Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1846-05-15

strumental In establishing the various reforms
in liberality and toleration, had all been
frightened by the outcry universally raised
against every such innovationu upon long o..
tlblished customs, the moral world would
this day have been as completely a dreary
desert, as the Earth would have been if every
liant, shrub, and tree, eighteen hundred years
ago, had borne each a shell to encasc its own
seeds, s%uficient to prevent any one of them
from bursting forth.
1t is no new thing for Comeouters to bs
discouraged and opposed by many of the most
able and ingenious writer's of the ages in
which they live. l presume this will be
the case for ages yet to IN 1t has Been
in this way that reformers have found their
" greatest enemies to be those of their W
household" Jesus Christ wss himself a
Comeouter from the Jewish Church and Jew
ish customs; he having been brought up and
educated in both. His immediate successors,
the Apostles, also taughtand practised Come
outerisn. Observe what Paul said in his
second epistle to the Corinthians, 9th chap,
lith 10 18TH verses" Be We not unequally
yoked together with unbelievers, for what
fellowship hath righteousness with unright.
eousness? what communion hath light with
darkness! what concord hath Christ with
Belial 7 or what part bath he that believe,h
with an infdel and what agreement hath
the temple of God with idolsl for ye are the
temples Of the living God ; as God hath said
| will dwell in them, and walk in them, and
| will be their God and they shall be my peo-
Pile. Wherefore come out from AMONG them'
and be we separate, saith the Lord, and touch
not the %unclean thing, and will receive you"
Yet incredible as it may seem 10 some,
in the blazing light of this 18th century,
when most Of the protesting denominations
in existence are rather holding back and hind
ering their members from remembering the
DISTINGUISHED millions "as in bonds with
them," some Of the loudest protesting aboli-
t~ionists of our land, can put forth such cola,
bleak, frosty sentiments as the following,
which are from the pen of the well known
B. b. Davis "Comeouterism, it appears to
me, is of all others the most feeble %instri-
mentllity for the promotion of moral REFORM"
Pardon me, friend Davis, for the additional
exposuse of having this reprinted (for l con-
TESS if a brother of mine were to pen such a
sentiment, | should want his head bathed in
cold water immediately lhave little doubt
that if this extract could be moderately we'll
authenticated, as coming from a protesting
reformer, some hundred years or so hence, it
might sell high as a curiosity for some mu-
scum. | have looked on with no little inten
est at the ideas advanced in the discussion
which called out this expression from friend
Davis; and friend Barnaby will pardon me,
| hope, for this apparent interference. 1 am
not fishing after a place in this controversy.
IeXpect here to leave it, as l am not much in
favor of set debates or discussions between
particular individuals; there is too much
temptation to look for argument rather than
truth. wish, if possible, to be instrumental
in finding where the truth is in this contro-
versy; being myself a voluntary comeoutef
from the s~ectarian establishment of the
Friends, I wish to know it, if l am myself
deceived, and deceiving others. And if our
friend B.. b. ID. is deceived and deceiving
others, | presume he would wish to know it.
| believe that both friends Davis and Barnaby.
as well as myself, nave been educated in the
order of the Friends Society, and hence we
must all concede that each one ought to know
something of its helping, as well as its hind
erins influences, if such it has.
One more extract. Ia speaking of friend
Barnaby, brother Davis says: "No society
whose members do no more than he did while
a member of Friends, to promote the reforms,
will take a single step in such a work." l
say amen to that sentiment. The gallery in
huence is sufficient to keep every one silent
and dum6 whilst they sit under it, and sub
init to it; and to oppose is only to prepare
the way tor being cast out with the disgrace
of disouunmenr and this, few are prepared to
endure. Here is an argument speaking in
tones like peals Of the loudest thunder in be-
half of coming ont from under an influence
SO strong and eUii in its nature, as to prevent
even a James Barnaby from doing any thing
for the suffering and the dumb. Are there
not hundreds of others silently spending a
precious life under that strong " Sit sGl In