Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1851-07-26
INC Churches VS.. Slaves.

Eighteen slaves escaped lately from Lewis County, !
KY, into Adams County. Southern Ohio, aud day hav-
ing surprised them their fight northward, they sought
eonceaIment in old sugar house, hoping to remain
there unnoticed, until night should again cover the
earth and conceal them from the eyes Of every one,
save the sentinel stars tho bear lamps to the feet the
iugVes and Of God who bebolds, with approval, the
advance pioneers Of the second grand Exodus Of his
oppressed children. Weary, worn, and trembling as
IT they had committed crimes these eighteen men,
S9sc;, and children, hudded down in the solitary
ruin OF the sugar house, in order to hide themselves
from the daylight, that lay like glorious presence in
the free State Of Ohio, and, in order conceal from
rePubife-u freonaea .heir Aighi-their Leeira-more
worthy Of remembrance than that OF a thousand Ma
hornets, and grateful the soul of every freeman, be-
it the evidence Of their Deep abding unex-
tingushable love of liberty. Now animated by hope,
trembling with fear, those eighteen poor oucasts
lately fallen among thieves and escaped lay and listened
to the whistle Of the free Winds the carols of the free
BIRDS the rusng of the cafy trees, and the placid
hymnng of the streams as they sang the hossannahs o.
freedom, and swept onward to to the AT last
four men entered their place Of conceament, and they
were discovered. Discovered! What fearful word TO
them how fruitful Of succeedant horrors and unutter-
able woes, to those poor members Of Gods family,
whose hearts were palpating with terror and whose
eyes streaming with tears. Arise, be not afraid
was the salulation Of the four good Samaritans We
your lriends-your brothers; we are Episcopal
Methodisls We have been baptized in the purifying
waters Of faith and accepted into the adoption of the
cons of God. We dwell in love, which is God; and
God the divine, the hoy the pure, the good the true
the just the free, in sublime perfection, dwells in us
SO come, weary children Of Him sswho made Of one
blood all nations Of men," and for whom Christ oul
Lord shed his precious blood. Come to our bosoms
and to homes, that may illustrate the divinity o.
the religion Of Christ, and demonstrate the vital energy
Of those holy piecepts comprehended in it: ssThou
shalt love the Lord thy God and him only shalt thou
serYe,'' Glove thy neighbor thyseIf'
With joyful hearts, the fugitive slaves repaired with
the fou men not Of this word,' place Of safety,
where, for thrysix hours, they detained chain
ed, and finally, beneath the baefu light THE dog STAR
we're carried into Kentucky by those same Methodist
Episcopaians where they ruthessy consigned to
eternal bondage. Those Satanites, after the commis-
sion Of this diaboca act were indicted before the
church. by one conscious, seemingly of christian
duty, in that conncxiou in Southern Ohio; and
the result was their acquitta of having done any IN
christian act, and their consequent retention in the
church. THIS case in addition to its essential demon
ism, both regards the participators in it and the
abettors in the church, is what we may with safet,
characterize as infdd making case. Upon the in
genuous mind Of you'll, this conduct of protesting chris
tans is calculated to produce the disastrous eff
ects The youth seldom They are guided
more by sentiment and intuition than by reflection anc
we have, again and again, heard COMBINATIONS o
CHRISTIANITY from their lips, because Of such deed
being done under the shadow Of her csensble temples
and with the assumed sanction Of her holy name.
Oh, who estimate the terrible vengeance which
eternal justice is taking upon the general morality
Of this nation because Of the continuance Of slavery
Who tell how deeply and efficiently the deep dam
nation OF reaction is eating into the core Of this grea
republics moral life, because churches, baptized viii
the name Of Jesus, like the priest and Leyite Of old
will the poor. ignorant, brutalzed, chattezec
Americans, who have fallen amongst the chiyalry 0
the South, but pass by the Other size. Christian,
has fearful reckoning TO make with such churches.
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