Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-07-09

immersion, and he who regards sprinkling as
the proper mode; we infer from this that it
secs nothing in the views or practices of either
that is anti-christian. 1t receiyes alike slave
holders and aboliiionlsts and from this we
draw a similar inference. 1t, however, re-
iocts Unitarians and Universalists, Sabbath
breakers and counterleiters for they do not
furnish satisfactory evidences of christian
character. If one of its members should
preach Unitarianism or advocate Universal
salvation, should p%rolane the Sabbath or conn-
terleil a bank note, it would deal with and
disown him; thus testifyiug to the world that
his principles or his practice were opposed to
the doctrines Of the christian religion. Bot
not so with the man who has been srrinkled
instead Of being plunged, or with him who
holds a slave; the church endorses the cha
racler Of these men so far as to declare there
is nothing anti-christian in their faith or prac-
tice. In regard to the former We have no
controversy, but the latter presents TO our
minds one Of the grossest and most %PalPable
violations Of the christian law that a man can
be guI J Of.
The editor says
SIT has long seemed to US that there was
entirely too much squeamishness in the world
on the point of Christian fellowship and in
tercourse."
1t may be so, but we have seen MT evil
dence Of the slueamishness to which he re-
fers. 1t is true there is squeamishness in re-
gard to qualifications for tytheing mint, anise,
and cummin, but not in relation to the
weightier matters Of the law, judgment, mer-
cy, and truth. If the NJ. Il. Church cuts Off
from fellowship the Unitarian brother, but
I retains the stakeholder, does it not declare as
plainly as actions can, that a rejection of the
Trinity is far more criminal than man-steal-
ing! If it excommunicates the man who
counterfeits money, but cherishes him who
plumbers his neighbours cradle, does it not
teach that while the former is an anti-chris-
tan act, the latter is not!
In order 10 show that the STAKEHOLDER should
not be denounced more than some others who
are members in good and regular standing,
the editor further observes:
"a man who has not the highest reputa-
ton for liberality and kindness to the poor
hiTeiing-who reduces his or her wages to
the lowest possible point, and gets out of
them all the labor he can-is probably the
loudest in his condemnation of the c~ruelties
of the Shareholder whereas it is evident to
every unprejudiced mind that the only essen
tial difference between them consists in the
fact that the one lives 4 few degrees farther
north than the other and the STAKEHOLDER, on
the other hand, who lives and becomes
wealthy by the sweat and toll If his fellow
beings, in a state Of degrading servitude, LA
BILE TO be sold like cattle of the stall, and
whose minds must not be cultivated for fear
they should rise above their condition-the
Christian stakeholder looks with ineifable
contempt and loathing upon all who bear the
hated name Of abolitionists, or anti-slavery
men, although some Of them are the salt Of
the earth.
We see great evils in both Of them and
we see great evils in ourselves. What then !
If they belong TO the same Church that we
do, must we leave il? No"
This certainly does not say much for the
" squeamishnoss Of the editor in regard to
church fellowship, nor for the squeamish-
ness of his church, for he is a fair representa-
tive of it,. If the NJ. L. Church has in its
bosom northern scoundrels, we think it need
not point to the fact as a justification for fell
lowshipping southern thieves. The editor
does not speak of the Christian oppressors of
the North, but to talk of the Christian
stakeholder" seems a matter of course, and
with such views, and feelings, and preferen-
ces as he plainly manifests we should answer
the question in regard to his coming out of
such a church, as he does, in tho negative,
for he would, while in it, undoubtedly be in
his proper place. Not, however, in the
church Of Christ, for the true church is not
and may not, as he believes, be composed in
part of Southern men-thieves or Of Northern
oppressors. And when the NJ. L. Church,
or any other body of a like character, claims
10 be branch Of the church OF Christ, itlibels
christianity and attempts to palm off false
hood upon the world. To be a christian, is
to be like Christ, to be governed by the same
principles, to be actuated by the same spirit, to
TO be one with him as he was one with his
Father; and it is blasphenous to assert that
he who holds his brother as a slave, who
yields the bloody scourge is one with Christ
is one with God and that a church which
> has such in its bosom is a christian church.
We hold that no man has a right to fellow
> ship another as a christian, unless the one
: he Illus fellowships is a christian. To d.
otherwise is 10 act a lie.
The editor refers 10 the fact that the BIRTHS
Methodists followshipped those of America
both North and South, as an illustration [
the principle upon which the two division
in this land should base their fellowship, fol