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try to make a long story as short as | can,
and do it justice. Well, on the Sabbath tina,
you spent in Painesville, at the close of tho
forenoon service by Father Keep, a very re-
spectacle lady in the congregation observed.
that the people now ought not to be worse
than the old Jews were, for they would never
condemn any man unheard and she would
propose that they should invite the Presbvte.
ran and Methodist congregations each side
oil the Tree church, TO attend and hear Won
that afternoon and evening. There was a
of two ladies' appointed 10 invite
each congregation TO attend. In the evening
Mrs. Jones, you recolIect, alluded TO some
expressions Of a Methodist professor to an
anti-sIavery lecturer, ard when Mr.. Jones
asked Mrs. Jones TO give the language, she
declined on account Of its being so bad
Then Gen. ]. II, Paine requested Mr.. Jones
TO give it himself, which he did. On the
next Sabbath day or eve, report said that Mr..
Kinney, the Methodist preacher stationed.
here charged in his sermon the females with
insulting them by inviting them 10 hear you,
and be abused and also that there was a
certain lawyer that had called out from Mr..
Jones the Profane language that Mrs. Jones
had declined speaking.
The 9Th Of Jan. was the day for holding
the Annual Meeting of the Lake co. LADIES'
A. S. Society, at gainesville. Mr.. J.. w.
Walker, of Cleveland, was invited to address
the meeting in the afternoon and evening"
Previous to this, Mr.. Kinney had given no.
tice that on the following Sunday evening he
should attempt to prove that the discipline
of the NJ. e. Church was anti-slavery. Well,
the 9TH Of Jan. came and Mr.. Walker gave a
most eloquent address, to a small iii being
a very stormy day,) but respectable congre-
CATION of both sexes. In speaking of the
means to be used to oppose slavery, he was
severe upon the pro-slavery churches, and
particularly upon a pro-slavery priesthood
though he made some few exceptions. At
the close of the address, Mr.. Kinney, who
was present, inquired if Mr.. w. intended his
foundations toapply TO the Northern church
es and ministry. MIR. w. replied 'most GER
tainly.' Gen. Paine introduced the Rev.
Mr.. Kinney, and afterwards as a minister Of
the Nj. E. Church, to which Mr.. X. took en-
c~eptlons. He was asked if he did not once
leave the NJ. E. Church on account Of its be-
ing so pro-slavery? He said no; he only To-
Gated and preached one year in two Presby-
terrain churches in Ashtabula CO. and put him
self under the care Of the Congregational
Consolation of Ashtab4.a.
During the conversation, Father Keep ask
ed Mr.. Kinney TO meet Mr.. Walker, himself,
and others that evening and talk over the sub
ject Of the churches and ministry in relation
to slavery. Mr.. Kinney inquired of Mr..
Keep if he would acknowledge him as a min
lister Of a branch Of the Church of Christ; but
all the satisfaction Father Keep gave him
was that he did receive him as a minister of
a branch of the prgfessed church Of Christ.
He declined discussing the subject, saying
that he had an appointment Of more impor-
lance. The secretary ofthe Ladies' Society
moved a vote of thanks to Mr.. w. for his
able and eloquent address, which was passed
unanimously Il b~eIieve). Mr.. w. then said
that he should speak that evening upon the
pro slavery character of the NJ. L. Church
and discipline. Mr.. Kinney observed that
Mr.. w. need not make any of his rhetorical
fourishes for him, as he should not be there
to hear them. The overbearing manner of
Mr.. X. gives great emphasis to his WORDS
In the evening Mr.. Walker thoroughly en-
amlned the pro-slavery character of the NJ.
+. Church, proved it from the discipline, the
action of the Gen. Conference from '36 to
IA, and the action of the Annual Conference,
to the satisfaction, | presume, of every UNI
prejudiced person present.
I attended the next Sunday evening and
took notes of Mr.. Kinney's sermon on The dis
cipline. Text, Deut. s, %, .Neither shalt
thou bear false witness against thy neighbor."
After some Introductory remarks, and charg-
ing Mr.. Walker with breaking this command
by denouncing the Northern churches and
ministry, he undertook to prove the NJ. f.
Church anti-slavery in her character, LIST by
reading some extracts from the writings Of
DR.. A. Clarke, Richard Watson, and John
Wesley, against slavery, published by the
authority of the M. Z. Church as standard
works. Then he read extracts of the doings
of the Gen. Conference down to 1900. There
he left them trying to advance gradual eman-
c~ipation. Now was it honest in him TO pass
over the resolution Of the Gen. Conference in
80, censuring Omnge Scott and George
Storrs for speaking against slavery,in an an
fi-slavery meeting in Cincinnati and the res
olution that they were opposed to modern abb
olilionism, and the resolution in 40 against
receiving colored testimony in The church
whare the law foYhids il. and the discussion