Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-23
YOUNG MEN SOUGHT
TO ENTER MINISTRY
CongregationaIists Engage in
Lively Discussion of How
to Interest Youths.
QUESTION OF TEMPERANCE
MAY BRING DISAGREEMENT
Gov. Baldwin Of Connecticut OBJ
poses Prohibition Clause to Fed
eral Constitution.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, October o3--The
Congregational conference engaged in
lively discussion of the question of how
to interest young men in the ministry
at its session today. Rev. Charles A
Blanchard, president of Wheaton Col
lege, Wheaton, Ill, submitted a resolu-
ton that the business committee be in
structed to take UP the question of in
teresting young men in church services.
Rev. c. A. Prouty of Spencer, Mass,
said:
Those of us who are interested in
Sunday school work know that the
church is losing boys over fifteen years.
How shall we keep them? Answer:
Keep the older men in the Sabbath
schools. If the older men file out OF
church after the Sunday service young
men will follow.
While We have been discussing the
white save question from many angles
| we know that the insincenty OF men rs
dragging women down. Ii We allow this
| to go on the men will be dragging the
women out of the church. TO keep the
| boys the men must lead.
William Shaw, national treasurer of
| the Christian Endeavor Union, criticised
| the ministers in the matter of enrolling
young men as preachers.
| Inc ne Sd1O, are allow
| .ng the young men to drift away.
| Many ministers have discouraged them,
| pointing out that the ministry is life
of work and poverty The young men
| and women anxious to join in church
| service need encouragement"
The resolution was referred to the
business committee.
May Disagree on Temperance.
| Disagreement on the temperance
question doomed up when Gov. Simeon
| Baldwin Of Connecticut announced him
| self as opposed to the recommendation
| of the committee on temperance for an
| amendment to the federal Constitution
prohibiting the manufacture and sale of
| liquor within the United States. Gov.
| Baldwin is said to have substantial
| following.
| Such change" said the governor,
| would be contrary to the whole spirit of
| our government, which was to have a
| central power, but limited in its sphere of
| influence. 1t was intended to leave the
relations of man to man to be settled
/ mainly by the several states, each for it
| self. Besides, a nationwide prohibitory
| law could not be enforced in the large
cities. 1t would provoke breaches of the
| law as unfortunate as they are inevita-
| BILE" The national council held but a
short session this morning.
| At the meeting of the Home Missionary
Society most of the speakers dwelt on the
| spectacle of the church drifting away
from the common people and catering to
| the rich. In this connection the dele
| gates were warned that the future sue
cess of the church depended on a re-
| vival of interest by the workingman and
his family.
| 'The church must get back to the needs
of the plain people or quit" declared DIR.
| Washington GLADDEN. of Columbus, Ohio,
| former moderator. Dr.. GLADDEN. some
q 80 a
| challenged the propriety of acceptance
| by the American board of foreign mis-
sions of a gift of 100000 from John ID.
| Rockefeller.
Urges Realization of It's Mission.
"It is imperative that the church
awaken to a realization of it's mission -
| said DR.. GLADDEN.. THE church is work
| ing on the theory that it's duty is to
get people out of this world into
heaven. Rather, it should be engaged in
Outstanding the arts, industry, schools,
| ousiness-al the activities of manu-
facture.
1T has given too much encourage
| ment to individualism and not enough
| to brotherhood. The motto it has
| taught is Look out for yourself 1t
has advised its people to get saved
rather than to save others and thereby
| save themselves"
That the churCn must get away from
! the ancient idea of dogma and adapt
itself to present-day conditions was
| sounded by Oscar E. Maurer of the
| Center Church. New Haven, Conn.
| A similar appeal was made by Lewis
IT Reed of FIatbush Congregational
| Church, Brooklyn, N. Y. He urged the
church to cultivate the middle class OF
men.
| Rev. E. B. Robinson, pastor of Grace
Church, Holyoke, Mass, advocated the
merging of churches IN places where some
are non-supporting.
DR.. Brown Elected Moderator.
| Rev. Charles r. Brown, dean of the
divinity school of Yale University, was
chosen moderator OF the National Coun-
Gil yesterday afternoon. DR.. Brown OBJ
| tanned 100 of the 3J4 votes cast.
| The vote follows:
| Dr. Brown 1870; Charles s. Hilles, Mont
| clair, n. j., 43; Rev. William Horace
| Day, Los Angeles, 70; Rev. Samuel II.
| Woodrow, st. Louis, 13; H. NJ. Boards
ley, Kansas City, %; others scattering.
| Mr.. Beardsley was chosen first assistant
| moderator unanimously.
DELEGATES last night listened to the adj
dress of the Rev. Nehemiah Boynton of
Brooklyn, N Y, the retiring moderator,
who declared Christianity today is -four
| ishing and the church is holding its own.
Mankind is still incurably religious"
said DR.. Boynton, and the instinct of
religion never more than today asks
peace and unity for which our Lord pray
eth"
The council voted to send message
of greeting to the Universalist Church,
in session at Chicago.