The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-01-27

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ample endowment, and a plentiful sup
| ply of students, a few universities for
| professional studies, properly located,
with theological schools doing supple
| mentary work, and at the capital OF
| the nation the American university to
do work equally as well as the most
| thoroughly equipped university in Ger
many, or elsewhere, can do. SO that
our ambitious young scholars may not
be compelled to go abroad in order to
have the finishing touches placed upon
them.
Our UNCONVENTIONAL school work has
been profitable from the beginning;
none has been more So They have been
as a rule not only centers of learning.
but centers of religious power, great
and sweeping revivals of genuine New
Testament religion have occurred year
by year in our schools.
AT the Methodist affairs in our col
leges, generally commencing on this
day, the day of prayer for colleges, have
our young people crowded, and been
happily converted to God. and then
they have been trained according to
our Bible standard of Christianity,
and from those institutions of learning
have gone forth missionaries and min
listers of the gospel, to spread scrip
tural holiness all over these lands
And not only ministers and missionar-
consecrated physicians, lawyers and
skilled artisans in all the honorable
works and walks of life. To-day is
marking the beginning of the most
glorious of all the grand epochs that
have marked the onward sweep of our
grand evangelistic church. I mean
the twentieth century offering of 500
100000 to the cause of education. and
100000 souls saved by the blood of
the Lamb.
Il do not raise the question, can it
be done? 1t can. and l have not
doubt but it will. An enthused con-
secrated Methodism can accomplish
anything that can be done toward lift
ing up humanity 1t must be done. If
Methodism is to march through the
twentieth century with the same con-
quering tread that has marked her
progress in the past, she must meet
this imperative demand of the hour
Our people have wealth. Our minis
ters have zeal and earnestness. Gods
spirit has His place in the hearts OF
our people. The Son of Man still walks
in the midst of the candlesticks, and
he holds in his right hand the stars
and those stars are shining, and He
bids them shine on and illuminate the
world, and we are hearing His call and
obeying, and our glorious church dare
not, must not. it will not, disobey the
call The s2O,O0O,0O0 will be laid down
at the feet of the Redeemer, and with
this money our colleges will take on
them new life Our own Montana WG<-
leyan university will be enabled to do
the part assigned her in this great
state, destined to be so much greater,
and to those colleges will flock our
choicest young men and women, and
guided by the Jealous, educated and
consecrated teachers. these students
will ha shirt N
Master and thoroughly equipped in
head and heart, they will go forth to
make this world the kingdom of our
Lord and His Christ
The following resolutions we're intro
duced and adopted:
Whereas, The matter of tithing, as
the scriptures set it forth, wherever
tried has been wonderfully successful,
and the Christian Endeavor societies
having organized more than 10000 En-
deaVorers into tithng bands With most
remarkable success; therefore, be it
Resolved, by the Epworth league dis
trict convention of Helena district, That
we would urge every Epworth league
within the bounds of this district to
organize a tithing band at once, giving
every member of the league, as well as
every member of the church, an Oppor-
tunity to unite in this noble work of
advancing the kingdom of God by
means of that most necessary thing
after the holy spirit, and that it shall
be the duty of the district president to
see that each league shall be urged to
adopt this work.
Whereas, There are certain evils
very subtle and encroaching which I'M
dermine the spiritual life of the young
people more than anything else, and it
being the object of our rules and re-
in the discipline as well as the |
object of our pledge to discourage these |
things; therefore, be it
Resolved, by the Helena District Ep- |
worth league, in session at Butte, |
Mont, Jan. rs. 1899, That it is the duty |
of each Epworth league president with |
in the bounds of this district to not |
only give each member an opportunity |
to sign the pledge, but to urge this mat
ter frequently upon all members.
Whereas, Unity of purpose and ef-
fort are necessary for the best work
for the Master; therefore, be it
Resolved, by the Helena District Ep-
worth league, in session at Butte,
Mont, Jan. &C. 1899, That it is the sense
Of this convention that the work of the
Epworth league in the conference would |
be enhanced by the election of the state
officers who now hold office as the off |
GERS of the conference Epworth league |
when that shall be organized at the |
next annual convention"
DR.. Tiff took up a collection for the |
Montana Wesleyan university and $125 |
was received.
THE Duty of the Epworth League to
the Montana Wesleyan University" was
the subject of an address by c. D. |
Crouch, and a paper on THE Revival
of the League" was read by A. w Rob-
erts In the evening an Epworth league
rally was held and addresses were made
by DR.. Tiff and Rev. w. T. Euster of
Anaconda.