New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-04-13
CHARGES ARE POPPYCOCK'
Or. Coffin So Terms Criticisms of
Or. Browns Article.
NO REPLY FROM AUTHOR
Roosevelt Professor Says He
Must See DR.. McEwans
Allegations.

When the Rev. DR.. William Adams
Brown was asked yesterday II he had any
replv 10 make 70 charges brought against
his orthodoxy by another Presbyterian
minister. the Rev. DIR. W. l.. McEwan. OF
pntsbure, DR. Brown said that he would
have TO see the fun allegations before he
could say anything. Pittsburg dispatch
90 The Tribune said yesterday that DR.. Nc
Evan objected TO articles written by Dr.
Brown regarding the Interpretation OF tho
miracles OF Jesus and the inspiration OF the
Bible.
Dr. Brown. who is the Roosevelt profess
,or Of systematic theology IN Union Theo-
logical Seminary, wrote an article entitled
The old Theology and the New in Tho
Harvard Theological Review last January.
and this is one of the articles that Dr. Nc
Evan objects 10. The article does not ap-
near 10 contain any definition OF interpre-
,a,iOn OF the miracles. On the contrary, II
IS very broad view Of religion.
Contrasting the old and the new theology
II. Brown says i'm regard TO the latter:
1T makes its appeal 10 the heart. The
God of the old Calvinism was a tower of
strength 10 those who put their trust IN
Him, but He was consuming fire for
those who felt themselves outcast from
His grace and the world OF the old the
ology was full OF outcasts. The records
OF the old insane asylums have pltiful
story TO tell II one were elect, and could
know II, ali was well. but outside lay the
great mass OF the unregenerate, for whom
here was no hope"
The other Of the articles that DR.. Nc
Evan objected 10. he said. was written in
The New York Observer In November
last. Or. Brown says that he has no recol-
lection Of writing any article for that pub
llcation. The Rev. DR.. Francis Brown
president of the faculty Of the Union The
illogical Seminary. has an article In the is
sue OF November 10, 1910, entitled The
church and It's Creeds," based upon an
address he delivered at the opening OF the
seminary's new buildings. He said yester-
cay:
II don't think DR.. McEwan could have
confounded the articles, for there was moth
ing in mine that could provoke these
charges. I read the article by DR.. William
Adams Brown in Tho Harvard THEOLOGY
cal Review and can't see anything In
that which could be objected TO on these
grounds
The Rev, Dr. John Fox declined TO say
anything until he had read the charges In
FULL On Monday last II was said that he
protested against the licensing of two
Inlon Theological Seminary graduates FOR
the Presbyterian ministry because of their
religious beliefs, and it Is said at the same
time objected 10 the reception under care
~ a son OF the late Charles Cuthbert Hall
as a candidate for the ministry. He de-
ciined yesterday to discuss this.
one Of the young ministers that DE-. FOX
is said TO have protested against at the
meeting OF the New York Presbytery went
as assistant TO the Madison Avenue Church.
Of which the Rev. Or. Henry Sloane Coffin
is pastor. DR.. Coffin said last night that
he had read the article written by the Rev.
Dr. william Adams Brown IN THE Har-
yard Theological Review" and that the
charges against Or. Brown were all non
sense
They are poppycock," he said you
-ar say that for me over my signature.
DR.. Brown is not q radical lie is man Of
broad religious views