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Show 4) . REV. WILSON RETURNS FROM CHURCH MEET Rev. Harold L. Wilson, pastor of the Springville Community church, who has been in attendance at the Presbyterian general assembly in Pittsburgh, Pa., reports that some of its important business was as follows: Spiritual emphasis was the su-. su-. preme issue of the assembly, and the great national annual congress representing 2,000,000 communicent members sounded as the keynote for the coming year the spiritual quickening of the entire church. The dominating spirit of the business busi-ness of the assembly was toward a great renewal of faith and great revival of Christian work throughout through-out the United Stales and in the countries where Presbyterian missions mis-sions are conducted.' !. The assembly upheld Presidenr Hoover in his policy cf law observance. observ-ance. It made a strong pronounce- ment for universal peilee, for the entrance of the United States into the. World Court, for liberty of conscience, con-science, and for obtaining for Pres-bleiian Pres-bleiian students in colleges the sam exemption from cmp i.i.sory military (raining that is grafted to members ot the Society of F.-ienSj the ' assembly considering ' that a Piesbyterian conscience is just as good as a Quaker conscience. Temperance and 'prohibition. Sah- bath observance and other fundamentals funda-mentals of old-fashioned Ameiican Christianity,, were' held up -as sert.als in combatting the evils of times. Strong pronouncements were mane against the liquor traffic agoi-ist the comnieroializatio', of he Sobbiih by professional spoils and motion picture houses and intrusion of obje-'io'iat,:e amu--.'uents into chruch bui'd 'its Ihc sancitity of marriage, 'ne ism. 11 ' ':M lhe iome war. cmtiti.ni r and greater restrictions against' tb divorce evil were advocated |