Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-08-04


my expulsion, and last year their loss was
seven hundred, making one twentieth Of the
whole Connection. The Independents and
Baptlsts, the Methodist Association, and
Primitive Methodists, or Ranters, are all in
the same p%redicament. They have, for the
last lew years, exerted themselves to the ut
mostto make REVEALS, and in some cases they
have even appeared to succeed yet their va
rious denominations have continued to de-
crease in numbers, and TO decline in power.
On the other hand, the R~eformers are eve.
ry where gaining ground. The principles
which we advocate, the principles of primi-
tive, unadulterated Chtistianity-the ptinci-
pies OF freedom, and peace, and charity-of
temperance, truth and justice, are making
converts daily, and gaining friends in every
part OF the country. And if the friends of
truth and reform prove faithful, the sects and
prlesthoods Of Great Britain will be disabled.
their power will be annihilated, and the mass
es of the people will be free, in less than thir-
ty years. We have all the announcement
We could reasonably wish. We have all the
encouragement we deserve. If those who
have deserted the sects and systems of the
day, and come forth as followers of Jesus.
and friends Of their kind, do their duty faith.
fully, our children and our children's children
will live to see the greatest social, political
and religions revolution the world has ever
beheld.
And my faith in the success and triumph
Of reforming principles in America, is as great
as my faith in their success and triumph here.
Reforming principles have succeeded and tri-
umphed in America already. They are sue
ceeding and triumphing now. am satisfied.
from what | read in American publications.
that old things are passing away, and that all
things are becoming new. The .AbOhtionisis
will succeed. Slavery will be abolished
1t is not in human nature to endure the svs-
TEN for ever. 1t is not in human nature to
resist the attacks Of truth and righteousness
for ever. There never was a time since the
world began, when truth and righteousness
ultimately failed in their conflict with error
and sin and there never will be such a time.
The truth, when once revealed, is revealed
for ever and reform, true reform, never goes
back. AS sure as the principles Of truth and
freedom have been announced, so surely will
they annihilate prevailing errors and abomi-
nations. The word of God shall not return
unto him void it shall accomplish that which
He ~pleases, and prosper in the thing whereto
He sent it. The day is coming, when the
Reformers, who have gone ont fearing and
weeping, shall come again singing and re-
joicing. 'Ye shall go out with joy, and be
led forth with peace the mountains and the
hills shall break forth before you into sing
ing, and all the trees Of the field shall clap
their hands. Instead of the thorn shall come
up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall
come up the myrtle tree and it shall be to
the Lord for a name, for an everlasting sign
that shall not be cut off."-Isa. lv. 10, 10.
You say you would like me to visit you
in America, and take part in your labors. |
should be glad to do so, if | were able; but
| am not. I have a heavy concern on my
hands. | have a family dependent upon me
for bread, and a number of men that | am
wishful to supply with work and | know
not how could support my family or supply
my men with work, if | were absent from
home for any length of time. | have a great
deal to do as it is, to keep things straight;
and how ! should manage if | were to leave
my concern for six or eight months, | cannot
tell. Had | the means to keep things right
in my absence, | should visit your country
with pleasure. America has many attrac-
tons for me. ! have two own brothers in
America. whom | should greatly rejoice to
see. And | have many friends there; friends
that would rejoice to welcome me to your
shores, and friends that | should rejoice TO
see. But the greatest attraction is the cause
of reform in which you and your brethren are
engaged. ! should like to see your public
meetings. | should like to lift up my voice
in favor of the principles which you advocate.
| should like to plead in American ears, and
to American hearts, the cause of truth and
freedom-the cause of peace and temperance
the cause Of Christ and humanity-the
cause of God and conscience. | should like
to explain to American audiences the princi-
Piles and movements of the Reformers of
Great Britain, and of the European continent.
| should like to work an American press, and
hell to multiply and circulate reforming tracts
and books in your vast country. | should
like IN converse with American Christians
and Philanthropists, with American advo-
Gates Of peace and liberty, of truth and tenn
perance. | have always thought that the day
would come, when | should see America /;
and I think so still. But Uhen it will come,
| know not. If the way should open, | shall
not be slow to let you know. If the way
should not open, | shall go on working at
home, content to know that | am in Gods
hands, and that where he fixes my lot, there
it is best for me to be.
You say | need not expect any countenance
from the sects of your country, should leone.
| shall look for none. If any sect, or any
members of any sect, should welcome me,
so and good. They must receive me as a
free and Independent man. | should abuse
no sect. | should insult no sect. But
should acknowledge no s~ectarian authority,
| should consult no s~ectarian interests. Ihad
rather a thousand times have my lot with the
abused and prosecuted reformers of America
than with the wealthiest and most popular o
the advocates of error and corruption the
world contains.
You will have heard. I suppose, that Trot
ter, and Smith, and Dyson, and Russell
since they deserted the cause of Reform
have all disappeared, and are lost among tn,
rubbish of the sects, which they once wer,
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