The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1870-05-27

fered the following:
RESOLVED, That it be referred to q
special committee of four to inquire
into and report upon the expediency
and practicability of establishing church
schools throughout the Diocese.
Adopted and Drs. Pendleton, Wing
field, Green and Edmund j. Lee, were
appointed.
DR.. Andrews, from a special commit
tee to consider the relation of colored
persons to the church, asked further
time, which was granted.
Rev. R. T. Davis moved to take from
the table preamble and resolutions
laid over at the last Council in regard
TO the collection of hymns known as
HYMNS Ancient and Modern" Car
ried. The question being on the adop
ton of a resolution instructing the del
egates from this Council to the General
/ Convention to move for and advocate
the resembling of the resolution author
izing the use of the collection above
named, the entire matter was laid on
J the table.
The certificate of Abraham Snydam,
of Cabell parish, Cabell county, was
presented and the delegate admitted to
seat in the Council
Rev. James Cramer offered the fol
lowing
WHEREAS, The present practice OF
administering the discipline of the
Church, viz public suspension and ex-
pulsion from the Lords table, does not
serve the ends of discipline and tend TO
laxity; and,
WHEREAS, For many ages after
Christ the practice was to administer
discipline upon offenders openly and be-
fore the congregation and,
WHEREAS, The mode of admitting to
| Church membership and communion,
viz: baptism and confirmation, is re-
quired by law TO be public in the
Church, the congregation being present,
and is allowed to be private only in eX.
IRENE cases; and the same reasons that
make it right that persons be openly adj
united also make it right that they he
openly expelled; and,
WHEREAS, The command of God, 10y
his Apostle Paul to Timothy u Tim,
500, and by implication to all minis
tiers, is, Them that sin rebuke before
all, that others may also fear, and the
practice Of private suspension and ex,
pulsion neither fulflls this command
nor meets the reasons annexed to II
and
WHEREAS, The Rubric prefixed to the
order for Holy Communion seems TO
imply that such dealings with offenders
are to be open and public; therefore
Rcsolged That two sections be added
to Canon XIX, which which shall read
as follows, viz: Every minister no
suspending or expelling from the Lord :
Table shall notify the congregation OF
the fact, designating the offender open
" in the church on some occasion OF
public worship. When any person
thus suspended or expelled from the
Holy Communion shall desire to he
reconciled he shall hjmSel, or through
the minister, confess his sin and declare
b MS penltcict before the CnHTtH, ana inc
minister shall thereupon openly declare
him received and restored to Com
munion
The preamble and resolution were re-
ierred to a special committee consisting
of Rev DR.. Haskell, Rev Mr.. Latane
Mr.. r. Taylor and Judge Shelley.
Mr.. James Green, Of Culpeppcr of
fered n resolution in relation to q mode
of mutual insurance, from fire, of the
/ churches of this Diocese, which was re
ferred to a committee of three, consist
ing of Mcssrs. Green, Lay and lIalton.
Rev. Mr.. Sprigg moved 10 take the
resolutions in regard to Hymns Ancient
and Modern from the table that they
may he referred to special committee
to report to the next Council. The mo-.
ton prevailed, and the resolutions were
referred to a special committee of six.
Committee not named.
On motion the Council adjourned
until o'clock tomorrow.
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