The San Francisco call., 1910-05-22
CHURCH DELEGATES
| WOULD STOP Fight
Presbyterian General Assembly
May Ask Governor Gillett to
Prevent the Contest
Opponents of Jeffries-JOhns0n
Match Propose to Request
Taft to Interfere

ATLANTIC CITY, n. j., May 21.-A
strong protest against the Jeffries-
johnson fight scheduled to be held in
San Francisco July 4. featured the clos
ing hours of today's session OF the
resolution calling on Governor James
N. Gillett of California to prevent the
fight was introduced by Rev. F. L.
Forbes of Seattle, Wash. and was re-
ferred to the committee on bills and
overtures. The resolution reads:
Governor James N. Gillett, Sacra-
mento, Cal:
The whole world is looking to
you to redeem your state, the Pa
cific coast and the whole United
States from the disgrace the ap-
and JOHNSON win fasten upon you
and the state which you represent,
as well as the country of which you
are part. Z
Virtue. decency and patriotism
demand that you save your state
and our nations sacred birthday
from the filth. the vulgarity and
fight on the fourth OF July.
The morality, respect and educa-
ton and nobility of the youth of
contest. The law is in your hands
and the public at large has right
to expect you to execute II.
APPEAL TO TAFT PLANNED
Members of the assembly who op-
pose the proposed fight will attempt to
have the appeal duplicated to Presi-
dent Taft with request for federal
interference against holding the fight
on the fourth of July, when the mat
ter comes up Monday.
T PoQ or of
sented a report received from the Fed
Grafton club of San Francisco, in which
was an opinion from Nathan Newby, a
California lawyer, to the effect that
present California laws would warrant
the police or state officers stopping the
fight.
The first hint of the movement to
oust Rev. DR.. William H Roberts OF
Philadelphia from one of his offices.
stated clerk and treasurer of the as
sembly. came in the report of the bills
and overtures committee.
1t was stated that 1872 presbyteries
had voted for a readjustment, while 1876
had voted against any attempt to force
Doctor Roberts to resign either of his
positions. Twenty-Seven preSbyterieS
had not voted, the report said.
DUAL OFFICES OPPOSED
Though no deductions were made
it depends on Doctor Roberts himself
as TO whether he resigns the office of
treasurer His opponents say that the
holding of the two offices gives Doctor
Roberts too much power in the. assem-
bly, and in church affairs.
The various resolutions embodied in
the report of the committee on Sabbath
| observance were heartily cheered, es-
pecialiy those urging the Saturday half
holiday for workingmen
Before passing, with a unanimous
vote, a motion to accept the report and
adopt the resolution suggested therein,
Rev. A Albert Moore. secretary of the
Lords Day Alliance of Canada. made an
address praising the stringent recon-
mendations of the report and declarin G
| that the. Sabbath was better observed
in the United States than in any other
country, even Canada.
GENERALIZATION OPPOSED
Opposition by commissioners, who de-
clared that an effort was being made to
centraliZe too closely the power of
Church rulers, defeated the move
made by the executive commission to
consolidate several of the independent
boards in charge of church affairs.
The suggested merger was intended
to consolidate the boards of home mis-
sions, church extension and freedmen
and members of these bodies led the
fight against the consolidation move
ment The matter was referred back to
the executive commission for a report
next year.
Denunciation of Saloons
DICKSON, Tenn, May 21-Denounc-
ing the legalized saloon as the most
gigantic evil of the nation, the temper
ance committee, in it's report to the
Cumberland Presbyterian general as
sembly today, set as a goal for the
church the entire elimination of the
liquor traffic in the United States
Church Work Reorganized
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