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Show PEOJSSSOR SWING'3 PLACE. The liberal action of the Chicaeo presbytery in regard to Prof. Swing has not been sustained by the synod. The latter body have declared Prof, Patton's appeals against that action well-taken, but Prof. Swing having already left tho denomination the synod has no further jurisdiction in the case, which ends by the dropping' of the hetrodox preacher from the Presbyterian Church. It remains to be seen what action Prof. Swiug's church will take in the premises, as the emyloyment of a non-Presbyterian clergyman will cut them off from the denomination. Their pastor is, in point of ability and popularity, the Beecher of Chicago, besides being a gentleman of unsullied moral character. char-acter. He has drawn to his congregation congre-gation a large number of the liberal christians of that city, and should Robert Collyer accept tho call which has been tendered him by a church in New York, a large accession would probably be made to Prof. Swing's congregation. Legitimately the hitter's hit-ter's place is in the Unitarian church, but it would be too long a jump for many of his flock, and he will therefore there-fore be likely to remain independent. Chicago is very little troubled with the stiff blue-light theology of the past, or in fact, with any theology at all, and Prof. Swing need not trouble himself about Prof. Pat ton or the synod, or the fine points of Galvanism, Galvan-ism, in which very few of the people take stock. |