The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-12-20

CoIhInlILee MADE a DIVISION OF $2,400,-
600 in appropriations among the many
districts Of the foreign fields. The COM
mittee authorized the payment Of a
debt of $4,000 On the Methodist church
In Rome.
A great union meeting is in progress
churches cooperating, reports The
Christian Work. The meeting started
In the large Methodist church. After
the third day it proved too small. The
executive committee and pastors on the
fourth day voted to build a tabernacle
and 100 men that night volunteered
their labor and the tabernacle was
built the next day and services held in
1t the following night, with 1913 con-
verts responding. There have been 510
In the first ten days of invitation.
A Toxic newspaper, approaching the
cynical contrast between missions and
mliltarism, recently remarked, in an
editorial On The Heather Americans:
Where is there any proof hat the
United States is a Christian country?
christianity teaches the principle Of
righteousness. Whoever acts in de-
Nance OF this principle, cannot be called
a christian. The Americans send their
missionaries to Japan; but a time may
come when we shall have to instruct
them in the teachings of God"
1t is, believed that Park Congrega-
tional church, Worcester, was the first
church of the denomination to formal
~ adopt the new creed embodied in
the new constitution adopted by the
national council at Kansas City. The
Park church appointed a committee
last January to revise its constitution
and bylaws. The committee awaited
the action of the national council and
tnen presented the new creed to the
church at its business meeting on the
18th and 1t was unanimously adopted.
Christian union has a pleasant sound;
put II 1T should once happen, as it will
not in our time, that Catholic and Pro-
testant, Episcopalian and Baptist,
should put aside subscription to things
In which they differ and should agree
upon the things In which they are
united, some new questions will arise.
Would a united christendom stand over
against the other religions Of the world
in the attitude of antagonism n IN
s1st that there could be no union ex-
cepttng under the banner Of the cross?
On the other hand, what would be the
attitude of a united Christian church
with reference to the religious eIe-
ments in the western world hat do
not, cannot and never will accept the
doctrine of the deity of Christ? VIII
there be a splitting off from the fed
Grated churches of christendom of a
liberal but orthodox minority who will
insist upon extending the right hand
@~A@o w SAAAP ~ NtAl SA CAbAOSI IlLlLol-
fans, Hicksite Quakers and sundry 9TH
er d~issenters and heretics who often
represent the most respectable and
trustworthy elements Of society?-The
Christian Register.
ut is time to call a halt on special
days." say The Advance. Whoever
has an ak to grind, a cause to promote,
a reform to be pushed, has felt free to
select a Sunday and to issue a call to
all churches to observe that cause and
all ministers on a set day to preach
about it. The method has gone too
far. There are not Sundays enough.
Hereafter If anyone wan to set apart
q day for preaching about a given
cause, let him choose a Wednesday in
July or a Friday in August. But the
Sundays, the few and precious Sum-
days, should be kept out from under
the mortgage of special cause
Enough of them are set apart in the
very nature of the case and more have
been set aside by general consent. But
let the thing go no further. Let Sun
day be a day for great messages on the
gospel and not merely pleas for the re-
cognition of special causes If there
are to be any more special days, we
have causes of our own to nominate;
but the time has come to stop 1t. We
want. q. day for the recognition of the
religious newspaper and a day to pro-