Biortitantous.
THE COLORED RACE HATE TO
pECT FROM THE SOUTHERN
iitt , :sBYTERIAN CHURCH.
,i v v. the sittings of the late Southern
Assembly, we noticed, in the dim
respecting the church status of
m inisters and churches, what then
,red like a disposition to rise superior
a ccidental distinctions which have
to do with the placis of people in
u:ebold of Christ. As the discussion
iscd, the hope that there was finally
relaxing of the old pro-slavery preju-
. dwindled away, and the dissolving
rime, in the following series of teso-
„d e ed, 1. That this Assembly enter
:, jar the freed people the sincerest
eats of good will and affection ; that
r-dy desires and prlys for their sal
, and would encourage the employ
every legitimate means for the
~ on of their spiritual good; that
..embly believes the present condi
! the, colored race in the country to
~: alarming spirithal jeopardy, and
is binding on us, as Christians, to
that lies in our power to save them
t he calamities by which they are
.tenicl, and to confer on them the rich
of the Gospel.'
(7, 2. That it be recommended to
ministers and Churches to exert
° N es to the utmost of their ability to
ee to give the Gospel' to these peo
,., church sessions to urge upon
• among them the duty of presenting
'hill:iron for baptism, a4d of bringing
.p in the nurture and admonition of
, rd; and to pastors, evangelists and
~i , ries to' devote a portion of their
:he promotion of the salvation of
people.
e#lo•'d, 3. That in the judgment of
.\.,embly, it is highly inexpedient
t mere should be an ecclesiastical sepa•
or the white and colored races ; that
measure would threaten evil to both
and especially to the colored, and
ua therefore it is desirable that every
ie..rrantable effort be made affectionately to
1 : ....ade the freed people from severing
• connection with our churches, and to
11:,'12 them with us as of old. Should
decline this fellowship of ordinances,
1:; desire a separate organization, then our
- .3'3 are authorized to organize them
,_ branch congregations. In such oases,
recommends that suolicon
,,ations shall be allowed, under. the
:kin of the sessions, to elect from
themselves, every year, such num
ut superintendents or watchmen as the
-Jai may advise, who shall be charged
w • : the oversight of such congregations.
7t r superintendents shall report to the
for their action, all matters relat
li the welfare of said' congregations.
Resolved, 4. Whenever Presbyteries may
:1: , 1 it necessary to organize separate col
-c ti congregations, they shall appoint a
omission of elders who shall discharge
functions committed to the sessions in
preceding resolutions.
-R,.so/ve4, 5. That while nothing in our
:,,;cards, or in the Word of God, pro
,' 't, the introduction into the Gospel
-try of duly qualified persons of any
,• yer difficulties arise in the genera'
• ~:ture. of society, and from providential
which may and should restrain the
I tication in the Church of this abstract
:.r.ciple. Holding this in view,•the As
whly recommends that wherever a session
Presbytery shall find a colored person
shall possess suitable qualifications,
y are authorized to license him to labor
. an exhorter among the colored people
~ i er the supervision of the 'body appoint
him.
Rcquived, 6. That the Assembly re
.,uniends'whenever it is - prabtiCable,
oli-nhools for the benefit of the freed
ople, especially the young, be established
, connection with our churches, and that
.:ie sessions of the churches take these
, 11001, under their charge and provide
tibt teachers for them.
'Re No' vet?, 7., That the heads of , families
exhorted to encourage the freed people
it households' to attend upon family
üblie worship, and that they provide
t, em, as far as possible,' cateobetical in
-1.,J1,,n in the doctrines and duties of
(; uspel. .
.I:ws'ved ) S. That the General Assem
earnestly desire the intellectual and
improvement of the colored race,
hereby tender to all persons suitably
idled, who may labor in the work, its
-zy encouragement and support."
e New York Observer passes a justly
ere censure upon this action. The f01.7,n0,
.7,no, paragraphs from that paper bring
its true import from the nimbus of a
:111e.,..ed tenderness for the colored race,
id put it into plain English, revealing
'e despotic spirit of the most glorious
• ot the patriarchal institution.
