Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1869-07-21
international Convention of the
Young Mems Christian Association.
PORTLAND, July 10, 1869.


on the part of the committee reported
the following as a definition of the
word I give it entire, as it is the full
est and most comprehensive explana
ton of somewhat doubtful point l
have ever heard.
And we hold those churches to be
evangelical which, maintaining the
Holy Scriptures to be the only infalli-
BILE rule of faith and practice, do be-
lieve in the Lord Jesus Christ, the only
begotten of the Father, King of Kings,
and Lord of Lords, in whom dwelleth
the fullness of the Godhead bodily, and
who was made sin for us, though know
ing no sin, bearing our sins in his own
body on the tree, as the only name IN
der heaven given among men whereby
we must be saved from everlasting
punishment.
The report was adopted with entire
unanimity and great enthusiasm, the
convention rising and involuntarily
breaking out in singing,
"All hail the power of Jesus name. "
Resolutions were passed as follows:
l. Recommending open air meet
ings.
2. Endorsing action OF executive
committee in organizing associations in
the South.
3. Recommending holding of state
conventions by all the associations.
4. Appointing the second Sabbath
of November as day of prayer.
5. OF co operating with the young
women in forming Young Women's
Christian Associations.
6. Urging young men to watch, Ia
Dor, and pray that God may enable
them to reach all classes of foreigners
arriving upon our shores, and especial
tho Chinese, and other Asiatic races.
AS some OF our temperance brethren
seem to think that Young Mems Christ
ian Associations are not sound" on
the temperance question. l send in
full and ask their careful attention to
the following resolutions, unanimously
passed by the convention.
TEMPERANCE.
The committee would recommend
that we re-afiirm the action of the con
vention at Detroit last year, which was
as follows:
Resolved, That we do seriously ad-
wise that each member in our associa-
ton should consider it his duty to be
heartily engaged in rigid opposition to
incompetence, the great enemy of the
church of Christ, and that not only we,
but every church member on the con
tinent, should be alive to the work !;
and further,
That we, in the name If the Associa-
tions, would also most heartily recon-
mend that all who love the Lord Jesus
should put forth earnest and persistent
efforts to establish and maintain tenn
perance organizations in places where
none exist, and especially that our en-
tire force of workers, rs individuals,
should organize Immediately and help
sustain juvenile temperance societies,
with view to prevent. effectually, the
evil practice of intemperance and its
attendant and damning vices upon the
rising generation-adding the following
resolution
Resolved, That it is the duty of the
Young Mems Christian Associations to
do whatever may be practicable in
their several localities in resisting the
sin of intempcrance, and in saving
young men from the pcrnicious power
of this evil.
The following topics were discussed.
Mr.. W. J. Breed, of Cincinnati
Ohio, introduced with appropriate re-
marks, the topic "The Monthly So
cial and Business Meetings of the AS
sociations, the objects of each, and how
each best be conducted" t-..
STATE CONVENTIONS
Discussion on this subject was intro
duced by John w. Chcever, of Cincin-
natl, Ohio, followed by George W. Da-
Wis, of Burlington, Vt. Rev. John S.
Mclean, of Canada M. W. Pond, of
Boston Mr.. Tuxbury, of Vermont ;
Messrs. McBurney, of New York Col
Inns, of Newark, N. J. ; L. p. Rowland,
of Boston, and Davis, of Cleveland
The relation of the associations on
this continent to each other, as indie
pendent organizations. but similarly
constituted, and having common work
and aim and their united power in
promoting the cause of Christ among
the young men of America, opened by
John S. Mclean, president of the Hall
fax Association.
Shall we encourage separate organi-
cations for the young men of our for
pion ronr1lotion Q