The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1839-02-23

no means connneu 10 slave dealers and slave OWL
ers in the United States and the West indies
Nor is this contempt cherished towards the un-
happy sons of Africa only. Go to any part of
the heather world and you will find the same
feeling of contempt manifested by many from
christian lands. do fully believe that many
man in the United States, probably many pro-
lessed christian, is greatly deceived in respect to
his kind feelings towards the heather. The poor,
degraded African, whom he sees daily, and on
whose neck, it may be, he has firmly placed his
feet, he regards with feelings of scorn-but the
Sandwich Islander, whom he has never seer but
of whom he may have read some interesting &C.
count, he can love. For his temporal and eternal
interests he can pray and labor. So of the heath
en- in other countries. Now hesitate not to say
that all this pity has its origin in consummate ig
norance of the state of the heathen He who
will not labor for the heather at his own door, who
feels contempt for men in his own neighborhood,
on account of their ignorance, degradation and
color, would cherish and exhibit the same feel
ings towards the heather, the world over, were
he brought into contact with them.
| But this contempt for men on account Of their
imbecility and color, your brethren at the Sand
witch Islands regard as the very opposite of the
spirit of Christ, and of the true spirit of missions
This we have published in the shape of resolu-
ton; of course we wish to have it known where
we are known. Need labor to prove the COR
recness of this sentiments surely need not
Who does not know that our blessed Lord regard
ed with special favor the poor, the degraded, the
down-trodden? The spirit of the lord is upon
me- because he has anointed me to preach the
gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the
broken-hearted to preach deliverance to the cap
tive and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at
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| 49, And what comment on this interesting
passage was the entire life of our Lord ! Now,
can they claim spirit akin to his, who cherish
contempt for any class of men, because they
are degraded, ignorant, or are gully of skin
not coored like their own?' The supposition is
reproachfu to the name of Christ. The man
who cherishes this feeling of contempt for his
fellow-men, let his professions be what they may,
has no more affinity with the spirit of the Lord
Jesus Christ, than the proudest Pharisee that ev-
er mouthed the heavens, or poured scorn on his
Lord because he received sinners and ate with
them. would as earnestly pray that the church
might be relieved from the loathsome incumbrance
of men who scorn the degraded and colored a.
round them, as would that she might not fellow
ship the drunkard and the profane! And can men
of this stamp breathe the spirit of missions2 I'M
possible! 1t matters not how much they talk on
the subject, nor how many prayers they may
make, nor how literally they may contribute to
the cause of missions. In the estimation of Him
who is of purer eyes than to behold iniquity, all
these amount to nothing. / correct myself; they
amount to this-show the Observation-Disclosures Of
their professions, just as the garnishing of the
tombs Of the prophets showed the hypocrisy of
the Jews. He who not only does not love- bu;
who scorns his brother whom he hath seen, be-
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heather, certainly no less degraded, and colored
also, whom he hath not seen? Nothing more
absurd can be imagined Let all who cherish
feelings of scorn for the heather among you, by
chasing them with the brute creation, or who can
see them in bondage without an effort to relieve
them, or who themselves treat their fellows as
property cease at once to claim possession of the
missionary spirit. God may possibly make use of
their property-even the ill-gotten gains of those
who oWm their fellow-men; though should as
soon think that the golden wedge and shekels of
Achan could have been accepted, as the oherin gs
of these men, However this may be, it is certain
that they will never be accepted of their Judge,
unless speedy and hearty repentance turn a.
way the anger of Him who has styled himself the
'Avenger of the oppressed He that loveth not
his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love
god whom he hath not seen? And this COM
mandment have we from him, that he who oveth
God, should love his brother also. Inasmush as
we did it not unto one of the least of these, We
did it not unto me- Nothing, my brother, more
shocks me than the attitude which see is taken
by men of high standing, and lofty pretensions
to devoted piety, among you men who write let
tiers on revivas-in fine, men who are regarded
as companions in the cause of Christ Why, &C.
cording to the reports of editors who advocate
these men, they can spit out unmeasured scorn on
the poor slaves among you, and go directly to the
meeting, and plead in behalf of the
heather. How must the blessed Jesus be moved
by their eloquence-at their thrilling appeals in
behalf of those for whom he died
But the subject is too serious for sarcastic re-
mark-'tis awful profanity, as the day of God
will show. The Lord save the conductors of
missions from the guilt and danger of fattering
men of this character, lest they should withdraw
their infuence-no longer advocate the cause OF
missions, no longer labor to secure the contribu-
lions of oppressors in your land to break the chains
from the oppressed in other lands. Such are the
feelings of one of your brethren at the Sandwich
Islands; | am confident that they are the feelings
Of nearly all, though am not authorized to speak
on their hehalf l am happy however, to say to
you that the monthly concert Of prayer for the en-
slaved is observed at most if not all our stations