Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1866-02-23
LOCAL NEWS.

On Rut a small congregation aCCeuueu ~~Cho
u ,sbington Street NJ. E. Church last night to
as had been announced on Sunday, the
- and expressions set forth in the Pastoral
B ,aress Of that portion Of the Baltimore Con-
I,.ncce which lately assembled in this city,
,nbatted and refuted. Among the audience
l.,,p some who belonged to the NJ, 3. Church
B ,nth, and two or three preachers who are
eminent members of the Baltimore Confer
,,p of that Church. After hymn, and a
B ,,,rer BY the Rev. Mr. GLENN, the pastor Of
.aahs Church, in which :speace in Church and
q q ,t,te, from Ocean to Ocean, was implored,
4 md blessings invoked alike upon State and
s5rorernnent officials, that gentleman, from
3 ,repsred slips, read short address upon the
q npchristian.Gke and uncharitable manner IN
q rbich the Conference to which he belong
1dhad been "ruthlessly assailed. The other
Uniting evidence vas adduced by a lay mem
apr, introduced by Mr.. GLENN as Judge Bond,
q IF Baltimore-a brother of one of the au-
shns Of the Pastoral Address-who gave
d hort account of the disturbances which occur
Ssd in the Church in 1914 and 1861, and their
y causes; and admitted that, in the last, his por
Zion Of the Baltimore Conference, at Staunton,
had committed fault and sin in agreeingto
I ignore the subject Of slavery-in relinqulshing
b principle for the sake of peace. That in
] that Conference he had acted with the MAORI
/ " and had gone further than an honest man
! fought to go. He said that the history Of
1.-The United States and the history Of the
] Methodist Church in the United States
we're parallels; that as there could be no
peaceabe secession Of a state from the Union,
There could be no peaceable secession Of one
I portion of the Church from another-that if a
3 member of a firm did not like association he
! could quit it-there was no law to compel him
I 10 stay, but he could not take the property Of
I The firm with him; the Church property in the
gValley Of Virginia belonged to the Baltimore
1Conference, and that Conference meant to re-
Tain Unsupported by the whole power Of the
Northern Church, so-called, and assisted by
1.-THE Sheriffs writ, if necessary, the soldier S
sEord,,i essential.
He read extracts from the Pastoral Address,
commented upon them severally, and said he
VAS afraid the ID was leading its authors IN
to the unknown paths of the wilderness, and if
they persisted in their course they would see the
Ieud of Christian forbearance and brotherly
love, but not of the strife they were engender
ling; that peace was the mission assigned to all
|rue Christians and that its futherance could
be effected more ef6caciously by other means
than following Gilmor' raiders when they stole
neenbacks on the line Of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad, as one of the preachers just
appointed fill pulpit in his town, had done.
In allusion to the paragraph from the Paste
raj Address, which contains the words, They.
take our churches by force, and install their
Ministerial agents by files Of soldiers. They
mperiouslyorder our families from their homes,
and bring strangers to occupy them They
egtrude congregations, and force them to COM
ortless rooms, and to woods and fields, be
said no instance of the kind had occurEed-to
his knowledge. He related All aneedote OF a
member of his Conference who once told
another member, afflicted with the bronchitis,
that he had better cough up the negro he sold
Two Or three years ago. and concluded by as
nring those present that, liked or disliked,
applauded or condemned, the Baltimore Con
hrence meant to preach the gospel in the
Methodist Churches in the Valley Of Virginia,
Mr.. GLENN then announced that a commit
tee would be appointed to draw up an address
IN answer tn the Pastoral Address, to be dis