Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1913-05-24
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d. CLOSES SESSION
Meeting in Connection With
Foreign Missions-Ad-
dress on China.
EXECUTIVE SESSION.
Judge Norton Representative TO
Grand Council-Meets Next Year
in Alexandria.
EXECUTIVE SESSION
Especial Correspondence Alexandria
GaZette.)
SECOND DAY.
NIGHT session
Night session.

Night session.
Charlottesville, Va, May 22.-The
regular annual meeting of the Coun.
Gil on foreign missions took place al
8 o'clock in Christ Church, when the
address was given by the Rev. T. l.
Sinclair, missionary at Taichow
China, followed by 6he Rev. John
Scott, a colored clergyman of the do
cese on work among his people.
The Council continued its executive
session after the close of this meet
ing. The final vote was taken about
12 o'clock thus accepting all the res
olutions of the report Of the COM
miitee on Social Service. At the
beginning of the executive session
the Rev. w. R. Bowie presented the
report and spoke to it with ability.
The debate following, was also ably
conducted. The following resolutions
were passed unanimously:
First-The Council believing that
the Spirit Of Jesus working through
His Spirit will express itself in ever
widening from the human service, ,urg-
es upon the ministers in this diocese,
and particularly in the country par
ishes, That by word and by leader
ship. they teach their people that
,heir Christianity should prove itself
by alent and earnest readiness to
strengthen every cooperative move-
ment which works for better health,
for better education, for happy and
clean recreation, and for progress
along any other particular way which
leads to the community's large good.
The second resolution is that the
Council endorses the purpose of the
Social Service Commission to CO.
operate with other agencies in adj
vocating the passage by the neXr
legislature Of bill ombodying the
provisions of the Byrd child labor
bill. defeated al the last session, and
the Council urges its individual men,
morS,to arouse and to express to their
legislative representatives, public
sentiment in the respective communi-
ties in favor of this bill.
The resolution on the problem of
Social Vice was passed by vote by
orders after an able debate. All agreed
upon THE fundamental principle of
the resolution, but those who voted in
the negative, held that the first work
in relation to this should be the edu-
cative. The vote stood, clerical. in
favor of the resolution. So; negative
IS; lay, in favor of the resolution, p
negative. IA.
The resolution is as follows:
1t is the sense of this Council that
for the sake of the protection of wo,
men. and for The sake of higher ap.
peal to men, it is desirable that min
listers of the diocese, as rapidly as they
can. secure such a cooperation from
he physicians of their communities
as shall satisfy them that theil
position will be effective, either by
themselves, or in conjunction with
ministers of other churcnes, shall de-
clare their determination to perform
the marriage service Of the church on
~ when the man to be married shall
secure from the family physician o
his intended bride, or from some othe
physician certified to by the bride
physician. a certificate of freedom o
communicable disease of immoral or
igin.
The resolution is in line with tn
famous decision as to marriages pc,
formed in the Episcopal Cathedral Q
Chicago, taken by Dean Sumne
Virginia is the first diocese. howeve
TO act upon it. At present the IL
1ent of this resolution Is not mands
tory, but educative.
THIRD DAY.
Charlottesville, May 23.