Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-06-01
Position or the BaptIsts.

The American Baptist Union, at ther
meeting in New York % Thursday, adopted
tie following rssoiutiUns upoa the State Of
the souatry
Resolved, That the doctrine Of Secession
is foreign to our Constitution, revolutionary
and vui0idal, setting oat 10 anaFchy and ind
ing its ultimate issue in despotism.
Rssolvsd, That the National Government
deserves our loyal adhesion and unstinted
support ia its wise, forbearing, aud yet firm
maintenance Of the national UNITY and lite,
aud that re, long and costly as the conflict
may be, the North has not sought il, and
the No ih will not shun il, Il Soulheip az,
gressioHs persist and that q surrender OF the
national Union and Of our ancestral princl-
Piles would involve sorer evils Of longer con-
Cnuaneeand vaster eostliness.
fResolssd That the xondrous uprising, In
strangest harmony and largest seli-sacrihee,
Of the whole North, to assert and vindicate
the nat onal unity, Is cause Of grateful
RmaEeinent aud devoted acknowledgment 70
the God who sways all hearts and orders all
events; and that this resarRent patriotism,
wisely cherished and directed, may, in Gods
blessed discipline, correct evils that seemed
growing, chronic, and irremediable in the
national character. E9 hN All
Resolved, That fearful as Is the scourge Of
war, even. in the jusiest cause We need a. a
nation 70 humble ourselves before God for
the vain glory, stlf-confdenoe, greed, yenal-
ity, and,corrnpti ptiUnlof manners, too manifest
in our AID; tbai 10 ils waste Of property and
lie, its Invasion on the Sabbath, Its demorAl-
Zation, and its t'arbsrisfn we see the evils
to which Il strongly tends; but that, waged
In good cause and in the fear OF God II may
be to people, as it oft in past times has been
a school stern but sslutsry, for enduring good,
Iu.ihs struggle the churches of the North
should, by prayer for them, and the distri-
button Of scripture and tract, and the en-
couragement OF devout chaplaius, seek the
religious culture Of their brave soldiers and
mariners. ..--..-,,, tv-t.-,-f
R,solDs5 That tie North seek not, in any
sense, the snbjugation of the South, or the
devastation OF their homes by reckless and
| imbruted merceDaries; but believe most firm
I ly the rejection, were it feasible, of the Con-
sIitutiOn and Union, would annihilate the
safeguards OF Southern peace. 'AS
RssOlged That the churches Of our demon
ination be urged to set apart the last Friday
Of June as day Of solemn humiliation ana
prayer Tor the inteiposition oi Gods gracious
care, 10 hinder or to limit the conflict to
stay the wrath and sanctity of the trial and
tina: one hour also in the Friday evening Of
each week be observed as q season Of inter-
eession privately for our country during this
| period of our gloom and peril.
ResoIUed, ] hat brought nearer as eternity
and judgment are in such times Of sharp
trial and sudden changes, It is the duty Of all
to redeem more earnestly the feeting hour
the duty Of all Christ's people to see that the
walls of Zion be built even in troublesome
times, aud TO hope only and ever in that
wouder-working God, who inside British
missions TO India and the South Seas 10 grow
amid the Napoleon wars, who trained in Sc
rampore MISSIONS Haveloek The Christian
| warrior, as two centuries before He had pre-
pared In the wars Of the common wealth the
| Baxter who wrote, es army chaplain, the
Saints Everlasting Rest and BUnyan who
described for al after tine the Pilgrim 5
Progress and the Holy War. f.,-.,
Res Iced That what was bought st Bun
ker dill, Valley Forge, and Yorktown, was
not, without our consent, sold at MOntgom-
cry that we dispute the legal ty Of. the bar
gain, and in the strength of the Lord God Of
our fathers shall hope to contest, through
this generation, II need be, the feasibility o.
the transfer. s7Fa i'sis-i'1'sar iF