The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1899-07-28
COMPLETES IT'S WORK.
Closing Sessions Of Epworth Leaeue
COnvention-Resolu COVERING
Many Questions ADOPTED.

Indianapolis, Ind, July 24.-The Ep-
worth league convention formally adj
lourned Sunday night to meet in San
Francisco in 1901. The work was prac-
tically ended Saturday night. The final
session was devoted to addresses on
Missions. Incoming trains brought
thousands of visitors, and it was esti-
mated that the number of delegates
had reached the 10000 mark. The vis-
iting ministers filed city pulpits in the
morning and the afternoon was devoted
to missionary conferences. At night
Hon. F. D. Fuller, Topeka, Ran, pre-
sided in the tent; Rev. J. F. Berry,
Chicago, at Tomlinson hall; Rev. j. H.
Riddell, Winnipeg, Man., in the opera
house, and Rev. w. B. Chapman, Louis
vile, at Roberts Park church.
At the close of the addresses farewell
conservation services were held. In the
tent this service was conducted by d.
W. Potter, Chicago; Bishop Fitzger-
aid, Nashville, in Tomlinson hall; Rev.
l.. w. Munhall, Germantown, Pa, in the
opera house, and Rev. G.. J. Bond, in
Roberts Park church. These services
consisted of testimonies by the dele
gates, hundreds of whom spoke in all
OF the four meetings. At the close the
benediction was pronounced and the
convention adjourned.
indianapolis, Ind, July 24.-The In
ternational Epworth league spoke out
Saturday night against: -
Polygamy and polygamatic congress
men. ~
The army canteen and the position
assumed toward the canteen measure
by Acknowledgement Griggs.
The tendency of the pulpit to depart
from the old beaten paths of Biblical
doctrine.
The increasing liquor traffic and Sun
day newspapers, Sunday baseball, ex-
cursions and other amusements on the
Sabbath day.
Theresolutions were read in the three
meetin g places by DR.. Edwin A. Schen,
of Chicago, who is a member of the reso-
lutions committee. The 10000 people
heard the resolutions with earnest at
tention and broke into vigorous ap-
plause on hearing the anti-Griggs and
anti-Roberts pronunciamentos. Per-
haps the strongest resolution of the13
that were presented and adopted is the
one concerning congressman Roberts
and Mormonism. The Epworth league,
it should be noticed, not only condemns
but offers remedy for the existing evil
of plural marriages.
This resolution is as follows:
1--WE regard the election of polysamist
to congress by the state of Utah as an in
dignity offered to every American citizen
and an insult to the sanctity and purity
of the Christian home We protest against
the election OF Mr.. Roberts to the house
or representatives and demand that one
whose life is so repugnant to Christian
principles shall be expelled from that great
lawmaking body.
This convention, representing 25O0.G0G
members, does also hereby most respect-
fully and most earnestly call upon every
member OF the senate and house of repre-
sentatlves TO use his utmost endeavor and
to exhaust all honorable means to secure
action by the Fifty-fifth congress propos-
ing an amendment to the national consti-
tuition and submitting the same to the leg
lslatures of the several states, defining
iegal marriage to be monogamic and maxi
ing polygamy, under whatever guise or
pretense, crime against the United
States, punishable by the severest penal
ties, including Acknowledgement and dis
qualification to vote, or to hold any Office
or honor or emolument under the United
states, or any state or territory thereof.
This convention also urges upon every
qualified voter in our various local socfe-
ties throughout the land to use his utmost
endeaVor and to exhaust all honora BILE
means to make known to the representa-
i've OF MS district and senators of his state
the earnest desire of their constituents for
the expulsion of the said Brigham II. Rob-
erts and the adoption of a constitutional
amendment which will effectualIy put a
STOP. to the practice of polygamy within
the borders of our beloved land and to as
sure the. said senator's and REPRESENTATIVES
OF the moral support and hearty coopera-
ton OF every good citizen in their efforts
to deliver the nation from the disgrace and
curse of po!ygamy."
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