Rensselaer Republican, Volume 24, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1892 — THE PRESBYTERIANS, [ARTICLE]

THE PRESBYTERIANS,

The one-hundredth and fourth General Assembly of the Presbyterian church, in jession at Portland. Oregoif, concluded its business on the. Ist and adjourned. Almost the last thing it did was the adoption of a resolution, with this admonition against Briggs ism: “The General Assembly would remind all under its care that it Is a fundamental doctrine that the Old and New Testaments are the inspired and Infallible word of >God. Our church holds that the Inspired word as it came from God is without error. The assertion of the contrary can but shake the confidence'.of the people in the sacred books. Ail who enter office In dur churches solemnly promise to receive them as the only Infallible rule of faith and practice; if they, change their belief on this point,Christian honor demands that they should withdraw from our ministry. They have no right to use the pulpit or the chair of the professor for thjb'dlsseminatlonbf their errors until ruled out by the slow process of discipline. The Presbyteries should speedily Interpose and deal with them for a violation of a vow taken at the beginning that Is obligatory until the.party taking it is honorably and properly released from It. The Assembly enjoins upon all its ministers, elders and Presbyteries to be faithful to the duty that this imposes on them.