Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-10-22
BIG MEETING
CONCLUDED
coNeREeATIoNALlsTs LEAVE
DIES MONIES AND GO TO ST..
LOUIS TODAY.
NO COLOR LINEN CHURCH
Lively Debate Brought Out Over the
Question Of Designating "coIored"
Church In Year Book-No Radical
Action on Divorce Question.
What tho Council Did.


Defeated resolution indorsing intro
duction Of Bible as literature in schools
of Porto Rico and Philippines.
Refused to draw color line by plac-
ing "colored" after names of negro
churches In the south.
Refused to adopt resolution com
mending American Bible society, with
amendments to likewise recognize the
Berkshire County Bible society.
Established committee on relations
of church to problems of family life
including divorce, to study question
and advise church on action.
Revised resolutions on Chinese ex-
clusion act, passed yesterday.
Provided that strict examinations be
made by ordaining councils before
granting licenses to aspiring ministers.
Advised an adult course in Sunday
school work and committee to con.
fer with International Sunday School,
association officers in this regard.
Passed resolutions denouncing Ii
quor traffic.
Adopted resolutions on extension of
church work in large cities by perfect-
ing city organizations
Authorized committee on polity to
prepare course Of STUDY for those
wishing ordination.
Passed resolutions of sympathy with
the ArmenlanS.
Changed name Of committee on la
Dor to industrial committee
Endorsed petition Of Free Baptists
for representation in conference on
church unity.
Appointed standing committees and
concluded session.
st. Louis, Mo-, Oct. 81, - Several
thousand descendants of the Pilgrims
and the Puritans from various parts O.
the country assembled here today tt
appropriately celebrate "Congrega,
tional Day" at the Louisiana Pus
chase exposition. The object OF great
interest and veneration to those in
Festival Hall where the principal eN
ercises were held, was portion of the
Plymouth Rock, on which the Pilgrims
landed on December 81, 1920.
Des Monies, Oct. 81. with the CON
Guiding session last night at Plymouth
church and the address of Moderator
Washington GLADDEN. In which he re
viewed the work Of the great body
the twelfth triennial session of the Ma
tional Council Of Congregational
churches became q matter of history
Many of the distinguished guests are
speeding to their ONES or toward st
Louis where Congregational Day Ii
being observed today.
Business was transacted with un
usual dispatch yesterday afternoon
made necessary by the rush of thu
closing hours of the session. De
bates were cut short and importan
matters were enacted with little or NJ
discussion.
| Bible Society Controversy.
The report of the committee an
pointed last Saturday to determine tn,
merits of the resolution passed in
dorsing the American Bible society
again commended the society, thereb,
arousing DR.. Philip S. Moxom Of Mas
sachusetts to action. DR.. Moxom, VIII,
is president of the Berkshire Count,
Bible society, proposed an amendment
4 to the report of the committee com
mending his organization and other
associated with 1t. This was too mucl
for the council and both the recon
mendation of the committee and tn,
amendment or Dr. Moxom were turned
down.
No Color Line.
| "A iFolJ oSUdLc OH tue lncOf5OraL10l
into the year book after the name O
the negro churches the word, colore
took place when President Dan I
Bradley, of Grinneil as chairman of tn
business committee, read the commit
tees recommendation that such aetio
to be taken,
1T is simply to designate the churc
as we designate the Swedish, Germa
and other churches" the cemmitte
explained.
But the coiored brethren present OF
posed it and their wishes prevailed
the council voting down the recon
mendation.
Hugh Fl, Proctor, OF Atlanta. secon
assistant moderator of the council an
q negro said. II pray to God you won
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