Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-04-10

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their worship is not too sacred to be suspend
ed to 90 and extinguish the fire, but it is en-
tirely too sacred to be left to attend to the
calls of 100000 Of slaves.
Now my friends, such is the religious
church in this community contrast it with
ourselves-are you not satisfied that they are
destitute of principle.
Look at our course, is it inGdel, or is it
Christian! Tell me my brother the momen
of my life that l have not acted for the slave
as if it were my dearest friend that was in
bonds. Tell us of that time and place that
we have done differently from what we would
have done had our dearest connexions in life
been in slavery. Tell me of asingle measure
we have adopted or one which we have left
untried, which we would not have done, had
our dearest friends been in chains. ] can an
swer before the Judge of quick and dead, that
il | had been the slave and he been free, l
should have desired him TO do for inc as |
have done for him.
l have never permitted myself to withhold
a single effort, which l have believed would
contribute 10 his benefit, nor have taken the
first step which did not appear to Inc to be
right and proper. You may ask me why |
did not 70 to the south. III believed it my duty
to do so | should not finch | should GO, not
as Torrey did, but with an open profession
that my business is to free the slave. And
when called on to be tried before the court
of Baltimore, | would tell them that | could
not consent to acknowledge the cradle plum
could prosecute the cause of the slave there,
| should 90 with pleasure. But Christ says
when they prosecute US in one city, fee unto
another. Nay, he tells us to do that which,
all things considered, will do best to free our
countrymen from chains.
Now my friends, it is Of no use for us to
parley lon. about what is right-it is easily
understood if We desire to know it. Foster
here remarked that he would read a passage
from Scripture which would show how we
were to be judged, and that it was his aim to
induce all to be prepared to stand the test
which was here laid down. 1t would be seen
that we would not be asked whe ther we be-
longed to a church-whether we had been
sprinkled, or whether we wore broad brimmed
hats and said thee and thou. He then read
the latter part of the 25th chapter of Matthew,
commencing at the 3lst verse, comment
ing upon it as he proceeded.
"Then shall he say also unto them on the
left hand, depart from me, ye cursed, into
everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and
his angels. For was an hungored and We
gave me no meat; | was thirsty and ye gave
me no drink; | was a stranger and We took
me not in; naked and ye clothed me not
sick and in prison and We visited me not"
"Then shall they also answer him, saying,
Lord, when saw we thee an, hungered, or a.
thirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, OF In
prison and did not minister unto thee ~
"Then shall he answer them saying verify
l say unto you, inasmuch as ye did ii not unic
one Of the least Of these, ye did il no. unto nae.
And these shall goaway into everlasting pun.
ishment: but the righteous into life eternal
He made an application of these to the case
Of the slave in the great prison house of bon.
dage, and the fugitive a stranger, hungry and
part naked as he wendell his way to Canada.
Now my friends, said he, if Christianity
be not a fable, is not Jesus Christ to all in.
A., tents and purposes in slavery to day in the
pe:son Of his followersl And he will trea,
us precisely the same way in the day of iudg-
ment for our treatment of The slave, as if il
were him that was in person in slavery. II
: we fail then to discharge our duty toward the
pining slave, which is a failure to do those
, things to him, where Christ has gone we can
never go.
If you had a daughter in slavery, and would
exert yourself to procure her release, you
, would thereby give evidence to the world,
that you care less for Christianity than fol
that daughter of yours, unless you manifest
a similar regard for the slaves now in bonds.
And as you close your doors and turn your
back upon the cause Of the slave, you may
expect the unwelcome sentence, "depari
from me we cursed into everlasting punish
ment."
Now as a friend and a brother, as a lover
of your souls, | ask you to examine well
your course. Is Christianity in those scots :
There is mi n Sin1la fhinr vou do tnern which