Did not Christ," said he, "die for these poor creatures as well as for any other, and is it not given in charge of the minister to gather his sheep into the fold ?"[2] [Footnote 1: Meade, _Sermons of Rev.Thos.Bacon_, pp.

31,32, 81, 90, 93, 95, 104, and 105.] [Footnote 2: _Ibid_., p.

104.] Another worker in this field was Bishop William Capers of the Methodist Episcopal Church of South Carolina.

A southerner to the manner born, he did not share the zeal of the antislavery men who would educate Negroes as a preparation for manumission.[1] Regarding the subject of abolition as one belonging to the State and entirely inappropriate to the Church, he denounced the principles of the religious abolitionists as originating in false philosophy.

Capers endeavored to prove that the relation of slave and master is authorized by the Holy Scriptures.