Evening star., 1933-05-28
,BAPT|STS ADJOURN
BUSINESS SESSION,
| RENOUNC|NG WAR
Complete Suppression of
Liquor Urged of Members
by Northern Group.
ARMS EMBARGO PLEA
MADE TO CONGRESS
Religious Sessions of Convention
to Be Today at Auditorium.
Speaker Hits Communism.

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| join forces with every agency possible
for complete suppression of the liquor
| tarfic"
| Influenced by a strong pacifist move
ment, the convention reconsidered
| mild anti-war resolution adopted
earlier in the day, included in it the
| remuneration of war and then added
more teeth" to it by urging Congress to
pass the pending resolution providing an
embargo on all arms and munitions.
Under the leadership of Dr. William
S. Abernathy of Washington, newly
| chosen 1884 convention president, the
Northern Baptists further pledged them
selves to conduct, as the most impor-
tant objective" of the year, the most
extensive campaign for evangelism ever
! sponsored by this branch Of the church
| IN the United States.
| Religious sessions of the conventiCa
will be held throughout today at the
Washington Auditorium before the con-
vention officially closes to meet again
next year in Rochester, N. Y.
| Resolution Revised.
! The early anti-war resolution up
holding the rights of conscientious OBJ
| Jectors had merely mentioned the fact
that the BRAND kellogg peace pact had
"outlaWed war as a crime" That part
! OF the resolution opposing military
training in schools was retained. A
sudden cloudburst early in the after
noon was responsible for a small at
tendance when pacifists groups in the
convention moved for reconsideration
Of the resolution
From Homer P. Rainey, president of
Bucknell University, the convention
last night heard a militant challenge
for the youth of America" to overcome
present inertia and accept leadership
in saving America from Communism.
President Rainey disparaged American
youths, declaring the youths of other
lands are far more conscious of their
responsibility"
The youths of America have no
spirit that will compare with that of
the youths of Italy under Mussolini.
with those of Russia under Stain and
with those Of Germany under Hitler"
he declared
And the fact that these movements
IN those countries are SO far out of har-
mony with American ideals is all the
more reason" he added, that our
youths should become conscious of their
responsibilities. If the next generation
OF the world does not go Communistic
or Nazi, 1t will only be because the
youths OF America and the rest of the
world can offer the world a more vital
ana satisfactory substitute for Com
mun1sm or Nazism.
Virile Modern Communism,
"A devitalized and PROSTATE Chris
tlanlty-a corrupt and morally degener-
ated capitalism and a political system
operated by the lowest third of intel
lectural capacity and moral integrity,
cannot hope to compete successfully
with a system SO vital and virile as
modern Communism. What are we
going to do about it? That is a ques-
tion which the youth of America must
answer" he concluded.
Former Representative William d.
Upshaw of Georgia, prohibition candi-
date for President last year, congratu-
lated the Northern and Southern Bap-
lists for uniting to end Slavery by
liquor" He quoted DR.. C. Oscar John
son, retiring president of the conven-
tion, as saying to President Roosevelt
the other day at the White House:
Mr.. President, the Northern Bap-
lists will support you 96.8 per cent, but
we can't go with you on 80 per cent"
This caused round of applause.
A futile effort was made to recon-
slider the prohibition resolution adopted
by the convention for the purpose Of
making it more militant. Protesting
the move to repeal the eighteenth
amendment and the legislation of beer
and wine, the resolution added:
Fully recognizing the social, eco
nomic, political and moral basis for a
uniform national policy for the COM
plete suppression of the liquor traffic,
to which the Northern Baptist Con-
venticn is irrevocably committed as a
body. we base our continued and un-
relenting hostility to its reinstatement,
| in whole or in part, in any form. under
any name on strictly moral and Chris
tian grounds; and furthermore, be 1t
Resolved, That we urge the leaders
in our churches and our Baptist forces
generally to do all in their power d1-
rectly and through every agency pos
sible to prevent the repeal of the eight
eenth amendment and preserve the
gains under Federal control; and fur
thermore, be it
Plan of Instruction.
Resolved, That we urge the conStitu-
ency in our churches to give immediate
!, ! attention to a systematic plan OF IN
, struction as to the harmful effects oi
alcohol as a beverage, through sermons
temperance stories, programs. pictures
posters, etc, in our Sunday schools
| young peoples SOc1eIieS anu CAuiS SA
services generally in every effective
manner possible. The battle is on. we
dare not let up in this contest with
| the forces of corruption and evil"
. Deploring the moral collapse wit
messed in this generation" the conven-
ton also summons all Baptists to
their proper task of influencing
the social and economic trends OF
our time with the Christian ideals
of respect of personality and the service
motive for living" 1t was an out-and-
out Endorsement of the challenge on
national social and economic problems
issued by the Department of the
Church and Social Service of the Fed
eral Council of Churches Of Christ in
America.
The Baptist program on these ques-
tions affecting labor, capital, industry
, and social service contained II planks,
the last of which demanded 'recogni-
. ton and maintenance of the rights
' and responsibilities Of free speech, free
) assemblage and free press This
brought protest from the floor, c. S.
, Estes of New York contending it would
encourage Communism" He sought
, to qualify free speech" by adding the
words, under sanction of the law" His
motion was defeated overwhelmingly,
! several speakers protesting that laws
may be passed "curtailing free press,
: recognized as basic principle of Amer
{ ican Government.
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