Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 26, 1874, Page 2

-+ THE CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE: TUESDAY, MAY 26, 1874, PROF. SWING. He Sends in His Lotter to the Chicago Presbytery.. Do Will Not St«.w Wiero Any Ono Has Powor to Arraign Him Ovor a Dead Dogma. And ot Some Subsequent Meeting Will Request a Lotter of Dismissals The Reasons for the Decision of the Preshytery in the Trial, Laird Collicr Declines to Answer the Summons to Appenr, Mr. Wakeman on Prof. Swing’s De- parture. THE PRESBYTERY. The Ohicngo Prosbytery hold an adjourned mooting in the rooms of tho Presbyterian Inati- tute, McCormick’s Block, at half-past 10 o'clock yostordny morning, the Rev. Arthur Mitchell in the chalr. Thore wera thirty-fivo ministers and Eldors present, and the sossion was an important ono, 5 MEASONS YOI THE VERDICT. After prayor, the Rov. Dr. Pattorson submittod tho following roport: © The Committee fi{l{lnlnlnd to preparo a statoment roasons for tho final_judgment of tho Preabyte: tho case of tlo Rov, David 8wing, report as follows ‘Both of ho chargos_sgeinat Mr, wingare aegtiva in form, and dovolved upon the prosecutor the labor of proviuga mogai{ve, Auch dopends in this came upon & correct atatement of thoquestions at issue, It is not the question : 1, What we may .beliove, for private reasons, in regard to the ronl views of alr, Swing, We must bo fflvnm:d by tho evidence, and not by private opinlons, [ our judgtunt o8 & court, 3, It 1s not the question what Mr, Swing may do in the future. We are confined {o tho evidenca of what 110 hue said or dote, or fafled to do or eay. 3, It ia not tho quostion whotlier Mr, Swing ocouples euch a yoaition, or habitually uses such exprosslons in Lis preacling, a8 aro satisfactory to un all, Mo may sssume an attituds in relation to skeptios or errorista which somo of un deem too Liberal, aud he may employ muny ozpressions which to most of us soem not suf= ficloutly guarded, and yot be guilty of no heresy, and uf no such unfoit esa 08 constitutes an ocolealns- tical offoneo, The question, ns it rogards tho kindly treutwent of errorist, is one about which.our Ohurch Las 1o poaifve rule of judgmont, 4. It is ot the question whether the viewa of Mr, Bwing in regard to tho relative importance of formu- Iated theology aroor sre mot correct, A man may Judge erroneousiy on this point, and fat hold all the esacntial doctrines of Evangelical Chirlstianity, aud of the Calviuistic system, and preach the Gospel with dality, &, It ia not the quesiion whether Mr, Swing s right or wrong in his opinion regarding the cxtentto which our church st this day actually holds to the letter of our formuia of faith, or inaists tpon ths propositions contained in our Confession, 1ie msy for himself ain~ corely recaive and adopt tho Confesafon ta * contain- tatning tho systom of doctrine taught in the Holy Ecriptures,” and yet bo -mistaken a to tho sonse in which the church requires its ministers to bold the Calvinistio eystem, 6. It is not the quostion whotlier Mr. Swing¥ judge ‘ment {u rogard to the best stylo of preaching is strictly correot or not, There aro great varietics of judgment on this subjoct nllowed by onr churolies, inaamiuch ng we havoe uo authorized detinitfon of what faithful preaching 14, Only such styles of preaching a studi- ously and designedly avold Chiriatian trath, or clearly iuculcate cssential error, can bo justly regarded as in- ‘volving un offenso in the ecclesiastical sense, 7, 1t1a not the question whether Mr, Swing has been unfaithful, os all imperfect meu are in prosching Alf- ferent truths more or loss ont of thelr due propor~ tions 3 for on this point we Lava na absolute stan of ecclesiastical judgment, 8, Nor {8 it the question whether Mr, Swing has boon cladmed by Unitarians, or suspected of crror by some orthodox peoplo; for all this hus been trus of sound men who were 1ot a{arnclnny unfuithful, but wore either unfortunate in their modea of expression, or surrounded by persons who were 0r Oho reazon or. ine othor jnolined to misconstrue tholr words or position, 8uch circumstances do not bfnfl.\flmulvfil prove elther error of doctrine or ministorinl unfajthfulness in such » kcnso os constitutes an ecclesiastical offeuse, of in TUK REAL QUEATIONS, But the questions ar only these: 1, Whetlier it has been conclusively provad {hat Mr, Bwing doca not peraonally hold all thn_ doctrines fhat ave by our church regandcd a8 estontial to the systom of doctrine taught in the Confession and In the Ioly Beriptures. 2, Whether it haa been provod beyond s doubt that he lins Leen unfaithful in the discharge of his minis- torinl duly in such a senseaa o' coustituto an ecclesi- astical offanse. REBONS FOR NEOATIVING THEN, These questions tho Dresbytery bns answered in the negative for the following reasons 1. Mr. Sying's position a8 o Presbytorian miniater who has solemnly professed to receivoand ndopt our Confeasion us_*contining the system of doctrine taught in the Holy[Scriptures,Yand kg engagod to por- form all his minsterial dutics with fdelity, oblfges us to regard him oa orlhodox nnd fajthful until the cone trary {s incontestubly established, not by inferentinl rensoninge from hin statoments, ‘but by undeniablo sud direct proof, But such_proofs, in our judgment, bovonot been produced, Tho allegod avidoncos, to e concluslve, require us to sesume that Mr, Swin Rins been artfully and systematically acting the part of a willful decofver, who ought to e indicted for tho most wicked and shameless bypocrisy, But wo dare B0t aseumo aucl a ground willout overwhlmingovi- enco, 9. Mr. Swing lies denied the charges ngainst him in s declarations hos oiirmed Uit bio faa New Scliool Preabyterian, ond o asseried that ho holds in the ovangelical senso Tho Tuspiration of the Holy Sorip- tures,” Tho Trinity,” **'he Diviuhy of \Olriat,” *$Tho Office of Chriet 1g a Medintor ” when *grasped Dy an obedient faith, * Converslon by God's Spirle," *“Mun’s uatural sinfuiness,” and *ho Final Separa= tion . of the Rightoous snd tho Wick- od ' This deninl, nud thess _atirmations, 1€ alncerely mode, obligo us to regard Mr. Bwing as occpsing’ on all 'tho poiata of o Erangelcal und Calvinistie fafth substantially the ssme ground os the former Now School thieologinng, whoso vViews of Cal~ vinistio doctrine, as sot forih i the Auburn Declara— tion, and in_thelr writings, were recognized by both Genbral Assembliea st tlie Hme of the rennion os not incousiatait, with tho tutegrity of the Calviniatio sye~ tem, and with o sincere recoption and adoption of the Coufession of Talthias containfuy the aystems of doce trine tanght in the Holy Scripturea, W by no means contend or belfove that It waa impiled in the reunion that tho grest bady of tho chuzcls fidorucd what waa called tho New School theology, 88 held by such mon us Dr, Richards, Deman, Spear, Hickok and Albert Barnes, What o eay {s that, uftor tha Auburn De- claration had boen afiirmed by'tho Assombly at Albany in 1608 to * contaln all the essentials of the Calvinistio creed,” and when all the theologians of the Now School Churéh, whoso views had been lobg before tho world, were fully recelved jnto the bady, and {he Chiurch in which thoy bad been nob only tolerated but honored—wns pronounced *u sound and orlbodox body," it was cleurly understood that the doctrines of whitt was called the Kew fichool theology wera to be allowed 1 tho Reunited Oburch o8 nob fri- consistent with o sincore acceptance and adoption of tho Coufession of Faith, oa containing the systom of docrine taughit in {ho Toly Bcriptures, And in our Judgmont it hus nat been proved that Mr, Swing hes Qeparted furthior from tho loticr of tha Confessfon (Lan muny otlier New Hchool theologians who were recognized o8 fn good standing at the time of the re- 1nion, It is concedod on both ldes that a subscription 10 tho'letter of tho Confesslon on all points, or even lo all the propositions n the Confession, s ndt_essential {0 good standing In tho Reunitod Clinrch, Tho doo- {rinio of particulur and gencral stonemont, and tho dif- fercnt viows that arv hold among us in regurd the lawfulness of mnrrying a decoased wife's siater, ore mot allke consistent with {ho letler of propositions of the Confession Dut they are olike allowed iu the Oburch a8 not deatroy~ snn the infeyrity of the system embraced i our Con~ Tession, aud us of muny other points of differance among us, Dut M, Swing bas not, %o far s g been shown, discarded any teachings of tho Confesslon which' ate -essentiul to the integrity of the systom tanght in the symbols of our Church, The dootrines which bo avowedly discards hi is declaration are uot Jield by any nchiool §i tho Church, sud be ouly implies 4u thot decluration iw adoption of the New Hehool fn prefereuca to the Old Sebool theolugy. ALLEOED NERESY OF II§ SEDAONE, 1t lins nat, in our judgment, boen proved from the published wrilings