Show fici labik ie daiil tie it ASS nry 2 rai S usiel oil 11 mi of the committee on prosecution the 4 doors closed YOEK guv 4 what promises to ba one of the most notably theology trials in the history f this country today in the scotts church ou fourteenth street tha prosecutor is tae presbytery of new york ans defendant fen dant bruf charles W briggs of the union theological seminary the ruail adda have brought about the present trial have been widely pub d throughout the united states ahe past six months the chaia chai 1 nd as submitted lauist aau br maks a document of uter borde of aliis only a faw t word are the charge ihu the prefaced to the beimal charged and specific c ilione vvs a report from the lug signed by dr G W F as chairman the report was as tol lOAS to fihs ihs presbytery of new york the committee of prosecution in the cade of dr briges appointed in compliance with 11 of the book of mhd at the mooting ot presbytery in mav last report as tul lows as buur 01 theia number abreut lu the performance 01 gieir ad at the ot the Geu feral held add ao dr brings had caneil lor europe lube absent kulil autumn thay made a report of progress at the meeting of in june indicating their in of presenting the charges and at tha meeting of thiry in ahe have decided to base charged and upon what is contained iu dr inaugural ad dices alone their reasons for adopting cobrae are aa follows I 1 by direction ot the presbytery address was the original sublet ut inquiry by the committie Commit tte of presbytery appointed on april and ii wis upon the report of that committee a judicial investigation was instituted II 11 because of the recent tio n ot ihu addrena ad dresa in this way fany objection might oe made under alie of tiec tion of the bouk discipline aa to tue length of tf na has elapsed hince the libation liua tion ul earlier works baa been avoided ill because the inaugural address muy he regarded as the most deliberate and emphatic eap exp siaion of dr Bri gead aud luti elore representing anoai fairly hii position with regard 10 those doctrines upon which the charges are baked the in addreal was first delivered ani been widely criticized but ia edite of these critic t edition ha been published in which all flirt doc tho aru withful be IHK rather reaffirmed and emphasized in a and in an appendix IV because of the vital importance of the doctrines with which the inalou ral address deals V Bee ausy the address was delivered aa an introduction to a course oi turea on biblical theology and ia therefore tu be aaben taben aa a formal declaration ot the profess ura attitude with respect to bome of the more subjects iu his new it has been your comani i te t e that it is nt nor ad to embrace iu aba list of charges all law doctrinal errors contained in the inaugural address and while its teach ind miracles the condition of man the nature ut sin rice r ice redemption and dr anges achem of biblical in general are nut in harmony ani ary calculated to weaken confidence in the woid i to encourage enco uon on the clemency and long g of god in order that we may avoid an undue extension of the trail and the confuo on of thought that might follow an attempt to compass all the errors in said addresses we have deemma it best to confine attention to a few departures from mhd of rip turea which aie fundamental to the entire furthermore your committee is noi unmindful oi thu tact the erroneous and ilar advised utterances af dr in the inaugural address have the leacu cf the church aud led to situation lull of difficulty and complication and have produced such widespread aud throughout the church as t cause sixt three to overture the general with re terence to the eague yet for the above given we have determined not to include thi prave on ense against alie peace of the church in the aliat liat of forcial charees the committee the following and which ill compliance with the provisions of section 10 of the book of discipline it become their duty to prosecute in the name and by the authority of the prea by terian church in the united states of america the charees stripped of the specifications are verbatim bt literatim litera tim as follows I 1 the presbyterian church in the anted sales of america charges jbv charles A briegs D D being a minister cf the presbyterian church and a member of the presbytery of ew york ith teaching doctrines which with and us cutri iry tu thal cardinal doctrine taught ia the holy scripture and contained in the of the church that the scriptures of the old and new testaments are the only infallible rule of faith and pretice ice hurtful errors at the vitala of religion reli gien and contrary to the and practice oj the presby terian church were promulgated in an j iBa address which dr briggs dei livered at tha union theological seminary in the cily of bew yore Jt imir 20 n the ochion of hh indue tion aiuto HIP ed i arl robinson clinar biblical theology which address has with dr brigida Bri gira up oval been rub and cumulated cucu and ia i aion witia a preface and an app li II 11 the presbyterian chim h in taft united stal R ot a the reverend ReTe rend charles A bricks I 1 D beina r 0 ilip church and a member of the presbytery of new fork with teaching a doctrine 0 rhe character stare and satisfaction nf beli evdra after death which cn flics with and is t jhb holy scriptures and the Stand ardd ottice terian church ten was the hour fixed for the proceed fass ling before a large crowd bad outside of the old fashioned edifice the peah in the middle of the church bad been d for prea butery and the remainder of the seats were given up to the alien t very teat had been the boora aers closed the presiding moderated mo of the indicator reverend dr J C bli of the washington heights Chur clook hit place shortly before aleyen the apok siman of the committee of prosecution was colinet john JM cCook an elder in dr john halls church and a lawyer of ability and attainments |