The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-06-16


FSom tie .Nsw York Evsaiag Post, (Etse-soil.)
Ecclesiastical Hullinsa8ien IN Ssath Carsllna.
A. the last general conference Of the hetho-
dist Episropal church, South, IN attempt was
made ty the delegates Of the South Carolina
and some other conferences, to expunge from
their discipline the section on slayery, but the
majority Of the conference concluded that il
would not be ext edient to do SO note war,
however, ordered to be appended to the section,
declaring the sense Of the conference that it was
to be regarded as dead letter, and entirely in
operative. But this compromise did not satisfy
the brethren in South Carolina. who. AZ will be
seen by the following article from the Southern
Christian Advocate, have taken the responsible
ity of cxpunging the naughty section themselves,
SO that there are now two disciplines in the
South, one from the Methodist Episcopal church,
South, and the other from the Methodist Epis-
copal church, South Carolina We may pre-
mise, however, that the section referred to, runs
az follows:
SECTION x-OF SLAVERY
Quest--What shall be done for the extIpa-
ton of the evil of slavery
Ans.--l. We declare that,we are as much MS
ever convinced of the great evil of slavery :
therefore no STAKEHOLDER shall be eligible to any
official station in our church hereafter, where
the laws of the State ia which he lives will ad-
init Of emancipation, and permit the liberated
slave to enjoy freedom.
2. When any travelling preacher becomes nm
owner Of slave or slaves, by any means, he
shall forfeit his ministerial character in our
church, unless he execute, if it be practicable, a
legal emancipation Of suc!l slaves, conformably
to the laws Of the State in whirh he lives.
3. All our preachers shall pruicntly enforce
upon our member the necessity OF teaching their
slaves to read the word of God and to allow
them time to attend uron the public worship Of
God on our regular days of divine service.
A New EDTrIoN OF THE Book OF DISCIPLINE.
The South Carolina conference, at its last annual
session, resolved unanimously that an edition of
the Book Of Discipline, amended by having the
tenth section expunged, should be published for
circulation within It's bounds. We are happy
to state that the committee raised for this pur-
pose, have succeeded without embarrassment in
executing the resolve of the conference. An ex-
plunged edition has been printed--a fac simiIe OF
that bearing the imprimatur of John Early, iden-
teal in all respects with the connexiona edition,
with the exception of the necessary alteration
on the title page, ard the omission of tie clos
ing section of the second part-that on slavery.
This section, the fruitful source of so much
trouble 10 The METHODIST churcN, settlIlB loTtn
doctrine to which mono of us in the South
Carolina conference have ever subscribed; de-
clared in the note appended to it by order of
the last general conference, to have "long since
become imperative, and ceased by common con
sent to set forth practical rule or principle, is
without ceremony discarded from the book as
it ought to have been long since. The reason
for this is found in the fact that the misrepre-
sentation and false position occasioned by the
section, have worked damage to the best inter
ests of the Methodist church in the conference
aforementioned from the disabilities of which,
inasmuch as the general conference declined
atfording the relief sought, the South Carolina
conference on the principle Of MISREPRESENTATION,
has been compelled to relieve herself. The book
now is safe one; the "rule" imperative IN
every way except that of working mischief
among US, has been thrown overheard; the taboo
which restrained its circulation is cftaced; and
it can BIZ taken safely into the families OF our
members The new edition is for sale at the
Charleston Methodist book room and tho agent,
Mr.. Stoy, is prepared TO execute all orders with
promptness. Terms the same as in the edition
"by authority"