Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1845-05-07


! the Board" and as by the determination of the
Convention, at its last meeting, the manage
ment of the whole Missionary concern was
committed 10 the "Acting Board," }" during the
recess of the Convention,i it mnst be an ap
.plicalion from the Acting. not the General
Board, that would authorize the call oil a spe
cial meeting Of the Convention, by the Presl
dent. Under the existing circumstances o
this case then, there is no ground OF hope, thai
the Board will request the President TO call q
special meeting Of The Convention. :. Hence
we are without constitutional remedy, IN the
present case, for two whole years.
In this state ofthings, it is natural to expect
that the contributions TO the Treasury Of the
Baptist Board Of Foreign Missions. will be
withheld by Southern and South Western
Baplists. because they car no longer repose
confidence in body of men, who. though ap
pointed 10 promote the objects Of the Conven'
ton, so materially differs from them IN the
construction OF It's constitutional provisions
Something therefore, mus be done, and thai
too, without unnecessary delay. Anew chan
| mel must be created. through which the liberal
ily of Southern and South Western Baptists
shall flow. that its streams may go forth to
evaug eIize tho world. Already have the funds
of our Alabama and Virginia brethren been
withheld from the treasury Of the Board ol
Missions And il is in the hearts of thousands
of their brethren 10 do the same thing. Some.
thing, !, repeat it, must be done, and done
| without unnecessary delay The liberal feel
| ngs of our brethren Of the South and South
| West, must nolbe permitted, through want ol
a proper channel for their course, TO stagnate
and dry up. The heathen must not be per
aitted to perish, through our neglect TO send
them the word Of life. Duty 10 God IN our
fellow men. 10 ourselves, demands an lmmcdi.
ate entrance upon the work of a Southern and
! South Western organization for Missionary and
other benevolent objects. Would to God. it
could be prevented on equitable principles. But
facts forbid1he hope
have been brought to this conclusion by
slow and painful steps Itwas my privilege
my honor 10 be associated with that noble band
of men, who organized the General Missionary
Convention Of our denomination in 1914, now
! nearly lhirty-one years since. Under the fos.
tering care Of God, the success the enterprise
then undertaken, has. been wonderfully Slorl'
Gus, and had almost INDUCED the hope, that
..esto pcrpetua" might be safely written upon
its destiny. But now. when our union should
be closer, our cuunsrls more matured, and our
labors more effective, there comes an awful
irrupIion upon us, rleaving the body in twain.
/ Its Indications were at first small, but they
have enlarged and multiplied. What it was
in III power of our feeble efforts 10 do in arrest
oftheir progress, and i'll prevention Of the ca.
taslrophe, has been done, bul all in vain.
| therefore, bow submisslvely 10 the cvenruling
providence of Him. who maketh darkness hls
pavilion, and the thick clouds his chariot, and
am ready for the event. The fact, that the
recent decision ot the Acting Board was taken
about the time, that the letters Of 'the Author
of the Moral Science" inrepy to the first let.
ter of our own Fuller, now doubly ours, were
being closed, and that this decision was pub.
Iished, whilst the very able replies OF The lat.
Ter to the former we've IN a course OF puhcu
tiUn, and that The decision itself was reached
in violation of constitutional provisions and
declaralory Instructions, leaves no doubt in my
mind, that the time has arrived, when we oil the
South and South West should withdraw our
connexion from our Northern Brethren in the
Missionary enterprise at home and abroad, and
form u separate organization Tor the prosecu-
ton Of this noble work.
1t may not be improper at this point, briefly
| to review the ground, OIL which we stand in the
present controversy with our Northern brethren
| and 10 notice the mistaken views Of those, who
| would remove us from il, OF failing, hold us un.
| worthy of their fellowship, and drive us from
lhe eriyiese of mutual concert i'll benevolent
efforts.
God gave, to the Jews, authority TO purchase
bondmen and bondwomen Of The hcathcn u.
round them, and Of the children oft the strangers
that soiour ed among them, as an inheritance
for them and their children, for a possession
forever. No statute OH their records .evokes
this authority Ii was. therefore, Of force and
exercised in The days Of The Savior. He re-
proved them iol many of their sins. He taught
ihcm that poly gamy, though tolerated amon.
them, was WRONG. and restricted the right Of
divorce, though practised at pleasure, to ono
cause only; but touched not the subject Of domcs.
tic S[1rcry
The Apostles were instructed 10 teach the
disciples all things which the Savior had com.
nIandcd them, and were endowed with the
gifts of the Holy Spirit who should "brIng all
ihings to their remembrance, that He had taught
them" These men. with the first disci Piles,
were Jews. Peter, TO whom the ApostesIlip
ofthe circumcision was committed. thus teaches
the Jewish converts: Servants" (huusehold
slaves. "he subject to your masters. with all
fear, not only To Tie good ana gentle Dut 10 the
iroward'" Paul, to whom the Apostlcship OF
the euncircumcision wascommited thus teaches
both the Jewish and the Gentle converts: "Let
ms manly servants as are under the yoke, count
their own masters worthy of all honor, that the
name orGod and his docrne be not basphelned.
And they, that have believing masters, let them
not despise them, because they are brclhern ;
but rather do them service, because they are
faithful and beloved. parlakers Of the benefit" "
These things were addressed, lst, To those
who had grown up under a system of domestic
slavery. instituted Ly divine authority They
surely did not perceive any inlimation in these
teachings. that the institution was wrong. 2nd,
These teachings were also given to disciples,
who were subjects of a government, by whose
authority, from time immemorlal, slavery had
been sustained under a form far more abject,
than the FORM that obtains under our govern
ment And surely, these disciples could not, by
the closest scrutiny of these scriptures. conjec.
ture even, lliat they were required by the reli.
sion, that they had just proessed, to emanci-
pale their slaves, and partic ularly as both Jew
ish and Gentle converts were received with
their 81 ayes into the fellowship of saints and
the membership of the christian church. The
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