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Received 944,192 Cattle during the year 1904.
Packers and Feeders bought 909,433 Cattle.
96 per cent of all the cattle received were sold here.
Reeeivd 2,299,629 nogs during the year 1904. '
Packers bought 2,298,800 hogs. !
100 per cent of all the hogs received were sold here.
Received 1,754,365 Sheep during the year 1904.
Packers and Feeders bought 1,642,824 Sheep.
94 per cent of all the sheep received were sold here
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RELIGIOUS TREND OF YEAR
Marktd Teidecy of 8ret Dsnraiittin
to Work Togethu.
PASSING OF THE HIGHER CRITICISM
for the Federation of All Pre.,
byterlaa Bole Fiv Great Con
ventions Meld Increase la
Mlsslonnry Zeal.
Speaking ot Christian bodies aa a whole,
th features of tha year Just ended were
the growing Inollnatlona of all Protestant
one to work together, tha marked Increase
In missionary seal and In some Instancea In
contributions of men and money, and the
death of tha higher criticism and the em
phasis with which the divinity and person
of Jesus Christ stand out in tha sstlmullon
of almost all classes of American people.
Flva bodies held general meetings during
tha year that, respectively. Indicated turn
ing points lit their respective histories.
These were tha Methodist, the Congrega
tional tha Episcopal, tha Lutheran and the
Disciple of Christ. Among bodies other
than the regular ones .two held meetings
that may be described In terms similar to
thoaa just employed, namaly, that they
marked changes In the hlsturlo character of
the bodies holding them or of the public
awntlment the meetings were held to affect.
These were the American bible league and
111 Religious Kducatlon society. In points
pt Jexsoual record, !u tyeaig of Ui year
were the vlalt of the archbishop of Canter
bury, the departure for permanent work In
England of Rev. 3. Campbell Morgan, the
death of Rev. Dr. George C. Lorlmar and
the appointment of a new apostolic dele
gate to the Philippines by the Roman Cath
olic hierarchy.
Congregatlonallsts have been trying, and
with soma success, to unite with two
smaller bodies, tha Methodist Protestant,
and the I'nlted Brethren, and they accom
plished much In the holding of annual meet
ings of all their benevolent organisations In
the aame atate In the same season of the
year. Indeed, all home benevolences met It
the same city. There met at the aame time
the National council, and together with all
of their Interests they had the best assem
bly, from a denominational point of view,
aver held by them. It was strong in tha
three essentlala of harmony, missionary
seal and a determination to work harder
than before. Baptists are congregational In
polity and their notable steps of the year
were their decision to meet with other Bap
tists of the world In tha holding during 1906
of the first Baptist world congress, and to
plan hers at home a national Baptist coim
ell, wherein all Baptist affairs may be pre
sented and advice given. The latter step Is
tha initial one among Baptists of America
toward federation. Baptists also made soma
progress In the Inauguration of an evan
gelistic movement, but the year was not,
In any religious body, an specially evange
listic one, and no great progress was made.
Free Baptists made overtures toward union
with the Disciples of Christ, and at the end
of the year both parties to the proposed
contract are saying and writing nice things
about each other.
DlacipJe of Christ, Just Munitioned, held
their denominational rally at St. Louis.
They had on the Purohase exposition
grounds a building that would have dons
honor to any business concern. Indeed,
they led other American bodies in seising
upon methods which drive business to ex
positions and adapting them to the ad
vantage and benefit of a wide-awake Chris
tian body that would make ons world bet
ter and save souls in another. Lutherans
held also an epoch-marking meeting look
ing toward co-operation. The date was
early In ths year, and the conferenc was
one of a aeries having fur its purpose the
burying of theological difference and the
working together in missionary fields.
Young people's interests among Lutherans
had the largest gathering In their history,
and the best year to enthusiasm and ag
gressiveness sines a common organisation
waa effected. In ths Reformed church.
Dutch branch, an Interesting thing was the
rejection of the revision of . the Liturgy,
wilch revision had been made with ex
celling care. In the same church, Oerman
brunch, a revival of foreign missionary in
terest waa ths featurs of ths year, with
new amphaala upon educational problems
and their financial solution.
The visit of ths archbishop of Canter
bury brought ths Episcopal general con
vention, a triennial gathering. Into un
usual prominence and cemented aa never
before the feeling between that body and
the Church of England. The convention
was the most missionary in spirit of any
ever held, and marked the waking up of
this church to foreign missions in some
where near the same degree that Presby.
terlan, Methodist, Congregational and some
other bodies hod reached. There was or
ganised a Junior clergy missionary asso
ciation, and ths langest number of mission
ary bishops chosen during a single yeat
were named. Sunday school interests) were
federated.
Among tha general organisations for
Christian effort a radical change waa made
in ths Salvation Army In the retirement of
Commander Booth Tucker and the appoint
ment of a younger daughter of General
Booth as head of the Army in America,
Tha Religious Kducatlon society hold an
other annual meeting that waa marked by
even greater enthusiasm than the one at
which the movement was Inaugurated. Ths
nciety demonstrated what may be oalled
Its sanity, to borrow a democraUo word or
ths year, by showing that it is not radical
either in method or belief.
