The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-09-06

we profess.
1t means the unobstructed triumph, among
American Presbyterans, of the virtually Popish
and tyrannical principle Of the Spring resolu-
lions, and consequent usurpations; with the
mischievous and inhaming applications it is
likely to receive In future political collisions
1t means that we surrender our tenure in all
our church property, to that new. Popish rule,
devised by Radical Supreme Court and greed
lily embodied in the Digest of the Church.
1t means that we acquiesce in becoming doc
trlnally 81 Broad Church" to the extent of toll
Grating, In the same communion, both the ex-
tremes of strict Calvinism and New Havenism,
to such extent the two branches" Of the
Northern Church tolerated either, between 1888
and 1867.
1t means that we surrender our new Book of
Church Order with all its improvements, and 90
back to the old book which we had so resolutely
discarded
1t means, that we surrender our we'll consid-
cred committees system of evangelism, and 90
back to that old Board system, which DR.. Thorn
well refuted in 1860, at the Rochester Assembly.
1t means, that we admit rotary eldership;"
thus surrendering our Scriptural doctrine of the
qualification and call of the ruling elder by the
Holy Ghost, and his true ordination by his Pres
bytery, and placing ourselves at this half way
house of Congregationalism.
1t means, the immediate collapse of our semi
naries and evangelistic agencies, under the alien
management of great omnibus Church so that
in place of the $50, 900 for Foreign Missions.
and SOS 900 for Home Missions, etc.. which we
gave last year to these enterprises in the trusted
and beloved hands Of Drs Wilson and Nell
walne, we should give the year after the fusion
to the mistrusted, alien, abolitionized sectional
agencies in New York, about $2OO 900 and $15,-
ooo respectively, with tendency towards a
farther annual decline.
In 1850, the Presbyteries now enrolled in the
Southern Church, are credited by the Assembly's
Minutes as having contributed to Domestic Mis-
sions, $48, 264, and to Foreign Missions, 500 348.
In comparing these amounts with the present
contributions to these objects, two things must
be remembered. One, that the Southern church
es now generally poor yet contributing S75 900
to Foreign Missions), were then exceedingly
rich. The other is, that many churches, as in
Kentucky, East Tennessee, etc, then connected
with the South, are now Northern Presbyterian.
These figures illustrate the progress made by the
Southern Church in virtue of its independence
1t means, of course, that we must initiate the
Church which absorbs Us, in the ecclesiastical
amalgamation with negroes accepting negro
presoyters to rule white churches, and Judge
white ladies; a step which would seal the
moral and doctrinal corruption of our Church in
the South and be direct step towards that
final perdltion of Southern socety-domestc
aInalgamatlon. And the time would come in |
the South-yea, In the North also as it found
itself encountered with this gangrened limb-a
muiatto South, when all, who had lent hand. |
under the prompting of pulling sentimentalism
10 THIS result, would incur the reprobation of |
all the wise and good, in terms as lust and as
bitter, as those visited on Benedict Arnold.
For let any man look on the negro character
calmly, and he will see that the introduction of
any, the smallest, element of negro rule into our
Church, means moral and doctrinaL relaxation
ana ecclesiastical corruption poisoning the life
blood OF our churches Just in degree as it is ex.
tended. The sentimentalist may exclaim: WHY
cannot negro be converted? Cannot negro
1 % learned? Yes possibly he may-but,
II converted, he l0lU not be perfect and as sure
as nature is nature, one of his remaining imper
tectons will be his race feelings Sentimen.
tallsts may shout, that Christianity knows No
castles that all caste distinctions are unchris-
tlan"-which l here denounce as Scripturallv
and historically false-but whether we will or
not, the negro Is going to keep himself caste
as to Southern Presbyterians And in every
issue where the rival and opponent of white
Southern Presby terianism is going to attack
principles dear to u.s. the negro is going to side
with that assallant. Witness the fact, that. in
all secular issues, he infallibly sides with the
assallant of all vital Southern interests even
when the negro IS thereby hurting his own in
terests. And this he does, usually, with q
regularity exactly proportional to his protested
culture. once more, negro Christianity NAV
foster IN them personal virtues, in individual
actions but observe that never vet has negro
religion elevated the best of them to the stage
OF conscience so vital for a ruler in free. con
sttutlonal, spiritual commonwealth like our
Church which preUeBts 2Oronc- }oinq in as
soclated actions, where the responsibility is
yelled by forms of law and combination of
many agents. know some very good Chris
tlans among them-sincerely devout, PRAYER
tul dlllgent, chaste, charitable, educated intel
hgent wholly above individual larceny. But
have invariably seen the best of these, as par
tsans, concur actively, without dualm of con
science, In the foulest and most putrescent party
actions by which the South has been dispraced
such Is the average, Chrstianized intelligence
and conscience Of that race. at this time
Merge our churches with the North, and at once
we poison the noble Synods of North Carolina
south Carolina, and Georgia with the infusion
OF the black Synod of Atlantic" with the
prospect Of the similar corruption Of our whole
Southern Church.
Once more: Fusion with the North would
mean our betrayal of our righteous testimony
against the rationalistic and skeptical features
OF modern abolitionism-a testimony which
IS now faithfully sustained by our Church alone
IN Protestant christendom. This abolitionisro
the Holy Spirit has expressly condemned in /
Inn VI 10, characterizing it in the sternest
language as arrogant, perverse, mercenarv.
slanderous, and false and He has erDressi,,
..cglsdted, From such withdraw thvselfh
Many, II not the majority, in that Assembly
dehantly profess that aboitionism and the
only legislation the Assembly itself has taken
about them was TO dcuounce us for PROTESTING
against III Paul rnouirnd ne GO - n