Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-08-21

tain What shall the missionaries do! Christ
says ouch characters cannol be my disciples. But
expediency says this is a fine young man, very
LIBERAL and may do much to bring tho whole ma
ton under the influence of the gospel; and he will
be powerful enemy, if we offend him. True, he
ts on retaining his views, and will not liberate
his slaves, even those whom God has called by his
grace, but Abraham had two wives, and had
number of servants. And he was a very good man.
The missionaries quit the point, and like king
Saul, force themselves, and offer the sacrifice UNI
called of God. Slavery is baptized, and taken in
to the missionary church. Angels weep, but dew
lis smile. Other churches are multiplied through
the nation, and all allow polygamy and the hold
ing ocslaves. Their salt has lost its SAVIOR, and is
good for nothing. Their light is placed under
bushel5t and can have no effect on the surround
Indebtedness. All their moral power is gone. The
sins of polygamy and slavery are identified with
the church and the mission. Others see their evil
works and are embolden in sin, and when reprov-
ed they flee to the horns Of the altar, and plead the
example of the church, under whose wings polyg-
amy and slavery repose usafoty Surely such
church can exert no influence against slavery in
the State, but must greatly promote that system
of oppression, and prove u bulwark to defend,
what God abhors.
! appeal now to all honest men 10 decide wheth-
err the antslavery churches in Burmah, or the pro-
slavery churches among the CherOkees, have best
followed the example of the apostolic churches.
And would with all seriousness appeal to the
| baorts IF oil ybo tho holU raln of InSIIa
Christ, which kind of church you wish to patron
ize, those that baptize heather slavery, and take
it into the church, OF those which wholly exclude
it from among them9 Speak yOur minds in love,
but with decision, and the time will soon come,
whom our holy religion will not be presented to
heather lands, as the patron of heather slavery,
allowing christians to Cypress their brethren for
whom Christ died. | do not ask those, who think
gain is goodness, what they will do in this case;
but do ask the humble followers of Christ, wheth-
err you will not come up to your duty, and let all
know that you cannot, and will not fellowship
heather idoatry, or heather slavehoding. Do
your duty, and christian churches in heather lands
will not be desecrated and disgraced by heather
slavery.
Hnow hasten to close my remarks, and respect
fully request all reasonable men to review with
care the question at issue and see if there be not
such evidence, as should satisfy every lover of
truth, that the holy apostles did at once extrpate
the system of Roman Slavery from among christ
ians And if this was the fact, let all who love a
pure gospel and pure church, go and do likewise.
"Behold the day cometh, that shall burn as an oy-
en-; and III tho proud, yea, and all that do wicked
ly, shall b stube, and the day that coIheth shall
burn them up saith tho Lord of Hosts that it shall
leave them neither root nor branch" Can slave
holders, them abide that solemn day? They and
their apoIogists, would do we'll to settle this i'm
porant question in season.
Here would observe, that the main question at
issue is this how did The apostles treat the system
of Roman SLAVERY? And should any man he disposed
to notice my remarks, hope they will fairly meet
the question, aud not try to slip in tho abstraction,
Slavery, the concrete Roman slqvery. That is
the question, aud it must be settled. | am tire e
score and fifteen years old, but hope God will al
ow me to see the day, when the foul aspersion Of
baptizing Roman slavery shall he rolled from the
apostles, and that the churches of our Lord Jesus
Christ will yet be convinced, that they cannot be
the salt of the earth and the light of the world,
ess they follow the example of the apostles, and
have no fellowship with the unfruitiul works OF
darkness. would thank the God of mercy, that
he has enabled me to bring this bject to close
and pray that my labor may not be in vain in the
Lord. KIAH BAYLEY.