are admitted to white churches, and colored clergymen to white
ecclesiastical assemblies, on equal terms with their white brethren. In
the Diocesan Episcopal Convention of South Carolina it is, therefore,
proposed to amend the diocesan constitution so as to provide for two
Conventions, a white and a colored. In the Presbyterian Church the
difference of opinion on this subject constitutes one bar to a union
between the Northern and Southern churches, or even to co-operation
between them. This has been for the time removed by a sort of concordat
by which the relations of the colored and the white members in the two
churches respectively are allowed to remain _in statu quo_, and the
settlement of the problem is relegated to the future. In the
Congregational denomination, the question is likely to come up before
the meeting of the American Home Missionary Society at Saratoga early in
June, and again before the National Council at Worcester in October. In
the State of Georgia, there has been for some time an Association of
Congregational churches mainly composed of colored people, and largely
under the fostering care of the American Missionary Association. A
Congregational work has latterly been started among the whites under the
fostering care of the American Home Missionary Society. And recently a
body of independent Methodists, really Congregational in the principles
of their government, and having a considerable number of churches in
Georgia, and some in other Southern States, has become also
Congregational in name. Both bodies will have representatives,
presumably, at Saratoga, certainly at the meeting of the National
Council at Worcester in October, and the latter body, if not the former,
will have to determine whether it will recognize two Congregational
Associations in one State, the sole difference between them being that
one Association is composed wholly of white people, and the other
chiefly of colored people; unless, indeed--and of this there is some
hope--the Congregational Associations of Georgia solve the problem by