The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1853-10-13
GEoRGETowN, ONO, Sept. 10, 1853.
To the Editor of the National Era.

GEoRGETowN, OHIO, Sept. 10, 1853.
To the Editor of the National Era:
We have Just held Christian Reform Con-
vention at this place, of two days continuance.
The weather was bad, and the attendance
small, but the meeting was of a deeply inter-
esting character. The spirit of the Lord SEEM
ed to be with U.s. and while the most radical,
thorough questions Of reform were discussed
freely there seemed to be deep, ll-pervading
desire to consecrate all these reforms to the
honor Of Jesus, and to arouse all Christians to
higher life of faith in the son of God. Is not
this the true notion of reform?
The following resolutions were passed unan-
imously:
| l. Resolped, That Jesus Christ is the great
Head of the Church; that all true Christianity
consists in embracing Him as revealed in the
Gospel, in possessing His spirit and following
His example.
@ RESOLVED, That in the Gospel there are
doctrines and precepts essential to be believed
and obeyed; therefore, to receive those as Chris
tians who deny the one and refuse obedience
to the other, whatever may be their pretensons
or professions, is not the e4erc Sc of Christian
charity and tolerance, but a careless, criminal,
and dangerous disregard Of the foundation on
which all experimental religion rests
3. Resolved, That Christians are all chap
tized by one spirit into one body, whether they
be Jews or Gentiles, bond or free Baptist or
Methodist Presbyterian or any other sect aud
that this spiritual oneness demands an outward
visible oneness; and the division, therefore, of
Christians into various sects OF denominations,
is violent tearing asunder of the body of
Christi iorcible dlssolving of Christian ties
q practical denial of their own baptism, that
tends powerfully to destroy the vitality of love
among the family of Christ, and to eradicate
all'true religion from the earth,
4. Resolved, That the Temperance reform is
the cause of Coda cause which Christians
can never forsake without becoming false to
their holy professions.
o. Resolved, That it is with deep sorrow we
behold so many nominal Christian churches
around us, which continue TO sanction the
crimes and miseries Of intemperance, by con-
tinuing in their connection and fellowship those
who use intoxicating drinks, vote for dram. shops,
and market their hops and coarse grains at the
drunkard's fountain-the distiIIery
8. Resolved, That slaveholding is as wicked
and abomnable, in stealing and robbing black
people, AZ it would be in robbing and stealing
white people; that il as much merits our ear.
hoos oon~onshouon as snouku " uou ihsteneu ltS
chains upon our parents or children, our hus-
bands OF wives, our brothers or sisters; and
that churches or parties are as guilty before
God in sanctioning the enslave nent Of the
blacks at the South as they would be in sane
tioning the enslavement Of the whites at the
North
7. Resolved, That we hold the Fugitive Slave
Law is a statute full Of iniquity, not worthy To
be called a law--d cruel enactment, which We
cannot sustain and that we will not sustain
for civil officers, nor receive as ministers or
church members, those who do uphold and sup.
port it,
4. Resolved, That the time has fully come
when all the friends Of pure Christianity
should separate at once, fully and forever, from
all slaveholding, dram selling and sectarian
religion, and unite together upon the pure Cos.
pei, to honor God, live unto Jesus, save their
own souls and the perishng world around them.
WILLIAMS AVERY, President
Ira DAY, Secretary