New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-10-08
THE AMERICAN BOARD.
From Our Own Reporter


PHILADELPHIA Oct. 3, 1859.
Last evening two public meetings of very inter-
eating character we're held in Mr.. Barness Church,
end that Of the Rev. Mr.. Darling and addressed oy
DIR. Edgar, Messrs Webb, Clarke, Lindsey, AMI Per-
kins, returned missionaries, and others.
Arrangements were announced this morning for
celebrating the Lords Supper in each of the above
churches this afternoon at o'clock, which arrage-
mepts were carried into effect.
Letters were received from Fred. 7. Frelnghuysen,
ESQ., Of Newark and the Rev. DIR. Plumer OF Allsghe-
ny City, resigning their offices as corporate members
of the Board. Their designations were accepted.
As room as this was done, DIR. George b. Cheever
of New-YoIk obtained the floor, and moved the fol-
lowing amendment or addition to the report concern
ing the Choctaw and Cherokee Churches:
Your Committee add that in the opinion Of the Board tbs
holding of slaves sioud be pronounced an immorsy neon
.s s s s IedDIes ha h Missionary chac6s. should
daey put from themselves this sin, and should cease 70
sanction it even in appearance"
DIR. cHEEyERs SPEECH.
DIR. Cheever proposed this amendment because, for
the REDEMPTION of the Board from the imputaton a.
ready brought against it OF completely with the SIN
Of Slavery il was bound to give to the world some
such expression OF its views; and this seemed the
only occasion 1t was not to be endured that through
ton of Slavery, the power of the Church with the
Gospel of God against this sin should be hindered and
weakened But so it has been, while this Board had
churches under its charge to whose communion slave
holders were admitted az Christians. Whenever this
is DONE the power of the Church in her appeal against
Slavery is destroyed Blu. not only so, such an appeal
convcts the Church OF hypocrisy and leads the world
to nfdelty; for how the world respect Church
that ia seen receiving to her own fellowship ana de-
that hsal ahA
Tending, on grounds OF expectancy th@ wnich sue
denounces to the world as sim And such the gross
and shameful inconsistency in any Church protesting 10
regard Slavery wrong and warning the world
il in the name of God and yet admitting shareholders,
the only persons under heaven VINO practice the sln
and make merchandise of men, to the Lords table in
| good and regular standing as Christian merchants In
| human flesh. II slaveholdrng be permitted IN the
Christian Church, neither that crime nor the system
that grows out OF It can be condemned py the GnuIeL
nor made appear sinful in the eye Of the world But
if made TO appear by other efforts influences, anu
teachings than those of the Church. if made to appear
sinful by the worlds phianhropists taking higher aud
more consistent ground than the Church takes; II
made 80 TO appear by the common conscience OF the
| Church under the law written on then hearts.the
common sentiment and impulse Of mankind compelling
them to regard slsveholdipg as oppressive and IN,
christian while the Christian conscience, debauched
and stupefed proclsims it virtue or If wrong In
the beginning yet passed into necessity and virtue,
by expedency, by long possession and Practice on the
principle of wrong becoming right because OF the az
and acc latng profits Of the wrong passing into
vested SYSTEM sanctioned and protected by law be-
cause so Of the wrong, with lts profits and ls means
| of living passing into an inheritance, and having
from Shareholders TO their families, from men,
steaers 10 their children, from planters to their house.
hods a, domestic institution If the conscience OF
The Church on these gTOgu's demands It's toleratoh
demands the admission asehoders into the Church
by the right Of ession IN crime, by the principle
OF squatter sovereignty on the premises OF God passing
INTO sacred ssnciyirg custom and being exalted INTO
aw-then the conscience Of the world must inevitably
oppose and despise the conscience of the Church a.
an unchIissn conscience the moral sense Of the world
csprot 90 otherwise than reject such pey as unsound
al rotten such proeesed goodness as an sbomnation
such orthodoxy and beIevoleDce g. hypocrisy and lie
| The dealings and character OF the Church become
condemned and vile IN the sight OF the world on me
FONTS of common justice and humanity befreen man
| aud man ard, if the Church were the only hope OF
| the worlds salvation in such Q csse-f the world
knowledge and reception OF true pey deperted on the
Church there would be no hope, 10 posa ble redemp
tiOp The world viii set the Word of God itself against
| the Church, and the Church must become scofhng
ard byvord. Here is the alternative: either tota
blank ipfdety, else the reception and belief OF
false anti Christian, slaveholdng Christi nity: eiihe
the reception Of the Word and rejection Of the Church
| or the rejection of the Word and reception Of the
| Church. Either the Church Is false, OF the Word Il
false. Which dilemma is TO be adopted Or vii th'
world, unable to distinguish between the Church anC
the Word, reject both together Such is the fnghtfu
| gulf which the practice of any sin by the Church
| though condemned in the Word of God, opens betor
U.s. Now. II there 10 any Elm a. al in Slavery, slave
| holding is that sin. And if the System Of slsvehod
irg is wrong, the STAKEHOLDER nirnsef is tie snnsr
There could be no such thing q: Slavery, i tie Save