of Dir. Swing that ho discards uny Cawentiul doctrine of tho Presbytorian Church, The Prinvipal specifications boaring diveetly on this point Svo tho nintb, elghteenth, niucteouth, twentictl, and Twventy-first, twonty-third, £d twenty-fousth, under Qlinrge 1, and tho four epccifications undor Charge 2. Specification @ alleges that Me, Bwing hes {aught oF giveu bis sanctlon to Babellianism, But tho Inuguago quotcd i conslstont withn belie? i the Qhitirels doctrine of the Trinity : sud this (dovtrine of Tlied puesous in oue God I8 distiuctly recoinized iu Brullis for o-Day," paye 81, Besidew, ft Luw been ey marol foatimny that D, Bwig docs avow 15e beltef th tho doctrius of three Dersons in ono God, ‘Bpecification 18 churges thut Mr, Bwing doniea {o efieat, tho judicil condowpation of the Jost, Dut of this we have secu no proof, The stato- ment tut wnbellef * doos notedestroy tho soul by sn wibilrary decres ray by fulply undorstood ta siean 1hut God dows uot sevlgn dumuation to the unbellover without good Feasons, which Tousons uro found partly {1 the vory nuture of our bolief, Thero 18 no donlf, exprossed or finplicd, of & divine Zjudivlal sontenca upou the unbellover, Hpocification 19, allegea that Mr, Swlug teachios thut faitl saves bocouse it loads to holy Jfe, efo,, Lt Lie docs nat uay that fadth has s (eupernatur- 16 oHgin, whon bo-afllrms that 1t acta nuturally or in acvordutice with the niature and Jawa of the human d, Aud we do not see that any of the atatements d in the -specification ° contravons any — fundatnental doctting of Beripinre or the Confersion, 1o doce asof Alscuan 4n the wermon quoted the wholo Falth, but slaply constdors its relation to necusen > Mr, Bwing. of teach- fug that men arosaved by works, But it docs not follow that he deufes that thoro fu anotlior sonso n whiclt men nro saved by faith in tho Savior's stoning racrifico, Indeed, ho ‘cxpressly eayn in Lin sormon on Falil, pago 205, that »Pardon and atolioment forn pari of tho great salvation.” Thoro I8 b fonso in Which 1non aroaaved by works, aa tho Apostlo James oxplicltly teachen, peclfication. “91° alleges’ fhat Mr. Bwing de- o tho dootrine of Justification by Failh, as beld by tho Reformed Churclics and taught I our'Coneasion, Bat Mr, Swing, {n sbwingthnt worka—that 15, & oW life—is the deatiny and end towards whichi Faith operatcs, does not dony flist Judielsl justifiention fu a Joly eharacto Bpesidention - 20 & roplity in the Chrintian sysiam, On the contrary, , Lio nanoris, 18 wo have soon, that & pardon and ntono- ‘autout aro part of the great salvotion,” Like James, in speaking of good works, ho troats only of the noces- unfy Aflncn which a now Lifelolds lu tho matter of nalvation, - Speoifications 23 and 2t nllegs that M. Swing donfos the plenery napiration snd e fnfalli Uility of Uio Dible, Bnt it appears .from M, Swinlg'a lotter to the Presbylerian, and from hin expla~ natlons befors s body, a8 woll 1 fron private stato- nicata of his vlews, in, ovidonce befors us, fhatho ‘Dolloves in {he plonary fnspiration and the {nfallibiilty of the Dible, nud ouly adopts some peciliar modes of tnternreting and_applying Old_Testnment tenchings and tho ook of Tovolation, about which our onfos- sion saya notlitug. Bpocification 1, nudor tho sccond chargo, allegen an offoute which \as_kuown, when tho cliargos wero Drought forward, only to n fow porsons,— privato offense,—and which Las not been proved, Bpecification 3 bos not been eatablished by any clear ovidence, Bpooification 3 undor that head failed, bocatiso (he memory of Alr, Buufaldt was altogathier tincertatu, and bocaurs {liore was at best but ono witness: aud ‘Specification 4 fulled becouse, oven I tho’ quo- tations woro fairly made, thoy ouly ehow Mr, Bwiug's relntive eatimate of the practical importanco of the doetrines roferrod to, and not that hie disboloves thoss Uoctrines, The proots of tho proaccutor aro all fufer- outinl and indirect,and cven bis inforences wo do notud it oa cloarly made out. The acoused s entitled to the ‘benofit of tho more favorabla_intorpretation which his Inuguago scema to admil of, Desidea l s, it spuoars from th testimony of the Eiders of the Fourth Church, and other witncssce, that Mr. Swing hos not tanght tha docirincs clinrgod upon iin n any of his locturos, but lins oxpiicitly taught o contrary, and that ko lind in privato convorsations axplicitly disavowsd his dis- belle du those doctrics, Tt.should bo addcd that_the ovidence ‘from Prof, Swing's sermous beforo this body goes to show that lie Toes bellove tho doptring of Diving Docrees, nnd fear- Iy all of tho other doctrines which he is chnrged with denying. For all theso ronsons wo have Judged that the second cliatgo in not sustalued by any clear and satlsfactory proof. Aud for tho sano and like rossons we iuvo do- cided tiat tho firat charge hau not beon sustained. AFEW ADDITIONAL IEARONS tony bo statod forour Judgmont regarding the first charge, Undor thia head wo taks into ncconnt not only tho ition of Mr. Hwing as 8 Prosbytetian minjater, and explicit donfal of guilt, and_his ofirmntions of substuntlal sgreeinont with Now Bchool Prosbyteriaus, in which we aro bound to assume bLia entiro houoaty until the contraty is proved, but the pecullarity of hia mind and style, tho special object which he had before bim in many of his dlscopracs, tnd tho character of tho audicnces whom hio hos clfefly addrosesd in Lis Babbatl servicea sinco the firo, M, Swing deals large- Iy in dllustrotions and the uee of metaphorical lsn~ guage, and often rapidly groopa togother many par- Hiculats which ore ouly very generally relafod togothier, and, although not a mystic, ia thouyht and style are ofteh mystical, and thorefore more or leas obsciiro, 1t should lie romémborod, also, that Lo avows his sonso of the necessity of less thcological and mora practical proaching; alao, that his sudioncos sinca the fire liave ‘conalsted largely of porsons who were not convinced of the divinoauthority of tho Scriptures, and whom lio was therefore induced fo address trequontly in the hopa of radually prepariug to admit its Divine authorits, 'his teconuts for ihe fact that, durlng this period, o has dwelt less upon the central doctrines of the Gospel in lfs discoursce on il Babbath, resorving moro oxe pllaitly justructions for the bonefit of bis own peopla Tor 143 Weduesday ovoning lecturce, s his Elders toll us ho has done, With theso fucts in mind, it is not difticult to underatind mony thiuga in his'scrmous which might othierwiso acem hardly consistent with an oarnest, avangelical purpose, 2 MR, MILL, Tt lina niot been shown thit o lias Intentionally nsed vague or oquivocal language in Tegard to importunt doctrines, or that hie hus declined {a oxplain his mea ing, when misunderstood, in such o way a8 to pro hiliy coclostagtically unfaithful, Tis troatment of Uni- tarions and lus discourso on tha Hie and charactor of Johin Btuart Mill we attribute rather to his kindly and chiaritable bnbits of mind than o any disposition to give bis panction to fandmmental orror; for he Liss ofton in Lis sermons declared {hat a religlon which mukes Ohrist & mera man, aa the Unifarluulsn of our doy slmost uniformly does, strikes tho sun {;m ‘s;n: :umu of sng‘-ym‘:fl: aml 88 m'exhnun, 0 onl ummendel s nhilnnthropy, whiel 0%~ Peasl attrIbULEd £ the Olrlutinn inflaénecs of Which fln ‘was nnable to divest his mind. Mr. Bwing does in- deed ridicula the manner 1u ywhich somo of the mors difiieult doctrines of religion have been often defeuded aud propagated by perscoution and forco; ond ho onca spenks of tho dootrincs of Predestination and + Election " os not important in their rolatlon to tha historical features of an age.’ But whilo hio deoms the promiuenco sometimes givon to such mysterics un- swarmntable, it Lias not bon shown that he treats con- tamptuously the doctrines themaelves, ‘Thie allevution thiat he hes omitted to teach or preach governl fundamental doctrines is not sustained in any suich senso an to show that ho ks beon {ntoutionally unfaithfal; for 1t Las boon shown that he hus frc- quently recognizod theso dootrines in his preachiug or 1ila locturas, excepting thoso which aro seldom touched upon _directly 1n most of our Ohristisn pulpits, and tuat his roferences to theso doctrines,” interpreted in viw of his evangelical etandpolut, ura o be regard=~ odaw carrying with them an evangellcal moaning. His sermon on experience as a test of Scripture doce trine, in contradintinction to the dotriues of tho Church * as formally atated,” though Uable o be i~ und rutocd, Lns not been. proved to teack any radieal orror. e hua expressly disavowed tha doctrine of “ gvolution,” both int his sormona and before tho Pros- Lytory, The allegation that ho Lus made FALBE AND DANGXROES STATEMENTS rogarding tho standards of faith and practico ia not established by tho pasanges referred to, although the langunge used {8 in somo Mstances liable to be misup- preliended, In regard to the Belng and altributes of ‘God, we do not find suy lsnguage of Mr, 8wing that s clearly of false and dangerotis import, ulthiough some exprassions aro perbaps not sufctently guarded aguiust misconstruction. Tho specification t regard to Baptism does not seom to be sustained by nny sufli- clent ovidence, aud tho allegation respacting Penclope and Socraten 1 not supported by unquestionable proof, For, taliiug the languago quoted in ita most unfavorsble sense, it asxerts s doctrine which is held by some con- fesscdly sound Tresbyterions, and which is not regard- od by {hiem o8 contrary to our Contession, ~ Bpociticas tiona thirteenth, fourteonth, and Aftcenth Lave not Leen estabilsliod in such & mannoras to provo unfaiih= fulnoss in tho senss of on accleaiastical offonso, In- deed, they secm to rest on s misapprehonsion of Mr. Swing's meaniug. Spocification_sixteonth, o auy the ‘moat, is only supported by an appeal to languago eare- Jessly used, such a8 wo often fiud {n tho writings of good and faltuful men. Specification soventeenth ias Tot been eatablished i1 Buch & manner 88 10 Prove auy acclostastical offeso. Tt thus appeara that nono of_the specifications=hava ‘oen so sustitnod 28 {0 mako out clearly an eccldelns- tical offense: THE LEGAL PRINCIPLES applicable to this cave are clear : 1, No man con bo Justly convicted of heresy by un- favorable interpretaiions of his lanymuge, wlen it ad= mits of a more favorable construction, 'But the lan~ gusgo of 3ir, Bwing docs admit of a more favaravle tountruction than the progccutor has put upon it, 18 we uve seen, 3, Every man {5 entitled tothe bonefitof his dls- clatmer of doctrines attributed to him which he donies that hio holde s and e have secn that Mr, Swing does deny that ho diseards any doctrine-thiat fs cseoutiat to the system {aught in the Confession us hold by New Belioolthioologiuns, and heratofors acknowledged aud allowable by tho aulhoritica of the Qhurch, 3, No mun can jusily be'convioted of error by infer- encen from hia teachings, which mferences he refusca to_ acknowlodge, Dowarée logically the couclusiony may Lo drawn. And much fess esn any one be huld rouponsiblo for inferences which donot follow by moccsary consoquence {rom Lie poslions, Tut Mr. Swing {8 accused by the prosecutor on almost overy point on tho ground of inforences which do not seom 1o follow unavoldsbly from the languzgo used, 4, 1t ua firat maxim i ecclesluetical law that no ‘man should be convictod of an offense ta loug es thera can be any doubt of his guilt, But it scoms to us that tliore i, to nay the very loast, room for grave doubt in regard to tho guilt of the accuscd in this case, Tor thiéss principlus soo the cuses of Crajghead and Darnes in the digeat, HOT BUSTAINED, In viow of all theso conslderations, some of which aro deemed - mors welghty and some loss weighty by different 1oembors of this body who voted with thu mujority, we ure clearly of the opinion that the sev- oral specifications havs 1ot becr, suatuined i the sense of the_proseoution, and {hat the charges have nat een sustained, In rendering this judgment we by no means indoras all the exprossions and aentiments of Mr, Swing, or asaume the responsibility of dafonding his peculiar style of preaching, Wa would bs understood us sime ply proounciug:our judguiont on tho polata in- valved in (he Indictment according to tho ovidenca tlat s come bofore our minds fn the progrean of this dintressing trisl, Al of which v rewpactfuily sbmit tad, R, W, PATTENSON, A BWAZEY, 1, E, By, ‘The roport was adopted. THOV, HWING'S LETTER. Tho atated clerk, Mr. Johnson, then read the subjoined lotter from Mr, Bwings . o the Chicuga Presbytery ¢ Buat DRETIMEN 3 Anxlous that my troubles fn Oburch relotions and doctrines should comu ull ut oucoand If possiblo bo termiuated, aud wiihing to avold dubto with mony brethren with whom T kuow thie uction would And little approval, T availed mysslt ofthe tolograph o aumoniice a cOlirdo upou Whicl my own mind ind most fully determined, At yomeo subrequont meeting of your body I shall roqueat o Jottor of dismiseal, or thut you veill erase my natne from your roll, for T know not which request will Do In harmony wills your lawa snd custows, “Lo-dny- beg pormiselon ouly to apologizs snd siats s fraguiont of tho argument which induied me to break the ol tics, Allthrough the past year so much Jiad bean sud §n fho Preabylorian papers, aud o inwch had boen attompled in Bynods and Presbyteries that pointed Lo me as & * dopsrtura” from th faltl, thot iy heart Lad gradusly folt less und lura st hoio In ihe old housohold, and thus bogan to fuel that to withe draw was & slep akin to duty, 5 T Liwvo always looked upon church relations as being not shinply those of (heology, but those of Obristhan Drotharhood; and whon, by degeecs, wnder. the ro- oatod altackis by now eticiny, the feeliug of brotlers Fiood has boen raldly taken away from my heurd, thio usire hins dally inoréavod o tersatnate rolations which not’ only conforred no happinosa’ upen o, bk con~ forred power upon another to arraign meé from thuo to timo on pomo dsad dogma, or oyer ths mniddloof &' sonlenae, oF. over somo Hnbollion or Afolanimodan word, ; " From the standpoint from which I mmn adoustomned 10 viow all raform, it also seemn that my withdrawal la domanded now in’ order to seoura to tho Bynod and to the Assembly that poaco which alone can lead (o a calm roview nud reslatemont of doctrine, If my Iato prose- outor choosea to forca upon this Bynad and 0y Alumm{‘ an_iesno of this wholo matter, and sholl compol thoso badien to open and soltlo at once gues= tions whicl should recolve Aive or fon years o est abatract lhnllgfll, u‘\a?‘ him must rest tho wholo roaponnibility of tho palnful reaults, - » 1t can vasily bo'acen, from thé cagorness with whict 4hin ndjoining Synod roachen ont after this battlo, and from L8 nervoummons: which the Assembly has alrent tlfl({od aver tho rocont uction of your body, that it would b Only & mania for yar to the knife that_conld nduco ln( ono now to carry to thous Lodies s debato #o radical, g0 mudden, and #0.cloudod by persomal friondships and anitnositics, 5 The noblo dttitude assumed lost weok by yonrbody n lenson enough and battlo enough for somo tide 10 como, . that it ma (L0 10 noran ot AR Work for I Master a1 hours, It neds s to theology, solion a8 <0 Gospel work, and thion, in"dayn of subsequont poas and soberness not far Tomovad, it can by committoos, and without the stormy passtons Hiat gsther atoun an * necuser * and mm * nooused, it down 10 Yo fushiion it atatoment of doctrie, - 3y brothiron, in tiis act T hopo I do not withdraw from your Goupol misslon, bk only from & atrifo forced upon you nndinelo our deop rogret. In sil our Oliristian labors, if there baany momont at which %au help you, connt mo with you aaa follow-laborors Dbut, wlen sny * necugor " looks around fora subject to o uscd for military purposes, will you not foin with mo {n blessing God that suoh s pevilliar passion must t Juat languish for want of & victim, Hoplug thnt God will confor s blassings upon our path, and upon mine also, X remain, s ovor, your rollier, Davio SWING, A motion wasmade to place tho communios tion on filo, What the Olureh demnands now i AT, WALRER was not willing that suoha lotter shonld be ro- colved and simply placod on Ho folt that In tho announcemont made by Prof. Bwing thero wna moro than o separation of s brothor. Ilo hnd nover known what it was to lnve a brothor in tho domestio oirclo; but he nover mot & man in all big oxporionco townrds whom his Loart's Jove had boos poured forth nstowsrd David leuEg, and who soomed to him to express more Dbonutifully tha spirit of the Lord Jesua Ohrist, As_ho bad no proposition to make converning tho document, it was placed on filo, THE APPEAL. Bogno discussion then ensued with referonce tq the npponl—whathor tho ronsons were to he fl?ed ton days from last Wodnesday, when tho trial onded, or ton le'a from Monday, wheu the Prosbytery sdjourned. P A, oLt snld it was with grent rogrot that ho had hoard the motion for au appoal, ashis Bmell“l(l!l Wore with tho proscoutor during tho wholo of the trial, aud, coming to tho conolusions which he did contrary to his provious predilections, and foeliug thut there had beon no proof beforo the Proubytery to justify furthor sgitation of tho magtor, ho wns in hopea that 1t would drop. Ho bad no' desiro to make any acousation apafnst thio prosecutor, butb in view of the appesl ho hind embodied his sontimonts in the following rosolutiont 1 Retolved, That, while willing to throw the mantlo of oharity over tlie motives of the prosooutor fn this caso, snd accord to commendable real aud marked ability in his efforta fo malntain tho purity of tho preaching and teaching of the system of doctrine va taught in tho Moly Scripturea and formutated in tho Confoesion