New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-09-24

osi'. IA ard comfort thae Afforded 10 faSlonlets
from tie hesdqusrter. or !, tne CnaIen y ingn,snea
neS ~ ,bat cspsed this ruin, or this shame the
n. vil be- The conrse Of The AdrOcate and
. ro,r,oI for six moths preceding toe General Con-
..,.,c," n the Church shcud, by strange infstus-
w., ~ divided, aud il should be asked VINO spit the
IT,, oSist Church in two, the will be, Bishop
~. = tbe frst time and Abel Stevens the second
,,ne" We have remembered not only souLneIn
IerStr but great north east and great northSest
ard firm center. What, IN al these SECTIONS, the
s.Irg IT, our church papers, even While am *rting,
Ave arrived to tell Says our Herald, At Boston;
England ;"eo on ss sc. v
~ vi 10 i " lovingly .. O enforce. h, laws"
Our North. Vester. Adrocate responds
Be-, nor,aw.d hA become The publ oon;ssn.s s,s
.s .h. be .dy.ne.d .conans.' mat sdssSses a.
70 dis word ~. bs, The unity Of he church may
On The border viii bear much from cs'a. obsrvers ofs
seen ba, them no. BE- deceived we are oyaIoaI people
800 TO yDsipe There Is no, step b.e.w.rd in sinss
cTsrspse nor smors people LoOi this brethern As
=. s.,,re The ulity Of the church, look 70 H."
while such lie the feeling Of the North East and
Meth Wet you have frequently yourself proclaimed
she cente the point of secession And yet what
You rally p the eV sSs nesas ss
krdsr With the great body Of the Church prove con.
sp,siou and " division 10 whom will belong the
:" lie. long remore"l Toyoursef, Or. Stevens.
StsIdirg on s middle platform, The Quarterly Re.
,ervaive progressive character administering Impair
tisl rebuke to secessOnism either hand. Believing
that the objects desired could be best attained through
the established institutions Of the Church. it he's in
es editorial department firmly underworld TO maintain
those Dstitutons-our Episcopacy our iunerancy ana
cur Conference system-intact, and In full possession
q al their legitima powers hasfsarlessy affirmed
II night and the duty Of Free bold uteraDce on the
utiect of Slavery in its own pages and IN all the PEN
odcas Of the Church; but has excluded from it's own
area ell propositions for change Of discipline. Every
,,lsble The Quarterly has uttered has been within
he hu ration Of the Discipline as il is; under the
s,sump,ion that much might be done TO bring the
mind Of the Church TO the standard OF the discipline
and that bringing the Church TO the discipline was the
best preparatory for bringing the discipline 70 the
tsbdard Of Gods law. If this preparatory work be
cone then, the discipline can at the proper time
Faithfully and safely be changed If the discipline
snnot be safely changed, then the preparatory work
sro. yet done. The test OF TINS point the power 70
hspge our General Rule by the two-third vote; and
either case, the result will show the right. While
700, therefore, shveriDg with panic, or as an
.unist are atiDg panic you affect am looking
orvsrd calmly to the Tesnlt simple test of the
moral strength Of the Church to take her proper stand
n The great question which God has placed before
,er. trust she has that moral strength; otherwise
bic weary weary war, which estrsnges the hearts OF
retbrep and absorbs her energies from other great
pt.rprises of good, will still hang heavy on her soul.
But can express my reprehension my brothers.
your extravaganza efforts to affect the camnees OF
he Church with panic to disturb her clear, conscien.
snor Of ruin strengthening thereby the hands of the
d,oysl in e1torting wrong decision from the fright
ened heart Of the church. In all your alarming para
graphs cannot recollect single rebuke which you
Administer to the secessiooss your side, who you
say viii convuse the Church. Their menaces, to all
sppearsrce you hold as right, and cultivate them a.
80 much capital wheIswith to subdue the Church into
subjection under their pressure. You seek the unity
the Church. but that unity to be under the rod Of
our little Church Slave-power. on the other hand
ebuie both secessonsms alike, believing that neither
10 has any reason in either event. to leave the COM
apion Of the Church, and that 1t is the duty OF the
rch TO take that medium course which, while 1t
Hh satisfy the fair demands Of the friends OF freedom,
s afford no inst dissatisfaction TO the loyal and earn
/ est Ant-Slsvery men of our border.
Painful, indeed, is the OblOquy which middle men
Ike myself are called to undergo from either extreme,
and especially from your extremely far the most
severe and bitterly proscnptve OF the two Inc iay
Of New.York City in our Church are taught ~ those
who are themselves threatening division, TO believe as
dsloyal men; and abolitionists," "fanehcs
extreme men," are the epithets with which the
bgoted are induced to withhold from us the coutsses
Of even socelhe. have been member Oh the Metn.
odist Episcopal Church from my childhood-have been
her son and minister some more years than you-have
,eryed her with the best strength of my life, and grown
n6rm in her service-I have sympathzed in her
cslamites and reoiced in her prOsperities-l have
wished to preserve her present organism in its strength
being less willing for any structural change tnan your
.e 1t to me- then, very hard at TINS time OF
life, without ever having uttered the hrst disoya
/
/ by those who are threatening disunion column
I bv column as disorganiyer and dnunionlst,
adestroyer of the Church of my birth and OF my
choice IL seems hard to be thus held up in that char
scter IN our chief paper, by our chief editor to the
ministry and aity Of this metropolis, and large part
If NV Church. And when / look round and see the
grave and weighty men who have committed them
selves, and in measure committed me, TO TINS change
our Dempsters our Thon soDs our Hbbarde our Kings
I ley. and our Eddys; and when see whole Confer,
< ences soemply committing themselves to 1t in solid
column | wonder that so many wise men can be 30 III
a,uaed and you dear brother be left almost sone TO
& call them 10 reason.
What is this mighty change2 Ii is the so altering
lne or two in our book Of discipline as to make non.
sNeholdipg requisite for constitutional membership
That s all The number of slaveholders in our Church
We are told is some FIVE Thousand, mostly confined to
two Conferences by the time of the next census will be
much fewer and by the census next after nearly none
at all The change docs not of itself exscind any
ton any Conference, or anybody. Shareholders are
n sin members Of the Church, and whether they be
Shareholders within it's interest," or, whether they are
n they shall be tired, condemned if tried depends
\ npon their own immediate part OF the Church. My
impression s that not aeinge in the whole section
u question win find his membership In the Church
actually discovered by il against his will. Simply, the
cover Of consttutonaty is withdrawn from slavshod-
ing memberhp. few bitter Shareholders will doubt
ess cave in disgust but the numerical loss will be our
4 moral GAIN For what will the Conferences contain
ing the Shareholders do on the change OF rule 40
eoidpg TO An extract given by you from he sectional
paper, they will take one Of three ways They will
JON the Church South or, they will form an independ
sn Church. or they viii practically disregard the rule
Nowwhich will they do
i dismiss the first from consideration. A few, with
q good nddance to them, will perhaps go South. But
no epe imagines that with the present amount of An
S.veysm there existing, ard the rising tide of Anti
fssveyim looming up In the future, the border Con-
fierences will Join the Church South.
dismiss also the second. The attachment of large
masses will still remain TO the Methodist Episcopal
tChurcb, and the certainty of disntegraton, as the