The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-11-02
THURSDAY MORNING.

THURSDAY MORNING.
The Thursday morning Conference
was led by Rev. HI. r. Rose, Maine, 9TH
ers participating.
President Metcalf called the Conven-
ton to order at $40 and called upon
Rev. DIR. Biddle, of Massachusetts, to
lead in prayer.
Rev. DR.. Capen reported for Com
mission appointed in 1883 on Hymn
Book. The result is the published book
Church Harmonies, New and Old"
Report was accepted and the Commits
sion discharged.
The President appointed the Commit
tee of five on closer organic sympathy
between this Convention and the Uni
versalist Publishing House, as follows:
Rev. H. l. Cushman, DID,, of Rhode
Island; Rev. S. III. M'Collester, DID,, of
New Hampshire; Mr.. j. l.. Sweet, of
Massachusetts,; Hon. G.. III. Russell, of
Pennsylvania; Rev. w. S. Perkins, of
Connecticut.
hEfORT ON REPORTS.
The special assignment for 10 o'clock
was the Report of the Committee on
Official Reports. The Committee re.
ported through its Chairman. Rev. DR.,
Cantwell, of Illinois, as follows:
To the Unirersalist General Conven
ton:
q onp ffN0 b, e i
the official reports submitted at this ses
sion of the Convention, respectfully re-
port as follows:
Twenty-ninth Annual Report.
The Twenty ninth Annual Report of
the Board of Trustees, with accompany
ing documents. read at the District Con-
ferences of 1894, is hereby approved.
II.
Y. p. c. U.
The committee heartily endorses the
expressions of the Board relative to the
Y. P. G. U. We believe it is power for
good and the most hopeful sign of the
perpetuity of our church. and we recon-
mend that the officers and clergy of the
Church utilize this new providential
force to the utmost possible extent.
Ill.
The Japan Mission.
A signal feature of our present Church
activities is our Mission to Japan. No
other single missionary movement of our
Church has commanded so much money.
No other has won such large place in
the hearts of our people. Wisely and
bravely outlined and begun by DIR. Perrin,
the Mission is nobly carried on by band
of missionaries as conscientious and de-
voted as represents any church in for
eign lands. The Mission is pronounced
success and we are committed to it. We
urge upon the churches, therefore, a
prompt response to the new appeal of
the Trustees, in aid of this enterprise.
".
w. C. A and Pacific Mission
We note with satisfaction that the
missionary employed by the w. G. A.,
the National Womans Missionary Soci-
ETY. of our Church, through the sugges-
tion of the Board of Trustees, seems to
be fulfilling the expectation of all and is
believed to be fully competent to succeed
in establishing our Faith more firmly and
extensively on the Pacific Coast. The
Convention heartily commends the in
terest and readiness with which the
women of our Church have adopted this
enterprise.
V.
General Missions
Believing that the Universalist Church
should be national in fact as we'll as
name, your committee notes with pleas
ure the indications Of expansion along
home missionary lines.
l. We recognize in the appointment
of Rev. @ III. Shinn as General Mission
airy, an earnest of the desire of the Trus
tees to enlarge the missionary operations
of the Convention in the inviting fields
of the Western and Southern Statep. 1t
is a source of qualification that the
Convention has, in this officer, an official
representative whose special work will
increase the general. interest in the Con-
vention and inspire much needed en-
thusiasm all along the line. We recon-
mend that the Board continue his servi-
Cos and that he be instructed to foster
the Cent Day plan and administer the
same as he may find opportunity.
2. We congratulate the Church on the
SUCCESS already achieved at Norfolk and
Suffolk. Va, through the wise and faith
full labors of the pastors, and regard this
noNOtuChO Do al upon OOOI W CdIIy LILO
Gospel of Universalism to the colored
people of the South.
3. We favor the policy adopted by the
Board of Trustees of sustaining by judi
cious grants of money the churches al
ready established in the West and South
and express the confidence that the
fruits of UNCONVENTIONAL labor in these
most important regions will abundantly
justify the expenditure in their behalf.
VII.
The Cent-a-Day Plan.
In regard to financial contributions
necessary to the maintenance of the var
ious enterprises which the Convention
has in hand, your committee would say
that while the Cent a-Day plan adopted
by the Board of Trustees has not yielded
such returns as we're confidently ex-
pected, yet we do not see cause for dis
enlargement nor for abandonment of
the plan. The experience of the past
year has simply shown that the aban-
donment of the quota" plan at Wash
ington, and before the Cent-a-D Day OK
pertinent was fully explained and intro
duced into the various parishes compos-
ing the constituency OF the Convention,
was premature.
The quota plan in our judgment
should be reinstated and urged with
renewed vigor, But in conjunction with