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CAN THERE BE RE-UNION

(from THE EPISCOPAL RECORDER, Philidelphia, Vo. XLI, No. 5,
p. 17, May 2, 1863)

The following facts, now almost forgotten may be not
without a bearing on this point:

On the 4th of July, 1859 {handwritten}x, several Southern Bishops with
a number of clergy and laity, met near Chattanooga, in the
State of Tennessee, for the purpose of inaugurating the
proposed University of the South. The proceedings, accord-
ing to a report published at Atlanta, Georgia, began as follows:

{handwritten margin note}
x Should be
1857
(typographical
error).
{end note}

The Rt. Rev. Bishop Green, of Mississippi, then rose and
said, that it was proper after singing the praise of God,
to pause and listen to his hold word --- he would, therefore,
read a chapter, not inappropriate to the occasion which
called the assembly together.

The chapter selected by the Rt. Rev. Prelate, was the
twenty-second of Joshua. It recites how the tribes of
Reuben and Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh, received
their inheritance on "the other side of Jordan;" and how,
when their enemies were all defeated and they had returned
to their homes, they "built there an Altar by Jordan, a
great Altar to see to." It describes the indignation of
Israel, and the expostulation of their deputed elders
against what seemed to be an act fraught with rebellion,
and hostile to the peace and unity of brethren, and the