ministry of the Universalist Church. He is to engage in mission work in
the South."

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CASTE IN THE CHURCHES.

OPINIONS OF THE RELIGIOUS PRESS.

_From The Congregationalist._

If report be true, the South Carolina Episcopalians have compromised
their difficulty in the matter of color in a manner which is not likely
to be permanently satisfactory. A portion of the diocesan convention had
seceded because the bishop declared that he could not exclude a
regularly ordained minister who was black. The canon law now has been
amended so as to exclude henceforth all other black men, and the
seceders have returned, consenting to make the best of the one obnoxious
colored man, but indignant because he has not been ejected. Whether the
General Convention will endorse or repudiate this compromise remains to
be seen. In either case the Episcopal branch of the church might as well
abandon its efforts to make headway among the colored race in that
State. So far as we can see, the bishop has made a manly stand, however,
and 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