Milford chronicle., 1930-04-25
NeLO Castle Presbytery
Adopts Resolutions

At the meeting of the Presbytery oi
! New Castle last Tuesday afternoon DR.
| Alfred M. Eells, pastor of the First
| Presbyterian Church of Milford intro
| duced the following Resolutions which
were unanimously adopted by the Pres
! bytery and ordered printed:
The Presbytery of New Castle in its
| Four Hundred and Twenty fifth Stated
Meeting thanks God for the smile OF
| His favor for the continued presence OF
| His spirit. In gratitude for the leader
| ship of the Great Head of the Church
| Jesus Christ, we undertake to carry
| on His work and make the following
record of our sentiments.
| RESOLVED That we offer our ap-
probation to the Green Hill Presbyter-
ian Church and it's pastor, Rev. ]. H.
Arnold, for the delightful manner in
which the members of the Presbytery
/ have been received as welcome guests
The arrangements of the public service
| last night, featured by a mastery dis
course and well rendered music, were
such as to inspire Christ's followers to
| greater achievements While the meals
served by the Women's Missionary So
ciety were attended by that charming
cordiality and gracious manner char
acteristic of able and earnest Christian
WOmanhood.
RESOLVED, That we congratulate
our denomination upon its numerical
and financial progress which, we be-
lieve, is indicative of spiritual growth
and we pray Gods blessing to rest
upon and abide with our General As
sembly at its annual meeting next
month.
RESOLVED, That we congratulate
our nation upon the adoption of the
Eighteenth Amendment to the Consti-
tuition of the United States and the en-
actment of the Volstead law For hun
dreds of years the sale of intoxicating
1,oc honV1 1Arnfaafad hrr lou in
our country. In the last ten years it
has been nationally outlawed. We sub
nit that it is impossible to completely
re-educate a hundred million people in
a decade to think in favor of prohibi
ton when for centuries the same peo-
prohibition. Yet progress has been
made and we wish to point out certain
things essential to the welfare of our
nation.
1-Regardless of party lines, there are
many officials who are striving to make
prohibition more effective. Therefore
we offer our congratulations and appro-
val to President Hoover and the Con-
gress of the United States for what
they have achieved along this line.
2-We tender to Governor c. Doug
lass Buck of Delaware and all other
officials of the Peninsula, who have en-
deaVored to enforce prohibition, our
appreciation of their efforts and we
pledge to them our encouragement and
moral support.
give call attention to the statement
of the Chairman of the Law Enforce
ment Commission, the Honorable G. w.
Wickersham, in which he declared that
prohibition is the best enforced of all
the federal laws.
1--WE also call attention to the war
ming of Mr.. Wickersham who emphat-
icaiiy stated that violation of prohibit
tion laws is sure to lead to the viola
ton of laws protecting the rights OF
property and the sacredness of human
life. .
5-We protest against the oft-repeat-
ed slander that prohibition has increas-
ed drunkenness among young people,
which accusation is contrary to the tes-
timony of public school teachers and
the officials of our colleges and univer-
stiles We repudiate such arguments
as an unwarranted attack upon the mo-
tives and lives of the finest class OF
young people known in the history Of
the world
Eve note with approval the large
of church people who refuse TO
in or sanction the taking OF
'straw votes" and referendum polls"
purporting to ascertain public senti--
ment toward prohibition. We regard
such schemes as unofficial, with no leg
al safeguards and undeterminate. We
declare such methods as Interior to the
purpose and form of the government OF
the United States. And we believe that
a letter to a member of the legislature
or a member of Congress is more eff
fectiye than a hundred votes sent
person or concern without any respon-
sibility to the voters whatever.
I've are gratif1ed to know that our