Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 153, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1920 — BAPTISTS QUIT “INTERCHURCH” MAY BE END [ARTICLE]

BAPTISTS QUIT “INTERCHURCH” MAY BE END

Buffalo, N. Y., June 24.—The Northern Baptist convention ' after what was said to be the most stormy debate in its history, voted by an overwhelming majority to withdraw wholly from the mterchurch world movement. The “divorce decree” takes effect next Wednesday, the day after this convention adjourns. It closed the doors to any possible further participation in the movement. The Northern Baptists voted to pay so much of the >2,500,000 for which it underwrote the interchurch as shall seem their “just share” but it did not provide any money for helping the movement in the future. This is going much farther than did the general assembly of the Presbyterian church in Philadelphia just a month ago. The Presbyterians withdrew from the interchurch, arranged to pay the >1,000,000 for which it underwrote the movement, but voted to maintain an “advisory relation” to it for one more year, and, if it re-organized with certain reforms to pay >IOO,OOO toward its expenses. . The Baptists in their resolutions of today distinctly stated that under no circumstances was the sum to be handed over to exceed the >2,500,000* for which it had already assumed responsibility. The belief expressed freely here is that the interohurch is dead, buried, and can never be resurrected, now that both the northern Baptist and Presbyterian denominations have quit it. _ , , Irish Resolution Piss outed There was not a moment of the day which did not have a thrill, but the greatest uproar came when the Rev. Dr. A. C. Dickson, now of Los Angeles, but for about a decade pastor of a large Congregational church in London, England, offered a resolution which was taken deal with the “Irish republic.