Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-11-06

the thought of going TO Judgment, rioting on
the unpaid labor of the latherless, the widow,
and the stranger. He will rejoice when he
sees the extent to which Christians, engaged
in the same business, profess to be going to
heaven. And, f the Spirit of God should be
pleading with some oppressor to break the
chains and let his "littlc ones 90 free, what
Will be the effect, when our statistical reports
inform him, that the practice about which he
is permitting his mind TO be troubled, is no
bar to communion among the wisest aud best
men in one Of the largest denominations in
our land The command of the Savior is,
let your HgMi shine. But the General Assem-
bly, have had some mysterious obiecti in view,
when they commanded the churches to lei
their WickedncSS shine. 1t e~vinces Il bold de-
termination to sustain slavery. They have
proclaimed it on their minutes, that the testi-
mony against slavery, issued in 1918, dcclar-
ing it TO be utterly inconsistent WiM The hU
IF God, and totally irrecOncil2Je ,riM tie spir-
ii Gn3 principles IF the gospel, as interpreted
by them, accJrds with their own decision in
1915, which makes it a sin, so entirely harm
less and %venial, that it was no bar to com-
munlon with ".Jesus Christ and his inspired
ApoStles!' We need not be told, that, at
the last meeting, our commissioners were per-
united to speak out their sentiments. The
amount OF it is, that for once they did not
take from them u right which the assembled
Savior has guaranteed to the humblest officer
in the house of God, and one which no body
OF men can take away, but at the risk Of in
curing the divine displeasurc. And it is to
be feared, that this rare condescension will be
considered as imposing a lasting obligation
to silence and submission. 1t is a humilia-
ting fact, that we have been so long familiar
with appeals TO the Scriptures, and other eff
forts in that body, to defend those who are
degrading and plundering millions of men
and women and little children, that we are
beginning to feel patient and thankful, if our
own commissioners are permitted to escape.
But the repose of the oppressor will not be
disturbed next year. They have adjourned
to meet in one of those slave regions, where
the man, who opens his mouth against the
sin OF slave-holding, must make up lis mind
TO abide the consequences.
In the mean time, the Synod of Cincin-
natl are far gone from the ground they once
occupied. They have repented of their refu-
sal to receive a minister because he had sold
a woman; of their forbidding one of their
churches to call minister from another
State, because he was a stakeholder; of their
proclamation 10 the South, that those who
wish TO be received, must wash their hands
of this iniquity Of their day of fasting, on
account of this sin; of their earnest exhorta-
ton to the people under their care, to assem-
BILE in their respective churches, and cry
lhighniy 10 uod LOT forgiveness ana piead
WIN nlIl 70 aver iloul US us "la'n' as an
their repentance and prayers for pardon, they
have, within the last two years, received a
his rocantiog nnhiicIv ,vnrved !, th,, he had
hnurht soIJ ',dpd bnld human Lein1s as slaves,
onJ ,ba, ba thon boIi man when, ho would
nrohoLIv coll frbrsa S 70 tbo;r G,tnra oonrsn
,LoT - sa,,IaI DO nrin,;nIa Jb,s ,La
ch;rchos Of tLn Son,b prn infar,noJ hat II
INV ono io u],;iIior ~ ioavo lie sI,vas in Tho
haynds Of tho nversoor and Soel, q renion
where he can live on The nains Of onnression'
rnJistrrbed NV ,Ie crins 5Snd ,oors IF the on,
messed The Jooor of SynoJ stands onen and.
hat h.. NAV c,IcrI,te ON the 1overnnant and
J;ScinIinn Of ,be Cbmrch heinG emnIoyed. not
to bring him to repentance of his sin, but to
ueleiu MN Us d o'o'act III Soou S'dhuihg'-
~ 70 P"lhlully nianile9t' la' ~ ~
nlodi'' HnlPlo9eu uuiiiS d Pe'Iou VI lloii 'h
,eeH u '"erly-h'u Se"iS Pao'' inuuoo y
oouIeS u cnah9e 'neil ooulSo, nas1 oeGn y
only u"Hv"n'hs, Dut M oeIn nlHn Mo ~
ples, by way of apology, which are subver-
sive Of the Scriptures and the declared faith
of the Presbyterian Church: Therefore
m.. &c,
heSo'pe", nat tnis SESSION canlo'' III iu'
lure, Iloiu WIN 'ne ueheiIi As,
somoly' or the oynou Oh Clnc'hnau' III they
repent anu oflhS ioI'n ilui's worthy vi It,
Pentahce'
And, in the language of the Preshytery o.
Chillicothe, in 1899, they further declare
'that they cannot hold fellowship with any
Presbytery, Synod, or other ecclesiastical
body, while it tolerates, under its jurlsdic
ton, either the sin OF slaveholdlng, or the
justification OF the sin OF slavehoiding' and
especlaiIy, the Jusuncalloh oil IL ny. appear tt