. . .ciation, makes this great boast, followed by a frank confession: “With half of three millions of dollars I can Congregationalize every negro in the South; but, of course, the work would not be permanent.” The italics in this quotation are ours, for we wish to call attention to the acknowledgment, and to say that this transient work is precisely what the Association does not attempt. It will not take the money of its patrons to start ephemeral growths. It prefers, and we are sure its intelligent friends will prefer, that it should plow deep, harrow thoroughly, and sow “wholly a right seed,” that the gatherings may be an hundred fold for the garner of the Master.

An effort is made to stir up Congregationalists to plant white churches in the South. The project is not new, but its results thus far have not been encouraging. Soon after the war, the Home Missionary Society and the Congregational Union invested large moneys in establishing such . . . Read More