Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-04-27
THE METHoDIsTs.
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races. It was voted 81 to IL against
the proposed amendment which would
render the representation OF sman
conferences at the general conference
so that Maine would have half the
present representation. 1t was voted
43 to "a in favor of the proposed
amendment which cuts down the rep
resentation of the larger conferences
but leaves the smaller conferences,
like Maine, with their present repre-
sentation.
The matter of various memorials
and petitions offered by other state
conferences was then in order. Those
faVoring the restoration of the TING
limit on pastorates, the allotment of
bishops to the same conference for sew
eral successive years, and the organic
union Of the Northern and Southern
Methodist bodies were endorsed, and
that regarding a new way of selecting
presiding elders was tabled.
The committee on moral reform,
Messrs. Colpitts of Portland, Bradlee
presented its report and resolutions.
The report made plea for better Sab
bath enforcement, especially in the
matter of Sunday excursions, and con-
demned the lax nature of the Maine
divorce laws. 1t urged Maine to stand
firmly for prohibition, the Maine pol
ity which large sections of the coun-
try are now endorsing and adopting.
In closing the report presented these
resolutions:
Resolved, that we are in hearty
sympathy with, and pledge our sup
| port to, the Christian Civic League of
Maine, the Anti-Saloon League, the
W. c. T. T., and all other organiza-
lions which aim at the humiliation
of the saloon.
"Resolved, that we claim for Maine
| the right Of a sovereign state. SOW
| ereign by the reservation to itself of
| it's police powers under the Constitu-
| ton of the United States, to forever
end the iniquitous traffic in intoXicat-
! ing liquors by way of express COM
| panies and interstate commerce cor
| porations; and to this end we pray
that Congress will enact into law the
pending Evans bill and end this
anomaly of lawlessness.
Resolved, that we favor the rigid
enforcement of the prohibitory law
|
ommend that our church in every way
cooperate with the authorities. We
commend and point out as an example
the Christian mayor of Portland, who
by virtue of the power vested in him,
is using the police force of that city
to close the saloons
| "Resolved, that we recognize that no
gubernatorial candidate can serve two
masters or policies. Between friend
ship for the prohibitory law and
"resubmission," so-called, there is a
great gulf fixed and no political quib-
bling can bridge it. He who loves the
prohibitcry law can never favor a can
didate or platform looking toward re-
submission. Faith without works is
dead, but works contrary to faith are
deader, and however much candidate
may claim to love what we love, when
he takes up the resubmission cry the
church can only smite him with The
sword of the Lord and Of Gideon. We
are opposed to druggists license. We
are opposed to the repeal of the
Sturgis law until something better has
been enacted to take its place. We are
for prohibition and against resubmis-
sion all along the line and call upon
our people to SO act at caucuses and
conventions that these declarations
may be enshrined in living and open
candidacy before the people. To who
ever will and can best carry this ban
ner we pledge our united, vigorous and
uncompronising support, and upon
whomscver the weight of these declar-
atoms shall fall in opposition we will
do our best that it may grind him tc
political powder
The reading of these resolutions was
and they were adopted unanimously by
rising vote.
Rev. Edmund NJ. Mills, d. D., OF
Cincinnati, field secretary CT the
Freedman's Aid. the Sunday Schoo
Union and the Tract Society, was i'll
PRODUCED to the conference and spoke
briefly OF the work of the House Mis-
sionary Society which he represented
The last speaker of the forenoon was
Rev. w. F. Berry of Kent's Hill, who
told OF the prosperous condition of the
school and the Christian life of the
students there. Last year $4,000 was
paid on the debt of the school, all but
$1,000 of this from the pockets of the
trustees. 1t is hoped that $21, 900 Of the
remaining $4,000 of this debt can be
paid this year. The school is larger
now than ever before.
AT 1910 the business session ad-
journed to 100 p NJ. at the Penney
Memorial church.