Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1863-06-05
Bcllows falls Gimrs.
BELLOWS FALLS, JUNE ., 1863.
Prom the N. Y. Evening Post.
New Lords, New Laws.

ting forth the changes winch are necessary
in the usages Of the Episcopal Church OF
this country to make them. acceptable to
Shareholders. The irony Of the piece is
very finely managed.
The preface, dated at the" Headquarters
of the Society for the Diffusion OF Political
Knowledge" in. this city, urges the nnpor-
,ance of restoring the union Of the Church
after the labors of such men as Fernando
Wood, James Brooks, and Mr.. Tourney.
shall have restored the union Of the North
and South. This is to be done by adopt
ing the suggestions of a memorial to the
General Council of the Protestant Episco-
pal Church in the Confederate States, which
forms the body of the pamphlet. We sub
Join sample of the alterations suggested.
| For our part, we entirely agree in their
necessity. Slavery cannot be reconciled
to Christianity, and we must, therefore, so
modify our Christianity as to reconcile it
with slavery.
For example, the promise and vcw OF
the marriage service /, NJ, do take thee.
| 10 hold y till death doth as part Is
mockery when uttered by one of this be-
| loved but subordinate race. We cannot
bear thus 10 put unreal words into the
mouth of those so dear TO us. 1t should be
amended 10 read It'll death, or my owner,
his executors, administrators, or assigns do
us part So, too, the demand: Wilt thou,
-, keep thee only unto him SO long as
We both shall live 2 and the answer, VIII,
I should be improved by adding TO the words
/ WILL some form of protestando, reserv-
ing the legal rights of the owner, present
or future, of either party, with whlcl the
voice of the Church expressed in the SER
vice seems 10 conflict. This apparent con-
fict is still more painfully conspicuous
when the officiating clergyman is required
to say, Those whom God hath joined to-
gether let no man PIT ds,aider.' Yolcmes
of fanatcism and unbelief are latent III
these few words. If the officiating clergy
/ man himself own either the bride or BRIDE
groom, this declaration may be considered
I, (most unreasonably, but still with some
+ plausiblity,) as in some sense estooping him
: from any future exercise of his rights as a
4 Christian and a patriarch, even at considers
!. able pecuniary loss. In every case he Is
thus made the mouthpiece of revolution:
AIRY doctrine that blasphemes the right o
property, and distinctly implies the exis
7 tence of that anti Christian fcion-a high
g er law Such profane utterances may SUI
IS the atmosphere of other communities, ranl
f with Fourierisms and Freeloversms, sn'
g every other social corruption. But n
, Church that openly proclaims them cal
II flourish within our borders.
v The memorial suggests that there shoul'
p be fourth order in the ministry, who nigh
l. be called either su5-deacon or simply auc
tioneer, and whose business il should be t
administer the sacred rite of divorce to slav
" men and women on occasions when this wa
necessary for the convenience of the slave
g holder. Mr.. Memminger proposed some
thing not very different from this in the la:
Episcopal Convention held at Charleston
a He asked that rule be adopted defntel
acknowledging that marriage among slave
WAS Hot, III thS eye VI ihO ShuiSh, q oii-N
! ing ordinance. The Rey. DR.. Palmer,
. Presbyterian divine, if we may call him 81
,e who recently addressed a letter to his for
lie mer flock in New Orlears, calling upo
10 them to disregard The oath of allegiance I
:. the United States which they bad taken, ha
!. no scruples Ct this sort, and, as we are as
ID sured ty correspondent acquainted wit
n the fact. married successively, with due re
~ ligious solemnities, woman in Columbi'
= South Carolina, to three different nusband
If all of them living, the two first being sol
ct off to Alabama. This is the DIR. Palme
Vi who, just before the breaking-out OF secs
sion, received a very urgent call from
Church in this city. Bnt let us give anotl
er extract or Two from the tract before us.
le "The service for the burial of the deac
in needs comparatively little change 10 adaI
,e ii to Southern institutions. But in the pa,
m sage Foreasmuch as it has pleased A
m mighty God, in his wise providence, to tax
he out If the world the soul of our decease
u, brother etc, the last quoted three word
IN are unmeaning, offensive 10 our instinct
us and in conflict with the great fundament;
of ideas of ogr soical system. This decease
ut biped,' or 'this defunct individual blac
man. or words TO that effect, should be sui
stiiuted. Iu the solemn offices of religion
er aught unreal should be stndiously avoided
al There are defects in the 'frayer for
Sick Person and the Office for the Wis
tation of the Silk Both are inapplicabl
ny to the case Of sickness occurring anon
be these co!ored objects of our love- Bo;
assume that the patient, and not the pre-