A hew Organisation.
The striking thing about minor organisa
tion was, however, the American Blblo
league. Its first meeting startled the whols
oountry, and If its second on attracted less
attention It was because In some degree the
oocaslon for Its first protest had waned.
Th league came out aa a defender ot the
Bible the Bible aa it is and found an ex
tremely hearty response, making Its meet
ings larger even than Its promoters ex
pected. Th Toung Men's Christian as
sociation mad tremendous advances dur
ing ths year in th erection of new build
lnga, money going into Umuu by the hun
dreds of thousands of dollars. A promi
nent feature of th year is a proposition to
be acted upon during the coming year, to
federate every non-Roman body in Amer
ica. A discouraging feature In the minds
of religious propagandists 1st the small num
ber of men uloriug (ha minlquy In all
bodies save th Roman Cathollo, and In
some in, an aggravated form, this dearth
of new ministers la startling, and it is
quailed only by th greater dearth ot man
in the universities who have announced
their Intention to study for holy order. In
soms bodies far fewer men are entering the
out annually by death and resignation. As
this condition has obtained for some years,
grbwlng worse sach year, It Is not to be
wondered at that religious leaders close ths
year with foreboding.
Presbyterian talon. '
Little has been talked of among Pres
byterians save union. Bom ot th largest
general assemblies voted in May In favor
of urllon, and aent down overtures to
their respective presbyteries for approval.
But during ths summsr and early fall a
difficulty arose; that dlffloulty was th
colored man. H Is still in ths way, but
In spits of htm tha Presbyterian situation
ended th year in hopeful form, with ths
proposition to form a Presbyterian Fed
eral Council whluh shall, in soms measure,
unite all American bodies holding ths
Presbyterian system of government. Meth
odists held a wonderfully successful gen
eral conferenc at Los Angeles, th fea
tures of wlilob were Its missionary seal
and rejolulng over ths completion of the
WO.OOO.Uuu fund. A proposition to restore
ths pastoral tlms limit waa defeated, not
wholly on its merits, but rather in the
form of an armistice that would give the
plan adopted la lkuO a little longer trial.
Progress was made toward the amalgamn
tion of Methodist benevolences, and three
organisations with new names ars now
being evolved. Some new bishops were
chosen and there, myt gn. Lai all on of torn
new blond Into the official system. Among
Roman Catholics in America the features
of the year were the celebration of the
fiftieth annlcerpary ot the promulgation of
ths dogma of the Immaculate conception,
the flnunrlal troubles of the Catholic uni
versity and the rallying of the Cathollo
laity In Mis Lehulf.
Tentative Plans Adopted.
A plan for the federation of all the bodies
in tha religion life of thus oountry, holding
to ths Presbyterian nyatm of government,
was tentatively adopted at a meeting of
representative of eevnn of the larger of
such bodies, held early in December in
Pittsburg, Pa. Tha plan, which has th
approval of leaders In most of the Presby
terian bodies, piovlde not for any union
along organlo Unas, but for an organisation
to b called tli "Federal Council of th
Reformed Churche in th I'nlted States of
America Holding the Presbyterian System,"
and the scop of ths organisation waa out
lined at ths meeting In Pittsburg as fol
lows: "Ths federal council shall promote
th co-operation of the federated churches
in their foreign missionary work ai.d also
in their general work in the United Stale
of America, In connection with horn mis
sions, work among th colored people,
ohurch erection. Sabbath schools, publica
tion and education; and may initial move
ment having this co-operation in view sub.
Ject to ths spproval of tha churches con
oeraed. Th council may also advlae and
recommend iu other matters p, rtalnlng to
th general welfare of the kingdom of
Christ." The plan of federation waa adopted
by the meeting and is now made publlo In
order. iuU max b Xuiiv
throughout the churches and may be acted
upon lu the supreme Judiciary of the vari
ous bodies, which are expected to Instruct
their delegates and continue the representa
tive) conference. In the committee's plan of
federation it is provided that the churches
Joining the federation shall preserve their
Individualities, their creeds, form of gov
ernment and worahlp, and every power,
Jurisdiction and right not specifically con
ferred on the federal council. Representa
tion in tho council shall be regulaled ac
cording to the communicunts of the affili
ated bodies on the basis of four represents
thus for each lOO.ono communicants up to
H'0,000, and four representatives for each ad
ditional sno.ww communicants. On this ha
ul the Nor;hern Presbyterian church, with
l.uvl.SOS members, would have twenty-four
representatives in the council, th South
ern Prexbytertun church und the Oerman
Reformed church would each huv eight,
mid tln other bodies officially represented at
the Pltuburg meeting, the Dutch Reformed,
the Reformed fresh) terlun General Synod,
the I'nlted Preby terlan and tho Cumber
hind ITeshytcrlun would each have four
r preventative, making a council of fifty
six members In ull. Other Presbyterian
budiiw which might Join In the movement,
but were not represent! at Pittsburg, in
clude the Chrlxtlan Reformed, the Associ
ate Reformed Synod of the South, th Re
formed PretrhyterUn Church Synod and
the Welfh Calvlnlxtlc.
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