The Portland daily press., 1895-12-13
MATERIAL REFORM.
What the Convention in BaIti more Will
Discuss.

Baltimore, December 12-Discussions
or Sabbath reform, divocro reform. labol
and temperance reforms, and of sucf
amendment to the Constitution of uht
United States as will suitably acknowl
edge God and the supremacy of His Law
over the nation, will, for the next two
days, occupy the attention of the Nation
al Reform Association delegates who met
in the Emanuel Baptist church for theil
second annual convention today.
Specia invitations to Christian
Endeayor societies, Young People,
Unions, Epworth Leauges, Christian
Temperance Union and all Chris
itan churches to send dele
agtes have been accepted. A limited ex
tent on what is expected tt
be accomplished were explained in paper.
i'll which it was stated 1.-The recent reyela
tion of municipal inquiries have as
tonished the world. Many officers of the
law are accomplices. Few, if any, O.
our cities are free from these develop
ments of political corruption. Other de
partments of the government are also in
fected. 1t vibrates the purity of elections
and purchases legislation from Law
makers.
: Both state and national gov
| eminent are in league with them. VIZ
license it for the revenue it yields anC
fills our treasures with the price O.
blood. We have deeply corrupted fam
| lily. More the $4,000 divorces are granted
| in every year in the United States, mos
| Of them on sufficient grounds both fol
these unlawful separations and adulter
Gus marriages which follow them. Th,
state assumes the responsibility by. plac
ing upon them the sanction of law
Lawssfor the the protection of the Sab
oath and for the suppression of bias
phemy are openly and shamelessly vic
lated. Many cities and in some states the
word Of God is banished from the public
schools, and purely secular plan of ed
| ucation is adopted. These facts are no
denied. They are known to all intelligent
! men. %%They demand the jealous consider
alton OF all Christian patriots and an
earnest and united action
| After devotional exercises and the an
polnUment of committees, Edwin K Har
OF Philadelphia, delivered an address OF
| Bus1ness5E enterprises and the Sabbath ,
The following amendment to the Con
stltution of the United States was ap
proved and Rev. H. H. George appointed
to bear the same to Washington tonight
where it will be introduced into Congress
| in the form of a joint resolution:
1--WE, the people of the United States,
devoutly acknowledging Almighty God
as the source of all aui hority in the civil
government, and the Lord Jesus Christ
as the ruler of all nations, has revealed
the will of God as of the supreme
authority in all civil affairs, in order tc
form a more perfect union, etc."
paper by Rev. DR.. Joseph Klye OF
Pittsburg on Loyalty to Christ Saving
Principle Of All Social or Civic Obliga-
tion," was read by DR.. ii. H. George
"The Sabbath and Constitutional Law, y
was discussed by Rev. Wilbur F. Crafts
of Washington, D. c.; ''The Labor
Question, Its Only Solution was the
subject Of discourse by Rev. Charles
Rhodes of Philadelphia and 'FThe Remedy
for Divorce Evil" was handled by the
Rev. DR.. Il. p. Stevenson of Philadel-
phia.
At the evening session Mayor Hooper
delivered an address of welcome, which
was responded to by Rev. DR.. H. H
George. who stated the aims of the move
ment in a paper read by Rev. DR.. D. B.
Wilson of Pittsburg on "The Three fold
Peril of Our Public Schools" supple
| mented by an address OH the pi esent
perils from secular government, by
Bishop Nicholson of Philadelphia. Rev.
DR.. G. W. Finders of York, Pa, . con
Guided the evenings programme with an
address on Christian Government, Our
Safety from Present Perils.''