of Faith of the Prosbyterian Church, we et feol that, ofter a fair, ond fupartial, nod pro- longed_invesfigation of tho charges and specidcn- tions which form the basis of this trial, and arriving st n verdiot fhat they had nob beon suslatued by niucs. Twore thun a two-thirds volo (whioh sould Do considered in any parliamontary body a safe con- clusion over the voto of any one man, snd would at ‘onco bocomo law), the prosccutor should bo willing to aceapt such verdct, feeling himaolf At least olenr from tho rosponaibility of auy evil consoquonces that might arisofrom it; aud it i the monsoof this Prosbyiery that to appeal from auch a verdict, sad to kaop up tio agitation, excitoment, and expeuso which tho proscou~ tion of thio sppoal must involve, savors of personal pertinncity and_muliciousuess, which sro not in ac ‘cordance with tho teaching of tho Great Mastor, and injurious to the causo of religion in_gonoral, and to :llim Presbytory of tho Presbyterian Oburoh in purtio- ar, s Ho did not know whother it would bo oxpe- dlont, but that it was the sontiment of the ma- Jority of the body he had no doubt. Mr, Trowbridge seconded it. N, PATTERSON romarked that tho right of appeal in‘tho Prosby- torian Church was one that was unquestionablo and, though thero was but one party, it could not be called in quostion. Itsoomod to him vory improper for the Presbytory to nttompt to abridgo the right by adopting any rosolution on the subject, whatever thoir viows might be. Hones, he hoped the resolution would be with- drawn. It was vory often the cnso that an ap- posl was taken whero there woro ouly three in- dividuals in the minority, and it wae possiblo, in the ond, thet it might bo shown that™ the major~ ity had erred. Tho number of thoss who voted with the mojority did not at all disturb the right of tho appellant in the caso, r. Holt rojoinod that ho syas woll aware of that; but ho had revolved the matter in his own mind, and used some littlo porsona! offort, in the hopo that the Christian 8pirit, and not the lottor of tho law, would bo tooked nt. Ho had been in the Presbylerian Church il Lis life, but, novor having had such an experionce bofore, was not aware of some ofthe defeots in tho form of government of tho chureh, The trial had shown that thero wero sorious defects in it,—that, while it was truo that an {udividual, or two or throe, or soveral in- dividuals, might appeal and prosecuto » cnse of this kind, it had shown him that, no matter how lionest or earnost aud faithful a brother might be, if, from any causo, & werson proforred charges against him, though innocent, he could prosccuto the case Deforo the Prosbytery, and carry it still highor, though it might end 18 bo- fore, driving out thus from their membership those whom thoy loved. No man was wafo; ond thero should Do, it scemed to him, some ru?mcc und’ regard paid to the opinion'and judgment of so many honost men. If Lie had beon convinced by tho evidenco that the charges should Linve been sus- tained, ho should havo ko voted; but, as the tos- timony failed to couvince so mnuy, moral pua- slon, if nothing else, should Lo brought to benr to proteot thoso who might be sssailed. They owed n duty to those acousod, as well as those who prosccuted. With this view ho presonted the reeolution ; but he did not-wish to-presa it it older sud wiser heads thought it improper. FROF. PATTOX wished, os 8 matter'of privilege, ho not belng & wember, to eay somothing, He preferred tho charges, knowing what be was about. Ho had read Prof. Bwing’s sermons, and lind very deep convictions ss to the teachings of those gormons., The Presbyterian Church provided » way whereby erroncous teaching could be brought to a fest in a series of ‘graded coorts. Ho Lund talten tho constitutional mothod of call- ing the attention of this body to what ha thought were the orronous teachings of Prof. Bwing; had conducted the proseontion with but one de- siro, aud to the bestof his ability. They had come to & conclusion adverse to Lis views, which thoy bad the right to do,—to say tbat lis caeo had not beon proven; and ho had the constitu~ tional right, in view of his difforence of opinion, to say thut he desired tho Judgont of a ighet court. Whatever opinions might bo had with reapect to the motive which fulluenced bim, or whatever opinions might bo entertainod with respect to the wisdonn of his courss, with all due deferonce to tho brothren who dif- fored from him, his mind was ful- l{l made up to noppoal the caso to the Bynod, sud it was not compotent for tho Prosbytory to proveut him from'dolog g0, Ho had given notice of Lig jutention to do if, and whensvor tho liglicst ‘dourt* of the Ohwrch should decide =dversely, he should how with the respect which wsa dus to that highost court, But ho intended to oxhaust il tho mosus which the Church provided in such caes, booause ho sincerely belioved that the po- sitious taken in tho chargos could bo maintained, OENKURING TUE PROSEQUTOL, BMr, Trowbridge sald hio would not' makoe any romarks did ho not dosire to_embraco an oppor- tunity to stato something in referenca to a proposition which ho bad made on the last day of the pravious sossion, He had given notico that he would iatroduce a resolution looklng to the uppointment of a commitioo to bring in & minuce in accordanco with tho rule which ro- quired the censuring of the acousor in caso Lo failed to prove hin chnrges, Mr. Holt interrupted him by eaying that his resolution had no reforonos whatevor to the ac- tion of the Presbytery in ru[;ud to tho charges and ugnemcnuuuu, but simply in respect to tho appoal, A, Trowbridgo would show tho bearing of his remarks, Ills proposed rosolution did ot neo- essnrily contemplato any broad degren of con~ suro to be Inid upon tho prosecutor; it might have lieon the very mildest of all possiblo ex~ prossions thut ho bad orrod in coming bofora the Presbytery with the ohnr(fiun without groater proof ‘at his command ; it did not finply any so- verity of langunge, sud nobody lad & right to inger that that was intended. Ta also wishod to @ny _that, tho proscoutor bhaving ro- poatedly anuounced that. ho would ‘appoul, h wa desigued “and iutendod thut, In onso Lo should appenl, ho should go up to tho hlfihor court, not meraly with tho verdlet against him, but with un oxprossion of tho opinion of the court, adding woight to the festimony by their voto upun the quostion ftaelf. ‘Tho objootion ralaed to the vesolution (Xolt's) was & valld one, ntho | tho | slnoe tho brother hnd an incontostablo right to appoal if ho perslatad ; and ho had seoonded tho matlon for its adoption with tho wish thas it had rathor boou thrown into the othor shiapo,~ashaps whitl ho did not proposo to give it by any mo- tion. Mo had withdratvn tho yuotico that Lo ‘would make such amotion, ‘boonubo ho found that many of. the. brathron- thought it fmprudent. Thoy woro swaro that auch consure was not un= derorved, oyen in a highor form than Lo would bave hoon disposed to put it, but at the suma timo they thought it not wise or Yrudent, and ho hiad yiolded to tholr viow in withdrawing it . Dr, Bwazoy hoped the resolution would bo withdrawn without further dobato, It was ir- rogular, and the Presbytory had no right what- aver o ralso. any quostion about the appoal of tho ‘proseoutor, Thera s n law in rolation to tho matter, and If Prof. Patton choso to appeal, hio did it on his own rosponsibility. Ho appro- oiated Brothor Holt's foolings and viows, and wleo thoso of Drothor Trowbridge y but ho did not thiuk the l’mab{)w would bo putting itaclt fn tho best attitude y?hwuullng at ony length & roslution of that sort, AMr, Ilolt eaid ho would defor to the opinions of tho brothron, and withdraw It,. Tho Prosbytery thon ndjourned sins dio. . e LAIRD QOLLIER. To the Editor of Tle Chicaao Tribune: I have just had o summona to fostify in tho cano of Patton agalnst David Swing. Tho samo small brought to mo much of the literaturo of tho trisl and controversy. The summons I troat with contompt. But I havoe testimdny which I am constrainod {o boar in o differont onso, Mr. Patton, in the firsb placo, chargos that the lato Mary Price Oollior was not & Christian, and when tho Indignation of the gommunity was so groat at his vilo bigotry, ho rotractsa by saying he did not mean Mrs, Collier. When' ho says 4 DMra, Collier died a dovout Mothodist,” ho says what Ia not true. Mrs, Collior diod s Unitarinn. In her views sho was a very radienl and oxtrome thinker, oven more 8o than hor husband, Tho %Azy of hor 1ifo wna hor religious change from ethiodlsm to Unitarianism, “The most sacrod {inspiration of my lifo to-day is her dying el.mrgn to go ot in my work, May I beg spnco to ndd that oho admived David Bwibg most of all for his groat tolorance,—that, boi nin Prosbytorian, he could soo gooil in those who hold other viows. 