Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-10-26

This is what the church intends in the pas
| toral relation. This is what has been made Q
reality again and again. and such pastoral ties
have left high and holy memories all along her
story to brighten and sweeten the lives Of her
children Let ii be the noble ambition Of every
pastor and every congregation to begin, con-
/ tinue and bring TO holy and BILE sed end such
I psstorates as these, where all that Is best on
earth and all that is best in Paradise meet and
clasp hands together over a relation SO humbly
human, vet so divinely sweet, that, at its con-
summation. a man may saw in trembling trust,
Here am 1 and the children which Thou hast
given me-.
IN THE ZONE.
I at is with sad foreboding that all Christian
| people must how the sanctity and perma-
nency of the marriage bond has been outraged
and broken by thelawless legislation Of so many
of our states The church Of God can have no
regard for such legislation; it has no more re-
/ spect or validity in her consciousness than the
/ legislation on the same subject of Turkey or
/ the customs of Dahomey. Indeed. she must
consider it not only an outrage upon the Chris
/ tian consciousness, but upon the inherited race
consciousness of our people. Therefore she
has set herself in her own legislation (Which has
been long considered and in the present con-
vention extended) to record her SOL
emn protest against tendency which,
in our Judgment, enlightened by the
Word of God and the guidance OF His
holy spirit. can lead only to the ruin Of the
civil state and the destruction Of all religion
and purity Of living among men. We are con-
WINGED that much, II not all, of the looseness
with which the marriage bond is treated in leg
isation and practice is due to the first falsehood
which considers the individual the unit Of
human society. and demands. therefore. that
the motive Of all civil arrangements shall be
the pleasure and contentment of the individual.
As "a matter of historical fact. well as of
scientific determination, the family is the unit,
and the well-being of the individual can be
rightly sought only in and through the we'll
beng of the family.
ITO guard the sanctities of home is the high
est duty of the state. To reconsecrate those
natural sanctities BY the blessing of holy prayer
and solemn rite. and throw over the home the
shield of Gods law in its power, is the plain
duty OF the church. But the home so shielded
must be Christian home. IL must hold living
communion with the high-walled home of our
Fathers house above. We soemuly charge our
brethren to look well to this. We fear, above
ALL the decay of family piety. The hurry of
our modern life the eager demands OF an in
creasing business. the lust of increasing
gain, the competition, the struggle, the thou
sand distractions, as they are made excuses
for neglect Of public worship in the church,
so they have been held to justify the over
throw o: the family altar, the abandon
ment Of household PRAYER, even the graceful
the heritage Of old and fair religion
The church prays for men at her alters. in
her house-to-house and man-to-man mission.
searching for souls. She prsys for laborers
in the white harvest. She has societies and
institutions to help young men to prepare
for this ministry. While these societies and
institutions are necessary, and doing
good service. do not lose sight OF the
central fact that, for supply of ministers
of the highest attainment and most conse-
Grated character, the church must look to
the fresides Of her own families. She must
ask fathers and mothers to consecrate their
sons with the first conservation of fathers
PRAYER and the chrism OF mothers tears and
blessing. She must ask for the best. Not the
manned. the halt, the blind. the refuse. God
long ago, warned her against that fraud. She
asks the sons who are the choicest, the boy who
Is the apple of the eve.
And here We may also appeal to fathers and
mothers to look If there be not among their
daughters some who are called to God TO con-
secrate their lives to the service Of Christ in
ministering to the helpless and the ignorant.
The work which women may do in the service
of our dear Lord has been already shown in
the work which the women of our church have
done and are now doing in many WAYS for the
furtherance of the gospel For all of these
and more especially for the great work done by
the Woman Auxiliary Society to the beard of
missions. we devoutly thank God; but our
thanks are only the more hearty and full of
hope when we reflect that out of such works
and BY means of them. and because of them.
God is raising mp among us an order of holy
women. deaconesses Of the primitive and apos-
tOlic pattern whose whole lives are devoted to
Masters works of mercy and instruction.
We devoutly trust that that order may increase
and that the number of our deGconesses, trained
and consecrated for their sacred ministry, may
be greatly enlarged
The convention of 1892 has stamped its
nh IN he fsrftr
history OF the church, and. not least, in that it
has been lifted b. Gods grace. in the holy
dacity of its faith. TO send forth seven new mis-
sionary bishops-five of them to newly created
missionary jurisdictions. We call upon YOU to
give humble and hearty thanks to God for this
increasing faith of His people. Let your
prayers go with these men. Let YOUR conse-
Grated offerings be abundant for the new work.
The field il everywhere white to the harvest.
Send the respers forth with your love- your
prayers and your help. and they Wilt is
Gods faithful promise-'they viii return with
Joy, bringing their sheaves with them.
NEW BISHOPS CHOSEN.
The convention spent its day sessions clear
ing up miscellaneous business, so to be i'll
readiness for the adjournment at night. Two
of the bishops who were appointed to mission
arv Jurisdictions last Friday-Rev. Dr. James
II. johnson of Detroit TOR northern Michigan,
and Rev. Dr. J. r. Hoyt of Iowa. for China
declined the episcopal Office and others
appointed These were Rev. DIR. VIM. Reed
Thomas Of New York. for northern Michigan.
and Rev. DR.. F. Il. Graves of Woo-C Chang, S5r
China.
An amendment 10 the canons adopted
providing for the appointment of fifteen trus-
tees for the PRAYER book distribution societies.
whose duty il shall be 10 promote the distribu-
ton Of the PRAYER book throughout the country.
The change Of the title OF assistant bishop 10
bishop coadjutor. proposed by the bishops. and
To- which the deputies refused to agree,
made on the recommendation Of a conference
committee.
CONSTITUTION AND CANYONS.
President Dix appointed as members OF the
Joint commission on constitution and canons
Dean +. A. Hoffman Of New York. Rev. DR..
James :. Stone Of Pennsylvania. Rev. DIR. Ken
lock Nelson Of Virginia Rev DR.. Charles A. l.
Richards of Rhode Island. Rev. Dr. Charles r..
Hall. Rev. DR.. VIM. j. Seabury, Rev. Dr. Hall
Harrison. Mr.. James c. Smith OF western New
York. MIR. ". ii. Lightner of Minnesota, Mr..
Z. q. Bradford of Delaware. Mr.. John s. Da-
wilson of Georgia. Mr.. Charles q. Saunders
and James = Beall.
All matters which the convention did not
act, including those in the hands of commit
tees will go over until the Minneapolis conven-
ton OF 1895.
NEW MISSIONARY COUNCIL.
Members o! the new missionary council from