 | Lucius Salisbury Merriam - Education - 1893 - 416 pages
...this step it did not commit itself to any opinion on the slavery question, but simply took the ground that "the discussion and agitation of the subject...arising out of the relation of master and slave," should "be excluded "from their "ecclesiastical meetings; that, slaveholding not being in the constitution... | |
 | Education - 1893 - 1198 pages
...this step it did not commit itself to any opinion on the slavery question, but simply took the ground that "the discussion and agitation of the subject...arising out of the relation of master and slave," should "be excluded "from their "ecclesiastical meetings; that, slaveholdiug not being in the constitution... | |
 | United States. Office of Education - Digital images - 1893 - 1090 pages
...this step it did not commit itself to any opinion on the slavery question, but simply took the ground that " the discussion and. agitation of the subject...as regards the moral and religious duties arising ont of the relation of master and slave," should "be excluded "from their "ecclesiastical meetings;... | |
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... also severed its old connections, and in 1858 it entered into a kind of anomalous union with the United Synod. In a pastoral letter addressed to the churches under its care it declared that in taking this step it did not commit itself to any opinion... 