The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1892-05-12
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Report Of the nssssisgs Of the General
Associates In salinn Last Week.

Report Of the Mssesisgs Of the Gessrs
/ Associate. In saiin. last week.
On Thursday afternoon the GeneI
al Association Of the Congregations
churches Of Kansas met in Ply
mouth church and n business SEES
sion was held presided over by tn
retiring moderator, Rev. f. skinner
Of Osborne.
In the evening the Rev. ID. ID. De
Long. ID. D., Of Arkansas City
preached the annual sermon to
crowded house, taking for his tex
PHILIPPIANS iv-l2: "For / hav'
learned, in whatsoever state / am
herewith to be content" aud LEI
Timothy vic: but Goodness will
contentment IL great gain" Ii wal
q sermon full Of spiritual power
common sense advice aud plain
teaching, anu was received with
wrspt, appreciative attention.
1t is Impossible in the brief space
at hand to enter into details concern
ing the different subjects before the
association. Everything occurred
substantially according TO program,
however, and the success Of the
meeting rs q whole or considered In
its component parts was very great.
1t Is written There were giants In
those days" Taking the present
meeting rs q criterion it may also be
said, that there are giants in these
days. Not giants in the physical
sense, perhaps, but what Is more
powerful aud potent, giants in
strength Of manhood, intellect, and
spiritual power, "strOng in the Lord
and the power Of his might" It. is
matter Of honest pride that Kan
sas possesses uchs body Of men and
q matter for congratulatiOn that the
CoDgregationalists have given to
humanity such valiant aud power
full champions.
The seven great arms OF work OF
the church received earnest atten-
ton, their aims, accomplishments
and needs were discussed and large
amount Of enthusiasm concerning
them was developed. Kansas work
and Kansas doings were largely PIE
dominant. DIR. Peter McVicar, pres
ident Of Washburn college, Topeka,
related 1.-THE story OF Washhurn,"
which told Of its trials and triumphs,
Its failures and successes, its sorrows
and its joys. The four academies
were also presented, as well a. Fair
mount college, at Wichita.
Superintendent Brood, Evangel-
lists Veazie and Vernon of the Kan
sss Home Missionary society, de.
livered their reports. Superinten-
dent Plat told Of the work In the
sunday Schools. Papers and talks
on the various lines OF work were
read and discussed.
On Sunday members OF the Asso-
c;atiou and WAITING cIaryvma, No.
a. -. .,.o., -,
'uP'e" tue various protestant pun
pits Of the city. To give extracts Of
all the sermons would take too
much room and to single out a few
would be an unjust discrimination.
The work Of the association was
Monday morning aud DIR.
De Long wss eIected Modprstor for
A.. p.,,,.
'ne ensuing seai' ioi''"ihs 10 the
report OF the committee OH resolu-
tons:
Notwithstanding the sssertion of |
some noI;ticians tn the contrarv we
stiII insist that the temnarsncs ones-
tion continues ON iss,ie I'm Kansas
noIitics and wouId saw IN that marty
which exnects our VOTES wa moi only
demand n platform of prineiples up.
nm which we can consistentIv stand
Inn, such csndids,as for goyernor
and attor,ey-yaner. "A wifi n aloe
ted enforce the law equally with
ptber laws. And we protest against
any system Of tax assessment. H.
rense ar club that allows intoxicat-
inr Ijuuors TO be placed before a
citizen Of Kansas "a a beverage.
we beIievs the fourtb command.
mont ia "a much a mari of Gnd,s Law
as ia the sixtb or seventh and should
be-. Mt least nv a professed Christian
n,,ion as rigidIv adhered tn m n
were wise far us IA a nation 10 insist
,,non closin no our exhibits st foreign
pxposiIions ON SUNDAY. "a we have a.
wsys done until the nress of Europe
aid. "Even the A merican MAJ hineiy
fears God - IL would he uuwi.. for
ma IN break Gods law because az the
extrs income which might he de-
lived from the keening nn,n Of the
roIumbi.n Exnosiiinn nnnn SUNDAY
and wouId demand Of Congress- thai
apy further appropriation for that
he w,tbheId until assur.
snre ia given thai the gates sbaIl he |
closed unon the ,Isy commonly cali
pd SUNDAY
PcsoJreI That We rscounize with
1r.,ituda the wondarfnI
worL wro,Sbt Inv ths Shirt tbrough
he agency of our brother Rev. ~
r. Nnck law nv which the wilder
ness has been made 10 bIossom as
he rnss. NV which amid difIicnI,iss
.ur,cient 10 ann.I tbs brayest a
IittI,. hand has in the short snac. of |
three wars grown into a fiourisbinu
,hurc:, nj fwo bundled memhers
bas beco,ue the nosssssor Of the
be.utifuJ sdif,ce In which we NOW
a, ga has Ja,,aJ,,,ad tha ,nns,arJ