The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-10-18
MEETS NEXT IN BOSTON
Anarchy Strongly C0nd emned
 in the Pastoral Letter.
Citizen Who Refuses His Civil Duty Partly Responsible for the Decay of . Nation-Mis-
 sions the Watchword.


 America has adjourned sine die. The next convention is to be held in Boston in 1904. Today it was agreed to make Honolulu and Cuba missionary districts, and to create the missionary district of Salina out of the diocese of Kansas. The election of Rev. Cameron Mann as mis- sionary bishop of North Dakota was con- cured in by the House of Bishops. Both houses agreed to the report of the com mittee on the proposed Huntington amendment to Article x of the constitu- ton. This action virtually relegates the matter to the next general convention. On the adoption of the report Dr. Hunt ington says he would leave to younger men the continuance of the fight he had begun.
 The closing exercises of the conv .nrion were impressive. The Bishops. attired in their robes of office. marched in process sion into the church. As they walked up the main aisle the vested choir of Trinity and the congregation joined in singing. The bishops were seated on the platform inside the chancel and prayer service was conducted by President Lindsay of the | House of Deputies. Bishop Doane of 1 Albany then called for n contribution to be applied toward reducing the deficit in the general missionary fund.
 Pastoral Letter.
 The triennial pastoral letter was read | by Bishop Dudley of Kentucky. The let- ter which is very long, reviews the mis- sionary work of the church and con- l tinues:
 Na ul,f af | hindrance in the way of the kingdom s advancement in our time, as indeed, it has been in every period of the church's | history, as the spirit. of the age, the very atmosphere in which we must have our life. Because that sTlrft | changes because that enfolding at- | mosphere is different now from that any before did encompass Christian warriors, therefore 1t is that the new dangers are apparent and new methods of warfare must be employed.
 But we must strive against the last and most evil result of the tendency of our age-the reckless spirit of individual license, the caricature and contradiction of that ideal of personal liberty which the church has created and perpetuated among men. The fool who saith in his heart there Is no God, is quick to go forward to the natural corollary that
  mandinR his recognition and obedience.
 And, finally, the defiant denial of the God who ordaineth, finds continuation in the assertion that there shall be no longer powers of human government to whom in superstitious faith obedience has been rendered, and anarchy is here as the legitimate offspring of unbelief.
 The Crime at Buffalo.
 'HThe crime at Buffalo by which the head of our nation was taken away was but the natural fruit of this tree of God defying denial. The great and good presi- dent was slain with the spirit of our age. We must recognize that this awful crime thrice repeated within forty years Is the offspring of the spirit of lawlessness. full grown to maturity and of malevolence, and that other children of this same evil spirit are close about us on either hand themselves, the strength of the family or Iawnessncs who make possible and cer- tain these giant monsters whose deeds of violence have shocked our souls. The faiuure of a citizen of a republican gov ernment to do his duty in the endeavor to elect honest and true men to the of fees of that government is the earliest political manifestation of this pernicious life.
 ''The citizen who first selfishy refuses his civic duty and then in natural des- cent along the easy path becomes the eiver of bribes and the corrupter of his fellows, is himself degraded more and more in the process. and the bottom is found when civic rights and civic righte- ousness are alike forgotten, when duty to his neighbor no longer demands Ter formance, when protection to weakness, the equality of free men, the conservat- ism of honesty. are no longer the ends of government, but only the securing Of peculiar privileges for a class, the com fortable enjoyment of a protected license; when duty to man is forgotten because duty to God is denied.
 ''The people aer called upon to ,uard the sanctity of their homes and the srow- | ing disregard Of the observance of Sun day Is deplored.'
 Lastly, the latter urges the memDers to carry away from the great synod the watchword of battle for the time to come missions, missions"
 The benediction was pronounced by Bishop Futile of Missouri and the convcn- tion adjourned.