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Trials for heresy.—Course as to slavery heresies.—Course of
the Methodist Church.—Course of the Presbyterian Church,
before the division.—Course of the Old School body.—Course
of the New School body.—Results.—Congregationalists.—Albany
convention.—Home Missionary Society.—The protesting
power.—Practical workings of the general system.—Pleas for
inaction.—Appeal to the church.