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

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strance is needed, she saves both herself and
the Assembly but if her renonstrance is
rejected, and the sin persisted in, and that
too obviously and purposely, for many years,
there " no alternative but TO dissolve The con-
n%ection, it she would preserve herself pure.
III 1.-The. General Assembly ,uiR run upon the
shoals and quicksauds of sin and discipline
shlu offences, then the Presbytery is bound
TO sever the cords that bind them together,
and save herself from spiritual slripwreek p!
No, sir, protests cannot save you, while you
continue this unhofy alliance. In vain is it
urged by the counsel for the prosecution, that
this P~resbytery spoke out against the sin of
slaveholding three years ago. What avails
this crying out against the sin, while you
continue to walk in fellowship and christian
connection with the %sinnerl OF what avail
is IT, to declare against adultery, and yet take
ihe adulteTer into communion and fellow
shipl Does the declaration clear us from
guilt No, sir, it but proclaims our guilt
with trumpet tongue. To declare against a
sin which we tolerate and fellowship, is but
TO write hypocrfte upon our own foreheads.
And so reasons the Apostle" Thou that
preachest a man should not steal, dost thou
steal Thou that sayest a man should not
commit adultery, dost thou commit a adultery :
Thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit
sacrllege ?' Therefore thou art ineAcusa-
BILE, q man! whatsoever thou art, that iudg-
est, for wherein thou judgest another, thou
eondemnest myself; for thou that judgest
doest the same things"
If slaveholding is such IA wrong as we
have described, and if, as we bave shown,
this Presbytery is in fellowship with it, then
1t is our first and most imperious duty, to
leave the Presbytery. Nor, in refusing to
walk in this connection, do we violate VOWS,
either expressed or implied. The counsel
has descanted upon my "ordination VOWS"
as though ! had bound myself to follow the
teachings and practices of this Presbytery,
however anti-scriptural and sinful they might
be. Can it be, sir, that we have entered into
any such unholy contract! "Have we made
a covenant with death, and with he'll are we
at agreement :" Ii so, it is high time this
connection was dissolved for God hath said
''your covenant with death shall be disan-
nulled, and your agreement with hell shall
not stand" The counsel has read and re-
read before you my vow of license. And
UAy has he read them Because, sir, that
in them the word "peace" occurs before the
word purity" When he came to the word
purity" suddenly he became silent. |
Sdilou uPOH nm W Iedu Oh, put he would not
proceed. Why the learned and able counsel
had such a dread of so small u word, | shall
leave him to explain. And now, sir, what
says my ordination VOW upon this point
This is what it says-"You promise to be
Jealous and faithful in maintaining the truths
Of The gospel, and the purity and peace of the
church, whaterer persecution or opposition MAJ
arise unto you on that account" 1t SAYS lust
what the word of God does, that 60 the wis
dom that is from above is first pure, then
peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated,
JuH Of mercy and good fruits, WITHOUT PAR
TALLY and WITHOUT HYPOCRISY" To this
yow, we subscribe fully and heartily and
tits In the faithful execution of it, that we
NOW leave the Presbytery of Onondaga, 10
walk with it no more while its connection
with s~laveholding remains.
The counsel has read to you the fourth VOW
OF ordination, where he claims that | prom
lsed subsection to my brethren. The whole
VOW reads thus: you promise Subsection
TO your brethren in the Lord" Yes, sir, in
the Lord, not in sin, nor in a slavehold-
ing christianity +; but only sin the Lord.'
When they ask me to submit 10 a sinful ar
rangement, then | am bound to refuse ODE
dlence, and throw myself upon the vow |
have just repeated, in which | promise " to
be Jealous and faithful in maintaining the
truths Of The gospel" at any hazard of "per-
secutlon or opposition" Here, a f%earfully
strange doctrine is coming into acceptance.
with the ministry of this age. We are
taught, that our ministerial character is to be
maintained, at the expense of our Christian
character; that the Christian is TO be lost In
The eceleslastic; and ecclesiastical decisions
10 be received with unhcsitating obedience.
SIT, II these are true doctrines, we shall do
well to hasten penitently and obsequiously
TO mother Rome, rebuild her demolished and
dilapidated affairs, repeople her nunneries,
aud cast our Professionalism to the moles ard
to the bats" But if these are false doc
lrines, and the Presbytery calls on me to
sustain a pro-slavery relation, then am
bound both by my christian and my ''ordina-
ton VOWS" TO refuse obedience to its com.
mands. Hence, leaving this presbytcrv.
respectfully and peacefully, is a virtue, a duty,
winch, may heaven grant, my brethren, YOU
may all perform, rather than remain in chris
l.an connection with the Southern abomina-
IONS, That are perPetrated within the pale Of
the Presbyterian church.
Z. 4. TORREY.