Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-27
METHODIST PASTOR
URGES EDUCATION
/. FOR CHURCH WORK
Southern Conference Speak
er Stresses Importance of
Financial Obligations.
FINDS BUDGET PROGRAM
HAS EXCITED REVOLT
Conference Adopts Report De-
handing Prohibition Be Treated
Solely as Moral Issue.

A program of education among
church members to make them realize
more fully their financial obligation
| toward the church was urged before
the Baltimore Conference of the Meth
| odist Episcopal Church South, TODAY. by
Rev. DR.. E. l.. Wolf of Winchester, va.
HIS remarks were prompted by the
assertion that there is a spirit of revolt
in the Baltimore Conference among our
people" regarding the question of budget
| appropriations by Rev. DR.. H. M. Canter
OF Staunton, Va, when he spoke on
budget recommendations, which had
Just been presented before the
conference.
Following the report of the Board of
Christian Education, calling for appro-
priat1ons totaling $4,000, DR.. Canter
SAID there is feeling of dissatisfaction
regarding the extent of the budgets anc
declared there would be more eff YOU
don't reduce the budget this year."
Urges Education Program.
DR.. Wolf, in advocating the adoption
| OF the whole budget as recommended,
declared: THE crux of our financial
situation is in the church." He then
asserted that people have been con-
verted and made church members with
out having had impressed upon them
their obligations to the church. He
then urged the program to make the
| members realize their RESPONSIBILITIES.
Upon motion of DR.. Canter, a resolu-
ton was adopted referring items total
ing $4,000, as recommended by the
Christian Education Board, to the Bud
| get Committee for further consideration.
| The resolution, however, approved an
appropriation of $4,000 for operating
expenses Of the Board of Christian Edu-
| cation
Among items included in the $4,000
sum were $500 for teaching religious
education of Randolph College,
Ashland, Va; $1,000 for the Epworth
League; $4,000 for ministerial supply
and training; $500 for Randolph
Macon College, and $4,000 for Randolph
Macon Academy, at Front Royal, Va.
Reports Officers Elected.
In making its report the Board OF
Christian Education made it known
that G. G. Martin of Baltimore had
been elected president, Rev. H. S. Y.
Denstricker of Roanoke vice president
E. Barrett Prettyman of the Washing
| ton district recording secretary and
Rev. H. H. Sherman executive secre-
tary. The board recommended that
Blair ]. Fishburn and Bishop Paul B.
Kern be named to the board of trus-
tees of Randolph Macon College. The
entire report of the board was adopted
today, with the exception of the part
Of the budget referred to committee
for further consideration.
DR.. r. e. Blackwell and DR.. Samuel
| G. Hatcher, Randolph College,
addressed the conference, telling of the
| Tooth anniversary of the college. Pre-
siding Bishop Beauchamp, in a brief
address, praised the college and said
he would like to see its endowment
doubled.
| Sees Prohibition Facing Crisis.
The conference today was on record
as believing that national prohibition
faces a critical situation" and as
strongly opposed to ministers preach
ing politics."
A report outlining the stand Of the
conference was adopted late yesterday
at the session in the Mount Vernon
Place Methodist Episcopal Church
| South.
The conference will be in session
there until Monday.
The report submitted before the con-
! ference by its Committee on Temper
ance and Social Service was unani-
mously approved without discussion. 1t
pointed to prohibition as a moral
issue" rather than a political one.
| We are convinced" the report said,
| that no church should attempt to
dominate a government nor should her
ministry preach politics. but believe
that the church and her ministry can
no longer afford to be partisan, nor
should they be inundated by certain
| subtle influences, who in any and every
| crisis OF local and national importance
seek by such means to hush the mouths
OF those who would cry aloud and
| spare not"
THE moral law is the highest law
and must prevail" it added. I'VE first
| OF all ought to be Christian. Let us
| teach our people that the right of
franchise Is sacred and urge them to
vote their convictions as children of
God"
Law NuIIified by Treachery.
While expressing the view that pro-
| nloltlon Is practical, the report declared
| That IN many sections the law is being
nullif1ed by the 'treachery and the
Ianatic1sm OF officers whose duty it Is
/ to enforce the law"
| The strength of the dry vote has
been weakened in Congress by recent
elections" 1t said, "and it now looks as
II there would be further weakening in
tnlS respect unless We can awaken re-
newed interest in this great moral issue. !"
The report urged program of educa-
ton. Let the home, the school and
the church teach prohibition and In a
generation there will be a transforma-
tion," it added.
| Political expediency has prompted
many office seekers to become turn
coats in order to get elected, the
report further stated regarding the
| political situation.
Replies to Criticism.
The report took issue with criticism
OF the Methodist Church for "so-called
lobbying and 'dabbling in politics. ;"
1t asserted belief that they come from
enemies of moral righteousness who are
not patriotic and are unchriStian."
I'VE are unafraid in the face of such
accusations" it continued.
The report also characterized the
divorce evil' as a terrible monster
that strikes at the very heart of our
Nation-the American home" and urged
that the ministers of the church "ob-
serve great care in marrying divorced
couples