The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1876-08-31

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and privileges of equal dignity aud validity
| They sIlOnld each receive from the other minis
tiers members in good standing with the same
alacrity and credit as if coming from their own
| Church, and without interference with each
others institutions or missions, they should me-
| yertheless co-operate in all Christian enterpri-
| Ses.
| MATTERS OF OPINION.
| 1t IS not to be supposed in respect to some
matters of mere opinion that all ministers aud
members in either Church will be in accord, but
we trust and believe that spirit of fellowship
and mutual regard will pervade the recopcilel
| ranks of the entire ministry aud membership
| of both churches. We believe also that their
| supreme allegiance to the cause of the Great
Master will triumph over all variation of perso-
nal sentiments, and will so exat the claims of
| brotIerly affection that from this suspicious
hour new ephoch in Methodism will begin its
brighter history, so that we shall know no un-
| fraternal Methodsm in the United States or
| even in the wide world.
| To all we commend the wise couhsels given
| in 1920 to missionaries and members of tho
| Methodist Episcopal Church and of the Wes-
| leyan connection in the Canadas by Bishop
| McKendree aud the Wesleyan committee. viz:
| Feel that you one with your brethren, EN-
| barked in the same great cause and emilently
| of the same religious family, and if any warm
| spirits rise up and trouble you remember that
| you are to act OH the principles now sanction
ed and avowed by the two connections, and
not upon local preiudices." .s,;e, .s;.... KEEL.
| "A 4. CONGRATULATIONS. ia, g,8s .y.f,..
| We cannot restrain the expression OF orr
united congratulations to both of the great
churches whose commissions we have executed
| liz uniting between them the broken cords of
affectionate and brothery fraternization..
| IIenceforth they may hail each other rs from
| the auxiliary ranks of one great army. 70 The
only differences they will f,ster will be those
friendly rivalries that spring from the earnest
| endeavors to further to the utmost the triumph
| of the gospel of peace. Whatever progress is
made by the one Church Or by the other will
occasion general joy. They will rejoice in, each
others success as a common good, and, amid
| the thousand glorious memories Of Methodsm,
they will 90 forward devoted to their one work
of spreading scriptural holiness over these
lands. 5-e.i .si1 ri s5e -hsiH !q'H igs.f
| Two by two the Apostles began the promui-
CATION OF Christianity in the world. They were
companion evangeliSts distinct in their several
individuality, but they We're at the same time
one in spirit. ia145l li5Aisia sis
Their itinerant successors in the chief
| Churches Of American MethOdism in restored
fraternity will vie with each other to wave the
banner of the cross in this Western world, and
| henceforth will proclaim that these Churches
are one in spirit, one in purpose, one in fell
lowhp. 2 a. f.t' pa e;a ReE
| re AN ASTRONOMICAL ILLUSTRATION.
Astronomers tell us OF dual stars revolving
| together in mutual relation and harmony,
whose differing solors are so much the compile
ment of each other as to prodnce-a pure white
| light of exceeding briancy. The i,lal Churches
Of American Methodsln will llcnccforth Icvolve
| in mutual fellowship and harmony, SO much
the complement of one another rs together TO
produce the pure and blended light of Chris
tian charity and fraternal love.
SECTIONAL DISPUTES. 80 -
1 These fraternised Churches have no further
1 occasion for sectional disputes or acrimonious
! differences. They may henceforth remember
4 their common origin, pursue their fruit-bear
i ING work, and rejoice at their own and each