The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-08

i men the entire UpuN aTONt dilu tIGEi
after cheer was given for the Merri-
mac crew.
At the evening session reports Of the
committee of arrangements for the
| second International council and the
committee on Gainsboro Memorial
church were read.
An address was delivered by Rev. 4.
II. Bradford OF Montclair. N. j., on
international Mission Of Congrega-
tionalism." lie began by observing
that every nation and every institu-
ton have those who interpret their
meaning narrowly and those who in
terpret IL broadly: tho former are sec
tarians i'm the church and i'm the state
they are ahsolutists and ul~tra-nation-
alists. Good causes are hindered by
narrow interpretations and advanced
by those who have detected in them
diviner meanings. II congregational
lists glorify their past in order to build
higher the walls which separate them
from their brethren. the sooner they
cease the better for the world. The
days of denomlnationalism are num-
bered. The International mission of
ConRreCationallsm is not different
from that Of any Of the free churches
meaning in this country by free
churches nearly all except the Roman
Catholic and Episcopaleian commun-
ions: and that il. the preservation and
~ ttti'Ai' vi ~ ~ hNAlh -
ism. These are to put conscience above
tradition, 10 insist that the spirit of
God leads men now as truly as ever,
and needs no church to interpret It's
message. The hope Of a pure church
and a pure state depends upon the de-
velopment Of men of the Puritan type.
The DAYS of the few are passed: de-
mocracy is the order OF the future.
| Those who face the goth century are
thinking Of a church as broad az the
kingdom OF God. and a nation which
knows Itself to exist only to hasten
that kingdom. 1t IL the large privi-
lege of the free churches then to CO.
operate with all who have entered into
| an appreciation OF Christ's purpose for
the world.
Here we are met by the fact that the
free churches exist almost exclusively
among English-speaking nations. Thus
their international mission Is TO pro-
mote harmony among all such. Eng
Iish-speaking people are beginning 10
see eve to eye, learning what to forget
and what 10 remember. 1t remains for
men of Christian vision to make this
armon enduring, not that we may
help one another against the world,
but that we may join hands in lead
ing the world toward unity and broth
erhood. To uplift this ideal is the sur
passing privilege of the pulpit the
I throne OF DbNfl III NV -
Just now If two great peoples Will bury
their differences and link hands for the
peace and welfare of the world, the day
will be near when one mans good shall
be an mems law. We may help TO Din
them together. then to permeate tnem
with the principles of Puritanism. that
the democracy Of the future may Dc
a neonIe fearing God and receiving their
laws from Him. TO The END that inc
unity of the world may be realized both
politically and spiritually. h IL no
idle dream. The world is actually com
ing together. When the people say that
war must go the nations viii nave pro-
crossed a long way, even though Tor u
time the strife among classes is lnten-
sifed. The growth OF democracy VIII
take care Of that.
To the end that the free churches may
help change political unity when IL
shall come into actual harmony De
tween the nations. education is re-
uuired, and evangelization. The ior-
eign missionary enterprise has not YET
been understood. 1t is not a crusade
To make to make Presbyterians or
~EpiscopaIians out of Buddhists and
Vedantists, IL is the proclamation OF
universal fatheThood and brotherhood
that the life OF the universe n the
ages is the love that led Jesus to the
cross. brotherhood is the larger pat
riotism. 1t Is a great thing TO be AN
American, but IL is greater To be a man.
a united world with no fatherhood
and no brotherhood would end In an
archy. Others will push commerce; sell
fshness will promote education: but the
Christian church alone appreciates the
Importance of evanRelization, for II
alone deals with man as "A spirit. MOI
to win proselytes to any name, not 70
induce acceptance Of any creed. much
less to change Buddhist bigots into
Christian bigots. are we commissioned
but we are called on to preach "A per
sonnl God, the Father Almighty, 10
teach men to love one another with the
love which was i'm Christ. 10 make the
future democracy a blessing by helping
every individual to realize that every
other man is a child of God, and tina
the interests Of one are the interests
OF all.
DIR. +. A. Noble. the moderator. spoke
on the subject, THE Part of Congre
~gationaIism in the Making Of the Ma
ton"
Rev. A. McKennal of England ad
dressed the council briefly. and his
reference TO the existing relations o.
the English speaking people was round
ly cheered.
The choir rendered God Save tn,
Queen" In honor OF Rev. McKennal.
The Rev. William IL. Ward, II. ID.
editor of the New York Independent
read the report OF the committee OF
: union with denominations. which wal
in part:
"As the missionary work Of tn
church especially requires the eNhibi
ton of the unity Of those who carr.
[ II on the same unity because incrcas
ingly necessary In the work Of tn.
church at home. Various causes. bu
, especially the growing sense OF the uRli
ness Of UNCONVENTIONAL separation an,
jealousy have led 20 much thought. an
. vet little visible progress in the unioI
OF Christian bodies during the pas
=, three years.
7. I'VE recommend hat a representative
f. council or conference OF the Protest
ant churches in the United States an
: Canada he called to meet I'm the cit
. Of Washington in May. 1900. for tn
: purpose OF organizing an in~ter-denomi
national union which shall meet a
a regular periods and which shall serv
= n a NLaLhln nNnEHa.lAn Of The mmlLN .