Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-12-18

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The abolitionists of this country will see
in the above ~glimpses of true christianity
of religion pure and undefled before God
the Father, which consists in visiting the
widow and fatheless in their Affections, and
in keeping oneself unspotiod from the world.
They will discover in them the hated doc
trines and principles of Garrisoniau abolition
ism, of Garrisonian nfdelity--infdelity to
hoary headed guilt, but fidelity to God, and
his suffering poor.
Could the Priest and the Levite convert
the man who had fallen among thieves to
their religion, while he was suffering, lying
there half dead, and they needed not his suf-
fering, or extended to him the hand of mer-
cy? Or, when he had learned that their re-
ligion had neither humanity in it, or the love
of God, could they expect to convert him.
after his recovery, to that religion, as long as
he had any feeling Of humanity or mercy,
and the love of God in his soul!
No, verify the suffering world needs not such
Priests and Scribes to convert it. These
slaveholding Bishops, the pro-slavcry priests,
these woman whippcrs, &c. &c., if they
could convert the world to their religion,
they would by so doing drive what little hu-
manity and love of God-what little christi
anity there is in it, out of the world.
Then would
"Murder bare his arm, and rampant war
NoEa HE foil J,,no,e e. L., -, o,-s
Then would
''Peace and m ercy, banished from The plain,
Spring on the viewless winds to heaven
again.
The world wants not such to convert it
because they are murderous in their DISPOSE
tions, and the antag %onists Of christianity in
their position. But it is the hated Garriso-
MAN, the peace, the temperance, and the NOR
al reform advocate, who, like the good Sa-
marian, are doing what the Methodist Priest
and the Presbyterian Levite will not do.
Who relieve the sufferings of the afflicted 2
Who are laboring to feed the hungry, clothe
the naked, visit the sick and afflicted, to ed
ucate the neglected classes, give the Bible to
the slave from whom it is withheld by NJ. T..
Bishops, and Baptist D.. D's? Who are try
ing to arrest the desolating progress of war,
and are pleading the cause of the oppressed!
Yes while the pro-slavery churches, the Nj.
+. church, the Presbyterian church, the Pro-
testant Episcopal church, &C., are neglect
ing this work, the abolition-the peace-the
tamnarauoo apH tho rnora1 roEnrn cooiafr arr
doing this work, and the practical christiani-
tJ of the land is principally embodied in
those four movements. And because they
are doing the work that christianity requires
do mitrsd priests and pro-slavcry infde
churches assail and malign them.
We wonld ask the question, do we look to
the churches to abolish slavery, to rescue
men and women from a condition worse than
death! No, we look not to these to do tn is
work, for while a few of the smlller church,
es in the land are our coadiutors, in the work
of abolishing slavery, all Of the large church.
es in the country are the most fatal enemies
the anti-slavery cause has to encounter.
Would we stay the ravages of war and ar
rest its desolating progress, do we look tc
the churches to move forward in so righteous
a causel No but we see in them a malig.
nant foe to the peace society. Do we look
for them 10 rescue the inebriate from the gut
ter? verify, no: but we go 10 the temperance
society and if an attempt is made to redeem
the wretched victim of pollution, and restore
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hearted parents, do those who go on thit
message of mercy look to the church ior aid
No too often is the fallen one the victim o
those who minister at her affairs, and rebuifs
instead of sympathy, are received from tina
source and the moral reform society is tn
instumentality sought for to accomplish thit
object.
Is there any hope that the editor Of tn
Advocate will be guided by what he ha
seen to be the truth, and become an instru
ment of good, instead of evil? We fear tina
there is none. Listen to what he has to 50
in the same editorial
As to Garrison and his party, it is yer
reasonable to suppose that their hostility I
the Alliance is part and parcel OF their avoW
ed hostility to the Christian Church, and
the measures which they think proper to TAX
for its overthrow.
This is false, wicked and Malignant
Garrison and his friends opposed the All
ance, because it entered into a compromise
or rather yielded to Shareholders all they ash
ed. Garrison and his friends are hostile t
no Christian church Sit is true they expos
the hypocrisy of the slayeholding churche.
and are trying to overthrow it. They den
that it is a Christian church-they kno,
that sit is a child of the devil, and his wor
il does" Even the unconverted who hav
the teachings of Jesus, and examines tn
practice of the slaveholding churches, ca