Presbyterians : a popular narrative of their origin, progress, doctrines, and achievements . by a vote of four hundred and forty-nine ayesto sixty nays. A substitute had been offered for this report recom-mending the appointment of a committee to conferwith the Directors of Union Seminary in regard to therelation of the said seminary to the General Assembly,and to request the Directors of Union Seminary toreconsider the action by which Dr. Briggs was trans-ferred to the chair of Biblical Theology, and toadvise that in any case Professor Briggs be not allowedto give instruction during the year
Presbyterians : a popular narrative of their origin, progress, doctrines, and achievements . by a vote of four hundred and forty-nine ayesto sixty nays. A substitute had been offered for this report recom-mending the appointment of a committee to conferwith the Directors of Union Seminary in regard to therelation of the said seminary to the General Assembly,and to request the Directors of Union Seminary toreconsider the action by which Dr. Briggs was trans-ferred to the chair of Biblical Theology, and toadvise that in any case Professor Briggs be not allowedto give instruction during the year previous to the nextmeeting of the General Assembly. On a motion toadopt this substitute instead of the report of the com-mittee, one hundred and six voted in the affirmative andthree hundred and sixty in the negative. The pream-ble of the report of the committee on theological semi-naries, which had thus been adopted by the Assembly,recognized that an interpretation might be put uponthe agreement between the seminary and the Assemblywhereby a transfer from one chair to another would not. 389 390 PRESBYTERIANS. be subject to the veto power of the General Assembly,and recommended the appointment of a committee toconfer on the whole subject with the Directors of UnionTheological Seminary. This committee was appointedand was made up of persons representing the differentviews submitted to the Assembly. Immediately after the adjournment of the Assemblythe Board of Directors of Union Theological Seminarywas convened to elect a successor to Dr. Henry J. VanDyke, who had accepted the position of Professor ofTheology, but had recently died. At that meeting ofthe Board of Directors the question of instruction inDr. Briggss department came up, and after consultationthe Board decided that it would adhere to its interpre-tation of the agreement between the General Assemblyand itself, and stand by its appointment of Dr. Briggsto the chair of Biblical Theology. This raised a sharpissue of int
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