The most important point in the action
_''this Assembly, 'and one which has a
- ,artling significance, 'as coming from a
Igh court of Jesus Christ t is the deliber
'e resolution to make an u.iter distinction
the Church of God between <those who
Ire a white skin and those who have a
aclt one, and to shut out from all the
Ices of the Church the litter, no matter
, hether they have been called of God; Or
ow well qualified they may be in other
• Teets. The simple question of color is
ilet , rmiue whether a man is to be ad
to the ministry, or even to the office
ruling elder; and this is so decided by
large body of learned and able Christian
Liaihturs and ruling elders, professedly
icting in the name of that God who, in
•alling His people out of darkness into
dis marvelous light, and in calling them
Into the ministry of reconciliation, cannot
be supposed to select them according to the
comp.exion of their skin. The resolutions
still further. They effectually prevent
organization of a single church com
e , -ed ufoolored people alone, anywhere in
coact,qion with the Presbyterian body
eprcetited by this Assembly. We pre-
the circumstances of the case, I
THE AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN , TH URSDAY, DECEMBER 27 1866
and froin the character of the discussion,
that there was no serious objection to
churches composed of colored people, ex
cepting en' the ground that they could not
have churches without elders; but if they
had elders of their own color, those elders
would Ire entitled to take their seats in the
Presbyteries and Synods, and even in the
General Assembly.: Colored churches, too,
might elect coloted,pastors, who, according
to the Presbyterian doctrine of parity in
the ministry,,,would be placed on an equali
ty with white ministers; and so, to prevent
the PPssibility' of meeting on the same
level, even' ib: the Church, the whole sys
tem of exolusion vik adopted ; no colored
man oan-be 'a minister of the Gospel; no
.colored man can be a ruling elder; no
churches, composed of colored people can
be organized. For proof that we do not
misstate, or overstate, the nature and im
portance of this ecclesiastical decision, we
- refer our readers to the resolutions.
" The reCommendation that ' wherever a
session or Presbytery shall find a colored
person who shall possess suitable qualifica
tions, they are authorized to license him to.
labor as an. exhorter among the colored
people under the supervision of the body,
appointing him,' , does not relieve,
but
rather aggravates, the case, inasmuch as it
admits that qualified persons may be-found
to exhort, or preach the Gospel, but it ex
cludes them from discharging the functions
of the ministry as they are black men. And
so in cases where the freed people desire a
separate organization the sessions are au
thorised to organize them into branch con
gregations,' but these organizations are not
to be churches; they are simply meetings,
having no church authority or privilege,
but, in all respects, under the control of
white churches, the same as if they met
and worshipped with them."
THE WORLD'S CONVERSION TO JESUS
CHRIST,
Comprehensively, our ' -(treat missionary
work is "to preach the Gcspel to - every ,
creature." ' -The completeness of the idea
is in bringing back all these aliens to near
communion with God. Heathen society is
everywhere wretched in its unkindness.
Selfishness reigns unbroken ; they "live in
malice and envy, hateful, and hating one
another." But the Pagan nations are still
more miserable; in that they are " without s
God, and have no hope in the world."
They have no conception of a Deity with
whom it may be possible that man should
hold joyful communion. Their gods are
capricious and fickle, lavishing gifts in
their fondness upon their favorites, which
stimulates them to only a selfish and mer
cenary devotion, and wreaking vengeance
in their wrath in such a bloody way as only
to excite horror and hatred There is. no
blending of majesty and mercy, and tem
pering the divine character with dignity
and amenity, which may at once inspire.
reverence' and love. The god and the man
cannot meet peaceably together. The god
will despise the man, and the man will con
temn the god. No pagan devotee ever
worships a Deity in whom he sees "mercy
and truth meeting together, and righteous
ness and peace embracing each other."
