Excerpt from The Action of the Commission of Assembly in Professor Smith's Case: Explained and Vindicated This has been called in question. It has been stoutly, vehemently denied. It has been so by Professor Smith himself, and by a host of his supporters, lay and clerical, in reasons of dissent, overtures, letters, speeches - in every variety of form and expression imaginable. The decision come to by the Commission has been pronounced ultra wires, unconstitutional, incompetent, null and void, with much more of a similar ...
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Excerpt from The Action of the Commission of Assembly in Professor Smith's Case: Explained and Vindicated This has been called in question. It has been stoutly, vehemently denied. It has been so by Professor Smith himself, and by a host of his supporters, lay and clerical, in reasons of dissent, overtures, letters, speeches - in every variety of form and expression imaginable. The decision come to by the Commission has been pronounced ultra wires, unconstitutional, incompetent, null and void, with much more of a similar strain. It has been represented as tyrannical, subversive of all law, and placing in peril the rights and liberties of every othee-bearer and member of the Church. No doubt a great change has recently appeared. Some wisdom has been learned. The toning down has been remarkable. The elders' manifesto, as lately issued, has had the central and forcible ultra wires clause eliminated. The Aberdeen overture, which musthave been designed to strike the key-note and be a model for all others, has been openly withdrawn, and a new one substituted, in which there is a similar abandon ment of the high constitutional ground. The general way now is to say that the Commission's action appears to be so and so - has this or that aspect or tendency, and any charge of violating fundamental law and order is rather insinuated than asserted, timidly conveyed in round-about or ambiguous phrases instead of being posi tively and plainly stated. It may therefore seem hardly necessary now to argue the question. Practically, a retreat has been beaten, and a defence of the position assailed may be looked on as super uous. But as the idea has been largely and advantageously made use of, as it yet lingers in certain quarters, and as the minds of many may not be clear regarding it, a brief explanation may still be of service. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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