ECCLESIA IASTICAL.
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| At a meeting of the Litch6eld South Consocia. tion. October 15th 1s45, the following Report, on

 Toluntayy Withdra,cal or Abandonment ef Me

 Church, was unanimously adopted and ordered to be printed in the county paper: ., ns.

 The subject specially before your committee con- templates offences of long standing, consisting in manifest violation of covenant obligation in regard to worship. communion and pecuniary support ,and to subsequent request of the individual, that his relation to the church may be dissolved. The fol- lowing form in such cases may be adopted:

 "Whereas A. B., member of this church, not withstanding his solemn covenant, on his admission to it, that he would walk with this church and seek its edi6cation till regularly dismissed thereirom, has for rtimel withdrawn in a great measure from its worship, iorsaken its communion, and withheld pecuniafy aid from its support: And, whereas A. B. I now requests that his connection with this church may be dissolved. not that he may unite with some other church, but to return back 10 the world thus completing the evidence of his unftness to belong to the church, as saith the Apostle, They went out from us, but they were not of us; .or if they had been of US, they would no doubt have continu- ed with us, but they wen. out, that they might be made manifest, that they were not all of us.' 2 John ii. l9. Therefore, Voted, That the relation of A. B. to this church be and it is hereby dssolv- ed and that this act of accommodation be pub | licly read on - i2.-.i .e, .-.at .t3 .a>

 Your committee are aware that circumstances may differ in different cases; and where the above form does not exactly apply. it may be so altered as to suit them retaining still the substance The church. before coming to its final action, may or may not visit the individual by committee, as it shall think proper in the case, although in most instances Christian love might seem to require it.

 A voluntary withdrawal. as in the case contempla- ted, cuts off all ci0ins to such attention. Having publicly abandoned the church, the church may publicly abandon him or them, declaring as the A. pos,lc in effect did. They are nof ef as, Aud the church may do this independent of any request on their part, that their relation to the church may be dissolved. A simple act of dissolution. without noticing the delinquency of the individual. would fail to sustain the dignity of the church. and to guard against multiplication of like requests The above action, it is conceived, will sufficiently secure both these objects, and preserve healthy state of the church, tending alike to its purity and peace. rf Iseef7f '-4 @e,ta ...s -.1... z