Year: 1879

New YORK, May SIN the Brooklyn
Presbytery to-day final vote was taken
on the charges against DIR. Talmage.
The Secretary announced that 45 votes
had been cast, % of which were against
the charges and specifications, and IL
in favor of sustaining them as they
stood, and four for sustaining them in
part. 1t was moved that the preamble
to the charges be stricken out. This was
objected to and it was then suggested
that a committee be appointed to draw
minute which would be acCepta-
BILE to both sides. This was lost,
and Rev. DR.. Rockwell offered
resolution that the evidence having
been clearly disproven or fully ex-
planned as to any guilty purpose or in
tent of deceit, that the charges be dis
missed and the Presbytery here express
to DR.. Talmage its heartfelt confidence
in him as g minister of Christ, and its
desire that he and his church may
share abundantly in Divine blessing.
DIR. Nandykeat once gave notice OF COM
plant to the synod in regard to the
manner in which the trial had been
conducted. There were various other
reasons expressed, one of which was
that the Moderator had secretly brought
DR.. Talmage and j. w. Hathaway
together, whereby they entered into
a covenant not to testify at the expense
of one anOther's character. Moderator
Ludlow denied this assertion so emphat-
ically that Dr. Vandyke withdrew it.


DR.. Talmage then asked leave to make
a few remarks and said he felt happy
and that he was thankful to the counsel
who had so ably defended him; thank
full to his brethren and to the press for
the fairness and generosity with which
they had reported the case. He should
90 out of this trial with increased hatred
for everything like sectarianism, for he
had the sympathy OF the entire Presby-
byterian Church-a handful of this
Presbytery excepted. He had also the
sympathy of the Methodist, Baptist,
CongregatiOnalist, Reformed Episcopal
and Catholic churches. Though he was
a Protestant in one respect, he would
prefer to be in the Catholic Church, for
they had but one Pope, while in the
Protestant denomination they had a
hundred. But he pronounced his bene-
diction on all the committee who fOrmu-
lated these charges, would not hear one
of his friends, but spent weeks in gath
ering up all the venom of his enemies,
and the action of that committee had
made more infidels than ali
of them will ever be able to make
Christians. He thought the senior
member of this committee would have
been very careful about making this
scandal because OF his own past ex-
perience. There was some talk of his
leaving the Presbytery, but he thought
he would stick to it and go with his
people wherever they went. The
power that was the bane OF the Presby-
terry was now broken and there would
be more room for free action in the
future. Some of their brethren said
they did not like his preaching and he
lust as much disliked theirs.
His way of preaching was poor
enough, but he knew theirs
would never save the world. In con-
clusion, he prayed for the members of
the Prcsbytery and their families, and
commended them to God. DR.. Talmage
then left, and as he was going out, Rev.
Mr.. Green, who was one OF the Com
mittee, jumped up and SAID that DR..
Talmage had been guilty of another
falSehood in what he had said in refer
ence TO the Committee.


The Fresbytery then adjourned until
Monday.