Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-05-24


mended the employment Of a temper.
ance evangelist and declared that nc
man who favors the licensed saloon
should be supported for public Office,
It endorsed the w. G. T. U. and Anti
Saloon league.
To Unite Church Boards.
| Des Moines. May 22.-The Presby.
terfan general assembly today voted to
authorize Moderator Corbett to name a
committee of ten ministers and eleven
elders, one of whom shall be from the
Cumberland Presbyterian church, in
case union is effected, to draft a plan
for consolidating all the boards of the
church into one organization, to be d.
vlded into executive, legislative and iu-
dicial departments.
To Stop Appropriations.
A resolution was offered memorable
ing congress to stop appropriations for
sectarian purposes. This Is the out
growth OF the recent charges in con-
gress that Catholics and Lutherans are
receiving substantial assistance from
the government in their religious work
among the Indians. The resolution
was referred to the committee on bills
! and overtures. The assembly voted to
combine with the Hungarian Reform
church and the Reformed church in
the United States in Hungarian re.
ligious work.
To Form Brotherhood.
The Presbyterian general as
sembly has determined upon
one of the most important church
movements undertaken by it in many
years. 1t voted unanimously to begin
at once the organization of mems
society under the name of "Presbyter-
ian Brotherhood" whose purpose, shall
be to bring the men of Presbyterian
churches more closely into sympathy
with the church and to bring about
spiritual development, fraternal re-
lations, UNCONVENTIONAL fealty the
Strengthening of fellowship and the
engagement in works Of Christian use.
fulness."
The report of the committee on Sab.
bath Observance recommended the
adoption Of resolutions urging the
church to discourage holding Sunday
funerals, reiterating disapproval of all
secular uses of the day, all games and
sports, all travelling for pleasure and
all excursions, and urging employers
to recognize the need of the laboring
man for his weekly rest day; urging
all families not to buy anything on the
Sabbath, and to give the preference to
shops which close on the Lords day;
cOndemning Sunday newspapers; rec,
ommending that each pastor preach a
sermon in April next on the subject
of the Sabbath, and that an offering be
made. for the work of the American
Sabbath union
Agitation Against Tobacco.
Another storm is brewing over the
proposed passage of a resolution
against the use of tobacco. An effort
will be made to slide it through in the
report of the standing committee on
temperance Such resolution has
been carried in two previous assem-
blies, bit an unusually large number
of commissioners, including the major
ity of the 100 old soldiers, nearly all
the ex-moderators, and most of the
prominent members of the assembly
The chairman of the standing commit
tee will not consent to the introduction
of the proposed resolution, but it will
be sprung from the floor of the house
| The debate on temperance, which Is
always warm, is docketed for next Fri
/ day. Routine reports were heard to
day on the work among the freedmen
and on education.
1t was decided yesterday afternoon
to begin the prayer book" discussion
this afternoon.
Students Demand Open Shop.
A stir was made in the assembly yes
terday by memorial from the Rev
DR.. Robert Hunter of Philadelphia ask
ing the assembly moi to increase the
number of missionaries until the sal
aries of those in the field are in
creased. The theological students de
mand an open shop and are opposed
to any action which prevents then
from going to work when they wish
The movement is regarded as an eccle
siastical trades union movement ant
is not looked upon with favor by the
assembly.
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