The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-09-18
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delivered, the HISl OA 1HC AN'Ot@t-'
 of the Mission Circle-its Aims and Op-
 portunities," by Mrs. E. s. Atkinson, Of | New Britain, and another by Mrs. Cor della A. Quinby, of Boston, president of the National Universalist Woman's $
 Missionary society and the need of mis- sion work in every parish. Both were very instructive addresses. At the evening session the first ad- dress was delivered by Rev. Frank o. Hall, D. D., pastor of the Church of the Divine Paternity, New York.
 Dr. Halls subject was Signs of the Times in the World of Religion"
 After the singing of hymn by the choir and congregation Rev. Alexander R. Irvine, pastor of the Peoples church of New Haven, spoke on ''The Church of the Democracy" This address was intensely interesting and the speaker was several times interrupted by ap- plause. An abstract of the address fol- lows:
 ITO speak of the church of the de- mocracy projects us considerably into the future. There are churches here and there with the spirit of democracy, but at present the church of democracy does not exist. .Whither, is the word or the church to-day. The undoubted ten deney of the churches in our great cltles is away from the people. The masses move in by the tens of thousands ana the churches move out as quickly as they can. One of two things every church in the congested regions must do. They must be endowed, they must have money to keep the doors open whether the pews are rented or not, Q they must adapt themselves to the changed conditions. They generally move out. Some of them die. Some stay, but might as well be dead. $I
 "Doctrlnally we are the antipodes or the Roman Catholic church, but want to say as between the church of sound doctrine and liberal views-the church of progress in thought which moves away from the people and the Roman church which stays down there in the seething whirlpool of common life-be7 fore God. I prefer the Roman church.
 "Now can ths tendency go on for ever? No, not much longer! Deplora- ble as this movement is, it is not so bad as the ethical problem which confronts the churches, of to-day. It is, think, rather the problem of the ministers than of the church.
 Here for instance is7a pastor in city church. His parishioners are we'll to-do business men. They are stock holders in the city properties Suppose those corporations are literally stealing from the masses of the people. of course it is done nicely, it is such of an improvement on the old style of thiey- ing-it is done by buying an alderman who gets franchise for a considera- tion., How is pastor to stay in a church like that and be a true man. I speak not of isolated instances 1t is the rule I speak of and not the exception. There seems 70 he but one way out of that dilemma-that is a return to the making of -. Another problem is the matter of creed. All the denominations are crys- talized around some creed-a theological yardstick by which everybody is meas ured up at the church door. No church can be church of the democracy and be bound by creed. There are signs of breaking up of this, but the system prevails to-day. We in New Haven have not solved these problems, but we have solved our own. We have al church founded on single sentence; I've the undersigned do hereby form ourselves into self-governing commu- nity for the worship of God and the service of man." That takes in the democracy; it takes in all. V
 This morning the various committees were announced as follows:
 On official report-F. P. Randall, Rev. F. P. Dillingham;, Rev. John Coleman Adams, D. D., Rev J. F. Marvin and Charles Buckingham.
 On election-J. N. Joy, Mrs. Maud B. Cobb and Mrs. Charles Gay. s5
 On nominattons-R. Fisk, Mrs. J. l.. I Andrews and Joseph FfCobb.
 On resolutions-Ch Charles Gay, Mrs. M. A. West and E. c. Pinney.
 Resolutions on the death of Mrs. El- lis, of Hartford, and James Staples, of Bridgeport, were passed; also. resolu- tions over the removal of Rev. E. M. \ Grant, of Stamford, to Dorchester, Mass. Rev. MT. Grant was for num- Der of years secretary of the conven- ton.
 RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED.
 Several resolutions were then present. ed and the following were adopted after amendments had been made:
 That during the coming year ah effort be made to pay off the debts that are burdening some of our parishes, and that the executive committee of the convention be requested to take such means as to them shall seem expedient to promote this work.
 That the fund known as the New London fund be fixed at $S,500 that the surplus above that amount in the fund be used to repay portion of the loan from the Ministerial Relief fund, and that hereafter the whole of the income from this fund be devoted to the gen. eral purpose of the convention.
 That series of mid-week meetings be held in each of the parishes of the