St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-10-16
Reading Of a Strong Report
on Marriage and Divorce
Questions. +.
HRS. Peterson Was Not MUIR
deped. but Took Her
Own Life.
PrOhibitioniSts Decide to Let
the Lists Go--GeneraI Min
neapoliS News.

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only by Inference. 1t came up on
resolution introduced by DR.. Noble, who
took such pronounced stand against
the movement Of the council toward
securing direct representation Oh the
American board for the churches. DIR.
Mobiles resolution did not mention the
American board, but was, evidently,
prompted by the action which the coun-
Gil took on that question and one or two
others that have been up for conSIdera-
ton. This was the resolutions:
Resolved, That the provisional committee
appointed at this meeting be instructed to
consider carefully the question whether there
be not a tendency, and all increasing tend
ency. on the part of the national council to
drift away from the original and avowed
purpose of the organization and to assume
legislative functions i'll the expectation that
lis deilyeraDces viii be received by the
churches of our faith and order with a bind
ing authority over and above that which is
found in the weight OF the reason of these
deilI eranceS.
Resolved, further, That if any word of
caution seems to be called for in this direc-
ton. the committee be instructed to embody
IL in their next report to the council.
The ensuing debate was short but
hot. DR.. Noble was in the minority, as
he has been OH almost every Important
question. The resolution was enthusiast
ically tabled.
DR.. Daniel Morrison, of Massachusetts,
presented the report of the committee
on marriage and divorce, the most im-
pOrtant report of the day. 1t was plain.
| ontspoken, denunciating. Instead of
the church fostering the home, it said,
it is fostering, in its many organizations,
that which abstracts attention from the
home. Is not the church going too far
in this matter of organization? The
platitudeS of the prayer meeting should
be replaced by more attention to the
sidered too largely in theology at the
expense OF the home. One hours plain,
helpful talk with young people who
were to be married by minister would
be worth more than any perfunctory
calls. Efforts should be made along
two lines. as follows:
FirSt-The integrity and purity of the
family must be resolutely defended in
themselves by marshaling of the agen-
cies, legal and social, which we can lay
our hands on. We need to do our ut
most, as ministers and laymen, as
churches and conferences, to secure
and help enforce good marriage laws;
to discourage bad marriages; to en-
courage good marriages; to open our eyes
| to the increasing and disgusting enor-
nifty of divorce, and seek to check it by
| legal and personal endeavor. including
| greater care on the part of ministers re-
| speeding the history, character and
| standing of those whom they join
| in marriages as parents and teachers
wisely to instruct our youth re-
| speeding the meaning and sacredneSS
! ana JOY of marriage to train them to
| personal purity, and to point out to
| them the frigbtfui consequences of
| vicious indulgence; as citizens to give
our support to the authorities in the
detection and punishment of crimes
against chastity; to protect our homes
and schools from the assaults of vice.
| and to unearth and crush those who, as
| a trade or in connection with business
| houses, or in society, directly pander to
| RIGHTEOUSNESS.
| Second-The second thing impera-
lively needed is that we should dis
tinctly make more of the family and the
home; that we should seek to develop
them in their social functions, and to
secure them their appropriate place In
respect to other social forces and insti-
| buttons.
Resolutions instructing special COM
| mittee of two TO made a study of the
needs and opportunities of the modern
home and report at the next meeting
were adopted.
| A strong protest was made against
| the practice Of publishing reports be-
fore they were read. The publication
| and distribution of them in pamphlet
| form before they have been read takes
| the zest out of them. A motion to pro-
hibit the publication of reports in adj
vance of their reading was made, but
| action was temporarily postponed.
Rev. DR.. O'Dell, of Ohio. presented
another prohibition resolution as fol-
lows:
| Resolved, That the emancipation of the
| family from the national liquor traffic crime
| against it, and law making and administra-
| tive protection of it, are services the voting
Scitizen is obligated to render; therefore
Resolved. That government policy pro-
| tective Of this crime is government disfran-
| chisement of the rights OF the family, bring
| ing it 10 anarchy and ruin.
1t went to the business committee
| without debate.
Some resolutions supplementary to
| the report on the American Home Mis-
Sionary society, relating to the multiple
| cation of feeble churches, also went to
| the business committee without debate.
| A resolution of sympathy for President
| Harrison, OH account of the illness of
his wife, was adopted.
The following standing committees
were appointed:
To Reply to the Swedish Greeting-Prof S.
| !. Curtiss. Illinois: Rev. Joseph Collie Wis
| consin; Rev. Jones E. Snowdep, Iowa
Relation of the Benevolent Societies to the
| Churches-Samuel Johnson, Massachusetts;
| Rev. A. II. Ross. Michigan; Rev. George Z
| Merrill, Minnesota: Rev, r. K. Meredith
| New York: Henry Fairbanks, Vermont; Rev.
G. o. Brown, California; John G. Haskell
Kansas; Rev. j. Il: Turchell. Connecticut;
| Rev. Washington GLADDEN..
international Committee - Rev. j. NJ
Sturtevant illinois,; President D. W. HYDE.
Maine: Rev: John II. Morley, Minnesota;
Rev: S: E. Hall, New Hampshire; Rev. r. A.
Bard. North Dakota.
on Paying Expenses to the National Coun-
| cil-Rev. D. ". S. Clark, Massachusetts,;
Rev. J. H. Crum, Indiana: Rev. ". A. Robin
| son, New York: Thomas & Booth, Iowa: f
| F. Emerson. Rhode island; Rev. W. S.
Hawks. Utah; Rev. Thomas McClelland,
| Oregon.
Temperance-Rev Smith Baker, Mime
sofa: Senator William P. Frye Maine: Rev.
A. L. FrisDie. Iowa; Rev. L. B. Barrows New
York; Eugene Steer, South Dakota; Samuel
B. Shopleigh, Massachusetts; Rev. c. F.
| Roper, New Ham pshire.
Religious Needs OF the Army and Navy
Rev. 4. l.. Hood. New Mexico; Mai. Brand,
[. S. A. Rev. Fl. NJ. Ladd, Ohio: Rev. j. B.
Thrall L tab: Fred W. Lyman. Florida; Rev.
| S. W. Newman, Washington, d. c.; 7. Eaton
| Clapp, Oregon; Senator j. III. Kyle, South
| Dakota.
The council finally settled the worlds
fair matter yesterday by adopting the
report of its committee by rising vote,
and then applauded It's OWL action. The
report of the committee provides for
the appointment of committee to con-
slider the matter of making an exhibit
at the fair. AS no space has as yet
been assigned for the Congregational
lists, this committee has the power to
prosecute or abandon the business of
an exhibit. The last resolution COM
mended congress for voting to close the
fair on Sunday.
Reports OF the theological seminaries
at Andover, Chicago, Hartford, Bangor,
San Francisco and Oberlin were read,
all showing Improvement in those insti-
buttons. Rev. Newman Smythe, who,
was refused chair i'll that institution
ten years ago, because he held too adj
vanced theological views, presented the
report on Andover. He said the And
over faculty is body Of men standing