8ho loved David Bwing for his_trus and. noble cbaractor. * R. Latnd CoLLizr. Loxpoy, May 13, 1674, ——— PROF. BWING'S DEPARTURE, o the Eattor af the Chicago Tribune Bim: The consure of Prof. Bwing in cortain quarters, for loaving the Presbyterian Churoh at this juncture, scoms mosb untoasonablo to thoso who for many weeks hnve been well aoquainted with his views and foelings on the position ho hiog oooupled as tho dofeudont in a trial for horesy., The prosoontor, from the firat criticlsm made i thoe Interior on through every advanolng stop, manifested the utmost unwillingnoss to tnke a singlo stop towards coucilintion, ond n dotormination to resort to every moens within his rench to have tho trial rosult in conviction, Drs, Patterson, Kittrodge, myself, nud othera who hnd by porsonal intor- viows bocomo satisflod of Prof. Swing’s ortho- doxy, wors excoodingly anxious that Prof. ‘Pat- ton might go like a brother to Prof. 8., fooling confldent that, should ho do 8o, a trial would bo unnecosanry. But Prof, P, rofused o do this, and firmly declared that ho would go forward with tho proseoution, Prof, Swing, knowing tho porsistonoe of the man ho bad to deal with, ond that the whole history of the Presbytorian Churoh In this country was o history of almost constant wranglings on theologionl quertions, shrank from paseing through such an ordenl as was before him, and gaining a notorioty n such way. Huy therefora osrly indicated to his church that ho was roady at any time to resign hia pag- toral ohargo if they thought 1t beat, snd to his moet intimato frionds shat, whilo he hold the theology of the Now Schiool branch of the Pres- byterian Church, he thought of withdrawing to some other church for tho anks of Jnnce—penco for bimsclf, and poaco for the Church. And whon early in tho triul it wua rumored, and oven published in one of the papers, that he hod withdrawn, it “was-only at the most oar~ nest entreatios of his friends in tho Presbytery, among whom wero Drs, Rattorson aud Kittrodg that Lo consonted to wait till the trial was over. All of us who know tho motives of tho man, ad- mired tho uvselfish and noble sontiments which woro tho basis of his proposed action. On the ono hand, ho did not like to do anything that looked like desorting his friends; on the othor, ho conld scarcely endura the thought of boing interruptod in tho grent work which: already filled his hands and his heart. No ono but himsolf could ppreciate his sur- roundings. ‘Who of us daro to indicate to bhim his duty? Doubtless he has Divine dirootion, snd only wishes to do his duty, (0 .cnnnot congoientiously . abide by standards o exacting ns our Confession, Tho Augustinian system holds to the perdition of unbaptized and non-olect infauts. This is the dootrine of Augustine himeolf. Bo Jansc- nius toaches. Moroover, the Wostmineter Con- fossion doclares: ¢‘Eloct infants dying in in- fauncy, aro .rogenorated and saved by Ohrigl through the spirit,’ Thia plainly implics thad non-oleot infouts are not saved. It is nonsonso to spenk of eloct infants aa enved if all infants are meant. Besmdos, tho added clauss in the same paragraph, sbout tho salvation of * all other oleot persons who aro incapablo of beiug outwardly called by the ministry of the word,” gottles the menniug of tho possage ; for, of course, not all of the honthen ‘are here declored to bo among tho' saved. Moreover, it is immediately ~doclared that others not elected " * gannat bo saved.” The framora of the Confession hold that dejure all infanta aro lost ; that de faclo thoro aro two and only two ways In which thoy can bo saved,— through the Abrabamio covenant which eaves the baptized among them, and sovarelgn elec- tion which is not limited by the covenant. Of course, all tho old Calvinists did not beliove in the de facto perdition of infants, Yot not cml'.;l Bupralapsarians, but some Infralapsariane di maintain this dogms ; and the langusge of the ‘Wostminstor Unnlonl‘on, in its fuir import, im- lies it.” How then can any ouo accept-the iteral intorprotation of the staadards. Mr, Barnos eaid, in speaking of his famoua yormon which loa to lis trisl for herosy, which draggod through two long years ; “ It is not denied that this language viries from the statomonts which axo ofton mado on this sub- jeot, and from tho opinioh which has been en- tortained by many. d it is admitted that it does not accord with that used on the same sub- joot in tho Coufession of Faiths, and other staud- ards of doctrine, "The great_principla on which tho suthor ,supposcs tho truths of religion are to be preachod, and on which lia endeavors to act, is, that the Dible 1a to be inter- pruted by all the Lonest Lelp within the reach of the proschor, ind then Jrocielmed, st 14, lot it lead wlisro t will, within or without the ciroumfercnce of any ar- rangement of docirines, Hels supposed to be re- aponsiblonot at all fer its Infringing on any theologi~ cal aystom ; nor {a he to bo ersmped. by shy framo- Work of fali that a beon senred round the Dibie, Thisnoble position taken by Mr: Albert Barnes forty years ago is tha {oanlon of David Bwing to-duy, and, as he has becoms convinced that he will uot be allowed this priviloge, except by his Neow Bchool brothren, and will bo ot any time linblo to bo called to an account and tried for heresy by the Old School ring, he thinka it best thet ho should leave the Prosbyterinn Church. In viow of all tho facts in the case, should he Lo oconsured by his frionds for so doing? Who of us can kuow the trial it haa cost him in rench- ing this conclusion contrary to tho wislios of 8o muny friends who bave nobly stoad by him ? The stop he has taken, {f ho adheres toit, sliould not be rogarded in the light or forsaking his frionds, when thoy have stood by him so faithfully, Ho hay doubtloss weighed this woll, aud may be conviuced that it will be far better for them, and for the Ohurch he loaves. He knows well tha dolicate poaltion which at loast two of his friends ocoupy on coount of having profesgorships_in tho samo sominnry with the wosecutor. Ho appraciates the faok that thoy ave, in tho face of possiblo painful rosultas to themsolyes, stood by him unflinohingly to tho lust, and, while they sought to quiot the troublod wators, were prepared to buffot tho rudost atorm io vindicating him: The enlarged view of Prof. Bwing: percoives tho gatheriug etorm in the distauce. He is, no doubt, convinoed that bia trial in but the prosage of the goming tompost, whioh will rend agulntho Presbytorian Church, How elgnificant in this connaction, sre the prophetio words of Dr, n, uttorod at the timeof the younion of the As- gemblies, *‘Can,” suyn ho, *'tho Presbyterinn Obureb, Just ug It iv—fust as it will Do after the rounjon-—cease to breod and bring up men of that sort, uarrow, seotarian, contontious, liti- glous, mon to whom a fight In an ecclesiastionl nstombly is & bigh religious onjoymont, and who oro always desiring to oxcommuuioate someboidy for somg —dissent from thelr theologioal traditions ?"* Anticlpating the - possible domands of sioh men, that the standards must bo litorally juterpreted, It is not surprising that , Dr. Pattorson, iu juy fronh argument before the. Prosbytory, olearly fntimated that he might bo led ta "' acok gl;eeuu {)uturu in bronder lfehu," snd in his olosing senfences declared in nvm; of # ' oatofal rovision of tho Confession,” that it alght ¥ bo mnde & moro adefuats éxprossion of tho grounds on which we osn sll moot nround tho same ¢ross and moréy sead.” Dr, Buoon, in his articlo fn tho New Englander, Apri, 1808, slready roforrad to, uses tho follow- Ing languago s Thotnion of the two dlessversd branches of tho Proabyterisn Church will bo a_good thiug or an evil thing, according to it offoct in Plumoung or weakons ing thle intolerant mpirlt which forced tho separation, 1 it hing with - 1t a catholfe tempor, and it it do ot tend to_atifle theologival !lmulry, Tt will. boa great, good, But If 1t rasult in building up settnrlan mails to groator lielgli and trength and in folnforcing the Parly of intoloranco, it will bring no advantago. Tha danger s that the foar of oxclting dincord, mingled with tho fear of Ohurol consure, will load to‘al least tacit complianca with the wishes of tho more exacting section, Divisfon 8 better than staguationy snd fs tar To08 (5 o droadod than the tyranny. of an dllibersl dog- matiem, Tn our 3g0 and cotutry, evsugelical Ohris- thanlty In. called upon to cliig to the fuuln- montal tontonts of the Gospol, but it smust nlso tolerato difforoncos in non.essontial points, and freoly concodo that meature of freedom of opinion, without which & healthy lifo and progrosn st mposel, blo, A Oburch which could not Nud room in jts min- iatry for such mon ns Moaen Btuart, Lyman Beecher, and Albort Darnos, would bo, Lowover big in num- berd, about the meanost and narrowest seot in Amerlos, Every mat who can 8oo tho wigne of (o times must e tint the Proteatant world is growing tircd of eoc- tarlan Chrisitanity, and {s yearning for & morocatiio- lio nnd paternal councction smoug the disciplus of Olirist, If tho unfon of (hio two branolios of tho Lres- DLytorlan Oburch can bo offected on s traly catholio basls, wo shall Lall with wuri satisfactlon, ‘T4 will be mn- ovent in cou- gonauce with tho provalling tendency of Christion’ mifnds, It will bo » blow o that ook nystom which {s the scandal of our Protestant Christlanity, Woshnll rogret the rounton only in caso It secm to give s littls longor reapito to that over-dog- matic, intoloraut, soventeentii-contury tono of Protea~ tantlsm, which oxaggerated minor ditfercnces, Toft an open way for the greab Papal reaction, provoked tha, spirit of skopticlsm in all Proteatant ‘countrics, aud stands a porpetual contradiction to tl.s precopts and spirit of tlio Teatament. To ohango tho soonie, and givo » Nittle varioty for the bouofit of the public, would it not bo woll for_Prof. Patton to glvo somo attontion to Mrs: Hofi Propidont of tha Woman’s Doard of Torolgn Missions, At & recont mooting in the Third Presbyterian Church, Dra. Kiitredgae and Mitoholl, aud somo othier gotitiomon, stole in, and Mrs. Hogo allowed thom to listen to the hd- dross of n female missionary snd it {s under- stood that when another opportunity is offered thero will probably bo a8 many gentlomon pros- ont as ladics, Prof, Patton, to avoid suchan ovil, would porhups bo willing to_Inbor privately witt Mrs, H. ~ Btiould ha feel delioate about do- ing this, I will volunteer ¢0_accompnny him, or ho could got his frionds, Dr. Cuyler aud Alr. Noyes, to whose church Mra. H, bolongs. DM. M. WAKESMAXN, A member of the Prosbytery of Chicago, pdrthocashe g S NEWSPAPER COMMENTS. The New York Ezpress says s Tho Presbyterians sre threatened with the hottest kind of hot water from tho folly of Prof. Patton, Asu, ooukidquence of Kenlx:uunn ond trial, Prof, Bwing' withdrawa from his Church, bocause, a8 a Christin ‘miniater, ho does not chooss to remain whare war can ‘o made upon bim elther for preaching tho Gospol or not preacliing tho Westminstor Onteclism. Tho 8t Louis Republican, in its roview of *‘Truths for To-Day,” romarks: Iia offonso was malntsintug Lo the pulpit that cor- tnin doctrines of his Church were antlquated, narea. sonnblo, Hloglenl, sud could nok be sustained, Ho could not ol them, was convinoed they _ought not to Do taught, and rofused to teach thom, Ilfs depurturo was a liliorat movotnont which brought down upon Lim the displcasure and disspproval of some of his fellow-proacliors aud tho dignitaries of the Oliroh, 1o dofeuded himeolf so cloquently, and vindicated his courso snd sentiments 50 _complsioly, that be cnltsted publio opinion strougly 1n his favor, snd seowrod aé- quittal ot tho bands of Lis judges, ' It wae a triumph of tho culightonment of tho ngo, mado bn unusual stir amongst tho churolies, and excited grost publio interost, David Swlnfili.l an_able thinker nud an elo- quont preachor, and what ho lins preachiod oud writlen 18 worth readiug for its intrinsio merit. : Tho Now York Graphio saya Tho Chicngo Prosbytory has acquitted Prof, Swing an tho chargo of Lierosy by 6 vota of 44 to 16, But Dr. Potton {a mot eatisilod, and ins givon notico that Lo sliall carry tho case up {0 the Bynod. Practically, how- over, the question i aottled, and oftor ono of the mont notable ecclesjuatical trisla on record. The Chicago Presbytery, with all duo rospect} for John Calvin aud John Knox, confossea ita sympathy with tho spirit of tho age, nnd bus_no atoncs to_throw at tho presvher who liss & good word for John Stuart Niil aud rofuses to bolleva that Socratcs gud Penelope aro broiling over o slow firo, The result whows that one of tho most comsorvatiyd religlous bodios in tho cotuntry I sicld- 1ing to the tendonvies of wadérn thought in {mportant partioulara, - ‘Tho 8t. Louls Glode says + Prof, Bwing's action in withdrawing hos, we think ‘boon ill-judged and fil-timed, A man in similar clr- cumstances hoa other things to conaull beside his own comfort and convenlenos, oven ss rogurds himself, What we conslder truth and principle are to be ad- hored $o and advocated, oven at tha oxpense of a littls troubile, It would have been much more comforiable or Hainpden to Lave pescefully left England aud King haries o eottlo their difforcnces, and to_Liave retire to 1l country cstata to plant cabbagos and to read the classica, In withdrawing, Mr, Bwing falls notably to fulll bis duty to hiisolf, Equally does e fall sliort of fultling s auty to bia cougrogation. = The Fourts Church bab held to bim firmly through evil roport aud persscution, and, had ho been defoated, its mombers Would not biave forsaken Lim, Prof, Bwing's notis, utill further, unfair in the ox treme Lo thioss who have smbraced his cause and fought Dis baitles, Two-ihirdsof the Chioago Presbytory Tiavo rosolved to stand or fall with him. Tho vonerabis Dr, Patterson, the leaderaud bulwark of Northwestorn Prosbyterianism, who lind achioved fame, honor, and position in the Churchere'Mr, 8wing bad thought of ontering its winistry, Lud champloned hi cause in an oloquent spocch, Whoso echoes will long be heard in religious oircles, the speochi of = thoologisn auimated by tho epiritof a warm-hearted Christlen, In witlie deawing {rom the Chiurch Mr. Swing committed an act of thie gravest injuatice with respect to theso friends, And hero let us expross our deliberate and unguale #ficd disspproval of the conduct of the prosecutor, Alr, Patton, In our provious articles upon the cans we bave conceded that ho had technical right at least upon bis slde, und we have given him arcdit for hon- est, if bigotsd, zeal and dovotion to the loticr of Pros- bylerisulsm, {f not fo the apirit of evangellcal religlon, In tho % cousure " business Lie offendad tho canous of doconcy in o menner that cannot be pardoned, Tho Book of Discipline provides vory jmstly that When one member of the:Cburch brings aue othor to trial and fails fo convict him of the alleged errors or . misdemennory, the barratrous individual moy bo econsured by the Court, Mr, Tatton, unloss our memory {3 egregiously ot orror, accepted this responsibility in exprea terms, and avowed Lis willingness to submit to auy discipline i hils charges wera ot sustained, At any Tate, tho gen~ oral provision applied to Lifa case, - Well, the impotonce of thie prosecution was eatablialicd, aud'a rezolution of censuro was proposed by tha viotorious party, but, as tliey could very well afford to do, being muccesaful, and unwilling t0 add new animosity to the strifo, thoy withdrew the resolution, after which BIr, Patton an- nounced his intention to appeal, Thin sart of procosd- ing will, we think, iardly commend {iseif to the publia atarge, or to the’ many great-hearted, houest men in tlie Predbyterisn Chureh, — Gorald Massey. Georald Massoy, in conoluding his farawoll lece ture in this couutry, on the ** Coming Religion.”, in Boston, on Bundny afternoon last, smd that ho came to thig country as a literary man, * with no intention of lecturiug specinlly on Spiritual- ism ; but ns_his firet looturs chanced to be on *he Devil,’ nlargs number of engagements, which had been medo to lecture.keforo orthodox communitics, wore at once canceled." * But, ertinps,” ho eaid, ** the devil was his salvation ; for in #pito of tha fact that tho scason was tho pooreat for lootiros that had been known, and many lecturers had lost money, ho had succead- ed romarkably well, and after deducting expen- ges, he would roturn with a clear proflf of £8,000." & Nonotucls, . The Nonotiick Silk Gowpauy, manufacturers of tho colebrated Corticetll ailk, which sufferod some damags to its mills at Florence, and the loss of its daims snd othor mill proporty at Loods to the amount of $50,000, inthelato Mill River disaster, are mow putting in ateam in place of the water-power carried awsy, .The following to tha ngent fu Qlicsgo will ba Im;’tflclnlud by its Western patron: FLoRENOE, Mass,, May 23, 1874, 11, 31, Menuiox, Auzxr: Ve yosterdsy purchased of the Norwaik Iron Company the identical ougine that took the prize ot tho Vieuns Exposltion, and Mr, Dimoch hoped to have the boller in, and englne ready torun one week from to-night, = Wa expect to Lo sarly s prompt o lllunqunnlerl at this time ax we lave been, (Slgoed) NoNoTUCK BILx COMPANY, Pure Btarch, ‘When starch ia pure, {t is fres from sournces snd is purely white, Iuferior stavch bas a goldon o yollow tiuge, the color of flour, indieating tho prasenco of gluton (s color not desirable in one's Hnen), or is sour ond musty, It s absurd for ihe laundresn to clounso aud bleacli, and then discolor linen with fmpu re golden or' yellow starch, —Duryoss' #8atin Gloss Htarels " 4 sitow white, perfectly pure, and the most coonomical sturch known, —— Reed’s Temple of Musio, Chicago. New piunos, $50 cash; bslance, $25 per month, Now organs, $15 cash ; halance, $15 per monthy, ‘Warranted to