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Show BAPTISTS REJECT! PLAH FDR UNION) Interchurch World Movement Move-ment Favored; Big Gift U Announced. rn:.VKli, I'olo., Mny 2 1. Rejection of pi-iipu.-iils fur an (jryanized union of j r a ii.-lic::i 1 chun-lieB, aeirnpta nee of the; iul'-i'i'liuivli Wnrhl movement anil the -iil, hi' ,f 11011,000 hy John l. liuc.ltcful-Icr liuc.ltcful-Icr fur mission work wen: the oiit.staud-in. oiit.staud-in. fcaliii-i's of today's session of the nnilliiTr! liaptit i'imi i:nt ion. Tlir l:r,cki:i 'idler idl't, i'oii li n ent upon' tin: I'ojnpletioii of the $0,o(iO,O0i) cliurrh fund, was said to lie the largest individual indi-vidual yil't ciit inadi' to iniasioiiary ivnrk in any denomination. five million, mil-lion, five hundred thousand dollars of tin; sum already has heen raised and President I'. '". Aver, of Philadelphia, told tin; eonvontion lie was confident tin; sum would lie raised and the 2,-uo'i.ooi) 2,-uo'i.ooi) ol.laiiieil, one half for the Ameriian Haptist foreign Mission so-eirlv so-eirlv or Huston and the other half for the Ainerirnu l!aitist Homo Mission so-eietv so-eietv of .ei' 'orlt. The Km li;feller yift was in addition to .f Toll, 000 alreadv contributed toward the . 0,0011,000 fund. Accept a nee of the interchurch world movement, a proposal for merger of linnneinl interests of various denominations denomin-ations for a campaign of money raising similar to the painted War Work campaign cam-paign conducted by army welfare organizations, or-ganizations, enmo somewhat as a surprise sur-prise as considerable opposition had developed previous to the convention. W hen the vole was taken, the opposition opposi-tion had dwindled lo a comparative few, due to reservations in the accept-ince accept-ince providinn; that the interchurch federation should never attempt to effect ef-fect an organic union of chitr-hes Mud ether provisions prserviiiLj the independence inde-pendence and traditions of tho Baptist church. This movement was made by the cx-ecutive cx-ecutive cunnnitteo of the convention which substituted its o.wn statement for tho recommendations of the laymen's lay-men's committee in order to meet the arguments of those opposing the federation. federa-tion. There was only a few minutes' discussion before tho vote. The southern south-ern Paptist convention already had rejected re-jected the proposal and the Presbyterian Presby-terian church at St. Louis accepted the federation plan only after making reservations res-ervations alone; a similar line. The resolution declaring auainst organic or-ganic union of the evangelical churches of the country was presented to the convention by Dr. Shailer Matthews, : dean of the 'University of Chicago Divinity Di-vinity school. It declared that Baptist i traditions and principles precluded any organic union with other denominations. denomina-tions. The Baptist church is a demo- i; cratic body, unaffiliated with any other body and looking to no higher earChly authority than its own membership, member-ship, the resolution stated. It expressed ex-pressed the sentiment of the convention in refusal to send any delegates to the proposed conference on organic union as suggested by the Presbyterian church. ' Disposal of the important business 1 of today 's session early in the day, left i little for the afternoon session of tho convention except a missionary pro-.1 pro-.1 gram. The convention sermon to be deliv-ered deliv-ered tomorrow morning by Dr. Fosdick " of Pniou Theological Seminary in New York, and other purely religious meet-1 meet-1 ings were scheduled for tomorrow. ' Monday and Tuesday the convention will decide on the five year program; j : a program for education; election of of- j ficers and selection of the next con- i vention city. ' j |