Remarks Made in the Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of South Carolina

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Excerpt from Remarks Made in the Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of South Carolina: February 18th, 1842, On a Proposed Amendment of the 3d, Section of Article III. Of the Constitution, Giving the Missionaries, &C., A Right to Vote on "Matters" Not "Involving the Temporal Concerns of the Churches, " Art. III. Section 3. "Every other Clergyman of the Church, being a Missionary, officiating under the sanction of the Ecclesiastical authority of the Diocese, or being a Chaplain in the Army or Navy of the United States, or in any benevolent or other public institution, or being an Instructor of youth in any Seminary of learning, constituted by civil or Ecclesiastical authority in this Diocese, or being prevented by age and infirmities from exercising his clerical functions, shall be entitled to all the privileges of a member of this Convention, with the exception of the right to vote." Proposed Amendment. "Sec. 3. Every Clergyman of the Church, being a Missionary, officiating under the sanction of the. Ecclesiastical authority of the Diocese, or a Chaplain in any benevolent or other public institution, shall be entitled to all the privileges of a member of this Convention, with the exception of the right to vote in matters involving the temporal concerns of the Churches. The provisions of the second section of this article shall also apply to the preceding part of this section. Every other Clergyman being an Instructor of youth in any Seminary of learning, constituted by civil or Ecclesiastical authority in this Diocese, or a Chaplain in the Army or Navy of the United States, or being prevented by age and infirmities from exercising his clerical functions, shall be entitled to all the privileges of a member of this Convention, with the exception of the right to vote." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.