deserves commendation and sympathy. But the seceders have shown a
sad lack of the true spirit of Christ.

_From The Advance._

There have been in Georgia for ten or more years a number of
Congregational churches and a State Congregational Association. This
included, along with the pastors of colored churches, the President and
some of the Professors in Atlanta University. Last year, when that
interesting body of churches hitherto known as Congregational
Methodists, saw fit to take measures for becoming in name as well as in
fact Congregationalists, a "Georgia Congregational Conference" was
formed, a committee was also appointed to confer with the previously
existing Congregational Association, with a view to the right adjustment
of relations between the members of the two organizations. We publish
on another page the reply recently addressed by the "Association" to the
"Conference," with a view to unity on terms that would be in themselves
Christian and agreeable to both the parties interested, as well as
acceptable to Congregationalists everywhere. All of our churches have an
interest in a matter of such significance, as they would also be
sensitive to the reproach of there being two distinct Congregational
Associations in the same State, separated from each other on the
un-Christian caste line of race and color. With the temper and spirit
manifest in the communication referred to, it would seem that the way is
now open for a happy consummation of Congregational fellowship in the
State of Georgia, on terms which not only Congregationalists but
Christians of every name at the North will warmly approve and applaud.

_From The Independent._

The members of the Presbyterian General Assembly can go home from New
York assured that they have vindicated truth and righteousness. The one
vital, vicious fault in the report of the Conference Committee of the
Northern and Southern Presbyterian Churches on Co-operation was amended
out of it and as it now stands adopted it gives not even by implication
any support to the unchristian doctrine of separate presbyteries and
synods for black and half-white Presbyterians.

When the General Assembly met a year ago the Church had been somewhat
stirred up, though the leaders and editors generally seemed so anxious
for a proud reunion that they were ready to forget the wrong proposed to
the colored brothers. Indeed, a volunteer commission of editors and
managers had gone all through th