so liberally disposed would depend on the adoption of some such plan as
that recommended by the committee as a _modus vivendi_ in the church on
earth. That is to say, if the colored saints were corraled by
themselves--if their convocations were separate from the convocations of
the white saints--if they were not admitted to the white circles of
celestial society as equal partakers of the privileges of the heavenly
kingdom--the Caucasian angels from Charleston might be willing to pass
their eternity in such a place.

It is very essential for them, therefore, to know whether there are in
fact any colored saints in heaven; and, if there are, whether the
divisions of the Father's house into "many mansions" admits of an
arrangement whereby the angelic brunettes may occupy one set of quarters
and the Charleston blondes another. Until these problems are solved to
their satisfaction, we do not see how our Christian friends of the chief
city of South Carolina can contemplate a future life with any degree of
equanimity. Their faith may be equal to the removal of mountains and
their virtues may entitle them to all the felicity of the spirits of
just men made perfect, but if it is the rule of the "happy land, far,
far away" that a black saint is just as good as a white one, how much
more rational it would be for them to prefer annihilation to
immortality.

_Brooklyn Daily Eagle._

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