New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-05-25
MAY REPR|MAND GRANT
Majority in General Assembly
Seems to Favor This Course.
REPORT LOOKED FOR TO-DAY
Union Seminary Professors Will
Escape Heresy Trial-Day Is
Devoted to Speeches.
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Atlantic CITY. NAV 24-Whether or NOT
Dr. william Grant. Of Nortnuinperlanu.
psrr is hereto will not be known until
tomorrow. when IL Is expected tnat tne
judicial commission which has had his
case before II for four days, will make It's
report 10 the assembly. There are no
wagers az TO the outcome. as this is re-
ligious gathering. but there are many sur
misses as TO the result OF the trial. Botn
sides seem confident. the prosecuting
committee that its plea against the
preacher will be approved. and that he viii
he suspended from the ministry, while the
friends Of DR. Grant believe he will go
home with the approval Of the commission,
and therefore Of the assembly upon his
ministry.
Those who represent the majority % the
assembly feel that middle course VIII
be taken BY the commission; that Dr.
Grant will be found guilty Of indscretion,
especially in writing for the press on theo-
logical topics, and that he will be repri-
handed but not suspended from the min
istry
Whether or not the Union Seminary pro-
fessors are theologically sound will also
probably be known tomorrow. The overt
ures calling for the inquiry into the ortho-
doxy Of President Francis Brown have
been considered By a subcommittee OF
the committee on bills and overtures con-
tanning these clergymen: The Rev. DR..
William NJ Puden. Of Salt Lake City; the
Rev Dr. George v Luccock. Of Chicago
the Rev. Or. Charles r. Mcdonald. OF
Wheeling " Va. and among its elders
Thomas II. Dickson, Of St Paul
Or. Mcdonald is Union Seminary
graduate who was one class ahead Of Pro-
fessor Brown. and Mr. Dickson Is an uncle
Of one Of the members Of the prosecuting
committee in the Grant case: the other
two clergynen are not Union graduates.
While the sub committee has not reached
a decision. IT has prepared a reply 20 the
overtures which the members believe the
committee Itself will approve. II the more
than twenty members on this committee
support IL in the assembly. the matter will
doubtless Se settled here, and probably 20
the satisfaction Of the Church as a whole.
While no member Of the committee is
willing 70 intimate what the action may be,
enough IL known Of the composition Of the
COMMITTEES and Of their general views on
ecy that there will be no heresy trial in
New York The publication Of the testi-
mony In the Grant case has had a SOLDERING
effect upon some OF the men who wish TO
read the Union Seminary professors out OF
the PRESBYTERIAN Church
Miaht Show Too Much.
They fear that the white light ~ pub
licltv" may show too much. The overtures
set IN Pittsburg and Matched In New Jersey
and Iowa. did not call for a heresy trial,
but simply asked the General Assembly 70
make inquiry concerning the articles TO
which exception has been taken and TO
take such action as would best preserve
the authority II the General Assembly and
secure the purity Of the confessional doc
trine in the Presbyterian Church"
The Board Of Home Missions. with lis
HEADQUARTERS in New York: the Board Of
Publication. with it's offices in Philadelphia,
and the Presbyterian Brotherhood, with its
Office in Chicago. occupied the main part
~ the time in the assembly to-day
The Rev Dr. Mark A Matthews, 81
Seattle. presented the report for the Home
Board. and incidentally paid his respects
N the yellow journals" Of the country
none 81 which. Of course was represented
a. the press tables What ne said was ~
tir-ed with saffron that the papers which
he criticised could have taken A lesson
from him.
The board has raised g. 200 600 in the year
past. not including g 10000 received from
the estate OF John :. Kennedy. Every ref
erenca 70 the KENNEDY estate IL heartily
spplsuded. and, as one 81 the speakers
said today. the gift 81 the small church
or the small gift Of an individual Is over
looked
Addresses were made o. Or Charles =
Thomson. secretary Of the board; Or.
John Dixon, associate secretsry; enc, IN
response 70 calls from the floor by the
Rev Charles stelze. whose splendid work
in the Labor Temple. OF New YORK l.
k4enly appreciated by all who have come
IN relations with II. The Rev. :. Edward
Young. of Brooklyn. said that he had
spoken there. and had been greatly I'M
messed by the character IL the audience
and their interest in his message
Convention in New York.
Hugh II. Hanna. the vice-moderstor ~
the assembly and Walter Getty. the ne"
secretary Of the Presbyterian Brother
hood. addressed the assembly In behalf or
the brotherhood and announced that there
would be A national convention in New
York next spring.
Louisville. Indianapolis and Atlantic Ci'y
contested for the next assembly. Atlantic
civ received special praise from the COM
r,,,taa hut II was deemed wise TO 20 10
another part Of the country for the next
meeting.
The Rev Or. Aquilla Webb. OF LOUISVILLE
and Mr. Hanna. Of indianapolis, spoke Ior
their respective cities. Inc COMMISSIONER
decided for Louisville
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