Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-07-28
THE BUGLE.
An Earnest and AffrctiOnatc Address


TO aA People, and especially Religious Profess
sors Of ecery ndme-from The Yearly Meet
ing Of Congregational Friends, held at va
ferloo, New York, by adjournments, from
The An to The 6!h, inciusiUe, IF The sirM
month, 1919.
10 ALL TO whom THESE MAY COME, GREET
ING. RIGHTEOUSNESS AND PEACE BE null
TIPLIED.
Convened on a Basis Of Religious Associ-
alton intended TO recognize perfectly the
rights and responsibilities Of man-not TO
build up a sect or party, new or old, but to
promote Truth aud Goodness universally
among men-the condition of the human fam
lily throu ghout the world, and especially in
ChrIstendom, Of which we form a proximate
part, has engaged our serious deliberations.
Regarding this subject of deep and perva-
ding interest, we ask your earnest ate ntion to
som facts and views which we deem of un-
speakable importance.
And first, as TO mans nature, relations, and
duties. The inquiry here is primary and
fundamental: for in a universe arranged by
Infinite Wisdom, Goodness, and Power,
mans relations must needs harmonic with
the properties of his nature, and his duties
bear an exact correspondence to his relations.
A slight view of mans constitution-his
capabilities, wants, sympathies, Affections
shows indlsputably that he is fitted for vast
and sublime communion with nature and with
natures Divine Architect. Communion with
the beautiful, the good, the true. Commu-
MON which belongs 10 his senses and his soul,
and with which his happiness is indissolubly
connected. Every department of nature. Wis
ible and invisible, has for him its pleasures
and lie paipc n : tho upparyarfad ~ ,ota
principles Of his own nature do their work.
Every relation has its IMPOTENCE and duties.
But the relations he ~sustains TO his fellow
man and to God the Author of his being,
transcend immeasurably all others.
To his brethren and sisters of the human
family he finds himself attracted and bound
by sympalhies, by Intellectual, social, and
moral perceptions, which demonstrate to him
that his happiness is identified with theirs
that II is a boon Of reciprocal benefits, which
can only be secured by fidelity in imparling T.;
IN other words, by the practice of all the rel
alive and social duties. If he violate any OF
these, the worm Of misery is generated in his
bosom, which never dies but with returning
fidelity.
To his God he feels the relation he sus-
~tains-sublime, glorious. A sense of depen-
dence-his need of the Infinite of wisdom,
goodness, power, gush up spontaneously
from the depths of The soul, when great ext.
gencies, difficulties, fear, surprise him, and
turn his imploring spirit 10 God. A con.
seriousness that for his being, and all its capa.
biiities of enjoyment, he is wholly and mo.
mentarily dependent on God, call for graft,
tude, love, obedience. This worship IL he
yield not, in conformity to the Divinely es.
tablished laws Of his mind, clouds of dark.
ness veil from him the brightest beam that
ever shone on man, the beam that lights the
child to the smiles Of the Divine Parent, and
enables him in confidence TO say, " Father ~
And the wants of his nature unsupplied, his
highest life languishes, and the worm Of dis.
quiet gnaws in the dark.
Here presents THE GREAT TRUTH-a truth
which no doubt has been perceived and fell
by men of simple and unsophislicated minds
in every age, because based on the norma
action Of the Inherent principles of the human
soul-that the substance and being of all true
religion and morals are compounded in lou,
TO God and lore to man. And this truth is as
beautiful TO contemplate as it is great in its
character and results. The wise Author o.
being, has made the exercise of this swee'
and holy affection indispensable TO tina
communion with nature and NATURES God
and that harmonious development and growth
Of mans powers, from which his happines.
and the perfection Of his being are 10 be deri,
we'd. Morals and religion-the one compre.
bending our duties to man, the other TO God
ARE, in the benefcent economy of Infinite
Wisdom, inseparably connected SO that The
one can only be practically exhibited in its
Divine and beautiful proportions, as fidelity
is maintained in regard to the other. Thus
universally true is the declaration of an spos.
tie, that no who afirms he loves God while
he hates his brother, utters that which can
have no foundation in truths The only GER
tain evidence we can give that we love God
is by practically demonstrating that we love
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