The Baraboo news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1884-1911, 1905-05-24
(From Wednesdays Daily.)

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churches of the Madison district
was opened in this city. The sess-
ions were heldin the congregational
church.
After devotional service led by
Rev. H. A. Hogan of Spring Green,
was held, Rev. Chas. Stark of Sun
Prairie, was chosen moderator.
Rev. Hogan was elected scribe.
Rev. w. J. c. Ralph of Lancaster,
spoke on the Church and the Negro
Problem: Miss Walker of Milton
and Rev. W. Dibble of Fort Atkin-
son, discussed the Church in Dis
tant Lands; and the Wisconsin
academies were brought before the
convention by Prin. W. M. Ellis of
Endeavor.
Evening Meeting.
The session on Tuesday evening
was opened by song service con-
Quoted by F. G. Gibbons of Sun
Prairie. Mr.. Gibbons possesses a
voice that greatly pleased his
hearers on this occasion. He
rendered solo later in the evening.
The address of welcome was
made by Supt. G.. W. Gehrand of
the Baraboo schools.
The response to the address of
welcome was made by Rev. Stark,
the moderator.
After a solo by Walter Andrews
of Baraboo, which was greatly
appreciated, Rev. E. G. Updike, D.
D. of Madison, spoke upon the
subject: The church a Factor in
Modern Society. DR.. Updike be-
lieves that the church should not
undertake to do all of the work of
charity nor of education nor of the
many institutions found outside of
the religious bodies. He believes it
is the duty of the church to project
| it's life into the institutions of the
state. He discussed the question
as to whether or not the church is
on the decline, and said that some
were inclined to believe that clubs
were taking the place of the church.
The speaker said that if this be
true that the church was doomed
but held that the societies could
not take the place of the church
from the very nature of their
existence. He quoted Rev. Jenkin
Lloyd Jones of Chicago, as saying
that in time there would be turn
ing back to the church.
Rev. Updike believed that the
church should adjust itself to new
moral conditions in order that the
organization keep pace with the
intellectual and other changes
going on. One reason so many are
killed on the railroads is that the
management thinks more of the
gain than of the loss of life and the
speaker was loudly applauded when
he disapproved of the stolen mill
ions of the money kings filing the
church Golfers and supplying the
funds for work in foreign fields.
Never Sleeps in Church,
Rev. Updike was followed by
Editor A. P. Wilder of the Madison
State Journal who we'll sustained
his reputation as an excellent
speaker. He said in part:
II hardly know why two Madison
speakers monopolize the program
tonight. I hope that you didn't
put DR.. Updike on that might
have the pleasure of listening to
him; hear him every Sunday and
that's enough to satisfy m. l
never go to sleep under his admin
istration, but that's probably due
to my practice of taking along a
number of young children. The
other morning at one of the doc
tors most eloquent passages my
boy whispered to me, Hes getting
mad now Pa, aint hep"
The facts are probably these:
DR.. Updike was assigned to the pro
gramme and then the committee in
looking it over said it was hardly
fair to let such good talking go with
the inference that it was the Madi-
son, standardso they said, "We'll let
Wilder founder around for fifteen