OLD SCHOOL MEETING AT BALTIMORE. 1835

OLD SCHOOL MEETING AT BALTIMORE.

Our Brethren of the Old School, throughout the States and Territories of America, are requested to bear in mind the meeting recommended by the Elders and Brethren, who attended the Old School Meeting at Black Rock, Md. last year, to be held with the Ebenezer Baptist Church in the City of Baltimore, Md. on the Monday following the third Sunday in May next, to commence at 10 o’clock A. M.

The annual meeting of the Baltimore Ass’n. by appointment is to be held with the same Church, to commence on the preceding Thursday and continue until the commencement of the Old School Meeting.

Brother Thomas Barton of Pa. is appointed to preach the introductory Sermon at the Old School Meeting, and in case of failure, Brother Samuel Trott of Va.

We give this early notice of the contemplated Meeting at Baltimore, in the hope that our Brethren at a distance may make seasonable arrangements to attend; and we hope, if it accords with the Divine mind, that we may at that time and place, meet with brethren from the greater part of the United States.

We are authorized by Bro. J. B. Preston of the Ebenezer Church, to publish for the information of the brethren abroad, that although the Meeting-house formerly occupied by that Church has been purchased by the New School Baptists, who, in the plenitude of their boasted benevolence, have refused to have it occupied by the Baltimore Ass’n. and the O. S. Meeting. They have, however, found a more generous people called Universalists, who have freely granted the use of their Meeting-house for the above-named purposes.

We have received a Communication from Elder Reed, Burret of Rensselaer Ville Ass’n. replying to some things contained in Brother Pettits’ Letter, and the result of the Council, &c, which were published in the 2d number of this Vol. Anticipating the pleasure of a personal interview with Brother Burret and others concerned, we think it prudent to delay the publication of the same until we return from our contemplated journey.

APPOINTMENTS.—We gave notice a few weeks ago of our intention to visit some of the Churches in the Lexington and Rensselaer Ville Associations, and afterwards the cause of our failure to fulfil our appointment (sickness, &c.), and that if not providentially prevented, we still hoped to visit those places during the current month. From the present prospect, we have but little reason to expect that the state of the roads will be favorable for traveling before the first of April; and having consulted with Eld. Harding on the subject, we are encouraged to believe that he will probably accompany us in April.

We have finally concluded to venture the following appointment, viz: If the Lord will, to attend at Meeting-house in Olive, on Monday evening, April 6th. On Tuesday the 7th at Lexington, and on the following Sunday at the place of worship occupied by the Rensselaer Ville and Bern Church. During the tour, we anticipate the pleasure of visiting as many Churches and Brethren as possible; and being uninformed in regard to the geographical situation of the Churches in that vicinity, we must defer making further arrangements for the present.

☞ Our Brethren in Hardeston, N. J., will perceive by the above notice that it will be difficult for us to attend with them on the first Sunday in April; they may therefore expect us on the 5th Sunday of the present month.

The following note is copied into the “Selected Summary” of the Cross & Baptist Journal. We only wish to enquire why the sapient editors of the N. E. Spectator, and the Cross & Baptist Journal, who seem so much astonished at the position taken by the writer in the N. E. Telegraph, do not meet this objection at once, and show the yankee writer that his objection is but the effect of his peevish spleen, either by pointing him to the chapter and verse in the Bible, where Theological Seminaries are warranted by the precepts or example of Christ, his Apostles, or the usage of the primitive Church. If more convenient, show him in the plenitude of their wisdom that such scriptural authority is unnecessary, as long as the institution is popular, and in the opinion of a thousand D.D’s. Those who are indebted for their very existence to such institutions are useful.

Theological Seminaries unscriptural.—A writer in the last New England Telegraph has commenced a series of articles embracing his objections to Theological Seminaries. His first position is that Theological Seminaries are unscriptural. He says, “I nowhere find that either Christ or his apostles ever intimated the necessity of a theological seminary, in order to prepare young men for the ministry.”—N. E. Spectator.

The N. E. Spectator is, we believe, a religious paper, devoted to the Congregational interests.—Cross & Bap. Jour.

ERRATA.—We cheerfully give place to the following as a correction of an error which occurred in the publication of the proceedings of the Council, which met with the Church of Rensselaer Ville and Ben:

Lexington, Feb. 6, 1835.

BROTHER BEEBE: In the publication of the Council which met with the Church of Rensselaer Ville and Bern, you have omitted the names of Eld. James Mead and Brother Lawrence Knickerbocker, from the Church of Roxbury and Middletown, and also Dea. Farmer from the Church of New Baltimore. Please correct the mistake in your next number.

HEZEKIAH PETTIT