessliEe PROPOSE
ton he ever heard exp0unded from a
committee Of business men, He was
unanimously supported in a resolution
that recommended the objects of sus-
tentation 10 the church and urged in
diVidual gifts. Here the matter ended.
Polity COMMITTEES Beaten.
The committee on poity found its re-
port in trouble when Dr. Joseph A.
Vance Of Chicago moved a substitute
resolution for an overture upon which
the committee moved that no action be
taken. in which il vas provided that
members removing from one charge 10
another who shan fan to signify with
tn twelve mouths the church with
which they wish 10 he affiliated shall be
taken into the Jurisdiction of the
church designated by tho pastor Of the
church they have left. This resolution
was sturdily fought oy members Of the
polity committee on the ground that
after much study they had not beer
able 10 make r7loTt
However, upon vote. approval of tho
resolution seemed unanimous.
The assembly unanimously adopted
the report of the judicial commission
which is the supreme court" Of the
body, sustaining the presbytery OF New
York i'm the Westminster church case
IN suspending four elders. in dissOly-
ing the church. in taking possession
Of the property for church services ana
in organizing a new church therein.
The polity committee made both a
majority and minority report on the
subject Of reduced representation 10 the
assembly. but because of an impend-
ing lengthy debate il was ordered that
both reports he passed until tomorrow
VIXEN the matter will be threshed out.