The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-08-26

Board Of Publication" of Philadelphia,
which has now 8 depot in Richmond, saws
that, although some Of its publications are
valuable standard works" t. cannot com-
mend than to the Southern churches, be-
cause of the attitude assumed BIZ the Gen.
arsl Assembly Of the United States against
the South. The papers call for q speedy
c~onvocation of the Southern General As
sembly, and some writers sven propose to
extend their organization into the North
ern States, by inviting all who are dissAt-
isied with the deliversnces by the General
Assemblies on the loyalty and slsvery
questions to join them.
ca PROTESTANT EPIsCoPAL.
A letter drawn up by Bishop Hopkins,
of Vermont who il now the presiding
bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Chgrch,
has been addressed to the Southern bish-
ops, in which they are assured of the vel
come with which their appearance at the
approaching General Convention would be
greeted. The letter takes the ground that
the Protestant Episcopal Church had no
part direct or indirect, in producing the
war. All the bishops Of the loyal States
have been invited to sign this letter, but
the EpiseopGI Recorder claims to know
that IS least ak have refused their sigma
ture, being induced, it thinks, "by 3 de-
termination not to be pledged In advance
to my course which shall hinder such tes-
timony as they shall feel that duty to God
and the country, and the future, may de-
mand of them, in reference to the sins of
slavery, schism, and rebellion; and from
an indisposition to seem anxious to purge
themselves from the suspicion of having
sanctioned the efforts of the government
70 defeat and punish treason"
The Southern bishops seem not to be
agreed IS { the best course to pursue
with regard to the reunion question. The
diocese Of Texas, even before receiving the
invitation from Bishop Hopkins has sl-
ready declared in favor of reupion. Its
Diocesan Convention has repealed the
resolution by which, in 1852, it joined the
church of the Confederate States, and ex-
plicitly and Internationally acknowledged
the authority of the General Convention
of the United States. The Diocesan Con-
v~entionhss also declared it desirable, ali it
be practicable" tn t the General Council of
the dioceses in the late Confederate States
should one more meet to procure "the
final action of thai body in unison with
the foregoing resolutions !" and at the
same time the Southern bishops have been
requested to take such measures SIS may
be deemed proper for that purpose"
The presiding bishop of the Protestant
Episcopal Church in the Confederate
States, Bishop Elliott of Georgia, has sd-
dressed q letter on the reunion question to
the Church Journal of this city. Bishop
Elliott does not approve of the step taken
by Texas, but he says that his collection
to the action of the diocese of Texas, is not
so much as 10 what she has done, as to her
manner of doing it." He believes the Gen
ersl Council of the Protestant Episcopal
Church in the Confederate States should
meet once more, and appoint q committee
Of bishops, ministers and lsymen, TO meet
q similar committee to be appointed by the
approaching General Synod of the United
States, and msture q plan of reunion. AS
to the union question itself, the Bishop hiss
no doubt shat reunion will take place and
that very soon."
Other bishops, like those of Alabama al
Mississippi, hold, however, on this subject a
different opinion. Bishop Green of Mis-
sissippi, in q letter TO the clergy of bis
diocese, says that no satisfactory answer
can be given TO the question whether
the southern church will reunite wit b the
Northern or retain her present orgsnIz4-
tion until the meeting of the next General
Council For his own part, the Bishop
does not hesitate to say that his decided
preference is that the Southern church
should remain ss she is. A similar opinion
has been expressed by Bishop Wilmer,
and it is therefore not likely that the hopes
of those who expect a full representation Of
the southern dioceses at It's next General
Convention will be fulfilled.
GERMAN REFORMED.
The German Reformed Church has two
Il classes" in the states forming part of tie
late rebel Oonfsderscy-Virginis and North
Carolina. A northern minister of this de-
nomination, who has lately preached in