Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-10-01
THE UNDERGRADUATES
Third Day of Thiriieth Annual Meeting
of the State Association,

- LAY u ~
OF the State Ass ociation.
The evening session of Wednesday of the
S state Association being held at Woodland
was devoted to anniversary exercises of the
| California Home Missionary Society. Rev.
DR.. Wiley presided, and a large audience
was present, the chuIc oh being filed to over
| flowing. Addresses were made by Drs.
| Benton and Barrows, and DR.. Warren gave
his annual report, which was very en-
| couraging.
The opening of yesterdays session at 0
A.. NJ. was a business meeting of the Califor-
MIA Home Missionary Society, Rev. DIR.
Wiley presiding. A report of the Ex-
executive Committee was presented by DIR.
Mooar. 1t represented the work done by the
committee during the year. About seventy
labor were issued. Mention was made of
the special and general labors of Superin-
tendent Warren and General Missionary
Ford, and reports were accepted.
Rev. DR.. Wiley was reelected President
of the society. DIR. Dwinell Vice-President,
and Rev. /. n. Marty Secretary.
Reports from churches were the next in
order. Those from Upper Bay Association
were made by Registrar c. s.. Vale; from
the Southern California Association, by
Registrar Ford.
Reports from churches and devotional
exercises filled the time to near the hour of
adjournment.
During these reports Rev. A. Matthews,
a converted Russian Jew, addressed the
meeting in a very earnest and effective
manner. The trend of his remarks was a
deep and forcible plea for active efforts to
hri,,n tho Jow;ch nooN1a ,ntA tIo c,s.I I'D
under the banner of Christ. His words
and manner strongly testified to his sin
certify.
Just prior to the noon adjournment, DIR.
N. w. Lane took the platform and made
an appeal for funds towards sustaining a
home evangelist for the ensuing year. Two
subscriptions of 500 each were made, and
numerous smaller ones, until 5000 was
raised.
The afternoon session, after devotional
exercises, was opened by Rev. Pond, who
made a report of the Chinese mission work
during the past year. There were A en-
ployed during the year in teaching and
interpreting. The total amount received
for mission work was Sill $50 50 expended,
81 ,316 10. Eighteen Missions were sus-
tanned, 1,279 scholars enrolled, there were
122 Christian Chinese in the missions and
four conversions had been made.
A. l.. Won Blarcon, of Oakland, read a
thoughtful paper upon the topic, The
Gospel and the Labor Question" 1t took
the position that the laborer has the right
to work only upon such conditions as were
acceptable to him and, upon the other
hand. that the employers right to regulate
his own affairs, employ whom he pleases,
and regulate the prices he will pay must be
maintained inviolate. He unqualifedly
condemned the boycott, and gave as a
remedy for all the labor conflicts the incul-
cation of the spirit and teachings of the
Great Master.
Rev. Tubbs said a notable feature of the
labor troubles was that the members of the
trades unions were largely foreigners, and
most of the skilled workmen bore foreign
names. Dur sons are put through colleges
and academies for professional positions,
for the counting-roOm, etc., and not for
honorable places as skilled mechanics.
This, be said, should be reformed, and
honest labor come 10 be regarded as honor
able.
Rev. Weitzel thought that even if the
competition was such that work for neces-
saries could be obtained for less than thew
were worth, nc man should take advantage
of the fruits of such unjust competition,
but should give full remuneration. Home
products should be sustained, even if such
products were dearer than those produced
where labor is cheaper.
Rev. Willett's views of the labor troubles
were, that while profigacy and lack of in
dustry upon the part of the wage-earners,
were the principal causes of much of the
wrongs for which laborers were causing
trouble, the over-wealthy classes have be-
come money-lords from the oppressive and
unjust exactions upon labor.
j. I. Rankin presented the cause of the
Pacific, the newspaper of the denomination.
Its worth and indispensabiliiy were also in
dorsed by a large number of the delegates.
Rev. John Thompson, agent of the Cali
fornia Bible Society, spoke in behalf of
that cause. He regarded the outlook nope
fully. He has now been engaged in this
position twenty-eight years, and, although
81 years old, he hopes to continue his work
in supplying the Word twenty-eight years
longer. A resolution for more general sup
port of the Bible Society for the ensuing
year was adopted.
Rev. Vale made a report for the Com
mittee on Sundsy-schools and District Asso-
Citations, giving statistical data of the work
accomplished during the past year. He
also read an ably-prepared paper upon the
methods of teaching the lessons contained
in the Scriptures. DR.. Benton followed
upon the same subject.
Rev. Rowell made a report from the Com
mittee on Temperance, and submitted a
series of resolutions which take strong
ground against the liquor cause, and con-
clude by urging voters to withhold their
ballots from all whose position or influence
favor the liquor traffic.
In the evening the Weman's Board oe-
cupied the session, and Major-General O. 0.
Howard delivered an able and interesting
address.