Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-03-16
||T0 METHODISTS
WANTED FOR WAR
Minister at Conference
waves Flag and Calls for
Religious Volunteers
u,pTH CONTROL ASSAILED

.,.,s,astic demonstration of patriot
,.o,e forth at the conference OF the
,.,men's Association of the Method's'
,,.,rch this afternoon in the Lehigh Ave-
-. naptist Church, Twelfth street and Le-
avenue, when the Rev. Dr. L. w.
~" sezed an American flag and waved
- tho heads Of those present. This was
no' .,una, for cheers and hallelujahs. The
:" ,ce then stood and sang America"
srs. star spangled Banner and other
..,hms Emphatic amens resounded
,hroushout the church
n,ctor Munhall who fought in thirty
IL. hattles in the Civil War. seized the
w :, the end of vigorous patriotic
in which he said, among other
things: ,-.
ar, President Wilson will appoint me to
~. regiment of 1000 we will raise IT
,.,be Laymen's Association and beat all
eomers."
Cheers greeted this declaration and ap-
,royings "Amens' punctuated the enthusi-
THE RESOLUTION
Z The meeting then unanimously adopted
the following resolution:
3 "whereas war between the United States
and Germany is possible, we the Laymens
association of the Philadelphia Conference,
With more than 100000 members of the
Metbodist Episcopal Church and more than
Ioo6. 900 in the United States, which Church
Auring the war, according to President Lin
colin. sent more men to the front and more
nrayers to Heaven, hereby send hearty
GREETINGS to President Wilson assuring him
of our warmest sympathy and prayers that
no NAV be divinely guided and sustained in
administering wisely and courageously the
AFFAIRS intrusted to him by the American
people,
"Resolved, That in any and all circum-
stances. through storm and shine, we will
follow unfalterlngly the starry flag"
AGAINST BIRTH CONTROL
Women who travel about the country
snreading birth control propaganda were
Announced by Albert f. Turner, the re-
firing president, in the course of a brief
address.
"If Mrs. Franklin had believed in birth
CONTROL" he said, 1--WE would never have
had a Be niamin Franklin"
Juding from the present conditions of the
world he said, 1t looked as though Christ
was coming back, and he urged all to be
ready. Mr.. Turner advocated lay repre-
sentation in the annual conference so that
the laymen might have some voice in the
ruling of the church.
The prediction was made by Charles NJ
Alexander, an evangelist. that war was sure
to come "You think you are not going to
have war" he said but within few weeks
you will see soldiers drilling in the streets.
warn you to get Testament in each
mans pocket before he gets a whisky bottle
to his lips. Your sons will bes herded in
tents, just as they are in Europe and they
will need moral stamina and Bible to pull
them through"
Election of officers for the ensuing year
resulted as follows:
President John Mcfarland. Sharon Hill
Vice president-North district, John r.
Carson northwest district, Thomas II. Fort,
Jr.; south district, Cyrus ID. Foss, Jr. 4;
west district, Charles l.. Kinsey; central
district Il. M. Richmond.
Directors-Albert l.. Turner, William IL.
Maxwell James G.. Francis. j. Frank Fox,
N. W. Mast and John b. Tuttle.