Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-05-20
BLUE LAW SUNDAY
IS |NDORSED BY
PREsBYTER|ANS
Many Divines at Assembly Had
COunseIed Against Strin=
gent Resolutions.
BY THE REV. A. N. STUBBLEBINE.
Especial to the Newark start

A'IN@''i ~ AAf NIN1A fFAhffI
ATLANTIC CITY, May 2O.-After a
spirited debate the Presbyterian Cen
eral Assembly in session here today
adopted the report of the committee on
Sabbath observance, which many of the
divines present declared to be a re-
vival of the Blue Law Sabbath. The
opponents to the measur declared it
was an attempt to move the dial of
time packard 200 hundred years.
They said they were for a SANE Sab
bath, but not so strict a one as the
report called for.
The barring of travelling on Sunday.
buying things because you happened to
want them even if they We're unneces-
sary and having no hot meals so your
servants could rest was declared to tie
absurd, and the assembly was urged
to ignore such trivial" matters. others
spoke earnestly in favor of keeping
the Sabbath as the commandments or
dered and the report with its e'eVen
stringent re-Jlutions was adofted.
Among the resolutions embodied in
the report was one to the effect that
college presidents and faculties be re-
quested to abolish Monday morning
r~ecitations so that students would not
nave 10 study on sunday
1t was decided to organize Sabbath
observance committees in each pres
bytery TO cooperate with similar com-
mittees from other denominations, and
with State and national organizations
in preserving the sanctity of the Lords
day.
Public officials are urged in another
resolution to do their full duty in en-
forcing Sunday closing laws and sun
day newspapers are denounced in I'M
qualified terms.
The United States government is
also asked to so arrange that in time
of peace no warships jo%urneying up
and down the coast will have TO move
on Sunday.
The first of the three impending
great heresy trials came up today when
the papers in the case against the Rev.
William ID. Grant, of Northumberland,
Pa, were presented to the P~resbyte-
rian General Assembly. in session here.
1t is expected that the judicial com
mission. to which the case has been
referred, will give the subject prompt
consideration.
DIR. Grant is charged With eXpound-
ing views that are contrary to the
teachings of the Presbyterian Church
and contrary to the holy Scriptures.
He was acquitted of tho charge by
his own pr~esbytery, but the %prosecu-
ton took the case TO the general as
sembly for final review.
The accused clergyman says he is
confident that the general assembly
will sustain his acquittal.
The report of the special committee
on Sabbath observance was also taken
up today. 1t reviewed t work done
by the committee and makes recon-
~mendations for further work in the
campaign for Sabbath observance, and
says:
MAN. Industrial concerns have
joined the ranks of those establish
ments which have discontinued Sunday
work. The sentiment that laboring men
should strike for a six-day weeok, as
well as an eight-hour day. is growing,
and meets the approval of labor lead
ers.'
Newark Divine Opposes Merger.
The Rev. John Mcdowell, of Park
Presbyterian Church, of Newark, was
present today to speak against the
merging of the bureau of social service
with the noard of Home missions. DR..
Mcdowell has been serving as chair
man of the assembly's committee on So
cial service. seeking for a plan of effec-
tive work in meeting the question OF
divorce. intemperance, gambling. sab
bath Dissertation. church and labor. II
is the desire of the executive committee
to put this bureau under the home mis-
sion board and not erect another board
or burelt
1t is generally felt that the election
OF DIR. Carson to be moderator is going
TO bring d cessation of the criticism OF
| those involved in heresy. DR.. Carson
was : pported almost entirely by the
commissioners ofsthe East. as we'll as Q
large part OF, those from the West. II
is felt that Or. Carson will be fair and
impartial. 1t is generally felt that the
cases of the Rev. DIR. Brown and the
Rev. DR.. Grant wi. not reach the floor
! of the assel.h bly, except to approve oil
the finding OF the judicial congnission
! to whom these questions are referred.
Religion In schools.
The Rev. DR.. George b. Stewart, OF
Auburn Seminary, New York. presented
the report of thu committee on reli'
gious education. DR.. Stewart said:
1--WE set forth as our findings that thu
secular schools are now giving no for
NAL religious instruction to the degrees
the time demands; that the burden II
proper nurture of the young in matters
religious is now almost wholly thrown
upon the church.; that there is much
religious instruction now being given BY
our churches; that 1t is all too ineffec-
tive and fragmentary. that 1t Is ineffec-
TIVE and f~ragmentary because 1t Is un
systematic, is carried forward in
haphazard fashion without adequate