The Daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1845-1850, 1849-09-06
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presenting itself Tor their patronage aud prayers We
need not undervdlue any other agency, but We know
what The nHaence OF the ssonary of this society will
he. We are IN no doubt to what he viii attempt /,
do We have no doubt If what he will do On the pra>
ne IN the almost unbroken Forest in the village ofog
| cahns or in the city, we know what will spring up
around him. There will be, possible, neat
house OF worship There will he Sunday school,
There viii be common school. There Will be Tenn
perance Socety. and Cffor e supply every family
win Is he, and ~ith a Chlstian Literature. There
viii be preaching that will, gradually and MORE
tho Oh perhaps repealed at first attract and hold The ed
ucaed and thinking portions oil the community, and that
VIII hot BE- unaraCve or unconvncng TO the masses OF
men Assoca ed with others, the missionary will be
loud engaged in laying the foundation Of academies
aud Colleges, destined send forth hi aIng
long, long after he himself out with tolls shall have
gone down to the grave"
So says Albert Barnes of Philadelphia, in his address
before the Home Missionary Society in May last. No
man will doubt his right speak in the name of that
Body; will il be denied that he has shown himself,
in times past, man Of wide sympahies. fthere was
clergyman in the branch Of the Christian Church with
which he is identified who might have been expected TO
remember all those for whom especially the American
Church should labor, he is that man. And yet, reader
did you observe, that the Missionary whom he W, ud
seAd out has mission in behalf of the bondman and
the bondwoman Here are one sixth Of the population
who have been declared by religious bodies TO be Heae
then; very large proportion of whom native
Americans; to whom, speaking generally, the Bible is
sealed book; whose Masters are or may be- members
good standing, in the Church; TO whom the Marriage
Institution Denied and all the dear and sacred ties Of
na,ure,- there be nytling sacred on the earlh-are
respected longer than may he consistent with the
price the interests oil their Masters Was there not
them these statements lrue that this watch
should have spoken of that SYSTEM OF which they
all come and which its produclsl
Let it be remembered that this gentleman once sa d
the CHURCH might abolish slavery day. if it would.
Bot who shall awaken The Church? Who fnot the men
who see its power and acknowledge its guilt Who
if not those who teach its teachers?
Very well, ii may be said, but you have no right TO ex>
pect that euery duty of Missionary will be specified.
True enough But time was found, rejoice to say to
sfeak Of Temperance and Educaton and do not you
think the American bondman has as strong claim upon
the Missionary either Of these good causes? In e
success Of Temperance and Education the outward in
erests ofcvery republican community are involved and
although the minister has duty in their behalf ye. it is
generally considered they belong TO his special work
and is fact, that they found prosper in some
communities without much aid from him. The public
said to be well informed and thoroughly interested in
them Not so with slavery There is yet great ignor>
ance Off; there yet hosts OF Clergymeu who pro
nounce it DIVINE institution while not onk sEil now
attempt prove the divinity Of either lnlemperance or
lgnorance the Bible is made the rampant ofhe system
by all Sch 'heralds Of the Skies, and there urgent
need, therefore, that those whom Christian Missionary
Society sends into the world shall heartily labor to
FRI e. from this reproach our common christianity.
But how know we, from this address, that this society
will add 10 the number Of those who arc doing quite
Otherwise Was it not necessary to be specific heIe
as in reference to Academies and Colleges?
Il may be SAID, further, that our Missionary duty 10
the slave may be included in those duties which are
specified. Read and see. You will find that all Mr.
Barnes has SAID, mig have been and may now be- ad,
dressed to saveholdng community; and the insitu>
lions, whose existence he pleads for do erist in the
slave states without the Shareholders having yet discovs
cred they inconsistent with a warm advocacy of the
system. How then, in any ntegabIe sense, can the
be said TO be included Z
What commentary it is upon our professions Mr.
Editor that at time when great eff ri is making 10
spread this system over wide territories where II had
ceased 10 ext I; at time when the of our National
Government IS large slave mart; when an internal
slave trade exists between Christian states scarcely
less barous than that foreign trade which our laws de-
nounce as piracy; when STAKEHOLDER holds the bighes,
tfilee in our government; where voluntary and exen.
slve, almost national associations exist to send Chris
hanty TO The Heahen citout our country and 10 the
whites within what commentary upon US all tits. re
peat, that at such time man. high estimation in The
Church, wien telling US what a Christian Missionary
will do and ought TO do, says no words, not word 81
his laborng to free his country and his church from The
character which such facts attach to bth
The question has been asked; what sort of men ,hose
must he "hose God is monkey 1t is worthy of con.
slderalion impns that the objects of our reverence
are reflection, to some extent, OF ourselves When We
lind, therefore, II we ever do find that the men whom
we have honofed Ia short of our partial and i'm.
perfect views OF the duty man owes 10 man. lei them
cease TO lie lights TO our darkness
u Fiogging in the Navy has been protested against
by large meeting in Hartford, under the ausoces or
Gov Trumbull, Bishop BrownelI, the Mayor. and 9TH.
er distinguished citizens-Mayor Ripley presiding =
Rev Drs. Bushnell, Beecher, (of Cincin w. q
Haynes Alfred Smith, Rev. TIN Gala ldet and others
took pa in the Drocnedinue-u $40.