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Excerpt from The Constitutional Powers of the General Conference: With a Special Application to the Subject of Slaveholding
Tion, and allow slaveholders to remain in the Church till an extirpatory rule can be enacted by the Restrictive Rule process. These questions are entitled to careful and prayerful consideration. But whatever conclusions may be reached concerning the issues they involve, these conclusions in no way affect the subject under examination; for it relates simply and exclusively to the constitutional prerogatives of the supreme council of the Church. In relation to an exscind ing statutory rule there are two ques tions to be considered: first, Has the General conference authority to make it? Second, is it just and proper that it should make it The first question Should be first determined; for if the General conference has no authority to make such a rule, that fact of itself. 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.
