St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-10-11
GODS MISSIONARY MEN.
CHRISTIAN UNION AND COOPERATION
DISCUSSED AT CHICAGO.
SOME NOTED MEN TALK.

Bishop Fowler Among the
Number anthony Comstock
Talks About the Social Purity
of Men = Women Excluded
From the Meeting.
CHICAGO, Oct. 10.-President Dodge
called the general session of the Evan
gellcal alliance to order today for the
consideration of the practical question
of christian Union aud Cooperation"
DR.. Hyde. president of Bowdoin college,
urged the importance OF cooperation
among different Protestant denOmina-
lions and that the rights of a given
church in particular community be
respected, its work encouraged, and
that III the establishment of churches in
new localities the matter should be de-
termlned by conference between the
different denominations; in other words,
christian cooperation in church ex-
tension" was essential to the accom-
pllshmentS OF the best results. The dis
tlnguished college president even went
so far as to urge an international ar
rangement between churches for
spreading the work of the gospel and
that the territory at home should be
divided into state organizations.
The speaker said that a va
rlety of churches might be
tolerated IN great centers of
population. but that numerous organi-
cations in country towns was a profit
gate waste of spiritual energy; and
that Christian cooperation in church
extension is comparative duty from
every point of view.
NOrney Williams, representing the
Baptist denomination, followed Presi-
dent Hyde, and for his church recog-
nized the Importance of cooperation in
Christian work. The Rev. DR.. Clark,
secretary of the
HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY
of the Congregational Church, said that
his denomination was inclined to be
tolerant of every form of Evangelical
Christianity, and was eager to cooper
ate with other denominations in church
extension and missionary work.
The Rev. j. Elmend0rff, of Holland.
for the Dutch Reformed church. spoke
OF the efforts which had been made to
secure cooperation among the Evan
gellcal churches IN that country, which.
while not entirely successful, gave evil
dence OF ultimate union in church work.
The Rev. DIR. j. NJ. King, of New
York. and Bishop Fowler spoke in
behalf of the great Methodist organiza-
ton and said that eat religious force
was ready and willing to meet other
denominations than half way in the
most perfect union and cooperation in
all forms of Christian work.
While in this disc ussSons there is a
tenacious clineing to ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
among the individual de legates to con-
greSS, yet there is olmoSt a unammoty
of sentiment expressed that denomina-
tional lines should be broken down in
church extention. missionary and
general Evangelical work.
Three other departments of the alli-
ance held meetings and the subject of
open air services and tent work was
discussed by Prof, Graham TAYLOR. of
the University of Chicago, the Rev.
Howard Bliss and the Rev. MIR. Nc
Kinney.
kindergarten work and the
DUTY OF THE CHURCHES
to the moulding of child life was the
subject considered uanOther depart
ment OF the congress iresiGed over by
Mrs. E. w. Blatchford, of Chicago.
Leading workers in this department
from Boston, New York, Chicago and
otHeI CllIeS ulScuSSeu the SUBJECT IN
view of the meeting soon to be held in
New York city. at which professors
from Columbia college, prominent cler-
gymen ana eminent educators are to
discuss kindergarten and Sunday school
work.
Anthony Comstock, of New York,
presided over the department. which
considered the subject of social purity
for men. Women were excluded from
the deliberations of the congress, but
there was a large, interesting and influ-
entail body of men assembled The
double standard OF virtue for men and
women was characterized as cowardly
and unjust. The corrupting influences
of degrading literature was referred to
as one OF the most potent evils of the
time. The meeting was addressed by
Mr.. Comstock, Mr. Puddyfoot, Mr.. Will |
Iams. of the White Cross movement of |
the Y. N. G. a. of New York, all of |
whom earnestly advocated a higher |
standard of purity for men.
President Bonney. of the worlds con-
gress auxiliary, opened an international |
meeting of congress on public health. |
The congress was addressed by DR..
Reynolds, health commissioner of Chi |
cago, representing Mayor Harrison; DR..
E. Lieceaga, of the department of |
health of the City of Mexico; DR.. Sarah |
Hackett Stevenson, of Chicago, repre- |
Senting "Women's Interest in Public |
HEALTH" DR.. t. II. Durgin, of Boston, |
president of the American Board of |
Heflth association. The congress urges
the Importance, first, of pure water,
better sewers and house drainage, the |
disposition OF garbage and cleaner
streets and alleys in the centers of pop
uiatiOn. 1t was said that much might |
done
ton of great cities if housewives would
look more caresully after the cleanli-
ness of the back yards surrounding the
homes of the people.
One of the most important meetings Of
the Evangelical alliance was held in the
art institute tonight. A. J. Arnold, of
England, submitted report of the
works of the alliance in England, re-
ferring particularly to the work of the
organization for the amelioration of the
condition of the Russian Jews, and for
the respect by the sublime porte of
certain provisions in the treaty
of Berlin guaranteeing religious
liberty to subjects of the sultan. Prob
ably no one is better qualified to speak
of the work of the alliance in America
than the Rev. Josiah Strong, d. D.. of
New York, who, as general secretary,
has devoted his cultured genius to the
STUDY OF the SOCIAL problems aud their |
needs i'll this country. He addressed
the congress on the aims of the
Evangelical Alliance of the United
States" He said the church must adapt
itself to charging conditions; that
its supreme aim is to enable churches
to see and accomplish their social mis-
Sions on account of the change from a
rural to an urban population: that 80
per cent of the townships of the United
States lost population between 1880 and
1890, while every city gained-Chicago
to the extent of lis per cent IN popuia-
ton. He stated that church provision
in the city was growing less and less
every year, and that too many of the
city churches were located away from
the downtown densely populated
districts.
One of the prime objects of the church
Is 10 teach man MS right relations to his
fellow man; that it is quite as important
for the church to teach MANS relation