Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-03-23

and, at the same time, giving directions TO
The parents TO train up their children in the
nurture and admonitions of the Lord ! Yet
these very churches are this day guilty of
this thing +! They are offering for gold the We
ry Savior whom to-day they are professedly
worshipping. %Inasmuch as We do it unto
one Of the least Of these my brethren, We do
it unto me. Would not the Savior, then, if
on earth, declaim against these thingsl Ger
.tainly. No more do we. In The name of
Christianity, and of our common humanity,
we ask the church 10 withdraw all support
from the foul sin,--to refuse 10 fellowship
Shareholders as christians for, il they may
hold slaves and be christians, why desist, for
to be a christian Is 10 arrive at the acme Of
our aspirations here i've ask its members TO
refuse TO vote for Old Zack, or any other man.
thief, for, by doing SO, they give character
and responsibility 10 slavery. In short, we
say 10 them, occupy no position in conse.
quence Of which you are in any way accessa.
ny to slavery and for saying this, we are de-
%nounced as inidel disorganizers, and con.
temptuously excluded from those houses
where no is professcdly worshipped who
said. " IF We love not your brother whom We
have seen, how can ye love God whom ye
have not scent" Would they not then ex-
clude the Savior? They would say, of course,
" he is not the Son Of God =" is he not the
carpenter, the son Of Joseph; and his moth
er, and his brethren, are they not with usl
My friends, are you aware that in support
ing the popular religion Of the day, you are
supporting a religion which, for the good of
the people, had better be supplanted by that
of the Koran7 for, be it known, that in Ma.
hometan countries, he who embraces the
faith of the Prophet, though the most abject
slave, is that moment free. How in Chris
tian America {! Witness the laws of some
Of the southern States: "a profession Of,
and conversion to, the Christian religion is
lawful for any slave, bnt shall never he
considered as e~ffecting his or her emancips.
lion" We demand Of the church that il
work Tor the liberation of the slave its men,
bers answer, W. have no right, wish, or in
.%tention" so 10 do-"it is not for the edihca-
tion Of the church :" 10 NEEDLE with the mat.
ter-"it belongs TO Caesar, not to Christ"-
it is their business 10 save souls, and while
they are doing SO in the case of the Mahom.
etan, the Prince Of Tunis, Ahmed Bashaw
hey, under date of January 22nd, 1916, is
sues his decree of universal emancipation
for Tie glory Of God, and 10 distinguish man
from The brute creation -! And YET the Abo-
~liiionist cannot get a Westinghouse in Or
angeville in which to lecture, because, for.
sooth, he assumes to speak disrespectfully of
a church and government which compare so
unfavorably with Mahometanism
win assume here to breach an opinion as
to the wherefore of the fact that SO few meet
ings-honses through the country can be OBJ
tanned for abolition lectures. 1t is not that
the people 90 rot, in very many instances,
feel deeply on ihe subject of slavery, nor yet
that they have not soma misgivings as to the
correctness Of the position of The church on
this eubject, but it is to be accounted for in
wv tS"NI VI 'hC piltslIOOu3 anu Ol euuCGi!OII.
The people have been taught to look with
suspicion on whatever offers itself as good
that does not come through the channel Of
The priesthood and church. They have
thought all Of good to be connected with the
church, and that out Of it there is no saliva
ton and that they must not call in question
any position taken by the priest, nor take a
position in advance Of him. A little proof
here Not Iorg since, the General Associ-
i%ation Of Massachusetts called The attention Of
the people to The "importance of maintaining
respect for the Pastoral %ohice,' &c., and
named one way in which this important rule
Las been infraoted, TO wit: in encouraging
lectures and preachers, on certain topics OF
reform, to present their subjects within the
parochial limits Of settled pastors without
their consent"
That is to say, the poor stupid people are
incapable Of judgiDg between truth ard error,
and must refer these matters TO the pastor!
Rev. Messrs. Fitch and Towne, in the
! AeO Englcnd Spectator, say When a peo-
} pie have chosen a pastor, and he has been
regularly indicted into Office" if intemper-
ance, RIGHTEOUSNESS, ihieving, or any other
t sin stalk abroad at MONDAY, the people have
; no right to employ any one to preach against
these sins. "The uniaithfulness or incapa-
city Of the pastor is no apology for the Of
fence " of encouraging a foreign preacher or
lecturer! In l843, the Congregational Jour.
nal Published approvingly the following, and
much more similar, from the Rev. Mr.. Har-
key, of Maryland. He is giving an account
of a revival meeting in which he represents
the laity as being very efficient. But some