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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1861 edition. Excerpt: ... American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, it has respectfully urged that body, 1858, p. 12, to withdraw its support from churches where slavery still continues, and, 1854, p. 11, rejoiced in every step taken in that direction. It has repeatedly instructed its delegates to the Presbyterian General Assembly and other bodies, to assure those to whom they have been commissioned, 1856, p. 13, that we have neither fellowship nor sympathy with those ministers and divines who hold slaves ujrom principle and choice" or who seek in the Bible, excuses and defences for the sin of American Slavery," 1854, p. 12, and to tender the ardent sympathies of the Convention to such as, standi ing in some ecclesiastical relation to slavery, have labored faithfully to rid themselves of the sin of slaveholding. 3d. With a spirit of true patriotism, watching the signs of the times, the Convention expresses, 1859, p. 11, sad and fearful apprehensions for our country in view of the re-opening or great increase of the slave trade between Africa and the slave states of the Union, as well as the internal slave trade among the slave states themselves, and calls on the ministers of the churches to pray and to act wherever they can against this growing iniquity. Ministerial Education. The Convention deeply impressed with the importance of some systematic action to encourage and sustain pious young men in a course of preparation for the Christian ministry, in the year 1858, organized a permanent committee to attend to that interest on the following plan: The Board of Education of the Presbyterian and Congregational Convention of Wisconsin. u 1st. This Committee shall be called the Board of Education of the Presbyterian and Congregational Convention...