The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-06-01

Messrs. EdIors:-In your notice of Rev. 4. T.
PORTER in connection with the Now York Anni-
versaries, you havn Inadvertently fallen into err
ror, which dn behalf Of Bishop DAvIs) you are
respectfully requested to correct. Mr.. PORTER Is
not the agent Of the Convention OF the Diocese,
but OF the Board Of Trustees Of the Diocesan
Theological Seminary, whose buildings, endow-
ment, and library, were lost in the war. Being
himself member Of the Diocesan Board Of Mis-
sions to the colored people, Mr. PORTER, at their
request and with the approval OF the Bishop, ap-
peared before the Freedmen's Aid Commission,
and other bodies OF the Episcopal Church, to give
information pertaining to this important and abb
sorbiDg topic.
When the proposition has been so recently m ade
and acted upon by. our city authorities, and 30
heartily approved by our city journals, to send a
delegation to Cincinnati to solicit aid in the con-
struetion of railroad to connect our city with
theirs, we respectfully submit if It be altogether
consistent to disparage, as hobnobbing with the
North, the efforts Of Mr.. PORTER and those he
represents to promote the vastly moro important
interests Of Christ's Kingdom upon earth by 'ap-
plying for aid to members Of the came household
Of faith2 .r"r' r.' 'a''s 20. ,H.'s .E s-.
Immediately after the cessation of hostilities,
the Episcopal Church at the North extended the
Episcopal Church at the South to reunite with
them-no expression that might prove barrier
to such reunion, or be, in any degree offensive to
their Southern brethren, being allowed to m ar
their proceedings. That reunion having: been
effected, the interests of the Episcopal Church in
South CAROLINA are insepsrable from those Of the
Church at large, for in this respect our position
as Protestant Church'is peculiar. The position
OF; bishop LYNCH and of the Roman Catholic
his applications for aid at the North have been
cordially approved and commended in your yau-
To show that Mr.. PORTER has. met with a most
cordial reception, and that the claims he repre-
sents have been generously recognized, will you
oblIge us by appending a notice taken from the
likely to represent Mr.. P. and his mission cor
rectly, than any secular print or correspondent ?
J.S..H.
The Rev. "A. Toomer Porter, I'VE ,tare glad to
aid to build up Training School for South 'c Caro-
lima. He is welcomed in our leading city churches.
and we hope that in all Of them, before his work
which We know he will, do with feryid earnestness
which will find the shortest way to the hearts of
bis hearers. Among other marks Of welcome,
Rev. Dr. Littlejohn, who in the warmest terms
introduced him to his congregation. a oongrega-
ton like that, We need not say, heard <appeal
open hearts. he has preached at the Church of
the Ascension in this city, also, and with many
tokens OF entire acceptance, and has received a
cordial greeting from the rector and congreg alton
Of St. Iuke's. ,h -. .p's.t - IL,
The good work thus goes brayely on. But we
wish it to be remembered, in this connection that
long ago, at the first founding OF our. General
Theological Seminary, South Carolina raised over
Sl6i0o0 towards the erection Of that, insttution
here in New,York to, Say nothing of the $40, 1000
part OF the Cohne Legacy) iwhioh, by decision oi
the General Conyention, is also credited to that
Ri9cese. The difference in the value of money is
great ybetwixt those times and these and our
ability now is vastly creator than that OF Bouth
Carolina when those gifts and that bequest were
made: II we were now to send Mr.. Porter home
what South Carolina has already done for the
Seminary at New York. Let New York church.
men m remember this when MIR. Porter appeals to