The Reform Movement

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Oct 18, 1877

The Reform Movement.

The following extract taken from the San Francisco Evening Post of October 16, under the caption of “A Bombshell in the Episcopal Convention,” shows the favor in which the National Reform movement is held. At their convention held at Boston, the 16th, an exceedingly animated scene was created by Livermore, of Minnesota, who introduced the following resolution:—

“Resolved, That the union of the church and State is prejudicial to the best interests of religion, and the House of Deputies expresses its sympathy with the efforts now being made for severing the church from the State in England.”

“As soon as read, a hundred delegates, at least, were on their feet and called upon the chairman to lay the resolution on the table. It was promptly done. The amendment to the constitution for the organization of a constitutional commission came up shortly before noon. Dr. De Koven, of Wisconsin, who presented the memorial from the diocesan convention of that State, opened the discussion and made an eloquent speech in support of the amendment, as also did Dr. Beers, of California. Dr. Norton, of Virginia, had the floor when the convention took a recess.”