suit or mouey refunded, 0l planos aud orgons takos In oxchiange, e ~~The mortality among the cattlo in Kaneos during tho past wintor, as shown by the report of the Sccrotary of the Btato Board of Agriculs ture, has boen frightful. According to tho best Information, 44,381 liavo perished for tho lack of food, 1ti4 optimated that §500,000 will covor the loss, ns most of them wero of tho 'Toxaa stock, and poor whon the winterset in, ‘I'ho re- turus abiow an inoreased acresge in flax, hemp, tobuaco, and cotton, ‘Chie wheat orop will be un- uanally large throughout the Atate, JImmigra~ tlon {8 pouring into tho Btate, aud an Inoroaes in that line Is expoctod during tho prosent yoar, THE COUNCIL. Resolutions Relut‘lve’ to the . New Court-House. Ald, Jonas Is in Favor of Meoting the Fxpenso by Solling City Proporty, And Wants Nothing Dono il the Money is Thus Raised. . A Minority Report in Favor of Selling tho Luke Front, ‘Widening North State Street, The Common Council met last eveniug, Presl- dent Dixon ju tho ohalr, d INVITATIONS, -An invitation for tho mombers of the Council to take part In the decoration of soldiers’ graves was accopted, as was also an ivitation to join the editora’ lako oxourslon, ¥ DAILIRG PRISONERS. Ald, M, B. Balley offorod a resolution direoting that Justices of ths Pesico and Police Sorgeants and station-koopers to mealst prisonora in thoir efforts to sccure bail whon arrested. It was ro~ forred to the Oommities on Judlolary. DECORATION DAY. A renolntion was passod Qirscting that allpub- lio offices bo closod on Decoration Duy, and re- quosting the Mayor to Isste a proclamstion recommonding ita obsorvanco as & general holi- day. A resolution to prohiibit the playing of base- ball on publio thoroughfares was roforred, ADDITIONAL OFFIOE~BOOR, Ald. 8pauniding offored & resolutldn direotlng the Financo Committoe to confer with tho Bonrd of Education and the Counly Comminstoners as to the propriety of ftting up tho old "Post Ofico Building for additional olty and county ofces. 1t was roferred, THE NEW COUNT-NOUSE. Aid. Jonas offernd the following, which was re- forred to the Cominittos on Publio Buildings: Wrenes, Extravagant entorprise and bosly Jegisla~ tlon have in the history of the pust led to fuancisl om- borrnesmont and a genaral dopression in Lusingss, causing the oft-reponted cry of hard times, and in many instancea resulting in bankrupicy ; and Wikneaw, The propricty of beginning immediatoly tobuild & Gity-Iall or Oourt-Houso ke boen and 1§ ngitating th mind of the laxpsyors of the City of 0 and of Qook County, the peopls and (he presa charglng tlie legiolative bodles tn whoso Lands tho whole matter rosta with attempling to form combina-~ tions for tho purposo of sccuring at once cortain lrahllcall to ravise the plans and commence the work ; an WiEneas, The present financisl condition of the clty, tho Inrge amonat of uncolleoted taxes, the want of confidence in the roturn of our once brisk morcantiio and manufscturing interosts, ahould at lesst suggest caution, and not too haaty action in’ tho building of our Cotirt-House; therefore, beft ' * Resolved, That'sny furthor aotion In reference to ‘bullding s Gourt-Houso, or_omploying an_architect, ‘whoreby any expenditure of monoy would be involved, ’| Lo goatponod unisl the dofcioney b oplaced ; aad ba it further Resolved, That no further oxpenso be fncurred in roforence (o sald_Gourt-House until the mecessary means can bo provided, without lovylng ndditional tax upon the people, ot loast for the present, Resolved, That the proper suthonties bs requeated {o offer for sale any lands or lota not necessary to be retalned for the use of the city, and whena sufiicient amount shiall have bean obtaitied to wurrant the com- mencoment of a City-Hall, that this Council proceed to employ a compotent aud relisble architeot {o reviso or make auitable plans, snd, when suchiplans sball have Deen adoptod, to commonce tho erection of a City-Hall, THE FIRE ORDINANOE, Ald, Cullorton presentod an amendment to the firs ordinsnco, “providing tbat sny building which ehall bo eroctod horenftor shall bave cuf through the roof an opening at loast 23¢ by 8¢ feot in eizo, to bo provided with a good, sub- stantial covering each person violating tho or- dinanoo o be finod not loss than €10 nor moro than 8100, The mattor was roferred to tho Committee on Fire and Water. THE RELIEF AND AID EOCIETY FUNDS. AlQ. Hildroth prosonted o resolution diracting ¢he Qorporation Counscl aud City Attornoy to gubmit an B{unlou 88 to the right of the Roliot and Aid Soclety to hold the monoy sent to this olty after the groat fira of 1871, and aleo a8 to the right of tho Comptroller to domand the somo, ‘I'be renolution was roforred to the Committee on Judielur{l, greatly to tho chagrin of Ald. Hil- dreth, who lias made various attempts to organ- ize an investigation into the affairs of the Re- liof and Aid Sociesy. TAE DOILER INBPZOTON. . Ald, Cullerton, who claimod that the pregent aoting Doiler Inepector was not logally sleotod, moved that the Council procesd to an_election. It wiil bo romombored that Thomas Hamilton waa by Mayor Colvin deoclared elected ir conse- quence of & voto which it was claimed was changed too late to count. The mattor was re- forred to the Committeo on Judicinry, . PRETTY WAITER GIRLS, Ald. Cullerton moved to inatruct the Committos on Polica to report on tho resolution as to tho n&visnbimy of closing tho ** pretty-waitor-gurl " snloous, Ald. Schaffoer explainod that he had not had time to attond to it. ‘Iho question to _instruct was adonted, thongl Ald. Schaffner sald It would not be possiblo for tho Committes to report noxt Monday mght, WIDENING OF NORTIL STATE BTREET, The Committeo on Btreets and Alloys, North Division, reported yecommending tho snnul- wont of tho sesgssment for the widoning of North Btato Btreat, Ald. Campboll” sald that the condemnation proceodings had alroady beon _completed, and in caso the agsessmont was annulled the city would Lave to Hu.y for the Improvemont out of tho gon- oral fund. Ald. Lynch gaid that the land damnges wero assessed for 80 per cont more than the pro nr!ly was worth in many cases which ho cited, It would compol the poor people to soll out in ordor to pry thoir asscssments, The Corporation Counsel was of the opinion that the Council atill bud the pawer to annul tho assessment. 0Grath said that for the Council now ta take any action in tho matter would be to inter- fore with the Courts. The question was not as to the justnoss or injustuess of the-assessmont, but whather the Counoil had any power in the matter. There was no question” but what the oity could be made to pay for tha land con- domned. He was in favor-of referring the mat- ter to the Jorporation Oounsel for his opinion as 0 the power of the Council to annul tho assess- ment. Ho made a motion to this offcat. Ald, Woodman said the matter would have to o deolded by the Buprome Court, whatover ao- tion wag takon by the Qouncll, It was the duty of the Council to discountenanco tho assoss- ment, and to' denouncs it as an outrage. Ho moved to lny Ald, MoGrath's motion on the ta- blo. The motion provailed, Ald. Campbell moved to rofer to the Law Do- partment for an opinion as to whother, aftor an- nulling the assesament, the ot; wnul& not ba Iiable to pay the land damages elready awarded, This motion wan loat. 75 The report of the Committes was then con- curred in. It lnstruots the Corporation Counsol to 'l'“talxu’ntepl to annul ihe condeinnation pro- coodings.” Lhe %ounml then procesded to the oloction of an Assistant Woij Ym- of Hoy, Jsmes Rowen wan the Incky candidnte, Ald. mmp{mn, rising to aprivileged quostion, which was, that, funemuch as the Cor- poration Oounsel had beon instructed to do a thing which could not bo dono exoept by thie Bupreme Court, homaved- that that officer be or«fluafl:u fi,‘““u"“",?