Show AX UIlOUTAXT NATIONAL GAT11 EmS Ox THIS date April Ift t VaJl ington D Cm iuiportant gathir iug waste convene and be continued contin-ued tbreo consecutive day It bin the nature of a National Conference i Confer-ence of the Principles of Civil Government to lie held under the auspices of the National IJeform Association The > call was tignwl by Ills HoVtor Wm Strong hue of tIle < Supreme Court of tIle United States Joqh Cook the Jtev Francis K Clark D D President of the United Societies of Christian Endeavor En-deavor the Hon William Wludom Secretary of the Treasuo Gen Clinton 15 PUk the He v Wilbur F Crate Jkhoi > Andrew of theM the-M K Church nnd many othere If tho following whicli Is embraced em-braced in the announcement had been expressed and iiubliehed by Jlormon Elders it would undoubtedly un-doubtedly have been denounced as treasonable and as indicating a disloyal attempt to produce the domination of the Church over tlie State nnd an amalgamation of the two branches AAmons tho principles which this association holds to be fundamental In chil government are these Nations and governments are accountable to Almighty God and arc bonnd by the moral law tho Lord Jels Christ It the actual Governor of nations and Ills will revealed in the IIolp Scrip tures is the frupremorulo to decide moral questions in political life These principles wo hold to bao been woven toricalyin the very fibre ofAmer iean institutions Our stability and our progress bare been due to Uio power they have exerted in onr national na-tional life All tbe evils which hae afflicted us have been traceable to our daparure from them All our hopes for our future depend upon them Our gravest jwrillies in tbe fact that these principles are ignored by Urge nnui bers of our citizens and denied by many others The duty of the hour is to emphasize and uphold them and to inculcao them upon the fast increasing in-creasing million of our population Among the ulitCIIlI proposed to treat are the Sabbath Question or theXatloua Relation to the Day of Kst the Question of Marriage and Divorce or Uie Ddty of the Xatfon to tho Family the Tmlr ance Question or the Bight Attitude I Atti-tude of the Iaw Toward the Traffic in Intoxicant the Indian tlie Chines e and the Xegro Problem theSchool Quistlou or the Character Charac-ter of the Education to be furnlxbed 1J the Slate to its Youthful Citizen Citi-zen tlie relation of the imtion ui foreign and weaker nation M as af Tested liy ourcoinmerceand by the character of the rejiresentatlve > whom ti e fiend < T Thote who call the conference thus tell a ttrikitu > truth constantly and conspicuously exemplified Underlying aB these practical Issues Is-sues is a draper aj more radical eon troyer y provoked by those who deny thSt clvn government sustains any nlnlions lo Go or tn Christ or to ttio Moral LaW wio deny that our Jans and institutions khould bMr at any point tho impress of oltho Cliristlan ro Itgion and who are riving cousunt y and of ddilierte jmrpoje to obliterate obliter-ate every Christian feature of American Ameri-can institutions and to divorce our government from all l connection with reiigiou It h I Intended to embody Uie views ol the ootifererce in resolution and In that shape give them wHe publicity pub-licity j |