Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1856-11-08


of our leaving this service $50 touching and beau.
.tiful when used iuits proper place unchanged for
the present. Since the Church hath Inherent pow.
er to loose as well us 10 bind, your Honorable Body
mny in its wisdom create and establish a fourth
81 subordinate order of the Ministry, special to ex-
ercise the function Of loOsing, and to administer
the Rite of Divorce from time to time with due So
lemnity to colorod couples who have been married
in the usual form. The fourth order might be
styled that Of sub-Deacon, AcOlytc; Exorcist,
Hastiarius, or simply Auctioncer. Any person
experienced in the duties of that useful calling,
and "apt and meet for his smar:ness and godly
conversation to exercise that ministry duly for the
edifying of the Church." should be ordained by
the Bishop for this particular ofice-to which 9th
er minor duties might iudiciously be added. For
these, useful hints may lawfully be borrowed from
the experience Of another and ancient branch of
the Church-and we refer to the Discipline of the
Order Of Flagellants"- discipline ct Reguld Or
ing practical suggestions Of much value. A suit
able Form Of ordaining Auctioneers" should
stand in she Prayer-Book immediately after that
for obtaining Deacons. A tasteful symbolism
would dictate the presentation of a hammer to the
candidate by the Bishop las the New Testament
is delivered to the newly ordained Deacon, with
the SOLEMN words Take thou authority to divorce
colorcd persons in the Church al public or private
sale, for cash or on credit, and also to knock them
down if thou be thereto licensed by the Bishop
nlnlbOIl. mere HuVulu De also an aVprOOllltS
and very brief service Introductory TO such sales;
concluding with q suitable exhortation to the par
ties.
The rite Of Confirmation, or LAYING on Of bands,
also needs regulating. For the avoiding of scandal,
persons of African denomination must bo sternly
repealed from that ordinance. The peace Of
Jerusalem may be disturbed if Episcopal hands
are still to be brought into physical contact with
the heads OF these dear children Of the Church
except in the way of paternal cSastisement. What
ever benefit these black but precious vessels may
derive from Confirmation would be far outwoighed
ny the damage the Church would sustain if q
chivalric and impulsiye public should visit one Of
her chief ministers with the dignity Of tar and
feathers for demeAning himself to administer it.
The Litany, too, contains phrases that tend to
mischief-the prayer, for instance, to he delivered
from herdness Of heart and contempt of Thy
Word and Commandments" and that 'all Chris
tian rulers and magistrates may have grace to
execute justice and maintain truth" Properly I'M
derStUod, these are, of course prayers that we may
not fall into the delusiOn of imagining ourselves
bound to mitigate the severity and brutality false
ly so called of our emincntly humane and evan
gelical Slave Code" and that the civil authority
may be strengthened 20 maintain and develop it
to the end of time. But these supplicatiOns have
been known to stir up distressing doubts and mis-
giyings in diseased and over sensitive conscienccs.
The prayer for call who are dessolate and oppress-
ed" is so manifestly liable to perilOus misCOnstruc-
ton, that its use can no longer be tolerated.
The service for the burial Of the dead needs
ON paratiyely little change to adapt it to Southern
institutions. But in the passage "Furasnuch as
it has pleased Almighty God, III his wise prov
idence, 10 take out Of the world the soul of or
deceased brother" &C., the last-quoted three words
ara unmeaning, offensive to our instincts, and in
conGics with the great fundamental ideas of our
social system. This deceased biped," or this
dolunct individual black man." or words to that
p{fpni Shnull lao substituted In tho c,lrn,n OfIpnc
Of religion aught unreal should be avoided.
There are radical defects in the Prayer for n
sick person." and the "Ofices for the visitation Of
the sick" Both are inapplicaHlc to the case Of
sickness occurring among these colorod objects Of
our 1--we. Both assume that the patient, and not
the proprietor of the patient is the person chiefly
interested in the patients recovery. The Church's
intercessiOn is for the former alone. She turns
coldly away from the sorrow and trial of the
oEner, without a single prayer that he De spared
the loss or enabled to bear it with resignation
though it may reduce him from the estate of a
gentleman, by compelling him to labor for his sub
sistence. Should this be so?
Fearing to weary you by pointing out s~pecifcal.
ly all the additions aud changes which the Prayer
book requires, we pause here-only limiting at a
few further questions too important 10 be over.
looked.
Should not provision be made according to thu
ingenious suggestions of a distinguished North
ern Churchmanl, in cases where a parish church
needs repair or enlargement, for raising the neces-
sary funds by the sale Of 4 sufficient number ef
colOred commandments
Should not the want lat present so deeply felt,
Of Collects against Peace, for Dis-unity and against
the inrOads of education and intelligence, be at
once supplied?
Can the present mode of collecting aims at the
Offertory be so improved as to enable charitable
Christians, anxious to give abundant aims of their
substance, but temporarily deficient in the circu.
lating medium, to slip a colored person or per-
sons into the alms-dish, without unseemly noise
and confusion
Should not a communicate service, like that of
the Anglican Church, or a form of cursing aud
cxcOniR unicatlon, like the austero and beautiful
composition attributed to Ernulphus, be inserted
into the Prnyer-Oook, for the warning and intimi-
dati0n Of black Christians who may be TEN pted by
Satan to think of unlawful emigration toward the
uugenial regions'of the North
10 view of the vast distinction between ourselves
ana the class in question, from which we have alb
stracted all the attributes OF humanity which can
he affected by human legislation, is it not meet and
right that a change be made in our present Com
munion Service? The Roman Church administers
that sacrament to the laity in one kind only
Would it not be consistent with the true spirit of
our institutions to administer the same to colored
communicates in neither kind only.
We submit these grave points for your delibera-
ton, and ask for such prompt action upon them as
may preserve the peace Of the Church, and vindi-
cate the rights of Southern gentlemen and Chris
tians.
And your memorialists will ever pray, &c.
Charleston, S. c., Oct. l, 1856.
A DEMOCRATIC REvEL-On Wednesday night