‘““ to atand glill at 13 a'olock on Tuesday, May 30, . Tho Obair dnehzni thlyl motlon out of order. TUE LAKE FIONT, The Committce on Wharves and Publio Groundsa presouted » roport, sigued only by Ald, Cunnon and T. F,' Balley, recominonding the salo of cortain nnocoupied city J)mpun{, 1noludin, the Lake Front, il toba advertiscd for salo al loast ten times in auccession in Tur Cruicaco Tuipunk and Times, the Comptroller to report to the Counoil the bids rocelved, The ropork was ordored Jald over for publication, T'he Counoil adjonrned. i ¥FruiteGrowing tn Colorndos From the amlr, (Col)) T'ribune, Hay 20. Judge Yont, of Fort Colling, was in town a few days ngo, and ho gave hls exporlence In lmILgrowlnq. ‘T'wo years ago lio had over thitt; ohorry-trees in full bearing, now_ thoy aro afl dead, ' I'rom goveral hundred hardy grape-vinos planted four yonrs, be has raised anly a few pounds. The'winter winds, not the cold, seom to oause the destruction; and he thinke that thick plauting, with abundauce of sheltor, will be a romody. Fino orops of grapes have beon grown in Donvor, but the vineysrd he surroundod by o high board-fenco; and! l.l:‘:\r‘z w::: o1t an acro at lonst n ton of Dolawares nud Con- cords, Max Clark's raspborrios wero coverod with litter Inst fall, and tho Black Caps aro go- log to boar fall. Thoro aro porbaps thirty Niboe rian crab-npple-trecs In town, now covorod with blosgoms, Hirawborrioa aro coming onb uicely, and poach-troos aro nob hurt noar o badly ag aupposod, THE COURTS. Miscellancous usiness Transacted Youtordiny. An ex-parte motion was mado yostorday morne ing beforo Judgo Farwell for an injunction in tho 0880 of tho Great Westorn Tolograph Coms pany againat Solah Reovo ot al, Tho afiidavit of 0. D. Bond was filed in support of tho motion, which sota out that Reove, sinco the filing of tha bill in this caso, has planned Bscrolly to take forcidlo posseenion of tho telegeaph lincs of tha Companyjwhich aro' working west of the Mis. sigsippl Hiver; that Noove has employed mon to 80 from here Lo Towa to aid hin in his Illogal one torprise, and that ho was oxpecting to start laat night ; and that his objeot s to harass tho Com- pony as muoh a8 porsible, aud compol it Lo bogin numorous suitd in Iowa to stop him. Anin. Junction ordet was granted, as follows: 1t {n hioreby ordered and adjndgod by tho thio sald defondant, Bolnh na’mf ..n."!..a..u"é’?‘fi('fi’,:! noys, bo_rostrained and enfoiued from meddling, or in‘any manser intorfering, With the tclegraph lines and proporty of the sald complainant, pud now in the posssauion of thip enii, Gompany SF in Agonte Iying w 0 Minsi et of o I pEA vor, until the furtbor ordor A NOVED BUIT. ’ Bylveater Derby was tho objoot of considore able atteution faulnrdny motning In Judgo Rogors' room, Yt appoara that somo time ago o poreon was taken sick with tho lel-pux, sud, bolog poor, wog taken ohargd of by soma of the couuty officors, and Dorby nssked tonurse him. The man recovered, aud Drboy brougiit suib in the Justivo's Colrt, claiming 8200 for his sorvices, of the County|Commiesions ors. Aftor hearihg ovidenco, judgmont wos given by default ngninat the county for$80. Theroupon they ‘X:SMM' and_urged thasfthe Justico had no juriudlction, Judgo 8[kz.;»u u lold the objoction, and dismissod tho suit, holde ing that’ if the plalbtif, who lnd, it scoms, oftered his clalm bofora the Donrd of County Commisalonors, whero it was dlkallowed, had apposlod from that. order, tho Clrouit Court would entertain tho suit, but not where it wasnn oppenl from the Justice's Court, but that tho auit should have boen originally brought in the irouit Qourt. C UNITED BTATES COURTS, The United States of Amaricn bogan & sult in dobt A%‘lml Lymun Q. Hunt, Clark R, Griggs, X's;fé mith, and W. N. Coler, mylng dnmngefl 000, . 3 James J, Hiseoy bogan a euit’ against W. W, Farywoll, clmmlngfv $4,000 domagos, 1lissoy says that in May, 1871, he lensed to the defondant a lot, 80 by 100 feot, on Market atrset, betweon \Waehington and 1lnm!013h stroots, 'T'he prems ises weoro only to be used for a conl-yard, and it was agreed that tho dook should nof be loaded nearor than 10 foot to the river, and that tha dofendant should pay for all injury and damago. Hissey allegos that Farwell has not kept hig coments, but hea misnged tho promises, and plnced thercon a large building, which it was necessary to romovo, wherotoro ho claimy £4,000 BANKRUPTOY ITENS, ‘Archibald B. MoLaan, o morchant tallor nt 48 ‘West Washington streot, filod o voluntary potis tion to be ndjudicated bankrupt, 1o says his liabilitios are about £18,500, mostly to Now York ré:&:;ougml!. while his assots only aggregate In the caso of Estdlore Bornstoln ot al., anorder was mado for tho exnmination of E, Bernstein, Julius Bornsteln, and Jacob Berkson, under tha rulo of Sce, 26. A warrant for thoir arrest was issued, ond they were held to bail in the aum of 1,000 oach. George Wolls and James Wella wore adjudl« cated bankrupt by dofault, and & warrant issued roturnable June 26. BUPERION COUNT IN BRIEF, A, B. Meokor began & suit in debt ngalnat Joslah W. Preston, laying damagos at 10,000, J. E. Toylor and J. H, Wroun bogan an action g[inésst D. W. Galg aud J. E. Aikon to recoves ,000. GLAGULT GOURT, Rarah B, Wilford commonced o suit foz §3,000 in trespass againet J. E. Hunilton, TUE COUNTY COURT. In the mattor of the eatnte of Hildobrandt Angust von Glahn, bis will was provon and lot« tors testamontary wore issued to Bernhard von Glabn,* and tho execoutor's fudividual bond in £280,000 was _approved, Tha ciation ta Robert nnd Richord Mondoworoft horstofora issued, was dismiesod at cost of the cutato, and ordered that the tinbox which contained tho will be dollvered to the.oxeeutor. Tho fols lowing is the disposition the decessed made of his property, both real and porsonal, as cone tained in his will: ‘Fo Doroth Brener, dnugliter of his sister Anna, $2,000; to lis sister Carolina Btango, 96,000 ; to Emilie von Glaln, daughtor of his brothor Fredericlk, $2,000 ; to Diedoriol Stango, his half-brothor, ©3,000; to Annn, daughter of Biartha I\lcC’nbo, who claims said Aupe to be his child, 10,000 to Petor Bronor sud his wife Auna Broner, $8,000; to his brothor Frodorick, £3,000; to his brother, Bornbard, Lot 8, in Block 10, Wolcott's Addilion to Ghi- cago, but if gold by him before his death, thon tho sum of €165,000 {n liou thoroof shallgo to his brothor, Borohard; tohis stopfather, Johann a. S!nufie, 9150 on Jan. 1 snd July 1 cach yoar, during his natural life. Tho remaivder of hiy outire proporty, both renl and personal, he lof to his son, Auguss von Glahn, to bo invested by his executor, and_such sum arising from the in~ come thereof as shall bo necossary, shall bo ox- ponded for the maintennnce aud education of his som, wunder the. dircclion of any ocourt having uriadiction there- in, until he ghall ove attained | the ago of 21 yoars, Aftor that, natil ho shall attmn tho ago of 90 yoays, tho ontire incomo shall bo paid to him, and whon ho renches that ago tha principal shell bo Lauded over folimj but, should he dio beforo attaining tho ago of 2L years, leaving no lawful heirs surviving him, thonall of the proporty intended for his son uhll be divided equally botwaen his sistora and brothors, Fredoriok, Anns, Julis, Bernhard, Caroline, Dedorich, ana Anna, deughtor of Mar- tha McCabo; and, in case of the dcceaso of any of the above-mentionod partion, then their shara shall go to the childron of suok doccasedj and, it they loave no Licir surviving them, then their share etiall be divided equnlly botwoon tho hoirs who may then bo living, The will also rovided that Fredoriok sud Bornhord von Elnhu, and Peter Drener should bo his sxoous tors, and named sald oxocutors and Roberb Hervoy, of Chisago, as testamontory guardiaus of bhisson August. The will was signod by tha deconsed Qot. 29, 1872, aud witnessed by A. T. Qalcand H., T. Birch, of 77 Doarborn streot. 1In the mattor of tha eatate of Lonisn Mnrtin, tho executor's bond for $20,000 was approved. Rachel Froderickson was appointod adminise tratriz of the estate of Ohristian Frederickson under an_approved bond of 5,000 The olaim of Anua Kloppor for $241,60 against the esiate of Frank Lisch was allowed, _tako doposition to In tho matter of o claim agninst tho estate of Frederiok Kotz, the Court ordored n deditnus ta isgue to A. Bchoyer, Jr,, of DPittsburgh, ¥a., to yrnu #aid olaim, Inthe matter of the estate of John B, Woeir, htawill waa proven and letters testamentary wero fssued to Mary O. Woir, as oxcoutrix,* and hor bond of X wad g roved, The following is the dleposi- ion the decenmod muda of his proportys To hiswife Mary Cathorine, and his two sons Georgo and Jobi B, his renl estate is dovised, his porsonal praperty and accounts to his wife, aud at hor death the wholo to revert lo his twa sons. Ilis will appointed Mary Cathorine, bls wife, and George 1. Wior, as his exccutors, aud Lis wite a8 noting oxocutrix, Thewill was eigned and witnossed June 16, 1867, Tho witnesses ara Bolon Nickerson aud E. Gullivor, who both ap~ pearad in court, ‘The will of Anno MoNnlty was proven, and lotters testamontary wore {ssued to Budget McCourt us oxeoutrlx, aud her individual bond for §0,100 was approved, ' THY OALL, Jonae Broporrr—Irom 125 unlimited, * flgufiozékflsfm— 0, 41.4, 415, 410, 417, 420, 421, - Jopoe BooTi—116 ta 100, Jupor Y'ner—2160, 234, 221 0D to 800 geumllhgdukut.' BB 00, s trom unak (ARY—100 b 1840360, 00 0 200, excopt 173, 175, 178, JunoE Janeson—224 to 928, e ) 233' Ty 2%}-"{“’- ) excopt 33834, 239, Unoxs MoRonens Axp Bunys—. g o nNs—Asaist Judgo Uszen Brares Obonyy Conn 8 OouIT Counr—Jus =T M. Daton o cl. v, Wiliam 3. Manhoass werany 421,05, and motion for now trial.—Feuhian Join g ompany v, P, It, Westfall, oxr - UPERIOR COURT—JUDOE Gany—] h‘}‘u‘l::’n.l!' {imT“llell, $103,79, g 0 : onaTs—Fruderick Wacken v, gurtug it} verdict $1,110.13, o moy C180UIT COURT—J! v, Labert Dia, 30 52“' BooTu—Thomas B