702 PRESBYTERIAN: CASE OF PROF. SMITH. 



PRESBYTERIANS. 



teaching of " large and loose views " in its adopted by a vote of 423 to 245 for that of 

 hulls. Dr. Why to believed that Professor Dr. \Vhyte. A dissent to this action was filed 

 Smith's position, broadly stated, was that he by Dr. Candlish and several other members, 

 had thought he saw the opportunity, and, per- Dr. Adam afterward presented a motion de- 

 haps, too eagerly and adventurously seized claring that from the 31st of May, 1881, Pro- 

 upon it, of outflanking the great enemy of the fcssor Smith's tenure of his chair should cease 

 C'hurch, the unbelieving, disintegrating, and as regarded all right to teach and exercise 

 hostile criticism of the great foreign schools, professional functions in the College of Aber- 

 lle was titled by gifts, by learning, by loyalty, deen, and as regarded all ecclesiastical rights 

 by descent, by personal piety, to serve them as and powers grounded on his professional charge, 

 very few men in any generation possibly could ; but providing for a continuance of his salary, 

 "and they were sitting there deliberaling how pronouncing his chair vacant, and directing 

 they could most speedily cast him over their steps to be taken for the election of a new 

 walls, to the scorn and rejoicing of their be- professor. Professor Bruce moved that the 

 sieging enemy." Surely, the Free Church of Assembly, considering that the summary re- 

 Scotland would not brand herself before the moval of Professor Smith from his chair would 

 future and before Christendom as such a hard- be an act inconsistent with the scriptural 

 hearted, short-sighted, panic-stricken mother principles of discipline and the form of proc- 

 to her loyal-hearted, if somewhat adventurous, ess hitherto observed in the Church, and 

 son. Professor Smith objected to the vague would contribute nothing to the settlement of 

 way of dealing with his case which had been the vital questions involved, decline to give 

 followed, and remarked that none of his ac- effect to the resolution of Dr. Adam. The mo- 

 cusers had named the points of his writings tion of Dr. Adam was adopted, after an argu- 

 which were objectionable. After defending ment by Professor Smith to show that the 

 his views on inspiration as not dangerous to action contemplated would be nnconstitution- 

 faith, he said that he did not think it would be al, by a vote of 394 to 231 for the motion of 

 right to write such an article as the one on Professor Bruce. 



"Hebrew Language and Literature" now. PRESBYTERIANS. I. PRESBYTERIAN 



Not because he thought there was anything CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 



wrong or heretical in it, but because he did The following is a summary of the statistics of 



not think it would be a right and charitable this Church, as they were published in connec- 



thing to write such an article as that after the tion with the Minutes of the General Asseni- 



solemn circumstances through which they had bly for 1881 : 

 passed. He reiterated his explanation, that 



the article was entirely out of his hands when SYNODS. Minutm. churehei. c< ^j n '~ 



the previous assembly met printed, and most 



of the copies bound and remarked that if, ^ an 7 1C * 



, , IT i i .,. T. 1 i i , i_ Atlantic 74 144 10.627 



when he published it, he had had before him Baltimore 141 147 16,511 



all that emerged later, as to the heart of the Central Newjvork'. '...'.'. id 1G3 



Church on this case, all that had since touched ctoctonatV. '.'.'.".'.'.'.".".'.'.'".'.'. ill 157 2o'oo3 



him and brought him to feel more than he felt Cleveland '.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.".'.'.'.'.'.'.'. 135 102 20^903 



before how glad and how privileged he would Colorado 67 



.. . ., -i ? \ s-ii -LI Columbia 40 58 2.805 



be to continue in the work of the Church, he Columbus 123 177 17,405 



should have hesitated to do anything to bring Erie 



about dispeace and strife and contention. He Harrilbur^'. '.'.'.'. '.'.'.'.'. '.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'. 154 176 Itsio 



had prepared the article with reference to a Illinois, Central 137 15^771 



purely philological point -Hebrew language g ;;;; 10! 



and, at the suggestion of the editor of the India 41 20 's54 



Encyclopaedia, had given a brief resume of the Indiana, North ... 85 



epochs of the literature, since it was connected low'a^North. . . ','.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'. 121 SJ924 



with the language. He bad not felt that that Iowa, South '....'..[.'..I *..'.'. '.'.'. 129 196 11,68 



was an unreasonable thing to do; but if he had SS&"""lir^".r.'." ^2 *84 



known, when he wrote that article, which was Long island .. '. ! '. '. . . . '. '. '. .... '. . 68 



completely out of his hands before the last As- Michigan 169 16.156 



vi ii i /> .1 A i xi Minnesota 116 142 7.419 



sembly, the heart of the Assembly and the Missouri 122 210 ii]253 



Church, as he did now, he should not, under a Nebraska '. ! i i :9 



feeling that he had engaged in a literary enter- gft^;;; jj?f ?g g$! 



prise, have done what had caused pain to many Pacific ...."!!!""'.".".!!.".. 127 122 



whom he esteemed and valued. He had gone Philadelphia 872 



-.. ... i ,. ,, ,. 1,1 rMttsburcr loo ISM zo,414 



on writing on critical questions all through the Tennessee 41 56 8.508 



time of the libel, because one of his conten- Texas ...'..*.. I.. I... 



tions was that it was not desirable that minis- $e& New York. 1TO 158 SOTS 



ters and office-bearers should be held back Wisconsin.. 112 138 &.4S4 



from taking part in .scientific labors of that Tota , ^T!~5^T IS^T 



kind, in a work of the highest respectability 



and credit. Principal Rainey's motion was The footings of the several items of the 



