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our tendencies to error ; encourage such {illegible}
us to the pursuit and love of "the South ;" and
make us as "an house at unity in itself."

The work we have to perform in the field assigned
us, and which is interested chiefly to the clergy,
has been plainly indicated.

We have had the Bible, as the written word of God,
placed in our hands by those from whom we
have received our commissions, and whom we recog-
nize as Christ's ambassadors ; and been charged to
"dispense it faithfully." In doing this, we shall of course
be compelled to obey the further injunction laid upon
us at our ordination, to dispense with equal faithfulness
those holy sacraments, revealed by that word as of
divine institution, and of binding obligation on
all the followers of Christ.

That branch of the Church Catholic to which we
belong, has given us in her creeds, articles, homilies, and
services, a brief, but comprehensive exposition of
her views of the doctrines she has commissioned us to
teach. With those for our guides, referring us, as they all
do, for their truth and authority, to "most certain
servant of holy Scripture," we cannot greatly err.
As ambassadors of Christ, we have been called by His
spirit, and appointed to discharge a particular trust; --
to be co-workers with the Holy Ghost, in the extention
and establishment of His kingdom upon earth.