The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1888-04-18
THE NEGRO IN THE CHURCH.
The Plan of Settlement to be Submitted to
the Diocesan Convention at Anderson.

the Dtocesan convention aI AnQerson.
At a meeting Of the deputies who
withdrew from the Diocesan Convention
of 1887, held in Charleston on the 236
February last, it was
Resolved, That the delegates who
withdrew from our late Convention car
not recognize the meeting to be held in
Anderson under resolution passed By
those who remained as constitutional
convention, and therefore recommend
our churches to send no delegates to the
said meeting, and in nowise to recognize
the same as constitutional convention.
Resolved, That committee of seven
be appointed who shall be authorized
and empowered to suspend the rule OF
action if, in conference with committee
or other body duly authorized to bind
those from whom We differ, they are
enabled to reach some settlement of all
the differences now existing, provided
such arrangement be based upon the
separate organization of the two races IN
the government of the Church.
Resolved, That the right Of appeal
from the ruling of the Chair be main
tanned inviolate.
The committee appointed under these
resolutions have not met any persons
authorized to bind those from whom We
differ, but at conference of several
clergymen and laymcn who have hitherto
espoused different sides of the question
which have lately divided the Church in
this diocese, it was agreed to recon-
mend as a solution of these unhappy
differences:
l. That the colored people of South
Carolina who are, or may be hereafter,
connected with the Protestant Episcopal
Church shall constitute missionary
jurisdiction of the Diocese Of South
Carolina.
2. That to effect this purpose the next
Convention of the diocese adopt canon
or constitutional provision On the basis
of the canon recently proposed to the
Council of Virginia.
8. That at the next Convention the
Constitution, Canons and Rules Of Order
of the Church in this diocese be referred
to committee o. -clergymen elect
ed by the clergy in the Convention and
of of-;aymen elected by the lay mem
bers of the Convention to revise the
same.
4. And that no other action be taken
by said Convention upon the matter OF
difference now existing"
The committee appointed at the meet
ing on the 23d February think that their
recommendation presents basis upon
which the unhappy controversies IN the
Church may be settled, and as the same
has been approved by several OF the
churches in thu diocese at the recent
Easter election, they recommend that
the delegates now elected attend at An
derson, and meet the evening before, or
1t some convenient hour preceding the
opening of the said Convention, and
submit to the clergy, and those who
have hitherto differed with us, the fol-
lowing resolution embodying the recon-
mendation of the conference above men
ioned:
Resolved, That commission be raised
by the Convention, to consist Of three
,lergymen to be elected by the clergy,
and three laymen to be elected by the
|aity, which commission is hereby
charged to prepare q constitutional
amendment to provide for the ultimate
separation of the colored race into dis
tinct organization under the Bishop, and
until such ultimate separation to constl-
5ute the same into missionary jurlsdlc-
ton upon the basis of the lately pro-
posed canon in Virginia, which said con-
stitutional amendment shall provide that
The general convocation suggested IN the
said proposed Virginia canon may elect
two clerical delegates, who shall have
the privilege to speak and vote on mat
ters relating exclusively to the condi-
tion, work and needs of said Jurisdiction,
but which privilege shall not be con-
strued to permit said delegates from said
to speak OF vote upon any
matter which may in anywise affect the
white race in the disocese, nor to p.rmlt
colorod clergymen to have seats in Con-
vention.
The said commission is also instructed
to revise the Constitution, Canons and
Rules of Order, and to report amend
ments to the same so as to incorporate
therein all provisions relating to tie or
ganization of the Convention, some Of
which at present are to be found in our
canons, and also to provide that the
right of appeal from the ruling OF the
Choir ha nainteine6 jnyiolata
Upon the assurance that the resolution
will be adopted by both orders, the un-
dersigned, of the committee appointed
at the February meeting, recommend
that all delegates-elect appear In the
Convention at Anderson, and for this
purpose waive the question as to its
legality.
EDWARD McCRADY, JR.,
W. G. BESET,
Ca. RICHARDSON MILES,
r. S. DEsPoRTEs.
We Join the majority Of the committee
in recommending that the deputies meet
at Anderson on the evening previous to
the date appointed for the Convention
to meet, in the hope that some settle
ment may be reached. But we dissent
from them as to the plan OF settlement
proposed.
W. H. CAMPBELL,
". ST. JULIEN JEEvEY.
The Virginia Canon.
The following is a statement OF ques-
tons asked of the Southern (Vlrg1nla)
Churchman, with the answer OF the
editors of that paper:
Would you be kind enough to give me
1,riyately or through YOUR paper informa.