The Nation - News from Feb. 25, 1985

A liberal minister who says that conservative Presbyterians offered him money to abandon his pulpit said the appointment of a disciplinary committee showed that the entire church was behind his congregation. Leaders from 116 St. Louis area Presbyterian churches voted last week to appoint a disciplinary committee to investigate the charges brought by the Rev. Robert Tabscott, pastor of the liberal Des Peres Presbyterian Church in Frontenac. The committee will investigate allegations that three members of the governing board of the conservative Central Presbyterian Church in Clayton offered to buy out Tabscott.