Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-06-15
India and America.

India and America.
A lew days since we attended a missiona-
~ meeting in one of the Baptist churches Of
this city. 1t was a meeting of women, and
the speakers were female missionaries FROM
Burmah. The object Of the meeting was TO
revive and strengthen the interest for the
Burman and Karen missions, in the churches
OF the denomination to which they belong,
by descriptions Of the degradation and wants
Of the people Of those nations, and earnest
appeals 10 the Christian philanthropy Of the
audience. The speakers advocated their
cause zpalously and well. Appeals from
eloquent ips fell upon responsive hearts, in be-
half ofmen and women from whom the Bible
is withheld, or, rather, TO whom il is not CIV
en-, by the American church. And the spea.
kers told, as an awful and startling fact, that
there are three millions of karens sunk in the
darkness Of heathenism. They told how
the marriage bond is lightly esteemed, and
easily broken by the despot husband I; how
woman IS { degraded how children are slain
by their parents, how immortal minds are
shrouded in ignorance. Their tale is not
%scorned, is not unheeded their appeals are
not Intellectual. The great heart Of the church
responds, deeds give u~iterance to sympathy,
and the ministry denounces, as unworthy of
the Christian name, those who can listen,
unmoyed, to such appeals on behalf OF SUI
fering, degraded humanity. These speakers
were In earnest. So were many Of their
hearers, whose warm hearts were moved to
love for their far.oT dusky brethren. Know
they not that there are, to-day, nearly three
millions of heather in their own land =
These missionaries from afar, told us Of the
easily sundered marriage tie we can tell
them BIZ heathenism at home, which acknow-
ledqe.~no. marriage tie, but sanctions and
legafzes one vast system OF concubinage.-
They told US of parents numbering children !;
we can tell them Of such deeds done within
the shadow Of Christian temples, done to
save young children from a doom more ter
rible than death. They told us Of the degra-
dation OF woman we can tell them OF wo-
men sold on the auction block, for purposes
of PROSTITUTION sold and bought in accor-
dance with the laws Of a professedly Chrls-
tan government. They told MS Of the spiri.
tual darkness of a nation of the Fast; we
can tell them Of a people at home, among
whom the acquisition Of letters is a crime
5 against law. They complain that the pro-
} fessed ChrisiiIns of America will not give
I the Bible 10 the ka;ens; we complain that
, they make laws forJifiing thousands OF
Americans 10 read 1t. They ask tie Ameri'
Y can Church, at whose hands will be reGuit.
\ ed the blood of their Karen and Burnan
brethe,n- if Ibev leave Them TO die in their
irnor,n.a and idolatrv We ask that church
v9li.h aesists !, makinc AVS to ensIaye men,
tba, cbnrrh whose menbers buy and sell
+ ,hai, hrn,barn Who roh lb4m of the Bible.
rnb ,hem If th.ir children. rob them of thei
,n1nbood At whose hands will The blood O
# ,be American slaves be rrouirpd These
n,issinnariss nlead Win the church 10 civ,
. ,Ln Rihla n heir brethren in Asia. We en-
,,o,t ,ho, cburrh mt IN wres, il ont Of ,ht
h,nJs Of heir brethren in America. w,
imnlore ,bem no, TO assist in making law.
n n.Licb inO-c, ,nnishmenton a man for teach
;nr his ignor,nt hro,her ia read the Bible
T7ey an6eal to the church. in the name O
Lnnani,yy in the name oC Chrisi,ni,y in IN
ann,e nt DO common FAlher If ms ali. So d
N ,a anneaI ,The Church listens to their tale
" LIZ ~ s,an i,s oars aaaipst ours. Fror
;,s tsanos, Ls,T,, il rsSnonJ, to heir anDeal
~ am,s - has lam re,uroed sneers an
Crowns WIN il hist Do these ~pro(esse
% GLt ,iars ra.Iy L,,o ,ha men and wome
riaIia 80 s ,hey cav ,hrv are the
~ ~ ,"aIa ~ ,ho nina If ,hcir Fatbe
~ oe ,ha &c. Of The S1yior,s ,odeemin
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=. II i, bo en-. vbv do ,bev not also love II