The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1894-11-03


meeting was the neat and comfortable
little church, the first child of the New
P an of Work." built last year in that
thriving town in Macon county.
The first session of the Convention was
called to order by the Vice President,
Rev. @. H. Shinn, in the absence of the
President, Geo. H. Hastings, and Rev.
c. L. Ball, of the La Plata church, in
voked the divine blessing. Bro. Ball
then in behalf of his church, in few
we'll chosen words, extended a cordial
welcome to all delegates and visitors.
Committees of Session.
CREDENTIALS: Samuel McDavitt, Mrs. W E.
Ryon, Daniel S. Could
RELIGIOUS SERVICES. Rev. C. L. Ball. Mrs.
G.. H. Hastings. Mrs. Nealy Daggett.
NoMINATIoNs: G.. H. Hastings. Miss Bell
Christy, Mrs. Ida Martin.
iUDITING: H. b. White, A. W. McDavitt. H.
G. Miller.
RESOLUTIONS: Rev. C. L. Ball. i. c. Dale. L.
C. Littlefeld
OFFICIAL REPORTS: Rev. c. L. Ball. Rev. l.
j. Spencer. j. H. Ashlock.
Secretary's Report.
Which was presented and very atten-
lively listened to by the delegates. We
give it in full in another place.
Fellowship Committee.
This committee, represented by Daniel
S. Gould, reported that they had granted
the fellowship of the Convention to Rev.
G. L Ball, transferred from the New
Hampshire Convention, and that the
following churches had applied for the
fellowship of the Convention: La Plata,
st. Louis, La Monte, Elmer ,Lindersville.
The Convention then passed vote to
receive them.
FRIDAY AFTERNOON.
At 2P. M, Rev. @. H. Shinn, General
Missionary, delivered sermon on Pure
and Undefiled Religion
There were many new arrivals from
the Murray Church at La Crosse and
the congregation was largely increased
over the morning session. At 3:45 P. NJ,
the Convention resumed the order of
business; the Nominating Committee
was instructed to bring in the name of
minister to preach the Occasional Ser.
mon. P. F. Lucas, with Rev. c. T.. Ball
as alternate, were elected as visitors to
Lombard University.
EVENING SERVICES.
Friday evening the sermon was pre-
coded by praise service, conducted by
Rev. @. Fl. Shinn, followed by preaching
by Rev. John Hughes Table Grove, ILL.,,
who in his usual powerful and logical
style, discoursed on the character of God
In which he showed that the character
of God might be found from our klowl-
edge of the best attributes of man; rea-
soning that man, made in the divine i'm
age, must reflect in finite way the per-
lection of Gods character.
SECOND DAY, OCT. ID.
The session convened at 1870 A. NJ,
and was preceded by short praise SER
vice. Rev. John Hughes led in PRAYER;
the general business of the Convention
was then preceded with. The Execu-
tive Committee reported that they had
voted S1250 90 toward the completion of
church now being erected at Elmer,
and recommended the Convention raise
$4,000 this year on the Plan of Work
adopted at La Crosse in 1892, the salient
features of which are given in the Sec
retary's report. A number of the session
committees then made reports, which
were accepted.
Committee on Official Reports.
Our first word and last would be ones
to express our thanks and gratitude to
our Secretary for his comprehensive and
accurate report. No words of ours can
express the appreciation we feel for his
faithful, careful work. A few years Ct
such work as the report comprehends,
will, in the language of our Vice Presi-
dent, show where we 'are att and we will
indeed "be at something.
We suggest that the names of those
who contribute to the support of our
work be read in the Convention. We
recommend the Church of the Redeem
er, at Bowling Green, to the special fav-
or of the Convention, as a point that
gives good promise of large returns for
money invested. We heartily commend
and recommend a continuance of the
present policy of raising specific sums of
money each year for the building of new
churches; we recommend that five hun
bred dollars be raised the ensuing year
for that purpose.
AS we began, we wish our concluding
word to be of gratitude and praise for
the work of our Secretary. 1.-THE best
in my experience in the State" says one
of the older ministers. May he be will
ling to serve us long, and may we. as a
Convention, feel able to remunerate his
services not in proportion to their worth,
but to show our appreci alton and graft
tude.
Committee on Church Incorporation,
consisting of j. W. Overstreet. H. B.
White and Louis Dale, then reported
that in view of the weighty matter in
volved, recommended that a committee
of three be appointed to revise the consti-
tuition of the Convention, and draw arti-