Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-12-22
Seetarianism in Deerfield.

ing on War and Slavery. L came here on the
eth, and put up with Charles Bets, who has
committed the objectionable sin against Secta-
rianism of coming out of the Methodist Church
and renouncing her claim to be a Church of
Christ. Of course, the usual cry Of "Infdol"
is raised against him. There is a Methodist
house In the centre of the town. This, of course,
is bolted against every thing that %renounces al
legiance to sect. Charles applied for the school
house, and obtained it Of those who had a right
to let him have il. A meeting was appointed
for Saturday evening, the Sth, and three others
for Sunday. Charles, in due time, took wood
to the school-house and warmed it, and placed
candles to light it for Saturday evening.
At the appointed hour he went to the house
to light the candles and renew the fire, when
10 the door was fastened inside, and no en-
trance was to be had that way. He entered at
the window, to see what was the matter and
get his candles; and there he found a man
CHARLES REED-who had been a jealous
Methodist until lately, and who still sits un-
der the droppings of that sanctuary, guarding
the door. He had set a board against it, and to
dtu W lit Security, DIdCcu lllllScu upulnSJ H.
with an are in his hand, to meet any emergen-
cy. Charles says to him, "There is no need of
this trouble. Had you told me you would not
consent to having it occupied I should not have
urged it." "Infdelity shan't enter this house
while l have a share in it and can keep it out"
answered the guardian of Methodism, axe in
hand.
See that picture, friend Johnson. There was
Charles Reed, boiling Infidelity out Of the
school house, making his backbone the bolt, as
sisted by a board and a meat-ar. A thick
board, a meat-ax to chop up with, and a back
bone for a bolt, to keep out Infdclity! Surely
Charles Reed ought to get his defence of Meth
odism against Infdelity patented, and sell it to
all other scots. But alas for the discovery
Behold what Charles Reed calls Inidelity COM
ing in at the window! Poor Charles Reed
How must he have been COMPOUNDED to see the
very object of his terror standing before him in
the house! He must multiply his back bones
to furnish a bolt for each window.
Charles Belts is a shoemaker. He instantly
fixed up his shop, and it was soon filed with
about as many as could have entered the school
house and there we held five meetings, that
were well attended with attentive hearers. The
very Methodists, ministers and people, who
would not allow me to speak in their own
house, could come to the brave mechanic shop
to hear me discourse on Anti War and Anti
Slavery in connection with the Bible and Con-
stitution, and the Churches and Political par
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priests, were present, and took part in the moet-
ing. l..t-
On Monday evening, at our fifth meeting, the
Bishop and Ministers Of a Disciple church, two
miles from the centre, were present, and invi-
led me to a discussion in their house. 1 accept
cd. The question to be discussed was, Are all
the deeds that are fathered on God in the Old
Testament, according to justice and equity ,
They stated it thus-Is the God of Nature and
of the Bible one and the sames So we have
just closed a three nights discussion before ar
attentive and deeply interested assembly. ]
contended that Natures laws and God never
change; that whatever was once consistent with
them is so now, and ever must be; and that
whatever men were instigated to do by Nature.
laws, they were instigated to do by Nature.
God.
The following deeds I held up as violations
of Natures laws for a father to cast out hi
young child and its mother from his heart ant
home to stone a child 10 death for disobedi
f cnce; or to cut his sons throat and burn hi
I body as an offering to God; to take women AM
: children as prisoners of war, and then butchc
all the married women and male children, an,
give the unmarried females to the murderers o
; their mothers and brothers, for their use to in
vite a man into our house on a pledge of safety
= and when he sleeps assassinatc him to cut Of
. the heads of children because their father sin
ned for one nation to wage an aggressive, ex
r terminating war upon another, and slaughte
&, women, children and infants, and leave not
5 soul that brcathcth. l proved that all thes
! were fathered upon God by the writers of tn
, Old Testament and that they were opposed t
Natures law and Natures God. My opponent
J attempted to show that these deeds of cruelt
and blood might be in perfect harmony wit
E the laws of God and Nature. To carry thei
' point, they scrupled not to declare that all tn
crimes, sufferings, and death of this world wer
the legitimate results of the laws of Nature un
der which God placed man. Samuel McGowa,
Peter Hartzel and Ebenezer B. Howard, teach
: ers and leaders of the Disciple Church, thu
! ought to father all the wickedncss and suffer
ings of this world upon God, and derided tn
idea that war, slavery, crime of all kinds, dis
case, suffering and death, were the result of vi
~olations of the laws and God of Nature.
So shareholders have eve metr us with tn
Bible and with what they call God. They say
God, through the Bible, sanctions slavery AM
when we deny the existence and authority @
their slave-holding God, they, having no othe