Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-06-05

these had sprung, when sixty thou
sand petitions, that had been petitioned
for, are offered here from beyond seas. II
these measures pass, and If s'to the VIC
tors belong the spoils," what ought not
our brethren on the other side to do for
the Grand Petitioner!
The passage of this report will endanger
tue present healthful attitude of our border
Church on this question. Our Conference
has expressed, as its unanimous sense OF
the present general rule. that it prohibits
all traffic in slaves except for merciful
| purposes. Aud while We do not profess
to be any more immaculate in our admin
istration touching this point than brethren
OF other COnferehces are, in reference to
other rules, facts are not wanting which
abundantly prove the fidelity of our aim.
1t your roll were now called, to ascertain
how many of these dear brethren in all
their pastoral experience have ever brought
| to trinl one single offender against another
general rule, which forbids the ''lnying up
treasure upon earth," and which has, as /
| suppose, its root in precisely the same soil
with sinful sIHveholding. how many of us
would he found guitlesS? The old rnle
we can execute. But put the new rule in
the stead of it, and in bidding us do more
than we can, we must fill to do what we
now may.
Nor will the result be scarcely less DIS
astrons If the proposed new chapter be
substituted for the present one. We now
have tGr. You propose to give us n
Scntiment,--On wrongly located confes.
sion of faith. We now have a penalty
you substituted it by an 'safFectionate ad-
monition." If among us ga travelling
preacher becomes the owner of a slave or
slaves by any means, we deprive him of
his ministry. This our records show. By
the new version you propose to give him
an "RtEectiOnute" scolding, ahd let him
remain. And what shall we do with him
His 'impediment" would render him un-
acceptable in many of our very best
charges. We could not expcl him. We
could not use him. Shall say to you,
my progressive brother, that in your hot
zeal after AN abstraction, you are in dam
ger of tOwcring,-Rud If you pass IhIs
new chapter, you absolutely will lower the
anti-slavcry standard Gu the border.
But ale we to have no progress? What
do yOn mean by that much used and much
abused word? Let me tell you what we
mean By thunder the power of the gos-
pei soul is convcrted-that is progress; !
then another. That is more progress
then ten, a hundred, thousand, the !
world, aided by schools, churches, the /
press. Would to God that we had more |
of this kind of progress in all of our Con- |
ferencrs! Responses of ''Amcn, amen."l /
Ours has progressed-I say it thankfully |
from 10000 members in l54S to %, 900 |
in 1860. But did you ever know soul I
lcgistatcd into the Kingdom of Grace or
Glory? Can you enact II sinner free from .
his sins? Has the Church ever been 'ru-
led into revival of pure religion? New |
er since the world began.
but we are told that that rncacure will
aid in filling the pulpilss vAR~ the sisferrtsr
truth and peace on this question:
Let this General Conference instruct the
bishops to tranfcr during tue next four
years, say fifty preachers each yenr from
the horder to the North and West, and tif-
tv others from those points to the bOrdcr.
+ Applause, and numerous Amens.l We
can e thus widen our vision and when we
or our successors come together four
years hence, if you still demand change,
for one l say let change be made. But
until thcn-and this too is n part of the
then l entrcat yon,-
GOOD men and wise men of this reverend
bodv-I entrcat you; young men-gitted.
generous, magnanimous, as l know you |
Gre-until then, having placed your broth !
er Christian soldier in the very thickest OF
the battle in the face of the foe, DO NOT
bind upon him a burden which you cannot |
or will not tighten. Do not make the very
LOYALTY which has in veal and in woe,
linked him to you, and in which, by GODS
helm he hopes to cleave to you TO the end,
the occasion of his chastiscment. Great
applause