Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-05-03
CONF FERENCE Of
METHOD|STS At
DES MONIES IS
IMPORTANT ONE
Bishops Submit Address De
cIaring That the Church
Is on Trial; Vital QueS-
tionS Must Be Dealt WITH
CANNOT GO BACK TO
LESS TROUBLED DAYS
Must Meet the Situation
SQuareIy Comprehensive
Program Mapped, Out for
Discussion at Meeting

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Des Moines, Ia, May Herald
ing the Methodist Episcopal quad
RENAL general conference meeting
here as the most important IN the
history of the denomination, the
aduress of the thirty-four blshops
of the church submitted to the con-
ference TO-DAY declares the church
is on trial. on behalf of their de-
nomination, the bishops accept the
challenge and aver that the church
must determine to deal courage
ously with the vital questions the
new age has presented.
Never before did a general con-
ference meet at a time like TINS,
they say IN their address. we
cannot go back to the less troubled
more simple, placid days.
I'VE are at a crisis in the ages
If we fail here, it will not matter
what else we do
The address is devoted to an
swer the question:
Chief Business at Conference.
What is our chief business at
the present conference"
1t divides the question into
eleven subdivisions as follows;
What is our chief business at this
conference on behalf of the church
itself? Concerning the young life
of the world? With reference to
the social, industrial and economic
condition in the world? on the
race problem as we face divided
and dismembered christendom? In
regard to the non-christian world Z
With reference to rural life? Win
reference TO city life? With refer
ence to extending, perpetuating
and conserving the outstandins
features of stewardship, interces-
sion and world vision brought to
the church in the centenary
movement? With reference to the
reconstruction of Europe? With
reference. to world peace and the
new internationalism?
In its bill of particulars, the ad-
dress says:
"Of course the church will stand
in unflinching, uncompromislng
denunciation of ali violations of
law, against all murderous child
labor; all foul sweat shops; all un-
safe mines; all deadly tenements;
all starvation wages; all excessive
hours for those who toll; all profli-
gate luxury; all standards of wage
and life below the living standard;
all unfairness and harshness OF
conditions; all brutal eXactions,
whether of the employer or union;
all overlordships, whether of cap
ital or labor; all Goddess profiteer-
ing. whether in food, clothing,
profits or wages; against inhuman-
ity, injustice and blighting iniquity;
against all class minded men who
demand special privileges or eX-
ceptions on behalf of their class.
In this materialistic day the
church seeks spiritual ends, with
the eternal value of human life i'll
view, More than ninety per cent
of the present laws relate to prop
erty; less than ten per cent to the
interests of human life; the en-
phasis is wrong ana the proportion
Vicious
$ Tong Stand Against Wars.
Surely" says the address in its
reference to world peace, I'VE must
take strong grounds against any
more wars, and against war itself
as a method of settling all diff
culties. Surely we must commit
our church to the principle that
international troubles shall be ad-
justed by counsel and arbitration,
not by guns and the slaughter OF
men, that the nations of the world
shall be bound together by a work.
ing covenant of peace, that, how
ever, it shall be brought about
such compromise shall be made be,
tween the president of the United
States and the senate of the United
States as shall secure a real and
league of nations in which
the United States shall have a
proper and honorable place among
the nations of the world in pre-
serving the peace and bearing the
burdens of the world; that narrow
shall not set itself
against world unity and true in
ternationalism."