 | 1841 - 606 σελίδες
...emancipation, to direct and urge forward their people to unite in the truly Christian enterprise of of slavery : therefore no slave-holder shall be eligible to any official station in our Church hereafter, where the laws of the State in which he lives will admit of emancipation, and permit the liberated... | |
 | David Martin - 1819 - 124 σελίδες
...ix. p. 215. "Question. What shall be done for the extirpation of the evil of slavery? "Answer . 1 . We declare that we are as much as ever convinced of the great evil of slavery; and do most earnestly recommend to the yearly conferences, quarterly meeting conferences, and to those... | |
 | Methodist Episcopal Church - 1824 - 204 σελίδες
...SECTION IX. Of Slavery. Quest. What shall be done for the extirpation of the evil of slavery ? Answ. 1. We declare that we are as much as ever convinced of the great evil of slavery : therefore no slave holder shall be eligible to any official station in our Church hereafter, where the laws of the... | |
 | 1852 - 248 σελίδες
...CHAPTER VII. OF SLAVERY. Quest. WHAT shall be done for the extirpation of the evil of slavery ? Answ. I . We declare that we are as much as ever convinced of...eligible to any official station in our Church hereafter, where the laws of the State in which he lives will admit of emancipation, and permit the liberated... | |
 | Methodist Episcopal Church - 1829 - 204 σελίδες
...SECTION IX. Of Slavery Quest. What shall be done for the extirpation of the evil of slavery ? Answ. 1. We declare that we are as much as ever convinced of the great evil of slavery : therefore no slave holder shall be eligible to any official station in our church hereafter, where the laws of the... | |
 | 1838 - 508 σελίδες
...against slavery, because they refused to say in their an. ewer to the Wesleyan Methodist Conference, " We are as much as ever convinced of the great evil of slavery," which was offered as an amendment by a certain delegate. To this we reply, 1. That there were certain... | |
 | George Bourne - 1834 - 266 σελίδες
...us for the twelfth time, as it is the twelfth edition of their articles and discipline, that they " are as much as ever convinced of the great evil of slavery." But it may properly be asked, how much are they convinced 1 for the number of slaveholders has been... | |
 | Shipley Wells Willson - 1835 - 54 σελίδες
...changed, nor revoked, in any way. 14. We are aware that, in one other place it is declared, that " no slave-holder shall be eligible to any official station in our church hereafter, where the laws of the state in which he lives will admit of emancipation, and permit the liberated... | |
 | Julius Rubens Ames - 1837 - 244 σελίδες
...SLAVERY, — Question. — What shall be done for the extirpation of the evil of slavery ? Answer 1. — We declare that we are as much as ever convinced of...eligible to any official station in our Church hereafter ; where the laws of the state in which he lives will admit of emancipation, and permit the liberated... | |
 | Julius Rubens Ames - 1837 - 716 σελίδες
...pamphlet, I represent our louthern brethren as saying, that ' it would not lo to let the south know that we are as much as ever convinced of the great evil of slavery, f brethren of the South did not say this — did not say thai the proposed amendment, in the anguage... | |
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We declare that we are as much as ever convinced of the great evil of slavery ; therefore, no slaveholder shall be eligible to any official station in our Church hereafter ; where the laws of the state in which he lives will admit of emancipation, and... 
