Show PRESBYTERIAN CREED REVISION t Preliminary Work of the Com Corn Committee Committee Is Begun t ARE MEETING AT WASHINGTON CHANGES THAT TEAT ABB DESIRED TO BE BROUGHT ABOUT Washington Nov No 28 The preliminary preliminary preliminary nary work of or revising the creed of the te tte Presbyterian church so as to make snake it more popularly understood und d was be begun begun begun gun here today at a n meeting of a sec see section section tion of the committee of twenty ap appointed appointed appointed pointed at the last Presbyterian as assembly assembly assembly to accomplish this result The section that met today spent several veral hours In discussion but no action was taken The Rev Dr Herrick Johnson of Chicago Ch cago presided and the other members who participated were the theRe Rev Re Drs Minton of San Francisco and Spencer of Cleveland and Justice Har Ham Harlan Harlan Hamlan lan of the United States supreme court A form of statement to replace the theone theone theone one now in use Ule was wa submitted and other forms will win likely be submitted The object Is to secure a formal ex expression expression expression of doctrine that will be more definite and convey to the laymen a clearer subject than the present dec declaration declaratIon No vital changes were con contemplated contemplated contemplated in discussion but maybe a different mode of or expression was aimed at atIt atIt atIt It was recognized that the 5 years that have elapsed since the adoption of the present statement of doctrine has u made some differences in the concep conception conception tion of the authorities There was as some discussion as to the incorporation tion of a statement regarding the per personality personality personality of God but this proposition is still a tentative one Will Hold Daily Meetings r The section will hold another session I tomorrow and will meet daily until Wednesday when the full committee will convene with a ft view to taking final action Whether the deliberations of the full fuU committee will occupy a week or a number of or weeks is still conjectural Two other sections of the committee will aIll Ill meet contemporaneous contemporaneously ly with the full body and will frame a proposition for action by that body One of ot these theae will draft new chapters on the holy hol spirit and on the love of God and the other will make a R silent revision of the confession of faith wl n reference to the elect infants declara declaration L tion It Is felt that the present pre nt state stat statement ment on this point implies that any infant dying In Infancy is 18 lost from I the standpoint of the religious future j I I state and the creed be I to adopted will j make it clear that the Presbyterian I I I I church does not hold bold the belief that those who die in Infancy are lost This t change will be effected probably by a specific declamatory statement though I possibly by amending ame the present pre ent text |