NO COLOR-LINE IN CLEVELAND.
The Methodist General Conference and the hotels in Cleveland, O., deserve great credit--the hotels for according to all delegates, regardless of color, equal accommodations, and the Conference for its hearty indorsement of their action. If this greatest gathering of the largest Protestant church in America had nothing else to do, it might go with its grand meeting from city to city securing this recognition of the brotherhood of man. It is ardently hoped that the generous and[pg 179] liberal-minded hotel keepers in Cleveland may not "backslide," and that if any single colored delegate, clerical or lay, should come alone to Cleveland, even before the close of the "six months' probation," he might not find the door closed against him.
The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church may be equally useful at its meeting in Saratoga in preaching this same gospel of the brotherhood of man, and in this case, too, permanency is very desirable, and it is hoped, therefore, that in this event there may be the illustration of the good old Presbyterian doctrine of the "perseverance of the saints."