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honorable servants of God, proclaim the glorious gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. Touch not, taste not, handle not, of intoxicating beverages or tobacco in any form, and let us make this resolve a conscientious covenant with ourselves and with God.
- 2d. That we press the temperance and tobacco cause upon our people, both old and young, male and female, persuading and urging them to follow in our footsteps in this reformation of moral and Christian purity, and that each of us report our efforts and success in this work at the next annual conference.
Dear Father and Bretheren: - Your committee, to whom was referred the cause of missions, beg leave to submit the following report:
After careful consideration upon the subject of missions, we are thoroughly convinced that it is the imperative duty of all christian people to labor earnestly and zealously for the dissemination of the truths of christianity or the doctrine of religion as taught by the Lord Jesus Christ. Through sin the whole world of mankind became alienated from God - from light, glory and righteousness - and consequently became affianced with satan, darkness, disgrace and wickedness, with an outgrowth of weakness and ignorance. Such a relationship was offensive to the Divine Being, who had intended man for a more noble and holier purpose. But alas! poor man was unable to change his condition for the better. Hence God, who is infinitely good and wise, instituted a plan by which he might be reinstated in the favor of his Maker.
This plan was consummated in the gift of His Son, Jesus Christ, who in due time came to the earth, lived, taught, worked, preached, suffered, died and was buried, burst the bonds of death and ascended to Heaven and fulfilled the promise made to his followers, by sending the Holy Ghost, which spirit filled them with the spirit of missions, and that same spirit actuates the
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