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Excerpt from The Southern Presbyterian Review, 1855, Vol. 8: Conducted by an Association of Ministers in Columbia, South Carolina Can the Pastors and sessions meet this want? The same remarks agply to the session (who are masters, of course, ) as to t e masters generally. Can the Pastor? Sup e a Parish to be of such size that several lines of ro in it are from 15 to 20 miles in length, - that from the most central point you can attain, there are rides of 10, 12, 14 miles to the extreme points, that 40 or 50 plantations are found within it, and a population of 2000 or 2500, among whom 400 church-members are distribu ted, ranging from thirty on a plantation down to one Can one man oversee, instruct, visit and discipline the whole, besides writing his sermon or two every week, and performin pastoral duty for the white congrega tion? No don t, em loying a missionary, if you could get him, would help t e matter reatly; and such men should be sought by inquiry angl by prayer, that these wastes may be built up. But notice first that a mission ary visitin a plantation once a month, a fortnight or even a wee is exercising very little of that supervisory care we have seen to be necessary. He spends his hour or two in exhorting, catechizing, praying with the sick, instructing candidates, rebuking known backsliders, &c.; how shall he add to all this the giving an eye to the church members enerally? How much supervision can he really bestow But, secondly, every pastor and mis sionary knows that one of his greatest difficulties lies in the moral amd spmtual uncongenialitfy of the two races. This results in uncon uerable reserve towards the white pastors generally, an provokes a most deplorable insin cerity as well as reticence in the maple. 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.