Excerpt from Defense of Presbyterian Doctrine and Order Against the False Unionism and Liberalism of the Times Besides, every member of a deliberative body has a right guaranteed to him, by written parliamentary law, to speak to the merits of every Resolution that is debatable; and every Resolution is debatable that is in order; and this Resolution was declared out of order, simply on the ground that it entered into the merits of the case on which the committee was to report; a position wholly indefensible, because par liamentary law can not be set aside under cover of a point of order; nor can the Episcopal power of the Presbytery, as above stated, he set aside by its judicial power. Aware that wrong motives have been imputed to me, I publish what I had to say in Presbytery, and which Presbytery would not hear. Mr. Mccune thus speaks in the Cincinnati Commercial of Feb. 15, 1876 Dr. Skinner, without any earthly provocation, has made a. Determined assault upon my ministerial reputation, and inasmuch as I am advocating no sentiments now that I have not openly proclaimed for ten years, the evidence is conclusive that his attack upon me is a mere pretext in order to damage the present Moderator of the Presby terian General Assembly. And then, when his real object and his sophistries and misquotations are exposed, he begins to whine about gross personalities. I think my speech will show how utterly un founded is this unworthy view of Mr. Mccune, and how nothing but an earnest desire to defend the time honored principles of my church has prompted me to the course I have taken. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.