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

numerous and noisy than here a Methodist
meeting down there is e perfect 6edlam. A
friend lately told me they had revivals sweep
ing over the whole country there they were
much more powerful than at the north. But
is this Christianity! Christianity, as l said,
is lore. And what is the law of love! To-
ward God it is this, Thou shalt love him
with all thy heart" &c. He who does not
love God, then, is no Christian. And what
is the Legitimate fruit of love to God 1t is
not to help him, because we cannot do it he
wants none of our help, neither our songs
nor our praises, nor our smoking sacrifices.
We talk of the worship of God, just as
though we could do him good. If we can
do good to ourselves, very well but we can
not benefit God. What grows legitimately
out of love to God Is it not obedience.
What evidence have you that / love a per-
son! Why, that I help him, or that ! try to
please him. If / cannot do the first, | can
do the last; and if l love God with all my
heart, then will l sacrifice everything to please
him. Does not the mother rob herself to
give to her child ! does she not rob her own
lips to hand to her little girl the sweetmeats
that were given her by a friend When we
love a being more than ourselves, we will do
all in our power to please him. Show me d
man that does cheerfully all that God re-
quires, and | will show you a Christian on
the other hand, when you see one who does
not what God requires of him, you may he
assured he will never go to heaven without
regeneration. God says, Go and do that
thing-the Christian goes, but the inhdsl
says, l won't 60.
Said a man to me to-day, "Non-resistance
is right; no doubt but God teaches it but l
cannot practice Tiny property might BIO
taken" Well, then l say to you, you ara not
a Christian. How do you know that l love
f the companion of my bosom, but by my do
ing every thing that l can to please her, that
is innocent; and as soon as l do that which
pleases myself above her, it is evidence that
/ do not love her.
The Christian never has any will of his
own his words are, "Lord, what wilt thou
""'S hS ~ anu IL bOu Calls YOU 10
the South, you will have no hesitation TO 90
there you will not hesitate when he calls
you out to face the mob. The only question
with you is, does God require it! Tell me
that God requires me to 90 to the stake, and
you could not keep me from il, if | am a
Christian. My friend could not be a non.
resistant, for fear his goods would be taken.
If he is a Christian, would he not - rejoice
in the spelling of goods - And as tho moth
er takes even the sweetmeats from her lips
and gives to her child, so if our goods be
taken by performing our duty, we give that
which God requires. This is the constant
and inevitable fruit of supreme love to God.
Now what is the rule of love to man -
That which we owe to God is supreme, il is
paramount to that to man. The law of love
to man is that measure with which we love
ourselves. As you love yourself, that much
you must love your neighbor. So that every
member Of the human family must share
equally the benefits of Providence. Do you
love life Then be as DESTROYS that your
brother should enjoy it as yourself.
Do you love TO crafty your appetite !
Then be as anxious that he should be thus
f gratiiad as yourself. You are to be impair
= tial, and he who does not love his brother as
himself is no Christian. 1t is in vain for
you TO 90 to meeting to worship God every
Sabbath, if you do not love your neighbor as
yourself. Your relation to your neighbor is
e different from that to your God. You can
not love your ~neighber without helping him.
| have shown you the rule of love now
It what is the rule of help 1t is to do to him
II as you would have him do to you. This is
Christianity, and nothing short Of it is Chris
ID tianity. That man then is no Christian who
does not fulfill these requisitions if his intel
10 ligence enables him to judge. This being
Christianity, nothing will answer as a sub
m stitute for it. You must come up strictly to
Id it-God is no compromiser. You mus
come to his terms, which are 10 love God
at with all your heart, and your neighbor az
ref yourself; and a compliance with these is
"a the only chance of salvation for you in thi'
-, life, and in that which is to come. Are yol
rel miserable nowl If SO, it il the absence o
love that makes you so. If you obtain peac
&c il is, by getting possession Of love. for tina