Methodism in Virginia by Editor

Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 18, 1858

Methodism in Virginia.

By Editor

As a specimen of Southern toleration in religion, we give the following extract from the Lynchburg, Va., Republican:

The ministers of the Baltimore Conference are the most deadly foes to our domestic institutions, and they should be expelled from the State as soon as possible. They dare not take open ground against slavery, but they insinuate their anti-slavery doctrines into the minds of the ignorant and misinformed, and thus do more harm than they would do were they outspoken in their pernicious views. We are extremely gratified to find that the Church South has made a permanent lodgment in Fincastle, Lexington, Lewisburg, and other important points heretofore held by the Northern branch. Let the good work commence, until the whole Valley and western portion of Virginia are cleansed of this foul leprosy of anti-slavery Methodism. The God of Abraham and of Isaac is not their God any more than he is the God of Giddings.