Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-11-24

VthutTy aHO kept warm, began 10 natcn CUT
its brood of hateful reptiles. The missi0na-
ries at length finding that the Gospel did not
g wOrk" ill it was Tuiiy preached and oPph-
ed, began to get the Gospel to do its appfo-
priatr work by applying IL. The consequence
WAS just What the experience Of fifteen cen
turtles might have led them to expect. Cdsic
wouU moi be cast oui. And at one mission
station alone, seventy church members were
accommodated rs preferring caste 10 Christ.
In short, oil experience shows that II IL
Tar more difficult TO cast Oul organic sin after
II is rooted in the Church, than 10 keep IL
nut. from the first. This process Of exiermi-
ton Ivy Church discipline only rends the
Church iuto fragments. while harmony would
not have been at all affected by it's exclusion
at first.
With similar results has the organic sin
Of slavery been admitted into the mission
churches among the Chcctaw Indians. The
well meaning men who took this step did
not like slavery, md would have been pleas
ed 10 see II disappear. But they had heard
Of Schwartz ard The Moravians, and the
stakeholder seemed p~eniirri, and they wefe
anNious Tor converts so instead Of taking
the firm ground which would probably have
kept out seine Shareholders altogether, and
have delayed the admission nf others for a
few weeks, they unbarred the door. The
wolf came in. They preached the Gospel 10
this wolf, i. p. they told him that Christ died
for him;-thal he must ifusi in Christ alone
for salvation that he must not cruelty de-
your the sheep. All this the wolf gladly
heard and cordially received. Christianity
and the wolf most lovingly lay down to-
gether in the same fold tho wolf, neither
rebrked nor vexed, hid His claws and teeth.
But by and By Christianity limited to the
wolf that it was time not only to believe, but
10 practice the GOSPEL. But his growl and
teeth show that il must now come TO the
question whether Christianity or the wolf
shall have possession Of the Church.
Or 10 drop the fgnre-the patrons Of these
mission churches think it time that the Cos
pei should do lis appropriate "work on
slavery, and have limited TO these heather
converts that they must now begin, after the
lapse Of thirty years, to apply the Gospel
These Churches at once rebel and refuse
maintain that they are acting in accordance
with apostolic practice-that the apostles ne
yer insisted on emancipation, and insolently
add that the Board has changed. and were
compelled TO-, by the fauaticism of the North.
The poor heather converts, instead Of being
led 10 renOunce slavery, have only learned
the characteristic arrogance of slavt holders,
and insult their teachers and intend, instead
OF parting with slavery, 10 part with the
Board, and force out Of The nation all teach
eIs who will not go for slavery.
Sill more revolving has been the ".work-
ing Of the Gospel" among the Moravian
Missions in the Danish Yves, India Islands.
| visited several of their stations in the win
ter of 1889. They also, with the simpli-
city Characteristic of the early missionaries
of that sect, had preached the Gospel in its
technical sense-bu, a Gospel stripped of
its authority as law, and made little else than
a mere system Of excited sentimentalism.-
There were tlCO organic sins prevailing
among their converts, sldrery and concuJi-
mage, which came into the Church to be there
reformed. But the leprosy had so corrupted
the Church, that to my horror and surprise,
! found that slavery was not only in the
Church, but that the mission was actually
supported By slarery-that the mission otrned
slaves, compelled them TO work, and thus
paid the salaries Of the missionaries. Even
worse than that-concubInage was the rule,
and marriage the exception, among the Church
members! When | expressed my astonish-
ment 10 one of the missionaries, he very care
lessly replied, "Oh, they do not like to be
confined by marriage" Thus had the Church
become a den of ~unclean things, resting on
lle IOundali0n OF organic SIN.
Such has been the result of the policy we
oppose. 1t has no, prepared the master to
break the bonds of the slave, nor the proud
Dralmin fratenally 10 embrace the man of
low caste. 1t has rivetled the letters of the
slave, confirmed the prejudioes of caste, and
filed the Church with sin.
With these facts before US, we have felt
constrained 10 eXpostulate often and strongly
I ~, Il tI--a ..l, .aA.-l IL. -.z-.
operations of the day. Having done SO in
vain, we have aimed, not in the spirit Of ri
valry, but in obedience TO a stern sense oil
duty, to institute missions on different prin-
ciples. We know that our expostulations are
met with the alleged claim that success has
indicated the blessing of God on this ques'
tioDable course of policy. But what is sue
cess! Mere accessions of members Their
Papists have pre-eminentiy the blessing OIL
God on their missions. In Singapore. fol
instance, where large and well manned Pro
testant Missions from England and America
have labored and then abandoned the FIELD
-one Romish priest has collected a largt
band of converts. If the establishment o
mission churches, whose members tenacious
ly adhere to slavery, and resent all atlelDptl
TO teach them a true and full Gospel consti
ute success, then some missionary s~ocieliel
are successful if converts prefeTring caste
TO Christianity indicate success, then the
blessing can be easily obtained. Such sue
cess we do not seek, for il must result in ~
in to souls, and disaster to us.
Organic sins, like boastful Goliaihs, hav,
stood up in the Missionaries path, and hay,
de6ed the living God, denying the power o
God to release their victims, and condescend
ingly allowing the man of God to go on il
his Masters work. If he, organic sin, should
be untouched-or rather petted and propitial
ed by the sacrifice Of truth, and by reception
into the Church. This Goliath comes int,
the camp Of Israel, mol TO obey and WORSHIP
the true God, bnt to corrupt and tyranDiZe
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