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map of facts, touching the
present & the future of our Southern
Church, which demand{underlined} to{underlined} be{underlined}
seen,{underlined} &{underlined} considered,{underlined} &{underlined}
dealt{underlined} with,{underlined} if
we mean to meet what the times
exact, & keep the Church for whose
success we are committed, from
being swamped. I think, my
dear Elliott, I cannot be mis-
=taken in the signs of the times.
A few years more, are all that
are wanted to make what now
is only a shadowy phantom, an
embodied & living & impressive
reality. And we shall have
nothing left us but bitter & un-
availing reproaches, if we do
not wake up to the necessity, -- the{underlined}
stern{underlined} necessity,{underlined} -- of providing amply
for the emergency that is at
the door. You know as well
as I do, the state of feeling,
which is every day getting stronger
among northern clergymen & teachers
-- Churchmen though they be -- on
the subject of coming South to

map of facts, touching the
present & the future of our Southern
Church, which demand{underlined} to{underlined} be{underlined}
seen,{underlined} &{underlined} considered,{underlined} &{underlined}
dealt{underlined} with,{underlined} if
we mean to meet what the times
exact, & keep the Church for whose
success we are committed, from
being swamped. I think, my
dear Elliott, I cannot be mis-
=taken in the signs of the times.
A few years more, are all that
are wanted to make what now
is only a shadowy phantom, an
embodied & living & impressive
reality. And we shall have
nothing left us but bitter & una-
vailing reproaches, if we do not wake up to the necessity, -
the{underlined} stern{underlined} necessity,{underlined} of providing amply for the emergency that is
at the door. You know as well as I do, the state of feeling, which
is every day getting stronger among northern clergymen and teachers
- Churchmen though they be - on the subject of coming south to
labour. Thus far we have been able to hold that matter in check
in the northern church mind, by the independent, and manly and
christian way, in which we have as Southern churchmen dealt with
the question. But it is in church only. It is a pent up thing.
It is tremendously pressed from the rear. It feels the pressure
and now and then crys out, {checkmark} Hopkins article on Bishops{underlined} and
slaves,{underlined} - upon which I took occasion, by the way, to give him my
mind very fully,) and it is not in the nature of things, if
everybody else gives way that it - the northern church mind -
should stand. It is not to be supposed if northern churchmen
and everybody else gives way, that these states can continue united.
If they separate, can the diocese maintain their union? The thing
is impossible. Impossible, because they of the north will not de-
sire it, because, to say nothing else, our{underlined} laity,{underlined} of the