Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1840-09-24
citation. I request sou to give publicity ia
your columns. Respectfully
The Edgcfeld Baptist association,
To Sister Corresponding .issosciati ons,

49," >"''iu TOIll duONC, "Hh NHiSh -
profitable 10 direct. Werefel to The course,
that Body Of Baplisls at The North, with
whom We have been long associated in tho
general eforis ofbenevolence, have recent
y taken. lis known 10 you. brethren,
that an An,i-Slavery Convention was held
inNcw York in April last, styled Tho
American Baptist Anli-Slavery Conven-
lion." from Which an Address to Southern
Baptsts was issued, signed by the Rev. E.
Galusha, the President of the meeting,
wi,o is one of the V. Presidents oflhe Bap.
list Board of Foreign Mission, IN which
Address, we, at the South, are warned of
the heinous guilt Of holding slaves, and
urged 10 purge ourselves of IL, by emanci-
pating them. II, however, we DO no, lake
the warning, and continue 10 hold our
slaves, we are informed by The Convention,
tha, our people shall be excluded from
their communion tables, and our Ministers
from their pulpits. 1t is 10 be presumed,
that. what our Bibles have not taught Us
10 do, the threats Of our brethren at tho
North will assuredly fail TO accomplish, and
therefore the exclusion will follow as
matter Of course.
If there existed no general concert of ac-
lion between these brethren and US. this
high handed measure would be painful.
mor'ifyiug, deeply distressing. But, when
tits known that, for more han twenty years,
the Northern and Southern Baptists have
been united in the grand MIssi nary en-
ierprise, and that Gods blessing has been
most maniiestly shed down upon our uni
ted efforts, such measure is appalling,
and most sincerely 10 be deplored. What
The result will he as TO farthercounexioH be-
tween the Northern and Southern Bapiisls
generally. in the grand schemes Of Mission
ary, Bible, and Tract efforts is known to
HIN only, who "sees the end from the be-
giuing."
Some Churches of our Denomination ip
Alabama have already declared, Iha. an
iusupcrablc barrier is raised, by the course
above mentioned, to their farther co-ope-
ration in The Foreign Missionary Depart
rnent, with their Northern brethren, and
have advised all their brethren at the South
to seek different channel for the trans.
mission of their benevolent contributions
to The heathen. If this course shall be
generally adopted, we are at once dis
severed people. But before this shall be
adopted, let US ponder well upon its
propiieiy.
II is true, that the President of the An
ti-Slavery Convention and signer Of the
Address, is one of the Vice Presidents, of
the Bapris, Board OF Foreign Missions,
bur he acted IN bis individual character,
and moi as the Representative or exponent
of the Board Of Missions or Convention.
Now as The Baptist General Missionary
Convention will assemble al Baltimore
next April, would il not be more prudent
and more in accordance with the spirit or
the Gospel, 10 wait until thai Body shall
assemble, and know whether i, will sustain
the views and principles Of the Address or
not? If that Body shall dsavow those
principles and views. though an individ-
val officer maiutain them, why should wo
separate, and seek new channel for our
contributions to The heathen! If they
shall sustain them, our course OF action will
be clear aud unavoidable. We must sepa-
rate, and form new Missionary Body.
Perlni, US. then, brethren respectfully
TO suggest, that no action be had on his
subject before April next: that the South
ern Delegation 10 the missionary Conven-
tion be then full, and that they lake such
steps, as they may deem proper for OBJ
tanning an expression Of The sentiments of
;ha, Body on this matter, and on their re-
tuln, inform their constituents oflhe result,
that they may then act, as the nature Of
Of the case shall require.
The representation Of our churches has
been full. But the greater part of Them
complain of coldness and sterili.y. Our
deliberations have been harmonious. tho
preaching good, and the weather most fa-
vorable. We remain. respectfully yours
in Gospel Bonds.
Whereas a Body Of Northern Bap-
lists, forming the American Baptist Anti
Slavery Convention, in the city Of New
York in April last, did issue an Address,
sigued by Rev. Elon Galusha, President
of The meeting, who is one Of The Vice
Presidents of The Baptist Board of For
eien Missions, warning the Southern Bap-
fists OF The sin Of holding slaves, and Of
the duty OF emanciPatlns them, aud lhrea-
tenne their brethren at The South with
exclusion from their communion tables and
their pulpi,s, il they should not take the
admonition and sci their slaves free,
RESOLVED, That our Delegates 10 tho
Baptist General Missionary Convention be
instructed 10 obtain from tha, Body at ito
next meeting, an expression Of its apprs-
baton or disapprobalion Of the views and
sentiments contained in that Address. To
the end, that If thar Body shall approve Of
of the views and threats contained in that
Address, The Southern Bapiists may take
measures for forming a separate Mission
ary Body.
w. B. JOHNSON, Moderator
JOHN HEWITT, Clerk.
For the AdreHiser.
ASONG.