The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-10-16
ARE MUCH EHTHUSED
Friends Hold Grand Temper
ance Meeting.
PROMINENT FRIENDS SPOKE
Reminences of Liquor Traffic
in 0Iden Times.
PROMINENT FRIENDS SPOKE

The o'clock meeting yesterday was
c,,nducted by J. Morris Lemon and ]
~. lrren Elder and was an occasion Of
mus h profit Complete consideration and
deaaa to self was insisted upon as nee
essary for each member. We admire
the spi rit that leads the missionaries to
take tn = gospel to the heather, but we
need the same exactly for our work at
home.
The rneeA ng for discipline at 10 o'clock
considered Al uendments to the new consti-
tuition and discipline which is to go into
force at this time. This is to bring Kan
sas' Yearly meeting into uniformity with
the other American Yearly meetings,
At the 2 O'Clock session, the epistles
from other Yearly meetings were taken
Up. Several of them were read, including
those from New YORK, Baltimore, New
England Indiana and the London general
epistle TO all the other Yearly meetings.
The committee Oh nominations reported
names for various boards and commit
tees of the church. The board Of directors
Of the university are: James NJ. Davis,
John C. Kirby. Nary Jones. Josiah Bin
ford, Calvin c. Kessinger. Martha NJ.
Woodard, Oliver Q. Elliott, Nathan
Brown, Asa D. Kennedy, Albert i. Cox,
David L. Davis, Phineas Y. Hockett, Mat
tie A. Pitts.
The committee on Bible school work
made an interesting report at this ses-
sion, showing much progress during the
past year. Lewis Z. Stout Of Western
Yearly meeting made avery profitable
and instructive address upon The Ulti-
mate Aim OF the Bible school" He said
the aim of the Bible school should be
TO aid in the evangelizing of the world
-Four cornerstonse may be as founda-
ton for successful Bible school work:
% Humility. % devotion to the church
and to the textbook Of the church, -
ronsecrated Individuality, "a cooperation.
There is too much Of a haphazard way Of
looking into Gods word, like the old dea-
con who had a custom opening the book
at random each morning and taking the
first passage catching his eye as a lesson
for the day. one morning his eye caught
the passage, And he went and hanged
food in that, so he tried again. This
time he turned to Go, thou and do like
wise This did not improve matters
much, so as the third time is the charm,
he tried again. This time. What thou
doest. do quickly, met his eye and it
cured him If you are a teacher and
have not read the Bible through. be sure
and do so before next Yearly meeting.
Convention work in township. county
and state unions is very beneficial. To
this union convention work is due largely
the crumbling down of UNCONVENTIONAL
walls"
Gilbert Farr Of Iowa made a plea for
q cradle row in the school The little
folks should be early brought to Christ
by Bible stories.
Lindley Wells said: Have the sun
day school stay to the church"
The evening session was under the
direction Of the temperance committee of
the Yearly meeting. At the rear of the
platform, as background for those oc-
cupying seats thereon. hung a large flag
while over the front Of the stage another
hung in graceful folds. After a song ser
vice led by Prof. Harold. in which the
audience, standing, joined in singing
America" Mrs. Daisy Barr read the
lesson Tor the evening and led in PRAYER
that this nation might wash its hands
from any share in the liquor traffic ana
that the Kansas Yearly meeting might
be clean and blaTneIess in the matter
Then the superintendent, Mrs. Mary Sib-
belts. made a report of the work Of the
year, showing that much had been done.
Iindley Wells of Illinois was next in
troduced, who addressed the assembly
upon the subject of Temperance" 81
don't know Of any movement which gives
more ground for hope of success. The
past century has shown great progress
in this sentiment In 1872. James Oxlev
introduced a resolution in a Methodist
conference providing that any minister
local or travelling preacher who is en-
gagged in retail business of spirituous
or malt liquor. be dismissed, and con
ference would not pass ii. In 1916 this
same crank OXiey was there again with
his resolution and this time it was passed
10y striking out the words malt LIQUORS.
SO that Methodist preachers could stiu
sell beer Compare that with the present
action Of the biethodlst conferences which
say shat to license the trafRce is sin:
&c cannot be legaized without sim ] have
GCen talking about the progress in the
NJ. = church Now I VIII ten a little
story on our own church. in 1855.
monthly meeting ia eastern Tennessee
made minnie instructng the officials
Of the church 10 use the meetings money
and purchase whiskey that the poor mem
bers might have if in harvest time. Tho
advance in temperance sentiment has
been marked in many lines. The tenn
perance instruction in the public schools
shows the ad-ance in the educational
world in the business world. large cor
porations do nos allow their employees