Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-07-08
Baptist RESOLUTIONS


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Ine following reports adopted bv tbs
/ fuQef Sound Baptist Association have
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AEPohT OF COMMITTEE on HOME MISSIONS.
| Your committee might say much of
tee need and the daty of earnest mia
SION work at home. Beginning al
serusaism. Is the command of our as
cendinR Lord, bat we canIos say much
as TO the work actually performed
among as 1t Is true that so far. all our
efforts might be classed under the title
OF home mission work.
.Our nfst care naturally had to be
gwen 20 the establishment and strength
enlng OF churches Al centers of influence
In their communities. Bot il Is a grave
question whether more and stronger
churches might not have been built up
among us had We thought less of our
particular locations and more of the
needs OF this great field at large.
And now we believe the time has come
when more is required of us. God is
blessing Us with temporal prosperity.
Our churches are becoming stronger.
The American Baptist Home Mission
Board and the Baptist Convention for
the North Pacific Coast are awakening
to the great importance of this field.
Let us show that we, too, are interested
and are willing to make sacrifices to win
this part of North America for Christ.
The time is not far distant when
Eastern and Western Washington will
be united by rail, and when, together
with British Columbia, this will form
one of the greatest mission fields on the
continent. Population is pouring in
upon rs at an ever increasing rate of
speed. To provide for the spiritual
wants OF these hundreds of thousands
soon to be in Our midst, We shall ere
long need a Missionary Convention OF
our own.
The approaching completion of the
Northern Pacific Railroad to Seattle,
the commencement of the Cascade Di-
vision at Yakima and towards Green
River, the hopeful prospect Of railway
down the Chehalis valley. the rapid fill
ing up OF our fertile valleys, and the
wonderful growth of Seattle and Ia
coma, are opening the way to an early |
combination Of all churches in Wash |
ington in Territorial Convention.
We, therefore, recommend the ap-
pointmont of an executive committee Of
i've members, chosen from different sec |
tiOns OF our association, with the fullest |
power TO act in all matters pertaining |
to our mission work during the ensuing |
year, in CO operation with, or independ- |
emily of, any other body at their option. |
And We also recommend that when |
this association adjourns il adjourns to |
meet at Seattle on Thursday before the |
second Sunday In November next, for |
the special purpose of considering our |
Home Mission work, at which time the /
committee shall be called |
upon to report J. A. WmTH,
Chairman.
REPORT ON TEMPERANCE.
Your committee would place on rec
ord their conviction of the terrible evil
OF intsmperance, conviction which is
only deepened by close and prolonged
II is ever exciting and
to all kinds of sin, vice, and
crime, and calls for the most strenuous
and continued efforts OF every Christian
or citizen for its abatement and re-
moval.
We rejoice to be assured that the pro-
fessed Christians of all denominations
are being aroused not only to the ex-
istence Of the evil, but also of the duty
OF all Christians to antagonize it, and
also to know that great and gratifying
advances in this direction may be traced
IN oil countries, especially in our own
land and In Great Britain.
We also rejoiced in the great good
by tho Women's Christian
Union and look forward
with great hope to the visit of Miss Will
lard to this coast. Incorporate habits
and the customs of society are strongly
and are fostered and pan
dored to by large and wealthy class of
wicked and selfish men, who are cease.
lessly active for selfish ends in their
wicked efforts to perpstuate the evil.
We recommend that this association not
only abstain from the use Of intoxi-
cants In all forms and undsr all ciroum-
stances, but also that i'm view of the
present state of the question, our
churches may we'll consider the propri-
ety Of using unfermented wine at the
Therefore, be it
Resolved, That we recognize il as our
duty TO Christ and TO humanity to cou-
denim the use, manufacture and traffic
in intoxicants of every kind. and in con-
formity with this resolution ever per-
sonaliy to abstain from and diseounten-
ance the use of the same.
2. In view of the fact that hop grow
ing is greatly On the increase in the
bounds of our association, and that to
majority0f brethren this business ap-
pears In the light of direct encourage
ment TO the liquor traffic, we would ear
nestly urge upon our brethren engaged
In the hop business, to prayerfully con-
slider whether their continuance therein
be not inconsistent with their high call
ing as the followers of Christ. and pref |
judicial TO their influence and usefulness,
In which all the members of the body |
must mutually suffer.
3. That il is our duty as citizens to |
scek the election of men to our assem- |
blies and legislatures who are in full |
sympathy With rs In these views ans
Who are prepared to enact laws in &C
cordance herewith.
J. BEAvEN, Chairman.