New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-27
DENOUNCE LIQUOR TRAFFIC
PRESBYTERIAN Assembly Calls
License Unchristian.
MEMORIAL FOR J.S.KENNEDY
Ritschlian Prayer Quoted by DR..
Knox Causes Much Amusement
Among Commissioners.
rBy Telegraph to The Tribune. ]

BY Telegraph 10 he Irfoune
Atlantic City, May 2s.-Whenever two
or three assembly commissioners met
to-day they began TO discuss the Ritschlian
prayer which DR.. Fox quoted before thej
judicial commission yesterday. and which
inadvertently was attributed TO Professor
Knox of Union Seminary. DR.. Fox took oc-
casion early this morning 70 inform Pro-
lessor Knox that it was another Rftschlian.
and not he who attributed greater knOwl-
edge TO present day scholars than that
which the Lord possessed
1t is understood that the professor as
sured his New York brother that whatever
view men had of the limitations of Jesus
when on earth. all Christians to-day,
Ritschlians and Ca1vinists and other mem
bers of the New York Presbytery. believed
| that He knew now who was praying TO Him.
and therefore one should not be disturbed
by the report that a prayer said TO have
been offered by one man had been at
trfbuted to another. In any event. DR.. Fox
was the last man who would make a mis-
take of this kind.
Another prayer offered here on the open
ing day of the assembly has been coupled
with the one which DR.. Fox quoted as being
tinged with RftschIianisnl- When DR. Bark
ley. the retiring moderator, closed mis- ser
mon last week, he offered a prayer in
which he asked the Lord 10 let as much
of the truth be retained by the people pres
ent as commended itself TO their Judgment
Dr. Fox's Ritschlian prayer story suggest
ed another prayer to a clergyman, which he
said that he had offered at funeral all
unconscious of the lack Of a comma in a
sentence otherwise correct. A member Of
his congregation had died. and he prayed
in this wise:
20 Lord. Thou knowest how often have
prayed with this dear sister on my knees
in this room that Thou would bless her
husband and children.
While the minister Is in attendance at
the assembly, since he Is not a commits
sioner, the RitschIianistic character Of his
prayer will not go before the judicial COM
nittee-
A dozen members Of the judicial commits
sion have been toiling with New York sub
committees and collectively all day and
late this evening with the heresy case.
and the chairman has announced that
he expects to present the Judgment Of the
commission TO the assembly tomorrow
morning When that matter has been dis
posed of the assembly probably will stop
debate and rush the business through to
and their representatives for the most part
have gone home to repeat this years sue
cesses and to win greater ones.
lntemperate Temperance.
Il have often been told" said the mod
orator to-day, that more intemperance Is
shown in temperance discussions than in
any other form of debate. If I had ever
been In doubt on that question. should not
be now Brethren. let us keep the fire in
our hearts and keep calm exterior. I am
a trife near-sighted without my glasses.
which I will now take off, and L shall be
unable to recognize any brother addressing
the chair. We have had plenty Of discus
sion and shall now have the vote
The mild rebuke of the moderator was de-
| Iivered with smile and accepted heartily,
and the assembly adopted the following
paper by a large majority:
The Presbyterian Church must ever be
the open, active and persistent enemy of
the liquor traffic in all of its forms We
name or guise as permission and not de-
struction and therefore Un-Christian- We
Themselves tHeTiy socially. financially and polft-
icaIly separate and apart from the liquor
traffic and to touch not the unclean thing
ganic law be expelled from our land and
our people be saved from its despoiling In
1uences.
The assembly also adopted the following
paper in regard to liquor selling in Atlantic
City
Whereas, A memorial has been placed in
our hands portraying conditions in Atlantic
Whereas, This city by the sea is recog-
nized one of our national Fairgrounds
and resorts, to which hundreds of thou
dc of orr Tor
pleasure and health; therefore,
| Resolved, That we have learned with re-
gst ta n t {ae st open s1sea1 q fhos guard
ing the Sabbath Day, and of the tnaDility
of the Good Citizenship League 70 OBTAIN
relief from these deplorable conditions;
that we express our sympathy with the er-
forts made by the good citizens OF this city
in behalf of law and order and Respectfully
request the local and state officials to use
their utmost efforts to enforce all excise
laws.
BY unanimous vote and without debate
the assembly placed itself on record
against the white slave traffic in resolutions
urging the Senate to pass the Mann bill
which is intended to prevent the transporta-
ton of persons between states for immoral
purposes.
Kennedy Memorial Service.
Following the discussion on foreign
missions memorial service was held In
honor of John Stewart Kennedy. of New
York who in his will left TO the Presby-
terrain Church and kindred institutions the
largest legacy IL has eve received. DIR.
Charles l.. Thompson of the board of home
missions spoke of Mr.. Kennedy's relations
to the activities of the Presbyterian Church.
and Dr. a. W. Halsey, Of the board OF
foreign missions, gave a glimpse OF Mr..
Kennedy's religious life The commission
ers were deeply impressed with the recital
of the business acumen and the spirituality
of this man of affairs. The boards of for
eign missions and church erection came be-
fore the assembly to-day on a report from
committees appointed to review the work
of the year.
Dr. Arthur J. Brown. who recently re-
turned from a trip around the world, in
which he spent three months and more in
Japan. Corea and China and completed the
tour in a month less time than IL took
one OF the missionaries now in the field
to go TO China in 1853, gave glimpses. OF
the political economic and moral changes
which he observed in his experiences in
the Far East eight years ago and this
year
Dr. Brown was applauded when he said
that a new book of the Acts of the Apos-
ties was now being written by the mis-
sionaries of the Cross in Asia to-day and
that It was no time for gospel Of doubt
in the East, or. for that matter. anywhere