Show of Christ sWap Slap Billy 9 Sunday Rejection of Evangelical a x Son ire lrI 10 to The Tha Telegram I UIS Mo Dec Dee 11 A H.-A A direct taken at Billy Sunday by the i I nc uncil il l of the Churches of I Christ in America in session here to today today today to- to day when when's a proposal for a nation wide I four years years' evangelical campaign was wal I rejected and ana the report of the commisSion commission commission commis commis- I sion referred back for the elimination of those recommendations The action of the convention which after the was a distinct surprise came reading of the tha report of the commission commission commission commis commis- sion on evangelism which earnestly indorsed the evangelist and outlined for the whole a stupendous campaign i of America The adverse vote was preceded by a denunciation of the I whole principle of evangelism by Dr Edgar Blake of Chicago secretary of tho the Methodist board of Sunday schools who declared tho the work of the professional professional lional evangelist ineffective and asserted as al' I sorted that the Methodist Episcopal church could not cooperate in such movement Declaring that the church could sou first I attend to the evils nearest at hand and nd intimating that th the th tendency In In the P past has been to f hold al aloof from r m some of the more sordid aspects of ao social so vial cial welfare work the report of the commission on the and social service submitted today strongly t ceo teo om mends that the social hau welfare forces of the f church turn their most t earnest rnest attention to the problem of housing recreation V temperance prison n reform commercialized vice and the equa equal status of women In one brief of its Pa passage E mont ment of social locial service ervice the report bor- bor b bor- bor r. r dora ders closely i ty on 1 soCialIsm i when Tn n lit its nu enumeration tin of Principles it includes S the tho th shifting of industry from off I. I its basis of profits upon Pen that tat of h- h welfare wt 1 Prohibition control of infectious cf dis- dis eases and and vices removal of poverty uniform divorce laws aws abo C- C labor and other principles I I reported on in the council weer mong non ng the tho the recommendations of of the amoin com J mission million i on t I |