Fremont weekly freeman. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1850-1853, 1851-12-20

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! | was right when said that now.A-days even
the bay0nets think Citizens of New York, il |
| is under your protection that place the sa-
cred cause of freedom and the independence
Of Hungary.
Christian Piety only can unite the Race.
| The following extract is made from Lee
lures on the Lords Prayer by William R
Williams, pastor of the Amity Street Baptist
! Church, New York-a volume recently pub
hshed by Gould & Lincoln. and strikingly rich
in the graces Of rhetoric. profound learning,
and the JUNCTION Of devotional sentiment:
To find my God. must not desert my
kindredi and breaking loose from the race in
their banded revolt must not fee to the
wilderness and there rear for me and tenant
through life the hermitage2 Religion is In
deed personal thing, but it is not therefore
a principle of social isolation. We must visit
the closet; but into the closet we must carry
the sympathies of the race. and bare before
our God heart that can take in the world, in
its wide reach of iutercession and fraternal re-
gard. When the younger son, IN the Parable
of the ProdigsI, would turn his back on the
father, he wishes also to divide himself and
his interests from the brother Give me,
said he, the portion of goods that falleth to-
me-, But when come back to my forsaken
and forgiving Father in heaven, and ask him
of his rich grace the goods to be given in the
brothers name to me, / must ask, not for my
self only, but for all my brothers as WE'LL
| The renewal of The parental, reknits the fra
lternal tie And hence the petitions of this
prayer are throughout plural and collective.
| Though we go alone into the closet, ne are
not accepted there if we 60 in sei6shnes and
isolation, and if we come out thence egotists in
our piety and monopolists in our prayers The
! patients Of heavenly tIiation are letters of
world wide fraternity. Hence the birth-cry
Of Faith. in the first uttcrance of newly wit
messed adoption, claims God not only for it.
self but for the entire household of faith.
It was in the Psalmist,s times. He said in
dee, % God, thou art my God But he said
also, i was glad when they said unto me,
come let us go into the house of God,' and
Paul declares of early Christians, that giving
4 themselves to the Lord, they gave themselves
to the church by the will Of Gods and John
puts down among the tests Of true love TO the
Father, love TO all " ho are begotten Of Him.
Is it, in those days Of growing disregard for
mere distinctions of class and rank, regarded
as noble utterance of the poet, when, scout
ing culture, and wealth, and title, be exclaims
"A mans man for a. that ?--surely il is q
principle older than his times-eid as the
cross and the day Of Peniacost Let a man,
no matter what his sectarian distinctions and
naturalo os social Disadvantage what his
discrepancies in the minor views and practices
of religion-give but evidence of love to
:, Christ and to his word, and he is my brother.
! Be he Armenian, or Calvinist, Episcopalian,
Congregationalist--let him be Baptist or Pc
!, dobsptist-let him have all worldly disadvan-
tages of education, and station, and taste--be
he Greek or Barbarian, bond or free-if /
:. love Christ, love that desciple Of Christ
"A sdiat's saint for a that Under every
: variety of costume, and dispensation, and dis-
!, lect and race, the tenant of a Caffre kraal, OF
! of the GreenlandeY's snow but-nay, let him
! mutter his prayer as his Pater Noster in an
/, unknown tongue if / find under all his super
: stition and disguises of hereditary prejudice
and error. the love of nay Christ, and the like
= ness of my Lord, can |, dare disavow tht
: brotherhood? But beyond those who are al
s ready Christians; We suppose the principle O.
!, fraternity here recognized, to include those
:. yet ignorant of the Savior; who may become
. hereafter Christians. And as we know no
- but that the worst and basest may be ont
:. day translated into this last class; see how
I broad horizon the very outburst of th,
= prayer opens. 1t bids US intercede for al
- men. Stephens prayers took in Paul. willis
:. as yet that youth was the enemy of the mar
al tyr, and of the martyrs Lord. compelling mel
:. to blaspheme his Redeeming name And 8
40 should we pray, in the temper Of our Savior
al when be flung from the cross the bands Of hi
n microscopy sympathy around the crowds
n whose ears drank in with greedy hate the las
: gaspings of the murdered victim.
- Taken in this view, how far is the gospel ye
SCI in meek advance of the reforms and revou
as tions of our time We throw no wordir
Id scorn in the path of those seeking honesl
n and wisely to upift the down trodden. and I
IL right the oppressed. But in the democrat
to outbreaks of our times haw much is there
e. the hereditary hate of the races The Ce
e. swesrs vengence against the Saxon; the Sci.
w. vonic cannot fraternize with tbh German stoe
IL The dim repositories ofthe past are ranSacke
". for rhissels and ~atchwords, that may serve
We frebrands to rekihdle the old hereditary feUt
ms of alien and rival sineages. The italian thinl
ri himself scarce creature of the same bloc
,il- and Of the same God with the Austrian. No
nd the gospel goes forth as the great the peac
,htl full, but unappeasesble revolutionist; but
,e watchword is a fraternity as broad as H
nd manity, And when men learn to feed the
for ties and claims of brotherhood, the needy al
| if the lowly are soothed and elevated; the sa
at age puts on dignity and the bondsman hop
of and woman piides from the prison where ba
ity barism immured her So, on the other ban
we the mighty and the intelligent, and the ric
ON thus instructed, forget their transient and sk
i'm, deep distinctions of estate and culture, al
TO feel, in view of common sin, and salVatie
ION and judgment seat the sense of stewardsh
of casting out the odious spirit of self grati6c
cal ton. Literal equality, no change in maj
be power can bring il about There would j
hat main, on the day after an equal distribute
Mt; of all goods and lands to all earth's inhal