The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1840-10-10
The Edg:i'h Baptist association,
Ia Sis.Jr C,rc&ppnd;ng Associations,

very grave importance now forces 'lse''
upon the attention Of Southern Baptlsts
demanding the full exercise of that WIS
dom, which cnmc1h from above, and
which.is profitable to direct. We refer
to the course, that Body Of Baplists al
the N nth, with whnm we have been long
associated in The general efforts Of bcne.
volcucc, have recently taken. llis known
10 YOU, brethren, that an Anti Slavery
Convention wns held in New York in
April last, styled "Thc American Bap'
list An,i-Slavery Convention" from which
an Address 10 Southern Baptists was is
sued, signed by the Rev. L. Galusha' the
President Of the meeting, who is one OF
the Vice Presidents Of the Baptist Board
Of Foreign Mission, in which Address,
we, at the South, are warned of the helm
Gus guilt of holding slaves, and urging
purge ourselves Of it, by emaneIpa-
TING them. If, however, we do not take
the warning, and continue to hold our
sla-es, we are informed by the Conren-
ton, ,ha. our people shall be excluded
from their communion tables, and our
Ministers from their pulpits. 1t is to be
presumed, that, what our Bibles have not
taught us to do, the threats Of our brc-
1hrcn at the North will assurcdly fail to
accomplish, and therefore, the exclusion
will follow as matter Of course.
If there existed no general concert of
action between these brethren and us, this
high handed measure would be painful
mortifying. deeply distressing. But, when
i. is known that, for more than twenty
wears, the Northren and Southren Baptists
have been united in the grand Missiona-
~ enterprise, and that Gods blessing
has been most manifestly shed down upon
our united efforts. such measure is ap-
pslling, and most sincerely to be deplored.
What The result will be as to farther con-
nexion between the Northern and South
ern Bap,ists generally, in the grand
schemes of Missionary, Bible, and Tract
efforts Is known to HIM only, who "sees
the end from the beginning"
Some Churches Of our Denomination in
Alabama have already declared, that an
insuperablc barrier is raised, by the course
above mentioned, to their farther co-ope.
ration in the Foreign Missionary Depart
uent, with their Northern brethren, and
have advised all their brethren at the South
10 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
sevred people. But before this shall be
adopted, let US ponder we'll upon its pro-
priety.
tits true, that the President Of the Anti
Slavery Convention and signer Of the
Address, is one of the Vice Presidents, of
the Baptist Board of Foreign Missions,
but he acted in his individual character,
and not as the Representative or exponent
of the Board of Missions or Convention.
Now as the BAPTIST General Missionary
Convention will assemble at Baltimore
next April, would it not be more prudent
and more in accordance with the spirit Of
the Gospel, to wait until that Body shall
assemble, and know whether it will sus.
tain the views and principles of the Ad-
dress or not! If that Body shall disavow
those principles and views, though an in
dividual officer maintain them, why should
we separate, and seek new channel for
our contributions 10 the heathens! Ii they
shall sustain them, our course Of action
will be clear and unavoidable. We must
separate, and form a new Missionary
Body.
Permit US, then, brethren respectfully
TO suggest, that no action be had on this
subiec. before April next: that the South
ern Delegation 10 the missionary Conven.
H., C,,n opb that ,hpv take sic h