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Ann Arbor District Met

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Day
28
Month
August
Year
1903
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ANN ARBOR DISTRICT MET

Annual Gathering Epworth League at Stockbridge

OFFICERS ELECTED

Prof.D.W. Springer Chairman of Citizen's Committee Resolutions Were Passed - Great Enthusiasm

[From Thursday's Argus.]

A very interesting and enthusiastic Epworth League district convention closed last evening at Stockbrldge. This was the Ann Arbor district and included thirty-nine of the surroundIng towns. The convention opened Tuesday afternoon and closed at 10 o'clock Wednesday night! The convention was largely attended, over four hundred being present at every session. Many helpful hints were carried away from the interesting papers that were read.

Stockbridge made addresses of welcome. Fraternal greetings were extended to the convention by  Miss Alice Weeks of the  B. Y. P. U. and Mrs.Everet from the C. E. of Stockbridge. Rev. H. A. Field of Milan responded. Rev. H. C Colvin of Clinton and Rev. J. A. Lowry of Dundee read papers in the spiritual department work.

Tuesday evening Hon. Chas. E. Townsend of Jackson gave an address on '"Good Citizenship." Rev. J. L. Nickerson of Adrian also spoke. Wednesday forenoon a sunrise prayer meeting was held at 6:30 by Rev. C. B. Case.

The social work was dealt with by Wilbur Carter of Chelsea and Ida Silkworth of Manchester and Mrs.J.H. McCune of Stockbridge. Miss Edith Clark of Ypsilanti and Rev. M. H. Eldred of Blissfield took charge of the Mercy and Help department. The missionary question was discussed Wednesday afternoon by Walter G. Bain and Bert B. Johnson both of Ann Arbor. Miss Alice Morgan and Miss Mabel Newell of Ypsilanti spoke on the Junior League and Miss Ethel McCune gave a reading. The convention closed by an address by Dr. Geo. Ellert of Detroit.

The following offlcers were elected for next year: President, L. M. Milner, Stockbridge; lst vice pres., Roy Hill, Chelsea; 2d vice pres., George E. Lang of Carleton: 3d vice pres., Miss Edith Clark of Ypsilanti; 4th viee pres. Miss Ida Silkworth of Manchester; treasurer, Fred Knoff, jr., of Blissfield;  cor. secy., Miss Mina Anderson of Adrian; recording secy., Miss May Cody of Ann Arbor.

Prof. D. W. Springer was elected chairman of the Citizens' committee and Prof. E. R. Rice conference evangelist of the district. Next year's convention will be held in Adrian the last Tuesday and Wednesday of August.

The usual resolution of thanks was extended to the people of Stockbridge and the following resolutions were adopted by the convention for the district Epworth League:

Resolved, 1. The "new movement" or the evangelization of the world in the present generation being in compliance with the teachings of Jesus Christ, that we, as christians and Epworth Leaguers, prayerfully take up this work and consecrate our work, our deeds, our purse, and if called to go to foreign fields consecrate our lives to the fulfillment of this most glorious work of strengthening and glorifying on earth the kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ. The Master said "Ye are the salt of the earth" also "Salt is good." It is good not only for flavoring but for preserving. Because if it were not for this quality of preserving we believe that the condition of the world would be infinitely worse today than it is. One of the most important institutions for the preservation of the spiritual life is the Sabbath. Abolish it and soon our churches would be deserted and then farewell to morality. We, therefore, as the youth of our beloved Jesus, desire to record our most emphatic protest against the modern agencies introduced by the father of lies to rob us of the sacred associations and sanctity of our rest day and will do all in our power to discourage Sabbath desecration through Sunday baseball theaters, so-called sacred concerts, Sunday papers, excursions, spending the day at resorts that are becoming so numerous and accessible, and we pray that all professing christians and members of our League be consistent and so far as possible refuse to patronize even on week days any of the enterprises governed only by efforts to secure the almighty dollar.

2. We extend our sympathy to our Sister Dole of Adrian in the loss of her husband, our late district president, and remember with pleasure his devotion to the work of the League.

3. We wish to place ourselves unequivocally on record in opposition to the evil of the American saloon. We believe it  be the most portentious single evil menacing the happiness and prosperity of our country and the chiefest fosterer of other evils from which ur nation stands In peril; of law breaking and the spirit of lawlessness, the prostitution of our politics, the desecration of our Sabbath and the debauching of our people in body and soul.

We emphatically reaffirm the utterances of our church and league, that license of the traffic is sin, and declare again our conviction that the only righteous course in the sight of God is the total suppression and prohibition, by whatever good means gained of the whole iniquitous business. We believe that any problems to be entailed by its removal are not beyond the ability of the Christian citIzen to meet and of all our members we exhort a single eye and action against that evil. In regard to saloon policy we congratulate the people of Stockbridge, our hosts, on their stand and on the happy results and the undimmed prosperity which are accompanying it.

4. We recognize with satisfaction the growing interest of the League at large in the work of christian citizenship. Wherever the devil marshals his hosts of destruction we believe to be legitimate  field for pushing the battle of God. Weeb believe that the day is past  when the christian can avoid responsibility for the civic righteousness or unrighteousness of his country. Christian citizenship should be the best brand of good citizenship which our country knows, and to the rescuing our politics from the forces of evil and their restoration to those of decency and order, and of our Christ. we pledge ourselves to give our earnest energies.