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REFUSES TO UNITE.
DR.. Buckley Tells Epworth Leaeuers
They Cannot Affiliate,

REFUSES TO UNITE.
DR.. Buckley Tells Epworth Leaeuers
They Cannot Affiliate.
Detroit, July 20.-With seven big
meetings, all we'll attended, the sixth
international convention of the Ep-
copal church came to close here last
place for holding the next convention.
Probably the most notable event in
connection with the closing services
was an address by DR.. j. M. Buckley
of New York, at the tent Ontario. DIR.
Buckley spoke on the subject of
Christ Our King" and during his adj
dress, said:
1--WE cannot affiliate with the Unitar-
ians or any other badly that does not
recognize Christ as king If we are
right in our belief and assertion of his
kingship they are unwittingly, if hon
est, blasphemers. If they are right, we
are idolators We, must everywhere
declare and maintain belief in His del
ty. l would be willing to receive
an honest doubter into the church,
but if he dogmatically declares that
Christ is not God. would be as will
ling to receive a Mormon"
Adopt Resolutions.
The same program was carried out
at each of the seven meetings and
the official resolutions wehe adopted
before adjournment. They are as fol
lows:
The young Methodism of North
America, as represented in this con-
lvention of more than 10000 dele,
gates, reflects the spirit and voices the
sentiment of 100000 of Epworthians.
| Our deliberations have known no
differences. Our intercourse is a de-
light. Distance and national boundar-
les are incidental. We each love our
country, our rulers and our flags; yet
we are so made one in Christ that all
several interests merge into His king
dom and all souls blend in common
kinship
We rejoice in the continued growth
and increasing usefulness of the young
peoples societies of the churches. We
are grateful to the Almighty God for
the marvellous successes which have
come to the Epworth League since the
last international convention at San
Francisco. The experience of the year
gives increasing evidence of the adap-
tation of the plans of the Epworth
League to the spirit and policy of
Methodism. HAs
- Hail Cooperation.
As in the past. we stand for the
broalest Christian fraternity. We hail
with special satisfaction every oppor-
tunity for practical cooperation with
our young peoples societies in Chris
tan ministry and service.
The Epworth League is not merely
young peoples movement, neither is it
to be looked upon as a separate de-
partment of the church. 1t aims to
be an embodiment of all the activities
of our church, complete manifesto
ton of the spirit of our common Meth.
odism.
First in Importance among questions
claiming our attention we place the
| systematic and devout study of the
Scriptures both for our own spiritual
growth and to give fitness for soul
winning. We consider ourselves call
ed to the work Of personal evangelism
and we enjoin all our members to en-
ter the fields now white for harvest.
We stand for present an abundant
and a conscious salvation as essential
to that power of witnessing which wins
men. We thus send out to the young
| hosts of our united .Methodism this ap-
peal for prayer-a holy waiting at the
morning watch, a pleading of the prom
| Uses of the open book for revival
Which may mean to the twentieth cen
| fury what the revival of Wesley was to
the eighteenth century and to the
world. s 49,
| Must Heed Trumpet Call.
Epworth leaguers. let us to our
| knees that we may yield the spirits
blade.
To us, as the young people of no 9th.
er age. comes the trumpet call: go We
| into all the world" and go we must
| for, lifting up our eyes we behold in
many lands Gospel opportunities rapid
| ly becoming Gospel emergencies. To
remain ignorant or Indifferent to the
cause of missions is to sin against light
and to ignore the will of God. We, a
part of Christ's army, place at His in.
! stant's disposal our means, our service
and ourselves that the world may be
evangelical in our generation.
The gigantic iniquity of the Anglo
Saxon race is fostering of the mon.
strous triffic in intoxicants. We believe
| the complete disfranchisement of the
business will abolish the dangers that
threaten us and clear up problems that
perplex us.
This whole evil organization is a
| fountain of iniquity, whose streams
poison wherever they flow 1t has nc
| redeeming feature. 1t is an environ.
ment of perdition. hence we set our
faces against this enemy of God, and
will give it no quarter in social life, in
politics-in fact nowhere until it is
relegated to it's own place.
We regard the Christian Sabbath as
| the bulwark Of defense for our Chris
tian institutions. To desecrate the Sab
bath endangers everything of import
ance to the church of God
| We recognize ourselves as stewards
of Gods estate, we urge upon all our
| members such an administration OF
that estate as those who expect to give
an account. The calls of the kingdom
are mandatory and definite. Hence
we acknowledge ourselves bound by
the law of systematic and proportionate
| giving.
| We are citizens and natriots as well