The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-06-12
SECOND pAY-moRNISG SESSION.

RAvENHA, June 3.
The Convention met at 8 o'clock.
A series of resolutions were reported, which,
after much discussion and amending, were adop-
ted rs follows:
Resnlued, That Christianity is tie remedy
provided by infinite wisdom and goodness for
all the sins and sorrows of our lost world.
RESOLVED, That the Church of God has been
organized for the purpose of applying this di
vine remedy to all forms of sin.
Resolved, That slaveholding is under all cir
cumstanccs henious sin against God, and a
gross violation of the most sacred rights Of hu-
man nature.
Resolred, That church which receives slave
holders and those who justify slaveholding, to
her communion, is false to the mission Of true
church of Christ.
Resolued, That those ecclesiastical bodies
which persist, against remonstrance and pc
titons to the contrary, in receiving slavehod
ers, and retaining them in their communion, do
not represent the religion of the Bible, and
should no longer be recognized in any manner
as branches OF the christian church. And we
earnestly exhort all christians, and local organi.
cations connected with them to dissolve their
connection and those who remain in ecclesns-
tical bodies fel'owshiping shareholders, after
light has been diffused and remonstrance tried
| in vain
RESOLVED, That fidelity to fundamental prin-
ciple Of our movement-non fellowship with
sveholders-requres us to withdraw from
ecclesiastical bodies, churches and church menl-
bers, that fellowship shareholders, or who justify
slavehoding.
| Resolued, That the American board of COM
pissioners for foreign missions, the American
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society, the American Sunday school nnion, and
the American Bible society, in consequence OF
the countenance and support they give to Ameri
can slavery, are unworthy of the confidence and
support of American Christians.
Resolred, That while we are in favor of Bible
societies organized api conducted on right prin.
ciples, printing Bibles without note or com
ment, and distributing them to the destitute at
home and abroad, and while we consider the
Bible an inspired anti-slavery book; yet we enter
our protest against society that while it dis
tributes the Bible in other lands without regard
to legal distractions, distributes it to the slaves
| at home only legal distractions do not exist
and while its publication condemn, in strong
denunciatOry terms the Romish church and
the laws of Italy, for preaching gospel without
the Bible, yet they nre dumb in the presence OF
the slave laws and the American churches, who
profess to give the gospel to the slaves while
they refuse to give them the Bible.
We had taken full minutes of the speeches
and meant to report them pretty fully, but our
space will not admit. Suffice it, that it was one
of the ablest and most interesting conventions
we ever attended, and if those gentlemen had
the time and money to hold conventions in every
county in Ohio, the pro slavery churches would
be shaken to their fall.
The resolutions we're discussed by Messrs
! Thome, Fairfield, Fairchild, j. b. Walker, Ed
ward Smith, Nevin. Albert Austin, c.. c. Bur
leigh, Father Coe, Father Johnson, Joseph Cor
don and several Others.
At a o'clock the convention adjourned sin,
die.