Reformed Presbyterian Minutes of Synod 1919

REFORMED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 123Your Committee on National Reform Would Respectfully Report:Two papers have been referred to this committee; one is theFinancial report of the National Reform Association; the otheris the report of the Covenanter Members of the Executive Oommitteeof the National Reform Association. We recognize thefidelity with which the Association has followed up its familiarlines of activity. It has labored for the reading of the Biblein the schools, and has come to the defense of the sanctity ofthe Sabbath, wherever its enemies, encouraged by the conditionpeculiar to times of war. have endeavored to make encroachmentsupon it.The crusade against Mormonism has been maintained withunabated -vigor and the fact that all the expenses of the year'swork in that cause have been met by contributions from thegeneral public testifies to the wide-spread and practical interestawakened in opposition to this gigantic evil.It affords us peculiar satisfaction to learn that the Associationhad their general Superintendent at the seat of the PeaceConference and that he was successful in obtaining si hearingfrom the American Delegation and that of fifteen other countriesin behalf of the recognition of the Scriptural Principles ofpolitical philosophy in the great work of world reconstruction.We also note with interest the establishment of a new departmentunder the head of Industrial Justice in which thepernicious effects of Bolshevism and kindred propaganda willbe met bv the teachings of the word of God.We hail with delight the announcement of the Associationthat a Third World's Christian Citizenship Conference will beheld in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, November 9, to 16, 1919, atwhich many distinguished men from abroad will speak uponthe vital questions of the day, advocating the Scriptural Principlesof civil Government.We recommend:1. That the Association be commended for the faithful effortsput forth in the various departments of its activities inbehalf of National righteousness and the national recognitionof Christ as the Nation's King.2. That we be-speak for the Third World's Christian CitizenshipConference the prayerful interest of all our congregationsand their personal co-operation by attendance as far aspossible upon its sessions and by making contributions to itswork.3. That Synod expresses its approval of the sum of $15,-000 as a minimum aggregate of its gifts for the prosecution ofthe Association's work and designate the first Sabbath of Novemberas the day for receiving the contribution.4. That Synod approve of the continuance of J. S. Martin,J. S. McGaw, J. R. Wylie and I. A. Blackwood in the service ofthe of delegates the 5. 6. Association.That to the J. this Third R. Synod Wylie World's be send heard Christian ten on members the Citizenship floor of of the Synod Conference,Synod in behalf as