The committee to whom was referred the communication from the Mission Board of the North Pacific Coast Convention beg leave to report:
1. The communication contains an appeal to the Convention to interfere by mediation and otherwise in a strife that has arisen between brethren of different views of church policy and action, which strife affects the missionary plans and policies of the American Baptist Home Mission Society in a territory in which this Convention has never had any missions.
2. On inquiry we find that though the North Pacific Coast Convention has contributed some money to the mission work of this Convention, it has not done so in such amount or manner as to entitle it to representation in the body and so it cannot claim our action on the ground of being a part of the Convention, or its work being a part of the Convention’s work.
3. Apart from this consideration, we do not deem it within the province of this Convention to in any manner interfere in the local contentions as to doctrine and policy of other Baptist bodies, whether connected with it originally or not.
We recommend that the Convention respectfully decline the request of the North Pacific Coast Convention, while at the same time we extend to them our loving sympathy in their struggle for what they believe to be right and truth, and pray for them and those with whom they contend, that the Spirit of God may lead them all into peace and harmony with the truth.
Respectfully submitted,
T.P. Bell,
W.W. Landrum,
W. L. Brown, Committee