The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-23
FAMOUS S|NNOTT
 CASE IS SETTLED Censure of Assembly Was
 Unwise and Hasty
REPORT ON ROMANISM
Presbyterian Church Urged to In- augurate a Movement to Throw Down the Gauntlet to the
 Roman Catholic Church

Roman Catholic Church 1 Bristol, Tenn, May 22.-The general assembly of the Southern Presbyterian church, in session here, today received
 report from it's committee on Roman ism. urging the church to inaugurate
 movement among the Evangelical
 churches of Christ in the United States and Canada to throw down the gaunt- let to the Roman Catholic church in America, to undertake a comprehensive plan of evangelizing the Romanists and to establish foundation for the sup port of converts from among the priests, monks and nuns until they are fully Instructed and enabled to learn gainful occupations. Judge Allen G. Hall of Nashville submitted a minority report from the Romanism committee
 urging against any such campaign and declaring that 1t would precipitate the church into political entanglements.
 Judge Hall said that any method to execute this programme would be im- practicable, divert the church from its proper mission of preaching the gospel and precipitate 1t Into political con- troversies
 The majority report was submitted by Thomas K. Johnson. D. D., and is lengthy document, prepared after ex- haustive inquiry and research. The as- sembly made the reports the first or der of business for tomorrow.
 The majority report contends that Prot estants have been too much afraid of
 dealing uncharitably with the Catholics fIa paign against the church of Rome. "The
 way to do away with the Roman menace Is to make Romanists evangelical" said the committee.
 The assembly took steps that will lead to a uniform distribution of the funds for widows of ministers and that will ultimately lead to the abolition of the dependent colony at Fredericksburg, Va, | where the church has large school.
 Sinnott Case Settled Final disposition was made of the case of Dr. w. l. Sinnott against the presby-
 tery of North Alabama involving the
 right of a lower court of the church to
 Indorse prohibition. pr. Sinnott com plained against his presbytery and his action, in the midst of a fierce state- wide prohibition fight in Alabama, at tracted wide attention. The assembly refused to hear his appeal and he was censured. This year he made fight to have the case reopened and his condem- | nation removed The assembly held that the case had been finally adjudicated and was not reviewable However. a resolu- ton giving the opinion that the assem- bly's censure on him was unwise and nasty was passed, and the case goes Into history.
 The assembly then heard a resolution to declare 1t the policy of the church that no proposed law can be approved by court of the church. but it was referred to a committed.
 The assembly today voted to reunite | itself with the federated council of the i churches of Christ Last year 1t left the l council on the ground that 1t was doing 1 things to interfere with the church idea of the relation of church and state Dr. w. S. Jacobs was elected to repre- sent the church on the councils execu- tive board and the moderator was di- rected to appoint delegation to attend the quadrennial.
 Foreign missions arc receiving the con-
 sideration of the assembly tonight. It will adjourn tomorrow
 Report on Romanism
 That the assembly start a movement among the evangelical churches of Jesus
 Christ of the United States and Canada to evangelize the American Romanists is embodied in the report of the ad interim committee of the general assembly of the Southern Presbyterian church in the United States, made today. The commit tee was appointed last year at the Louis- vile assembly upon the resolution or
 Dr. J. c. Paynter.
 The committee discusses the situa- ton at great length and suggests that
 "our church should begin the establish
 ment of foundation on which worthy
 converts from among the priests,
 monks and nuns or Rome could be supported until they could get fuller
 instructions in the Christian faith and
 find some means of livelihood.
 Our church should endeavor to en- ! list the evangelical churches of Ameri-
 ca generally in this effort to evangelize
 the American Romanists.
 "Our church should establish a per- manent committee on Romanism as a menace to Christian liberty, whose duty
 it shall be to cooperate with such com mittees of similar nature which other evangelical denominations may appoint | in gathering and publishing informa-
 tion as to the doings of Rome in their
 bearing on Christian liberty, or in case other denominations shall appoint no 1 such committees to do the work inde- pendent as well as practicable" l The committee recommends; 1 That this assembly instruct its execu- tive committee of publication to endeayor
 to bring about an adequate circulation or
 Rome's errors on the points at issue be- tween her and the faith government and worship proper to Christs church accord 1 ing to the Scriptures.
 That this assembly enjoin upon the
 lower courts of the church from synod to
 session to endeavor effective measures
 to reach with the gospel the Roman Cath olics within their bounds.
 1 There will be adequate circulation ot | ak n and to expose opponents.
 KAISER DECORATES