Journal of the ..Illinois Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church . xpense 2 25 Sept. 21, 1907, Ieter Kittell, bill printing and post 5 00 Sept. 23. ].»07. .7. O. Bennington, bill printing and post 11 00 iSept. 23, 1907, Iantagraph, for ballots 1 75 Total $ Balance on hand, Sept. 23, 1907 .$24. 73 STATE OF THE CHURCH AND MORAL REFORM. This is a time of unrest in the political and moral worlds, there is no stag-nation anywhere, but activity everywhere. Both the forces of good andevil, are active, intense, bold, aggressive, nothing is taken for granted. The foundations are chall
Journal of the ..Illinois Annual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church . xpense 2 25 Sept. 21, 1907, Ieter Kittell, bill printing and post 5 00 Sept. 23. ].»07. .7. O. Bennington, bill printing and post 11 00 iSept. 23, 1907, Iantagraph, for ballots 1 75 Total $ Balance on hand, Sept. 23, 1907 .$24. 73 STATE OF THE CHURCH AND MORAL REFORM. This is a time of unrest in the political and moral worlds, there is no stag-nation anywhere, but activity everywhere. Both the forces of good andevil, are active, intense, bold, aggressive, nothing is taken for granted. The foundations are challenged. Great questions agitate the social, busi-ness and moral conditions of the country. We look upon this as a hopefulsign. Nothing is worse than contentment in bad conditions. Quietness insuch circumstances idicates intellectual and moral decay and approachingdissolution. Among the evil forces, we discover unholy greed; law defi-ance; graft in high places and low; unscriptural divorce; Sabbath desecra-tion; non-Church attendance; uncleanness and drunkenness. These things. Jos, R. Hakker, Frank G. Barnes, President Illinois Womans College, President Illinois Wesleyan University, Jacksonville, 111. Bloomington, 111. Ki,\. liMi;i:i;T , 111. Secretary Conference Claimant Fund andConference to raise money for the aged and in-firm preachers, and assist in any kind of aMethodist meeting. r:i\,.> him n mil 1907 REioms axo Resolutions. threaten our social, business and moral foundations. Greed lies back of badcombinations in the business world (for there are good combinations as wellas evil ones.) Trusts; like Standard Oil, and Steel, Railways and wateredStocks, and all efforts after dishonest gains, are the children of greed! Law defiance is the outgrowth of the same passion, and decay of patriotismas well as graft is another child born of the same parentage. Unscripturaldivorce, which is so prevalent, breaks up homes, ruins lives, orphans chil-
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