New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-06-01
substantial treat to the General Assembly in their

A substantial treat to the General Assembly In suo'
unfinished edifice ont of town. We initiate IN tins
longitude the New Workers, l. e. each church vles
with the other not only to which shall have the
finest church, but the fursst church 1t is getting
10 be an immense job for sojourner in our large
towns 10 find his way to q house Of God-and as 70
moor residents Heaven take care Of and save tbem)
If the doctrine be true that there is no salvation
out of the church, the poor people are inevitably
lost. for they can neither buy nor hire pew In
these hundred thousand dollar churches. Gentlllty
is fast getting to be the only passport to heaven
as the depths of mans purse so are his chances Tor
future glory. This new church stands in the GEN.
ter of acres of vacant lots, huge piles of building
materials living around as far as the eye can reach,
with only here and there q brick block or single
house rising above the dreary desolation. These
niles of sand. there scattered pillars, pediments
capitals, these huge layers of rock and solid and
immense cubes of unlsid brick, induce one TO
imagine himself transported 10 the sites OF the
famous ruins Of Grecian, Roman and Egyptian
cities, where storms, hres and earthquakes Tor
4OC0 years or more have been scattering their
dfB,is over the row solitary plain.
What are we respectable Presbyterians, Congre-
estionalsts, FpiFcopalsns, and others, doing for
the POOR whom we have always with us We are
leaving them TO be taken care OF by Methodlsts and
Catholics. who being poor themselves must natu-
rally expect to take care of the poor The touch
of the beggar of course will not soil their silks or
broadclotbs, por will unfragrant mechanics leave
unpleasant stenches in their damask pews.
When will our city ministers believe the word
iley preach that the poor are Gods chosen people
When will they have the moral courage to take the
hand Of tie poor man in the street and say as Mo
SEES TO Hobab, "Csme with us and we will do thee
"good."
The rerort of the Committee on Bills and Over
lures upon Slavery in the Churches ,pleases the
kboltionists and Northern men generally only the
Southern men dislike IT, Ii reafirms the action
Of tLe previous Assemblies, which has been pretty
strong, notwithstanding what our friends of the
General Association of the State of New-lork are
pleased to say about our iHGctiOr." Ii contains
pslpable Lit at somebody about iHtemperGteaeSs OF
laneuage and action, but at nt0m nobody knows
OF course not at as, for our resolutions and actions
are reafiirmed expressly 1t recommends the ap-
noiutment of a Committee with Pastoral letter
10 the Churches on the subject, and to report the
extent of the Assemblys constitutional power
over it. and expresses the wish to have Slavery
abolished in our Churches so soon as it can be
done in constitutional and Christian manner.
Now. if tie Southern men are willing TO adopt
this report without debate, they VIII escape the
ipficton Of Abolition speeches with which their
righteous souls are veyed Gas was the soul OF Lot
/ in sodom) every time they come up 70 the Annual
| Conclave But if their hearts burn 10 pour forth
come prepared, so that they cannot keep their
seats but must come up ana save the Union,'
why then, Of course, ten Abolitionlsts, If not
twenty, must save the Union also, and nothing
will stop debate but the previous question.
| heard it stated that one OF the Southern MIN
| listers here, himself STAKEHOLDER, said that he
would be willing TO have the Assembly resolve
that slayehodiDg in the church should DC aopl,
isIed provided some fifteen or twenty years could
! he allowed in which TO accomplish it. give You
this es one symptom of progress: for though ihe
Assembly has the constitutional power to ioTOta
tLe admission in future of any Shareholder INTO
tEe church. it has not the right to compel slave.
holders already in the church to emsncipate thelI
slaves They may rfqS:s; ana "a thst Se nowI
Of of our church except moral power rests with
tlc Prcs5gierics and not synods or General As
semblies. Practically, each Presbytery has resC
upon the acts of the Assembly.