New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-29
STANDS FIRMLY FOR FAITH
Presbyterian Assembly in Accord
with DoctrinaI DeIiveranCe.
FIVE ARTICLES ADOPTED
Urged as Essential and Neces-
sary in Admission OF Candl-
dates Into the Ministry.

Atlantic City. MAY IS (Speeian--The Cen
eral Assembly of the Presbyterian Church'
which has been in session for the last ten
days, adjourned this afternoon TO meet
here again next May. Chicago and LOUIS
Vile also invited the assembly TO De their
guest in 1911, but only one name was pre-
scented. Considerable discussion took place
to-day over the question of paying 'he
board of commissioners until Monddy' since
the assembly adjourned on Saturday III
was decided that it would be stultihcatloh
of the we'll known views of the asSeliois
regarding the Sabbath observance 10 com
pei men to travel on Sunday, and equally
disereditable to allow them to remain mere
two days and compel them to pay their own
board Accordingly a motion prevailed 10
pay the board of all commissioners who
could not reach home before Sunday.
The doctrinal deliverance called for by
the heresy case from New York was MADE
this afternoon. The committee on bills ana
overtures presented five articles of faith
which are considered essential doctrines OF
the Word of God and the Presbyterian
standards:
/. That the Holy Spirit did so inspire,
guide and move the writer's of the Holy
Scriptures as to keep them from error
9 That our Lord Jesus Christ was born
of the Virgin Mary.
g. That Christ offered up Himself a
sacrifice to satisfy divine justice and recon
cile US to God according to the Scriptures
f. And on the third day our Lord Jesus
rose from the dead with the same body
In which He suffered. with which also He
assembled into heaven and there stitch at
the right hand of His father, making inter
cession."
5. That the Lord Jesus showed his power
and love by working mighty miracles. This
working was not contrary to nature. but
superior to it.
The assembly declared that these five
articles of faith are essential and neces-
sary. and that the others are equally so.
1t urged the presbyteries to take care not
to admit candidates into the ministry unless
they declared their agreement in opinion
with all the essentials and necessary arti-
eles of the Confession of Faith Parents
and teachers of the young were warned of
the prevalence of many insidious doubts
and denials of the faith at this time, and
they were urged to be diligent IN teaching
the children the Scriptures
Concerning the need of the doctrinal de-
liverance adopted by the assembly, the
committee said:
THE Church of Christ, set to be both
a witness and an examplar of saving and
sanctifying truth, has come upon times
when her mission is at once most difficult
and most necessary. 1t is an age of doubt.
Many elements of the faith delivered once
for all to the saints and embodied into the
Immemorial testimony of the Christian
Church, are by many openly questioned and
rejected Thereby the fundamentals not
only of our faith as church but of evan
geIical Christianity are assaulted. Laxity
in matters of moral opinion has been fol-
lowed by laxity in matters of moral obli-
CATION. It is an age of Impotence, of re-
straint The spirit of license and lawless-
ness is abroad. Authority in church and
state alike is decadent because its defiance
has so often been unchecked. The safe
guards of society are threatened. The de-
cline In the elements of essential religion
is followed by grovelling and growing
superstition that shames alike our sanity,
our faith and our civilization. II is. there
fore most necessary that the Church OF
Christ should bear unfinching witness
against the errors in faith and the faults
In practice by testifyins the truth. the
whole truth and nothing but the truth as
God has been pleased to reveal il unto her
by His Word and Spirit. Actuated by that
fervent charity which God has made the
rule and grace of her life she must stand
sturdiIy for that which is at once the re-
demption of the individual and the saliva
ton of society. Ours has always been a
witnessing Church. 1t must continue to be
such or else consent to conditions Of doubt
that would dissolve her foundations and
equally destroy historic Christianity