Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-04-03

IFS shrine. Two clerks were kept constantly
employed in recording the miracles It
wrought"
And in view Of the whole, Mr.. Hamlin
then upbraids the Episcopal Church for at
tempting just what the Board and its mission
aries had all along been actually doing. His
language Isl
alt is with this church, that the Episcopal
church of the United Suites is to 90 forth in
loving union, TO subdue Mohaminedanism.
Judaism, and idolatry' And upon the delu-
ded members of this church. it thinks il i'm
portant to enforce the doctrine Of implicit obe-
dience to their bishops-ohedicnce TO those
who cause the name of Christ to be blasphen-
ed among the Gentiles, and who compel Mo-
hammedans to speak in honest indignation
against Christianity and its idols. Can anv
enlightened Christian do less than to pro,es,
on every proper occasion, that his is not Chris
tidniiy?
Nor is even this the end of The matter. In
the year 1899, the Rev. J. d. Paxton,a Pes
byterian minister in good standing, then re-
Gently returned from a visit to the Mediterr,-
mean, in a letter addressed 10 DIR. Andersen
through the Louisville (Ky.) Protestant and
Herald, said -
"There are at Beyroot persons, who for
years have given hopeful evidence of pietv
and more recently others have protested con.
version and been baptized /; but Of these when
l left. none wero members of the mission
church. They were indeed allowed to com.
mune with the missionaries, and the mission
aries took a kind of oversight of them but
they were not admitted as members. They
alleged that they could not in conscience re-
main in the Greek church. They have mani
tested a great concern to be in the mission
church, or to be organized into a scriptur.I
church by themselves, but neither request
has been granted, The plan is to keen them
in the corrupt churches in which thew were
raised. But as they declare they cannot in
conscience remain in those churches-tbev
cannot conform to their rites without commit
ting the sin of ~idolatry. nor have fellowship
with those churches without having fellow
ship with idolaters, they are considered as in
no church-and as in these countries and
among these communities, it is considered as
greatly dlsgraceful to be out of tho church,
1t must be and is most trying to these persons
TO be with their families thus situated
While 1t must have a damping effect on the
zeal OF those converts, and does them a man.
iffst injustice, it must have discouraging
effect on others, whose minds may be dissat-
S'HNa ''N'h Wv VI "utCH HI
are surrounded. = = The great benefit aris-
ing from having a pure church exemplifying
living Christianity is lost. Now a pure spi-
ritual church connected with a plain and bold
exhibition of the gospel in all its bearings, is
one of the most powerful means of grace that
God has given TO man. But this most i'm
portant benefit, is nearly, if not wholly lost
on the present plan. The church was to be
the light of the world-a city set on a hill.
The sapping and mining plan reverses the
matter, and keeps a pure church as much as
may be out of sight"
Such then is the position of the Board and
such its methods of propagating the Gospel.
In heather communities, where no churches
are, they are eager to erect them and soon
er than come into direct and uncompromising
collision with the slavery, oppression, caste,
or polygamy that prevail, they are ready to
give those IN the persons of supposed con-
verts, an easy and early admission to the
church, as the better way to guard the con-
verts and correct their sins. In nominally
Christian communities, the same temporiz-
ing policy dictates the opposite proceeding.
There, this earnest care to have the converts
separate from old relations and associations,
and especially under the eye and influence of
the missionary, lest temptation be too strong,
and as the better way Of correcting remaining
error and sin, is all evaporated. Though the
prevailing error and %iniquiiy be idolatry itself
in the name of Christ, and Christ be bias
phemed on account of it among the Gentiles,
and converts give undoubted evidence of pi-
ETY., and cannot in conscience remain longer
in fellowship with such corruption. and ask
to be admitted to the Mission church, or be
organized in scriptural churches of their own,
still, sooner than come in collision with it.
such converts are for years denied their rea-
sonable and scriptural request; and are thrust
back, in violation of their Christian con-
science, into the midst of this il olatry, in all
its revolving forms, or driven to the disgrace
of coming out into the wide world without
any regular church relations whatever. Yes,
not only do the missionaries themselves for
bear direct collision with these substitutes for
the gospel, but when men have been enlight-
ened by the truth and spirit of God, and beg
10 be separate from them, the missionaries
reject their cry, and shut them up for years
together, to the one alternative of Come-out-
ism, where Come-outism is deepest disgrace,
or conformity, where conformity is the prac-
tice or fellowship of ~idolatry.
After commenting at some length upon the
plan adopted by the Board for epangeEsing
the heather, and showing that the course it
has pursued in relation to them is anti-scrip-
tural, contrary to church discipline, &C., the
address goes on to say:
"Talk not here of difficulties. Have we
to learn tia. We are y obey ohhst-so CON