so generally discussed, and its criminality so thoroughly
exposed.

"2. That this Convention cannot but deeply deplore the fact,
that the continuance and prevalence of slavery are to be
attributed in a great degree to the countenance afforded by many
Christian churches, especially in the Western world, which have
not only withheld that public and emphatic testimony against the
crime which it deserves, but have retained in their communion,
without censure, those by whom it is notoriously perpetrated.

"3. That this Convention, while it disclaims the intention or
desire of dictating to Christian communities the terms of their
fellowship, respectfully submits that it is their incumbent duty
to separate from their communion all those persons who, after
they have been faithfully warned in the spirit of the gospel,
continue in the sin of enslaving their fellow-creatures, or
holding them in slavery--a sin, by the commission of which, with
whatever mitigating circumstances it may be attended in their
own particular instance, they give the support of their example
to the whole system of compulsory servitude, and the unutterable
horrors of the slave trade.

"4. That it be recommended to the Committee of the British and
Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, in the name of this Convention, to
furnish copies of the above resolutions to the ecclesiastical
authorities of the various Christian churches throughout the
world."