The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-12-08
COMMITTEE ON TEMPERANCE
OF CHURCH COUNCIL MAKES
ITS REPORT.
RESOLUTIONS OFFERED
Recommend Committee Be Named
to Congratulate Taft on His
Stand on Liquor Traffic.
Other Reports Read.


luton that public schools be clos1
one afternoon each week for the pu
pose Of allowing the children to a
tend religious services and receiv
instructions in their own churche
rreciritated lively debate at tn
afternoon session of the Fedora
Council of the Churches of Christ i
America today and was defeated.
A resolution was adopted declarin
that It was the duty of the church t.
provide. religious instruction 70
their children as well as the duty o
the parents to see that such instruC
tlon Is given in the home.
Bishop Wilson. of the Methods
Episcopal church, presented the re
port Of the committee on temperate,
and also a set of resolutions recon-
lnendng the appointment of a com
mittec to call upon President-e -elec
Taft and congratulate him upon the
stand he has taken with reference tC
intoxicating liquors, and also to urge
him to use his influence for the sup
preston of the liquor traffic.
Among other things the resolution
OF the committee recommends that
congress be urged to frame its inter
state enactments as to avoid the nul
lification of the temperance legisla
tion in the several states.
Bishop Wilson'S Report
TIE Church and Temperance.
Bishop Luther b. Wilson of the
Methodist Episcopal Church presented
the report of the Committee on TEN.
perance and opened It's discussion. An
outline follows:
Does the liquor traffic promote
Industrial prosperity? Patrons of
the saloon In the DECREE of their
Indulgence lose value as wealth pro.
ducers. Merchants, manufacturers,
corporations of standing insist upon
sobriety as a condition of employ
ment. The traffic is never the ally
of other industries Outside the mar
row class of producer and distributor
he is the greatest loser who has most
to do with ii. Indulgence in drink
means the enfeeblement of intellect.
ual faculty, of ethical sensitiveness.
of religious emotion, of conceptions
of virtue, honor and righteousness
II makes against the great construc-
tive forces of civilization and is the
great promoter of disease, pauperism
and crime.
what shall the churches do? The
pulpit must live the standard of IN
dividual duty to total abstinence. The
new must accept that standard. The
law for the strong is service, not
selfiEdulgence. Both must work
against the traffic No evil can long
withstand the power of the christian
churches united, and If pulpi. and
pew agree in demanding total absti.
nence for the individual, It must fol.
low that prohibition will become the
policy of the state. If the voice of
every pulpit rang clear. and the lalty
of every church republished the mes.
sage under the dominion OF a new
conceotion the people would demanl
more wholesome laws.
The church must exercise her
function of leadership. Here is the
oppor unity of bringing to a speedy
end this great wrong which has out
lived its day-the legalized traffic IN
strong drink"
DR. Reed, president of the Dickin-
son College. offered a resolution pro-
vidinE for the appointment of a COM
mittee to investigate the liquor traf- !
fic in all its phases and report to the |
In discussing the measure. |
whicl was referred to the temper |
sEce committee Noaln Best. of Chi |
cage. said the time for such investi- |
CATION was opportune. but it would
be more opportune when Cannon |
was not speaker"
Various committee reports were
READ as follows:
Sunday Observance.
Recommendations regarding Sun
day observance we're included in the /
report of the committee on that sub !
leti Nhlch Was presented by the Rev 4
Frederick d. Power. ID. d.. pastor Of
he First Church of Christ Disciplesl /
Of Washington. In substance as fol 4
lows.
Christians are united in regard for
Ihe Lords Day as a day Of rest AMI 4
worship as one Of the cornerstones
Df our christian civilization who's
means the degeneration
lf society lovers Of liberty should see
hat il is safeguarded and preserved
rhe committee hold:
1. The proper observance Of the
Lords Day is a religious obligation.
2. On this day all unnecessary sew
liar work should be omitted. Physi-
Dlogists, political economists, busI-