Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-10-25
CHURCH TAKES STRONG
STAND AGAINST LIQUOR
Scores Saloon ns Growing Menace to
Best Interests of Corporate and
Individual Life.
ASKS FOR ITS REPRESSION
First Time in It's History That Prot
estant Episcopal Church Has TAX
en- So Firm II Position-ActiOn
OutgroWth of Il Memorial.
fBy Associated Press.

ST. LOUIS MO. October 24-For the
first time in the history of the church,
according to well-informed leaders, u
stand on the liquor traffic was taken
here to-day in the General Convention
of the Protestant Episcopal Church
y resolution adopted by the house of
deputies placed the church on record
as favorinE such action in our legis-
latire assemblies as will preserve the
interests of temperance and the repres-
sion of the liquor traffic"
The action was an outgrowth of Il
memorial asking the convention to
record itself as favoring nationwide
prohibition submitted by the church
temperance society, through Francis
, l.. Stetson, of New York
SALOON Is SCORED
IN COMMITTEE REPORT
Til" saloon was scored in the report
OF the committcc which considered the
memorial. This said:
our age is Witnessing vast and
universal readjustment with reference
10 the manufacture and sale of liuuor
and II is generally recognized that the
saloon has become more and more n
menace To the best interests of our
corporate and indivf>uai life"
y resolution was presented in the
house of deputies to-day appealing to
all OF the people of the church to set
the example OF sclf-control and tenn
p"rance by abstaining from sthc use OF
Intoxicating liquors as beverage,
cial gatherings"
h,.
commission on social service.
y report showing that the church,
has more than 1,0So.000 communicates
and $500 clrrgymcn was presented to
the house OF deputies by the commit
tee on the state of the church Bap-
tismS, the report showed. have in
creased by about 1900 and confirma
ttons by about 1900 over the pre-
ceding tricnnium. Parishes and mis-
sions number S,3i1 and the total num-
Der Of church buildings is 1910. The
report added that the church controls
cndowmcnis aSgregatinG $4,000, 900.
many educational and charitable in
stltutionS. and has an average income
of more than S20000.O0O n year En-
dowmcnts for the support of churches
for the triennium totaled Sl9,07S,ll2.0s.
as against Sl4,32O.147 in 1913. Epdow
'ments for the support of bishops totaled
Sl,i9l,031. as against S4.G2G,SSl given
in the previous three years
CONTRIBUTIONS FOR AUD
Of INFIRM CLERGY
Contributions for the aid of the in
hrm clergy came to S3,295,052, and for
other purposes cndowmcnts totalipr
$2S,O63.4ll were given. Sittings i'm tho
churches in the tricnnium Just ended
total l,l5i.S90, an increase of 1852
over the tricnnium ending in 1913.
Church hospitals accounted for i'm the
report number 1875. as against seventy
nine accounted for i'm 1913.
y commission was appointed TODAY
TO make an investigation of the
spiritual and economic problems of
rural communities and To report in De-
lroit in 1919 The house of deputies
also took steps to appoint Il committee
OF three clcrGyncn and three laymen
to gather statistics concerning tho
number of communicates and the num-
Der of baptized pcrsorS in the church
The world is no longer to be STYLED
miserable and naughty" in the PRAYER
book. the lower house dccrecd when II
substituted sinful for the phrase in
the commcndatory prayer which was
objected to on the ground that il is
archaic.