The family visitor. [volume] (Pruntytown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1858-1860, 1860-01-20

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- Pope dseiaisa uAs shas eAa,eA = hostiIs
b SLAVERY, and EsSiSdA - sisrry 10 Ao,d
6iasssf That ehareA neka 10 distinsdo.
bstvess black and white than any In the land.
We ware once shown into preninent psw In
{ Catholic ehapsi In BAlinots, and found tee
ono before as occupied BY . fAnily Of blacki.
~ Yet nobody accuses he P,iss.s Of yirsin;I.
ofbelng Abolitlonists because they arc In CON.
'nsction Wits foreign And-sl.very church.
Nor do We believe that they are Abelltionist,.
Their history dbprores Il. - -,
DR.. Potts declared tho ether day In . sps.
fisl sermon in New York, that the Presbyterf.
an Church was slvay, eppesed to Slavery
but who suspects the Presbytesians Of virgin
In Of Abolidonl,mt Why should thers be an
exception In cona deues and tolsraton against
our church that has done % much for Virgin
La and Is embalus In the ancestral memories
OF her best people7 We will not trust our
During the Revolutionary var, Asbury and
the other preachers wers accused OF being to-
ri.s, because Mr.. Wesley, under whom they
acted, published against the American opin-
ions. They were mobbed asd imprisoned and
driven away, yet they were innocent, and time
has done them justice. So, now, the Balti-
! more Conferences preachers are accused Of dis
loyalty to the State In which mary Of them
wero born; where many have married, ane
-hers their Nearest relatives resid,. TIE
charge is as uufounded ns that asainst Asbu-
ry, and greatly more abused.
TIE Baltimore Conference did not unite ia
the separation OF 1874. 1t could not do 3d.
The ground Of that separation, a, presented By
the "dec.arA,;ou, " was that the "contin lie 1
jurisdiction ofthe General Conference over The
Conferences Of the Slaveholidrg States, va,
inconsistent with the success OF the miuist:y."
(.nethod"..) However true that NAY have
been elsewhere, it was not true in TIE E.,ti-
more Conference. The result ha, proved ,ba,
our preachers have not been impedei in their
ministry BY the CAUSES assigned, and it wouli
have been fal;ehood to have "decll.ed', The
contrary. II must be ever borne in mind tina,
the declaration" Jill not state the rule or
Slavery 10 De Objectionable 10 IL. South. l.
the Baltimore Conference hal gone, it would
have goae to an Organization no. linz precise
" tic same rule as before. That they did not
go, therefore, cannot be pleaded az ainst them
oy these who hola the presept RUE to be Abo-
hao=iSiie--!o. surely there womb have been
no merit IN going from one AbolitioniJ, church
another. Nor has the. organization Of the
Church South presented an alternative until
two Years ago. Up to that recent period we
Gould have gajusd no c1em pt:on from ire
present charge by uniting with the Church
South, and since their last General Conference
ours has not met, and we have had no chance
TO Join them FIVE wished Surely il ia hard
70 beaccuscd By adherents to that church, of
Aboli.ionism because We have faithfully clea-
we'd to their own rule through every General
Conference that ha9 me; during the s,r,r,.
uon. For item 10 accuse Us OF Abo,itio,isn
Is SIMPLY 10 confess heir OWL Led, what
go inny '.svjSsr;i SAL or ,srit;rnt. :.r1,~,-
them in the heat c: Controversy, their tss,imo-
ny to our soundress hes t.en most decided
lhey nave unhcsitatincly received iEto their
ministry and communion, III! who went to
them fToW The Baltimore Conference, AMI Clcy
hITo cordially iavii2d the whole body into
their rsuks. Surely they would not take cor
ru;iioc - their bosom or seek union with
traitors.
The truth Is that our preachers never CT
pecied that their adherence to the old church
would extend nbOltioDism in the South. but
cheek 1t in the North. They believed tina,
nei' inluence would prevent furtl or aud az
grcSsivc action, End that from them II he l,h.
ful influence would go OF. throughout the
North, and do good Jr Girls, anil our coun-
ny IN This '!'c? have no, 1.cn disappointed
Nobody at all conversant with td, facts can
doubt that our Conference has been break |
water for the South. Its unnecessary TO show
how the fact that the church has Slaye-boId-
ers In her community whom sno recognized |
as children OF God, has softened the asperity |
OF dognHtism ana restrained the great Metho.
dist body from an ecclesiastical crusade apainst |
Southern Institutions. Certainly under our
influence Abolitionism has not extended in |
Maryland aud Virginia and just az certainly
moderation on the subject has increased and
Is increasing In our church at the North, Tho
Baltimore Conference will 40, remaiu In CON-
nection with tie Northern conferences day
onser than that on which our peo pie shall con
elude that IL IL Injurious to them, for our
preachers to do SO. The preachers arc a.
they have sl"nys been tho true friends of the