The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1869-05-28
White and Black Preachers.
SECOND DAY.

exercises and prayer by Rev. r. s. LaweS.
! Rev. L. Rathbun, from the Committee on
Obituaries, reported that ten-of their true
and tried friends had gone to their rewards
in Heaven during the past year.
Rev. w. j. Jefferson offered Il resolution
for the appointment Of a committee to pro-
cure return tickets for the members and del
egatcs of the Society.
The Committee on Finance and Agencies
made report recommending means of raising
money to carry on the work Of the Society.
1t also states that they have abundance of
laborers If the funds to support thelncan be
raised. The report was adopted
FOREIGN MISSIONS.
The Committee on Foreign Missions made
report earnestly recommending the sup
port Of their missionaries in foreign lands,
closing with the following resolution in re-
gard to missions in Africa.
" ResOtued, That whenever our brethren
of the american Baptist Consolidated
Convention shall find man or men adapt
cd to that field of labor, and shall make
such appointment, we pledge this Society
to furnish onc-half the means for his sup
port"
Rev. r. L. Perry had always felt q deep
interest in the spiritual condition of the
| people of Africa, and had in former years
desired to 90 there as Il missionary, but,
under the providence of God, he had been
prevented from doing so. In regard to the
climate, he said that slave vessels had been
fitted out in New York, and Boston, and
Philadelphia, which had gone otlt there and
brought home their cargocs Of living freight,
and the men had all returned without being
sick and why should it be said that mis-
sionaries would die under the climate! We
can redeem Africa, and we ought to adapt
! Ill tf,n nliSI,
ing that object.
The resolution elected 4 good deal of dis
cuSsion aS to the ability of the Society to
support a missionary there, and the power
of the Consolidated Convention and the
Home Mission Society to appoint u mission
AIRY to any point outside of North America,
and also the policy of coaleScing with them
in the missionary work.
The discussion was very protractcd, and
was ended bya motion to reconimt the
whole report.
DIR. BURROWS AND OTHERS INVITED TO SEATS
During the absence Of the committee, il
being observed that Rev. j. l.. Burrows, ID
d.. Rev. w. 5. Mikcls, ID. D., Of Ne; York
city, and Rev. Il. NJ. Manly, were in tho
house, they were invited to seats in the So.
cicty. DR.. Burrows, for himself, returned
thanks for the courtesy which had lecl
shown him. and expressed to the Society
his ''earncst sympathy with every effort
which has for its object the advancement O
the kingdom of our common Lord anu Sa'
yo,lr Jesus Christi
The subject of temperance was advocated
by Rev. w. Ii. Rathbun and others. DR.
Burrows stated that the colOrcd people aS
a people arc not drlInkard>. There are, il
i is true, exceptional cases, but as Il race
they are not given to intoNication.
/ The Committee Oh Home Missions report
cd recommending the appointment Of CO.
lOrcd missionaries, and southern men, aS
far rs possible. believing that they are best
suited to the work of cyangeliZing the
freedmen of the South, and closed with 4
recommendation that wcll-informed persons
he sent to the different stations to counsel
and encourage the people, to impalt true
Bible knowledge, form Of church govern.
ment, and discipline , and also rCcOnlffend,
ing the establishment of schools connected
| with every mission.
Rev. Charles Satchell, in reporting thi.
resolution, said that the Free Mission So.
cicty had more the confidence OF the freed
men in Louisiana than any other AsSocia-
ton. 1t was true that tile Hottie Mission
Society had men thcrc--they had colorcd
men on their Boart. but they were cy'
phcr. and tho people had no confidence II
the Board. The Home Mission Society was
not in the position to effect for them Tho
same amount OF good as tre are, and hC
therefore cordially endorsed the report
He was not recognized among the other
ministers as an equal. He had always i'll
vited the white ministers to his pulpit, but
in an experience of thirty years i'll the
ministry he had not yet received the first
invitation to preach III one OF their ulpitS
either ut the North or at the South. The
Society may not at present he able to dC
much, but they will lay the foundation for
church equdLiiy, not social equality; that
will follow by-aud-bye. The lone Mission
Society had not, to his knowledge, Il single
missionary in Louisiana.
| Rev. j. B. Simmons, of the Home Mis-
sion, stated that Rers. MeSsrS. Dixon and
Grimes, the coiorcd members of the Board
of the Home Mission Society, are not mere
1 cvphers. They are on committees to which
are entrusted work Of vital interest to thell
race, and they are perfectly familiar with
the workings of the Society. More than
one-third of their entire missionary force
was engaged in the states recently IN re-
belion and mostly among the colorcd pco-
pie. Our colorcd brethren should be in.
vited to take counsel with them in regard tc
the interests of their race, and other lnte.
rests too. In regard to inviting colorcd
pastors into his pulpit, he had invited at
least two into his pulpit in Philadelphia,
and they had preached from it to his people
Rev. II. Chamberlain believed in co0pcra'
tion with any body or set of people who
wished to advance the knowledge OF truth,
but it was very difficult for Free Mis-
sionist" to get into northern church.
Rev. A. l.. Post (Mr. Brisbane i'll the
chair) made an explanation OF some OF ms
| L III H.
terchanee of pulpits. They had been mis-
construed: and he wished it to be known
what he meant by the language used. Ii
was not the recognition of color, but OF
caste, which he deplorcd. He did not con.
tend that all men were equal, but if he stood
morally and intellectually on the same
ground with any other man he would not
refuse to interchange pulpits with him Oh
the ground of color.
He further said that though colored
minister might justly feel some resentment
not having an invitation TO preach recipro'
Gated, yet the principle itself was so mani
festly wrong that for that cause Itself he
ought not to consent TO such exchanges.
Rev. Mr.. Simmons said that even in such
eases Il high Christian magnanlmlty ought
to be exercised, which would rejoice that
the Gospel was preached even where such
intcrchangeS were not practlced.
/ 2s.t4 REV. DIR. BURROWS SPEAKS.
DR.. Burrows said it was about as difficult
for colored minister to get into pulpl,
at the North as it was for him to get into
one of the Richmond white churches. He
protested against the people of the South
being regarded as more unfriendly to the
colored people than the northern churches
were. There Is not as much prejudice
against them In Virginia as in Massachu
setts or New York. Not as much in Soutl