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Plead For Liberty

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Parent Issue
Day
9
Month
October
Year
1896
Copyright
Public Domain
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Freeport, Hls., Oct. 6.- Appointments of the Rock River conference may not be announced until later owing to the pressure of an unusual amount of business. A set of stirringr resolutions were presented by the committee on liberty at the afternoon session, at which Dr. Frank Bristol presided. They expressed horror at the massacres of Armenian Christians in Turkey, and at lynch law among a civilized people. They expressed sympathy for the people of every land who are now engaged in a struggle for civil and religious litaerty, and closed with the significant paragraph: "We indorse the work of the committee on religious liberty of the Chicago preachers' meeting, which, under the vigorous leadership of Rev. John Lee, has brought the subject of religious toleration in the republics of South America to the notice of Pope Leo XTII in a way that is probably without parallel in history and has helped not a little so to roold public opiniĆ³n that it has demanded the recognition of religious liberty for the Protestants of Peru, and which we trust will make similar successful demands for the Protestants of other South American republics." Rev. Dr. M. E. Fawcett, who has been stationed at Grace church, Elgin, asked to be relieved of his charge. He will accept a rectorship in the Episcopal denomination. Action of Rev. J. G. Woolley's utterances regarding McKinley took the form of the following resolution: "Resolved, That it is the sense of the Rock Rlver conference that partisan political speeches shall have no place upon the programmes of our annual sessions."

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Ann Arbor Argus
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