Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-19
Listen to the Reports Of Its Diff
ferent Committees
THE TEMPERANCE WORK
Number Of Churches and Missions ana
Their Financial Standing--Other
Reports.


were announced. Some of the special
committees reported. The committee on
reduced representatives reported alter
native resolutions, one making the num-
ber of commissioners 442 and the other
3OO Reports of boards and commission
ers were then presented. The permanent
committee on temperance submitted their
report which was in part:
1.-The committe has labored to cultivate
public sentiment in favor of total alb
stinence from intoxicating beverages by
the individual and the complete sup
preston Of the traffic by the strong arm
of the law. In the year now closing as
heretofore, the endeavor has been that
from the pulpit, in the home and Sabbath
school and in all schools and colleges
sound instruction should be given pro-
motive of proper personal habits and of
the correction of social drinking GUS
toms. Such aid and cooperation as SEEM
ed competent to church temperance
committee, we have rendered, to efforts
for securing governmental action either
in better legislation or enforcement of the
prohibitory features of existing laws. The
instruments by which your committee
works are mainly the president and the
press.
"In few instances officers and men,
bers Of the committee have addressed
the ecclesiastical bodies or other public
assemblies, but the limitations imposed
by depleted treasury have usually con-
fined us to narrow territorial bounds The
small sum furnished for the prosecution
of the work has therefore been mainly ex-
pended in the printing and distributing
of literature and in correspondence
through the mails. Though our temper
ance mission work among the colored
people Of the south has not been aban-
doned, it has been found impossible to
continue it except upon very limited
scale and in a rather desultory way. We
ask the general assembly to consider the
advisability of recommending that in all
such states the amending of school laws
shall be sought as shall prohibit the en-
ployment as teachers of persons addicted
to the occasional use Of intoxicating bev-
erages.
What railway demands even in the
engineer or conductor of freight train
will not surely be deemed an excessive re-
quirement regarding those intrusted with
this society. Your committee would in
woke action by the assembly emphatically
protesting against the fragrant defiance
of the will Of the people and of the plain
meaning of the laws of the congress in
entailing the beer canteen in the army
and appealing to the president for it's
suppression"
The nf tho r. Fo
disabled ministers and the widows and
orphans of deceased ministers showed the !
receipts from Sabbath schools and
churches $79, 1874; individuals, $4,000; in
terest permanent funds, $7O,345; interest
deposits in bank, 1915: interest from
funds, $340; unrestricted legacies, $751;
1872; total, $1S5,513 as against $197136 in
1S97-9S The permanent fund amounts to
$1,445,59S. During the current year funds
were received from 4,308, 339 churches
failing to send any. For the year ending
March 81, there We're on the rolls 877
beneficiaries. The average amount paid
all annuititants was $22620; to ministers
On the honorably retired rolls s272sO,
while Al new names had been added to
Inc roll OF annuititants, A widows, two
women missionaries and one orphan,
here We're only two more families than
asst year.
The board Of foreign missions in their
report said: "The transfer of the Philip
pine islands to the United States opened
l new field for Christian missions. The
BOARD had prepared for this by a confer j
'nce with other missionary agencies so
here might be no wasteful competition
n new fields. Nearly $40, 900 had been re-
'eived for this purpose and two mission. {
IRIS sent to Manila. In Korea and China
is exerting mighty influ- {
nee, which has already resulted in a
oyal proclamation of religious liberty.
The board rejoices in the report that the
ear ends without any deficit. Receipts )
or year were $s63.743. compared with q
ss1, 81 for last year." y
The report of the treasurer showed that e
fferings had been received from 4753
hurches. The report Of the auditors '
howed that the current and invested as
cts amount to $1.7ss,210 and liabilities to =
!, ,320,212. The report Of the board of ]
ONE missions shows the number of mis- v
ionaries employed was 2.112. The synods fl
expended $125,0O0 in their support and the ;
card $685, ,906 in field work. :,