The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1848-05-24

with specimens Of their precious literature, all
Of which, pamphlet and octave, he meant TO
consign 10 the sea az soon az he got fairly out
ofsight Of the shores of America! But this is
disgression. Tempora mntont,tr.
A Southern reader will he struck with the
multitude of petitions, remonstrances, memor.
ais, projects Of disciplinary change, and all that
sort Of thing. Really one would think that
Northern Methodism was monstrous leaky
vessel to set at work such multitude Of polty.
thinkers in mending it up. Just take two speci.
mems. The senior Bishop, Hedding, comes
forward with scheme to get up sort of terti.
um quid between an Annual and General
Conference:-a delegated Annual Conference
composed ofone member from each Annual
Conference, to form court Of appeals, and to
reiain the acts Of the General Conference with
the power of suspendng such enactments as it
might judge to be unconstitutional, besides 9th.
er things! Here is blow at the constitutional
prerogatives of the General Conference in its
supreme judicial character-a fundamental in.
novaion. What is meant by il il it intends
any thing more than TO relieve the cpiscopacy
Of The sometimes disagreeable duty Of taking
some responsibility, it is hard for US to conJec.
tUTEs 1tVW tuul tuc GVuSrIFdtNC oho o'SooJ
resistance of the Southern Conferences to the
innovating itchings of the North has been re.
moved, It is impossible tc say what will become
ultimately of Northern Me,hodism. We fear
al former securities will prove nothing more
than casting anchor with the anglers line and
hook in a Storm.
Not entirely germane 10 the matter in hand,
but pregnant example Of the prevailing ten
dency, is an avowal in the New York Christi.
an Advocate OF the 10Th inst, in which DR..
Bond over his proper signature takes ground
which utterly repudiates all church order and
authority. He holds that under certain cir.
cumstances in a christian country, the sacra.
ments Of baptism and the Lords Supper may be
administered by the laiiy! And this same per-
sonage was in days Of yore the fighting cock
against what was called Radicalism! Really
alter this, one will he prepared TO see any sort
of destrucIionism advocated by the leading press
Of the Northern Church. BY the way, we
may add, that offensive as DR.. Bonds articles
have been whenever he comes athwart the
questions which divide the South from the
North, his last article out Herods Herod. There
is tone and spirit pervading it which makes a
good man turn away with loathing. IL we re.
ciprocated the fierce hostility which seems to
possess The Pittsburgh General Conference and
desired 10 see-which God forbid-Nothern
Methodsm torn into fragments, and cast out as
a thing of scorn by all honorable men, We
should ask nothing sooner than that this same
person should be kept al the head of the official
Journal of the Church. Hundreds Of thousands
turned to him few years ago, as bright Ia
minary; he has proved himself lurid and wan.
derng slar;-
"A planetary plague, when Jove
Will DER some hgh.vi, ed city hang his poison
In the sick air.
TO his management of the press postcrity will
attribute the breaking up of the Plan of peacea'
bic separation between the two great branches
of American Methodism; and the untold evils
which are to resu, from That deed iof nulli6ca.
ton.