But what paganism never apprehends,
the Bible everywhere discloses. In the
Christian ecenom , justice and grace ever
meet and suppo each other. Authority
is sustained, while benignity prevails. With
all his terrible majesty on the smoking
mountain, amid the thunderings and light-
ItiElfi, still the divine Lawgiver proclaims
himself "the Lord, the Lord God, merci
ful and gracious." At the awful. day of
the last judgment, when he comes in clouds
with all his holy angels, there is still the
softening of 'the scene in the expiatory
mark of the spear; and we look on him
"whom they have
,pierced." The mixed
majesty and mercy perpetually strike the
sinner's attention, and win him to intimate
and, joyous communion. The human heart
is here hit by, the flash of combined severi
ty and tenderness, as was denying„Peter.
by the look of his Master; and in heathen
and Christian lands alike, penitence goes
away alone and weps bitterly.
,e , .
Philosophy analyzes and .accurately dis
criruinates the elements in, these Christian
experiences, b'tit the practical metaphysician
takes the facts which are' the fruit of the
speculation, and simply and directly uses
,there to bring baek last humanity into com
munion with' propitiated Deity. There
must be apprehended the seVerity tempered'
by placability. The sinner is not - made'
alive by the Gospel, till first he has been
slain by the law. Compassion will not
effectually "persuade men," except as they
also " know the terrors of the Lord."
Wherever this rational, as truly as evan
gelical, way' of return to God is kept in ob
scurity or held in incompleteness, there
will be, on any portion of the great field of
benevolent labor, pagan or • Christian, a
large amount of religious effort utterly
wasted. Much of that which is called
powerful preaching, revival preaching, ar-,
dent missionary zeal, very soon exhausts
1 all its efficiency. When the appeals are to
the hope of human happiness mainly, or
fear of coming misery, melting exhibitions
of Jesus's sympathy with suffering humani
ty, there may be a quick interest excited,
the freshness and force of whioh. soon
passes off, and the themes becoMe idle and
empty as the tales of the nursery; even
the sacred story of the Saviour's, dying
limp may be told with such an application,
that, the, poiier , of the cross shall be made
weakness. When put in the light merely of
relief from wretchedness, or attainment of
happiness, whether here or hereafter, the
oreat transactions of Calvary will quickly
n
'wear out as motives to action. To him
who closely' reads human nature, there will
be nti.mystery, under such influence, that
so much apparent " goodness is as the
morning cloud and the early dew." He
will not wonder that the sensational'preach
ers and sensational hearers so soon get
tired of each other.
But, on the other hand, that kind of deal-
ing with fallen man, in any clime, which
takes him into the presence• of the heart
searching God, and obliges him to see the
necessity( of meeting
, and gaining prepare- 1
tion for communion with him ; such preach
ing)* and dealing with the sinner never
loses
fountains of the soul, and such motives
its power. a penetrates to_the deepest
never wear out To these appeals the
ear of saint and sinner ever opens, and the
convicted man is, forced to cry out, " Be
hold, I am vile, what shall 1 answer ? I
will lay my hand upon my mouth." " I
have heard of thee by the hearing of the
ear; but now mine eye seeth thee, where
foie I abhor myself; and repent in dust and
ashes !" We shall make the most Chris
tians at home and abroad, we shall make
the best Christians, when we constrain the
most-directly to the -enquiry, " How shall
I appear before God ?" and when we bring
the soul at length into, the most intimate
communion with God.
