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

alone will restore peace 10 your soul, and to
get this is the only chance for you OF ! to
obtain happiness. And wherever there is
love and peace and happiness-whoreVer the
love of God rules there ie heaven. Where
He rules, every one loves his neighbor as
himself. Wherever God rules, there is heav-
en- as wherever Queen Victoria rules. there
is the domain of Great Britain and as Vic
toria protects her subjects within the juris-
diction of her power, so does God with out
stretched arm protect those who come with
in the sphere of his rule. And where is
hell I 1t is every part Of the universe where
God does not reign. 1t is hell because God
does not reign there. And who is in hell !
That being over whom God does not reign
is in hell, and there he will remain.
These are not localities, but states of mind.
That man who does not violate the law Of
mind, that / have laid down, is a saint in
heaven and there he will remain until he
violates that law. So he who violates that
law will remain in hell till he submits to that
principle /; and where that principle prevails
there can be nothing but happiness.
Now w can find where We stand. We
are called infdols. How is it to be tested I
Is there a man who will give a different def
milton of Christianity? Tell me what Christ
taught but love. Do you find him perform
ing external rites and ceremonies Never.
1t was said Of him, he went about c%ontinu-
ally doing good. Did he tell of monthly
concerts of great missionary operations
On the other hand, did he not point you to
tho starving multitudesl Was his life not
one Of faith and good works. Look through
the whole history Of his career, and you find
nothing about enjoining on them 10 worship.
Did he tell us any where to join a church
to perform these rites and ceremonies : You
see nothing of it in his life-nothing in his
teaching. But what do you see Why,
you see him pleading the cause Of the poor.
You hear him lifting up his voice like a
trumpet in behalf Of suffering humanity
He is seized upon and dragged out. This
dragging out, you may learn, had its origin
with the origin of Christianity itself, and il
has been followed up from the time the son
of God was dragged out to the present.
Every true reformer, in every age, has been
thus treated. Fox and his associates-Mary
Dyer and her friends, Jared the same fate.
That noble person was strangled even upon
Boston common, and for no other reason than
that she would give utterance to her thoughts.
You may ask me what this has to do with
Anti-Slavery. My object is to free the slave,
whatever yours may be. | want to see my
bleeding fellow countrymen restored to liber.
ty. | want 10 see the woman who is frantic
with anguish on account of the robbery Of
her cradle, and who is the victim of demon.
ish lust, put out of the power of her plum
derer. | wish to see the rights of all secur-
ed, and life and virtue and property protect
ed. These, ! say, never can be done while
you are d~evoting your time to forms and Ger.
emonies. You have called US infdels that
ia either true or it is false. We are either
infdels, or you are. How will we settle this
question: / have laid down the principle.
Will any thing else but this love save us
is any thing else Christianity How are
we TO decide, then, that w are Christians
by this rulel If we do not love our brother
whom we have seen, can we love God whom
We have not seen! No, we cannot. Sc
says Jesus Christ.
Now we can tell whether we love on
brother, and by that it is TO be decided wheth
er we love God. | will ask the worshipper;
in this town whether they love their brother
If they do, will they not help him =! for hell
is the legitimate result of love to a brother
where it is in your power to extend the hant
of help. Now if you don't help your neigh
Dor, then you don't love him. Let us Try
the sects in this town, and the religion Of lhi:
country, by this rule.
AS | said, you cannot benefit God by wor
shipping him with songs and praises, but the
best worship you can perform is to obey God
Obedience to God, and help to your neigh.
Dor, are the only true tests Of your Christian,
ity.
Well, there are about three millions of the
people of this country in bondage and what
have the people Of this town, the professed
Christians, done for their relief2 More than
fifteen of our fellow beings have been borr
into slavery since | have occupied this plat
form. Who would not rather have a daugh
ter assassinated, than TO have her taken int