The Carolina Spartan. [volume] (Spartanburg, S.C.) 1852-1896, 1866-03-15
The Pastoral Address OF the Nj
II. ChNrCh. South.
BALTIMORE CoNFERENCE-JuDGE RoNp's
OPINION

BALTIMORE coNFERENCE-JuDGE BOND $
OPINION.
Last week the Rev. Mr. GLENN, Pastor
of the Methodist Episcopal Church in All
exandria, Va, delivered an address before
the congregation of which he is pastor,
against the Pastoral Address of the late
Baltimore Conference of the NJ. T.. Church
South. After claiming that the Conference
had pcen influenced by an unchrstian and
uncharitable spirit, he also introduced
Judge Bond, Of Baltimore-a brother of
one of the authors of the Pastoral Address
who gave short account of the distur-
Dances which occurred in the Church in
lS44 and 1861, and their causes. The
Alexandria Gazette says that Judge Bond
admitted that his portion of the Baltimore
Conference, at Staunton, Va had commit.
ted fault and sin in agreeing to ignore
the subject of slavery-in relinquishing
principle for the sake of peace. That in
that conference he had acted with the
majority, and had gone further than an
honest man ought to 20. He said that the
history Of the United States, and the histo
ry of the Methodist Church in the United
States, were parallels; that as there could
be no peaccablc secession Of State from
the Union, there could be no pcaccatle
secession OF one portion of the Church
from anothcr-that if member of a firm
did not like his association he could uuit il
there was no Jaw to compel him to stay,
but he could not take the property of the
firm with him; the Church property in the
Valley of Virginia belonged to the Balti-
more Conference, and that Conference
meant TO retain it-suppor.ed by the whole
power OF the Northern Church.. So called
and assisted by the She,iis writ, if ncccs.
sary, the soldiers sword If essential.
lie read extracts from the Pastoral Ad
dress, commented upon them scTcraly, Ind
said lie was afraid the ID was leading its
authors into the unknown paths of the
wilderness, and if they persisted in the
course they would see the end of Christian
iorbcarance and hrotherly love, but not of
the strife they were cngcndering that
peace was the mission assigned 20 all true
Christians, ana that It's iurtherance could
be effected more cficaciously by other
means than following Gilmors raiders
when they stole grccnbacks on the line of
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
In alluding TO the paragraph from the
Pastoral Address, which contains the word
"Thcy take our Churches 10y force, and in
stall their ministerial agent, by files of sol
dies; they imTcriousIy ordered our FAINT.
lies from their homes, and bring strangers
TO occupy them; they c&trude cong,cga-
tions, and force them to comfortlcs rooms.
and to woods and fields" he said no in.
stance OF the kind had occurred to his
knowledge He related an anccdotc of a
member OF his Confer cnce who once told
another member, afflicted with the bron.
chittis, that he had better "cou.h up the
negro he soldtw or three years ago, and
concluded hy assuring those present that
liked or dishkcd, applaudcd or condemned,
the Baltimore Conference meant to preach
the gospel in the Methodist Churches in
the Valley OF Virginia.
Mr.. GLENN then announced that Com.
mittce would be appointed to draw up an
address in answer to the !'2s.o. al Address.
to hc distributed throughou, the length and
breadth OF the land, and after singing the
doXoIogy, the congregation dispcrscd.-
HtcrsJUy ErprcSS.