Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-05-28
MbLY ENDS
SESSION. ATLANTIC
CITY AGAIN CHOSEN
Rev. John Mcdowell, of New
ark, Presents an interesting
Social Problem Report.
BY THE REV. A. N. sTuBBLEBINE.

announced through the moderator who
is chairman of 1t that 1t recommended
the next General Assembly of the Pres
byterian Church should be held In At
lantic City. So we'll suited to the needs
of the assembly were the accommoda-
tons furnished here that the decision
of the committee to return next year
was quickly reached.
This most democratic of general as
semblies in the history of general as
sembles closed today. The hegira of
the ministers began early. this morning
and by noon the ranks were greatly
thinned.
An echo of the "Black Heresy'' case
which excited so much interest was
heard when DR.. Erhelbert d. War1ield,
president of Lafayette College, the
chairman of the judicial committee
moved the adoption of a resolution
which seemed to dispose of it.
Andrew Zenos, who. had ben made
chairman Of the committee on church
polity, had endeavored to prevent the
recurrence of such cases by Urging that
the examination of the candidates for
the ministry should be left to the pres
byteries and not left open for or.e or
two men in a p~resbytery, who die not
agree with some of the DR..
F.. s. Vance maintained that every
facility should be given to the minority
where an appeal was taken.
The Rev. William H. Folks, of Port
land, Ore, who is being sent By his
congregation to the worlds missionary
convention, which meets in Edinblrgh,
Scotland, reviewed the work of the
Dubuque Theological Seminary at
Dubuque. and appealed for this ansti-
tuition in the far West.
On the question asked by DR.. Latham,
of Chester. whether the funds OF the
assembly were to be paid to commits
sioners who put up at hotels where
there was a "bar," DR.. Roberts stated
as far as he knew no commissioner
had been assigned to a hotel which had
q bar"
After a debate the assembly voted
to grant entertainment of all COMMITS
sioners who were compelled to remain
over Sunday.
The mileage fund amounted to s45,-
13b; entertainment fund, s24,842; con-
tingent fund, $40, 115. Total, $50, 099,
A negro commissioner arose ana in
CURED IL the negro brethren from the
South were to be compelled to ,s,ffer
from an "Ungodly prejudice" ard be
compelled to sit UP all night, while the
white brethren have Pullman accolcmo-
dations. The resolution was TABLED.
The Rev. DIR. William H. Rolterts.
chairman OF the committee on clnrch
cooperation and union, vas presented,
and the following resolutions were
adnrta6 - x.t1x.x "a
courts of Tennessee In not approving
the union of the Cumberland Presby-
terians with the Presbyterian Church,
u. s. A.. and in giving all the property
to the minority, which refused to come
into the union.
Courts Scored In Resolutions.
Il. The general assembly, with ref
erence to the charge of fatality repeat
eddy made, even by a civil court, with
respect to the confession OF faith of this
church, reafirms the declaration of the
assembly of 1905. to wit: This assem-
bly, specifically declares that, since the
revision Of 1903, by which the confession
of faith was amended. by change of its
text, by a declaratory statement and
by additions, it is no longer allowable
to interpret our system of doctrine in
any fatalistic sense: nor are we willing
to admit that such fatalistic interpreta-
ton was eve warranted. whatever mis-
apprehension may have existed In the
mind of any person.
80 The general assembly declares
that Christian churches have an inner
ent right to unite. arising out of their
unity in Jesus Christ, their supreme
i.-OI r<l ,t-4 - -, -la,.I1 In IN So
by any State, nor can any State pass
laws, impSiring or hindering this right
in any manner, whether finding express
sion in efforts for cooperation, fedora
ton or organic union.
IS The general assembly declares
that the civil magistrate, that is, the
State, to use the language of the con-
fession Of faith, may not interfere in
the least in matter of faith and that
the separation of Church and State now
effected everywhere In this nation, con-
Joined with the full religious liberty
accorded to every American citizen as
his natural right. in the language OF
the Supreme Court of the United States,
involve that whenever questions OF
discipline or Of faith of ecclesiastical
rule, custom, or law, have been decided
by the highest church Judicatories tc
which the matter has been carried, the
legal tribunals must accept such deci-
sions as final, and as binding on them
in their application to the case before
them.'"
The report of the special COMMITTEES
on social problems, of which the Rev
John Mcdowell, pastor of the Park
Presbyterian Church OF Newark, is the
head, makes several important recon-
mendations. Among them are the be-
lief in the efficacy of the industrial or
CARNATIONS and an expression of the
truth often expressed, l. e., that Man
shall not live by bread alone"
The committee also declares that the
| development and application of mora
and religious ideas have not kept pace
with the commercial and industrial
progress of the times. The committee
also submits among other things, the
| following. which they think tina the
| church should declare: The application
Of Christian principles to industrial or
ga~nizations; a more equitable division
of wealth; an abatement of poverty,
the abolition of child slavery; sucf
regulation as shall safeguard the
| physical and moral health OF women,
more adequate protection of working
people from machinery and from occu-
p~ational disease; for the release ron
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