Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1850-01-12

an ordinance, a Sabbath, or Bible from desc
Grafton, she sought to redeem men, women,
and children, the representatives of her Fa-
ther, God, from the polluions and outroges OF
war, slavery, and drunkenness. Her anxiety
was to get men to embrace and practice the
principles of Christianity, rather than inspire
them with veneration for the Bible. Human
ity had in her loving and dauntless friend
and her zeal for God was shown, not in oral
praying, shouting and singing, nor in obser-
wing days, or reverencing a book, but in
working to rescue our common nature from
the auction block, the battlefield and gal
lows of the American Church and Clergy.
She was Comeoider, and renowned all
fellowship with the war-making, slave-hold-
ing and gallows-supporting organizations
called Christian Churches. She came out of
them that SHE might be free to worship her
God in seeking the abolition of those mon
ster crimes of earth, slavery, war, and death
penalty. She was not free thus to love and
serve her Creator while q member of a
church organization. Her position there
crushed her sympathy for the imbruted
slave, and the mangled victims of war and
the gallows, as il does to all others. She was
made to feel, as others are, that the chief
end Of a Methodist is, to glorify Methodsm
and promote it forever; and that the same is
true of other secis. She could be only a
Methodist there; she came out that she
might be the friend of Humanity; she could
be only child of Methodism in the church
she came out that she might be the child of
her Heavenly Father and follow after Him,
walking in love and good will to all man
kind
Though she thus came out solely that she
might maintain n closer walk with God, and
love and worship Him more devoutly by a
practical consecration of herself to the re-
demption of her fellow-beings, yet she was
stigmatized as an infdei by those who love
their sect better than their fellow men, and
who would offer up Truth, Justice and HUI
man Brotherhood OH the altar oftheir Creed
or the Bible. She laid herself on the altar
of Humanity to redeem il from slavery, war,
drunkenness, and all wickedness. Ifthis be
infidelity, who would not embrace il? II
she was an infdel, then has she, by her low
ing and selfforgivinG spirit, and by her devo.
ton to the cause of humanity, consecrated
that word and made il holy. And who
would not feel honored to be thus worthy tc
be called an infdel9
have not a word to say, as is customar,
on such occasions, to urge you to prepare
for death. do not wish you to be prepared
for death, but for life. would as soon urge
you to prepare for any other Outrage Of Ma
;urc's laws as for death. Deathcame by sin
and man has no more right to die than h
has to sin. 1t is their right and privilege I
pass, without pain Of body or sorrow Of mine
without death, from this to higher state Q
being; but death is the enemy Of God az
/, mani and ought to have no place on earth.-
7, Man, when he assumes the right to infiic
death on man, for any cause, assumes pow
er over his fellow-beings which their Create
never assumed over them. Therefore l can
hoe uiSO 1ou W piSpnAS W uiej vi w NIL
inflict death on yourselves or others.
Nor have n word to say to urge you I
prepare for Eternity, or future Judgmen
! Death, Judgment, and Eternity! These IN
= the great trinity of horrors used by priests
y on such occasions as this, to work upon tn
fees of men. Prepare for Death; prepar
for judgment; prepare for Eternity; thes
4 4 make the beginning, middle, and end of al
funeral discourses. would say, prepare 70
the daily and hourly judgment that God pro
nounces upon you every moment by obey
: ing the laws of your physical and social ma
ture, and you need fear no future judgmcn
of God. He will say to thee daily, througl
> the law of thy nature, " Well done, good an,
faithful servant, enter into the joy of th,
Lord" Eternity? 1t is here, not yonder.-
We are born in it; we live in il ever,
moment, and ever shall. Where is ou
departed one' In Eterhity2 No more thai
we are. The difference is, she has lef
the body; we have not. Is she with God
She is; but no m6re so than we are. Doe,
she see God? She does with her menta
eye; but in the same way that we do, and il
none other, only her conception of Him,
would fain believe, is purer, clearer, ant
more just. Prepare to meet thy God? w,
; oil met Him when we assumed the nature o
man, and we have lived, and moved, and hat
: our being in Him ever since.
Such are the views which the spirit thu
but few hours since animated that body
expected and wished me to speak on this oc
casion. If those lips, now forever closed
: could speak one word, ii would be .A,nen tc
: what have said. For the sake of her whom
you knew and loved, and whose gentlenes