The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1839-04-20
*The italics are by Mr.. Clay.
From the Friend of Man.
" Abolition binders RevivaIs I"

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From the Friend of Man.
"Abolition binders RevivaIs ~
IT'S Sunday evening-and have just returned
from meeting where | witnessed a scene around
which angels linger with delight-and which
causes loud anthems of joy to resound through all
Heaven, and which adds another refuaton to the
long list already adduced, to the base calumny in
serted this article, so often in the mouths of
pro slavery men and abolition haters. Mr.. AL
lens formerly Mr. Kirk's) church, as you know,
friend Goodell, is on North Market ST. in Albany,
and you know too, somewhat of the reputation of
that church for its spirituality-and that it has
maintained and still maintains the character of an
abolition church-and it has recently been said to
me by some of its members, tive are all abolition
lists in our church," and by the way, it is the
largest church by far as to numbers, there is in
the city. Their minister prays abolition, and
breaches it too-and so do the members; and this
forenoon, the minister preached from the text, Ex-
odus Ia Is. "And the Lord said unto Moses,
wherefore cryes thou unto me? Speak unto the
people that they go forward" From the text the
preacher illustrated most concusively the doctrine
that is alaoays safe and right, to obey God, even
though sea rolls its waves before us, we are to
go torcard-and though he requires an Abra-
ham to offer up an only son, there is to be no
shrinking, but to go ytoraoard When the Israel
ties were required to go round the walls of Jeri-
cho seven times, or when the prophet required Ma
aman to dip seven times in Jordan for his eprosy,
how naturally would the suggestion arise" what
good will these simple acts accomplish g" But
the command of God is-go toracord. And who
does not know in all these cases, the grand, the
triumphant results which followed obedience to
God, and what would have been the results of dis
obedience? who can tell? The principle was
brought to bear upon the obligation to sancfy the
Sabbath, in which the minister referred to the late
session of Congress upon the Lords day, by which
that body has provoked the judgments of the AL
mighty. He also applied it to our obligations to
go forward in the great benevolent causes-indeed
the text itself is sermon of reproof to all time
servers and expediency men, who choose to gov
ern themselves by mans wisdom rather than by
the wisdom of God Well, now to the point hint
ed at, at the commencement Of this sketch"
Under all the circumstances named above, could
any one suppose that continuous revival of reli-
glon is going on in this church. Yes Adolf
tionsts would say that would be the result, as a
matter of course. Anita bolitonists would say,
no; they would be looking and anxiousy expect
ing mot to say hoping) that the "peace and har-
mony of the church would be disturbed" by intro
fact p? Why, large number have been hopefully
converted to God, some hundred or two and
when, after service this evening, the minister, Mr.
Allen, invited those who had INDUCED hope re-
Gently, to rise up and walk into the next room,
perhaps one hundred rose, and thus separated
themselves from the congregation for religious adj
vice and instruction. And who were the subjects
of this work? They were the DID, the middle
aged and the young of both sexes and this is the
scene to which referred, as causing joy among
the celestial inhabitants, and it seemed as though
the bounding hearts of Christians too, who were
present, were full of joy unspeakable. So we see
that, so far from the caption of this article being
true, the reverse is the truth, that those who come
up unitedly to the help of the Lord in behalf of
the slave, against the mighty, are sure to expe-
rience the refreshing dews of divine grace. 1t is
said here, that this is the only church in the city
where any revival at all exists, and it is the only
church among the multitude in this city, where
the slaves cause is not fettered. In the other
Presbyterian and Dutch Reformed churches, his
cause is so dispsed that even notice cannot be
read for an anti-slavery meeting. No wonder
dearth reigns and that souls are not converted
and that nfdelity is strengthened. AS further
evidence of the truth of the position, have as
sumed in this article, would cite the fact as sta
ted in lions Watchman of March l6th which
have just received, in which it is stated that the
Congregational Church in Syracuse has shared
in glorious revival of late where there have
been one hundred and fifty or two hundred con-
verted- and the work still gong on. Now this
church because it sustains the holy cause of hui
mainly and unfolds its doors to the advocates of
the bleeding slave is sneeringly called in SYRIA
cuse, the negro church" How true it is that
" the Lord dwelleth with them that are of con-
rite spirit, and that trcmble at his word"
+. w. GOODWIN.
NATIONAL A. S. CoNvENTIoN.-In conformity
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