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Show CONVENTION MAY BAR "MORMONS" Chicago, Juno 23. Tho fourteenth I International Sunday school conven- tion began hero tonight with 1000 delegates from tho four corners of tho earth In attendance ; Tho" secretary read a report sign ed by Shatter Mathews, dean of the divinity school of the University of Chicago, on behalf of a committee composed of himself, tho Rey- John Dalcomb Shaw of Los Angeles, and tho Rev. Charles D. Mitchell, Chicago, Chica-go, declaring tho Mormon Church was ineligible for tho membership because It placed tho Hook of Mormon on a par with tho Blblo. "Then let us turn the subject over to a committee," said the secretary; IH "wo cannot take hasty action." El "If tho caso is clear that the ro- iKfl organized church of the. Latter-day all Shints docs not teach what we pro- M'l fess, why should wo dodgo tho Is- fifl suo?" asked tho Rev. William H. .H Dresden of Evhnsvlllo, Ind. "Nn !H church that places the Dook o! Mar- igon on an equality with , tlia Blblo 11 I is evangelical," ho concluded-. mM l A special committee will ,tak.i up M tho subject. 11 |