Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-05-25

her, because size is SO utterly false to
God and man.
We do not speak against the Church
for any good she has done. No Adolf.
zionist has ever done it. If she has
sought to stay the ravages Of wur-to lift
up the drunkard from the guuor-to
throw around the poor victim of pollution
purifying Influences. or TO restore 10 man
his right TO himself, VIC have no fault TO
find thus far.
But when the Church, mindful Of the
iar-off heather. sends her missionaries 10
the iungles Of lndia-within the walls Of
China-beyond the Rocky Mountains to
tho islands of the ocean, and then pas
ses by, in utter neglect, the 5000, O0O
heathcn at her own door, and leaves
them without Bible, tract or missionary,
TO wind their way in voiceless agony TO
the eternal world; when in her corporate
capacity, she owns and sells her own
church-members on the ~auclion-block;
compels the mother, if she would cele-
bratc the Lords Supper, to take the bread,
and drink the wine from plate purchased
with The blood of her own child: then
she recognizes as a Christian the monster
who robs man of his manhood, and wo-
man of her womanhood; then she ad-
nits TO her communion the robber who
drives TO unpaid labour, from the cradle
to the grave, his equal brother, we must
speak Out against her, or smother all that
is highest and hottest in us, and be false
10 our own convictions Of duty. We
speak against the Church, not because
we love to do it, but because crimes like
those just mentioned are true of her, and
with her mighty resources and power TO
prevent it, she stands boldly by, while
400 mothers are every day robbed Of
their babes, and 10000 fathers are every
gear made worse than childless.
Who knows better the power Of the
Church, than Rev. Albert Barnes? And
if whal he says be true, who can measure
her guilt? 1t is an ocean without sound
ings or shore. Understand, we do not
find fault with the Church, for any good
she does-sooncr than do it., our right
hand shall wither, and our tongue clcave
to the roof Of our moulh-but while she
tolerates and sanctions the crimes she
now does, ii shall not matter to us how
deeply she is enshrincd in the heart of
the people; it shall not matter to us
though she baptizc herself in the name
Of the Eternal; we will tear off the mask,
and hold her up in all her delormilv, as
having stolen the livery Of angels to do
the work of demons.
Luther exposed the corrupt Church Of
his time, and was reproached and oppos-
ed, but it was not 10 him a reason why
he should hold his peace, and the world
now halls him as Il true Rcformer. The
only hope Of progress for the race is in
exposing existing wrong, be il never so
popular.
Wherever we can find an ear to hear,
or a heart to feel, there will we speak our
earnest rebuke of the religion Of this
country. The religion Of Mahomet de-
cIares that il is not fit that Il follower Of
Nlahomet should be a slave, and in those
dominions which we call healhen, his
Chains fall off when he avows himself Il
believer in the Koran. Our religion gives
the man Il higher value in the American
market. read the olher dav, an article
published in London, in which the writer
says he saw a woman sold in our sham
bIeS for $500 more than could have been
obtained for her had it not been announ-
ced that she was a Christian. Who would
not prefer the religion of Mahomct which
makes men free, to the religion of this
country which makes men slaves. If
were a slave in New Orleans. suffering
all that the slave woman suffers, and the
religion Of India were offered me, which
requires that | bow morning. o and
night before an idol god, and yet leaves
me free TO call my body and my soul my
own, and, on the other hand, the religion
of This country which cnslaycs, pollutes,
and dehumanizes me, which would |
choose? which would any parent choose
for his child!
There arc many who believe that we
are lnldeIs, because VIC strip the mask
from The Church; that we royile The prin-
ciples Of Christ when we denounce the
Church for holding slaves and encourage
ing Slavery; but when the people see that
the Church OF the North recognizes as
its sons, shareholders, and upholds them
in their horrible work; when the Bap,ists
and Alethodisis of the North hold fellow
ship and communion with dealers in hui
man flesh and blood in the South; when
the people Of the Norh know all this,
they cannot but know that the Church
which we war against is not the Christian
Church. We war with the Church that
will recognize as Christians those who
Undue their hands in the blood of their
broihern.
As Frederick Douglass, says "we love
the pure, peaceablc, impartial, Chrisliani-
ty of Christ. We therefore hate The COR
rupt, slayeholding, womon.whipping, par