Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-10-05
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half an hour ia devotional exercises
led by Rev. w. b. Lee.
The business meeting opened vith q
prayer by the Moderator.
Mr.. George Lindsey. of Onion Ridge
Church, appeared and was enrolled AZ
special correspondent Of Union Ridge
Church.
Report Of the Committee on Minutes
Of Synod adopted.
A communication from the Stated
Clerk. in reference 10 publications Of
the minutes, was read and referred to
the Auditing COMMITTEES.
Report Of Committee on Temperance
was read and referred back for fuller
report.
The report of the Committee on Pub
lication vas read aud adopted.
The report of the Committee on the
Records Of Oregon Vas read, amended
and adopted. Records approved with
out exception.
Committee on Temperance again
presented q reported, which was adopt
ed, and Is as follows:
Twelve months ago at Walla Walls,
our body uttered no uncertain sound on
the subiect of temperance. We be-
Iieve from none of our pulpits is there
head any uncertain sound on this vital
question and from the pew. as vel as
the pulpit. there are responses to the
call Of Gods providence which indicate
the wonderful growth of public senti-
ment with regard to this irrepressible
conflict in our land. Temperance is
ths question of the hour-ihe vital
question which concerns US as Ameri.
san Christian citizens.
Twenty Ave years ago IL was slavery.
Slavery In the providence Of God has
,een buried, and will never be resar-
rected. The evils of slavery and intern
perance are not parallel In all particn-
lar, out in many respects they are.
Slavery was great political and moral
evil, and so % incompetence and as the
one great political aud moral evil WAS
Dverthrown, so We believe will be the
other.
Just now we are in the hottest Of the
conflct. bat We believe the dawn of VIC
tory can be seen In the distance. Ap
athy and indifference are giving place
TO serious thought, conviction and earn
estness. Consaiences that have been
asleep are being enlightened and
aroused. For this We thank God aud
take courage. The ,cular press, which
for so long ignored the whole q lestion
Of temperance, or referred to ii half
apoloReticaiiy, are giving serious atten-
ton TO IL. Total abstainers are no Ion
ger confined TO those of weak and ex-
tremely sensitive conscienoes, but among
temperance advocates, besides Christian
ministers, there are some of the best
and strongest minds of the men and
women OF our land, who are bestowing
q wealth of brain and heart upon the
cause of truth and of God. When we
consider the magnitude of this
evil In our own land. our only
hope, humanity speaking, il a
determined resistance TO the inroads of
the evil, and perseverance in the great
moral struggle, as citizens and as Chris
tians. We recognize our dependence
on Divine grace, and our need of Divine
aid. Intemperanoe Ia not n root sin or
syil. IL Ii only an external symptom of
a diseased heart-of depravity of ma
ture. This being the case, we believe
the Gospel of Jesus Christ, which il for
the rescue and salvation of sinners and
the cure of the moral malady of sin. to
be the most potent factor in the remov-
al or lesseninR of the evil.
IL only the precepts and promises of
the Gospel get firm hold OF the tempt
ed. they will DO saved frem this terrible
wise. The moral power Of the Gospel
then Ia the strongest We can use in sup
pre- ssing intemperanoe and saving our
yeuth from its curse. This Ia the most
effective weapon we can use in the
fight, because 1t Ia Gods weapon. In
an eminent sense this il true that the
Gospel 10 Gods weap n,but il is not the
only weapon He has given for the miti
CATION of evil and human suffering.
God ordained civil government as an
institution to conserve the best interests
OF hu1an society, and in the Providence
OF God. sovereignty in this nation DO.
longs to the people; SO that we may say
that the ballot is also Gods weapon to
be conscientiously and faithfully used
In this great battle between the good
aud the evil, and today We rejoice in
the progress which has been begun in
some Of our commonwealth In this di-
reetion.
In our country In the latter part of
this nineteenth century the watehword
seems to be Temperance Reform. Ii
seems hardly necessary 60 recommend
and urge our ministers TO preach on
the subject of temperance, for We are
satisfied the pulpit of the Synod of the
Columbia is diliQeut and alive to the
importance of the momentous question,
yet in order that our deliveranoe be
complete and unqualified, your com-
mittee would recommend the following :
Resolved. That our ministers be re
commended TO an increased faithful
ness In the performance of their pulpit
duties with references TO the question
OF temperance, reproving. warning and
enfreating men, speaking the trath in
love, and endeavoring. especially, to
persuade all tue members of our
churches TO the duty OF total absti-
nence.
Resoissd, That we recognize the wo
man's Christian Temperance Union as
a strong cooperative agency for doing
good Ia the temperance reform alton,
affordin1 our devoted Christian women
q channel through which TO wsrk and
exert powerful influence In educating
pnhlic sentiment MP to proper stand
ard.
Resolpsd. That in aecordanee with the
recommendation of the sevaral Assem-
blies' Permanent Committee on Tenn
perancs, that IL be recommended 10 the
sessions of our churches and superin.
tendents of Sabbath schools that special
efforts be made in all our schools 10 in
ssrucs the youth regarding the great sin
and evil of iutempsrancs. BY means OF
Temperance literature AMI particular
oral instruction.
Rssoleed, That nj the next meeting of
this Synod. ons evening be devoted to
Temperance, hearing reports and ad.
dresses on the subject.
hsselred. That tho Synod reafHrm H.
resolution passed last year on the sub
ject of prohibition.
TIE committee further recommend
that on next Monday evening, October
9th, one hour be devoted 20 TEN per
anee, and addres 90 be delivered by
DIR. Lindsey and others.
Il. O. ARMSTRONG;,
Chairman Comnislee.
Committee on Resolutions and Obitu-
aries reported. and report vas adopted.
The synod. Joined In prayer with
Rev. w. b. Lse.
Moved that the Synod accompany the
remains of the late Mrs. whitworth 10
tins grave by a cnfnxnfftaa es,xssfssivs, ~