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

ron,rol of fixed laws. The bo,lics Of men |
are, also. But the soul-man's highest ma
ture--is that under government of caprice,
of positive, arbitrary law5 No; it is as
much under fixed law as the body. If the
laws under which we are placed had been
allowed to work out the designs Of their Au-
thor, unimpeded by human ignorance or
wickedness, human beings had ever been
born without suffering, carried through this
state, and on through oil the changes oil an
eternal progression, with joy unspeakable--
COP is one law Of our being; IMMORTALITY
another; SociETf another. Ifthe above two
positions be true, sickness and death are no
more attributable to God than murder, pira-
CIV, war and slavery. ] do not believe the
Lord inflicted death on that mother and child,
| and these human forms have no business to
he lying here, so silent, SO cold. God made
them to bless the world. Why then are they
here and thus? The hand of man, alone,
hath done the deed. Sarah Case, the friend
of man, and, Of course, of God, lies before us,
in this lovely but stern repose Of death, by
some outrage upon the laws of health and
life, as certainly as if she, or some others,
had pierced her heart with dagger.
There sits her widowed mother; dcsolutc,
weeping for her children because they arc
not; for this is her third daughter upon
whom death hath been recently inflicted in
much the same manner The popular theol-
ogy and its priests tell her the Lord has ta-
ken from her these objects of her maternal
love for some wise, and mysterious and good
end, and that she must bow and kiss the rod
and bless His name. / can give her no such
comfort. Nor have any sympathy with the
Church and priesthood that, rather than give
offence to those whose countenunce and sup
port they would receive, father all the crimes,
the sufferings and death in the world upon
God. would say to her, the just and loving
Father of man had no hand in thus remo-
wing your children from your presence. i do
not wish to bless His name for this afiliction,
or any other, nor TO be reconciled TO the
deed. Human agency, alone, innocently put
IL Hlul Dtg mum DiOhkhN 1Obi N''ShN~'
and her babe to this; and but for such agen-
CIV, exerted in violation of the laws of life
she and her child had now been in health to
bless you and others with their presence and
love. II would be impious mockery in me
to ask you, or the husband, or any of the af;
fiicted friends to feel reconciled TO the hand
that has inflicted death on these objects oi
your affection. l would rather say, set your
selves, with stern and dauntless hearts, to re-
buke and resist the power that has been so
malignant and SO fatal to the peace and hap
piness ofyour hearts and your homes. 1t is
unnatural-n clear violation Of Divine law
for children to precede their parents in thei
exodus from this to another state. 1t neve
would be SO if human beings had ever live,
IN harmony with Natures laws and designs
The bodies of Sarah Case and her babe ough
not to lie there, locked in the arms of death
she ought to be now in full vigor, health an
life to difluse JOY and confidence to all aroun
her by her smiles and counsels.
In saying these things, l utter what sh
expected and wished me to speak ON this oc
casion. She had firm conviction of tn
truth of tho two leading positions have Ia
, ken, and Of tho above inferences have dc
duced from them. This led her to look to he
own soul to learn how she ought to feel an
act towards her fellow beings. Where mus
that husband and wife, those parents an
; children, those brothers and sisters, thos
fellow beings, 60 to learn how God woul
have them feel and act towards one another
To the Bible? No; for even that, in its tw
foundation principles, in which is summe
up all the law ard the gospel, directs ther
to another standard. Glove thy neighbour
How? "As thyself" Where shall men
directed to learn how they love themselve.
and how they wish to be loved? To thei
own souls, and never to the Bible, howeve
holy and inspired it may profess and be sup
posed TO be. "Do to others "-how? No
as the Bible says, but as "you would the
should do to you" Where is this to be learn
ed? Not in Book, however pure, Just an,
holy its instructions; but in the law and ties
timony written by the great Author of on
: being OH our social and spiritual nature
r Titus even Jesus directs us to our own soul
to ascertain how God would have us feel anC
act towards one another.
4 As men know how to feel and act toward
g men, they know how TO feel and act toward
Q God. Love to man is the only true, prac,i
cal love to God; respect for men, as men,
0 the only true reverence for God lie tina
i hates man hates God; he that dishonor
j man or woman dishonors God The onl
) way to worship God is, 10 be just, loving, fol
: giving, truthful, honest and good to man.
!. Such were the sentiments of her who ha
\ left ms SO prematurely and so uncaled b