Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1845-04-30
MISCELLANEOUS.
From the Charleston Courier.
CHARLESTON, Is. C.,) l2lh April, lS45.

CHARLESTON, Is. C.,) l2lh April, lS45.
Atan adjourned meeting of The lncorpo-
rated Baplis, Church of Charleston, held
This evening, at 8 o'clock, the following
report and resolutions were presented by
the Committee appointed OH The 25lh ul-
limo, and after discussion and due delibe.
ration thereon. unanimously adopted:
The Commitlee 10 whom were referred
preambles and resolutions on the subject
of the letter Of the Acting Board Of For
eign Missions 10 the President of the Ala
bama Stale Conve enlion, have had the
whole subject under consideration, and
be leave 10 REPORT:
That they have no doubt that the action
of ofthezAc'iug Board is agains, the rights oil
members, individual and Stale, Of tbs
TrienuiaI Convention. For to say, thai
those who are members of that body ac-
tuaIly Or by representation. are eligible TO
every employment and office in its Gift is
an absurdily. As well might it be said,
that South Carolinian, who happened 10
hold slaves and to be delegate, could not
be elected President! But the absurd
position assumed by the Acting Board, Is
the more manifest from the very fact,
that they are The agents Of the, very men
from whom they refuse 10 take mis-
sionary. That the course pursued by the
Acting Board is most unjust will be at
once perceived, when il is remembered,
that from the establishment Of missions,
Southern Baptists have freely contributed
10 sustain item. They were among the
first to unite in ,eis good work, aud to
constitute the Trennial Convention. That
they have gone on minisrering to the
heather abroad, while perhaps they had
abundant employment for all their means
at home, in The religious Instruction Of their
slaves, cannot be denied. Now, to bs
told you are unworthy TO he missionary
10 the very people 10 whom you have de.
voted your means, mouth after month, and
year after year, and for whom your pray
ers have been constantly ascending, is a
poor specimen Of the just consideration Of
the rig hts OF Southern Baptist Slavehold-
ers. Whether il be esteemed right or not
by our brethren who are not slavehold
ers, of one thing we are very certain, aUe
a5lIt mol thus oe mdre 10 pay ana 6e re1ec;
ted.
The compromise made in the Triennial
Convention last year. conceded great
deal 10 the prejudces of our brethren Of
the non n.slavehoidiug States; but we were,
and still are, willing to abide by it. Let
The ground on which we meet be but neu
trail, and we are satisfied. Our brethren
NAV say, and have right to say, in tine
words of the resolution, while it remains
unrescinded by the Convention, I'VE dis
claim all sanction, either expressed or i'm
plied, whether Of slavery or anl-slavery."
Bot when they declare thai they cannot
and will NOT employ Shareholder as
missionary, it is plain and palpa5el they
have ceased to he neutral. They are par
t;zans, aboiiioniStS.
That God may and dues call slavehold,
ers to rreach the Gospel will scarcely be
denie if his commission be thus derived
from the ling of Kings. how dare mortaIs
TO abridse its terms. Go ye therefore,
and teach all nations, baptislng them in The
name of The Father, the SON, and the
Holy Ghost" Yet our brethren have
dared 10 do this very deed. They have
said you, a. B., called Of God to preach
the Guspel, desiring TO go and teach the
bea,hen, bu, have not the means OF your
self 10 60, and has asked US TO give you the
means placed in your hands for that pur-
pose, vet 'inasmuch as you are slave
holder, you shall mol have one dollar nor
our authority to CO." This is an awful
responsibility. aud brethren should pause.
and consider it well before they carry it
out For we tell them, persist in the
course marked out by the Acting Board of
Foreign Missions, and the blessing Of
God will be withdrawn from these mis-
sions, and we shall cease to be one peo-
ple. The South can and avilt take care
of themselves!
But we hope that returning sense OF
Justice and of duty, Of which we see some
indications. will induce the Board of Man
ayers. at their approaching session, TO re-
verse and rescind the decision of The Act
ing Board. To give time for the fulfil
menl or the blasting Of that hope, ifsuch
must be :he case, we would prefer that
the proposed Southern Baptist Convention
should MOI assemble until the Tuesday af.
ter the third Lords day in June next. But
if our hope should not be realized, aud it
is The will of God, that the painful neces-
silv should be upon us, Of providing for
our own protection from wrong, we concur
fully in the views Of our Baptist brethren
of Virginia, in the expedency of the
Southern Bapisls meeting in Convention
a, Augusta, Ga, for the purpose Of enquir-
inc together and asking The Lordlwhat shall
be done? In that event your Commit.
tee believe it will be best, that each Bap.
list Church throughout the State should
NEE, and send up one or more delegates.
The meetings of our State Convention and
Associations will not be in time, aud if
thew were, still we would prefer that each
Church should appoint. For the question
is one deeply affecting every Southern
Baptist. Delegates coming fresh from
the bosom of each Church, would give to
us and the world just notion Of wha,
ought and can be done.