The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-01
ARMED AT ITS GROWTH |
The Baptists Denounce Mormon
ism in Vigorous Terms.
IT'S GROWING STRONGER
Glowing Accounts of the Missionary
Vineyards Awaiting Baptist Labor
ers-Abolition of the Canteen
System Is Endorsed.

| San Francisco, May 31.-At the after
noon session of the Baptists, Rev. Ro-
| bert Whitaker, general missionary for
| Northern California, spoke on Califor-
mia as a mission field. Rev. T. c. Doug
las of Pasadena, general missionary of
| Southern California, followed, present.
ing the needs and possibilities of that
| field.
Washington as a Mission was pre-
sented by Rev. w. E. Randall, general
| missionary for the state. He made
| telling speech, as he told of the great
wealth of mountain and forest and har-
Dor facilities andsthe encouragement for
| planting the gospel in that state. He
was followed by Rev A. M. Allyn. gen.
eral missionary for Eastern Washing
| ton and Northern Idaho.
KEY. N. b. Rairden, missionary super
| intendent of the trans Mississippi dis
trict, was called upon to speak. He
! told OF the testimonies which the In
dams whom he had taken East last
year bore to the warm reception they
| had received from their white brethren.
The Indians of Oklahoma are gradually
| being converted. Some are baptized
| every month. The churches ought to he
planted in hundred different places
NIlefe LIZZIE are none now.
| Dr. Morehouse read the following
| telegram, which was signed by the First
Baptist church of Skagway, Alaska:
| Alaska, stretches hands to Cod Pray
for and help Alaska"
| Dr. Morehouse then invited ell Bap-
| lists who could to attend a convention
In SkagWay next year.
| The Rev. H. B. Stolman, pastor of the
| First Baptist church, delivered an able
address on THE Aggressive Attitude of
| Mormonism He spoke in part as fol-
| lows: AT no time has Mormonism been
| in the prosperous condition it is to-day
| and it is growing more and more ag-
| gressive. Word has been sent out by
| the heads of the pernicious faith in
| Utah that the Mormon church is about
to put two travelling missionaries in
every county in every state in this coun-
| try. There are at present 460 missiona-
ries in the field, and during the past
year they held 71.000 meetings, gave
away $4,000 tracts and $4,000 books.
In that time they have baptized 1,225
people. They are everywhere, in our
colleges. in our universities, all over
the country. They are preaching
! yelled doctrine, and wren the veil is
| lifted, then it is found that it is not
God, but Adam, they are preaching.
! What man is God once was. Adam is
| the only father with which the world
will have anything to do. Jesus Christ
| was polygamist, and what men ought
to be. That is the teaching they are
pushing with energy. They make
claims of great progress, but no more
| evidence of it can be found anywhere
than in the states adjoining Utah. I
predict that If sc makes the same prog
ress in the next five years as it has in
the past five years, Mormonism will
have secured the balance of power in
| hnrprna a
| factor in congress.
| The following named We're to-day
elected officers of the American Baptist
Home Mission society: President, Ste
phen Green; vice presidents, E. M.
Thresher, Ohio, and G. w. Crimson,
Illinois: treasurer, Frank r. Hathaway,
| New York: auditors, Edgar l.. Mars
ton, New York and r. F. Requa, New
York; corresponding secretary, A. S.
Hobart, D. D.. New York.
The committee on resolutions intro
duced the following with suitable pre-
ambles, which was adopted:
First, resolved, That We the repre-
sentatives of a million Baptists of the
| North. assembled in annual convention
in San Francisco, do earnestly protest
against B. H. Roberts becoming or re-
naming a member of the house of rep
| resentatives, because he stands before
the nation as a law-breaker and a
covenant guilty OF crimes
which shock the moral sense of people,
and because his election having taken
place on such an issue, to permit him
to hold his seat in the house Of repre-
sentatives might be understood by the
Mormon community as an Endorsement
of polygamy by that body and would
give to it such an impetus as it has
never had before in all the history of
the Mormon church. 1t might seem to
establish polygamy as a legitimate sys-
tenn of marriage and make 1t menace
to the American people which is the
cornerstone of our Christian civiliza-
ton.
Resolved, That we will use our in
fiuence with our respective representa-
tives in congress to induce them to
stand uncompromisingly for the funda-
mental principles of morality and viz
tue for the Christian honor and for the
purity of our free institutions by not
allowing the said B. H. Roberts to
have a voice in our national legislation
for single day or single hour.
Resolved That certified copy of
; these resolutions be forwarded to the
clerk of the house Of representatives,
to be presented by him to that honor
able body.
"Second-Resolved, That we urge our
entire constituency not only to favor
but to unite in all legitimate means
to effect the overthrow of the nefarious
LIQUOR traffic and the destruction of the
saloon as a power in the body polite;
be it further
Resolved That we express our
hearty approval of the law of con-
gress prohibiting the sale of liquor in
the army called the 'canteen.' and we
protest against the multiplying act of
the attorney general of the United
States"
In the evening Rev. DR.. Hubert of
Chicago was introduced to speak on
city missions. By the concurrent con-
sent of three great sections the next
:, anniversary meeting will be held in
Detroit Mich, in May, 1900. Rev. Kerr
Boyce Upper, d. D., of Philadelphia
also addressed the gathering on the
new era in the West Indies.
Peru's Election.
Lima, Peru, May 81, via Galveston