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Excerpt from The Annual Report of the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society: Presented at the General Meeting, Held in Broadway Tabernacle, May 11, 1847, With the Addresses, Resolutions, and Treasurer's Report
Many churches and associations of ministers in the free States have'adopted excellent resolutions on the subject of slavery. Yet it may be a question whether ecclesiastical bodies, on the whole, are not behind political bodies in Opposition to this curse'of the country. The New School General Assembly made an advance upon the past, though, as heretofore, on the motion of a northern member, and he a nominal Abolitionist, compliant conservatism prevailed. The Old School General Assembly, after an excited discussion, agreed to stand where it has ever stood, viz. On the ground that slavery is an evil, but that the individual practice and support of it is no bar to a regular standing in the church. Dean Wilberforce, now Bishop of Oxford, has said that the Pro testant Episcopal Church of the United States bears no voice against slavery. This cannot be said, perhaps, of any other deno mination with so much truth. And there ought not to be occasion for its being said, wholly or in part, of any denomination, of any general assembly, synod, presbytery, association, consociation, or church, in Christendom. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
