The Church

The tiiird session o' the Chiirch, Ministr}', and Sabbalh Convctition was lulely iield in Boston tp diseuss the siüject of ihe Church. A number of resolutions were introclnced, umong which were some oí' Mr. 'Garrison, asserting ihat llie true chiirch is entircly independent of uil human organizations, creeds, or coinp;cts, and t is no wherc enjoined upon any one as a religious duty, by Christ or his apostle.-. toconnect himself with any association, by whalevcr name callcd, bul every one is Ie ft free to act singly, or in conjonclion witli others, accoiding lo his own choiee. The editor of tlie Ilingham Putriot, wlio was present, says: "And bow ihe debate commenced in earncst; the fire-being fairiy kindledrtll hearts werewarmed, uli tongues loosened, and all began to speak "ihe epirit gave them utterance.' Since the da of Pentecost, we don't believe such a conglorneration of strange tongues has ever been kuown. All sorts óf things were said by aïl sorts of persons on all sorts of subjects. Clergymen weretherens well as laytnen, Titnitarians and Unitarians,Transcendcns talists and Leiterists, Universalists and Calvinists, Methodists and Baptists, Atheists and Deists, Morrnons and Socialists, white men and black men, men with beardá and men without, No-money men and Anti-propeity men, Cape Cod ComeoiKera and Lntter Day Saints, Jews and Quakers, Diálisis and Plain Siieakcrs, Un innisls and Purfectionists, Nun-Resistnnts, Abolitionists, Wumen Leclurers,Owenite?, Grahamites, and all the ïsts and hes, the contented and discontented Ons and Ans that make up this queer compound called the woild.. As to the beneficial tendency of n meeting mannged as this was, we have our doubts. At any rato, it wtis wlII worth attending; - it was a curious combinaton of thd seriuus and the comic, tlie momentous and the trivial, the solemn and the ridicubus; it was entertainiug, amusing, and instj uctive." The convention adjourned after a session of three days wimout taking any vote on the resolutions. They, however, aplointed a committec to cali a convention at some future duy "to consider the authory of the Scriptures. and the extent of their obligations on men "