The nations of the earth wait for the day
of universal peace, and ill - the families of
mankind need to be brought together in
love and kindness; Commercial intercourse
will not effect this. Literature, philosophy,
political economy; diplomacy, will never
kindle and diffuse Chriatian philanthropy;
The love of Christ shed abroadin the heart
by the Holy Ghost, and ,which brings into
love and communion with God,- will alone
bring men truly to love one another. The
greater contains the less, and co,mmunion
with God holds within it also fellowship
with man We are to value communion
with God, not as the:means to get the fur.
ther end that man should be kind to man,
but because godly communion is itself the
highest grace in its own excellency, and
includes and sustains within itself love to
man and all lower graces. It is the great
end of Christian conversion itself, ,and ) the
consummation of the Christian life, that
the sinning soul his been brought,t6 dwell
in peace with God. We shill' haVe; finished
our missionary work, andprepared the hea
then for all other good, :and brought "hu
manity to its highest excellency, when we
shall have brought the feeling of the Psalm
ist to be universal, " My 'soul longeth:, and
even fainteth for the. Lord; my heart and
my flesh crieth out for the living God."
And now, brethren, this same thing, so
important for the heathen world, is, equally
important fur us in laboring for, their sal
vation. As co-workers with God for a
dying world, our first need is, that we
e.itne ciiise to him, and keep in habitual
communion with him. We shall su "he
changed into his image from glory to glory,"
and our love and devotion to him will grofv
deeper and parer from year to year This
communion with the Father will be:through
the Sun, but in the mediation of the Son
we shall read the very heart of the Father.
All that the Son suffered and does for a
lost world is hilt fulfilling the plan and exe
cuting the will of the Father. Distinction
of office and execution in the redemption
work makes no distinction in design and
disposition. " Here the whole Deity is
known;" the justice and the grace have
equal glory; and the justice and the.grace
have no distribution in.property or degree
among the persons of the Godhead. Our
communion here is with God in his unity,
and the fellowship is equally with the
Father, and his Son Jesus Christ, and with
the Holy Ghost. In giving our hearts to
God, we receive in return a Father's em
brace, and an elder Brother's welcome, and
the in-dwelling Spirit of perpetual console,-
Here, too, we get our true and deep sym
pathy for the heathen. We shall pity their
personal debasement, their social degrada
tion, and, most of all, shall we pity their
alienation from God. All other woes are as
nothing.compared with the absolute-desola
tion of living without God. The samejm
pulse will then move us toward them as
that which sent the Saviour into our lost
world. " Lo, I come to do thy will, omy
God ; I delight to do thy will." qplllllMll
- in God's will is our best preparation
for all missionary service. Nothing else
can make: , us so strong to carry help to the
lost nations and tribes of men When dis
couragetuents and disasters and•delays Ines&
-uponus,,notbing else -can keep.us so hope
ful so enduring so persevering.' Amid all
sorts of hindrapcpc, this will make us
'patient, courageous, and'at .length triumph
ant. In every difficulty and trial we have
but to gay,
),
, . Nearer myy . God, to thee,
Nearer to thee," -
and we shall goon refreshed and unfalter
ing. Near GOd ourselVes, we shall not
fail nor' grew' iFeaty others' to
Rim. We shallrexpect sna'Chose not to
rest till we reach the heavenly ccinithunion.-
Out of this' fallen world, God.has reveal
ed to., us :that he ,wili gather , a-'fredeemed
world of his own. ; ".He will -purify- to him-
Self a . peculiar, people." In all ages he has
had a-seed to serve him, an,sl, the promised
age is coming "wen When all shall know,the
I s ord.", Our part,, brethren', in the good
work Will aeon cease. But all are one in
ChriAlesua "of whom the Whole family
in heaven and earth is named," -and'those
who go tip to- their communion with God
face to face, will have their places here
filled with other workers, growing more
numerous, more zealous, more successful.
The spiritual temple shall gather its - living
stones from every land, and grow up to its
finished consummation. The voices of all
the,holy in heaven and earth shall shout
the top-stone to its place, orying, "Grace,
grace unto it." " Every tongue shall con
fess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory
of God the Father."—President Hickok.
