Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-07-29
y COMPLETES IT'S WORK.
Closing Sessions of Epworth Lengue
Convention-ResoIu Covering
y, Many Questions Adopted.

Indianapolis, Ind, July 24.-The Ep-
worth league convention formally ad
journed 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 filled city pulpits in the
morning and the afternoon was devoted
to missionary conferences. At night
Hon. f. ID. Fuller, Topeka, Kan, pre-
sided in the tent; Rev. j. +. Berry,
Chicago, at Tomlinson hall; Rev. j. II.
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
consecration services were held. In the
tent this service was conducted by ID.
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 Attorney-General 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
meeting places by DR.. Edwin A. Schell,
of Chicago, who is n member of the reso-
lutions committee. The 10000 people
heard the resolutions with earnest at
tention and broke into vigorous APP
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 a remedy for the existing evil
of plural marriages.
This resolution is as follows:
1--WE regard the election of n polygamist
to congress by the state of Utah as an in
ton off n At1,ar rinDN n{t zaY
and an insult to the sanctity and purity
of the Christian home. We protest against
the election of Mr.. Roberts TO the house
of representatives and demand that one
whose life is so repugnant TO Christian
principles shall be expelled from that grea
lawmaking body.
This convention representing 2,5OOGO
members does also hereby most respect
fully and most earnestly call upon ever!
member of the senate and house of repre-
sentatives to use his utmost endeavor anc
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
islatures of the several states definin.
legal marriage TO be monogamic and max
ing polygamy, under whatever guise o
pretense, crime against the United
States. punishable by the severest penal
ties, including disfranehisement and dis
qualification to vote. or to hold any offic
of homer or emolument under the Unitet
States, or any state or territory thereof.
This convention also urges upon ever,
qualified voter in our various local socie
ties throughout the land to use his utmos
endeaYor and to exhaust all honorabl
means 10 make known to the representa-
tive of his district and senators of his stat
the earnest desire of their constituents TO
the expulsion of the said Brigham H. Rob
erts and the adoption of a constitutions
amendment which will efectually put
stop to the practice of polygamy With
the borders of our beloved land and to as
sure the said senator's and representative
of the moral support and hearty coopera
ton of every good citizen in their effort
curse of polygamy."