The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1868-05-27

amount collected more than sufficient to meet
the expenses.
Gen. r. + Lee was in attendance as one OF
the delegates.
Diocesan Missionary Society of Virginia.-Dr
Woodbridge, of this city, in his report to the
Convention, stated that Eighteen ministers
of the Diocese had been aided by Its funds,
and there are now seventeen beng assisted
The Committee began the year with Sal In
the treasury they had received about S2,6O0,
had disburSed about So, 200, and had now only
SIP on hand.
Rev. Charles Ryland, of this city, recently
called to the pastoral charge OF the First Bap-
fist church of Petersburg, has declined the
call.
The Southern Baptist Convention was IN session
in Baltimore the second week of the present
month, Prof. Nell of the University of Geor-
gia acting as its President President Curry
of Marion College, Alabama, and many other
influential men of the denomination were pre-
sent DIR. Skinner of Nashville preached the
annual sermon. AT the opening 1t was voted
to invite all Baptist ministers present to take
seats with the Convention, and the invitation
was accepted by a considerable number, among
them about twenty from Northern States
The Committee appointed at the last meeting
of the American Baptist Home Missionary
Society to attend this meeting, presented
communication through DIR. Hague OF Boston.
expressing fraternal interest in the work OF
the Convention, as identical in one of its de-
partments with its own.
The delegates were invited to seats in the
Convention, and their letter was referred to a
committee
In paper reported by this committee they
state they are persuaded that the cause OF
Christ will be prompted by renewal of cor
respondenee. Two bodies exist; the divisions
of history remain; but we thank God that one
spirit animates either organization, and that
the lines once red with mutual slaughter are
now traversed by interchangeS of peace and
good will. As we ask no concession of princl
pie, we make none in extending the hospltall
ties of this Convention to the brethren from
abroad-brethren labouring In their own field,
yet claiming a common interest with us In one
Lord, one faith, one baptism, one hope, one
God and Father of all.
The claims of the Baptist Theological Sem
mary at Greenville were urged by Professors
Broadus and Boyce. If provision could be
made for students, not less than a hundred
would be in attendance next year. The num-
Der this year is thirty one, from ten different
States, while the whole number in all the Bap-
fist Theological Seminaries in the North, is
stated by DR.. Cutting as les. Visiting North
ern brethren made up $1,000 on the spot for
this Southern institution.
The Southern Baptist Convention has ordered
the removal of the Sunday School Board to
Memphis, with the understanding that it be
consolidated with the Sunday School Union.
The Synod of the Southern Province of the Mo-
ravian Church met in Salem, n. c., on Monday
last, Rt. Rev. g. f. Bahnson, President. The
various matters discussed before the Synod
were conducted in harmony and good feeling.
Salisbury Old North State.
The University of South Carolina will be closed
after the present session. The Baptist Theo-
logical Seminary at Greenvile, in the same
State, is to be removed to some other State.
Protestant Episcopal Convention has been in
session at Charleston, S. c., and the committee
on church property" has made report on the
condition of the church buildings in different
parts Of the State The following is an ex-
tract from the report
10 sum up tne IOSSeS OF the diocese III ap
pears that ten churches have disappeared: that
twenty-five parishes are suspended that eleven
parSonages have been burnt: that every church
between the Savannah river and Charleston
has been injured, some stripped even Of wealth
er boarding and flooring; that almost every
minister in that region of the State has lost
homo and Ebrs-; that al loo e1V vtIsffv sea
board from North Carolina to Georgia, where
our church had hourished for more than a
century, there are but four parishes which
maintain religious services; that not one, out
side the city of Charleston, can be called a
living, self-sustaining parish, able to support
a minister; that their clergy live by fishing, by
hunting and mechanic arts; and that almost
every church, whose history appears on this
record, has lost its communion plate; often
massive and venerable set, the donation OF an
English or Colonial ancestor. The pecuniary
losses might be repaired if the diocese were as
in days gone by. But in its present Empower
ished condition no hope remains OF speedy re-
This generation can scarcely behold
it. :"
This is sad story But it is even a sadder
thing to remember how much of all this ruin
has been wrought by the teachings of those
Northern men who had dedicated themselves
to the propagation of the Gospel of peace, and
how the library of more than one Northern
clergyman has been enriched by the addition
of volumes stolen in the South, and how
communion plate" from that section was,
during the war, an acceptable present to more
than one Northern church.-Bah. Gazette.