People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1895 — CONSERVATIVES WIN. [ARTICLE]

CONSERVATIVES WIN.

Presbyterian Charrh General Aasembly to Control Seminariea. Pittsburg. Pa., May 21.—8 y a vote of 432 to 98 the report of the committee on seminary control was accepted by the Presbyterian general assembly yesterday. Some slight changes were n.ade but the accepted report is virtually as the anti-Briggs people drafted it_ The debate was cui short and the matter was rushed to a vote. It went through with a whoop, amid great excitement. Dr. William O. Thompson, president of the Miami University at Oxford. Ohio, was the first speaker yesterday. He was against the adoption of the report. Among those who took part in the debate was Rev. Dr. Andrew C. Zenos, a native Greek, of the McCormick Seminary, Chicago. He spoke and voted against accepting the leport of the committee. Their great success promises to embolden the conservatives for drastic measures against the students of Union Seminary. The vote yesterday was a declaration of war to the knife and the only end will be surrender or secession. A fraternal letter was sent to the General Assembly of the Southern Presbyterian Church at Dallas, Texas.