The record-union., 1895-10-12

ana pertinent speeches.
The Chairman put the question, which
was adopted by rising vote.
Adjourned until tomorrow evening
at $50.
CONGREG GATIONALIsTs.
gregational Church of America, by its
triennial council now in session at
Plymouth Church in this city, will to-
morrow take definite stand for Chris
tian unity, the broadest, heartiest stand
taken by any denomination in this
country. There will be rare eloquence III
the appeal of the champions of the great
cause when the report of the committee
is presented to the council for the NOM
bera are soul-b bound in the movement.
The Chairman of the committee is
William Hayes Ward, l.. l.. D., editor of
the independent, and his associates are
Rev. ID. y. Dyke, Rev. Alouzo Is. QuinJ
and Rev. George +. Hall. These gentle
men have labored long and earnestly ia
the matter. and have debated the various
propositions from every point of view.
But so unanimous have they become on
the result OF the report that when the
matter comes up for debate and the action
of the council tomorrow it will pass with
but slight opposition.
The committee recommends: That the
two committees be constituted as stand
ing committees, the one hitherto known
as the Committee on Christian Unity TO
be designated as the Committee on De-
nOminatiOnal Unity, and the committee
known as the Committee on Union With
the Free Baptist and Other Denomina-
tionS to be designated as the Committee
on Union With Other Denominations.
The duties OF these committees shall be,
respectively, those indicated by their
titles. That it be the duty of the Com
mittee on Union With Other Deuomina-
tions, in cases where it may seem wise, To
attempt specific union with any other
denomination, and to conduct negotia-
tions with such denominations by means
of persons whom it may select. That as
basis Tor such union In accordance with
the constitution and organic declarations
of the National Council, adopted at Ober-
lin in 1871, declaring the Holy Scriptures
the sufficient and only lntallible rule of
religious faith and practice, their inter-
pretation thereof being in substantial ac-
cordance with the great doctrines OF
Christian faith, commonly called evan
gelical," and that 'the liberty of our
churches affords the ground and hope of
a more visible unity in time to come"
we, as Congregational Churches, recOg-
nize no creed of human origin, no matter
how venerable or historically honored by
us and by the Christian church, to have
authority over our faith, which author
ity belongs only to the word of God. In
any union contemplated, those who Join
together have, accordingly, the right to
maintain their conscientious varieties of
faith and order.
The triennial council of Congregation
alists devoted the day to the consider
alton OF its six leading missionary socie-
ties. The morning session was opened
by Assistant Moderator Brown OF San
Francisco.
After a brief discussion, Secretary
Hazen read all invitation from the First
Congregational Church of Portland, Or,
to the council TO meet there in 1896. Re-
ferred.
At 10 o'clock Rev. L. H. Cobb, D. d.,
read his report on the work OF the Con-
gregatIonal Church Building Society.
\ Committee on the Work and Needs
of the National Benevolent Societies was
appointed.
The second society to report was the
Congregational Home Missionary Society.
Its Secretary is Rev. Washington Choate,
ID. D., of New \ ork.
The afternoon session opened at 2:30
o'clock. with the Moderator in the chair.
The first anniversary celebrated during
the afternoon was that of the Sunday
school and Publication Society. The
Moderator introduced Rev. George NJ.
Boynton Of Boston.
Mr.. Boynton was followed by Rev.
William Il. Barton of Massachusetts,
who spoke on the same theme as Rev.
Boynton.
President Eaton then introduced two
resolutions. In the first the council re-
commended that the pastors be more
careful about tittingly keeping the day OF
prayer in colleges, which is the last
Thursday IN January. The second re-
commended that pastors set apart the
Sunday previous for preaching suitable
educational sermons. They were adopted.
At the evening session it was voted TO
hold the next council Gn 1929 at the
First Congregational Church in Portland,
Oregon.
The report of the Foreign Mission
Board was given by Rev. G. II. Daniels.
Addresses were made by Rev. f. w.
Bates of East Africa, Rev. Charles w.
Lampson of Connecticut, Rev. John w.
President of Marietta College,
Marietta, o.. and by Samuel b. Capen of
Boston.