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Show llll. llltlUU CAM'. The celebrated hcrety cato agilnit Dr. Ilrigi will iJon be finally drcldid. ItUoueof thuirluolpal ipiestlom before be-fore Ihe 1'reibyterUn ger Jral attmbly which convenes toJay at Washington, having ojtno btfjro that body on an appeal from a former decision by which theleurnedUlvluowaincUltted of all charge. It It to be expected that till decision will be austalned. The time I past long ago, when It la considered "Iiereayto entertain vlewe tomewhat diverging from those hell when old creed were formed. The principle now recognize 1 among con-foiorttf con-foiorttf l'rolettaiitlam It, Unity lu euontlala, liberty lu minor rolnta and charity lu all." Wore thlt not to, thero would be no end to chtrget of iierety among tbo leots. Hardly two leading men can be founJ among them Mho agree on anything. Their only occupation would therefore bo to excommunicate eauh other until every tectirlao church were broken up Into fragment. A trial (or hereay In a ohuroh that dlislalmi .divine Inspiration In-spiration It a bad farce. For who can tell, without that Intplratlon and the authority It confers, which of the par llet It wrong? At long at thero Is a possibility that both Ihe Judge and the accused are squally In error, It would et ra to be but o insistent with moJttly to decline the doubtful honor ofofflelally pronouncing a brother In tbe faith a heretic. |