Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-11-26
Father 2. and Mary G.


alt was that much misrepresented defend
er of human rights-Wm. Lloyd Garrison"
"What! do you take into your family such
a disturber of the peace, such a traducer Of
holy men, such a con,emner of our christian
religion as he :"
ave are commanded to use hospitality
without g%rudging," was the evasive reply.
"Nes, but If there come any unto you and
bring not the doctrine of Christ, receive him
not into your house, neither bid him God
speed, was the strict injunction of the insrir-
ed a~postle,'' said the old man with much
warmth.
My friend Mary hardly knew what to say.
She was the daughter of a clergyman, and
ever had a great reverence for the order.-
The minister before her, had been her decea-
sed fathers most intimate friend. She had
long been examining the reformatory ques-
tons Of the day, but had not fully commit
ted herself to any movement. She was one
of The cautious kind-never suffered herself
TO be led by impulse. She had been afraid
too of becoming heretical she chung to the
faith of her fathers, and had regarded that as
a thing too holy to question. She had been
told that all the abolitionists discarded that
faith, so she was curious TO draw them out
on those points, and much to her satisfaction,
she found many as orthodox as she could de-
sire. A consciousness had been gradually
stealing over her, that something more than
a belief in the speculative theology in which
she was educated was required of a truly
christian character. When she saw that the
world was filed with needy and suffering
victims of poverty, when the death groan
from the battle field reached her ear, when
the manacled and bleeding slave came up.
before her, conscience was continually whis-
pering, "Here is work for the Christian"
At the time of which | write, she had just
made the acquaintance of L~ucretia Mott who.
was then travelling through Ohio, and The
gentle and loving spirit of that noble woman
had won her heart. As she stood up in the
great congregations and spoke words, Of truth
and soberness, as she enforced the duty of
practical righteousness, Of deeds of mercy
and a life of purity, as she called upon the
people 10 cast their Dan-made theology to the
moles and BATS and obey only the teachings
OF the Most High, as she declared that God
was in the reforms of the day, and if they
would see his stately goings forth, they must
look at the t%riumphs of peace, anti-slavery,
temperance and other kindred principles, the
feelings and sympathies Of my friend wera
powerfully excited, and IN her heart she saidl
''verifyitfese are words of truth and sober
ness , / could take the woman to my bosom,
and bid her God speed in her mission of
love- Nea, ] could go with her through the
world and proclaim the glad tidings of peace
and COED will"
She replied not TO the last remark of Faith.
er p, and his well p~racticed eye detected
the change that had passed DER the spirit of
her dream. At length he Observed, "These
fanatics would overturn The foundations of
society-they would spread anarchy and mis-.
rule! Should their plans be adopted vice and
immortality wosld Aood the land-our holy
religion would be abolished and infdelity
reign trismPhantr'
This was too much for my friend Mary.
her spirit could not well brook such misrep-
reservations Of persons with whose practical
righteousness and peaceable doctrines she,
was we'll acquainted. Turning to the spea-
ker, she said, 81 deeply regret that you do.
not better inform yourself of the principles
and practices of those whom you traduce.-
Had you had an interview this morning with
my guest whom you met in the hall, | think
your prejudices would have vanished. You
would have seen that he is governed by the
best of motives-that he is animated alone
by the soul-inspiring idea of giving freedom
10 all, and of establishing "a purer religion
than that which allows the professedly chris
tian church to make merchandise of the i'm
age of God. You would have seen a strict
adherence to principle, a strength of purpose
and a devotion to truth that would have won
your confidence. Come Father p. STAY
in town to-day and go and hear these people,
then you'll not think so badly of them."
5 mo indeed" cried the old man, 1--WE are
commanded TO give no place to such workers
: of inlquiiy. All their pretended love of free
= dom and christianity is only a mask 10 con-
ceal the base and disorganizing purposes that
t acIuate Them. | am grieved to hear the
daughter of my much loved friend trying to
defend such heretics and destroyers of the
t public good"
. "Allow me to say" returned Mary, "with-
out any feelings of disrespect to yourself.
i that | am grieved to hear the friend of my IA
> Their opposing enterprises that God approves.
am sorry to hear an aged man like you,
=, whose time on earth must be very brief, con-
denim the only movements of the Age that are
calculated to bless and purify the world"
= ''Before l CO." said the old man, rising,
81 would warn you of the dangerous heresies
d YOU are imbibinp. | fear that even now you,