Delaware State journal and statesman. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1855-1870, 1861-06-07
ACTION or NORTHERN BApTlsTs

We publish below series Of resolutions adopt.
ed by the Baptist Union Convention in the CITY
OF Brooklyn, last week The Convention was
composed Of members of the Baptist Church,
representing oil the free, and some of the slave
States. They were submitted through the chair
man OF the committee, Rev. DIR. Williams, Of
New York
Ressiged, That the doctrine Of Secession is
foreign 10 our Constitution, revolutionary aud
suicidal, setting out in anarchy, and finding its
ultimate issue despotism.
Resoired That tho National Government de.
serves our loyal adhesion and unstinted support
in its wise, forbearing, aud yet firm mainten-
ance of the national unity and life; and that
sore, long and costly as the conflict may be, the
North has not sought it, and the North will not
shuu it, if Southern aggressOns persist and
that surrender Of the National Union, and Of
our ancestral principles would involve sorer
evils VI longer continuance and greater cost.
Resottsd, That the wondrous uprising in
slrangesi harmony and largest self sacrifice, Of
the whole NORTH to assert and vindcate the
national unity, is cause of grateful amazement
and grateful acknowledgment to the God who
swnys oil hearts and orders all events; and that
this resurgent patriotism, wisely cherished and
directed, may, in Gods blessed discipline, cor
rect evils that seemed growing chronic nnd ire
mcdabe in the national character.
Resotped, That fearful as is the scourge Of
war, even in the justest cause, we need as a
nation to humble ourselves before God for the
vain'glory, seli-confdence, greed, vsnaity, and
corruption Of manners too manifest in our land (;
that, 10 its waste of property and life, its inva-
sion OF the Sabbath, its decentralization, and its
barbnrism, we see the evils to which it strongly
tends but that waged in a good cnuse and in
the tenr OF God it may be TO people, as il oft
in past times has been, school stern but salu-
tary Cor enduring good. In this struggle the
churches Of the North should, by prayer for them
and the distribution of Scripture and tract and
the encouragement Of deyout chapans, seek the
religious culture Of their brave soldiers and
marines.
Rssoiced That the North seek not, in any
sense, the suhjugation of the South, or the de
vastation of their homes by reckless and i'm
bruted mercennries; but believe most firmly the
rejection, were it feasible, Of the Constitution
and Union would annihilate the safeguards Of
Southern peace
Resolved, That the churches Of our denomina-
ton be urged to sot apart the last Friday of June
as day Of solemn humiliation and prayer for
the interposition Of Gods gracious care to hinder
or nit the cOlh.ct, to stay the wrath, and
shnctiiy the trial and that one hour also in the
Friday evening Of each week be observed as a
season of intercessiOn privately for our county
during this period of her gloom and peril
ResotDed, That, brought nearer as eternity and
Judgment are IN such times OF sharp trial and
sudden changes, it is the duty of ali TO redeem
more earnestly the feetiDg hour-the duty of ali
Christ's people to SEQ that the walls Of Zion he
built even in troublesome times, and to hope
only and ever in that wonder working God, who
made British missions to India and the South
Seas to grow amid the Napoleon wars who
trained in serampore missions Havelock, the
Christian WARRIOR as two centuries before lie had
prepared, in the wars Of the Commonwealth, the
Baxter who wrote, as army chaplain, the Saints
Everlasting Rest, and Bunyan, who described for
Holy War.
Resoiued, That what was bought at Bunker
Hill, Valley Forge, and Yorktown was not, with
our consent, sold at Montgomery that we dis
pute the legality Of tue bargain, and in the
strength of the Lord God of our fathers still hope
TO contest, through this generation, If need be,
the feasibility Of the transfer