Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1851-03-15
low 10 Worship God.

...t t.....t.l LKRsRuRoH, Feb. 81, '5l.
DnAR OLurR have been in this plac,
twelve days, and have held thirteen meetings
all in the Wesleyan house. gave an accoun
OF the struggle to obtain that house. The op.
position came from two individuals, JERESfI.
All PHILLIPS AND A. r. DEMPSTER.
As said in my last. the house was built for
Anti t-Slavcry especially. and for all questions of
humanity. Tho Revival of Religion and the
accession to the church of twenty-seven mem
bcrs had 30 far blinded these two men to their
moral and social obligations, and so filed them
with regard for the sect, that they opposed
the use of the house by me on any question,
and have not been into one Of the mcetngs.-
They and most of the new converts are SO
earnest in carrying on their Cod-icorship and in
working themselves into "feeling good" by
singing, praying and shouting, that they lose
sight of their relations and duties to men. In
all my meetings, have kept one thing in view,
to point out the only way in which God can be
worshipcd by men-not by singing, praying,
shouting, screaming, elapping hands, making
up faces, bodily contortions, falling down, keep
ing Sabbath, &C., but by doing good, by loving
and serving our fellow beings, by loving as Je-
sus loved, by forgiving as he forgave, and by
such self-forgetfulness as he had This is all
that is meant by being saved by the righteous
ness of Christ; G. by being righteous as he tras
In no other way can the life or death of Jesus
be Of any use to US, except by leading US to feel
and act towards our fellow beings as he did.
Last Sunday WM. SMITH, the circuit preach
er, was here, and occupied tho house. His dis
courses were all on Worship. 1 gave notice in
the forenoon that after the evenings discourse,
should speak to point out the preachers er-
rors, and wished him and the people to be pres
ent to hear. Many came, and after his services
were al ended and he had closed the aoOrship o.
God by hymn and benedietion, l arose, and a.
mong other things told the people that as they
| left that house and returned to their homes,
their shops, their farms, and to tho active scenes
and intercourse of life then was the time to begin
to worship God, and that they did, in fact, con-
eiude the worshirof God when they left their fell
low beings around them suffering under wrongs
l. outrages which they were inhicting, and come
to meeting to sing, pray and shout, get religion,
feel good, and clap their hands and cry aloud to
their God. q"
The God of Nature needs none Of their laud-
atory and self-abasing orations. They are bat
iiP-seryice and in nothing do men utter more
falsehoods than in their orations to God, called
prayers. When they tell God how polluted they
are, though much of it may be true, yet they
themselves do not believe word of it, as theii
deeds show, for they are ready to fight airy man
who should take them at their word, and treat
them as they tell God they deserve to be treat
cd. They tell God what they think of him,
but IL Ia generally mere lying, for they treat
him with hsbitual scorn and contempt. Howl
By enslaving. slsughtering, and outraging his
Children by selling Him at auction with hogs