MYSTERY,
The fact that any doctrine involves a
mystery is so far from constituting a fair
ground for its rejection, that it agrees in
this respect with many of the, most allowed
troths of human science. For the distinc
tion is nowyell understood between a truth
being apprehended and its being compre
hcnded. We apprehind or recognize a,
fact, when we know it to he established by
evidence, but cannot explain it by referring
it to its cause. We comprehend or under•
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its cause A thing which is not appre
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of our knowledge shows that we believe
many things which we cannot explain or
resolve into law. We know the law .of at
traction which regulates the motion of the
visible universe ; but no one can yet ex
plain the nature of the attractive power
which acts according to the law. Or, to
add an example' from the worlu of organ
ized nature. We know not in what consist
the phenomena of sleep or of life ; and ,
we are equally ignorant of the. final causes
which have led the Creator to lavish his
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perties of enjoyment or of use • or to scat
ter in the unseen parts of the petals of
flowers, the profusion of beautiful colors.
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in no case connects them with an ultimale
cause. And if truths are thus received
undoubtingly in science,. when yet they .
cannot be explained, why must an antece
dent determination to disbelieve mystery
in religion be allowed to outweigh any
amount of positive evidence which can be
adduced to substantiate those mysteries ?
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J. G. BATTERSON, President.
RODNEY DENNIS, Seeretem.
HENRY A. DYER. General Agent.
IN YOlik OWN 110A$ COMPANT,
S., E. eor. Fourth and Walnut Streets',
Insurers in this Company have he additional
antee of the CAPITAL STOCK all aid np IN CAB
which, together with CASH ABSBTS: now on
amounts to
Invested as follows :
$lOO,OOO U. S. s.2obonds,
100,000 City of Philadelphia Loan 6's.
new, .
70,050 U. S. Treasury Notes, 7-30.
25,000 Allegheny County bonds,
15,000 U. S. Loan of 1881,
10,000 Wyoming Valley Canal bonds.
12,700 Compound Interest Treasury'
Notes,
10,000 Philadelphia and Erie Railroad
bonds,
/0,000 Pittsburg. Fort. Wayne & Chi
cago bonds,
6,500 City of Pittsburg and other
bonds,
1,000 Shares Pennsylvania Railroad
450 shares Corn Exchange National
Bank
107 shares Farmers' National Bank
of Reading,
22 shares Consolidation National
Bank,
142shares 7 Williamsport Water Com-
Pan.
Mortgages, ( G round Rents. and Real Es
tate 147,309 0*
Loans on oollateral amply secured 169,481 911 ,
Premium notes secured by Policies • MUM
Cash in hands of agents secured by bowls." - 52,4*
Cash on deposit with U. S. Treasurer,.;...,.... 2000
Cash on hand and in banks 65,101 .
Accrued interest and rents due. Jaa.l 10.221
INCOME FOR 'THE YEAR 1865, "
$544;592' 92.
Leases Paid darling the Year asitatintiellete
.
.$87,636 31. • ,
'LOSSES s'PAID PROMPTLY:
DIVIDENDS MADE ANNUALLY, thus aidbur tbsk
the insured to , pay premitune.
The last DIVIDEND on all Mutual Policies in feces
January 1, 1366, was
PIPT - 32" PER CENT.
of the amount of PREMIUMS received daring tit
year, 1865.•
Its TRUSTEES are well known 'citiaens in ear'
midst. en titli n g it • to more oonsideration, thew
whose Man ere reside in distant 'attire. ' "
Alexander } lldin, William J.HowaoL
J. Edgar Thomion, Samuel T. Bodine.
George Nugent. John Aikmelf.
Hon. James Pollock, Henry K. Bee:matt,.
L. M. Whilldin, Hon. Joseph Anion.
P. B. Minzae. Isaaok Haalehurst. ,
Albert O. Roberts.
ALEX. WHILLDIN, President.
GEORGE REGENT, Ifie r e-arrolotemO.
JOHN O. SIMS, Actuary.
JOHN S. WILSON. Secretary and.Treastuee.
O. G. RO N, Assistant Secretary. 1 .
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HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT
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PHILADELPHIA
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