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WAS WELL-AT1ENDE[:lD
Proceedings Of the Twenty.Fifth An
nuaI Meeting OF the Montana Asso-
citation Of consregationaIlsts, At tlae..
Church in this City.

From Wednesdays Daily.
The twenty.1fth annual meeting Of
the Montana State Association Of Con
gregational churches convened in the
First Congregational church Of this
city at 80 this afternoon. The meet
ing was well attended, and most Of
the churches Of the state were epre-
scented by the pastor and two dele
gates.
votional exercise led, by Rev. Frank
Dyer, general secretary of the Congre-
gational Brotherhood Of America. He
enumerated ten qualities of the ideal
church: "a church where men and
women, young people and children all
and their. place lin full proportion,
and where the family spirit binds all
together in mutual affection and es-
TEEN; a church whose officers and
members are not too busy, too tired, or
too much otherwise engaged to attend
the prayermeetings; church whose
young people believe not only in de-
bates, in games, in gymnasiums, in
wholesome fun, but who also believe
III and attend the devotional meet.
iRgs;; a church whose members give
as God has p%rospered them, at least
o~ne-tenth@of their income, to God and
his work, and who give 1t not grudg-
ingly but gladlys a church whose min
lister has the gospel Of divine redemp-
ton for his message and who Is both
spiritual and human, who not only
anticipates friendship in heaven but
who makes friends on earth; a church
whose members are as certain Of their
call to fill the pews as they are that
their minister must be called for God
to fill the pulpit; a church whose
choir sings not for favors received
nor for the applause Of men, but out
Of hearts which have the song Of the
gospel inJthem for love of the Saviour
and those for whom he died; a church
whose Sunday school is manned by
deyout and intelligent officers and
teachers, both men and women who
teach the Bible by precept and exam
pie, and who care for their pupils not
only in session but throughout the
week. a churcn in whose midst Christ
is %enthroned, revealing himself
through the members in compassion
for the lost, friendship for sinners, and
Fellowship with saints; a church root
ed in God, the outgoing Of whose life
is to the ends of the earth, not being
content to have the will Of Christ pre-
vail in its own life alone, 1t seeks to
make that will operative in every
sphere of human thought and action
Rev. Richard Brown spoke on the
eyangelism#tha Montana needs for to.
day. He said that the church should
be both evangelical and evangelistic,
The devil smiles upon" he
pointedly said, and the angels weep
ever the church that is evangelical but
evangelistic."
Rev. Joseph Pope, general mission.
airy for Eastern Montana, spoke OF
the opportunities in Montana for re
ligious work. He traced the history OF
the state through three eras: the era
81 money making; the era Of home nome
building; the era of expansion. He
said:
Because of the tremendous devel
opnent of the natural resources Of the
state which is bringing in new PEG
ple by the hundreds, now is the time
for aggressive church work. People
are having their eyes on Montana, ave
should have our eyes on the PEG
pie.
Rev. Dyer closed the afternoon ses
sion with a conference Of the WORK
II the Congregational brotherhood.
During the evening session, Rev. Mr.
Dyer spoke as follows:
Rev. Mr.. Dyer's Address.
The mission Of the Brotherhood
should be to make it unpopular every
where for the men of our churches t.
do nothing and everywhere popular fo1
them to do something. What shall
this something be?
i. 1t is mission Of the Brotherhood
is beget a new brand Of laymen. Th,
chivalry Of American men is called II
question. Men less advanced in civil